No, Blizzard was going to alter some of them to be dailies, not all of them. The Maruuk stuff was not going to change, for example. We don’t know which ones the other factions offered that would change because things didn’t get that far before the non-players had their hairycatfit.
And window of that idea being floated in its own thread, and the reverse course was about 4.5 hours, in what was really the first week of the new system where it was clear some players didn’t know about the new biweekly scheme at all. And a long holiday weekend to boot in a thread where 20 posters accounted for about 40% of the 2300+ posts. Yeah, I don’t believe the majority was asking for anything at that moment.
Blizzard just gave themselves the early Xmas present of not having to do more work.
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directly compares what was available by the end of an expansion to what’s currently available not even X.1 patch on and cries a kid is like Skarm
“There’s nothing here, this expansion is literally trash.”
I think the World Quest situation is good now. You have professions and profession quests, World Boss, Feast, daily fishing quests, Pet Battle daily, PVP quest daily? You also have elemental storms, faction rep grinding, Wild Hunts, Seige, treasures as well as weekly dungeon quests before you go onto normal PVP, Raiding or M+ / or whatever your flavor dungeons, and around 40 world quests up per week.
And, if you have been keeping up with your renoun you have unlocked more campaign quests or faction based quests, also unlocking boosts for alts on renoun.
There is nothing to do?
What previous expansion had that level of variety of content?
World quests daily are going to fill that void?
For a solo player yes, it will. A lot of players have no interest in group content so quests are what they love. Hunts Seige and Feast are good but after doing them a couple times in the week the rewards arent worth the flight time.
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Define group content? Are you speaking on I dont like dungeons and raids as everyone is “toxic” now adays or anything that even in the world you encounter other players like Feasts and Elemental Storms?
I play casual?, dont normally raid or do dungeons without need from a quest and whilst working full time have around 3.5 hours max a day to play wow the content is enough to give a little breathing space to say farm herbs for an hour, or go mine for an hour, or level an alt.
If the only thing a person finds appealing is doing world quests ok… probably can see why they feel there is nothing they like to do to fill their time.
I mean I do mythics and I raid a bit, Im personally all over the place but I know a lot of people out there just want to wander the world and do their own thing in solitude and more power to them I say. At this point theres really no reason to hold back daily WQ because someone would feel obligated to do them to not fall behind. We are well past that point.
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personally, I would consider outdoor raid bosses and such like that where you join together, complete a simple objective fairly quickly, and then promptly disband ‘casual group content’. I suppose a quick random LFG would also count, despite being more complicated/involved. ‘Casualness’ is a point of view.
I would say watch this space. Will be interesting to see what content the traders hut thingie brings and the new storm bring in. But yeah probably are free to do more world quests depending on how much time you have, not getting gear out of them, just hunting the renoun at this stage.
I’m not into PVP, I dislike mythic +, but I have the will power (apparently), to simply not do things in this game I don’t enjoy. I also know that by not participating in a activity I dislike puts me behind gear wise. And that doesn’t bother me at all. I’m not going to do activities I hate. No one is forced to do anything in this game.
I enjoyed WQ’s, I did them at my own pace and never felt like I was forced to do them. I’m sorry that some of you seem to have issues with compulsion, but your “FOMO” is not the player bases problem. A video game company shouldn’t have to police your play time activities.
Oh, and your always going to be behind in something in this game.
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it’s a problem Blizzard- hell, just video game companies in general- have actively done on purpose for years to squeeze every last drop of time (and even better, money!) from it’s playerbase. Adding Skinner Box on top of Skinner Box. I think the change in rep rewards during Legion was a pretty blatant one- you used to just get to exalted and buy the reward you wanted with gold. From then on, you could mainly buy worthless crap, and all the really good stuff had a tiny chance to drop in a Loot Box you got from filling the rep bar again and again and again! Deliberately getting us as hooked as possible. I’ve overall enjoyed doing World Quests, but that doesn’t mean I can’t see that they’re also a part of that system/problem. I’d be a hypocrite if I didn’t acknowledge that aspect. So could in fact say that Blizzard is trying to less predatory by reducing those systems even a little bit. However, I just really doubt that that’s why any of this happened.
They made a blue post about this a while back saying they heard people,etc.
Technically we already do have daily routes the repeatable ones. Such as turning in fish for 5 rep a piece or the trophies,etc. So sayin we have 0 ways to farm rep daily is out the window there.
Emphasis on their own internal discussions.
They’ve literally never listened to the community that quickly, or hardly at all, unless it was like, making major news sites levels of outrage.
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Raiders and PvPers sometimes do other content as well. I raid and get AotC, I get KSM, I do a little PvP now and then for the mount sometimes, I do old content and new content gold farms, I collect pets/mounts I like. Don’t assume that the raiders/pvpers just do that content. I raid with my guild and do a handful of keys every week. The rest I spend enjoying other parts of the game. Heck, I can spend a couple hours just fishing because I enjoy fishing.
Also, professions are big if you like to make gold or to gear up your character. WQ are tied to renown and renown gives very important recipes for BiS gear. So, yes, WQ are important for people who do raiding or M+. If it’s daily, I will feel I’ll need to do them every day or else I’ll fall behind others I raid with and do keys with because they are tied to very important weapons or gear and I then have to cough up 10s of thousands of gold. The neck alone on my server had mat requirements of over 50k.
If WQ were not tied to any gear/power progressions, I’d say make them daily. I wouldn’t care or feel I need to do them.
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i like how there is less WQs but the rewards for them are absolute trash and they seem to get worse each week, i am getting more and more gold only ones and it really sucks
they did you just want to denied that players wanted this bi-weekly. You do you then.
honestly, this is one of the reasons im not getting DF. i enjoyed doing WQ’s with many alts every day, its why i liked Legion and even BfA (for the most part), it let me do what I enjoy. i dont enjoy raids or dungeons, never have, im old and my reaction times and eyesight arent the best, so i dont like pvp much anymore either. so now something i enjoyed was taken away cuz some people have no self control.
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So those not serious about progression, but still like to do multiple forms of content, or are in guilds that are still progressing need not worry about falling behind or getting dumped for others who do that content?
Sure there is, it is called “respect the middle ground”. I do all WQs on multiple characters, with the 3.5 day rotation (full week on some) I can space them out and still have time to raid, run M+, do those other events, and still be able to deal with things in real life.
However, I could see certain WQs, especially the races and climbing, being on daily rotation. The thing is, anything that rewards gear or mats (primal chaos, matrixes, etc) should likely be on that longer rotation but if the reward is only ever going to be gold or rep, feel free to put it on the daily.
How can someone max out rep that fast? Maybe I’ve missed something along the way.