If you truly love WoW, then don’t ignore the shortcomings and blindly accept a sub-par product. Instead, agitate like hell to make the game even better. In the end, a passive customer base will never receive the same attention compared to one that reasonably articulates what they want changed, and keeps up the pressure until it happens.
This is also good life advice as well.
I am making rhetorical statements, so there is no need to supply official spreadsheets from Activision-Blizzard. In the peak of WoW, there were no ‘side games’ like war fronts and expeditions. There was well structured core content, and competition around it. And I’m sorry, but if you see the same topics, over and over again from the playbase on numerous forums then clearly there is a some kind of consensus. If you want side games- go on your phone and play candy crush, because most WoW players above the ‘extreme casual’ level, will GLADLY trade island expeditions and war fronts away for more/better core content.
Look, I have zero issues with this xpac nor any of the 7 prior ones. I’ve been here since 2005 and played the crap out of this game…until I run out of things to do, then I play something else while subbed.
Of course I don’t have high-end raid experience, top level gear or nothing like that but I am a collector of things. Collect alts, pets, mounts, HKs, things to wear kinda, achievement points, etc. I have lots of things to do everyday. That’s all I want from a game and WoW fulfills that requirement perfectly.
I don’t need to badger the developer nor complain til my fingers bleed nor cause drama and emotional trauma on the forums for Nothing in the game.
Don’t need Anything changed. As long as they keep making big patches and new xpacs and I can login to play, I don’t care what shortcomings you and others may see in today’s game. I have no problems with BfA.
It’s all transitory, it’s all virtual, it’s all Just A Game. Relax and play or go away.
Sounds like someone needs a Snickers!!
For some reason I thought it was still a month or so away. Sadly I’m really in no position to do anything other than unlock Kul Tirans. The Zandalari druid is going to have to wait if ever.
The questing part on the horde side is pretty easy, especially if you gear up a bit first, so if you just hit max level and focus on the Zandalari emissaries you’ll start getting pretty close before you know it!
It’s the max level thing horde side that might be a bit tricky but thanks for the encouragement!
I peppered Island Expeditions throughout the level of one of my characters and I was max level while only being half done with the chapters. I didn’t sit down and crunch through it but just sprinkled a bit of time here and there and it worked pretty well. That said, I like that you are ready to go for kul tiran, I can’t wait! 
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An expansion feature is being added 7 months after the expansion was released. I can’t wait for Blizzard to finally add flying when the content is no longer relevant.
While you’re at it make every piece of gear we wear a Heart of Azeroth so we can do boring fun world quests to fill up a bar!
If it helps, i got 1500 rep or so from the WQ emissary for the Zandalari . if id guess one of those per week , for some reason i remember me maybe getting two a few times, 4 weeks youll have minimum 6k rep from emissaries alone.
If you get the two per week itll be like 12k. Max 3-4 monthes from just doing emissaries alone to get the exalted. Cuz i think i was like at the start of honored or midways maybe by the time i was done with all of the quests. With the inscription item that gives ya Rep for whatever faction while you do world quests itll go even faster if you do every single world quest too. Got it in 2 monthes or less.
Good luck!
Let me lay out my situation and see if this helps anyone else.
I have 4 max level Alliance characters, and then 6 allied race alts. Around the beginning of BfA I faction transferred my warlock to Horde in order to finish Nightborne and Highmountain unlocks. I also got Mag’har unlocked while I was there and then faction transferred back.
So now, back to the allied race alts. The highest level one on Horde side is a level 46 Nightborne mage I am leveling for the heritage armor. So what I’d need to do is level her to max, and get the rep and quest lines finished and then unlock.
I’ve been cycling though all 6 alts only with rested xp and it’s been a little slow. Maybe I need to change how I’m leveling.
The other choice is to faction transfer again - I’d rather not.
And no one asked you to. You still have no data or statistics to back up your claims. You may be right, I didn’t actually say you weren’t. You still don’t speak for anyone but yourself. You do not know what “most WoW players” do.
Oh really? Well… This isn’t the “peak of WoW”. This is “instant gratification for everyone who logs in” time.
A lot, even if not “most”, of players do the “side games” including TMog, collectibles, archaeology, crafting, and…wait for it… PvP. Pet Battles…probably the most “side game” side game of all is enormously popular. Whoda thunk that??? I mean the forums hate Pet Battles, right?
“Side games” aren’t just the things you don’t like. They are anything that would be considered “not end game” and they have been around since the beginning of time on Azeroth and will always be around. I would venture to bet that “most players”, even if they hate Islands and Warfronts, actually do quite a bit when it comes to “side games”… including some “not particularly casual” types.
I also never said what I do in game or whether or not I like any of the “side games” (Islands and WFs included), but nice assumption there. And you know what they say about assumptions.
A consensus that “many players” don’t particularly care for that content still does not equal “most players”. Frankly, in all likelyhood, “most players” probably do a host of different things depending on their schedule, mood, desires, needs, wants, fun factors, etc. making “most players” a part of some “minority of players” who likes anything from raiding to pet battling.
I play phone games all the time. What else am I supposed to do while waiting at the Doctor or Dentist’s office? Standing in line at the grocery? Waiting for my car to be serviced? When I’m bored at work? Twiddle my thumbs?
And? That has nothing to do with WoW. “Gamers” play lots of different games from PC to console to mobile to anything they like. I’m really glad that you think that is some kind of insult but it’s simply not. I game. I play lots of different kinds of games. Because, you know… the whole “I game” thing.
Regardless of your lovely insult toward me, you still do not speak for anyone but yourself.
idk if anyone has said, but you can make ademon hunter at 98 and level that one up to be the reputation hunter you;re wanting for Zandalari
What are the requirements for the new races? Getting the appropriate reputation to exalted and completing its quest line for the achievement?
Maybe you’ll find your answer in this thread, which has been stickied for over a month now.
Thanks Saralocks. Just wanting to carry on the conversation - I knew it was something like that though. I appreciate you. /moo ![:cow:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/cow.png?v=6" ":cow:")
How about you let us have flying as well, it’s pretty pointless making us wait so long for it.
Thanks for the feedback - I have considered that but I already have a max level demon hunter on Proudmoore, and you only get one per server. So I could make a demon hunter on another server but that would be a waste because after grinding the rep the DH would not serve any further purpose. I’d sooner level my level 82 DK or level 86 priest still on the Earthen Ring server if I go that route. But I would still be left with a max level character on a dead server. I could transfer one of them, but in totality that’s really not much better than doing another faction transfer on Proudmoore. If I want to do it right away, faction transfer is the only way that makes sense.
Thing is I have no compelling reason to do it right away other than I love the Zandalari druid forms. So I’ll stick to the process of leveling my allied races for the heritage armor, continue to max level with at least one them on horde side, grind Zandalari rep to exalted from scratch, do the quest requirements, and it will be done. Honestly I don’t think I’ll even manage to finish it during this expansion it will probably go into the next one.
Edit: and now I just found out about The Pride of Kul Tiras achievement, on top of every thing else, that you need to unlock Kul Tirans. Apparently this achievement is some sort of secret because it took serious googling to find out what you need to do. It’s a 23 step quest chain that requires, among other things, getting items from at least 4 different dungeons. So I’m nowhere near getting that done either.
Frankly I’m pulling the plug on this whole endeavor. You can have these allied races. I won’t be doing it this expansion.
Bornakk,
Since there seems to be recent and repeated blue attention to this thread, can I please direct your attention to the In Development section of the forums that has had no Blizzard interaction where the #1 question is regarding class tuning? Are there any plans in the works for class balance/tuning specifically that involves addressing Guardian Druid performance, m+ utility, damage output and representation for 8.1.5? Its a shame the art team did so well in making 2 new allied race guardian druid skins given the state of the spec.
Last time I checked, an expansion lasts around 2 years.
So as long as it’s released within that 2 year period, it still counts as an expansion feature.