I also love how blizzard arranged the main quests to give you what you need to know, with additional stay and listen’s to expand it, but put most of the exposition in side quests.
Liking the gear so far.
Delves seem great!
Dagran.
Some of the Elite specs are giving me great story beats to explain them on my toons…
I’ve enjoyed some of the new factions, namely the Kobolds. Chive is my personal favorite side quest so far and Skitter was too cute. Learning about this trash mod that’s been around since level 5 of vanilla for most has been cool. Turns out their was more to them than “You no steal candle.”
Also, skyriding has been nice, I just completed the Pathfinder last night but still only use skyriding. The zones are sprawling and beautiful for being so far under the planet.
Warbands, talents, flying at launch.
The dungeons are funny and I like them because they are filtering bads. Bad at sky riding? Welp you hate Dawnbreaker. Bad at mechanics, positioning and afraid of the dark? Welp you hate Darkflame Cleft. Bad at letting someone else lead and taking directions or bad at leading others? Welp you hate City of Threads. Irrational fear of spiders? Looks like you hate Ara Kara. Bad at moving your feet? You do not like Priory then.
Glad I bought a token. Even the cheapest of new items were an upgrade at 70, Id would have had to go backwards post the lol-lvling. I’m enjoying myself.
I’m not going to defend rude people, and the solo dungeons we have now aren’t that objectionable (and was actually useful on the beta). But at it’s roots, this isn’t a single player game; essential to the foundations of an MMO is that you do challenging stuff with other people.
To do otherwise is kind of like playing chess without taking turns; you’ve basically made it into something else.
That said, it’s your 15 bucks a month, so you do you!
Also, some of the models (including that First Ascended model), are some of the cooler mob models they’ve made in the past 3-4 expansions.
Some people have been so “picked on”, in life and online, that even polite disagreement (which is what happened) can feel like an attack. Now she’s rage flagging.
Oh well. Whatever makes them feel strong, I guess.
Since we’re listing stuff we liked, I’ve noticed PVP has been… good enough, I guess, to be cautiously optimistic about the upcoming season.
What’s confusing about it? I picked it up the first time I did it on normal.
You run up, get on the ship, fly off it to 2 other ships, fly back. Engage boss, fly off when she does explosion like VanCleef in Deadmines, fly back, repeat, she dies. Put bombs on the bug boss, dodge green wave. Fly down to each mini boss, kill them, fly to bug, kill bug.
I messed the order up, but whatever. Literally just follow the tank.