No more attunements (for T5 raiding - SSC/TK)

[santai]

WoW Forums -> Serpentshrine and TK Attunements Lifted

After a lot of thought and deliberation, we’ve decided to remove the attunement requirements to enter Serpentshrine Cavern and Tempest Keep: The Eye. While many of our attunements in the Burning Crusade have been good progression checks, a few of the attunements have turned out to cause unnecessary stress on guilds either doing the content or attempting to do the content. With Black Temple and Battle for Mount Hyjal thriving, we want to encourage (rather than prevent) new guilds and raid groups to attempt Serpentshrine and TK. We are going to leave the current attunement quests in the game so that players can still engage in the challenge and the lore of those quests should they choose to. At a later point, we are considering adding a final reward step to those quests as well (that way those who have already completed them would not miss out on a *new* reward).

We’re listening to feedback from you guys constantly and your opinions are important to us. We want this game to be the best possible MMO experience for our players.

Enjoy Serpentshrine and Tempest Keep =)

(Please note: This change will go live later today -- it's not yet active)

DISCUSS

I predict a shitstorm on these forums.

[Navaash]

Damn you, I was preparing a post too with the title "[WoW] Blizzard backflags the entire game for SSC and TK".

Does this come as a surprise to anybody? If you didn't have a competent group, it was pretty much impossible to get into TK as you would never be able to finish Mercy. And since Blizzard knows that it's in their best interest to make as much content as possible available to as many players as possible, this move makes perfect sense to their bottom line.

It's going to be interesting to see if this touches off a new fad of heavy raiding.

[Quineloe]

good change

[Jedus]

I'm all for less cockblocks on content.

[Angerz]

I dont think it was very hard for anyone capable of doing SSC or TK to do the keying quests anyway.

Thats why I never understood most keyings. Even if you open up SSC and TK, if you couldnt kill Gruul or Mag, wtf are you going to kill in SSC and TK (other than collecting trash loots and probably killing void reaver).

Pushing people through the Trials was gay anyway.

[Lusiphur]

Big thumbs up from my casual raid guild that Karazhan nearly killed.

[Cad]

Good change, they probably want to see more utilization of their raid content and this is a good way. I can't wait for one of the poopsockers posts that is inevitably coming that raiding is now ez-mode with no attunement and casual season 2 weapons.......

[Aris]

Excellent change.

For most of us here who lived/raided through PoP and beyond... attunements was a huge fucking pain in the ass when you wanted to get new members up to speed.

Thank god they realized it sooner then later.

[dechire]

the best cockblocks should always be player skill. I'm not totally against a keying system but PUGs in wow are the fucking debil.

[Fayvren]

If I have to back key any more people through heroic shattered halls and arcatraz I'll shoot myself. Doing the trials over and over again sucked. This is great.

[Angerz]

Also, does this mean in 3 months they are gonna drop the keying for Hyjal and BT?

If not, its a good thing S2 weapons will be here to carry us through PvE progression since we will have to do it ourselves.

[Quineloe]

Long quest series shouldn't be about attunements but about a phat reward in the end anyways... maybe a weapon? OMG !

[Angerz]

Originally Posted by Quineloe

Long quest series shouldn't be about attunements but about a phat reward in the end anyways... maybe a weapon? OMG !

Better than "You jumped through all of our hoops, killed magtheridon and we now grant you the right to go fight more people for our lazy asses. Oh, here is a ring you'll never use as well. TYKTHXBAI"

[torrent495]

good riddance.

[kohl]

Awesome change. Our guild is on the verge of killing Magtheridon, and while I was anticipating finally getting that kill, I was NOT anticipating the huge hassle of pushing people through heroics just to step foot in The Eye.

They made the right choice IMHO.

/lol @ bliz forums which are exploding right now