Make Knowledge Point Weekly Quests Continuous Until the First Week

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I took a break from WoW for 3 months because I was slaving away at the time-gated content constantly looking to do everything I wanted to do before that week was missed and I would never be able to get those knowledge points ever again.

This problem right here, needs to be fixed.

I don’t know what’s changed since I left, but in case it’s the same as it was before where you miss out on a week’s worth of knowledge points, gone forever if you don’t do them: Please let us continue these quests for however many weeks we missed.

So if you completed one set of weekly knowledge quests, the ones from the previous week and so on and so forth that you missed will immediately pop up to be done next and you can do them continuously in one day so to speak until you hit the first week they became available.

After having completed all of the accumulated weeklies you missed you will then need to wait each week to do them like everyone does now. Or alternatively wait several weeks and then do them all when you feel like it. The same should go for any other weekly/daily quest like reputations.

This way players won’t be stuck behind the wheel of this time-gated nonsense for current content getting FOMO left and right where they have zero chance to catch up to the present playerbase in terms of knowledge points etc. The time-gating was the whole reason I left, for the sake of my own sanity.

There’s no reason not to do this, the same amount of what is acquired from one person grinding all the weeks they missed would be the exact same as another person who didn’t miss a single week to do them.

Until this happens, I’m taking a major backseat from the current expansion for a long while. I have old world content to keep me busy and do at my own pace.

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While I sympathize with your point, it’s not going to happen.

FOMO is an individual player psychological problem. Yes, the developers take advantage of people’s lack of self-control, but it all comes back to you. If you feel like you ‘need’ to finish something because otherwise you would miss it, that’s on you and no one else.

I recently took a vacation where I was totally unplugged for two weeks. No WoW. No phones (other than the camera). No e-mail. No news. It was incredible. And coming back to the game and life confirmed that I do not need to worry about Blizzard’s, or anyone else’s, attempt to guilt me with FOMO. It does not matter. I can play and work on whatever I want to and if I ‘miss out’ on anything, great; maybe next time.

Daily and weekly limitations have been in game with the same functionality regardless of applicable type of content since its original release. Your request would break that paradigm completely. To be fair, the catch-up system in place already allows you to do it just at a slower pace. Missed that one week gathering quest turn-in, just farm more nodes or skin more creatures. Missed that weekly crafting WO quest, wait for the applicable profession catch-up WOs to spawn. Yes, it takes longer. But it is there.

Catching up is also a multi-faceted problem that combines game systems with individual perspective.

Yes, the weekly limitation on gathering KP means you are in real terms behind those who have not missed any quests, work orders, and so forth from the beginning.

But because the system has an established end point, every KP you gather brings you measurably closer to that end point, and proportionately closer to those who are ahead of you. You are catching up even though it does not feel like it.

And has been repeated ad nauseum since DF and the introduction of the new profession system, you don’t need to be maxed for the entire profession to make gold, or make gear, or any of the thousand other reasons people have advanced other than a feeling of ‘being finished.’ Directed, targeted KP investments can enable you to do the rest of it within a couple of days to a week. Not to the same extent, but still there.

All that said, I still think that starting with the x.1 patch the KP rate gain should increase, and be further increased at the x.2 patch. The limitations should also be removed when the next expansion releases. But that is a different though related topic.

If you don’t like how the current system is designed, don’t engage with it. As you pointed out, there is plenty of other content in WoW that fits your mindset better. And avoiding what you don’t like is also a signal to the devs that maybe they need to re-look at how something is designed.

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I mean, there’s only X number of places to put the points, so you’ll catch up regardless.

I started late, and I’m sitting pretty good on my knowledge points.

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The KP catch up system does increase the farther you are. You’ll notice that when you are 20 or so points from catching up you’ll get 1 kp daily patron orders. When you’re 30 you get 2 of the 1 kp orders. I literally just started my third tailor the other day and it went from being 200+ points behind to 150 points or so in just a few weeks. It’s not that much to do. You just hop on, do the patron orders that give KP, done! You didn’t even need to sweat if you missed some, that catch-up has got your back.

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