[WoW] On attunements

I'm having a thought, here.

What if!

You know that Blizzard has removed basically all attunements from the game, forever. They don't want to have the barrier to content, they don't want people to have to keep dragging alts through the process, they don't want to have a gear grind the way the origial raids had, whatever.

Maybe there could be attunements for Heroic content.

First of all, Heroic content should definitely be more than a slider, or an on/off kind of thing. Ulduar did it best. Ulduar was brilliant. But what if, say, Mimiron's button required a key to unlock? What if getting into Yogg's chamber with some of the guardians still active required some kind of ritual -- or what if the guardians each dropped pieces of a runestone, so that you had to have done the fight on "normal" before trying it on Heroic?

That last isn't really a good example, because what I'm really interested in saving are the Onyxia-style quest lines. I want another march through Stormwind. I want another Scepter of the Sands. I want some epic content, some kind of memorable moment, even if I don't personally get to see it until the next expansion launches and I finally get around to doing it.

Making this change would bring back everything that was really awesome about the game (in my opinion, anyway), and it wouldn't really cost anything. The Heroic players are the ones who are willing to put in the grind anyway, and they already have a core, consistent raid group -- so make it so only one person has to do the attunement. And everybody loved the Ulduar mechanisms, much more interesting than the Normal/Heroic mode switch we have now, so those would be back as well. And there'd be awesome quest chains again! It's win-win-win.

Just...please. Make this the kind of thing that a casual can do. Don't require that a normal raid be part of the attunement. Keep it to dungeons, maybe to LFR. Make it accessible, make it awesome, and connect it to the hardest of the hardcore.

It'll be glorious.