Friday, October 17, 2014

Public Service Announcement: UBRS is Not a Mists Heroic

I've run the new UBRS at 90 several times, and I've noticed that people are wiping like crazy. Granted, just being a new dungeon means that people will have to figure the place out - the second boss (whose name I'm sure I'll remember eventually) has some tricky mechanics that force you to attack one target while making sure to interrupt a different one.

But the major reason I think people are having difficulties is that in two years of Mists of Pandaria, we've only had the original dungeons. There has not been 5-man content (outside of challenge modes) that is tuned for anyone over about 450 item level. With a large swath of players nearly 100 points higher than that - and who have been so for over a year - a lot of people are very used to zerging through dungeons even faster than they were by the end of Wrath.

So yes: you'll have to be careful and not over-pull in new dungeons. You'll have to actually pay attention to boss mechanics. You'll have to be patient and let the healer get full mana or top people off before a fight. And yes, sometimes you'll wipe.

In all honesty, the new UBRS is not really any harder than the Mists dungeons were. But it's new and it's actually tuned for the gear levels that a lot of players have reached. So just be careful, and have fun!

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