This is an informal document regarding Mythic Raiding in the current state as of December 3, 2024.

• The War Within — Patch: 11.0.5.57689

Recently, my friends in World of Warcraft threw a survey:

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Would you be interested in doing the Mythid Raid? — (Nerub-ar Palace)

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I was reading the opinion of the guild in our Discord server and I found multiple things that inspired me to create a document using Critical Thinking as the main tool.

What is Critical Thinking?

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It refers to the process of analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing information in a logical and objective manner to form a well-founded judgment. It is a key skill in problem-solving, decision-making, and evaluating arguments or ideas.

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Having defined — Critical Thinking — This is to help not just my friends, but to anyone who is having issues with, what we could call “The Most Difficult content in a given game”.

This document was not made to be a law or a command. Rather, food for thought. Food that should help a community, to nurse a group, to foster cooperation. This has been the historically accurate way that helped mankind to overcome obstacles and have peace in their living days.

Question: Should someone do The hardest content in a video-game?

World of Warcraft is a video-game, and as such, many questions can be answered using the same game design fundamentals. So, asking this question (or similar questions):

• Should I do the hardest content in < X > game?
• Should I invest time to get <Y> <object> in a game?
• Should I do <WHATEVER> in a game?

And let’s ignore the absurd amount of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) that the modern game industry has sown.

https://youtu.be/8HYCoAnp8vw

The mentioned questions are EASILY answered by this game design foundation. This not something that Nintendo’s President said, but it’s a philosophy