The future of current content

Saroz · 11/19/06, 6:58 PM

Do you guys foresee any nerfs of the current content as we know it, more specifically Naxx?

Do you think there will be any tuning to encounters that are considered 'too unforgiving' by players? Thinking of Loatheb in particular and the last few bugs (Maexxna web, invisible void zones etc.).

Tigole seems to be very quiet when it comes to talking about current content, his focus seems to be solely on the expansion and the new instances to come.

Elerion · 11/19/06, 7:07 PM

I expect certain encounters in Naxx to eat a nerf around expansion date. I doubt it will happen to loatheb since dps should be drastically higher at 70. It might happen to sapphiron (to skip the months long farming process for runes) and 4h (getting 8 well equipped tanks will be hard when guild sizes start to shrink). Mainly to make it possible to get Ateish when you can't really run naxx 5 days a week.

Before the expansion though, I don't expect any other changes than those that will be necessary to make the 1.13 mechanics work. Mainly Patchwerk. Possibly bug fixes like invisible void zones. What's the Maexxna web bug? LoS in cocoons?

Malan · 11/19/06, 7:09 PM

Originally Posted by Elerion

and 4h (getting 8 well equipped tanks will be hard when guild sizes start to shrink)

4 warriors, 2 druids and 2 paladins, got it covered.

Saroz · 11/19/06, 7:10 PM

Yea was referring to LoS on the cocoons, while it's easy to handle, I still consider it a bug/unintended annoyance :)

Chuck · 11/19/06, 7:12 PM

very good question - and besides that. Will it still be useful to run Naxxramas once people taste levelup-blood?
I hear so many different oppinions about gear up to and at level 70 but I'm still unsure if we should think of quitting raiding business until we finally hit 70.

The biggest impact on naxxramas will be released pre-christmas with the new content patch - I hope we see some interesting fights still and I hope everything is balanced :/

• frmorrison · 11/19/06, 7:35 PM

Originally Posted by Saroz

Do you guys foresee any nerfs of the current content as we know it, more specifically Naxx?

Tigole seems to be very quiet when it comes to talking about current content, his focus seems to be solely on the expansion and the new instances to come.

I think the devs will no touch the current content (other than change the code that drops Pally/Shaman armor) when TBC.

As many people have reported, the bosses in Naxx keep the 3 level advantage, so that really hinders going in there to level up (which is likely intended).

Kaubel · 11/19/06, 8:44 PM

Hey guys I wanted to ask some questions that have been asked 100 times because I was bored and wanted to see my words on the internet so everyone could see me make a thread on EJ and hopefully it'd have a lot of hits and replies and then I could point it out to everyone and prove how awesome I am because this forum is so much better than those lame forums over at Blizzard which always let just anyone make a thread about anything without putting any thought into it because they're idiots and not like the people who visit the EJ forums like me who's smart and clever enough to think of thread topics that aren't so new but they're interesting because I'm special and can provoke new thoughts from old ideas way better than the average person who probably doesn't visit the EJ forums anyway because he's stupid and would much rather just post crap on the Blizzard forums which are a freaking train wreck and so uncool compared to most everything else especially these forums which I've just posted on but figured you might need to be told again because sometimes people don't really pay attention and skip over stuff they've seen before but this isn't one of those threads if you'll just give it a chance.

*On a serious note, this really has been brought up a few times already. In a nutshell, we're not sure what Blizzard is going to do. The dominating opinion though is that nothing will change and the "old" instances will go unused and just sort of fade away.