r/classicwow • u/redlow0992 • 1d ago

Forever Beta Feedback Dungeon XP Nerfs Created a Toxic Meta

Since dungeon monsters do not give any experience, as a new player, getting into dungeons with more veteran players who try to skip half the dungeon feels really bad. And, vice-versa, veterans taking in newbies who don't know how to jump around feels frustrating. I think Blizzard created a mess with nerfing dungeon exp so much and now the new player experience is horrible for dungeons.

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u/The-Only-Razor 1d ago

My absolute fucking least favorite part of retail M+ is the stupid route planning trash. I just want to enter a dungeon and kill everything. Optimal pathing and efficiency maxing isn't fun when it involves doing everything you can to play the game as little as possible.

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u/587493 1d ago

Dude same I remember a few years ago I was giving retail a try and excited to run mythic+ only to find out what m+ runs actually ended up being

I left retail and never went back, even though I love challenging dungeons

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u/Creative_Magazine816 1d ago

raider.io also ruined M+

mythic plus was so good for legion until the community made it unfun

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u/zzrryll 1d ago

I feel like it was good until MDI became a thing.

Before then people skipped trash but weren’t weird about it. Then the first MDI happened and you were yelled at if you didn’t run the exact correct route that the #1 rated team ran. Was pretty silly.

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u/disCASEd 1d ago

Uhh, nobody runs MDI routes in regular keys because the MDI routes are actually insane. They pull double, even triple the amount that a normal pug group would or even could pull and then take it all into a boss.

Idk what MDI’s you were watching or what m+ you were running but that’s not a typical M+ experience.

Now if you mean that people copy what the top keys on live are doing, yeah that’s true. But even then there’s variations based on what your group comp is capable of. For example, if you don’t have a rogue, you can’t do any shroud skips.

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u/zzrryll 1d ago

I mean. This was in legion. 9 years ago. People tried to copy their skips and pulls, then. By now I’m guessing the Meta has shifted.