As anyone who has raided since patch 3.0.2 has hit can attest, raiding just got a whole lot easier. Bosses and trash mobs got a big nerf to their health and damage and several boss abilities were removed due to changes in player’s abilities. Now raiding is like putting a UFC champion up against someone who sits on their ass playing WoW all day.
My goal in Burning Crusade was to finish Black Temple. We got a late start on raiding and weren’t hard core enough to have a real chance at Sunwell. But I wish the patch had waited one more week, because we were up to phase 4 on Illidan and would have killed him this week even without the nerf. But the patch hit, and even with all the lag issues inherent in playing right after a major content patch, we cleared Black Temple in just over 3 hours, then went to Sunwell last night and downed Kalecgos. Brutallus is on tonight’s menu. And while I am a little disappointed that our Illidan kill came post patch and seems to be sort of tainted as a result, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.
But if you’ve read any of the WoW forums over the last couple of days, I appear to be the exception to the rule. Just like every time Blizzard has nerfed something in the past, people are freaking the fuck out. Why do people get so pissed when Blizzard nerfs content? If you’re one of that small minority of players who are hardcore raiders and cleared all the content pre nerf you still have bragging rights. So why are you acting like Blizzard just gave you and your fellow hardcore raiders a big wedgie?
Why do you care if people are getting the same loot as you just weeks before Lich King hits. It doesn’t affect you does it? You can try to claim that it unbalances pvp, but the arena gear is far better in pvp than Tier 6 and easier to get. What it comes down to is greed and jealousy. You want everyone to look at you and go, “Oooh! Ahhh! He’s the most awesome raider on the whole server! Look at all those purples.” So when some scrub raider walks up to you next week and goes, “Look! I have the Tier 6 helm just like you!” you’re going to run to the nearest forum and post some big rant about how unfair this nerf is. Stop acting like a little bitch. You don’t like the nerf, go play some other game until Lich King hits.
BC has been out for almost two years, but only about 5-6% of raid guilds have cleared Black Temple. Less than 1% have finished Sunwell. If you’re Blizzard you look at those numbers and realize that 95-99% of your customers aren’t getting to see all that fancy content you spent a bunch of time and money developing. And while there are some players that seem perfectly happy to do the same shit over and over, there are other players who don’t have the time to commit to hardcore raiding or maybe they just aren’t good enough to get in a raid guild, but they get pretty bored of doing dailys and running Karazhan every week. So how does Blizzard keep their monthly fees rolling in? Nerf content once it has been around long enough for the hardcore players to clear it, and let the casual players get a look at stuff.
Then Blizzard takes that money and develops new content for you hardcore players. No nerfs = less players = less money = less content.
P.S. If you reply to this post with some whiny ass comment about how nerfs are unfair and cheapen your achievements I’m going to go ahead and respond in advance since I’ll be out of town for a few days. - You’re a tool.
12 responses so far ↓
1 Gneblefelbin // Oct 20, 2008 at 5:43 pm
There are a lot of raiders stuck on marginal servers and in the last 6 weeks prior to 3.0.2 attendance had been weak all over.
Mobs getting a nerf didn’t help attendance, but new talents and inscription and other additions in 3.0.2 certainly got people logging on in huge numbers on all the realms.
I do find it interesting that all the people in BT who complain that it is a joke now are not wishing we went back to the initial versions of every single boss and no nerfs at all. I bet most of them wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near as far as they were if it were not for previous nerfs.
If they wanted their bragging rights, they should have gotten their war bear mount.
2 ecto // Oct 20, 2008 at 6:10 pm
My guilds have never gotten past ZA. Now I might have a chance to see some end game.
Fuck the QQers. A kill is a kill is a kill (^^)
3 Kevin // Oct 21, 2008 at 12:29 am
I’m a tool!!!
And proud of it
4 bradley nash // Oct 21, 2008 at 7:28 am
This still doesn’t change the fact that the reason ‘most’ guilds can’t get past the easier content is partly because of undergeared players, but mostly because of stupid shit like dieing to spout or flame wreath.
5 Manguy // Oct 21, 2008 at 8:09 am
Quick point.
Honor points reset = no
Arena points reset = yes
http://blue.mmo-champion.com/1/11296584023-honormarks-reset-for-wotlk.html
6 Duskfall // Oct 21, 2008 at 10:49 am
Thank you. Fucking THANK YOU. I cannot express to you how much this sums up everything I’ve been thinking and more.
Just. Thank you.
-From someone who’d probably never see Illidan, and will still have to come back when she’s level 80 to do it.
**just cause i’m casual, doesn’t mean I chose to be. Just means I work 10 hours a day tyvm.
7 lethalnl // Oct 22, 2008 at 12:55 am
we had one heck of a raidweek tho
brut, felmyst, eredar twins and m’uru down ….i got to see kj /roflmao
8 Loco // Oct 22, 2008 at 4:51 am
Do I really care about people getting phat epix? No not really. Actually this nerf is kinda great. We rush through Sunwell & BT combined in a little over 3 hours now where before it used to take us like 7.
I do wonder thou… how is it fun for people to kill Kil’jaeden for the first time only now? You basically don’t get to see anything. It was quite an epic encounter before. Right now all that’s left is a poor attempt at cheap rip-off.
Another cool thing is the legendary bow, 2 more guilds killed KJ on our server last reset, they both got one…
Oh and one more thing i’d like to mention. When people talk about this “only 1% of all WoW players cleared Sunwell” shit. Do you also consider the fact that about 80% of all WoW players doesn’t give a shit about raiding? Like at all…?
9 Alex // Oct 22, 2008 at 8:55 am
Well we were at illi when the patch hit too, i gotta say that the nerf was so great that the kill didn’t really feel like much of an achievement anymore, just too easy.
I found that too bad, i like a challenge, however no reason to bitch on a forum about tho.
10 kyrilean // Oct 22, 2008 at 11:23 am
Do I like the nerf? Not really, but mostly because I feel like I didn’t earn the kill.
Killing Rage Winterchill when half of your raid stands in Death & Decay for more than 5 secs at a time just shouts “YOU’RE ALL FREAKING IDIOTS THAT DESERVE TO DIE!!” But down him we did.
The nerf has taken away some of the fun of playing, but does that mean I think it’s wrong? No, absolutely not. Absolutely agree that it needs to be done to get more people access. That’s all I really want is to see more stuff.
Am I going to cry and whine about the nerf? No. Am I going to use and abuse it? HELL YEAH!!!
p.s. Anyone that spends all day looking at other people’s gear in game (and I know a bunch of ‘em)….SERIOUSLY, GET ANOTHER HOBBY!
11 Todd // Oct 23, 2008 at 4:57 pm
I’ve just got to say that this post makes this blog officialy awesome in my mind.
I look forward to your future posts.
12 Tritachion // Nov 8, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Great writeup. I’m glad some other commentators have already expressed how f’ing true the whole article is. So I can skip that.
“What it comes down to is greed and jealousy.”
Absofuckinglutely true. Had to be said.
Thanks for keeping up this blog. I really enjoy reading it.
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