There are so many different trails of quests, I’m not sure what I’m doing anymore. What is story, what is irrelevant, what is supposed to be for gear/supplies, what is suppose to be for mogs. It’s not very fun as there aren’t any linear trails to follow.
Even the 30 year anniversary feels like a pre-patch everyone rushes through stuff. Nothing feels paced anymore.
Once again, probably cause I’m old and slow.
I kinda get it, they’re drowning us in currencies and every expansion the content gets more complex, but quests seem pretty straightforward to me. Purple triangles are important non main story quests, main story quests have their own icon, blue are daily or weekly, and everything else is a side quest.
a time traveler!
Is food in pill form?
Are pills in food form?
It does start to seem like information overload. It’s like if you let chores pile up at home. None of the individual chores would take long to complete, but when seen altogether; a person can have a tough time even getting started.
Conventional thinking is, “Just start somewhere.”
The problem is in WoW there are things that have varying windows of opportunity. WoWhead is a good resource for keeping track of the various daily/weekly/holiday events.
As for the different quest chains. Just start on whatever appeals to you. The most “beneficial” chains will be whatever is current content. That is what will get you up to date.
like in the fifth element? put the pill in the “microwave” and a full plate comes out.
i want it.
I dont think its particularly confusing but the anniversary stuff definitely seems phoned in.
Come play Cata, you might enjoy it more than Retail.
In spy kids they got a Big mac McDonalds meal out of the microwave
If you aren’t there at expansion launch on retail, you will be immediately confused for a while. Blizzard made the decision that clarity was less important than alt friendliness and enabling new or returning players to be able to do social game content as quickly as possible under the assumption that the new players are brought by a friend and the returning players know how to use wowhead to figure out what is going on.
This is probably the right call between those options but I think it could be improved.
My quote was from Futurama, but sure.
i think its the 20th year one.
But yeah, im in the same boat. Everything is way different - I usually get overwhelmed so i end up solo delving
Cata sucks. They should start another go around with Classic and the first two expansions.
You aren’t the first person to mention this. I’m now thinking about this.
Thinking about it, maybe instead of having a bunch of NPCs giving out random weeklies, having a board in Dornogal with all the weekly activites listed out along with what rewards they give and what they’re associated with would be worth doing for clarity sake.
That’s what is holding me back. I hated Cata.
A gentlemen of exquisite taste, I see. Yeah, I skipped classic the first go around, I’m holding out for them to do another wave of it. I don’t see the point of cataclysm, the people nostalgic for it are in a tiny minority. I guess they’re just doing it to get to MoP.
They are trying to be everything to everyone and while trying to do that, their quality has been compromised.
The campaign quests had different icons
As an old fart, do just the main quest line (the ones with a box around the !) only (no side quests) on a single toon. It’s so much easier to follow the main story. With everything warbound, do the side stuff on an alt until Loremaster. So much easier to keep track of what is happening.
I’ve been keeping up with the game so I’m not having any problems being confused… except about currencies.
Dragonflight, though? When I came back to that game late in its lifespan there were exclamation marks everywhere and no indicator what story order I should do things in. Still not a hundred percent sure what happened in various DF plotlines because I was all over the place as a returning player. Nightmare.