In other news, I’ve heard all the creatures on Jaguero Island in STV have been greatly reduced in level, and King Mukla has gone non-elite. Not like you can tame Mukla anyways, but it’s one more thing to update.

You have to be kidding right? It’s absolutely false to say this change is the fault of the raiding crowd. The more “hardcore” raiders don’t care about the levelling of a toon, it’s incredibly easy and widely regarded as a joke to level a character from 1-70 if you want to skip the enjoyment factor and go for L70 asap.

This change was 100% down to Casuals that cried on the feedback forums because they only had enough attention span to play 30mins a day and expected to get a couple levels per day in such a time-period. They complained that they were getting “burnt out” when playing anything longer than this, but still “want to get to 70 as soon as possible” so they can feel great about themselves once they reach 70 and then try to be a part of the raiding crowd. Every step of the way Raiders have argued against stuff that makes this game easier, be it increases in heroic badge drops leading to new purchasable gear of Tier 5 equivalent or making levelling a toon easier. It doesn’t matter what the change, -anything- that makes the game easier goes against the mentality of WHY a raider plays this game. They love the challenge and find a great sense of achievement in their actions when they had a hard time doing them, be it downing a new boss or levelling their farming-alt to 70.

I’m neither a Raider nor a Casual, I find my enjoyment outside of raiding in this game but I still play a good amount of time to work for my rewards, and I am too frustrated with the “dumbing down” changes in 2.3, but don’t blame the one group for this that definitely doesn’t deserve it.