Again I've been wasting my time reading various forums, including my old realm's independent discussion forums. As a new patch is under way, and nerfs on old content are more than probable, some people have started crying wolf again. The common whine is that as the previous content is nerfed, and new welfare epics are introduced, some endgame players seem to think Blizzard is stealing the epics from their pockets. Atleast that's how it seems when you read their rants.
It makes sense to me that Blizzard re-adjusts the difficulty level of older instances as new material is published. This gives more people a chance to see the fruit of their devs' hard work, and also to enjoy some of the best instance designs in the game. They are simply opening up, or atleast giving out the keys to some doors that would otherwise be closed to majority of the people, once the hard-working, hardcore people move on up to new challenges. And I fail to see how this hurts anyone?
Usually the person writing those posts is someone who is on their first lap around the endgame block, and probably have not been in a really good Guild all that long. Perhaps they have, for the first time in their WoW career, just reached a spot where they have killed "everything" in the game, and are a bit too cocky about it. They claim that other people getting epics and getting to kill easier bosses robs them of their honor as champions of PvE, and takes away the glory. But they are barking up the wrong tree.
The people who do the endgame pre-nerfed know who's done what and when. They know the difference between earlier and later versions of bosses, and pay their respects accordingly. Maybe for the very casual players a kill is a kill, but they wouldnt know how to respect your achievements any way. So why care?
When Ahn'Quiraj opened up I had finished Blackwing Lair some weeks earlier with my (then) Guild. A lot of new gear became available through AQ20 and of course AQ40's first boss, even to Guilds with very little prior success. This made it easier for them to go back to BWL, and get further down the road. But I can honestly say I never, ever thought it in any way hampered my satisfaction of knowing I had cleared the instance when it was still the hardest challenge in the game. Quite the contrary: I was even happier, as now even more people knew what sort of challenges we had been facing, and could only imagine how much more effort it took without the new gear and boss nerfs.
But I guess almost everyone goes through these stages at some point. At every new major patch there's always someone new who thinks they're being kicked in the teeth by Blizzard. Come the next patch, they're older and wiser, and know that they still cherish the memore of beating that one boss back then when it was breaking news all across the realm.
Blizzard can nerf a lot of things. But they cant nerf your memories. Viva la Emmies, back in 2006, BWL.
It makes sense to me that Blizzard re-adjusts the difficulty level of older instances as new material is published. This gives more people a chance to see the fruit of their devs' hard work, and also to enjoy some of the best instance designs in the game. They are simply opening up, or atleast giving out the keys to some doors that would otherwise be closed to majority of the people, once the hard-working, hardcore people move on up to new challenges. And I fail to see how this hurts anyone?
Usually the person writing those posts is someone who is on their first lap around the endgame block, and probably have not been in a really good Guild all that long. Perhaps they have, for the first time in their WoW career, just reached a spot where they have killed "everything" in the game, and are a bit too cocky about it. They claim that other people getting epics and getting to kill easier bosses robs them of their honor as champions of PvE, and takes away the glory. But they are barking up the wrong tree.
The people who do the endgame pre-nerfed know who's done what and when. They know the difference between earlier and later versions of bosses, and pay their respects accordingly. Maybe for the very casual players a kill is a kill, but they wouldnt know how to respect your achievements any way. So why care?
When Ahn'Quiraj opened up I had finished Blackwing Lair some weeks earlier with my (then) Guild. A lot of new gear became available through AQ20 and of course AQ40's first boss, even to Guilds with very little prior success. This made it easier for them to go back to BWL, and get further down the road. But I can honestly say I never, ever thought it in any way hampered my satisfaction of knowing I had cleared the instance when it was still the hardest challenge in the game. Quite the contrary: I was even happier, as now even more people knew what sort of challenges we had been facing, and could only imagine how much more effort it took without the new gear and boss nerfs.
But I guess almost everyone goes through these stages at some point. At every new major patch there's always someone new who thinks they're being kicked in the teeth by Blizzard. Come the next patch, they're older and wiser, and know that they still cherish the memore of beating that one boss back then when it was breaking news all across the realm.
Blizzard can nerf a lot of things. But they cant nerf your memories. Viva la Emmies, back in 2006, BWL.
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