tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post8456088463715667944..comments2024-03-21T23:18:45.644+00:00Comments on Priest with a Cause - A World of Warcraft (Classic) blog: Strange five-man boss nerfsShintarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-32273201447349582872009-12-21T22:05:44.644+00:002009-12-21T22:05:44.644+00:00Personally, I think it might just be speed. When f...Personally, I think it might just be speed. When farming for Christmas hats, I went into normal Nexus and we killed Telestra in 11 seconds with a full group. A coworker of mine went in around the same time with only 2 people and they got 2 splits to my group's none. With T9 so accessible, even random pugs have been hitting achievements for me with not much effort.Wenikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14146451697544909950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-55893659156817481122009-12-21T21:44:12.052+00:002009-12-21T21:44:12.052+00:00I wonder if they also fixed the end boss of kingdo...I wonder if they also fixed the end boss of kingdom. It's very very easy these days to get both phases at the same time and killing 8 copies of your group mates, including 2 healers, is still "very challenging". :)<br /><br />Ionar is just an annoying bitch, so I'm all in favor of this change.<br /><br />And Tharon'ja was VERY challenging back in the days... if tanked by a druid. Because the skeleton resulted in an automatic double shift: skeleton -> caster form -> bear. And if the druid got hit in the split second he was in caster form, it was a one hit. A druid always had to get to range before the Tharon'ja stunned the group. (At least we wiped about 20 times because of that bug.)Kringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03128630042421602039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-82511731019582283362009-12-21T12:29:19.140+00:002009-12-21T12:29:19.140+00:00Is this actually the caes or are DPS just burning ...Is this actually the caes or are DPS just burning through bosses insanely fast these days?<br /><br />And, yes, the 5-man heroic grind is getting increasingly tedious. I remember back in the day I used to LOVE running heroics, nowadays I just see them as a potentially flaming hoop to jump through.Tamhttp://www.righteousorbs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-63945066411789534482009-12-21T00:54:57.739+00:002009-12-21T00:54:57.739+00:00I agree with your larger point. While the "fi...I agree with your larger point. While the "fix" was obviously done to compensate for people killing too fast, so that Ionar's splitting took up 75% of the time, it also acknowledges that it's OK to kill Ionar fast without effort.<br /><br />A true fix that tried to restore the fight to something like i200 level would be to increase the health of Ionar, or adapt the challenge to deal with current DPS. But it doesn't sound like the current team considers that a high priority, and would rather focus on Cataclysm, and so under those constraints it's the more appropriate fix.<br /><br />It is a strong reminder how Very Very Wrong they tuned the numbers this time, and how they are willing to sacrifice 5 man tuning for raid tuning.MLWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11501483710006076616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-22124773703455377412009-12-20T15:14:07.298+00:002009-12-20T15:14:07.298+00:00Well, I admit that the fights weren't particul...Well, I admit that the fights weren't particularly interesting to begin with, but removing most of their abilities makes it even less so. And I find it odd that Blizzard tailors fights towards "imba dps" groups so they don't have to put up with the "annoyance" of boss abilities slowing them down even more. It's not how they usually go about these things.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-87910469629022988212009-12-20T14:32:42.632+00:002009-12-20T14:32:42.632+00:00Actually I think there's a much easier reason....Actually I think there's a much easier reason.<br /><br />With the currrent high dps in those heroics, they switched to their special abilities much too fast, making it so that they are over half the fight in their special abilities. Which is just annoying and boring. (For example Ionars second and third disperse are usually just some seconds apart from each other, which isn't reall fun or interesting, just annoying.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com