World of Warcraft: Current Year

Fyff said:

End of dungeon rewards were lower than mythic raids all this expansion

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And now they are below heroic.

I think I kind of understand what they are trying to do: Don't make M+ into the only activity for players, disregarding the rest of the game. Also, don't let dungeon running devolve into "who can make the biggest deathballs of mobs and survive while AoE'ing them down". Classes with ramp-up time, sub-par AoE, less utility will be thrown to the curb, while the semi-hardcore believe in the meta like Moses came down the mountain with M+ comps from Ion himself.

Instead of buffing up classes that need a lift they nerf everyone else. Nostradamus time: This will be somewhat reverted (but not totally) after Shadowlands, just like the GCD changes, because of "class fantasy" and "it doesn't feel fun and/or right to cleave a mob pack and only hit some". (I am still wondering if they will fix older dungeon designs that need that AoE cleave, like the traps in Strathholme).

Sidenote: You can't have new and returning players mid-expansion come into a normal/heroic run trying to learn trash and boss mechanics and watch people just disregard everything and nuke it down. The player power inflation in BfA has become one of the worst in the history of WoW. A fresh level 120 with sub 300 itemlevel doesn't even exist in the same galaxy as the 450+ geared players with corruption and Azerite treats out of their asshole.

At the same time they don't even try to communicate their intentions and let the playerbase come up with ideas to combat the problems. The stairs down the ivory tower seem to be really long. Maybe they should invest into a lift or something.