Don’t like PvP but still want the rewards? Here are some quick tips for the best way to get Plunderstorm Renown focusing on PvE. More of our old tips apply since these were not nerfed at all, just other things got better.
Land in a relatively safe area that isn’t one of the major Points of Interest (PoI).
Get farming skills like Fire Whirl or Star Bomb to AoE.
Defeat as many PvE mobs as you can and open as many Golden Chests as you can.
Complete the Captain’s Order quest in every game and Daily Quest every day.
Once there’s no more PvE mobs or chests to loot, you can run into the storm, try to PvP or just run into the nearest enemies and die.
----Quoted from Wowhead.
I only hope that when Blizzard found a lot of players playing Plunderstorm, they don’t interpret it as “players actually like it”.
I returned to WoW two months ago when I was in a business trip. I simply got bored and decided to see what this game has become. I’m 30 already and I don’t really have the time to sit there and play WoW for a day like before.
My only gaming goal now is to casually collect the mounts, pets, and transmogs. I don’t do any sort of competitive gameplay or core PVE contents. My instance-based gaming stops at M 0 and LFR. Despite the fact that I hated PVP even when I was young, my only purpose for WoW now is to be a casual player and do some collections.
Now what? Blizzard put 40 renowns and corresponding collectibles in a PVP-only mode. They even put a Pepe there… If there’s anything in WoW I never missed, it’s Pepe. I sometimes really don’t get what’s in Bliz’s mind. If the players like PUBG so much, why don’t they just go and play PUBG. We certainly don’t need a PUBG embedded in WoW unless there is a PVE-only way, which essentially makes it not PUBG…
So my only choice is to do what Wowhead suggested - Best PvE Way to Get Plunderstorm Renown, and then most likely just run into the nearest enemies and die.
You don’t really have a whole lot of control where you land honestly. It’s better to land on an elite, grab the spell and then just go farm all the mobs around you.
Blizzard will just see how many people die to trash and the storm, and will lower the damage they both do as well as nerf the storm wall move speed. Because wow, Plunderstorm is super popular and everyone is playing and loving it, but those things must be badly tuned and need nerfing if everyone dies to them!
On a tangent, this is why player feedback is so much more valuable than data. Data is great and important and all, but without player feedback it is very easy to misinterpret data. Sometimes Blizzard relies too much on data.
Sweet summer Aluneth you know exactly how Blizz will interpret the data played metric. Plunderstorm was obviously lovingly played by ALL whom entered the mode! lol
one of the best places to land to farm pve mobs is all the way to the west, on the wall separating the border between Arathi Highlands and (what would be Hillsbrad)… there is a door in the middle of that wall - land right on that spot, u will kill an elite bear and there is usually a treasure chest there.
then continue walking south towards Stromgarde Keep, visit the farms there… they have little birds - in packs of three - run around and group them all up, bring em onto one of the elite humans and AOE everything down… if you get this place uncontested, then you get SO MUCH gold.
like that place is so good for pve farming that if you are uncontested, you will be level 7 before you finish and reasonably have a pretty good chance to just win the game on levels alone lol.
you’ll be level 7 when most people are four and five… can run around and try to get some kills: player kills now give alot of gold… and whats the worst that can happen? they kill you and then you get a quick death for requeuing.
also, if someone contests you in that area, instead of heading south from the bear, head north - there is an orc camp that has the same type of little groups of mobs - but they are peons instead of birds…
that spot has about 4-5 elites and lots of chests (usually a few supply chests in case you get the “get two items” quest since the supply chests will only have items in them.
You have full control of where you land, and the mob spawns on the map are consistent game-to-game so you also get an idea of where you might want put yourself.
You can even see where other players landed before making your decision, watching for parrots rising straight upward or small explosions on the ground, and choose to avoid them.
Another good spot would be the Witherbark Village. As long as you don’t see anybody else crash landing, there some elite trolls spread out so you can land on them and generally get a good ability. And with luck if you get either kill 10 creatures or open two chests as WQ, there several packs of raptors to fulfill the kill 10 and some chests spread out. (If you get kill two elites you may be able to pull this one off to because you killed one elite when crash landing on it but you might need more then one ability to take down a second elite troll.)
If you get spooked by other players and not done, just hightail it towards Hammerfall killing the creatures needed and if any luck finding any chests needed. After that, let some creature attack you or wander into the storm to end the match. Or collect any extra plunder if you want but stay close to the storm in case you want to get out of PvP.
I literally just tried it. The moment I moved my mouse, the bird started bombing. Might be a bug, but I can tell you 100% that what you are seeing is NOT representative of the casual players. We CANNOT figure out how to aim it like those streamers are doing.
if you want “full control” over the bird you really have to start aiming it right as you spawn in on it (it loses the ability to change directions as it gets closer to the ground).
so it will take some practice to open the map quickly and realize where you are and where you want to go… sometimes its ok to just fall where you fall in the middle and kill some tarantulas and raptors to try to finish a quest.
Its sort of like a plane. Dont push your mouse forward (a.k.a. don’t point your birds nose towards the ground) before you are ready to dive. Once you start diving it’s very hard to steer or pull up, but it is possibe.
Instead start by getting your left or right bearing first and then initiate a gradual dive towards your target…push the mouse a little forward, but not enough to initiate a full on trip straight into the ground.
Don’t right click and look straight down, or angle yourself down at all, just maintain the course you’re set in when you spawn and use left click to look around.
Don’t just let yourself dive if you don’t want to, right click and pull up.
Unless they changed how it works, it’s still literally just an extremely slow version of dragonriding with no altitude gaining abilities or descent-agnostic speed boosts.
there not goiong to do anything this is just an expirement to see what happens and its a limited time event… its going to be gone in a few weeks… and then nobody is going to remember this garbage side game. just like rumble they announced it hardly anyone plays and everyone pretty much forgot about it. and it went into the trash and it will happen with this one too …
so a waste of talent and resources, what they should have done is reintro duce forbidden reach or re-advertise the rest of the world and add more quest in the originial areas…and/or forbidden reach now that would have been great… to have players revisit those areas…
ex: " here there traveler you need to go visit (somebody in hijal) and then when you get there there are a series of about 10 quest then when your done with those it leads to another area like the barren wash and repeat… 10.2.6 revisit the places from the past with new quests…
