Please answer this - Blue Tracker

#1 - Nov. 19, 2010, 1:04 a.m.

Is this really how you wanted Elemental Invasion to work, Blizzard? Did you really want realms like mine not to have access to the secondary city bosses? Did you really want people to spend all the time they could have spent fighting the primary city bosses beating their heads against the other city's invasion only to fail and miss out on any bosses at all for hours?

It's peak hours and we still can't manage to defend TB on my server. I have to assume low pop servers and low faction servers like mine are all getting screwed by your design. Something needs to be done to either encourage people to defend both cities and/or make defending cities easier (based on the number of defenders or something).

If this is really how you wanted the invasions to play out I'm seriously concerned about how Cata will be.

Bashiok

Community Manager

#9 - Nov. 19, 2010, 7:26 p.m.

I'm not in the habit of answering rhetorical questions, but, no we of course do not sit around trying to think of ways to ensure that you have a horrible experience. At this point you say "Well you could have fooled me!" and I grumble a little that I decided to reply to a rhetorical question.

In an ideal world there would be a mechanic that would dynamically control the number, health, and strength of the elementals within a given area based on the number of players, as well as their average gear level.

That would be awesome! That tech doesn't exist for us. At least not yet.

It's an event that lasts a few days and is expected to be something fun, and lore-ish, to help introduce the shattering. If it isn't fun for you I do apologize, I can imagine that not having enough players to fight off the invasion must be extremely frustrating, and while we would love to have an easy way to implement scaling as I had described it, we simply don't yet.

Bashiok

Community Manager

#10 - Nov. 19, 2010, 7:28 p.m.

but it's annoying if you wanted Tripping The Rift.

You can fairly quickly and easily get this Feat of Strength by closing the rifts throughout Azeroth and Outland.

Personally I got mine in a single go in Outland.