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Legacy Raid Scaling Still Broken 2 Months After Shadowlands Went Live

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According to the latest player reports, Legacy raid scaling is still bugged two months after Shadowlands release.

A lot of players enjoy soloing old raids, be it for transmog, pets, and mounts. The problem with Shadowlands and Legacy content is that players cannot solo encounters that were easily soloable back in Battle for Azeroth.

We're now 2 expansions behind Legion, and players are incapable of soloing Mythic Nighthold, especially with getting "The Demon Within" down before being overwhelmed by the stuns and exponentially increasing damage from Parasitic Wounds. What is more, it's complicated finding groups for Legacy raids these days, so one would assume it makes sense to make content easier rather than more difficult.

In multiple interviews before the pre-patch squish, Blizzard mentioned we should be able to solo bosses that we could solo before the squish.

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Some players were doing N'Zoth, and due to scaling, the raid leader refused to invite more players to the group because it would not be easy to defeat BfA's final boss.

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Mackpack thinks the current trend is a clear departure from how Legacy content worked for the last 6 years. In Warlords of Draenor, Blizzard apparently introduced a hidden buff that allowed players that overleveled content by more than 10 levels to solo bosses quickly, but something went awry with 9.0 scaling.

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What has your experience been with soloing Legacy content in Shadowlands so far?

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After the drop rate this is the second greatest problem of Shadowlands in my opinion. It's ridiculous you can't solo even Uldir normal with 200+ ilvl character not to mention some bosses of Legion as Gul'dan or Aggrammar..

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Farming Legion raids for mog was already a pita due to all the artifact items in the loot tables. We should be able to waltz into these mythic raids and stomp them just like we do with WoD raids. Mog/mount farming is a nice, leisurely activity when you get bored or have nothing else to do.

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21 minutes ago, Hypersonic said:

After the drop rate this is the second greatest problem of Shadowlands in my opinion. It's ridiculous you can't solo even Uldir normal with 200+ ilvl character not to mention some bosses of Legion as Gul'dan or Aggrammar..

My Guild Leader tried to solo a lot of the bosses in Antorus; I and 6 others went to help him with Eonar Encounter due to the crystal mechanic on the ship and to keep the adds from over running the place during the enounter.  

Later that day Him and I went to try and duo the bosses on Mythic Difficulty in Uldir; we were able to kill the first boss however we lacked the dps for MOTHER.  We were going to attempt bosses in BoD but after our run through in Uldir we decided not to.

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Imagine how much fun it will be trying to farm SL transmog items 2 xpacs from now because we all know they won't be increasing the drop rates for legacy stuff, so we will be trying to farm items with the current, maybe see a drop every 5 runs.  It really seems like Blizz is actively trying to dissuade people from running old content. 

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I've been trying to solo mythic Nighthold as a full Nathria geared ret paladin, and the difficulty is just all over the place.  High Botanist Telarn is my major roadblock right now, I simply can't get past him at all, his damage in the final phase is simply obscene.

So, y'know, thanks Blizz.  I see some things never change.  You detect people are actually having fun in your grindfest of a game, and you stamp it out.  We can't have things being easy or fun, no no no.  We want them hard, and grindy, and monotonous, to keep people coiming back again and again and boosting those player figures for your corporate overlords to proudly display to the shareholders.

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4 minutes ago, Calorat said:

Imagine how much fun it will be trying to farm SL transmog items 2 xpacs from now because we all know they won't be increasing the drop rates for legacy stuff, so we will be trying to farm items with the current, maybe see a drop every 5 runs.  It really seems like Blizz is actively trying to dissuade people from running old content. 

There is a guaranteed amount of loot that drop you cant get a drop every 5 round.

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I just want to say this. About 2 months before Shadowlands hit, I made a topic on WoW game forums about this exact thing. The extreme scaling from level 120 down to level 60. 

 

People scoffed at me about it. And now look. I saw this was going to happen and no one believed me. ~ Mythicdruid

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12 hours ago, Mythicdruid said:

I just want to say this. About 2 months before Shadowlands hit, I made a topic on WoW game forums about this exact thing. The extreme scaling from level 120 down to level 60. 

 

People scoffed at me about it. And now look. I saw this was going to happen and no one believed me. ~ Mythicdruid

As others have said, this was something brought up in multiple interviews with Blizz, and they said they'd sort it. People believed them...

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I honestly remember hearing that there might be a chance that they were making it so that you COULDN"T solo the old dungeons... Heard this circling around the game chats last July, so I started running through as much content as I could. Remember being told to "solo what you can before shadowlands because they are making the dungeons scale."

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A new patch dropped this week but I don't know all of the changes that occurred in it. I did, however, run Mythic NH solo today and I was able to solo the demon within first try. I am playing a ret paladin with a 211ilvl. Ret is my OS so I sill have my prot leggo and trinkets equipped. Trinkets are Splintered Heart of Al'ar and Stone Legion Heraldry (both heroic).

Point being: you can solo Mythic Gul'Dan. Did not get the mount tho 😞WoWScrnShot_041421_174649.thumb.jpg.34824f5154f66a0ef57effc27beba66b.jpg

(pls ignore my awful UI)

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