Going to say this out front: I’m bored with Legion now. Less than two weeks after I came back, and I’m bored. I’ve left the ‘Goldilocks state” where everything was new. Yet why, when I said how there was “so much to do”?
I’ll tell you. Because of the Honor Hall campaign, and because of the limited (even forced) ways to get artifact power.
It’s all based on one thing… time walls. “This will take 8 hours. This will take a day. THIS will take a WEEK!”; all in real time. Something to block progress for a lengthy amount of time, to encourage the player to keep playing (and subscribing).
It really is dirty.
The Hunter questline, I just ended spending a few days waiting for 5 ‘Unforeseen Help'(something like that) missions (as I was told to do). After that, did have a lot of me running around. I did like that…and then it goes back to the missions wall at the Honor Hall to do a 12 HOUR mission.
I’m supposed to get my allies to help me, yet I’m stuck behind another time wall instead of physically going out into the world and getting this ally to help. Why? I could had assisted my ally without a fucking time wall in my face!
And that thing about bringing Illidan back to life? It’s only a three quest thing. And to go from Quest 2 to Quest 3, requires you to get your artifact knowledge (AK) level to 5. And this alone, takes a lot of time. Going from Level 0 to Level 1? Took three days. And I swear its timer doesn’t reflect game time (bet it pauses when I logged out), as it said once that it’ll be done in 8 hours. So I assigned an 8 hour mission. It completed, and the AK thing STILL wasn’t done.
Plus I read how this can take longer as you increase the knowledge… possibly taking months to complete. I’m not shitting you. That’s ridiculous.
World Quests, eventually run out of useful quests (Artifact Power or Gear upgrades) to the point they’re either pointless profession quests, PvP, or Gold. I don’t even see a need for gold when it comes to this expansion. I haven’t seen a need since MoP. Maybe I’m just not looking in the right places. I feel like I’ve gotten everything I’ve ever wanted in terms of mounts. It just doesn’t excite me anymore when I get money. Infact I have 51k right now, and I feel that I have no need to spend it on anything.
Maybe because Gold can’t buy happiness. Well, it can. But it can’t buy sustained happiness. It can’t buy better gear. It can’t buy a guarantee I won’t look like a n00b when I do dungeons with others. It can’t buy lessons of being a better player that I won’t just push aside, saying “fuck that”.
Treasures, they seem to have no purpose anymore. Their artifact weapon power doesn’t reflect with AK level increases. I get as little as 25 power in some chests. Really wish they would reflect (at least half of your level of AK(Artifact Knowledge)).
There’s also soloing old content. I just did that; solo’d every dungeon in WoD last night (in Normal difficulty). Grimrail Depot was probably the hardest to do (due to the second boss’ second and 3rd stage of the fight). Never died once in any dungeon, but mainly because every mob had a ‘Demoralized’ debuff (to make them soloable).
Feels good to solo content that the main bad guy of its expansion, hasn’t been dead for 4+ years.
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So what’s there left to do of the game’s current state? I guess do the Pathfinding thing to eventually fly in a future patch.
From what Wowhead tells me, the requirements aren’t too mindnumbing (compared to WoD), and nothing about being forced to go into a dungeon/raid.
Here’s my current progress, by the way.
But that’s all to do in Legion’s endgame. This is literally the truth.