World of Warcraft: Current Year

Qwirb said:

Content and balance wise the game is as good (better?) as it's ever been.

The main gripes that people have are with the loot/reward system which is rng heavy and can be frustrating if you lose the legendary lottery.

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They've made great strides at flattening out the power disparity between legendary items though. It may be unpopular to say so, but the only people that are truly effected by not having their two BiS legendaries are mythic progression raiders. If you're in a guild that is only raiding normal or heroic NH, the encounters you're facing are not tuned around everyone having their 2 BiS legendaries and 54 points in their artifact.

On another note, maybe I'm giving Blizzard too much credit, but I think the "paragon" points in artifact weapons were intended to be an elegant way to lower the barrier to entry for raiding/challenging content for casual players. In previous tiers they nerfed boss damage and hp and boosted player damage and healing across the board when the release of the next raid tier was imminent. Nobody feels good about clearing a raid "after it's been nerfed" though, so they experimented with warforging and valor upgrades as a way for players to continuously improve their characters and have agency with their content consumption/availability. I think paragon traits are the next iteration of those ideas.

With the planned AP changes in 7.2, I think the paragon trait system will be the best method they've implemented to steadily lower the barrier-to-entry and make challenging content more accessible.

The legendary rng shit is so goddamn infuriating. I was basically behind and fucked right from the start of the expansion. I was the second to last person in my raid to get a legendary. Some people had already gotten two before I got my first. I'm watching folks around me now getting their sixth while I'm still waiting for my fifth and hoping I finally get my first throughput item. It's ridiculous to be able to be this far behind others that I play about the same amount of time with purely from rng.

Yep. I did the overnight grind (with a not so efficient group, my god) and was 110 in 14 hours. My first legendary was not until about 2 weeks after I finished the legendary research.

Watching Notcal on twitter, poor guy also had to level multiples just to get a decent leg for ret. Took him forever. It is absolute bullshit that that's a viable way to actually be useful this expac. I am fucking sick of being the first melee on the bench every time, not because of mechanics or survivability or general skill (I specifically asked this), but because my character is just always going to be the worst damage of all the melee and just playing better can't compensate for it.

Really awesome video from Thete on why damage meters are bad for raid progress. It's long, but treat it like a podcast and listen to it in the background. It's good stuff for you progression raiders out there.