Nothing is more annoying than needing an addon/WeakAura, or looking it up on WowHead to see when an in-game event is about to start next.
I’m not sure if it would really be very difficult to include this information into the base-game, but surely it could be added to the NPC dialogue as a bar or timer on the NPC in charge of whatever event you’re waiting for. Similar to the boat timer at the docks which they added in this very expansion?
I’m standing next to Soridormi waiting for a Time Rift event to start and just realized how silly it is to need a 3rd party way to find this information out immediately.
6 Likes
Every hour on the hour.
I agree with you about the timers, should be more obvious in game.
An itchy sweater is worse though.
If you hover over the horn icon on the map, they will usually tell you when the next event starts.
The only one I had problems with though is the soup… it had a weird schedule.
3 Likes
That is correct and even the soup timer is visible when the mouse is over said area of an opened map. So, to the OP it’s all already in the game, you just didn’t know where to find it!
2 Likes
Are time rifts, emerald dream surges, dragonbane keep, primalist future for sure on the map? If so I did not see these events.
I knew about the centaur hunts being on the map with those like horn icons, but I’m pretty sure you only really see these things when the events have already commenced.
I think there are way too many timed events. You have to have a spreadsheet to keep track of them and even then they overlap so you can’t make them all. It also makes queuing difficult, as your BG or dungeon may make you ten minutes late. I don’t have an issue with these types of world events, they can be fun, but EVERY faction, EVERY patch?
Yeah this is my main point. I wish there was a nice UI or even just NPC dialogue with timers or bars to help me plan out these events in the world.
Having icons strewn on the world map with events that are already ongoing rather than some kind of UI to tell me when the event is starting in say 42 minutes is no comparison.
WeakAuras and addons for this issue wouldn’t exist if it was something that was already organized and displayed in the base game.
I would rather they just never do these events again. It is miserable gameplay to try and work your life around being on a certain time.
Yeahhh, timed events on long hours apart timers is jarring when planning and organizing what you want to do. I don’t know why they can’t make some of these event timers shorter.
10,000% agree. Nothing is more annoying than needing to be IN THE ZONE to see if an event is starting soon or running. (or yeah, relying on an addon or tab-out-and-google/wowhead.)
This should be a page in the adventure guide, really. All events everywhere with starts-in/at.
2 Likes
Well, maybe the centaur camp migration event where I have to be out of the zone to see if it is starting soon.
(I’m not entirely sure if I’ve done it even once in all of season 3 because it’s such a mess to remember to schedule it into my day)
Overall, I’m glad they have added info that wasn’t there at launch when we were fumbling around trying to come up with mnemonics to remember whether things spawned on even hours or odd, at the top or bottom of the hour.
they are group content so figure they need to force people to play at the same time or there won’t be enough people for each event and they are right about that but I would rather they didn’t put group content in the outdoor world. The reason I stopped raiding is because I hated having to be on at a certain time and now they made 70% of the game to be that.
1 Like
The horns are on the map all the time for me.
As for the event timing, I have just gotten into a pattern and can get the current ones done in an hour and 15 minutes. I usually handle the Suffusion Camp in between those times. As an open world player, that pretty much covers my play time for the week. Some weeks, I’ll run multiple characters through the events. Though, I haven’t done Dragonbane Keep, The Grand Hunt or Soup for months now.
1 Like