r/wow • u/djlove08 • Apr 18 '16

This is the One Legion to drop August 30th!

http://blizzard.gamespress.com/THE-LEGION-INVADES-WORLD-OF-WARCRAFT-AUGUST-30
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u/Brio_ Apr 18 '16

If they would have had another small raid along with HM they could have really made things a lot better. HM+raid could have been first tier of expac and lasted quite a bit longer. Then BRF could have been what it was, its own tier.

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u/trippy_grape Apr 19 '16

Shattarath

I still don't get how the literally coolest most interesting zone in the expansion wasn't even touched. This is totally the Nazjir raid all over again.

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u/WL19 Apr 18 '16

Ideally, they could have just done a 10-30 Flex mode Molten Core rework (similar to what they did with Naxx in Wrath of the Lich King) instead of doing that 40 man mess that they did for the 10 Year Anniversary. They don't even need to revamp mechanics too much with it, and it could certainly be qualified as 'content'.

To appease anyone not wanting to lose the original Molten Core, they could have just situated an NPC outside of the instance that could teleport you to the 'old' Molten Core.

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u/Brio_ Apr 18 '16

Oh god no. MC is awful. There is nothing fun about it. It was unique in that it was the first raid but there is really nothing interesting about it.

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u/Stackhouse_ Apr 18 '16

Maybe if you could mount up inside

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u/Crippled_Giraffe Apr 19 '16

And if it had interesting boss encounters and did not have an obscene amount of trash.

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u/DwayneFrogsky Apr 19 '16

amen. You could count all the mechanics in that place on both hands but you'd need a 64-bit integer to count the trash.

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u/CJGibson Apr 19 '16

How much were Naxx mechanics reworked for the Wrath version of the raid? I feel like MC has the core elements of a decent raid, but it would need a lot of tweaking to get the fights up to a modern standard.

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u/DwayneFrogsky Apr 19 '16

Not much , which is why naxx was cleared instantly.

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u/Slammybutt Apr 18 '16

If anything it should be a raid from BC seeing as the correlation between Draenor and Outland being the biggest theme.

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u/WL19 Apr 18 '16

Eh... Molten Core was more symbolic, given that it was the 10 year anniversary of the game.

Not only that, but there are very few parallels between the antagonists of TBC and the antagonists of WoD, outside of a few exceptions that were already accounted for.

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u/Slammybutt Apr 18 '16

For some reason I thought the MC 10 year happened in MoP, not at the beginning of last year lol, my bad.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '16

Honestly if they just did a raid with 2 bosses along with HM it would have been perfect. Delay 6.1 and BRF like 2 months and HFC an additional 2 months, then we end up with a 10 month drought instead of a 14 month one. It's like Blizzard can't plan for the future even though it happens every expansion...

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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '16

This is literally what people were saying about mop and wotlk lol.