Could Old Content Fix The Current Rift in WoW?..

I was a big fan of the Dawn of the Infinite, but you are definitely right on the pugging & leaving aspect. People will 100% just leave when they get to their boss. I like how they timed the release so that you can do something new with a few items that would be an upgrade. Then the following season, some of that gear was still useful (cheat death for tanks for example) so you'd still want to run it. I dont know if Mega Dungeons are quit the answer, but adding some new content mid-season with a few upgrades is def something they should look at. Maybe it's a 2-3 boss dungeon with just a big chest at the end & you get 2-3 bosses worth of loot at once, similar to M+ but no timer and 4 pieces might drop instead of just 2.

Drop raid & mythic plus. After a month or two when people are almost completely geared, drop a mega dungeon or the mini 2-3 boss dungeon so that it adds new content & new upgrades to keep the gear grind going. It seems like they are doing something similar by releasing another raid for the anniversary. New gear to go after. I like that.

I have a more cosmopolitan mindset and think everything should be solo queue, Mythic raid and M+ as well. I don't like how compartmentalized the game is, how everyone sits in their own bubbles and never interacts with the other players. This started really coming about after Legion, when my own guildies would PUG M+ all day and if you didn't want to or couldn't, you got left behind and those guildies don't bother offering to help you in lower content, they've essentially left you in the dust, same with the player base. Legion also had a way of getting good players to go into lower content because of TF, legendaries, AP, etc.

Blizzard wants us to continue to work from the bottom up. Form guild first, network first, organize first. Wouldn't it just be easier to go top down now? Just get everyone together with solo queue, then let them figure out comms and strategy AFTER. You even start from the bottom with IO and arena rating, from literal zero.

The very first online multiplayer games I played, you always started the game neutral and had to find your alliance while you were in game, people didn't used to start games on teams.
I think they're being lazy by making the game seasonal also. They can't design anything that holds up for 6+ months. I have single player games that I've played for years.

easy fix:
put all mega dungeons in a each dungeon 2 week rotation
make them drop gear 606
make that gear upgradable with mega dungeon specific currency to 619 or drop champion and have a "hard mode" to drop hero.

easy. And im not even a game designer. just a gamer (maybe thats the trick?)

I feel like mega dungeons kinda died out (minus the 1 per expansion) because they had to. When we were young in 06/08, we could spend 30 minutes LFGing, then going to Searing Gorge/Burning Steppes and spend an hour + just doing it. It was fun, it was unique back then. Can't so now when we're all in our late 20s/30s, etc and have adult responsibilities.

As for difficulty, normal Rookery has more mechanics than most classic raids. Like, mechanical difficulty increases every expansion, we're just getting better at handling them. Honestly, much of the difficulty in the past was down to 2 things:

– We were just worse players back then, less experienced
– Gearing and the related scaling with it was just whack. Don't have a core group/raid? GG, you're hard capped at running normal dungeons.

Mega dungeon or 5 man raid? But instead of dropping items (aside from extremely rare recipes or mounts) bosses should drop a currency that can turned in for all kinds of different rewards.

3 hour Ubrs or Lbrs runs lol

As a healer I can not stand chasing tanks around. I've played alot over a 18 year duration and still tank effective using traditional pulling methods.

They can and have done this, it was called protocal dungeons in classci wrath. They were untimed, had increased damage and health and like 1 or 2 simple affixes to deal with. It was M+ without the timers. This game is trying to compete with esport games that were designed around esport competition as its foundation. WoW was built as a casual game to counter the likes of everquest and Ultima Online. You can't innovate a game that is gated by a 30 year old engine that has its limits. WoW is due for a reboot, it has become bloated and you will never get new players to try the game and stick to it the the level of learning curve this game has. Its intimidating for any new player, I can say this safely since I have been playing the game since 2007.

The best state the game was ever in, was in TBC , where you had heroic dungeons , you had arena that was really good, and you had the best raids imo

Loved raiding but managing or even being a part of a 20-25 person roster is a massive nightmare and flex is often way to unbalanced when you try and do it with just 10-12 people and it is generally to easy (for me). Sadly even know I'd want to raid again personally don't think they can fix any of it's current problems as it is more a social thing more then anything else. No locks on mythic and making it for a much smaller size wouldn't fix it and I don't think they could make heroic hard enough where a player like me wouldn't clear it fast enough my guild would fall apart waiting for the next raid months later as no one wants to do farm content for more then a few weeks.

World of warcraft was a ROLE PLAYING Game not just a clicky game and they converted it to crap and polished it to what it is now. it all started when they redid the old combat system.