Might as well get one started. You can’t access the final chapter of the campaign unless you have killed Sarkareth in Aberrus. Probably a bad call on Blizz’s part since he isn’t available on LFR yet.
Edit: Just so everyone knows, this means that LFR only raiders can’t finish the campaign until the final LFR wing is released on June 20th.
Edit 2: For those that don’t want to wait a month, the link to the WoWHead article with the video and dialogue from the quest is below. SPOILER WARNING!
Not being new doesn’t change the fact that it is a bad design decision that unnecessarily prohibits a sizable portion of the player base from completing the main campaign for a few weeks.
If Blizz wants players to watch the story on youtube instead of accessing it in-game, they might as well just come out and say it because that is the end result of them locking quests like this.
If you’re going to gatekeep a major zone questline behind a raid boss, at the very least don’t wait a month and a half to have it available with LFR. We just now got wing 2.
This seems like a step backwards tbh. Just give Ebyssian a dialogue option to “See what happened” and queue the cinematic, like they did with Bolvar in 9.2.
They want you to do Normal raiding so they can show their shareholders all the people doing the new raids which surely means their MAUs are going up.
And if they get you to wait an extra month to complete the story, well they can show their shareholders that their MAUs have gone up thanks to people staying supped to complete the story.
Just want to be very clear–
The final chapter for the Embers of Neltharion questline will open up to all players, regardless of their personal raid progression, when Scalecommander Sarkareth becomes available in Raid Finder.
That story is related to the end of the raid. So in order for players to see the content as intended, we’ve made two possible requirements for the quest to be given: either (this week) you must have killed Sarkareth, or, for those who do not raid, the last chapter will open to you the same week as the final Raid Finder wing opens.
This way, we’re able to deliver the content to all without spoiling it for players who want to experience it chronologically.
Then have the last chapter of LFR release the same week as the last chapter of of the campaign. Why should players who don’t raid normal+ have to wait weeks to finish the outdoor story quests?
Just another disconnect between the Developers and the Players. No one wants their campaign time-locked. No one wants Raid Finder released over time. Just unlock Raid Finder at one time. The day after your coveted World First Mythic Race is over.