r/classicwow • u/Deathtonic • 11h ago

Forever Beta Feedback Unintended outcomes of the Dungeon XP Nerf

  1. Monster Skip Runs [ More than just end game dungeons ]

  2. Hard Reserving of low level gear [ Not just Cruel Barb ]

  3. Less Tank and Healers leveling [ You see them say it every day on reddit since the nerf ]

  4. Tanks and Healers charging for their services for low level dungeons [ Not just end game ]

  5. Less dungeons begin ran [ Meaning harder to find groups ]

  6. Less social interactions [ Dungeons were the group activity, questing is primarily solo ]

  7. Some dungeons being skipped entirely [ Alliance have no reason to run Shadow Fang Keep since there are no quests and no mob XP ]

There are more issues than just these, I normally just run a dungeon 3-5 times now trying to convince people to do that will be drastically harder.

why would cloth users help me do Scarlett Monetary Armory?

Will people just Skip SM Cath because you have to clear all mobs?

We have never had to ask these questions before and this is why people are so passionate about it, we are supposed to be playing this version Forever.

Just make Boosting a lifetime bannable offense.

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u/Ruger15 8h ago edited 8h ago

I feel like this Forever team has been good and I’m optimistic about the future. This change however is the exact opposite and I have a hard time not believing that there is something they are hiding and that’s the main reason why they did the xp nerf. It feels so unlike the norm with this team.

It really feels like this solution is one of the worst strategies.

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u/Meat_Assassin69 7h ago

Occams razor with blizzard is that they are just terrible at math. They fuck up basic percentages all the time. I wouldn’t be surprised if they still think the last patch bumped it to 70% instead of the actual 4% change it was

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u/Smooth_One 4h ago

The weird thing is that they've still come to this conclusion with Zirene on the team. He genuinely understands the player perspective, and as a former sweat he isn't new to running the numbers on things.

Maybe he was just outvoted, or is primarily working on classes and not involved in xp/leveling.

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u/Boethion 4h ago

Its like a good actor in an M. Night Shyamalan, no matter how good they are the director will always manage to have them give the absolute worse performance you have ever seen just like any halfway competend dev loses all braincells as soon as he joins Blizzard.