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"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
Name an encounter which took more than a month to down (encounters that were unkillable in their initial state do not count.) -
"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
Indeed, people should start using 4H instead, if they want to go by "time from encounter progress started till death of said encounter". -
Cademimu last boss bugged?
Sythrasz replied to Shoekron's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
Still doesn't fix that sometimes there is no safe one. -
"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
The thing is WoW allowed UI mods from the start. -
"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
First highlight: that's where we differ then. Also, I meant specifically the world boss-y-ness of EQ. Blowable spawns and so on. You think that'd suit todays MMOs? -
"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
That's funny, BWL, AQ40 and Naxx were the high points of raiding for me. Maybe I just happened to raid with sensible people. Out of interest, would you advocate the way bosses worked in EQ for todays raid enviroment? You can't deny that's part of the excitement in EQ. If everyone could just go and kill any boss (because it'd be instanced), would you have enjoyed the sea of basically tank n spank fo 40 minutes encounters? -
#1 burden of proof fallacy, here we go again. But yes, let's turn this one over for now. #2 the slippery slope fallacy here consists in you stating that IF addons are added, they WILL (necessarily) become needed for raiding. This is unsubstantiated. Look up the problem of induction if you're thinking about replying "but WoW has shown us [...]". #3 the argument I see people making, which in wording resembles yours, is that of assigning a motive to the people not wanting addons of wanting to have their "bad" stay hidden. This is different from what you are writing, in that this argument never assumes that bad people want to improve, but merely that they don't want to be criticized by other people. Of course someone who wants to stay bad can do so, but whether he can get away with it or not is another matter.
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And if one was to try to be helpful: A group of players queueing together. Premades often have better communication than pugs, and thus feel harder to play against. It's "pre"-made because the group is already made before the warzone starts.
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"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
There are other plausible causes for raiding being more fun pre-addon, such as it being a new, novel experience. Once gathering a big group of people to kill stuff with lots of HP is no longer exciting in itself, then encounter design will need to carry the raiding game. Let's not even begin with how much rose-tinted glasses play into this. -
"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
One might also infer that raiding would have been very boring if that was the case. -
"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
If [Game Developer] needs to add more information on the screen in order to be able to design interesting encounters, yet keep them within the skill of the majority of the playerbase, then I welcome it. Those messages didn't dumb down the game, it allowed blizzard to design more complex encounters without shutting out the majority of players. If blizzard kept doing tank n spank encounters after they added the messages, then it'd be dumbed down. Relative increase in information accompanied by a relative increase in amount of information needed is a good thing. -
"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
You do know that blizzard implemented giant "THE BOSS IS DOING X" messages into the default UI right? You don't NEED mods to raid. They are nice to have though. -
"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
Uhm, what MMO has this might I ask? The answer is not WoW. -
"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
Are you denying that people can be bad in a way that causes them to underperform drastically? -
"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
That's exactly the thing, this argument is 100% speculation. People being able to customize the UI does not mean that the game will NECESSARILY evolve in a way which requires them. it might, but it might also not. Have some faith in BW on that point imo -
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Sythrasz replied to ZielAkros's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
Reading comprehension = 0. Notice how he included an "if"? that makes it a conditional, not factual, statement. -
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Sythrasz replied to ZielAkros's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
It'd be nice to have a website to translate from moron to reflected opinion too. -
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Sythrasz replied to ZielAkros's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
The irony. -
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Sythrasz replied to ZielAkros's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
It's funny how this debate, in wow or any other mmo I've seen, is entirely hypocritical in nature. You don't want to have a certain playstyle imposed on you, so you impose your playstyle on those other people. Double standards ftw. -
"Addons are stupid and WoW is easy."
Sythrasz replied to Zorke's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
The bad player is already at a crazy disadvantage due to being bad. -
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Sythrasz replied to ZielAkros's topic in Flashpoints, Operations, and Heroic Missions
awesome mental image right there