Statistics: Dragon Soul Difficulty Changes Impact
Today we take a look at the impact of the 5% difficulty decrease of Dragon Soul that went live the week of January 31. This time around the sample size was ~5.6 million characters. As always, keep in mind that this sample contains many alts and should not be looked at for the percentage of the overall population that completed an achievement.
We first look at Heroic Spine of Deathwing and Madness of Deathwing achievements added each week, seeing roughly 4x the number of new kills the week that the buff went live, then a lower amount of kills during the following week. The decrease in new kills is sharper on Spine of Deathwing at ~27% and only ~5% on Madness of Deathwing.
We don't see the same effect for the number of new Heroic and Normal Deathwing kills. Using Destroyer's End as our method of measurement, we see only a small spike, not even passing the number of new kills that were earned during the week of December 6.
The 5% decrease in difficulty made a much bigger impact to players that were stuck on a Heroic boss than it did for those who were stuck on a normal boss.
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Blue Tweets
Today was a holiday in the US and Bashiok and Zarhym are in France, leaving us with some tweets from Chris Metzen!
Originally Posted by Metzen (Blue Tracker)
So how many of you WoW players have played Warcraft 3?
If a Warcraft character could come back from death, which would y'all like to see (provided the story was good)?
None. Please PLEASE don't bring any more back. Make NEW stories.
Working on it! Takes years to get you to care about new ones!
Hey man, any chance we can see some more strong female villains in WoW apart from Naga? A female big bad would be cool sometime
I'll see what I can do.
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