TalonBot
06-17-2009, 10:13 AM
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wow.com/media/2009/06/fallofnaxxramas.jpgLeafshine echoes a concern (http://www.leafshine.net/2009/06/a-naxx-wtf.html) I've heard a lot around the community and even here on WoW.com (http://wow.com) lately: why are some Naxx pickup group organizers requiring the epic achievement (http://thinkzalot.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/06/lfm-nax-10-link-epic-and-achieve.html) on characters joining the raid when they're only running Naxx (http://wow.com/tag/naxxramas) 10? Sure, we'd all love to have raids full of epic (http://www.wowhead.com/?achievement=556) characters, but when you consider that to even get that gear, you have to topple Naxx 25, it seems a little silly to require a raid full of characters that don't actually need the run you're going on.
Then again, you could (and probably do) subscribe to the "free market" theory of PuGing: if you think that's silly, don't join that raid, and eventually people who want those requirements won't have anyone to run with (and if they do have people to run with, then apparently even those who have conquered Naxx 25 still want to go back and run 10, for fun or badges or offspec gear (http://www.wow.com/2008/01/31/totem-talk-pitch-hitting/) or whatever). But that does leave out people who really do need to (and can) run the instances -- just because you don't have a character full of gear from Naxx 25 (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/01/pug-checker-shows-players-boss-kills/) doesn't mean you can't perform respectably in Naxx 10.Continue reading Requiring epic achievements for normal runs (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/17/requiring-epic-achievements-for-normal-runs/)
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Then again, you could (and probably do) subscribe to the "free market" theory of PuGing: if you think that's silly, don't join that raid, and eventually people who want those requirements won't have anyone to run with (and if they do have people to run with, then apparently even those who have conquered Naxx 25 still want to go back and run 10, for fun or badges or offspec gear (http://www.wow.com/2008/01/31/totem-talk-pitch-hitting/) or whatever). But that does leave out people who really do need to (and can) run the instances -- just because you don't have a character full of gear from Naxx 25 (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/01/pug-checker-shows-players-boss-kills/) doesn't mean you can't perform respectably in Naxx 10.Continue reading Requiring epic achievements for normal runs (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/17/requiring-epic-achievements-for-normal-runs/)
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Virtual selves (http://www.wow.com/category/virtual-selves/), Raiding (http://www.wow.com/category/raiding/)
Requiring epic achievements for normal runs (http://www.wow.com/2009/06/17/requiring-epic-achievements-for-normal-runs/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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