Honestly, I’m not for it. Basing this entirely off of how much of a mess it’s been since pre-patch. Issues that were in the beta for months that only just barely got fixed, like the professions tab, for example. They’re just gonna be rushing out content that hasn’t been properly prepared as the expansion goes, I imagine.
Now, if they are actually able to keep things running smoothly while releasing each new phase, then sure, by all means, fast track it. We don’t need another Ulduar phase that just went way too long, having new things to do sooner, rather than later, keeps the player base engaged. I’ve had a few friends in raids who took a break like 60% of the way through Ulduar and just never came back, they got burnt out, and I don’t blame’m.
So I’m realistically more for fast tracking it, given that the content is actually ready to be put out.
On the bright side, they are releasing MoP remix on retail, so that means when we fast track through cata in a year, MoP will be ready for us, right? Retail players will playtest it for us, right?
On a serious note though, I haven’t really had *that* many problems. Albeit most complaints I see are PVP related (I don’t PVP), problems with characters after boosting (I laugh, seems like karma), and very select quests have some scripting problem preventing it from working.
Like, just go kill boars in another zone and move on. The amount of time it took to write a forum post about a broken quest you could have just mob grinded and been ahead.
(Oh, and people are hating on Archeology, not because it’s broken with bugs, because people want bad luck protection and better rates).
Lol yeah I know that’s right with Archaeology, I personally enjoy it, and while I do want the rewards from it, I just go in with low expectations, if I get a shiny, neat! If not, I’ll try more later. Biggest issues is just people’re throwing themselves hard at it and expecting rewards. I do get wanting a better rate of luck, especially if it’s being fast tracked, but at the same time, they’re on the same level as our first raids, so it’s not gonna break anything, it’s just nice to get the shiny.
Pvp issues definitely were a thing, prof tab, character boosting profession issue is kinda ridiculous. Items still dropping that shouldn’t be anymore, IE Badges of Justice, Spirit Shards, Stone Keeper Shards, and while they do nothing now, they were supposed to have been removed. Stratholme putting you on the wrong side at level 44, some dungeon quests don’t properly work, or don’t have any indication on where you need to turn them in.
Boosting a toon to 80 for 60 bucks honestly just feels bad, especially with how quick and easy leveling is now, spent an hour on my priest two nights ago and shot up from 21 to 31 in a little over an hour, and while I was rested, rested exp only at most helps for kills for a level and a half, most of that is just quests. I think I ran maybe 2 dungeons with it, too. Honestly they can just cut the price in half, they’d probably sell more of them, then.
I kinda hear what youre saying, and I agree to some exten t, but if you have to release new or fast track content to keep people engaged then your content isnt fun in the first place. It’s like if you have world dailies and forced participation systems because people arent logging in, then your content just.isn’t.fun.
To a point, when it’s the exact same thing for 4+ months, and say it’s taken maybe that first month for a progression guild to fully clear said content, maybe a little more. 2+ months of grinding the same thing does tend to get boring after awhile. At least with phase 1, we’re not just stuck to one raid, I think there’s three, so there’s some variety at least.
I am a slowpoke, so I will be happy if they make it take a regular/long amount of time. I will also be playing MoP classic and maybe even WoD classic, but probably not Legion classic. So I hope they don’t rush too fast because I don’t know what they are going to do after this and I don’t want the fun to end too soon.
Yeah, I agree, I am leveling my undead hunter from 1-85 so I hope they take all the time in the world. Because leveling takes forever as a dps class without easy access to dungeons
