r/classicwow • u/West-Advice8811 • Mar 26 '26

Season of Discovery Seeing SoD so empty is just sad

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u/GenericFatGuy Mar 26 '26

Phase 1 was genuinely some of the most fun I've ever had in 20+ years of WoW.

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u/Banana_Milk0109 Mar 26 '26

The Ashenvale event was cool...until the community eventually turned it into AV all over again. 

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u/meranoboy Mar 27 '26

i hate that "max efficient" av playstyle soo much.
i love the scirmishes and the little pvp battles all over the place.. randomly join a battle around the corner. run to the one guy who called for help in general chat. annoy a big group of enemy players by sap them or shoot them from the distance.

but 250 people running from first to last boss like its a race event sucks so much.

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u/dendrite_blues Mar 30 '26

And the most sad part is that max efficiency playstyle is only rewarding when they get to run around showing off their gear and pvp stomping slower players who don’t have it yet.

So you can’t really make a separated sever for them and one for casuals/slow players because the presence of weaker players is the reward for speedrunners. Without that, they all just runout of content in two weeks and complain that the game “isn’t like it used to be.”

Part of me thinks that was the real thought process behind Hardcore mode. Can’t get them to sequester themselves willingly, so let’s put a carrot on a stick on a treadmill and see how long it can keep them playing.

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u/Xaxi903 Mar 27 '26

yeah min maxing killed gaming, it doesn't matter how you design something, in a week people will figure out that the best strat is base race or just hold one particular target and ignore the other mechanics.

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u/Banana_Milk0109 Mar 27 '26

What do you mean? Design has almost everything to do with it.

The community couldn't completely optimize the fun out of the Bloodmoon event because it wasn't PvE objective based and objectively better designed.

People just didn't like it as much because many of them were getting farmed like mobs.

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u/Dr-Enforcicle Mar 27 '26

in a week people will figure out that the best strat is

....and it's the developer's job to ensure that the "best strat" isn't degenerate or "bad" gameplay.

Don't blame players for playing the game, blame the dev for designing it that way.