I have been playing this game for a very long time I feel like this might be one of the biggest fails of a pre-patch I have ever seen. I understand tweaks will be made and it’ll get improved but this is just frustrating to see. This company has been around long enough to understand player base and wants/needs and seemingly just go the opposite direction for no reason. EVERYTHING about this patch screams downgrade. It looks like they went for a Lamborghini and just decided to put a body kit and wrap on a Ford Focus.
War-Bands | Sounds good on paper but it just doesn’t make sense to me. Only 4 toons? So we have to rotate toons in and out of it when we want/need certain resources? Why is it such a bad thing to just merge currencies like they do Trader’s Tender currency? Everything linked together once you have reached exalted or max renown on your main should unlock for all alts and not unlocked a week before a new expansion. The login screen legit feels like they downgraded from something that worked for many many years… Just simplify it and make the toon icons a tad smaller and a drop-down menu to swap between Alliance and Horde. The realm swap option being gone is a major flop. There are a lot of people with only a few toons who probably like/don’t care about the login screen issues but us Alt-aholics can’t stand it…
Sky-Riding | What the hell? talk about a downgrade… I personally LOVE dragon riding and enjoy the QoL change they gave us but Sky-Riding just feels like they took that QoL change and reverted in an annoying way. I do feel like this will be adjusted once they read the feedback but its a mess right now. I do a lot of farming in the world and swapping between Dragon-Riding and a normal flying mount to get to something rather close was so easy and simple. Now you force us to pick one or the other essentially with this ridiculous cast time to swap between the two? At the VERY LEAST make it swap from Sky-riding to normal flying instantly and a smaller cast time to swap back to Sky-riding… OR don’t make Vigor such a pain to manage when going from place to place in a relatively short distance? How about making the initial JUMP off the ground with Sky-riding free of Vigor cost? Unless I missed something I cannot see what Sky-riding mounts I can have a passenger on now and an option for that would be nice.
Menu Size | This is just annoying. The size of certain Edit-mode/Menus that can’t be adjusted atm is just irritating to me. It’s so blocky and big and RIGHT in your face. The options menu is so massive now its like they pumped it full of steroids and force you to stare at it while it flexes.
Spell Book | I feel like this is more of a minor issue than a problem and will just take a little time to get used to but once again is feels clunky and pointless. I don’t think anyone had an issue with the spell book the way it was before and it’s a useless change that makes everything more annoying to find? I know Blizzard just wants to make some small changes for the visual upgrades and to just mix it up but some things are better left untouched. No one really cared about it before and now its an issue and players just don’t like it.
Scaling | This seems to always be an issue with pre-patches and will get tuned eventually “hopefully soon” but frustrating once again none the less. I am working on the mage tower atm for the Spell-Tome mount and got the Twins Affliction Warlock challenge to 30% in about 15 attempts on Monday night and now I legit struggle with even reaching Phase 5 since pre-patch. Even with toons getting a slight stats buff its hard not to feel like it was a Nerf for farming older content. The Mage tower challenge isn’t extremely hard or anything but it certainly is a challenge that I really enjoy doing as I did quite a few in Legion but it feels very over-tuned atm.
Achievements | This one is the biggest issue/concern for me as I mostly play this game for collecting mounts these days and I have a lot of issues with achievements not being rewarded or some completely deleted from my characters. I am close to finishing Mecha-Done and A World Awoken after taking a break and have been waiting for a few weeks for the fishing weekly to appear to finish “Taking from Nature” and looking at my achievement progress I noticed that after the patch it REMOVED the progress of 2 of the 5 towards the achievement and I only needed 1 more. This is a weekly reset and at BEST I lost 2 weeks waiting once again for the correct fishing spot which is random luck and not on a rotation… I also lost all progress towards the achievement Hey Nanny Nanny as I had 4 out of the 5 whelps done and now I am sitting at 0 of 5 done. Blizzards typical automated response is “Post it on the Forums” or “Sorry we cannot help you” “It’s a known bug we’re looking into”. This doesn’t change or fix the problems but being forced to wait 2 more weeks at minimum “probably several more” to get this done is discouraging. I grinded sooooo much to get A World Awoken done before TWW so I can take a small break before launch and will most likely not get there. Some people probably see this as a small issue but for people who put a LOT of time into grinding these things for the mount its beyond frustrating!!
I enjoy playing wow and I know a lot of these issues are opinion based but from reading the forums and the insane /Trade chat its clear that people agree on most of these issues. I won’t stop playing or threaten to cancel my sub or anything I just wish/hope Blizzard makes some changes based on this MASSIVE amount of feedback from players.
