Anyone else got the feel AQ will be easy?

[Norjak]

Even if the fight mechanics are scripted properly (which is not guaranteed) you have a very mature player population running around in BiS gear and optimal spec & play style on day 1 of the raid content going live. So yes, AQ will (and should) be easy.
But it's great being able to play through this content on Nost, it has been a long time (for some, at least) or in many cases, the first time players are able to experience this classic WoW content "at level". Which is very cool.

[Keftenk]

Lol wut...Taunt not spell? GG Nost, gg....

[Turgon]

Be honest with us you never actually did AQ in classic.

11/15 naxx (retail) 14/15 naxx (private realms.)

We can turn this into the "setup posts old screenshots from her photobucket" thread, if you want. I've got some fun ones.

Your assertion that I'm a liar rather than a person who finds AQ easy makes me believe this game isn't easy for you.

That's fair -- I have a retarded amount of hours in vanilla WoW, it's probably not my place to be saying what's difficult or not.

k.

[TheNIF]

Twin emps are ez if working correctly blizzlike and your raid isnt filled with brainless ppl.

Everything is easy if you can satsify that criterion

[Keftenk]

warrior taunt isn't even considered spell hit atm. it is physical hit now. GL getting 100% guaranteed taunts on 4h with the fish boss trinket not even affecting it.

Is there proof of this somewhere? I'm not a Warrior so I can't easily test this, but I tried searching the forums for other reports and couldn't find anything. The reason I'm asking is because no one has reported this to the bugtracker so for all Nost knows. Taunt is working as intended.

[Ana]

this is the same mechanic that twin emps will have to do every 30s during a teleport swap. that is if they can even see the other emperor during primetime population.

When my guild does BWL we can't see the last 2 hatchers in suppression room.
There's no way Twins will be able to see each other if tanked far enough to avoid heals.

I expect this turn of events:
- Twins attempt to teleport
- can't find the other guy
- "the other guy must be dead, so I guess I'm dead too"
- despawn
- BigWigs plays victory music

[Irachkom]

Blizzlike ~2sec "stun" after Twin Teleport makes Twins ez mode =)
And only shitters/undergeared tanks can ruin your T2.5 heads farm.

[propergamer1978]

With those crafted NR gear releasing only on patch 1.11, I don't think AQ will be easy. Lots will be getting stuck on princess no?

[Imbaslap]

warrior taunt isn't even considered spell hit atm. it is physical hit now. GL getting 100% guaranteed taunts on 4h with the fish boss trinket not even affecting it.

Is there proof of this somewhere? I'm not a Warrior so I can't easily test this, but I tried searching the forums for other reports and couldn't find anything. The reason I'm asking is because no one has reported this to the bugtracker so for all Nost knows. Taunt is working as intended.

have your warriors run +phys hit gear and taunt the mobs on alcaz island over a time limit. then have them use the broken reel from gahzranka and do the same thing. we got less taunt resists with +hit modifiers on items compared to taunts with the broken reel buff of +15% spell hit, we almost got 8/10 reel buffed taunts resisted.

probably got broken during patching again.
or the reel is busted.

either way, something is borked.

[Jeniwyn]

Every instance will be fairly easy compared to when we ran it in vanilla since

1) The fights are know beforehand and many players have themselves personally killed or even farmed the instances before.
2) The average knowledge and general understanding that players have of their class is higher.
3) The average skill and experience level is higher. Many players have played WoW in one form or another for several years.

What a pug will clear depends only on what caliber players they can get. Back in vanilla that often ment that even killing MC was a stretch. On Nostalrius the pool will be significantly better. If you count 25+ alts and the best 15 players from our friendslist and players from good guilds that missed their weekly raid as a "pug" then there will be pugs killing AQ40 before many guilds manage it.

If by PuG you mean a spontaneous group formed in IF via inspects that is a different story.