I honestly didn’t know how to title this one, or not to make this post sound like one big QQ rant. Lots have happened, and lots need to be shared.
But first, some good news!
I’ve been doing Legion’s dungeons. Yes, I finally manned up. But I actually had some help in the form of a person who I haven’t spoken to since Cata. It took awhile for him to know me.
Basically, he used to be part of Goldshire (but is still a friend of ‘Bigbossofgs’). Yeah, that guy still plays and hasn’t hesitated in still oddly bugging me by saying “oh benie”. Would had thought he would had gotten bored by now. Seems not.
Anyway, back to this other guy. We actually did this dungeon to get this stupid item I need to continue (and complete) my class questline. We joined the queue with him. I still had the dungeon difficulty set to Heroic (as I was soloing WoD’s dungeons in Heroic), but he was all “just leave it there, you can do it”.
So I did, but we weren’t getting in and it was a half an hour. He decided to switch to Tank..and we got in just like that. And we did it. That was pretty cool.
Gave the stupid thing to the guy and I completed the Hunter questline. The final fight confused the hell out of me; died three times due to being overwhelmed by Felhounds.
But once I understood the fight, I was able to get it done without anymore deaths. Yay. And I got my gun infused to where it looks badass with a scope and an extended barrel.
Doing that one dungeon, gave me the courage to do the others. It erased all my anxiety. And I never got yelled at over my DPS. I love it! 😀
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Moving on, there was one time I felt I once again had so much to do. And now…now I’m reminded why I left WoW. This time gating is driving me up the wall. And as much as I want to plead with Blizzard to think of alternatives (and how this is not engaging content, it’s manual labor)…it’s just going to fall on deaf ears.
That is trying to go for the Pathfinder meta achievement in both WoD and Legion. I can do everything, but get all factions to Revered. Because that’s where the time gating is. That’s where I feel Blizzard saying “if you want it bad enough, you’ll stay subscribed for months and work your ass off!”
So here’s why this isn’t engaging content. For Legion, not only do you have to do 100 World Quests, but do up to 4,000 of them(what I read on Wowhead). Now I don’t know if all 4,000 is to get one of the factions to Revered, but that is an INSANE amount of grinding!
If you were to do like 10-20 a day, it would take you weeks..if not months of non-stop questing. Also, there is usually 6 or so WQs for that faction in their specific zone.
Blizzard may think this is ‘engaging content’, as you’re engaging with the world. They are wrong. “Engaging content”, is doing what you should be doing in an MMORPG — engaging with the community. Dungeons. Raids. PvP. THAT is ‘engaging content’! Yet you look at this, and doing these things does NOT give rep with their factions! It’s ONLY with World Quests!
And then there’s… ugh. WoD’s Pathfinder. This is somewhat similar, requiring finding 100 treasure chests and doing all the Garrison missives. All of these are trivial now for being Level 110 and having somewhat good gear. And then it too stops with getting their three factions to Revered. This is done, through mob grinding. I keep reading on Wowhead that the best way is to have a Level 3 Trading Post, Guild perks (actually have members in your Guild that aren’t all your alts spread out between two accounts) getting the ‘WEEE!’ buff for using the Merry-Go-Round for a minute at the Darkmoon Faire, and so on.
There was also a similar thing that helped boost rep increase, but it’s gone since Legion’s launch. But yeah, grinding an unspecified amount of mobs is the only way to rep up? Dungeons? Raiding? Nope! Apparently it’s “too easy” to gain rep by working as a team!
I mean, I can understand now due to being able to solo all dungeons (with some reasonable difficulty of course). Soloing WoD’s raids ain’t going to come ’till the next expansion and I’m Level 120, though.
Personally, just get rid of flying altogether (but refund the time, effort, and gold we all put into our mounts) if this is the only way to fly now. Sure, I would be pissed, but also glad this retarded achievement is gone.
It’s not fun. It’s not engaging. It’s grinding. It’s a time gate to trick players to keep paying for their product.
I rather prefer they would just keep us on the ground. Infact, give us a boost to our ground speed. Give us better alternatives!
But no. It seems mindlessly grinding is Blizzard’s form of ‘engaging content’. Not to mention, it’s an ‘alt killer’. Not because that by doing this content on your main won’t be account wide (it will), but you’ll be so fucking SICK of the content that you’ll be uninterested in utilizing your alts.
Yet, the people that support this madness are all “good, that leaves more kills for us. Keep whining and stay on the ground while we go fly!”