Popular Twitch streamer Asmongold is one of World of Warcraft's most well-known veterans from its early days, though he typically has criticisms and praise for the ongoing MMORPG. Asmongold recently took some time to explain the problem with the current WoW raiding experience and what makes it take so long.
During a Twitch livestream, Asmongold stated that there are a number of problems with raiding in World of Warcraft, most notably the ability to get a cohesive group of people together for one. Thanks to recent changes Activision Blizzard has made to World of Warcraft, players aren't required to find a specific number of players for raids as the raid scales based on how many players are in the raid beginning at groups of ten. The continued requirement of a group dynamic and working together is key to a successful raid, but Asmongold points out how easily things go wrong.
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Because there are often issues with groups of people timing things properly, Asmongold says a common occurrence is one member of a group stepping away for a moment before returning to the raid just to pull trash mobs and create a group wipe. New players join the group after others leave the group as the result of these deaths and need to be summoned in, but sometimes the Warlock who usually summons has also stepped away. Warlocks aren't the only thing that bring players to the raid as each one has a summoning stone at its entrance, which can actually cause its own issues.
When the two World of Warcraft players go outside the raid to summon fresh faces in this scenario Asmongold says, «the Warlock gets back. So then the Warlock puts the stone down, but then the people that are next to the Warlock waiting in the raid
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