Said By Brad

First off, to those who don’t play WoW, disregard this post.

Now the patch notes for 2.4 were put out a few days ago, and one of the major changes included (besides Sunwell) is the removal of the Attunemant process that was previously requited to access Black Temple & Hyjal. You had to kill Vashj and Kael’thas (final bosses of Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep respectively) and loot their vials to gain access to Hyjal. Then to gain Access to Black Temple you had to complete a lengthy quest chain which ended in you killing Rage Winterchill (first Hyjal boss) and bam, you’re attuned to Hyjal and Black Temple. Now you can just stroll in, provided you are in a raid group. Why? Blizzard wants players to ’see the content’? Bullshit. Killing Vashj and Kael was not a big deal to any serious raiding guild. Hell, to any guild that can muster 25 active players completing SSC and TK should not be a problem.

The fights have been out for long, there are so many guides, so many sites that profile each boss’s abilities and tell you what to do, so many videos of encounters. And hell, the fights have been nerfed so much since they were first released any guild that fails to down Vashj or Kael with a core of active raiders is basically a bunch of retards who can’t follow instructions, and thus in my opinion should not be allowed in to Hyjal or BT. That was the whole point of attunements in the first place wasn’t it? To make sure that only guilds of a certain ability and organization level were able to access harder content.

So now I feel we’re going to see a huge surge of (retard filled) guilds that have 3/4 TK, 5/6 SSC, 3/9 BT, and 3/5 Hyjal. Since the first 3 bosses in both BT and Hyjal are much easier than both Kael’thas and Vashj. Guilds that can’t muster the skill or ability to beat the harder boss encounters, but because of Blizzard’s retarded vision of letting more people ’see the encounters’ can farm themselves some easy epix! Much like when they removed the SSC and TK attunements and every guild that came fresh out of kara farmed Void Reaver for their t5 shoulders when they had no hope of killing Solarian or Al’ar.

I think the attunements allowed these easy bosses to exist in the instances, the first few bosses in BT are easy as a kind of ‘reward’ for killing Vashj and Kael and getting your guild attuned. I don’t think they were tuned to a lower ability level than Kael and Vashj so guilds that couldn’t get attuned could just walk in when the attunements were lifted (obviously Blizzard has had this planned for a while) and get some easy items.

Blizzard just seriously degraded the whole idea of ‘raiding’.

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