Running through old content with the collector’s bounty buff, and I just have to say, I absolutely hate having to unlock entire expansions with quests.
I didn’t take most of my characters through BfA or Shadowlands, because obviously I didn’t, and now I’m stuck having to “unlock” BfA & Shadowlands areas.
Even the skips aren’t really skips, considering I have to pick up the quest, hit “skip,” do another quest which requires listening to RP, then hit “skip.” Do yet another series of RP quests to set up borrowed power systems and hit skip, etc. (Feel sorry for anyone who absent mindedly chooses Kyrian, you can’t skip much of anything!)
Whatever happened to the good old days of just crossing the Dark Portal, or pulling up in a Zeppelin or Boat, and being on your merry way? No quests, no RP, no borrowed power to set up, no “skips” that are anything but.
I mean, let’s be honest, it’s not like the copious amounts of dialogue I’m currently sitting through in Shadowlands is “making the story better.”
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BfA is a convoluted mess to try to unlock, too. I hate it.
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On thing I never found out because I can’t be bothered to test it is whether blizz ever removed the quest requirements for unlocking the N’Zoth invasion phases of uldum and the vale. Especially since that gates access to the Ny’alotha raid.
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My research I did when the buff came said nope.
I was doing that a little while ago, but got the mount so no more unlocks for me thankfully.
tl;dr: Uldum is bugged and you can go without doing the questline. Vale is “working as intended” and thus requires you to do everything up to the Vale Assault quest.
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I see. So basically you can do it without the quest chain, but you won’t be able to access the raid half the time when its entrance is in the vale.
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I hate this stuff, i have many alts that i leveled through events or dungeons and trying to take them into old zones for raids and stuff is a nightmare. I wish Blizzard would design expansions with a switch in mind, flip the switch when the expansion is over and all of the gating nonsense vanishes, all flight paths/portals and NPC’s just appear, surely it can’t be that hard.
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