Elitist Jerks - View Single Post - Progressive Nerfs - suiting instances for competion among raiders and casual friendly

frber · 02/18/08, 2:59 AM

At least for me I'd like raids just for large group content can be fun; and is a nice social thing in a guild. However I don't want to schedule play time in advance. I also really don't want to have to go back and do the same instance over and over again. At least for me much of the issue with raiding is that its designed to take a consistent group; so you are either part of a group that raids the same instance over and over again a few times/week for months; or you don't go see it at all.

I'd really prefer raids to be just like the heroic instances in difficulty. And just complex enough to be a little challenging but it should be possible to clear it on the first night with a decent PuG (after repeted wipes maybe and many hours maybe). Sure that kind of game preference wont mix with people who want to play the game for a challenge or whatever; and perhaps the solution would be to not try and mix things at all?

Create different server types would be one idea. Making casual servers that only have the easier content. Everything PuG'able, and people can just play for fun. Of course no reason for PuG raids to have that much better gear than PuG heroics so they could very well cut out the gear grind aspects of WoW on a more casual server.

Then make a different type of server for the more hardcore and take the raids and add loads of extra trash for the time sink aspect; and more abilities to the bosses perhaps. So its more challenging. Would of course need to put the server types in different Battle groups so there wouldn't be gear spillover into Arena/BGs but would be doable likely.

Don't really see the downsides of making different server types at all. Would open up for Blizzard to differentiate the monthly fee as well and offer more content on the hardcore servers in exchange for a higher fee.

Oh and I don't think it would be an issue with running out of content on a more casual server wih PuG raids. Its still good fun to PuG the Heroics even if having done them before. As long as there are many to chose from so no need to go to the same one repetedly it stays fun as well.

02/18/08, 2:59 AM	#56 (permalink)
frber Von Kaiser Birgitte Murloc Warrior Moonglade (EU)	At least for me I'd like raids just for large group content can be fun; and is a nice social thing in a guild. However I don't want to schedule play time in advance. I also really don't want to have to go back and do the same instance over and over again. At least for me much of the issue with raiding is that its designed to take a consistent group; so you are either part of a group that raids the same instance over and over again a few times/week for months; or you don't go see it at all. I'd really prefer raids to be just like the heroic instances in difficulty. And just complex enough to be a little challenging but it should be possible to clear it on the first night with a decent PuG (after repeted wipes maybe and many hours maybe). Sure that kind of game preference wont mix with people who want to play the game for a challenge or whatever; and perhaps the solution would be to not try and mix things at all? Create different server types would be one idea. Making casual servers that only have the easier content. Everything PuG'able, and people can just play for fun. Of course no reason for PuG raids to have that much better gear than PuG heroics so they could very well cut out the gear grind aspects of WoW on a more casual server. Then make a different type of server for the more hardcore and take the raids and add loads of extra trash for the time sink aspect; and more abilities to the bosses perhaps. So its more challenging. Would of course need to put the server types in different Battle groups so there wouldn't be gear spillover into Arena/BGs but would be doable likely. Don't really see the downsides of making different server types at all. Would open up for Blizzard to differentiate the monthly fee as well and offer more content on the hardcore servers in exchange for a higher fee. Oh and I don't think it would be an issue with running out of content on a more casual server wih PuG raids. Its still good fun to PuG the Heroics even if having done them before. As long as there are many to chose from so no need to go to the same one repetedly it stays fun as well.