So for the Balance of Power questline, at a certain point you need to collect 30 corrupted essences.
The preceding quest has you do a bunch of stuff in emerald nightmare, the essences cannot be attained until the following week if you pick up the essences quest in the same week you complete the prior quest due to “reasons”.
Also, you can’t get 30 essences in 1 week because apparently you can only attain them once among all difficulties.
Why is this so needlessly annoying?
/rant
Because this is a very accomplish-based questline with 4 unique rewards at the end, and as such, you should have to work for it.
Oh please, its legacy content that is locked for no other reason than to drag it out at this point in the game lol.
Waiting 2 weekly lockouts to finish 1 very out of date quest isn’t work tbh, its just needlessly annoying
Because the quest was designed for when Legion was current content and going back to do these old quest chains means you gotta deal with that?
Sorry but nothing about this is ridiculous or “dragging it out”, its just the normal pace for the quest - don’t do it if you don’t want to deal with it
The way the quest works is based on a weekly lockout, if you want a more specific explanation. Each boss kill = 1 registered confirmed kill a week and they won’t change that. You can’t kill that boss anymore due to raids being a “once per week” clear. Just do a weekly clear and you’ll eventually be done with it.
By “Work for it” you mean “click the one shot the boss” button right?
There’s not much point in keeping arbitrary timegating for content that comes down to “click the convoke macro”
One question to ask is “Does this make the player experience better” and it would take some very contrived mental gymnastics to spout some pseudo-philosophy about patience or working for a reward when the task is quite literally “One shot these guys to lockout, then do it again” and remember it’s not accountwide so you might have to do it over again for each class of alt… not because it’s overcoming a challenge, but because they haven’t put in a QOL fix that should have been applied 4 years ago.
TLDR timegating is an abomination fit only for mobile game trash.
You shouldn’t have to grind weekly for 4 year old content
Tell them to recode the entire questline then, its not a flick of a switch. And they have no intention on putting devs back on that anytime soon with DF being worked on.
That variable for the number of essences that is set to 30.
Yeah, they would have to change that to, IDK, lets say 10.
So… Backspace Backspace One Zero.
You are correct, it is a flick of 4 switches I am asking for, not one.
I would bet the quest text references that variable too, so if they used some smart coding they wouldn’t even need to update it.
Or better yet
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