"Heroic Week" Returns in The War Within

The War Within Posted 2024/04/17 at 12:04 PM by Squishei

Having guilds feel like they have to spend every available hour doing Mythic+ spam on the first week in order to get geared up for Mythic

Raid bosses having a larger power delta between the first and last Mythic boss because of the lack of Heroic Week

Lack of Class Tuning from data collected on Heroic week

The first couple days of Race to World First being nothing by Heroic splits

Michael Bybee

To be a little bit more specific here. One of the considerations for the War Within is, for the first time in World of Warcraft history, we are doing an early access period for folks who are able to purchase the higher end product, and so they'll get 3 days early access for that. One of our very major goals with allowing that was that it didn't feel like it gave folks an advantage, especially in any power race. So that 3 day early access will give folks the ability to play through the story content, level up, get to max level but they won't have access to a lot of the Mythic 0 and other opportunities where they can get sets of gear. Then we'll have a period where we'll actually have access to the Mythic 0 system without the Season having gone live, then the Season will start and you'll have your Heroic Week and then you'll have the rest of the content unlocked.The War Within Alpha Coverage

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Comment by DreadfuryDKM+ers getting the short end of the stick through this as per usual.Comment by TehraGood change.Comment by PeacemoonThis isn’t very clear still.

Early access + week 1 is heroic dungeons.

Week 2 is m0 only.

Week 3 season goes live? M+ and all raid difficulties?Comment by SublimeChaosM+ers getting the short end of the stick through this as per usual.Comment by VaccDamn that sucks for m+ players.Comment by TeradanThis isn’t very clear still.

Early access + week 1 is heroic dungeons.

Week 2 is m0 only.

Week 3 season goes live? M+ and all raid difficulties?Comment by corrupt733The 0.1% can't stop ruining the game for everyone else.Comment by BrimzStill no separate server for RWF? Would solve literally everything (for example: could do global launch, no heroic week needed because everyone has every item in that patch, no rng factor where someone is benched because wasnt lucky enough to get a specific item)

They did a separate mode for blunderstorm and MDI/TGP, but the most watched event is not that important I guess.Comment by VoyleM+ers getting the short end of the stick through this as per usual.Comment by WorgendeathThis isn’t very clear still.

Early access + week 1 is heroic dungeons.

Week 2 is m0 only.

Week 3 season goes live? M+ and all raid difficulties?Comment by cheiniiit is definitely a plus to not release before christmas xdComment by pawpurrM+ers getting the short end of the stick through this as per usual.Comment by VoyleNobody cares,Comment by RavenoflogicTerrible choice. Lets gate the game for absolutely no reason cause people that don't even run mythic are upset about it.Comment by TysTeaTerrible decision, which is only catering towards the 1%. Not a good start.Comment by DindongAbsolutely hate this for m+. Especially during the launch it feels odd to get to do the "real" content 3 weeks later.Comment by schnizolthat's good they slightly stagger it. relax. it's a WComment by johntravolta342Good change, no need to rush anywhereComment by McDennyif race to world first is soo important , do invites to tournament level, give players all the gear enchants etc , scale the boss to stupid levels and let them beat their head to the keybord until they complete the raid.

stop making conteint for 0.1 %

make raids easier to make more people engage with your game

stop gatekeeping content to such lower % of the player base jeezus , so much dev time and resources alocated for 2 weeks of myhic and after the end of the season not even 1000 guilds complete the game, such a shame

regarding pvp, make some system where you lose little to no rating or rewards more for winning, make the rewards achievable for at least 20 - 25 % of player base since you alocate so many resources, not everything needs to be so god damn exclusive in this game

the only problem i see overall is with the player participation, and the reason is that the content is too hard and complicated not that people don't like / love or want to play because they don't want tooComment by dancharveyThis is an L. Bad decision.

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