I just watched MrGM’s overview of the “Dastardly duos” 6-week PVE event coming to 11.1.5 and it is:
-Cross faction
-Queueable from NPCs in multiple locations
-Most importantly, one TO five players, with NPC followers filling out the group if needed!
It’s a boss rush mode, just a great idea for alt catch-up gear (Most of the rewards appear to be warbound) and I am SO happy to have another thing to do with my group of friends that rarely has 5 people online at once, plays alts on both factions, and just wants to leap right in!
The only thing missing from a blissful perfection here (aside from the 6-week duration, I’d love for this to be permanent) is the ability to slot my alts into the NPC follower roles that fill out a group smaller than 5 in this content, but I can wait for that! It’s apparently on the workbench for at least follower dungeons!
I wish the dungeon queue would fill in empty slots if we want to.
Just put a check box in there…“Im ok playing with followers” on the dungeon queue and if its taking too long just fill empty slots.
Half hour waiting on a tank the other day so I just got out of queue. Wasted time.
I mean, is there really a demand for live random players if you’re ok with followers? I have not queued for a single normal mode current dungeon since I returned FOR follower dungeons back when they were put in in dragonflight. Why ever queue at all if you appreciate followers?
I mean, I know not everyone is me, I just can’t relate to the idea of “let’s try for randos, maybe we can squeeze some abuse-from-strangers in before I just take the insta-queue of followers!”
Archaeology’s been dead for almost a decade, right? I saw some sites in BfA content (that took me forever to figure out why there was a giant orange region on my map), but none beyond that. I don’t think anyone I’ve come across in game actually enjoyed it.
Followers are stupid. I appreciate the concept, but the execution is lacking. The tank casts Flash of Light on everyone if they’re low rather than sticking to her role. They stand in bad and pull extra stuff instead of actually doing what their name suggests and “following.” Their DPS is abysmally low. Don’t get me started on follower Dawnbreaker. That was so bad it was hilarious.
Awesome sauce, more content with scaling group sizes would be great. You know how many couples play this game and don’t want to pick up three randos? Or even groups of 3/4 who would otherwise love M+ dungeons but don’t want some random toxic pug killing the vibe. Solo with npc teammates is also a good business decision, increases the market significantly.
