Alot have forgotten how much nicer doing world quests was when you could que for a world quest finder and do it with random people. Alot of times in Legion I would do this and get a group that I would then do all the emissaries with and all the quests in one zone. It was nice to form a group and just run down the entire map with random people. It was nice to just hop on and get groups. Ion stated (or someone from the dev team from an interview I have long forgotten so citation might be needed) that the goal of removing this feature is to address two things. One is that world quests were not designed to be group content per se. They were designed to be single player content. Two is that they wanted people to invite randoms in the world by clicking on them.
The problem with this approach is that there is so much sharding that I never see the same people ever. More people are against being randomly invited to a group. More people would be willing to join if they also sign up and have the world quest functionality working for them.
Its just basic logic that two people who sign up for something would do it over one person getting randomly invited. This works in Classic out of necessity. After a year and change if BFA I can confidently say this was a bad move on Blizzards part and did not accomplish the goal they set out and just made grouping for world quests worse across the board.
Please bring back world quest grouping functionality for add ons
Yea, in legion it was so awesome. You would actually group up with people for once. Now the world content is dead because everything is solo since no one groups up without it.
One of the stupidest moves they ever made. Right up there with the gcd changes and the gutting of classes from legion to bfa.
currently i only group up for world bosses and the quests in Nazjatar that require the big elite mob to be killed (the special one with a fancy name “____ of the Queen” or something similar) and honestly i just pop on my brewmaster spec and just pull absolutely everything possible and then space out for a bit while hitting Jade Wind and Keg Smash when they pop up, mobs can’t kill me even if i’m geared for dps while in tank spec, and i do more than enough damage to trivialize any form of world content outside of the world bosses and those certain Nazjatar Elites. it’d be nice if i could just have a group get formed around me to speed it up a bit though, and would greatly help with fresh 120s
Totally agree. Doing things with people is the point of this game. This is an mmo. Making groups in retail for world quests should be easier. As it stands there are more options for queing for mythic raids than there are for world quests.
And replace them with what? Not really any different than dailies of the past. As for the addon. They probably want folks using the in game group tool.
Apparently grouping up with players was too good of a feature which made Blizzard scared that players were having much more fun doing group world quests versus fighting trash packs in dungeons. Blizz thinks fighting a bunch of trash packs in dungeon is compelling game play. o.O
The dailies in the past were better than world quests. Especially if you also bring back rep gains in dungeons, so you aren’t forced to do world quests and emmisaries to get rep. Kill Pathfinder while you’re at it.
Eh, sure. So long as you change how quest progress is made in a group. I remember people joining my group and never leaving their flying mounts while I did the quest for them.
Sure it wasn’t many, but man… it really annoyed me when they did it.
I agree with you, and it is terrible. I’ve been spending time playing classic and it is so nice seeing the same people. It reminds me of times before all of this cross-realm garbage, when you got to know the people on your server.
Blizzard should have just removed realms as the population dropped instead of what they did.
“Bugging random players in hopes they’ll group with you” seems like such an odd design goal, when they could have just let players who were interested in grouping up continue to easily form groups.
leeches suck.