I dunno, when I told my group about the letter contents, they mostly shrugged. New quests they liked, the raid is meaningless to us of course, but they are premium so not sure if the new quests will be free or not. ED changes are meaningless to us so noone cared. New races, archtypes etc. no one cares about either as we have barely played those that are avilable.
The new night revels quest should be fun!
And hahaha; at first, they didn't believe that there would be no more HC until 2025 (at best). They would rather have HC grouping to muck around in as everyone is mostly at the same level (barring game knowledge) and even we can contribute to the group completing a quest. Really it is that, simply because HC PUGs are not intimidating like regular servers pugs where everyone has multiple lives, gear, seems to know the game completely, and sometimes even get upset/yelling because of some 10 sec delay you caused since turned left instead of take some unknown shortcut (that everyone knows of course---like gods save me when I broke the jumping crate in Ringleader many many years ago!) and cost them precious time on the XP pots or whatever. Ahem. You can ignore that rant.
The year of the dragon stuff sounded interesting to use but who knows what that means? It it is more cosmetics, I don't honestly care much unless they are super-cool but they are somewhat intested in what the monthly stuff will be.
As for the replacement for HC with a "...Dynamic Event will be inclusive of all character levels...", well noone in my groups, including me, believes that! "What color will the sky be this time?" was the basic response.
There is just no way the PUG grouping for this new event will be anything like those on any HC! Oh sure there will be pugs in the Social panel for whatever, like find the thingy or kill the baddie or whatever the quest is, but those will be filled with triple-complete, 500 past life, reaper 37, groups all fully geared out. Soooo even if I join, Im just a soul stone or lost in the backwash of Khyber folks. Or worse, an actual hinderence to the group getting it's goal done vs. them having another 100 past life player help them.
I'm exaggerating, but how is a first life toon, with no "real"gear,no reaper points, etc. etc. is going to keep up with even an average group on Kyber? lol. I mean, they can babysit but why spoil their fun with that?
