I went into the Dragonflight prepatch planning to do it with 1 alliance and 1 horde character to see the story and upgrade their trinkets.
What I actually ended up doing: playing those 2 chars and upgrading their trinkets, also running those 2 characters through Legacy of Tyr for weapon upgrades, playing through the Dracthyr start zone and making a Devastation Evoker, getting 3 more chars in full 252 gear, getting an additional 4 characters that I will probably never play upgraded weapons and rings/trinkets, collecting all the transmogs from the event, and farming the mats for the heirloom.
It probably helped that I hadn’t actually played any WoW in months, but overall I enjoyed the prepatch event. The catch-up gear was useful for alts, the Dracthyr start zone was interesting and fun, the dungeon was good and provided useful upgrades for a super casual like me, and the cut scenes were well done and set up the story for Dragonflight. Good job Blizzard!
Shhhh you might wanna keep the good jobs to yourself… this here is the GD xD
But honestly, I’ve been really enjoying it as well.
Spent a lot of time in the invasion points, got all the collectables. Been min/maxing my evoker. I really don’t see all the complaints.
This is the best part of it, for sure, imo. I got my heirloom trinket, which is nice, and ran the dungeon a couple of times, but the main reason I’m fully invested in this expansion is the story.
And I haven’t cared about the WoW story since…well, Cataclysm. It’s not just a coincidence that Cata was the last major dragon-themed expansion, and that DF looks like it’s going to bring dragons back into a prominent and powerful position within the story.
So…as long as the story proceeds in a satisfying way, I will be very happy with this expansion.
I think there are some valid complaints out there, and probably things that need more tuning. I’ve just reached a point where I don’t expect or demand that the game be perfect. Blizzard has always constantly worked to improve their games, so I’m confident they’ll take care of any major issues. As long as I can have fun a few hours a week, that’s all I ask now.
The pre-patch event was pretty boring and low effort, but it worked for what it was. Easy to gear up long neglected alts by chain spamming invasion bosses.
I liked it! The evoker starting area is beautiful and has me excited to see the rest of the dragon isles. The actual invasions were just okay. I liked legions more I think but it’s because of the colors and enemies we were fighting. lol playing uldaman again is super cool too. I even liked speaking to everybody on the Stormwind docks!
I personally wasn’t bored - I mean it’s a prepatch designed to introduce the xpac and to gear alts. Was very similar to the Legion invasion prepatch. Been away since around 9.1.5, popped back in, got 9 alts to 60 and reasonably geared. The Dracthyr storyline was enjoyable. And having the prepatch run alongside the 18th anniversary event made it even better.
No telling how the xpac will play out but I think Blizzard did a decent job here.
I agree there wasn’t a ton of content to it, but I’m okay with that. I wasn’t looking for something to keep me busy for multiple hours each day. I don’t have that kind of time to play any more.
I just wish there was more to it. Something like an optional or skippable questline (after the first time) that kind of goes into what’s been going on on Azeroth for the last 3 years, or finding out primalist cults and how their influence is spreading.
Something with a bit more player interaction to. Maybe something like there being buff stones at invasion points and when you use them, players become more powerful in that invasion site, but other invasions elsewhere in the world become more powerful. Or maybe something like you can give yourself over to Razageth during invasion and become the invasion boss yourself. Just some silly non-canon fun like the undead invasion where you could be a zombie for a bit. I dunno, just spitballing.
Did you run Uldaman more than once on each character? I went in as DPS and never had to wait more than about 5 minutes, but I just ran it once per character. I heard there might be something in place to give priority queueing to those working on the quest, but after completing the quest the queue times became horrible.
ya i had some crazy ques were i never got in and left que. idk people said the que was buggy it might of been. your on horde to might of been better on that side who knows.
