Let me start out by saying I have loved Brewfest from the start. This year makes me not.
Noticed a lot of things…
You’re right about the boss… no time at all to get there unless you’re lucky to stay or phase to a good shard.
Not even bothering with the ram running/racing. It’s been a grind for the last decade and I’m good with chipping away at things.
The new quests though… THAT is absolutely horrible design. No prep. No explanation. No fail training. The flipping between click to act and vehicle mode is pointless. And the adding hops? That takes the cake for pointless complexity with no explanation. Unless you’re an evoker, you likely NEVER have held a key down, let alone clicked released and then held a key. That’s a mechanic that just isn’t used pretty much anywhere in the game. And having a click button that auto fails you with no explanation is absurdly bad.
Our characters have been ‘cooking’ for decades. You’re telling me that dropping some fancy wheat into a hot bucket stumps them suddenly?
I get making the game more interactive and ‘skill based’… I do, but some of these problems aren’t even a game, they’re gotchas.
Respawn for the hozen is a joke on low pop servers… you’ll spend more time running around looking for targets than getting resources. Fighting a boss that is a roll of the dice because it might or might not be there, let alone might or might not be dead is TERRIBLE and should have been figured out as terrible after the last few celebration events. Using strange mechanics with no explanation is dumb. And having your rewards be based upon community interaction when you can’t trust they’ll be there, or won’t just vanish randomly due to the SYSTEM deciding there’s too many/too few is a major flaw.
I like the increased number of stalls. I like the more varied activities. I like the interactions.
I hate that it feels like its shrunk in size… it’s Durotar, there’s TONS of room and they didn’t give a few more yards despite more being packed in? And why the heck was the repeatable boss daily treated like the theater in Dorn? Click to participate, timed even with no notice or explanation, then reliant upon random participants with a roll of the dice to even loot the boss? That’s terrible.
There’s a lot going on, but there’s also quite a few things that should have been done better.
I’m probably not even going to do it on an Alliance character if you’re saying it’s more rewarding on the Horde side.