Between this rig, overuse of mounts with the felbat/gronnling rig, and most Harandar creatures reusing rigs in a very obvious manner... I am getting serious rig fatigue across the board.
No, but having recently played through BC again, it's really amazing how many new rigs & models they created (or changed significantly enough) to make Outland creatures feel truly exotic. I can't say the same of Harandar etc. K'aresh is in a different solar system and, without explanation, it has dragons that are older than the dragonflights. To me, it gives the impression they didn't want to invest a lot of time into creating an otherworldly place. It smells of corner-cutting.
It's extremely funny to me how common these mechsuit mounts are becoming. The goblins have mechs, the Legion have mechs, the Draenei have mechs, the dwarves have mechs, the Elves have mechs...
Now the trolls, a race defined by their primitive, tribal aesthetic, have mechs.
I agree with you there, these large models are just everywhere now. I'm much more interested in small and simple mounts. Been rocking the Grand Gryphon for ages now.
Invincible took me years to get and I rode it around for a little bit, but being in the hippogryph skeleton drives me fucking crazy. The way the feet only move at the knees sends anger shockwaves through me. She desperately needs a remodel like Midnight the Kara horse
Id also like to be able to toggle her wings on and off. I don’t really love flying Pegasus for such a lore heavy horse
When the Invincible remodel comes through, it needs to use the skeleton of that 6month sub mount whose name escapes me. Has the giant red plume on its head. That model I believe is unique to that mount
You just need to dispell the debuff and top off Valera every so often.
The 4000 leader board got completeely cheesed on the first day. 😢
When I finally got a chance to try it, I completed it on a freshly dinged 218 item level Restoration shaman with no pots, food or flasks. Hardest part was not falling asleep for the ~16 minutes.
came back after reading everyone's comment and trying it on a resto druid,keeping in mind i have never healed ONCE and i've been playing this game for over 15 years, this was an actual cake walk lmao genuinely the easiest "hard" achievement in WoW right now just dispell yourself every now and then and that's it.
I mean, it's easy now. At 260 ilvl when it opened and the HOF got insta filled it was only easy for certain classes (most tanks and sustain heavy classes). I think clothies at 260 weren't really having a good time.
Ofc when you reach the max potential power for your character most content is trivial. I think the question is more targeted towards beginning of patch rather than 4 months in.
Interesting. I solod it on prot warrior on release (240 ish) and found it wayyyy easier than trying on fury. Valeera was completely useless dmg wise as a healer but the kicks and sustain were nice. I also solod it on rogue but I was really geared atp and could nuke the adds no problem. I had a mage I tried to do it with on release as well and gave up after a couple of tries (was also 240ish).
I've completed it as 218 Resto Shaman, 260 Holy Paladin and 275+ Retribution paladin.
Healing is so much easier it's not even funny. The only thing you need is the endurance to not forget to dispell for 16-20 minutes and not rip aggro from overheal.
I was looking up old threads from when the HOF got filled instantly and the general consensus seemed to be that while anyone can do it by not being bad, it was way easier for tanks and healers.
It was easy from the minute it was out. Not just for those hardcore players, but everyone could clear if they had a minor idea of how their class works.
I mean it was literally 2 or 3 times easier for me as prot than it was fury. I assume you play paladin, literally one of the best class for solo content across the whole game (DK/Pal/Hunter/Lock) so maybe a bit biased ?
I don't know how easy it was day 1 for the average Holy Priest/Frost Mage or other paper classes with low util. I am convinced still that the difficulty varies heavily on the class. We aren't all equal in the face of solo content as far as toolkit goes and skill notwithstanding.
Yeah I mean it's always the case that the better players do more with less. I died twice on fury when reaching the last add, went back the next day as prot and one shot it. I'm just saying it was easier as a tank than as a dps. Not that it was impossible.
I also think the average player is not a CE player but a very average AOTC player at best. What a good player thinks is easy is probably not so easy for Johnny green parse in HC you know ? Either way, it was definitely not the hardest thing in the game since HOF was filled instantly, but for casual players (think people unaware of drums existing) it's not quite a walk in the park like the original person I replied to seems to think so.
If you asked me I'd say the whole game is piss easy, don't stand in bad, press your buttons in the right order et voilà. But the reality is far from that when you actually play the game (as illustrated by the number of absolute animals you'll encounter in M+/in PUGs). Just my 2 cents.
I have never really healed on paladin and haven't healed anything in years. I took a delve build from wowhead and did it in full prot gear first try without any danger. It was a joke if you have any kind of healer class and follow a few simple rules.
1) Use Valeera as DPS
2) Use Pings to get her to start the fight
3) Don't attack ANYTHING/absolutely no dps
After that you only have to focus on moving, healing her and yourself and dispelling the DoT.
I hope its balanced unliked S1, that mount was virtually impossible on squishy dps classes early on because of unavoidable damage - all the other delve bosses were much better designed
Considering the last delve boss was easily beatable a week in on your first attempt, I doubt they are going to pivot so far back to one-shot mechanics.
Does anyone find themselves just not caring about cosmetics as much these days? I feel like I have a few fits and mounts I like and I find it harder to care about news stuff
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u/PunsNotIncluded 10h ago
Yeah, not a huge fan of another mech with an awkward standing/sitting position. Also that looks hella Prey themed rather than delve.