Kind of wishing I could have made it, some exciting stuff announced so far.
Really glad to see Flex scaling applied to normal raiding. We can start thinking about beefing up the roster to accommodate real life stuff without worrying about leaving people out of raids. Disappointed to see Heroic raiding drop to 20man only, I really liked that we could work up into at least some of the heroics at our own pace. The fixed size might allow for some finer tuning on encounters though.
I'm going to have to get a new video card to fully appreciate the updated models of my characters!
Hearthstone for mobile has me excited, that's going to be a huge time sink.
What are you guys excited about?
After watching the vids and hearing the blizzcon panel speak really looking forward to this one. The garrisons seem to be a pretty neat aspect to the game. Heroes of the Storm looked pretty cool as well.
It's all pretty crazy! I'm really stoked that we'll be able to Flex at our difficulty level. That will be SO great to just be able to take anyone that wants to go, even if someone has to drop out an hour into it. I really like the renamed scheme too.
The expansion itself looks really cool. The story behind it is both neat and kinda funky, but the gameplay elements they are adding sound fantastic! I'm gonna have to race Luv to build a Garrison....
As for the new/revamped "Mythic" difficulty, I too liked being able to poke our nose into Heroic, but I do think the single 20-man style is better for the high-end race. Makes it a bit "purer" and focused. Really, really early thought, but we might be able to partner with a guild to run Mythic when/if we get to that point. Talvet's guild has very similar raid times and progression to us. So who knows? Maybe we can mix it up in a year.
For now, I look forward to beating in Garrosh's face. :) And finding out more details tomorrow on Warlords of Draenor!
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i like the idea of a few of the thing to come but the raiding i am very disappointed in makes me sad in away that we will not be able to do heroic's as a 10m group
I totally waved during the opening ceremony guys... i think you must have missed me.
I can answer any questions you guys may have if you weren't able to see the panels!
I've seen some speculation that WoD Normal is going to be a little more difficult than current Flex and WoD heroic somewhere between current Normal and Heroic. No idea really, its all in the numbers, but Blizzard could make a difficulty curve that has us clearing more challenging bosses in the end while pushing the very hardcore difficulty back up to where it takes a month to clear for the very best guilds.
I am disturbingly happy about the new gnome models. I'm kind of shocked by how much I like them.
Yeah, they did a good job on the gnomes. Dwarves still look like dwarves.
I'm a little bummed there will be 'little or no dailies at level 100'. I know a lot of people complained about all the daillies, but I prefer them to straight up grinding rep ala Shaohao.
Also, I'm not sure the new heroic/mythic raid system will work out well unless they find some way to extend people's interest in raids or pump out new raids faster. It seems like working on heroic has helped us stay interested in raids while waiting for a new tier.
When I first heard 'Warlords of Draenor' it sounded totally generic, but I like what they're doing with the setting and story. It has a cool Conan feel to it all.
Also, garrisons and loot streamlining sound great. Can't wait!
I'm excited for the new raid structure. I think it will be awesome for us and allow us to grow the guild a little bit and get a better safety net above 10 raiders. We'll have to wait and see how the new "normal" and "heroic" are balanced, but so long as they provide a good challenge it will be all benefit. If the new heroic is too easy, then we'll have to look at options such as growing the raid team to 20 or, as skarn mentioned pairing up with another guild.
Does this mean that all looting will be on the flex model going forward?
According to the panels,
"The number of drops will scale well with the number of players, as each additional player gives you a higher chance to get another drop, up to where it is guaranteed. This ensures that are no odd breakpoints that will restrict raid sizes."
So if we have 13 players, for example, we might get 2 guaranteed drops and then a 40% chance at a third. type of thing.
I don't think we'll have a hard time growing the guild to 20 raiders if we want to continue what seems to be the history of this guild clearing normal in a few months then moving onto heroic. I know I alone have a few guys (two guys spring right into mind) who'd be willing to join up with us as we grow into a possibly larger guild.
One thing i did notice there will be no reforging next xpac wonder what they will do im sure alot of people who bought the yak will be mad.
I'm gonna say it again: I am SUPER stoked that Flex capability is being extended to more raid modes! I will be SO HAPPY when I can have 13 raiders show up and bring EVERYONE! :D :D :D ^_^
I'm not initially interested in shifting to a hardcore Mythic guild. The biggest downside for me is simply the overhead of managing it. For one, it puts us right back to a specific raid size and backups just after getting rid of it with Warlords. I'm not ruling it out or in right now, there's a loooong time to go before we have a raid full of level 100 players! Something to consider for the far future.
Adding a few friends to the guild should be fine, but I do want to raid at least at our current difficulty level. So anyone who joins up should be able to handle that. Proper expectations and all. :)
Overall the next expansion looks great!
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