See the thing is, patch 6.1 and 8.1 are almost identical. They both are doubling down on systems almost nobody likes. In 6.1 is the garrisons and apexis missions, in 8.1 it’s islands, warfronts, and azerite gear. Neither of these patches make these activities fun. The big difference is that 6.1 had some really good class and gear changes, and 8.1 for classes is numbers tweaks and bringing spells back off the GCD which should have never been put on in the first place.
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You’re assuming people like warfronts, islands and pet battles enough to justify them doubling down on them.
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I saw a chart on a random thread that listed all of the XP changes they were making in the new patch, though I have scoured and scoured and I can’t seem to find where that person grabbed that info.
Yet it seems to be true? I have yet to see anything with ‘blizzard’ on it that really confirms. Idk, I’m new.
your assuming people liked staring at their garrison walls while alt tabbed. enough to double down on them so as it stands bfa 8.1 has more content than wod “alt tab” 6.1 had.
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At least with Garrisons I could make gold. With Warfronts and Expeditions all I get is pieces of 325 Azerite gear.
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if you can only make gold by playing wow facebook game, then that is your problem
and 340/ 370 gear (which also make good transmog sets), and pets and new currency to buy mounts, pets, toys and transmog. and boes that sell for a lot of gold.
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You know that’s a lie.
Currently warfronts award 340+ gear.
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Everyone just lives in the moment on the forums. Everything in the past is so much better and everything happening right now is AWFUL.
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Look back to my post where I say these patches are eerily similar. They both up rewards for trivial content that nobody would do if the rewards weren’t there. Nobody would do islands or warfronts if they didn’t give gear, xp, pets, etc. Just like nobody would do the follower missions if they didn’t give gold, gear, etc. Blizzard has to give these extreme rewards to coerce players into doing content nobody wants to do, instead of making fun content.
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Even better, 340 sure helps me out when I’m at 350 iLvl! ![:sunny:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/sunny.png?v=6" ":sunny:")
Don’t care what your current ilvl, just that what you stated was inaccurate.
And you’re correct. That gear won’t help you unless it titanforges or you get a usable 370 piece to drop from the world boss or as loot in the quest, so until the next season/raid drops in January, warfronts are not something many players are going to be doing except for running alts through to get gear.
As I stated somewhere in this forum in another thread, that’s exactly how I view 8.1’s launch. The alt patch. Up until the raid hits.
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I feel like I’m dreaming. The hate Warlords got during 6.1 was so venomous people were flat out saying Blizzard doesn’t care and it’s proof they are killing the game.
Seeing people praise WoD now is just amusing on so many levels.
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it’s probably 15 year olds, at this point 2015 is nostalgia to them
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Lol No!. I was there, it was marketed as the biggest content patch that WoW had ever had. Its marquee feature was “Selfie Camera” that can directly post to twitter.
It definitely feels weird looking at people somehow believing 6.1 was better then 8.1
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Actually 7.2 was stated by Blizz as the biggest patch they’ve ever released. Don’t know where you got 6.1 from unless you are memeing.
Also what is the difference between the Selfie cam and Warfronts? Both are basically useless content that people do once and forget about for the rest of the expansion. I’ve actually gotten more use out of the selfie cam because Warcraft Logs tracks the number of selfies you take during each encounter and it’s fun to troll the “Problems Tab.”
Both could have been advertised as the biggest considering 7.2 came out after.
Except if you read the patch notes and watch the survival guide it doesn’t say anything about that.
Not sure what to say here, if you can’t see a difference between posting screenshots of the game on twitter vs actually playing the game.
While I am not defending 8.1 or anything, I just don’t like this revisionist history that 6.1 was considered by blizzard to be a minor patch.
You can read the proof here, straight from watcher https://www.polygon.com/2016/8/25/12599142/blizzard-world-of-warcraft-warlords-draenor-disaster-legion-burned-fans
Quote from the article above " World of Warcraft lead designer Ion Hazzikostas admitted that patch 6.1 should have been called patch 6.0.5, and should not have been marketed as a major content patch."
Most of the changes on PTR get many revisions overtime. They may test something very experimental and don’t want the public freaking out. Many changes get implemented, and many get reverted or modified.
Blizz is fine with 3rd party developers (such as wowhead) keeping people updated. But you don’t want official Blizzard posts indicating changes prematurely, because people will take it as gospel.