I honestly enjoyed tf out of most expansions where you could just get to max level and then grind gear and that was that. The endless artifact power grind was whatever in Legion until I learned they just take it all away from you. What’s the point of doing AP grind on 93049 alts if it’s just going to be taken away? But to the real problem here…
I have 3 capped accounts and about 45 characters at 120. I wanted to do the world quest today on all of them for the rare stone. But much to my chagrin, I find you have to unlock the stupid questline in order to do the world quest. And there’s no indication of that until you get there. Also, there’s no indication whether you’ve even DONE the opening questline until you get all the way to the boat and see if you can sail to Drustvar. I don’t remember which of my 90 toons above 110 I’ve done the stupid Drustvar questline on, it’s numbing. Why must you torture me with doing the same mundane questline 150 times? You get absolutely nothing out of it other than useless azerite and maybe a couple gold. I see no point in spending hundreds of hours grinding away azerite…I’m disabled and it’s actually pretty hard to get game time in nowadays, I’m not spending two years grinding azerite just for it all to be taken away from me again. What a waste of time. I see no point in even gearing up my alts because it’s not like Timeless Isle where you just fight the monsters and get the chests and boom now you can do LFR…instead it’s thousands of torturous hours and endless useless grinding just for it all to be removed at the new expansion.
Yes it’s my choice to have all these alts, but it’s BS to make me do the same dumbass questline 150 times just so I can do a damn pet battle. /endrant
Sounds like an issue you can easily rectify by scaling down. Intervention from hoarding would be recommended…
I don’t really play them though, they’re mostly for mount chances and things just like that world quest. I really only play my durid when I can. idk but my playstyle isn’t the issue. It’s the WQ requiring me to do the stupid foothold quests in order to even see the NPC.
I feel you, more then anything. I like to dip my toe into every class. I might not play each and every class as main character, but playing alts is a welcome change from whatever class you play as main class.
Also, before i could help out with Heroic Daily Dungeon runs as i Tend to Tank or Heal on every class that can do that, sadly the Daily Dungeon fun … was exchanged with Daily Quests and World Quests.
I didn’t like the Artifact Weapon system back then, when you raised a Alt to 110 and then doing the very same World Quest would reward your main or any older character more Artifact Power then it would for the brand new toon. Researching Artifact Knowledge was utter garbage and should never have been implemented, it should have been server wide like it is now with that Heart of Azeroth Artifact Power.
That said … both systems are trash. I dislike that Azerite Armor System as much as the Heart of Azeroth and all that Essence stuff … they all just make you have to do one thing: engage with the game and have a everyday grind/farm objective.
I played mainly Alliance in BfA, now i want to do some Horde … and you would not believe how much of a daily grind it is, to just get all the Essences sorta required for one specialisation; Protection Paladin …
I mean i know, in theory you not need any Essence on rank 3, rank 1 i good enough but … there is a difference and having 4 rank 1 Essences VS 4 rank 3 Essences … there should be some significant difference.
I think that whole War Campaign was a feeble effort to try to get some sort of a Storyline into BfA. And for me it failed. This is exactly the same problem Final Fantasy 14 has for me … it forces you to one huge sequence of Quests, and in Final Fantasy 14 you have to the whole “Main Story” for A Realm Reborn or you can’t start the Heavensward Main Story.
On the bright side … you only need to play one Character there.
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