{"id":6833,"date":"2016-10-27T15:17:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T19:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=6833"},"modified":"2016-10-27T23:38:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T03:38:59","slug":"gearing-up-in-legion-is-hard-and-honestly-not-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2016\/10\/27\/gearing-up-in-legion-is-hard-and-honestly-not-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Gearing up in Legion is hard (and honestly not worth it)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As always, every word I say in here is my personal opinion, and I have no right to speak for anyone or anything.<\/em><\/p>\n

How can I say “it’s not worth it” when the point of WoW has been player progression since Day 1? It’s the way it’s handled in Legion.
\nThe World Quests, they’re great. It’s good to have a form of dailies (compared to… ugh. Apexis). But having no real control over them, makes me not want to do it.<\/p>\n

There are two things I’ve seen Blizzard doing so far;
\n1. Push rolling of the RNG slot machine, a lot.
\n2. Forcing group content (but in their eyes, it’s to ‘encourage’).<\/p>\n

Let’s talk about the first thing, and why they relate to World Quests. I love the fact you can gear up from them. That is awesome. What isn’t<\/em>, is when you’ve reached a level that you have to wait for specific pieces of gear to pop up.
\nSee, I’m using AskMrRobot (which now requires a premium subscription of $4 a month, which isn’t bad at all) and it says 3\/4 of my gear is going to come from World Quests.
\nThe fact said gear is so random and unpredictable (compared to rep gear), it just keeps me away from gearing.<\/p>\n

And in turn, keeps me from doing this forced group content (the second thing). Saying things like “please do this raid” when I’m not even geared for it, is stupid. I would had preferred the quest just be unavailable ’till I reach a certain item level, and then<\/em> give me the quest when I’m ready. That would make more sense, and not even feel “forced” to me (but “here’s something to do if you’re bored”).<\/p>\n

We were OK with non-forced content. We knew endgame is when you gear up and do things like dungeons and raiding (’till the next expansion at least). Hell, even Cata, Blizzard never pushed me to gear up. I did that myself, after what I saw happen in Thousand Needles.
\nBut the only reason I did, is because there were daily quest hubs. Here with World Quests, there is no central area. There’s hardly any rep gear. This is literally a “hope you’re on and looking at the World Map at the same time a piece you need pops up!”
\nThat’s some Grade-A BS right there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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