The hot topic of the week was Blizzard's decision to remove the attunement requirements for Serpentshrine Cavern and The Eye. It should come as no surprise that I think this is a wonderful change. Blizzard swallowed their pride, and they finally listened to the player community. This should be an overwhelmingly popular change. Here are some other random thoughts on this topic.
I still like the concept of an attunement quest chain. I just think these particular quest chains were very badly designed.
This change probably helps the guilds already running SSC and TK more than the Kara/Gruul/Mag guilds. The hardcore crowd can focus on the quality of potential recruits instead of asking if they are attuned.
Beware guild hoppers! With the attunement requirement dropped, some players may try to jump up to the next level of raiding. Especially, if they have received all the loot they need from Kara/Gruul/Mag.
I hear something in the distance... It is barely an echo... The sound gets stronger... Ah, it is just the cry of "NERF!!" coming from some of the more casual guilds entering SSC for the first time.
I hope many mid level raiding guilds will be able to breakthrough to the next level with the pressure of attunement gone. It would be nice if more than 1% of the WoW population got to visit Illidan.
Guilds still at the Kara/Gruul/Mag level will need to make sure they are properly geared for the next level of raiding. The removal of attunement does nothing to change that small, inconvenient fact.
I'm joking around in this post, but I honestly do think the attunement change is a good move by Blizzard.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
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3 comments:
While i'm not quite 70 as yet, but almost there. I too like the Attunement changes and look forward to it also.
Yet i do like the idea of some kind of Attunement or test to enter the higher lvl instances, just so gear check wise your prepared. Also help having some level of skill to enter them than just been a casual improperly geared 70 going to the harder instances and causing a wipe. Will see what happen next. Yeah i wont be surprise as you say if you start hearing nerf the instance or boss not too.
I'm still amazed at the "hardcore" raiders complaining about the change. It is great that they spent the time to complete the quests, but that doesn't mean that everyone else should have to do the same thing.
Crazy things happen to guilds. Before the change, that "leetzor" raider would be seriously "QQ'n" if a few key members of his guild quit, ninja transfer, guild hop, etc. That attunement chain put too much pressure on guilds.
I'd rather see attunements like the old world raids. MC attunement was linked to running BRD. BWL was linked to UBRS. For me SSC should have required running SV, and TK should have required Arc, Bot, and Mech.
Agreed. I think that there should still be some type of attunement, but just not as crazy as what it used to be. Plus now you will definitly see guilds say they need to nerf those raids. Its easy to yell nerf when you are undergeard. We were "QQn" over Kara, but never said nerf. We knew that we needed better gear and better execution of the boss stratagies. Its all a learning curve, and some learn quicker and place more time into tht curve to complete their goals. I havent been into SSC or the Eye but i trust we should all be ok.
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