Island Expeditions - awful experience

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Where is this? I looked and never saw them acknowledge the EXISTENCE of this.

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It was pinned but I’m assuming they got the feedback they wanted since it’s no longer there. If you go into my profile and into my summary, you’ll see the topic under my “top replies”. Just ignore my anti-alliance propaganda from my other top replies.

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Lol that’s about right. I like island expeditions but…ya… the RNG is rough. Yiu should at LEAST get 1 dubloon per run.

As a compare, even that fishing game at the elementary school fair you get something every time you cast your line. ;).

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IE aren’t perfect, but to be honest, I have a lot more fun in those than warfronts or assaults.

Any piece of content you’re grinding out for a reward is going to suck if the RNG gods aren’t favoring you. And sometimes it’s just the decision of the devs to say this reward is going to require this much work. Did 10 Tanaan pet bosses yesterday for corrupted stones. Usually get a 1 in 3 drop on those. Got 1 in 10.

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Off topic but lol at this bug

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I’m one weird lookin void elf!

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I hope they do. There is not much reason to play WoW on your free times. ANd the island expeditions feel like a waste of time; especially since Azerite is just around for the expansion versus a lasting reward like gold : / Your azerite will not mean anything in 2 years and that makes it feel bad imo.

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Just curious:

Do you have the ship perk “get more doubloons from Island Expeditions”?

Oh, NM.

That is weird, I have 26 and have only done maybe 2? This is all before 8.1. I believe I had the ship perk before I did any. So it looks like I’d be able to at least get the hat very rapidly, but not if people are saying they are getting NONE.

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The entire purpose of the RNG and every other crap feature that goes along with it is to increase participation in islands. This way they can point at a chart and say “see they like them”

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The thing is, if the rewards were on a vendor and I got a guaranteed amount of currency from each IE, I would do MORE of them. I am doing all of the WQs and other content that reward the 7th legion medals because I want that mount and I feel like I’m making steady progress. I gave up on IEs because it felt like I was getting nowhere and there was nothing I could do to increase my chances.

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That is the real problem, they assume it will increase islands played, when it really just makes you not want to do them anymore.

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Well … RNG?

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Island Expeditions are garbage tier content. Since the beginning of the xpac I’ve won 2 pets, 2 treasure maps for the mission table and 3 quests that reward some azerite.

My friend has won so many pets and mounts that she sends me all multiples. They’re a massive waste of time unless you have luck on your side.

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THIS.
Seriously. I want to make progress on my goals every time I log in, 7th Legion service medals give me that progress. Invasion’s up? +5 medals, go get 'em. Emissary is Alliance War Effort and I’m 2k rep from a paragon cache? +20 medals, good job! It’s almost like players like deterministic, currency-based reward systems. Who coulda guessed?

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What really irritates me is that not only did normal pre patch seem to reward more than M does now, but that M now is giving abysmal rewards in all ways, and heroic seems to be doing better for me. i got TWO dubloons for 3 m’;s on my mage this week, and my other 3 chars i did islands on did h and got alot more. infact, one of them got like 36… just make them a win only condition to avoid afk farming them, and set a min of like 2 per normal 5 per heroic and 10 per m, or idk something else, and go with it and allow it to go as high as … idk as high as you want honestly, that albatross is 1000.

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I agree. There is no reason why there cannot be at least a small guaranteed drop as reward for taking part, the same as getting a small amount of gold from a dungeon boss. Then there needs to be a chance of getting extra in the satchel.

Their ideas of reward-for-effort occasionally stink.

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Yep, and not sure why it chose randomly to post that on my druid which is a measely 110, instead of this char, but it won’t let me change it so… gj on that user interface :frowning:

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To late did blizzard learn that trying to cater to everyone means you cater to no one.

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I was wondering the same thing myself recently tbh.

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I firmly believe IEs were created as an experiment for the upcoming mobile version.

Srs.