The OverAchiever: Reconsidering achievements and raids

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9-08-2011 @ 5:51PM

mcmagi said...

I tend to feel that the normal/heroic split introduced in early Wrath with Naxx, EoE and OS was the best. In that case, the 25 man was considered the heroic version of the encounter (and the quest/achievement names reflected that at the time), although the mechanics were not very different. I think they ought to have taken this a step further and added heroic mechanics to the 25-mans as well. That would have given game designers only two versions of the encounter to focus on.

The only thing I did not like about the Wrath raid achievement model is that the achievements were duplicated in both 10 and 25 versions, giving hardcore raiders and achievement hunters the feeling that the achievement had to be done on both raid sizes for both drakes. That is thankfully no longer the case for Cata raids.

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