2.4 attunements, Onyxia.

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In 2.4, Onyxia will have the most difficult attunement in all of WoW.

Makes perfect sense to me.

Luckily at a level 70, it's pretty cake to get attuned for Onyxia.

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No, it's not. Ever try convincing people to do UBRS?

I know a couple people that have done it since The Burning Crusade launched and didn't take them too long to find people (guildmates and pugs) who wanted to smash the dungeon.

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I'm calling BS on everything Borknakk says now.

Onyxia currently requires a player to complete an attunement quest chain to enter her lair.



The attunements for these old dungeons are still in place and are some fun quest chains that you and the people you'd do the raid dungeons with can cruise through quickly. It's always possible that attunements will get removed in the future, but we have no plans right now to do it for these places and currently we are focusing on more current things like the level 70+ content.

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We understand that what you are saying here is the truth. What we do not understand is the logic behind it.

The Karazhan attunement process was simple. I obtained the first two key fragments at lvl 68, and the third within days of hitting 70. I will be completing my attunement tonight.

The Onyxia attunement is daunting to me. My main is a shadow priest. I will never be able to solo the instances involved in the attunement chain, and finding groups that are interested is a matter of luck. All of that work required to go and kill one boss, the killing of which does not, at this point in the game, advance my character in any significant way.

The Karazhan attunement, as well as the SSC/TK/BT/MH attunements, serves a purpose - to pace a character's progression through the environment, to encourage gear progression, and to ensure a certain minimum level of player skill and ability. Pre-BC, the Onyxia attunement served a similar purpose.

In patch 2.4, the Karazhan attunement requirement will be removed, as will the BT/MH attunements, thus streamlining character progression.

In addition, Blizzard representatives have repeatedly stated that they wish to allow all players the opportunity to experience all of the content.

And yet the Onyxia attunement remains.

The only reason I can think of for this attunement to remain is that Onyxia's Lair will once again become relevant for character progression. Can you provide another reason? If this is the reason, can you provide us with some insight as to how this will be accomplished?

If there is no such reason, then please stop the rude dismissal of our requests to have the attunement requirement removed. It is insulting to your player base - to your customers.

Edit: An alternate to removing the Onyxia attunement requirement exists - do not remove the Karazhan, Black Temple, and Mount Hyjal attunements. Instead, consider account-based attunement.

The last part of what I said is probably the most important in that we focus on current topics/content.

You mentioned some alternatives so I wanted to remind people of some comments that Tigole had recently regarding attunements:

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For example, we'd love it if once you earned your Karazhan Key or Heroic Keys, your max level alts had access to those areas as well. If we had the ability to do this, we probably would have left Heroic attunement at Revered rather than Honored.

We're also exploring the concept of guild or raid attunements as well. No promises here. There are many hurdles that need to be overcome before we'd be able to implement these (design and technical limitations).

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But the topic of attunement comes up all the time here. We want to do a better job and are currently exploring the options.

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So if you say that the majority of the focus here is on current topics/content, why state the part of Tigoles comment that states:

"But the topic of attunement comes up all the time here. We want to do a better job and are currently exploring the options."? :P

_Root

Ohhhhh, tricky. :-)

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I think most of the people here would agree that your time would be better spent figuring out how to make account-based attunement work rather than removing attunement requirements.

I keep looking for it in fortune cookies but haven't had any luck yet. ;-)


I'd love if we had more information on this topic, but right now all we can say is that we are aware of the various complaints regarding attunements but we don't have any finalized details on past or future situations changing beyond what is being done in patch 2.4.