Recent forum topic about whether DMF damage buff should always be 10% or random 1-10% as it is now sparked an interesting discussion about world buffs and issues associated with them. Many people think, that the world buffs harm Kronos community. They make certain people log out for days just so they could show up to the raid fully buffed. They also kill world PvP in places like Blackrock mountain, as no guild wants to risk losing their world buffs.
In no WoW expansion Blizzard repeated putting world buffs in game. They even went out of their way to disable any buffs that players might have gained in the outside world when they entered a raid instance.
On the other hand, vanilla consumable and potion stacking is crazy enough even without world buffs. This too was later changed in patch 2.1 when Blizzard introduced elixir categories (Battle and Guardian).
The record boss kill timers are currently crazy (24 seconds on Ragnaros, 48s on Onyxia, 1 min 17s on Nefarian and 1 min 34s on C'Thun) and I think we all know that Naxxramas will be cleared the day it is released, world buffs or not.
I want to know what the Kronos community opinion on world buffs is, as well as hear arguments from both sides of the fence.
On one hand this could help solve the aforementioned issues. On the other hand it could hinder the players who are willing to go the extra mile.
Just for clarity, by world buffs I mean things like Heart of Hakkar, Head of Onyxia/Nefarian, DM tribute buffs, Songflower buff, DMF buffs, etc.
In no WoW expansion Blizzard repeated putting world buffs in game. They even went out of their way to disable any buffs that players might have gained in the outside world when they entered a raid instance.
On the other hand, vanilla consumable and potion stacking is crazy enough even without world buffs. This too was later changed in patch 2.1 when Blizzard introduced elixir categories (Battle and Guardian).
The record boss kill timers are currently crazy (24 seconds on Ragnaros, 48s on Onyxia, 1 min 17s on Nefarian and 1 min 34s on C'Thun) and I think we all know that Naxxramas will be cleared the day it is released, world buffs or not.
I want to know what the Kronos community opinion on world buffs is, as well as hear arguments from both sides of the fence.
On one hand this could help solve the aforementioned issues. On the other hand it could hinder the players who are willing to go the extra mile.
Just for clarity, by world buffs I mean things like Heart of Hakkar, Head of Onyxia/Nefarian, DM tribute buffs, Songflower buff, DMF buffs, etc.