Hi.
I have a tip how to increase a popularity of several Wolk instances. Following instances
Eye of Eternity
Naxxramas
Ulduar
were not designed for the late Icecrown. Blizzard usually just throw away old content. However, Lordaeron and Icecrown servers are dedicated to be "forewer". So what do you think about the idea to make this instances open only for thoose players with "Herald equip"? (Means no item higher than ilvl 226 and 232 for weapons). This will make wotlk more "Blizzlike" actually.
Nowadays its just poor achieve run which were never been designed for 264+ level items. I belive that glory of Ulduar and Naxx will be back when ppl will raid them with more proper eq. This change will not affect lower players so much if they are on poor equip allready :).
Sounds more fit for Lordaeron server than Icecrown tho.
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A tip for Wotlk pre UD instances
Edited: May 15, 2021
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So to increase the popularity of certain raids you want to enforce limited access to them that's basically going to make those raids unavailable to anyone that has ever done ony10 or fos/pos/hor hc - sounds like a weird approach to encourage people to do em.
Why not just tune em up a notch like timewalking content? Bump the gear to 245-equivalent and tune numbers accordingly.
Restricting access to something is pretty much the opposite of making things "more appealing".
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Well of course restricting imply better popularity. That is the thing called "game". You have to progress something in there. I am pretty much sure that if you just give some items from Cataclysm into Wotlk, the Lich King challenge turns into quite boring encounter, dont you think? And that exactly happend to Ulduar. All games have some rules and if it makes it too easy, it does not imply it is more playable or popular. It just easy and thus boring.
If restrictions should imply less popularity why Loarderon server exists anyway? If you cannot buy Shadowmourne. That is restriction, isnt it?
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And that's why Lordaeron is so much more popular than Icecrown. Hint: It's not.
Without altering the content there's literally 0 progression required to clear things since the content is over a decade old. Same is true for any raid. Literally every raid in wotlk has a couple hundred walktroughs readily available.
I mean if you want to "progress" eoe, naxx or os+3 you could just join Frostmourne. Then see the same content you want to restrict to 226 so it might be "tough" again facerolled in two hours after release. All three raids. In ilvl200 stuff.
You have to face the fact that wotlk-content is easy. Even on a "buffed realm" like lordaeron lod is kind of a joke nowadays. Putting an already mostly boring raid behind an incredibly narrow restriction is just like deleting it from non-seasonal realms. Except for the occasional achiv-hunter no one is gonna bother.
I see potential in the new timetalking-stuff where old content might be retuned to higher ilvls. If done right that could actually be fun - not for progressing it, but widening the palette without locking stuff behind random restrictions.
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The thing is that Herald equip-esque runs are already available to those that are dedicated enough to do them and people still barely do them outside of transmog / scroll runs. Adding a restriction to up the popularity is counterproductive as by doing so, you are cutting off people's abilities to just casually gold-run naxx for that fat stack of 1000g gold weekly + get some chances at transmog gear.
People strive towards the endgame - that is why TOC/ICC/RS are the raids with the most popularity, not because they're designed better or whatnot. Uld / Naxx don't really push you much towards the endgame so there'd be no benefit in doing them outside of scroll / tmog runs.
The implementation of your suggestion is simply going to present an additional annoyance to people who might have wanted to go there (that annoyance being getting appropriate gear), that would push them NOT to do it even more.
