Firelands Raids Get a Little Less Hot

September 13, 2011 LHStaff General 0

Blizzard announced today that in preparation for patch 4.3 they will be “toning down” the difficulty for both Heroic and normal raids within the Firelands though the release of hotfixes. Basically the health and damage of all raid bosses will be decreased in the same percentage Blizzard did for the original Cataclysm raids when patch 4.2 was released.

The first hotfix will go live on September 19, so there’s still time if you want to challenge yourself or guild and complete the raids on the harder difficulty level.

While the lower difficultly level is meant to allow more players and guilds to enjoy all of the new content, not everyone is happy with this announcement. If you check out the Blizzard Blog you’ll see over 1000 comments already, most of which are complaining that it’s far too soon to already be nerfing these raids and even more so with the Heroic raids. Unlike normal raids, which are meant for more casual players and guilds, Heroic raids are not, so why nerf them? I can’t say I disagree with the sentiment of the hardcore wow players. Why bother even creating a Heroic level raid if you’re just going to make it easy enough for anyone to finish?

5 Comments

  1. If they are nerfing heroic T12 raids, this is probably a sign that the uptake on unnerfed T11 dropped to next to nothing after patch 4.2, and also a sign that heroic T13 is going to need heroic T12 gear.

  2. Why bother even creating a Heroic level raid if you’re just going to make it easy enough for anyone to finish?

    Why bother spending money creating content that doesn’t reach the vast majority of your audience?

    Or are the heroic raids just a statistical increase on the same old content as the normal raid? I dunno, I left WOW ages ago.

  3. Last I played, Heroic raid dropped the exact same items with slightly higher stats and the word ‘Heroic’ below the item name.

  4. LOL WoW is the Viagra mmorpg. It is for men with small brains, who pay to get big numbers and feel stimulated as a gamer. Thankfully it died long time ago and the skilled players reside in other rpg. Fail wow.

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