Can Blizzard explain how me sitting in Booty Bay for hours on end doing nothing so I can go to Naxx tonight is ‘gameplay.’
Rend and ZG are drying up, another 3-6 months and it’s going to be nearly impossible to obtain these buffs.
Running around spending hours collecting world buffs is why I unsubscribed last time. It’s such a huge time waste to sit in Booty Bay for hours. Not even playing the game, just logging in and spending hours waiting, doing nothing. Unfortunately raids require it for Naxx.
World buffs used to require hundreds of warlock alts in order to gain each buff before the others expired. Also, you couldn’t play your character between then and raid day. Chronoboon made World Buff meta permanent instead of Blizz just removing the clearly unintended and never-seen-in-actual-classic level of degeneracy of stacking world buffs.
I hope this supposed new “fresh” is no-boon and wipes buffs upon entering instance. We really need a freak-unfriendly version of vanilla.
Why, tons of people out leveling right now, I level in a traditional way like normal non sweat players and am having fun. There are countless players out there doing the same who’re not using boosts or anything hacky.
If this were so then only select people would end up with the heads / heart. Sounds crazy, but its actually better this way because it spreads the wealth.
Some will say that only sweats re-roll making new characters or that all the rerolls just boost, but I level characters the old way without boosts and in reasonable timelines without any fancy tricks or gimmicks because its fun. There is a large community of players who do the same, many I have leveled with a few times, even leveled with Styles once; he use to frequent the forums more but alas SoD has taken him from us. RIP.
I think it would be fine if the game was super populated.
But player base has been dwindling like crazy since SoD came out.
Adding repeatable world buff quests would get more geared players into ZG, which helps new players. It would get more players into UBRS, which helps new players.
I just see legitimately zero downside to just making them repeatable.
What’s the point of having people sit afk in BB for hours every week…
Repeatable is a bad play, but on a 2 month CD would be an acceptable compromise. However…
… this is the best solution imho. Remove the debuff limit as a slight balancer, but no world buffs in raids, man! Then we can all stop acting so silly about them
How come you have to afk in BB for 3 hours by the way? My experience is on a small server so when we want the buff, we just go out to ZG Island, drop the heart, and then carry on. I seem to recall when I was on Mankrik, this was organized, so you could just head out when the buff was going to drop and move on.
So I don’t quite understand this part. It definitely doesn’t sound fun though!
I’m on Whitemane and it’s pretty rare for people to say “Dropping ZG buff in x minutes.”
Sometimes a guildy will pay for one and let everyone know, which is usually 1,000 gold. But beyond that you’re just kinda left to sit in BB and wait for a random one to drop.
Really? That’s nuts man. Again, I haven’t played on the main clusters in a while but on Mankrik it would just be on some known schedule. So when you wanted buffs, you just made sure you were there at the appointed time.
Come play on Grobbulus, way better over here! If you don’t mind farming your own stuff and mostly hanging on a quiet, dead server
World Buffs always needed to be deleted. Instead they got supercharged. WBs are a big part of the reason why Warriors are 2,000 dps ahead of non-rogues, which would be obvious to Blizz if they would simply have read the buffs or even just the logs from SoM.
They were never intended to be used this way, and it completely ruins the balance and experience of the game. Meanwhile, it’s 2024 and you have to pay a guy on the opposite faction cash to MC Cap you at the Crossroads so that you get Rend. Complete clown company.
