I'm hoping this buff doesn't increase too quickly. Every week is just much too quickly. I like the 5% buff and would like to play around in ICC with just 5% for a little while. See how far we can get with that and still maintain our normal schedule.

Being a strict 10 man casual raid that's struggled with Fester, Rotface, Princes, etc, we used it just the other day and were finally able to get that final 2-3% we just weren't able to get past. It was a bit of a godsend because weeks of dying so close to a kill were taking a mental and emotional toll on our raiders who are there to have a fun raid only 2 days a week. And while we're certainly not the best, we were good enough to be able to learn the fights in Naxx, Ulduar, ToC after a few learning wipes or within a week or two of seeing it for the first time. Hitting the wall in ICC became a major frustration for us and made people question if raiding was still fun and we had a few people just burnout on the numerous wipes and start taking game breaks. :(

It felt good to finally get past that wall. In just that one day, morale shot back up, everyone is eager again, and we're hoping that the new bosses we will now be able to tackle will be things we can learn within a couple weeks and several wipes instead of a month or more of nothing but wipes.

Reply