no worldbuffs in vanilla phases
Dear Warmane Staff,
I was following the forum on the upcoming Onyxia realm for quite some time the past weeks, and while it's a mixed discussion on many topics as expected, I often did hear the request to buff up bosses to make raiding more fun and exciting in general.
I am unaware if this has been brought up to the table before, but I would suggest to remove most if not all debuffs from the vanilla phases at the very least in raiding zones.
If bosses in raids are supposed to be buffed for more of a challenge for raiders, which has been the case for many warmane projects before, then worldbuffs would nullify this effort and here is why: Original Vanilla did never intend for worldbuffs to be used inside raids, because this way most boss abilities can be skipped and the whole raid progression is degraded into an "hit the pinniata"-experience where you run your slot machine each week to get rewards.
This conclusions does lead to two different approaches in my opinion, if we commit on tuned up boss difficulty:
1. The bosses get so hard that you always need full WBs to kill them at all, which leads to obvious problems such as a higher entrance level for average players to compete PvE content and a lot of frustration in Raiding when losing buffs by mistake/grief to the point where you risk losing your ID for that week.
2. Bosses will get tuned to the point where they are beatable without WBs + removing WBs in raid zones entirely, which leads to some positives at least in my perspective: Boss fight difficulty can be adjusted more easily; player base does not get split up on the WB discussion; enforces players to experience scripted boss abilities; incentivise players to properly prepare for raid encounters (consumables, professions, etc); incentivise more class diversity in PvE (with WBs every min/max Raid just stacks warriors for obvious reasons).
These are just my two cents on the upcoming project and I want to thank the Warmane Staff and community to make this possible!
Thank you for your time on reading this and best luck in the development process! Me and my friends are very excited to participate on the server.
Best regards,
Yashin