Some players have recently noticed that there are a few oddities around, and things aren’t quite adding up.
When it comes to secret hunting, we suggest you keep the following in mind:
There are no class or race restrictions – any character can solve secrets.
Addons are not required – all secrets are solvable without addons.
There are no time restrictions – once a secret has been released, it will be remain available to solve (with the exception of “Guest Relations” quests from Alyx – these are only available during WoW’s Anniversary).
Purchases are not required – these secrets don’t require shop items or services.
Bannable behavior is not required (or allowed!) – anything that could result in account suspension, such as hacks and exploiting glitches, are not required to solve secrets and appropriate action will be taken against cheaters.
Secrets are tough, but fair – everything you need to solve Azeroth’s mysteries is available to you.
Please solve mysteries at your own pace. Some secrets will be extremely challenging compared to other content. Please take your time and have fun with it!
Good luck secret hunters!
P.S. For the diligent explorers who have already found a key item, you may have missed the clue that would lead you there! It might be fun to find, if you were so inclined.
Great job so far, eager secret hunters! The next step (and the rest of this secret) will become available on November 19. In the meantime, Alyx still needs your help.
was excited to do this until the inevitable fear was confirmed that this was time gated
its one thing if this needs to be delayed because of testing, and other issues, but time gating stuff like this doesn’t make sense and it is tiring, and its a sore subject with the community.
time gate where it makes sense, and it absolutely doesn’t here
I had so much fun joining the wow secret discord and spent the majority of the weekend just searching and bouncing ideas off of others. It was great. But I cant help but feel a little sad about seeing this. I guess we can start back up on the 19th though
Typical L, with all the time gating of this event and for wow in general and it took this long before everyone is told they’ve been wasting their time.
Don’t timegate things like this unless absolutely necessary. If you are planning to timegate, then give your customers notice either in advance of how much can be done by which dates or in-game that they’re all caught-up for now. The communication shown here was ambiguous–“everything is available to you” followed days later with “will become available on (date a week from tomorrow)”–and only lost you some customer goodwill.
I have no problem with timegates, but the communication was not clear, what made us believe that we needed to work harder to find it. Next time please make it clear so we don’t lose out time and brains looking for something that is not there.
Previously, we were told “Secrets are tough, but fair – everything you need to solve Azeroth’s mysteries is available to you”
100,000 people have been completely wasting their time on this garbage, and it wasn’t even fully in the game yet. It wasn’t solvable. It didn’t even EXIST.
I cannot fully express my displeasure without getting banned from the forums. So you’ll have to imagine it.
Update: I ended up being able to access the quest on a character that could get there, even though they hadn’t done the intro ones. Although I’m curious as to how one could complete it if that wasn’t an option.
I’m playing on a character that never went through BFA and I can’t seem to figure out how to get to Zandalar for one of the quests. (Not the character that is appearing here, a different one).
How many of Piece of Hate as of today are we suppose to have…I have 6 so far…anyone know?
Never mind got the 7th one…and why am I not seeing a console at the yogg puzzle box area yet?
The following will appear in our next Hotfixes Update, and we believe some players might appreciate a heads up here and now.
With hotfixes that are now live:
Ratts’ Revenge
Fixed an issue where statues would follow you without a rope.
Fixed an issue where the “Hear” puzzle could be solved by an unintended bug. Characters who already received the reward for this puzzle will keep their progress, but other characters will need to figure out the intended solution.
Ratts’ password is now present.
The “Light of Love” is now more accepting.
An additional thought–
Along with “Hear”, the “No Violence” puzzle has been solved in an unintended way. It may be fun to figure out what really solves these steps.
