It was poorly communicated. You didn’t really tell us there’d be an unlock for them. So OK you’ve done this better.
It didn’t feel linear or clear. I had to go digging for what I needed to do AFTER I thought I’d completed everything and didn’t get them. I remember others on the forum saying this at the time as well. Just make it very clear. You might want to consider giving race-unlock quests their own icon.
It was packed in with a lot. Here’s what I remember from the launch of TWW: First, scramble to level cap. Second, scramble to unlock the Earthen. Three, scramble to hit Conquest cap. I don’t think this was helped by the lack of clarity with the unlock questline.
Unlocking them is fine. I think I’d prefer the old way where you just got a Core race, and went through their starting zone. But if we’re going to have to unlock a feature that we pay for, then could you make it fairly straightforward?
There was literally an achievement that told you everything that needed to be unlocked. All you had to do was track that achievement and the subsequent achievements and you were gold. There was also several walk-through guides, including a video that someone had done during the beta run. I had them unlocked in less than six days because I already knew what to do during the early access and had to wait for the campaign.
Hopefully the racials are at least better than the rock-eaters. Although, not being able to play them from the start of the xpac really lowers the chance I’ll bother to roll one
It was just a string of side quests around Isle of Dorn. If you were paying attention, the applicable ones had a little badge that labeled them as part of the Earthen Unlock quests.
I thought the Earthen unlock was simple. Every quest involved had that it was part of the unlock in its text and they were just stories accomplished while completing the zone.
Real pain was unlocking the mechagnomes back before the producers got rid of the reputation requirements. The content was fine, but figuring out where to start the quest and what to do next was terrible. There were several times where the internet had two or three different answers. I’m glad they finally cleaned those first allied race quest-chains up because half of them were a complete mess.
It’s going to be funny if they don’t unlock season 1 and people have to wait til season 2. I’m here for the forum outrage.
Also really hoping their druid forms are cool. We kinda got to see a purple catform during one of the cinematics and personally I thought it looked goofy. Here’s to hoping what we get is eye catching.
Doesn’t really change the fact that I thought it was simple and straightforward. I don’t don’t speak for anyone else though. I just simply do every quest that I can find in a zone and unlock these things naturally.
I hope if there is time gated quests for them, that this is communicated in advance.
Its was very frustrating with the earthen as it wasnt said ahead of time, and then the communication post release was very poor for when the quests would come out.
The “poorly communicated” part was that we didn’t know that they wouldn’t be available week 1, nor did we know there would be a questline requiring rep, and everything else. We thought we’d get them with the expansion.
