Just my opinion and feedback on Nazjatar :
Nazjatar is currently my least favorite zone Blizzard has ever made, and by far.
- The terrain. I thought Blizzard would have learned their lesson from Argus, but evidently, they didn’t. The terrain is incredibly frustrating to deal with. The entire zone is densely packed with mobs, and even elite mobs. Dazing becomes a real problem, so I should just use the new mount equipment to prevent dazing, correct? Well there’s also water too, the entire south side of the zone is covered in it. It’s a choice of dog puke or dog crap.
This is a little nitpick, but i did find it annoying that I had to do a quest chain to unlock the flight master whistle for Nazjatar. The quest chain was short enough to where it was bearable, but still, Mechagon just let us use it for free, and Mechagon is the one where I don’t need it as much.
I go to an icon on the map, and rarely ever find what I’m looking for. It could be underneath me, it could be above me, it could be in a cave. All the vertical terrain makes it incredibly frustrating to find what I’m looking for.
- The quests are absolutely horrendous. The requisition quests are almost all annoyingly frustrating or grindy. We all know how awful the 10 angel scale starfish was. Or the 3 nazjatar rares, you know, rares that die within a minute of spawning. That seems like a quest much more suited for mechagon, where we have jetpacks, a much more flat terrain, and the rares yell when they spawn.
Also, what’s the deal with some of the daily quests not telling you where to go? No map icon and no directions in the quest text? Do I really have to WoWhead them all? Or do you expect players to be happy to explore this zone? Because I surely do not. Especially when all the quests are incredibly uninspired and just seem like timesink chores.
I personally don’t mind the jumping jellies or the line minigame to unlock the chests. But I can see how these are very frustrating for some players.
- Phasing is incredibly annoying. For all these collection quests, there’s nothing more frustrating then finding what you need, and they running up to it only to watch it disappear.
And it feels bad that I go to a quest, only to see dozens of other people from realms i’ve never even heard of all tagging the same mobs I need.
- Finally, the rewards are abysmal. Almost all the rares drop little reskinned pets, which if you don’t care about pets, it’s not really worth the hassle.
Moreover, why do quests that take half an hour only reward 50 rep? The most frustrating quests are the least rewarding, it makes no sense.
The only real reward seems to be benthic gear, but getting the pearls to upgrade it seems miserable right now.
Final thoughts: I didn’t mind pathfinder, but when you lock it behind frustrating zones like Nazjatar, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I will never enjoy Nazjatar because of my first impressions of it. I don’t care about anything related to Nazjatar, be it story, the meta achievement mount, pets, etc. Even with flying, this place has already been ruined for me.
PS: My tab button is broken
PSS: I forgot to mention that the PVP event is really boring. It’s like tol barad where you capture points around the map, and just kinda defend them for 20 minutes. It’s incredibly unbalanced, and there are very few alliance doing it. This sucks for both sides, because in order to get rewards, you need to kill someone on the other faction. It’s very possible that horde will not see a single alliance during the event. And alliance are just very outnumbered. It’ll only get worse every week too, as less and less alliance will even bother. Also, why is there no countdown for the event?
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