WoW players finally want to be able to tackle the Legion raids solo. However, the WoW director has some bad news – that will take a while.
Many players of World of Warcraft only check out the latest content for a few weeks before moving on to another activity: Farming old raids. However, that is not going well in Shadowlands like it was during Battle for Azeroth. The game director revealed when that will change again – it could unfortunately be a good year away. At least that is what the WoW director says.
What was said? In a conversation with the Chinese site Gamersky, game director Ion Hazzikostas talked about the issue. He was approached about the fact that some bosses, like Eonar in Antorus, are still very difficult even with the currently best gear. Hazzikostas explained:
Regarding the difficulty of farming [old content], our principle is: At the end of an expansion, you will be relatively easy able to solo the content from two expansions ago. So at the end of Shadowlands, it should be easy to defeat the bosses of Legion – you may not take them down in one shot, but you will be able to beat them.
When the time comes, a large part of the players will be able to go back and farm Legion content. Or even BfA content, perhaps with a small group.
Why was that easier before? The problem doesn’t seem to be that the scaling of old raids is currently not working. The problem was rather that players were exceptionally strong during “Battle for Azeroth.” This lies in the numerous stacked systems that built upon each other. In addition to the already powerful Azerite gear, there was the Heart of Azeroth with additional active and passive abilities, as well as in later patches the Corruption effects that made up as much as 50% of the damage in some cases.
Players feel too weak
What does the community say? Many players who would like to farm Legion content currently are dissatisfied. They feel weaker in these raids than during Battle for Azeroth, which is due to the systems mentioned above that have all been removed. A few players understand that Blizzard had to rein in players’ power again to avoid falling into an endless spiral, but the dissatisfaction about this remains.
It feels bad that currently, one can only master content that was easy to master during Battle for Azeroth with difficulty. However, it seems that the system is working as intended again – even if that means raids like Antorus might still be too difficult for most classes for a while.
Maybe this will change a bit with Patch 9.1 Chains of Domination.
What do you think about the game director’s opinion? Is that a good principle? Or should the old raids be further nerfed since they could once be easily completed solo?
