JeeBar wrote:
Agreed on the easy-ness of Kara key chain, I never understood why at least the last step wasn't a heroic. I'm gonna push to make that a minimum requirement for Kara even though my guild is really casual...we're having trouble progressing through Kara because (imho) we have too many barely-geared toons.
Well, that would be wrong in regards to normal progression. Once you got the key, the ring quest line starts, taking you first to the smith (defeat Attumen), leading you to the library (defeat Curator), sending you downstairs (defeat Maiden), then up to get Medhiv's journal (defeat Aran) and THEN after getting the bone fragment from outside to heroic Sethekk Halls and heroic Shattered Halls for the reagents to finally summon Nightbane. Killing Prince is parallel to all this IIRC.
So there IS the need to do heroics, but it doesn't send you there until you had a chance to hone your skills and grab some gear in Kara first. With Curator being considered the Kara gear check in general, they maybe should have included a trip to an easier heroic before sending people up to Aran, and seeing the Consortium repair guy in there, there might have been plans at some point to include a trip to heroic Mana Tombs. (pure speculation of course)