Poster: Zettik at 10/30/2005 7:45:04 PM PST
Subject: Question I wish someone had asked at blizcon |
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Blowable spawns and timed content or terrain / re-clears that slows progression? What is planned for the future of WoW endgame?
I hate the way Nefarian phase2 is setup. The encounter is easy, but one attempt per day shouldn't be the way to slow down progression. On the other side of the spectrum... clearing to broodlord is a 30 min AE fest, and if you happen to lose on the fight you have to re-clear.
Are there any plans to put in despawning mobs like Ragnaros / Vael / Nefarian, or will future endgame content not have the boss mob de-spawn, but guilds are limited in the number of their attempts per day by other means?
| | | http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-dungeons&t=212928&p=#post212928 | | | Poster: Tigole at 10/31/2005 8:12:20 AM PST
Subject: Re: Question I wish someone had asked at blizcon |
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To answer the original question, we recognize that "blowable" spawns aren't the best solution to any encounter but are sometimes necessary. Looking toward the future, we will try to make encounters feel more organic when it comes to their resets and number of tries available.
As for the people concerned about the statistics, it's important to understand that those numbers are from a single night of the week, during a *three hour period* that we call primetime. Over the course of a week, a huge number of raids are done. Also, keep in mind, most guilds don't do Onyxia every night of the week. They do her once. Most guilds do MC two nights a week. Those numbers I quoted -- remember a 3 hour window -- are repeated nightly, by new, *DIFFERENT* guilds and raids.
Trust me, if no one (or a very low percentage of our playerbase) wanted to engage in this content, wbe wouldn't be creating it. It is *FAR* more difficult to generate raid content than any other content in the game.
To put the above numbers in perspective, Dire Maul comes in with 800 instances. But a Dire Maul instance only requires 5 people to complete. If that. Not counting a single person "instance flipping" to farm etc...
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