So far so good. Needed to lower the gamma to keep it from being overpoweringly green. Could be a bit bigger, but what’s here is about what I’d expect for a world tree nursery.
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So my thoughts of only playing maybe an hour or so in there.
Very bland and uninspiring. Such a shame. Maybe there’s more going on than what I’ve seen but I doubt it.
PROS
- New zone is beautiful and made me dust off my druid as an alt this tier.
- Regular flying to grab those hard to read treasures is decent
- The storytelling in the quests is actually good IMO
- The transmogs are (chef’s kiss). I will definitely be in this zone for a WHILE on mutliple characters to farm this stuff, I really like it.
CONS
- The BS games they played with the renown gains for people early on has become a meme and as I’ve said other threads, it’s starting to feel intentional.
- Bugged WQ’s that were reported during the PTR and didnt get fixed? That’s a firing offense where I work, not sure why they let their people get passes every time on this.
- The amount of world quests is too few and how often they rotate is a problem. World questing started in WoD and was perfected in Legion. Why are they walking those designs back? I don’t want a measly 2 WQ’s a day. There should be 3-4 every 4 hours
- Superbloom event lasts too long. I have a better idea; every 30 minutes for 10 minutes instead of every hour for 20; like the dreamsurges
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Superblooms, watering some plants and occasional rares. That’s the whole outdoors. It is boring. It is unfair to ppl who love outdoor stuff. We are back to WoD where the raiding was fun, but no outdoors.
Art wise and questing is much much better than SL end zone, which I don’t even remember its name, zeret crappis? something.
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Pretty much sums it up
+1 for the music. The music is absolutely sublime.
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Rift had a great thing in their dynamic events. If Blizzard incorporated that, i think it’d be a win.
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It’s a pretty standard WoW zone. Wish is was bigger. Feels like they regressed back to the “tightly packed zone” design of the last 3 expansions a bit with it after the massive initial 4 Dragonflight zones. Branches are annoying.
I think it’s flat.
I resubbed to the game yesterday and I’m now completely bored and have nothing to do.
I did the Superbloom. That was lame. I got seeds and stuff. Got some treasures. Did some rares. I’m all done with everything. It was very lame. Now I have literally nothing to do until Tuesday.
The whole zone is completely flat.
I see myself in the future literally just afking while in queue or doing raid. Kinda sucks cause I was hoping to actually have stuff TO DO outside of raid. Yeah we can do the weekly stuff for rep but just none of it is exciting at all whatsoever.
I’m very disappointed.
Too many damn trees, make dynamic flying a real pain. I say we just join the Druids of the Flame and burn it all down.
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Most of the Rare’s are on a 2+ hour timer. At least all the ones that have barbershop unlocks.
I think that the art and music are beautiful. I live in the desert so flying through all that green is a welcome fantasy.
The zone is basically “fine” - not more or less than that.
It’s not my “style” of a zone, but whatever.
The only thing that I dislike about it - is that it feels to me like the zone was designed entirely without dragon riding (dynamic flying?) in mind whatsoever. Or at least designed to severely frustrate anyone who is dragon riding.
It sure is pretty. It’s what I kind of wanted the emerald dream to be. Not too fantastical. Just a lot of trees and forest without a lot of influence of any kind of structures.
Not what i thought the Emerald Dream would look like.
Beautiful but too empty, should have as much rares as forbidden reach or broken shore. I think it was rushed out.
It’s literally Green Ardenweald.
Why is the basecamp so small? We should at least be at the Eye of Ysera, that’s a decent size place that makes way more sense to plan operations at. There’s hardly any points of interest in the whole zone. Some barrows, some fire invader areas.
The zone looks so… unremarkable. The skybox should be way better, there should be more otherworldly elements. It just looks like a random forest zone, and all the reused ardenweald assets certainly aren’t helping either.
Very low effort for a final zone.
It’s a pretty zone, but it’s a zone like any other and just like Shadowlands it doesn’t capture the essence of being in another realm of reality/existence.
Feedback:
- Perhaps the most “alty” patch so far… without support for alts.
- After you finish the weekly Superbloom, it feels like there’s nothing to do? (Switch alts and do another Superbloom, that is going to get very old… fast).
- Not enough WQs, because the zone isn’t big enough (login alt #5, any WQs have anything I want? No, close wow, go do something else…)
- I can’t stress this enough: going back to the RNG approach to gear is really bad. There should have been a new currency with a new vendor to buy what you need. I personally hate getting my 59th bracer when we the alts all need new trinks. Oh yea, stop putting in vendors that phail: either they don’t have neck/rings, or they don’t have trinks. They should have everything.
- Can we please get less RNG in the weekly Superbloom drop? It’s very annoying when I get a bad ring as a drop when I needed a primary 444 weapon…
- A pox on RNG that drops an offhand when I don’t have a main hand, and when I have a 2-hand equipped. A triple pox on the RNG when I am playing a tank that has main/off hand, and another offhand drops that I don’t need. I have been saying this for years: either a 2-hand should drop, or a set of main/offhand – they didn’t make the main/offhand artifacts separate aye?
- In short, this xpac was taking steps away from RNG, and this patch feels like its reverted to vanilla.
- That said very nice looking zone, but perhaps underwhelming for being “the Dream” (this is where they all go for vacation? This is what certain characters were refusing to leave? Allow me to introduce you to exotic Stranglethorn…)
- New nodes for harvesting is most welcome
- A region prompt when someone has activated a seed would be welcome, I have already checked a lot of empty Emerald Bounties… perhaps this is only an issue on low pop servers/groups.