First mistake was getting excited over anything blizzard announces… With Activision/blizzard always set your expectations low (like bottom of the marianas trench low).
What on earth did you think it would be? An entirely new type content to earn currency? In a half patch?
Pretty sure 2 weeks of gasoline to pay for a game is something invested.
Save feats of strength for people to fun for it.
Increase regular rewards we can have just for vanity.
make it fun to do.
…I see nothing I especially want in the trading post, but it looks like a LOT of the things that get you credit towards the special monthly reward is just a series of things that you’d do normally as part of the game? (quests, world quests, dungeon and raid bosses, whatever holiday event is up…) I don’t see it as anything much worthwhile, but also I don’t it as something worth getting mad about.
This was the entire point. To allow anyone, no matter what content they like, to have a chance to collect the currency and pick up some vanity rewards. I love vanity items, so I’m excited to get extra items in the course of my normal play.
Run old dungeons and raids for transmog and/or mounts.
Do the holiday stuff.
Make an alt to complete quests and get grey/white gear.
The Trading Posts rewards you for just doing what you were already doing.
It’s stuff you are going to do anyway, along with such mind numbingly simple stuff like /love an npc you see ever day. I would hardly call that a grind.
I tried running an old dungeon and got no credit for killing bosses. I think it has to be current (or at least relevant-at-level) dungeons raids and quests, since I don’t have DF yet and it counted SL/BFA/Holiday quests and world quests. Haven’t tried a SL/BFA dungeon yet.
Even if some of them are nice, I like the flail even if it’s pointless for my monk, but OP is right, it’s just another pointless grind. There is nothing on the trading post that really has anything to do with WoW with the story, lore or anything.
It’s just “Hey go do some old world content for some shiny items” to try and keep us subbed, or maybe gauge the trading post and change it to a battle pass later or something who knows. And I can see why they have done it, but they have done it badly. With almost everything in DF being optional there are many players who are playing less, no need to grind.
Welcome to the maze
Do what? I looted the chest the first time and got 500, then talked to some NPC’s and got 1000. I went back to the chest and got 500 more lol. So i got 2000 tokens for basically doing nothing. Bought the bow xmog, and the mog the arrowheads on my back, and left with a bunch of tokens left lol.
They never even gave me anything to do for more tokens. Did not even tell me how to get more for that matter lol.
Yes, I know what FF14 does.
It’s one of my side MMOs.
It also suffers from terrible cat people everywhere and french elves. Hard pass.
Assuming a person wants those things. I like the idea of the Trading Post, they just don’t have anything I want. 
So wait until next month.
And if you don’t do it, next month you’ll be sad when it’s stuff with tons of cool stuff.
You get the currency just playing normally, the only extra step is clicking the chest.
A five and dime store will still only have five and dime things a month later. Being the first impression given to us players, it would make sense they would put what Blizzard thinks are the best stuff to capture us into thinking this Post is great.
So, sure, I’ll look next month, but I bet it will be the same quality items.
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So you dont like mounts, weapons, pets, cosmetics?
Because that is the “five and dime” store analogy. That is what was offered this month. It will rotate to different mounts/weapons/pets/cosmetics next month.
That would be short sighted, since it means every single month after would be worse than the first. And people would complain about a “bait and switch” mentality.
How do you define quality? How are the items listed here sub par in quality?
Only that. I don’t collect pets or mounts and once I get a transmog I like for both my characters, I’m done with that character’s transmog. IF I see something that might work to improve my already existing transmog, then I will purchase it.
An item I wish to buy. I might have worded that incorrectly using the term quality.
So how did you like the idea of the trading post, if you never intended to want to get anything from it?
I guess I am curious how you liked the idea to begin with. When it was very clear from day 1 that this is how it would be. What did you like previously?
If they have a transmog that stands out to me, I’ll buy it. Maybe next month, but I doubt it.
I was expecting a ton of transmogs and other items. Like pages and pages of them, not something like 20 items. Then Blizzard would add some more each month.
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