Glad to see the updates, especially with the Azerite mobs. For the most part I think enemy difficulty is on point. It can hurt running into the enemy team solo but I believe that’s fair.
The most important change though, in my opinion, would be to mount and toy rewards, possibly the quest items too. Overall rewards seem fine. I probably average out to 1 pet or transmog item every other run or so which usually equates to 5000g. And both of those items can be traded so even if you’re unlucky, you can always just head to the auction house. BoP items are another story. I know Ion recently stated that rewards would be more targetable near the end of the expansion but that kind of just discourages me from putting in the effort now.
The best solution, in my opinion, is put them on the vendor. 1000 doubloons for the mounts would be fair. I’d even be okay with 2000 since it’d be a form of bad-luck-protection and not the only way to get them. Failing that, increasing the drop rate or at least making treasure maps more lucrative (I really don’t care about getting AP or residium and just let those missions expire) would at least help.
All of this is from the perspective of someone who mostly queues heroic, has been lucky enough to get 2 mounts, really only cares about the mounts, but still enjoys IEs as a bit of a side activity.
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I am pretty sure people do normal since there is not normally enough incentive in the game to do anything difficult compared to just doing normal and getting nearly the same rewards.
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Thanks for making changes AND COMMUNICATING THEM. <3
Some of us enjoy big pulls, though. There’s plenty of content where we can and must play smart; islands pre-8.1 were my opportunity to cut loose, drag everything for a mile around into one big pile, and have an AoE nuke-fest. I honestly hadn’t had so much fun since I got geared enough to murder my way through Suramar.
Can’t do that now, though. The mobs are spread too thin and have too many mechanics.
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They still toss you, but not as much. When I ran into them last night they were an annoyance rather than my team chain-rezzing as we tried to make them stop following us around.
Pvp talents have always worked in pvp islands, what do you mean?
I never run normal. Even back when it first launched, I’ve always done heroic or Mythic on my better geared toons, and I’ve still never gotten a mount. I’m not sure if the number of expeditions I’ve done is where you’d want to see a mount rewarded, (i don’t ALWAYS cap every toon) but i do have 4 toons at max level that i do expeditions on.
I haven’t run a island expedition for a few weeks. Just not feeling the AP grind, don’t care about pets and mounts.
I’d run em a lot if they could dro p385 or better weapons or if I could buy them with dabloons. Have a bunch of those on some toons.
Make em account bound so I can mail to the proper alt that would benefit from them.
The rewards are to weak for the doing of them, and the doing of them in general just isn’t overly fun.
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Not even mythic expeditions are worthy of a 385 weapon. Even as a super rare drop. And this is coming from a guy with a “brand new (1 week old)” alt who’s running around with a 365 weapon.
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I run a lot of normal ones on sub 120 alts. De-tuning the Azurite extractor mobs is good. I haven’t tried them since this update,but I found that before… heroic was easier to run the normal. I can run 10 in a row and get nothing then run 2 or 3 the next day and get a couple items each run. I have yet to get a mount…
Oh, and like was mentioned above, account bound dubloons would be great!
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please let us know ?
lol that’s funny 1,000,000 posts and you respond to one.
all you’re doing blue is rearranging the chairs on the Titanic
I’m with you mate. I used to enjoy islands at first, but then 5 expeditions later, I cared less. My friends got two pets while I got nothing. Then I did more, and got nothing. Since launch I’ve received 1 or 2 battle pets, and maybe 1 or 2 pieces of xmog, but pieces that dont matter like wrists or gloves.
If they want to make it better, you should get something every IE. Whetherits a pet, xmog, toy, or a mount. Especially if you are doing mythic IEs.
And before anyone asks, I pretty much do mythic IEs, and did normal for leveling etc.
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I don’t think most of the devs play the game. And if they do I’m sure they don’t do islands. Remember what they said at Blizzcon, the people at Blizzard play mobile games mostly.
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can’t even buy the buff for the island, because doubloons drop rates are way too low.
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You are 100% full of it. FULL of it. There’s no way in hell.
Jesus man relax don’t get mad at me because the RNG Gods favor me lately.
I’ll have to side with Zues here. I DO get plenty of pets. I have 6 on the AH right now. It’s mounts i want though…
I want to run normal because I don’t like the repair bills I get from heroic when the group isn’t working together plus it seems like those npcs on heroic are a lot more aggressive now and I don’t care for what feels like pvp game play. That said I rarely do normal either because the rewards aren’t there plus I hate all the 116-119s with legion greens in them.
I either end up carrying undergeared sub 120s in normal or healers in heroics.
Some one is commenting later on that you can do three normals for one mythic but when I was playing with my friend (he has quit) that really wasn’t the case, two maybe but all bets on that go out the window if you do random queues for normal which can just take forever with some groups.
Plus these originally gave you rewards on normal - I don’t know why you changed them so they didn’t.
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