{"id":3563,"date":"2014-10-04T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.beniesbuilds.com\/benie\/games\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2014-10-04T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T15:38:14","slug":"the-pre-wod-questline-is-not-a-good-way-to-promote-the-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2014\/10\/04\/the-pre-wod-questline-is-not-a-good-way-to-promote-the-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pre-WoD questline is not a good way to promote the expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I was hoping to finally check out the Pre-WoD questline on the PTR. Yesterday evening, I decided to shift from &#8220;I want to see if I can handle it&#8221; to &#8220;I want to see if this is worth the money&#8221;(due to Character Copy being down for weeks) and made a premade Level 90. This pretty much re-created Benietest.<br \/>\nFound out by having a premade, I have nearly every mount in the game, and all the Collector&#8217;s Edition pets dating back from Cata(so yeah, I had my greatest enemy in all of Azeroth as a pet).<br \/>\nI had spent 30 minutes, flying to &#8216;my house&#8217; in Northeast Hillsbard Foothills(Dandard&#8217;s Fold), near Undercity. Getting there, I spent the remainder of that 30 minutes to redo my bars to be like Benie on the WoD Beta.<\/p>\n<p>Going back to today, I logged in. And within 5 seconds after doing so.. &#8216;[SERVER] Shutdown in 15:00&#8242; started spamming my chat window. A beta build&#8230; on a SATURDAY?! They&#8217;re fucking pushing my patience!<br \/>\nThankfully, it only lasted for nearly 6 hours instead of 8, and the servers went back up before my dinnertime. Either this build didn&#8217;t have a lot of content in it, or they took pity on us for having to endure&#8230; what was it? 7 builds this week? Eesh.<br \/>\nThey say to expect this to be even more of a nuisance as they&#8217;re trying to get a release candidate ready before the final two weeks. So, it&#8217;s crunch time for them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after dinner, I noticed Lil&#8217; Deathwing was no longer a selectable pet. Strange, as they gave me him. Oh well. I then flew to the Blasted Lands on Mr. &#8220;I hate Tanks, they go NERF!&#8221;; aka the Celestalon-like Cloud Serpent mount.<br \/>\nWhat bothered me, is the fact I just got this quest to go talk to Maraad out of nowhere. I had a feeling the questline was going to be unfinished.<\/p>\n<p>I was right, and then some. In the rain over Blasted Lands, I had to wait for my PvP flag to clear due to the way PTR handles servers. Then I landed and started questing. All of them felt boring and stale. There&#8217;s four &#8216;bosses&#8217; who seem to have the same HP than Elites on the Timeless Isle, and it takes 2-3 minutes to take them down solo. Remind you, I&#8217;m using a premade Level 90 with the best fucking gear you can get for a Hunter(outside of the 5.4 content). If it&#8217;s taking this long to down them, think about how long it&#8217;ll take to down them with my current Level 90&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The questline abruptly ends after talking to the King of SW. No <em>&#8220;Benie, the time is now to assault the Iron Horde. Get back to the Blasted Lands.. I&#8217;m putting you on a Suicide Mission! You are to plunge through the portal!&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nAll you get out of that, is a pet. Woopy do.<\/p>\n<p>.<br \/>\nMade a thread about this on the PTR Forum. Several hours later, I get a response from a guy telling me, this is the pre-launch event and not the real thing. Could had sworn I heard from Blizzard or another trusted source, that this questline is going to be <strong>required<\/strong> to get to the portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I was hoping to finally check out the Pre-WoD questline on the PTR. Yesterday evening, I decided to shift from &#8220;I want to see if I can handle it&#8221; to &#8220;I want to see if this is worth the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2014\/10\/04\/the-pre-wod-questline-is-not-a-good-way-to-promote-the-expansion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}