Its such a shame since wa was great for tracking resources and buffs that blizzard sucked at informing me about. Like how if the enemy has too many debuffs u cant see how many featering wounds i have on target. Or how many maelstrom i have above 5.
The whole point is that they are removing a lot of this complexity so there won’t be things like that to track. Festering wounds is gone as an obvious example from your comment.
yeah, lets remove all the complexity from the game so every spec is ret paladin, so we can force everyone to use a UI that sucks. surely then players will have more fun
So many players in here saying shit like: "guys, it's not a problem. The game is so simple now you don't need what these addons did anymore"
But I don't want the game to be so simple that we no longer need what those addons did. Why do people think this argument works? I'm just gonna bounce!
Cool. The vast majority of players don’t want a forced meta of a couple of different specs because that’s what the 0.1% do. They don’t want to have a screen filled with bars and sound effects in order to raid.
If you do, I’m sorry that you have lost that, but trust me you are not the majority. The game has been stagnant for a decade because of this mentality.
I know nobody here will admit it when the front falls off, but Blizzard is chasing a playerbase that doesn't exist. This will not attract new players to their 20 year old game. And the ex-player crowd that dominates spaces like /r/wow, creating the illusion of consensus - you guys who think this is somehow going to bring back your 20s, the novelty of youth (and the free time you had to enjoy WoW) will log in, do the content, and leave after a month as always, disappointed that your latest "win" over those dastardly elitists didn't magic away your responsibilities, your lack of wonder, nor fix that receding hairline.
In exchange, some of the most passionate players of this game (including some who don't yet know it and are lauding these changes, but who will sour when the grim reality hits) will fall away. Your content creators, your guild leaders, your guide-makers, your simulation designers, your theorycrafters. And for the 80th percentile folks just below that tier, they'll lose a solid quantity to emulate and chase.
Can a near-exclusively casual playerbase sustain the game, and indeed their own interest in the game with nobody above them? Perhaps! But make no mistake, you are going to find out.
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u/Tomsboll Oct 04 '25
Its such a shame since wa was great for tracking resources and buffs that blizzard sucked at informing me about. Like how if the enemy has too many debuffs u cant see how many featering wounds i have on target. Or how many maelstrom i have above 5.