This just made me sad. I started to farm for invincible 2 months ago or so, have around 40 attempts total on all alts and now they anounce this. If it’s true, I will just stop farming it, even the last fight with Lich King lasts for like 10 minutes because of his boring dialogue I heard like 1000xIt’s just sad
ICC always allowed difficulty change while inside, I think that was the only raid that had that.
I didn't know you could do that in the first place. Well this doesn't cause any issues for me thankfully.
Happy I got all the old mounts before this was nerfed. In particular, it was nerfed on Deathwing in like, I wanna say, 2018? And that means you have to do Spine of Deathwing every time you want that mount now. No thanks, man. No thanks.
I would think they didn't change it to specifically hinder legendary mount farming. My belief is they removed the known undesired logic to allow raid level changes inside a raid, as a normal part of the SL dev cycle to ensure it cannot happen in the past, the present, or the future .... . That would make it an effect of a backlog code change. Just a theory :-)
Honestly, I thought they made this change a while back (8.2 or 8.3 at least), as I couldn't change the difficulty of BRF or HFC while inside for a while now (but could before)... something which meant I had to run out and in again during my dozens of runs for longboi gold farming...I personally run the whole of ICC25hc anyway (it's good for transmog, and a little gold too)... but I agree that it's time all the older raids were given skips to end boss like the newer stuff. I'm perfectly happy to have that as a quest to do the raid 4 times over, that's fine (and tbh, feels less weird than the Jaina skip of just 'click and done'... in fact I prefer the quest style skip as it also allows you to still kill the other bosses, rather than only the end one and that's it... sometimes I want a specific other boss for something too!)
Careful in Dragon Soul LOL
I always find it funny when changes are made and I just sit back and think "Wow, I didn't even know that was possible to begin with".
Removed
Oh yeah, took me over 80 tries to get Invincible using this method. And that heroic deathwing mount was 104 tries, I remember distinctly. There was a trick where you started the DW encounter then quickly hit a macro to switch to heroic mode, so you could share the lockout and not have to do (shudder) spine of deathwing on all your alts every week.
wait...i didnt know this was possible...
Because nothing that is described in this article screams exploit....
That sucks. They should add a skip quest. ICC is a bloody long raid.
Hmm not bad of a change nor affects me.