Hellscream's Warsong, now makes people 15% more retarded!

Today the buff in ICC went up to 15% and people are excited because they think we will finally have a chance to down Lich King. The fact is we’re not going to down Lich King, not if people believe we need the buff in order to do so.

Do you know what we have died on every single time on the Arthas encounter? Defile, defile and more defile. People don’t walk out of defile because the use eyes are obviously considered an exploit. A 15% damage buff won’t make us move out of defile faster, it will make people pay 15% less attention to other things.

When the 5% buff hit our guild took a dive into the trash can. We wiped on Deathwhisper normal mode, people died on trash, we wiped on places we had never wiped before. If anything the ICC buff makes people more retarded, even if they’re not aware of it.

The buff itself is a horrible, horrible idea. Why is it even there in the first place? Aren’t we supposed to get better as our gear and knowledge improves? Thus making encounters easier to beat? Why on earth do we need a stupid, scaling buff that makes people more retarded? So that ICC can be pugged? To hell with that, every god damn instance in WotLK can be pugged already, let ICC be!

Blizzard made a nice gesture by allowing us to turn it off, but they could have at least added an achivement or a title for people choosing to do so that we could have som reason for doing it. The problem is, people always walk the path of least resistance. I was one of the few raiders who suggested the buff be turned off; the response I got was “Why?”

I don’t blame people for raiding with the buff, it’s only retarded to not use what’s been given to you, but the main problem is that it does not prevent lethal boss mechanics, and lethal boss mechanics wipe the raid regardless. What the buff does remove however is focus, and that makes lethal boss mechanics more lethal.

Explain to me why we spent an entire night wiping on Blood Prince Council hardmode with the 15% buff active when we almost one-shotted the encounter the first time with the 5% buff. Because people didn’t run after the flame orb, they didn’t need to; they had a 15% damage buff!