Im just getting through all the fresh 60 stuff. The questing through the expac was decent. Not looking forward to pushing alts through it. Same Path every time. Unless they increase the exp on world quests and what not, You either do the chain to 59 then the alternate path to 60. Or Get a dungeon spam group.
Once at 60, there was a lot of busy work. It just felt like busy work though. Torghast, which I was hoping that I would enjoy, doesnt quite tickle my pickle yet. It just feels like a maze of trash clearing that gets easier the more powers you get. (Good Powers Though) I had a run with lame powers, and it was a slog. But without gear, or cosmetics or things that drop and give that endorphin hit, it feels hollow. Just Run it for your soul ash, and call it a day. The replayability of the tower is both there, and not there. Without tangible rewards, and just soul ash to grind, its just a chore.
World quests, chests, and the covenant call to arms things are all well and good. The rewards for doing them are good for the effort. Right now, with a lower ilevel, the zones feel dangerous and fun to navigate through. That will go away in as ilevel goes up.
The Maw. I like it and dont like it all in the same vein. Wolf form makes it tollerable, but a slower class I can already see feels miserable. The mob density isnt bad for the most part. The eye of the Jailer feels lame. It fills up pretty quickly, so once you get it filled, it cuts a chunk off what there is available to do for the day.
The dungeons I have ran, were fun. They seem a little on the short side. Which will be good for M+ runs I guess. Though with the loot drop nerfs, We will have to spam a lot of them. And the desire for a Rogue Cloak of Shadows will be in every Run, as there are some great skips there. There are some nice lock port skips as well.
Soulbinds and Conduits are nice, but the conduit swapping charges, make you less inclined to try out different builds and paths. It just slows it down and adds a unfun element. I was previously worried about them being unbalanced, and that is still there a little bit, but I dont think soulbinds or covenants will matter much up through heroic raiding and sub +16 keys. So im fine with that.
In summation, I think this expac has a lot of chores, but thats really all it has. You have a plethora of bars to fill up with a currency. And each currency needs to be gotten in a different way or doing a different chore. All the currencies and reasons to get them, feels too much like 8.3 of BfA. Farm a currency, to get a currency, to access a way to get another currency, to upgrade a legendary, to make it so you can grind a currency for player power (Corruptions). Call to arms, are emissaries.
Its a lot of tasks, with less rewards at the end of them. Lowering how much gear drops doesnt increase the replay value. It just makes it feel less rewarding. And for gearing multiple specs on a toon? Forget it. 1 piece of loot per M+ clear for the group. Want to get DPS and Healing Trinkets? Or melee weapons and caster weapon? Going for that shield so you can try tanking? Good luck.
Torghast is the fleshed out idea of visions, just with the loot taken out from the end of a run. They are fun, but after a couple, my desire to run them plummeted. As nothing I did while I was in them came with me. (Except 1 troop for my mission table.) Getting the troop was the highlight. Other than that, once you exit and lose all those fun/op powers AND have nothing but some soul ash to show for it, it feels hollow.
I have barely started the legendary grind. I see myself getting 1 maybe 2 per spec and most likely calling it a day. Its also going to feel bad, when that 1 drop for the group on a M+ run is for a slot that the person who can use it has their legendary. Unless you only run with 3/2 combos, which I suspect will be the group makeups.
3plate-2cloth
3cloth-2plate
3leather-2mail-ect.
That way, once people have a legendary on, if they get that slot to drop, they can pass it to someone rather than vendor.
I have rambled on long enough. My feelings right now, is that there are plenty of things to do, they just feel hollow doing them.
