Yesterday Valnoth, Blizzard administrator, wrote about how the Cataclysm raid progression will look like. Answering a curious forum poster, Valnoth made some interesting remarks.
In his post Valnoth writes
- "Below is the basic progression map. Obviously your mileage may vary, i.e. If you're Paragon or Premonition you will be able to skip some of the below and/or mix and match at your discretion.
- Normal Dungeons/Crafting/Questing to get full set of 85 blues (non-heroic) to do Heroic dungeons.
- Heroic dungeons to get full set of 85 Heroic blues to do Normal mode raids.
- Normal raids to get full set of 85 epics (non-heroic) to do Heroic mode raids.
- Heroic Raids to get full set of 85 Heroic epics, which will presumably help a bit on Sinestra and the next tier (when released with patch 4.1.0)
- Badge vendors to help fill in gaps at all tier levels.
- No real gating to speak of for ship.
- Sinestra opens after Cho'gall is defeated on HEROIC mode. No timers or attempt limits, but she will pound you relentlessly. She has better than Heroic epic level gear (half a tier better)."
Two things in this post are particularly interesting. The first thing is the gaps. The post indicates that Blizzard has taken in regard the sometimes quite serious problems reported with the gear gap between some instances and raids.
The second thing and perhaps most important is the fact that there is no gating or attunement for the Cataclysm dungeons and raids. The gating removal is a pretty big pve change to Burning Crusade and even early Wrath of the Lich King (Malygos).
Follow the link below to see Valnoth's forum post.
Links
forums.worldofwarcraft.com - Valnoth's forum post refarding Cataclysm raiding
