Sometimes blizzard releases raid content that the top guilds finish in 1 or 2 nights, other times it takes a couple months. It's a legit complaint that some of the raids are too easy and farming easy bosses for 2 hours a week can be pretty boring when there is 6 months between content patches. The time between ICC and cata release was over a year and in that time only 1 boss (halion) came out and it was a 1 to 2 nighter.
Yeah, that's true. I always considered that some bosses were simply much, much less forgiving than others, and that was exacerbated when some bosses also had really tight timings. I think part of the problem is that some guilds spent awhile on the PTR to essentially help Blizzard and themselves, but they also ended up making the encounter far easier upon release because they were used to the mechanics.
I had varying success over the years in heroics as it really depended on my guild at the time. What held us back most of the time was just having poor players that we needed to fill our ranks.
the problem with the game now is all the good guilds raid 80/week which is retarded. Half the players in top guilds now aren't even good and would not have been in a top guild a few years ago - but with talent leaving the player pool, guilds just raid more hours with worse players to try and be #1.
That sounds... awful. I didn't mind the 3-4 days a week
as long as it felt like we were making progress, but I don't need the equivalence of two more jobs!
I remember that guild.
7/7 regular first week both 10m. We got stuck 2nd week on spine 5/7 heroic. Note my 10m never cleared any raid from BC onwards on reg in two weeks let alone 5/7 heroic. Both 10m stagnate w/ raid attendance probs from people burnt out and subs lost. I get 7/7 heroic with what is left of two 10m combine and thereafter unsub.
Ugh, I
hated spine on my Rogue. I, like every other Rogue in existence, had the legendary daggers, and if my stacks were high enough to cause the proc to eat my stack while we were about to transition to the tendon, I had to sit there and do nothing. If I blew my stack, I would lose 35+ stacks of +17 agility or completely waste the buff, which gives you ridonkulous combo points. I just really felt like that fight completely worked against the mechanics of the daggers, and it annoyed me.
Middle class families are being squeezed. Why would someone pay a monthly subscription fee when there are so many other options out there?
Honestly, WoW kept me from spending so much money. When I don't play WoW, I get bored, go out and buy shit just because I can. So, do I be a shut-in that pays $15 a month to play a video game or spend lots more than that by going out often. :|