What you need to know about Phase 4 | Season of Discovery

The dev team clearly abandoned SoD when Cata launched. Its no coincidence that phase 3 was busted from the start and ignored to fix the problems Cata had during the prepatch. Phase 3 dropped and they realized the raid was too hard for 90% of the players so they nerfed it along with the gold from incursions. Then it was weeks before they addressed the loot in ST but by then more than half my server was gone. It appears the team is too small to be handling both versions concurrently. I personally believe they have scrapped a lot of their plans for SoD because they dont have the manpower. You cant convince me that they planned to do an STV event 2 phases in a row. I guarantee they had something else planned but scrapped it because there was no time. If youre going to release a new version of the game then be prepared to go all in. DONT PUSH OUT A HALFASS PRODUCT. Its a slap in the face and makes you look lazy

Scotty won’t stop bringing up mop like he’s not the only one that wants it

What if each Heat Level on MC didn't increase the ilevel of the gear, but rather, each heat level increases the number of items dropped off each boss?

40 people in a 20man really isn't an issue in a "for fun" version of the game, it will still only drop a 20 man worth of loot so groups will always want to bring the least amount of people possible, but hey if they want to bring 40 to smash it for fun go right ahead it doesn't effect me any, it's just less loot per person.

I hope they bring arenas into SOD

Onyxia being tuned for 20 people means they just equalized the power level to how it used to be. It was never required to bring 40 people but you could.

on SoM +1 Difficulty level gave 1 more item drop

if they wouldnt have gone to 20 man they wouldnt have dropped the ball so hard

I always thought they should allow you to bring, say an additional 5 people, to any raid size to allow the less advanced players a little help until they got some gear. This would stop the need for the nerfs all the time. More casual players could see the content and the more advanced wouldn't get nerfed into bordom.

Yeah Onyxia is for 20 people, but if it is too hard for your guild or a pug let’s say, you can bring up to 40 people. More people = easier but more loot competition… this is GOOD, it means you can pug on badly geared alts and it helps casual players get into raids, most likely guilds will have trouble on certain bosses and toss in a couple extra healers or dps and they’ll bring anyone pretty much😊

I like the 20 but you can take more as long as there is no extra loot. Then you can always bring the benchwarmers

Lovin' SoD, especially good for people that cannot play 5+ hours a day anymore.

Increased Heat level should drop more gear, not better gear. 1 extra drop per Heat level.

Everlook fresh hype!

the 20 man tuning and allowing 40 people is to allow for accesability i think. even back in vanilla if you would look at onyxia or multen core realistically you could do them with far less then 40 people, where not even everyone of them would need to be level 60 givem uptimal play. so, if they tune it for 20 people that play really well, but allow for 40 people, 40 midcore gamers could get some decent fun from it. also, this would also fit in with the heath level mechanic where the low level heat level would be easy and doable for 20 man, but the high heat levels would require 40 people who know what the heck they are doing.

CANNOT WAIT FOR MOP

the dev team must complete changed

Management issue. Devs are giving us the little they can do while also working on cata. It doesn't let a lot of time to figure out more interesting way to do things. Once again , cutting corner everywhere and then wondering why customers are disappointed

Mop already lol I’m just getting started with cata.

my problem is : phase 3 is there too long. everyone has professions maxed out multiple times and materials are ready to be turned in whenever phase 4 launches. especially resistance gear like fire. i have like 25 arcanite bars ready to get sold - and i havent done anything when cata launched. people who were active have like 100 or more on their account. making everything extremely easy. legendary weapons are probably more common then raidloot.