{"id":6758,"date":"2016-10-11T13:35:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T17:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=6758"},"modified":"2016-10-11T15:26:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:26:00","slug":"legions-endgame-and-why-its-so-much-better-than-wod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2016\/10\/11\/legions-endgame-and-why-its-so-much-better-than-wod\/","title":{"rendered":"Legion’s endgame, and why it’s SO much better than WoD"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you feel like you have too<\/em> much to do (in a game) and not enough time to do it, that’s a sign of a good game. And this is probably the most fun I’ve had out of endgame content since I started soloing old world dungeons\/raids for a living.
\nAnd yes, I mean every word I say here. Blizzard did a damn good job. A much, much better improvement compared to the dullness of WoD’s ingame.<\/p>\n

Where to start explaining how good this is? Hmm.. OK.
\n-World Quests. I thought these were going to be as boring and mind-numbing as dailies of the past, of being told to “wait ’till tomorrow to do it again”. But no. Infact, they’re literally follower missions — but for the player! The reason I say that is they have a set time limit, ranging from a few days to less than 30 minutes.
\nSo instead of ‘wait ’till tomorrow’, it will reward you after completion. And it specifies what it will reward to give you a choice if you wish<\/span> to do it or not.
\nYou can also use these for endgame gearing, so you don’t feel ‘forced’ to do dungeons.
\nThe last thing, these ‘fill the bar’ quests that I didn’t like hearing about? They are NOTHING like they were with WoD! Just kill 40 or so mobs and boom, you’re done!
\n——–
\n-The rebirth of Mr “YOU ARE NOT PREPARED” Illidan Stormrage. This blew my mind (and also made me a bit nervous). I .. met<\/a> one of the ancient Narru (named “Xe’ra”) who spoke to me after using the Tears of Elune to unlock a relic I found as I was leveling up. It told me something that has been obvious for over 10,000 years — the titans are dead and Sergaras is the only one still alive (in spirit). What’s scary, is if the Burning Legion aren’t stopped, they won’t just stop at destroying Azeroth — but also head to other planets. This is a greater threat than Deathwing, and the Aspects can’t help us out this time (as they’re gone since his defeat).
\nXe’ra feels Illidan is the only one that is powerful enough to stop the Legion, and it’s up to me to somehow resurrect him. The question is…will he agree to let go of the hate he had for us in TBC? This Narru believes, he can (and has to).
\nI told Khadgar this, and he was …shocked to hear this. I thought it was obvious. It’s been written like this in the lore on the website.
\n——–
\n-Getting Rexxar to be a follower. This..was something I don’t think I want to do again (yet it was also new and fun..to an extent). He challenges you to survive on your natural human instincts; to survive the night for three minutes. I barely<\/em> did it. Blizzard threw in a Survival aspect for this, of killing pigs, getting their food, cooking it, and eating it before you starve to death. What was hard is the food bar dropped so quickly, giving me very limited time to react.
\nWhat was pretty wild, was when I completed it. It was night already. Then when the quest completed, the sun rose and it got day, then it sat and it went night again. Quickest day\/night cycle I’ve ever seen in this game.
\n——–
\n-The Trueshot Lodge Hunter Questline (aka helping the ‘Unseen Path’). This is what I enjoy the most about Legion — the fact the world doesn’t revolve around your decisions. You are the ‘guy behind the guy’. You might be the supposed ‘leader’ of the Unseen Path, but it isn’t “here you go, good luck!” like WoD did it. It’s having an advisor by my side to make sure I don’t fuck up. And this advisor watches over the lodge for me while I’m gone.
\nI don’t feel glued to the lodge. I LOVE that feeling! Well done, Blizzard! Huge improvement from WoD.<\/p>\n

And that’s basically all I’ve seen, other than the profession quests. Speaking of professions…I dunno why I’m even skinning\/mining anymore. It doesn’t tell me what these things are used for. I guess I need to get Auctioneer installed to find out what they’re worth on the AH. Do like the fact they stack at 200 instead of 20, but that’s been a change since WoD.<\/p>\n

Overall, I really enjoy this expansion. I’m glad I wasn’t part of the Alpha or Beta, so I never got spoiled. I feel Blizzard definitely has learned their lesson from WoD. And I could literally pretend that WoD never existed.
\nAnd because of that, I feel I should ‘attend’ BlizzCon this year via the Virtual Ticket (wish I could go to California and physically attend it for the first time in my life).
\nAs usual, I’ll be “broadcasting” BlizzCon via this blog starting on November 4th, by typing down what’s going on at the WoW stage (and then give my opinion afterwards).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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