Redução da dificuldade na raid Alma Dragônica (Dragon Soul)

Assim como foi feito em Icecrown Citadel, a última raid da expansão anterior, à partir de 31 de janeiro será diminuída a dificuldade, dado um nerf, em toda a raid Alma Dragônica.

Consistirá no seguinte, será criado um buff "Power of the Aspects" que reduzirá a vida dos bosses e o dano de tudo dentro da raid em 5%. Ao longo do tempo esse buff aumentará para ir reduzindo cada vez mais a dificuldade da raid. A redução será para o nível normal e heróico, mas não existirá essa redução no raid finder.

O buff, como em Icecrown, poderá ser desligado falando com Lord Afrasastrasz no início da raid.

A Blizzard explica que eles estão fazendo o que sempre fazem depois do meio de patches. Em Icecrown Citadel os jogadores foram "buffados", em Firelands (Terras do Fogo) eles deram um nerf na raid todo de uma vez, o que não saiu da forma que queriam, pois o nerf foi todo de uma vez e os jogadores que não precisavam de tanto para conseguir progredir não tiveram dificuldade. Da forma que estão fazendo, dando buffs aos poucos, os que precisam de uma ajudinha vão conseguir, os que estão bem atrasados vão esperar mais um pouco, o buff vai aumentar e até o final eles também vão conseguir.

Enviado por Blizzard (Blue Posts / Original)

Dragon Soul Difficulty Changes

During the scheduled server maintenance on the week of January 31, the Dragon Soul raid will become enveloped by the “Power of the Aspects” spell, reducing the health and damage dealt of all enemies in the raid by 5%. This spell will grow progressively stronger over time to reduce the difficulty and make the encounters more accessible. The spell will affect both normal and Heroic difficulties, but it will not affect the Looking for Raid difficulty.

The spell can also be disabled by talking to Lord Afrasastrasz at the beginning of Dragon Soul, if a raid wishes to attempt the encounters without the aid of the Dragon Aspects.

For those of you who raided in Firelands and/or Icecrown you’re no doubt aware that as time goes on we want to keep people progressing by adjusting the difficulty. For any number of reasons a group may be having difficulty on a specific encounter each week, and our intent in adjusting the content is to ensure the ability to keep progressing, enjoying the content, and gearing up. With Icecrown we progressively buffed the players, and while this slow progression (and ability to opt-out of the buff) were both beneficial, it led to an expectation of your characters power, and once you left the raid you could certainly feel less effective. For Firelands we attempted to fix that by nerfing the content instead of buffing players, but we nerfed the content difficulty all at one time, which was counterproductive for players who really didn’t need as severe a change as we made. With Dragon Soul we’re attempting to do the best of both by having a progressive nerf to the content, keeping player power constant while providing small increases in assistance over a long period of time, as well as allowing players to opt-out of the assistance by speaking to Lord Afrasastrasz.

We hope you continue to enjoy Dragon Soul, and that these changes encourage you to attempt a higher difficulty, or just keep pushing to down that next boss.