Jawaka

There's nothing more frustrating than planting my crops, checking them again before I log for the night and then getting up the next morning and finding that some didn't grow because they somehow became smothered overnight.

In continuation of this thread which hit its limit.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4079621819?page=1

02/22/2012 10:50 AMPosted by Nethaera

Despite arguments to the contrary, there is a choice involved here. You can choose to leave the debuff on or turn it off. If you're looking for the challenge that doing the raid gives you without the debuff and your raid group isn't interested in turning off the debuff, that is still a choice that is being made. No one is forcing that on anyone. If you personally feel forced, then it may be an option to find another group that is interested in the challenge of doing it without the debuff.

It really doesn't matter. Once a raid is nerfed or players are awarded a buff like this anyone who clears the raid after the fact will be assumed to have done so with he buff on. There's really no benefit to doing it without the buff.

And yes, maybe I'm a special snowflake who likes recognition. But I argue that the game is now somewhat built around recognition since achievements were added to the game.

I don't recall who it was but someone made a great example a while back. If you were a runner and competed in numerous marathons but was never able to finish one however the race coordinators told you that because you've been struggling so much you can start the race a marathon 5 miles ahead of everyone else would you really want to take the handicap? You may finish the race but would you REALLY feel like you accomplished anything? I sure wouldn't.

Another example;

I'm a huge baseball fan. After Jose Canseco came out about steroids and a handful of the biggest names in baseball were found to have cheated the careers of anyone that put up big numbers in that era are now questioned even if they put up those numbers legitimately.

Its the same thing. It doesn't matter if you turn off the buff or not, people will just assume that you didn't.

I know that this has been asked a bunch of times now but I still haven't seen a real response yet. DS has come and gone, in fact, you've already announced the regular 10% nerf to the raid so that those who've been struggling will be able to finish it in normal mode.

Wth these nerfs it has to be assumed that almost everyone will have completed DS relatively soon. So what's next? I know that Mists is your primary focus but that seems to be pretty far down the road yet since you haven't even hinted at a release date yet. I know the way that you guys work, and there's months of tinkering and beta testing before you generally release an expansion. I'd personally be shocked if we see it before July. That leave six full months of what?

I know that Blues have gone on record as saying that the 4.3 was the last content patch of Cataclysm but I just can't fathom that they assume that people are going to be content just hanging around doing dailies and farming DS for gear that will be vendored as soon as Mists eventually does come out. Last expansion you guys gave us The Obsidian Sanctum. For Burning Crusade you released the revamped ZA raid as a time filler. Will there really be no filler raid this time around?

There's got to be a plan. Doesn't there?