So I just got done watching Heelz’s latest ‘AZCHATS’ video, of him talking about if Patch 7.1 is “coming too soon.”
For me personally, I have no idea what this patch will have in it. Clearly it’s about going back to Karazan (as raiding is WoW’s main focus). But according to Heelz, there are two more things. The first is a continuation of the Suramar questline, and the second is more World Quests (with another mini-faction). Hopefully it’s the Blue Dragonflight. That would be awesome.
Going over the first thing, the continuation of the Suramar questline, I hear that this is attached to…three raids and two dungeons. So if I have to do them to ‘catch up’ intime for the 7.1 patch to go live… nah. Fuck that noise. Suramar City can go die in a fire for all I care.
I also hear from Heelz (which does make perfect sense), the continuation will open to ‘raid 3’ (while ‘raid 2’ is still unreleased). And that makes no sense. How they balance it, it’s possible they’ll use time walls. And I’m already burnt out from the Hunter questline of the Hunter Honor Hall (having to wait two days to collect something that I could do in 20 minutes or so).
Hearing there will be more World Quests, has my interest. Already, I’m doing repeats of quests I just did a day ago(yet getting different rewards). It’s gotten to the point where I’m all “blah blah blah, just fucking pay me” when they thank me for completing it. Thankfully, this has not fallen to death ears as Blizzard is well aware of this being a problem (according to the Q&A). Yet the way they explained it was trying to prevent specific World Quest hubs from overlapping (such as the ‘Oh Nuts’ one in Val’sharah).
And…that’s it. That’s really all I heard. Maybe that’s why they’re releasing it so early, as it doesn’t have a lot of content. And that’s never good with the game’s current age (and the bitterness of returning players from WoD).
But what are raiders going to do when they burn through this content? Who knows. And that’s a problem. Since raiding is the ‘bread and butter’ of WoW, it should be focused on more, to produce the most content.
However, the reason I feel they’re releasing it is to try to ‘trick’ the community that they’re being super active with us and want to keep us as long as we can. Clearly with the time gating of the class questline of Honor Halls, it feels like trickery to keep the community paying their subscription fees….and it’s working. I hate to say it, but it feels worse than the WoW Token BS they tried to pull.
Heelz promises a future video (possibly as early as this week) to talk about the time gating.
Let me just say here. Blizzard releasing content early, there’s nothing really wrong with that — especially if it’s good content for all types of players. But I feel this is too little, too quick. Not only will some players feel a bit overwhelmed (as I felt when I hit endgame, but it was a good feeling(to me)) to push themselves through 7.0’s content to get right to 7.1 (to help their raid buddies and what not), that there’s not going to be enough content for raiders ’till Patch 7.2 (which hasn’t been announced yet).
As for me, I doubt anything will change when 7.1 hits.