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06-10-2011, 03:32 PM
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One of the aspects of the game that has to some degree been lost is the willingness to spend weeks upon weeks learning a boss fight, especially a boss who ends a dungeon. One of the memories I have of vanilla WoW is the pop in TeamSpeak when we killed Nefarian (http://www.wowhead.com/npc=11583) after nearly a month of working on him. People who didn't even make it into the raid got up and screamed.
One of the reasons it took us so long to do it was because there wasn't really any other way to discover what bosses did besides going in there and dying to him repeatedly. Boss kill vids were in their infancy, and there weren't many places (http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/01/04/wow-insiders-guide-to-nefarian/) to go to get ideas on how other guilds got past X or Y. Our big stumbling block was the stream of adds before Nefarian landed; we kept trying to tank them, before someone got the bright idea of using warlocks and mages to AOE them in place.
Over the years, the playerbase has built up an impressive array of options for boss fight information. Soon (http://wow.joystiq.com/guide-to-patch-4-2/), the Encounter Journal (http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/05/16/patch-4-2-ptr-first-look-at-the-encounter-journal/) will go one step beyond and incorporate loot drop and boss ability information into the game. It won't tell you how to fight a boss, but it will tell you what the boss can do to you.Continue reading Rediscovering the discovery factor (http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/06/10/rediscovering-the-discovery-factor/)
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One of the aspects of the game that has to some degree been lost is the willingness to spend weeks upon weeks learning a boss fight, especially a boss who ends a dungeon. One of the memories I have of vanilla WoW is the pop in TeamSpeak when we killed Nefarian (http://www.wowhead.com/npc=11583) after nearly a month of working on him. People who didn't even make it into the raid got up and screamed.
One of the reasons it took us so long to do it was because there wasn't really any other way to discover what bosses did besides going in there and dying to him repeatedly. Boss kill vids were in their infancy, and there weren't many places (http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/01/04/wow-insiders-guide-to-nefarian/) to go to get ideas on how other guilds got past X or Y. Our big stumbling block was the stream of adds before Nefarian landed; we kept trying to tank them, before someone got the bright idea of using warlocks and mages to AOE them in place.
Over the years, the playerbase has built up an impressive array of options for boss fight information. Soon (http://wow.joystiq.com/guide-to-patch-4-2/), the Encounter Journal (http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/05/16/patch-4-2-ptr-first-look-at-the-encounter-journal/) will go one step beyond and incorporate loot drop and boss ability information into the game. It won't tell you how to fight a boss, but it will tell you what the boss can do to you.Continue reading Rediscovering the discovery factor (http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/06/10/rediscovering-the-discovery-factor/)
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion (http://wow.joystiq.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Raiding (http://wow.joystiq.com/category/raiding/), Cataclysm (http://wow.joystiq.com/category/cataclysm/)
Rediscovering the discovery factor (http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/06/10/rediscovering-the-discovery-factor/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://wow.joystiq.com) on Fri, 10 Jun 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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