8.2 has really hurt my will to log in and play. I used to spend at least 3-5 hours a day playing, partaking in most of the current content the game has to offer. I can’t tell if this is just me being burnt out, or the content becoming bland and frustrating.
I am only middle of the pack in most content with 2300 io and 1600ish arena and AotC but 3/9 mythic. Before 8.2 I would log on, do the daily emissary, collect some herbs to make consumables for sale/use, run some M+, or raid if it was raid day. Everything felt like it had a purpose and I could always count on being able to fill a couple hours with fun AND productive activity.
Currently in 8.2, things have done a complete 180. I don’t like the new zones, but all of my friends from raid and M+ are spamming dailies/Rares/farming mechagon stuff. The new herb recipes ALL require zinanthid. I’m a healer so the stuff in both zones takes me forever to kill, and this game has started to feel more like work than leisure activity.
The first few people in my guild got flying today, and I am horrendously behind with like barely being honored for the new factions. I can only stand being in the new zones for like 30 minutes a day, which is strange because I could stay logged on for hours at a time before and never feel bored. I hate the feeling of knowing that I’m missing out on so much rep and “rewards”, but I really can’t stand this level of tedious choredom.
I’m literally in the same boat lol. This might mark the second time I’ve quit wow, one was in uldir and now in 8.2, pretty sad I’ve been playing since wrath and I’ve slogged through all the ups and downs. BFA has really pushed me to a breaking point, guess ill see how 9.0 turns out.
8.2 really seems difficult to grind. Not sure why but I just cant get myself to do it.
Dont really like BFA anyway. So I won’t be able to fly in zones I will most likely never visit once new expansion drops…I can live with that. Also why grind a mediocre neckpeice that will be replaced by first green drop in next expansion.
Yeah that’s another thing I completely forgot to mention. The Azerite grind which has already been going on for this entire expansion just got even worse now. With no overflow/storage system for people who hit 50 well before 8.2, all of that extra Azerite went straight to waste. My goal was to unlock all of the relevant essences for my character and have my neck at 55 for the start of season 3. Looks like I’ll be having 3 essences and a 52 neck lol.
I’m trying really hard to enjoy the game right now, really hard. Nazjatar killed my goal for flight. If the raid isn’t amazing then I’m out until the next raid, I suppose. This whole expansion is complete trash and I can only pray that Blizzard ends it sooner than later.
Already have. 5 more days, and Neverwinter Nights Enhanced will be taking up my gaming time for awhile. And the Command& Conquer rts remasters cant get here soon enough for me. Blizz can take their rep gate bs, and stick it where the sun don’t shine lol.
I’ve been a BFA fanboy since release. I’ve loved the expansion. 8.2 is killing it for me now though. I never really felt much of a grind before, and I just casually went about my business and enjoyed the game. There’s definitely a different feel to the 8.2 stuff. I’m not honored with Unshackled yet, and I haven’t even touched Mechagon. I feel like Nazjatar is such a chore that it’s just sapped my will to play the 8.2 content at all. It’s sad.
That said, I never got to play Mists, WOD, or Legion. My Alliance character is going through all the Legion content and I’ve been having a blast on that. lol
I’m gonna join this here club. I just can’t do it anymore. I’m not sure if it’s burnout or what. But right before the patch, I was playing 4 toons, gearing them all up, preparing for 8.2 and enjoying every minute of it. Then bam! 8.2 comes out and I’m suddenly just completely unmotivated to play.
I tried Nazjatar first, and it was jarringly bad. Still, I forced myself to push through the content on my human (for faster rep grinding). Then I got to Mechagon. Oh Mechagon, how I can’t even stand you.
I feel like they crossed too many wires here. I don’t need dailies with world quests with items that fill my inventory faster than I can say STOP! World quests were so much better. They don’t fill up my quest log, and they don’t fill up my bags with semi-useless junk that’s colored green/blue/purple to make me think it isn’t just junk. I don’t need to craft my own trinket using crap that takes up inventory slots. Just give me a simple currency choice to buy them.
There is too much new stuff to learn here for a game patch. If you want to reinvent the wheel like this, you should do it in a new expansion, not in the middle of one. And by the way, all this stuff is really too complicated for what it does. At the end of the day, it’s just an item that I can wear. I don’t need to discover it, I don’t want to discover it.
8.2 is literally the thing that motivated me to play again. The grinding of WQ’s is reminiscent of the daily grind in MoP to me–the expansion everyone has been praising for the last several months. And then we have Mechagon which is much like Timeless Isle.
Maybe 2 different groups of people. And I understand “class design needs work yada yada,” but this is just my take. I like it. Though I call it a grind, it feels more like an adventure through ocean hell for upgrades, flight, pets, mounts, more–I’m a fan.
Up until this point, BfA felt dead and completely lacking in worthwhile content to me. But I enjoy this kind of thing. This is a solid patch for collectors.
I don’t know, I’ve spent 5 hours a day since 8.2 came out playing and it’s been a while since I’ve had as much fun as I’m having now. Especially on Mechagon where a lot of people are working together to get people to the rares. Also I spent today getting the four reefwalker rares and it was entertaining watching people fall to their deaths trying to pull the Colossal Sky Ray to the one. Plus I’ve been playing with my friends so we’re all just laughing about things that happen.
I’m excited to be flying in the next few days, too. The anti-gravity packs in Mechagon have made me realize how much I miss it.
Nazjatar is the WORST zone they have ever designed, at least for now. It was clearly designed for people to have flying, but the problem is, you have to slog through it for 2-3 weeks before you can GET flying. Everything about the zone is designed to absolutely punish anyone who is on a ground mount, from densely packed mobs to the multi-tiered verticality of the zone to dailies that demand you kill/collect insane amounts of stuff for virtually no rep. The rep repeatables in Nazjatar are extremely annoying to collect to boot, making farming extra rep every day even more obnoxious.
Mechagon, on the other hand, is tons of fun. The zone is easy to navigate, and like Timeless Isle, there seems to always be something to do…so long as you don’t restrict yourself to just the available dailies. At first I thought the zone had no content, but it turns out that there’s quite a bit to do. And while some of the mobs are overtuned, particularly their damage abilities (I’m looking at you, Neuroslicer), the zone is doable.
At this point, I’ll suffer through Nazjatar, but when I hit revered and ultimately get flying, I SERIOUSLY doubt that I’ll spend any more time in that zone than absolutely necessary from then on. I’ll return to do Unshackled emissaries, but that’s it. I’ve been permanently poisoned against that zone due to the punishment I’ve had to endure farming rep there to get flying.
I’m enjoying aspects of the new zones, maybe not all of it, but I’m completely aware of the fact that once I hit revered with the new reps, I won’t have much reason to go to the zones again.
I have a feeling a lot of people are going to run out of stuff to do, unless the raid and dungeon are a huge success.
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