Awakening the Machine has to be one of the worst pieces of content Blizzard has ever added into WoW. The NPC has twice as much HP as I do and I’m a decently geared tank, most of the mobs don’t even bother to attack him or me, the ones that do attack hit for (Absorb), and the waves are super slow to spawn.
I’m not even saying take the time to make it better. Just give me a button to spawn all 20 waves at once so I can get paid and move on with my life.
Great thing about optional content.
If you don’t enjoy it, you don’t have to do it. But for those that actually enjoy it, it’s there for them.
The great thing about forum threads is they are optional to comment. If you don’t have anything useful to say, don’t talk.
“If you don’t like it, don’t play” is the worst argument in history. Concord has thoroughly proven that.
Meh, I’ve played through worse.
I can see how it could get real boring real fast
Would be interesting if you didn’t need to do 20 waves and could skip to the last 5 ones only at least.
Did you make this post to solely be an echo chamber?
I enjoy it.
Also why the heck you whinging that an overglorified weekly world quest is as hard as le gasp! A World Quest?
No. Feel free to talk about your experience as a different class/spec is different, or add your own suggestions.
Remember the threads complaining that this event was impossible to solo?
I’m not complaining that it isn’t hard, I’m complaining that it’s a tedious waste of time. There is absolutely no reason for the number of waves or length of spawn timer given the complete lack of challenge.
Though maybe it makes sense for folks such as yourself where even reading is a challenge.
It really depends on your class/spec.
My fury warrior goes through it fairly easily thanks to second wind and enduring victory. But other classes might not be so lucky.
Could the event be improved? Sure it could, and suggestions to improve it aren’t unwelcome. But when you step in like the OP and call it ‘garbage content’ it’s just laughable that you might think Blizzard is going to listen to that. Nope, anything suggested in the opening of this thread is getting thrown in the garbage bin.
Not unless they were from the beta. On live, the hardest part has always been remaining awake.
I’m impressed you manage to take enough damage that you need to heal as a fury warrior.
A Tower Defense-style “spawn the next wave right now” button would make this event so much less tedious.
Takes as long as the Hallowfall weekly.
And it’s free loot for basically shooting target dummies for a couple minutes.
The actual waste of time is me being here when you’re just looking to throw insults to feed your superiority complex.
Overall the expansion is 9/10, but this is the worst part of it. Awakening the Machine is an annoying chore.
You’re a real jokester.
The Hallowfall weekly is “click four things three times each”.
I mean, I usually go around pulling all the mobs I can directly onto me so they’re not beating on the Speaker.
The small bots don’t do a whole lot of damage by themselves, but once you collect a few of them in the later waves, combined with the larger magma spewing constructs and the beams you need to intercept (although it’s nice when you can get a bot to intercept the beam for you), health starts to tick down. I’ve been reduced down to around 35% HP at the lowest.
If you’re tank spec though, yeah, you’re not going to lose much, if any health, especially once you’ve got gear.
As if you had anything useful to add either.
Even my response is stupid because this whole thread is stupid.
WoW forums in a nutshell.