We’ve heard your feedback regarding some of the Prey mechanics, including concerns about easily reaching Journey Rank 4 to unlock the final story quests from Astalor Bloodsworn, which grants access to Nightmare Mode this week.
We want to enable players to experience the thrills of hunting (and being hunted by) Prey at the highest level of difficulty, so today we made the following adjustments:
Journey Ranks 1-3 – Completing hunts after your first 4 each week (account wide) will now award 1000 Journey progress.
Journey Ranks 4+ – Completing hunts after your first 4 each week (account wide) will award 50 Journey progress.
Completing your first 4 hunts each week (account wide) will continue to award 1000 Journey progress.
Please keep in mind that this applies to all hunts, including the random hunts feature that unlocks at Journey Rank 2, where Astalor can generate a randomly selected hunt for you at the cost of 50 Anguish. Random hunts give players the option to choose between various currencies, including additional Anguish.
Thank you for all of your feedback and we’ll see you on the hunt!
Reading this combined with the thread title had me thinking this was gonna be tweaking Nightmare difficulty somewhat. But then…
So now I have to ask: Is this feedback in the room with us right now? All I see with regard to prey feedback is how Nightmare hunts seem to be rather poorly designed. Not really any comment on what’s required to unlock them.
smash cut to clicking on 12 traps in the world quest areas without engaging in combat with anything more threatening than level 1 critters
Can we please up this at least, while updating things? 50 is pretty worthless. That’s 80 hunts per rank. Maybe make Hard reward 100 and Nightmare could be 150 or 200, so that it is actually kind of worthwhile. Right now, there’s not much point to doing them other than achievements, because you have to pick between crests, anguish, or the pittance of gold or marl.
I still don’t get the purpose of the Prey system tbh. It seems like a system that will be mostly dead sooner rather than later. Having a guaranteed way to get a map for delves in nice if you do delves, but the Prey system overall just seems so…random?
Never underestimate the level of entitlement from folks who see others reaping the fruits of their labor while complaining theyre behind because they didnt do it
Few people complained that because they chose not to engage with it, they are now behind those who did engage with it.
Hey Blizzard! I was gone for 20 years, theres a lot of mounts and items and achievements and titles you need to give me now since other people.have them!
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i can only speak for myself, but like, we had an hour long chat about it in trade chat on mg last night
i mean yeah, there have been more people complaining about the difficulty. but ive seen plenty complaining about being stuck at rank whatever because they levelled slow or w/e the reason is
