Collecting old appearances is way too challenging

I’m going to be honest, I’ve been playing since burning crusade and I feel like there are so many old equipment sets that I still don’t have even after playing all this time. The reason is because we just now got warbands, which is a huge hit to the morale of many older legacy players. Many of us like myself have run all of these legacy raids for years on our mains, for me a druid. Now I have to do it all over again for other classes that I’m missing gear from…

It’s honestly way too boring and tedious for me to bother with it anymore. It’s just unbelievably arduous, and I don’t know how they can possibly expect us to devote so much time to this. It simply so boring and unbelievably tedious

To give you an example, I wanted to collect appearances from BFA, an expansion that I didn’t really get to play much of other classes. So I started doing the raid finder stuff first. It took me two and a half hours just on this druid to get through all of the raid finder raids. And that’s just one difficulty. Now I have to do it on normal, heroic, and mythic on just this one character. Then I have to repeat the entire six and a half hour process on another character, and another character in hopes of filling out a missing equipment set… This is unbelievably arduous and boring!

If you want me to be perfectly honest, it’s making me really discouraged from playing the game continuously, because there are so many other fun games out there coming out and if I’m going to be weighing my choices between something really fun like monster Hunter or a new game like avowed… And wasting my time on wow running the exact same raids I’ve already run for years, I can tell you right now that I’m not going to do the annoying and boring wow grind forever.

Solution should be quite simple. Once you get the mythic set of gear it fills and everything before it. The way it is now is simply unfeasible, insane in the membrane style grind that is unbelievably long and does not respect anyone’s personal life

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Wouldnt this change you are suggesting be a huge hit to the morale of many older legacy players?

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No? A lot of us spent all this time running this crap for many years. We’ve already done the grinding. Why should we have to do it again now that they added war bands? It’s too much. When you collect mythic set, it should fill in the previous ranks of everything. It’s even worse when you consider WOTLK and how you can only do one difficulty You can’t even do both difficulties on one character, which requires additional characters

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This is a troll post, right?

Just because there are items and sets to collect DOES NOT mean you need to collect them all.

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Are you playing your other characters regularly enough to notice the missing set pieces?

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Are you going for the sets because you like the looks of them, or are you getting them just to have the stuff completed.?

Don’t items for other chars drop and get collected? Example, if you’re running on your Druid, and you loot pants for a Paladin, won’t that get added to your collection? If it does, that should lessen your time a bit, if it drops it gets collected.

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Welcome to being a collector. As one, I disagree with your statement/suggestion. With the change of being allowed to collect any armor type as well as tier pieces, collecting already got faster than ever. It’s easy enough as it is, and I don’t feel like running out of stuff to do, whether I’ve been doing it for years or not.
Just my .02

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I’d stick to the transmog runs.

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It does. Problem is that OP is trying to get ALL the sets for whatever other classes they’re playing.

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What?

I’m confused. Why do you suddenly have to do this? What exactly changed that’s forcing this?

… so don’t do it if you hate it?

But you don’t.

I feel like you’ve posted this topic before…

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lol, lmao even.
:cherries:

Oh yes, the classic accused some of being a troll just because you don’t like what they’re saying. That’s very nice of you

You don’t “have to do” anything. You’re just FOMO and want to cry about it.

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You’re given a feature that allows you a great number of new options, and you view it as a burden. It think that’s a you problem.

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I don’t view the feature as a burden. You misunderstand. The grind is simply way too much for ordinary players to keep up with. Did you read any of what I said? Who is going to spend 80 hours a week doing all this content just for some cosmetic gear? No one wants to do that. They would rather play a completely separate more fun game. When it comes down to grinding, the grinding better either be meaningful or fun. In this case it’s neither. So it’s a waste of our time, and we won’t do it, and therefore, it makes it impossible to get cosmetics

Feature that makes it easier to get cosmetics makes it harder to get cosmetics. Um, okay.

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Forgive me if I am wrong but isn’t the joy of collecting things mostly in the hunt itself? I am not a collector per say, but, sometimes I have tried to get my hands on a rare thing (Both in Game and RL) and the hunt for the thing becomes the challenge and the reward is getting the thing.

I understand that you don’t want to run the same raids over and over, but that is the hunt. Because we have warbands now you actually get a little bonus to it. You don’t have to run it as Cloth, and Plate, and Leather, and Mail. You just go and do it. Hell, BFA didn’t even have set armor so you don’t have to run them as all the different classes.

No one is forcing you to do this of course, it’s for your own set goals. Maybe you need to adjust the goals, or, take your time, spread it out. Split it up with running other raids or something for other appearances.

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Going back to roflstomp old raids isn’t a grind. And it’s not mandatory. It’s a side distraction when people feel like it.

So I fail to understand the issue.

You speak only for yourself. No one else.

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That’s fine, most ordinary players aren’t completionists. They just take their time getting what they want, and not worrying about completing all the things!

IDK if they spend that much time, but the people that do care about the completion would do it. Plus, now it’s a heck of a lot easier with how they’ve changed transmog collection.

To the people that don’t mind the grind, it IS a more fun game to them.

To YOU it’s not. And since it’s not fun to YOU, just work on the cosmetics you like the looks of, and forget about collecting the other cosmetics you don’t like.

I’ve finished collecting sets I wasn’t even going for, and I don’t cosmetic collect anywhere near 80hrs. Granted, I’m not going for all the things! I’m just collecting the ones I do like lol

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Didn’t account-wide transmog only make it easier to collect appearances? In the past, you had to run it on the character you wanted to collect appearances for, especially for class sets. Now, you can run it on any character and collect an appearance for all of them. Seems like warbands save time rather than making it take longer, because you don’t have to run everything on alts anymore.

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