Are Heroics Dead?
by Santyn on Mar.05, 2009, under Random
When is the last time you ran a heroic? No, not for achievements or to help out a friend, but because you actually needed gear and/or badges from it. I haven’t in a quite a while. I’ve even gone so far as to turn down invites besause I would rather level an alt. I don’t need anything from it. All of my upgrades come from raids now, and there is nothing else I need from the Heroism vendor.
This leaves me with very little motivation to run heroics. And I don’t think I’m alone in this. Sure, a lot of people run them for fun, but the only ones that people want to run are the ones I am sick of. Nexus, Utgarde Keep, Violet Hold. Keep them. They’re played out. Now if someone wanted to throw me an invite to Halls of Stone or Halls of Lightning, I might be more interested, but no one ever wants to run them.
So what does that leave us with? A whole bunch of stale content that only gets worse. Blizzard needs to do something to revive 5-man content. Introduce new dungeons. Make a second level of Heroic and offer Valor emblems. Something. I like 5-man content, but something needs to be done to make it more appealing.
At least in TBC there was only one kind of badge and they kept introducing new equipment to buy with it, providing plenty of incentive to keep running Heroics. In Wrath, the Heroism emblem has a very finite usefulness. And now they are talking of introducing a new type of emblem for Uldar, effectively making all of our Heroism and Valor emblems useless.
Heroics may not be dead yet, but they are already in intensive care. If Blizzard doesn’t do something soon, they are going to have a ton of content that isn’t even 6 months old to put on the shelf with old world 5-mans.
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March 6th, 2009 on 7:08 am
I agree. I found that there were maybe only 2 things I could purchase with badges from heroics, which made my heroic runs very short.
Maybe if they added some cool new things (maybe new mounts or whatever) that you could get with the heroic instance badges then it might inspire people to go back, but since these badges are also available from 10man raids, it might not work so well.
I agree that the shelf life for heroic instance runs has been very short. Unless I really enjoyed a heroic then I won’t do it again, so that means I willonly ever run CoT, cos I just love it.
March 6th, 2009 on 10:10 am
They need to add some heroic+hard mode bosses in some of the instances. With iLevel 200 and 213 drops that are different than naxx. Quirky or filling strange holes. Or maybe just updates to old lvl 70 oddball items. Mounts, pets, something.
There’s nothing worth spending badges on. And that happens pretty quickly.
March 10th, 2009 on 3:28 am
Yeah, says something that I’ve spent twice as many EoH on a single low level alt that on my main – and then only really because I’m running heroics to help guildies out.
You know, the easiest way to make them relevant again would be to make 5 EoH exchangeable for 1 EoV (and so on).
25 man raiding is still really necessary, but you can at least get something out of heroics and 10 man that way