Blizzard nerfs timewalking badges for literally no reason

The tax is so dumb man, really.

I played to earn all my currency, why the hell am I being punished for playing an alt?

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You do burn your rested XP slower FWIW. But the main use for heirlooms is to avoid having to upgrade gear as you level.

Ok, then, TW badges aren’t really for you.

If you mean during prepatch there were issues. Legion TW had massive scaling issues.

But otherwise I agree: DF TW was IMHO in a pretty good place. It’s astounding to me that it’s fallen off so hard.

Yeah, the people saying “but badges are Warbound now” don’t get it at all. The drop rate for badges is way too low (5-10 per boss) so the weekly quests are the only reasonable farming method. So, anyone serious about farming TW cosmetics were already using alts.

The example I give is: 10 alts doing the weekly. After 10 TW weeks (~30 weeks, 100 dungeons) you have ~52K badges (~5200 per toon). You can buy all 6 5K mounts and pretty much everything else. Ignore the raid weekly because alts can do that too.

Now you’re making 500 + 9 * 200 + 10 * 20 = 2500 badges per week so it takes you ~21 TW weeks (~63 weeks, 210 dungeons) to get the same badges.

The currency being Warbound is utterly irrelevant here.

Oh and to show you how nonviable and silly it is to farm 50K badges on one toon, imagine you do 1 dungeon per TW week you’re talking 100 TW weeks (~6 years, 100 dungeons) or 5 dungeons per week for the weely chest is 600 badges per TW week so 600 badges per TW week (~5 years, 430 dungeons).

Basically, you couldn’t farm all the cosmetics without alts previously. People such as myself have all the badges we could ever need (~300K personally). This simply punishes people coming later and newer players for literally no reason.

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No, not pre-patch the game came out 26 August which was the full release unless you count in early access which was 22 August but in September the expansion was in full swing and we had TBC timewalking active on 18 September and even then we had no problems.

The change in October before the release of Wotlk timewalking was done deliberately i believe that some developers did this to fulfill their monthly quota so that they don’t get fired.

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Mostly because the items available on the time waking vendor were not that attractive. Or werenʻt the last time i checked, the Dalaran stuff was better. Maybe theres some interesting stuff in there now?

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This.

And the costs are all over the place. Some random tmog? 25. Heirloom upgrade that costs 7500g? 1200. Huh?

Anyway, I kinda took that comment from Blizzard as a threat (to deprecate TW badges in favor of a new currency).

But another way to look at it is “we nerfed TW badge earn rates for people who don’t have enough TW badges because there are some people who have too many TW badges”.

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The longer you have to farm something, the longer you have to play.

It’s taken 20 years for Blizzard to finally give in and make the game more alt friendly with warbands and account wide rep (for the new reps). They don’t actually care about making QoL changes. They would rather not have any at all since it just makes things less of a waste of a time for players. They only make enough changes to placate people and move on till they have to do it again.

There’s even drops in TWW that are still only soulbound. If they actually wanted to make it truly alt friendly, there would be no soulbound items with anything in the new expansion. However, that would mean actually caring about the time the player puts into the game, which they don’t.

Blizzard doesn’t care if you’re wasting your time. They only care about keeping people playing the game in general.

And not only did they nerf the badges, they are also increasing the difficulty of Timewalking dungeons/raids in general. The longer it takes you to do something, the longer you’re playing.

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Wow, I just saw your moronic reply to the reality of the situation. What a clown.

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Some players are holding a great many badges, and we hope the upcoming Timewalking vendor updates will provide an outlet for them.

This is just a silly, silly rationale.