Oh thank goodness I wasn’t the only one having these issues.
How on earth did this get out of the PTR in this form? Match 5 in a row and it’s randomized? are you kidding me? I thought eventually it might start dropping more runes of the right color so just clearing enough of them out would just win you the quest and… no, they seriously expect you to plan an RNG base puzzle to line up 5 in a row.
This is just atrocious. I’m not bad at puzzles but this isn’t even really a puzzle, it relies sooo much on luck in order to get things to line up just right, there’s no real way except to just keep trying.
Oh and enemy players pulling mobs in to kick me out was just hilarrrrrious. After the 5th time I said eff it and hearthed.
Really, I’d just change the win condition to clearing the specific color 5 times. That’d be fine and would mean the quest could be done relatively quick. This is… this is just monstrously boring, unrewarding, far too reliant on RNG, and too easy to grief.
The funny thing is, the other puzzle quest that was up for me, uncrossing the ley lines, that was neat and enjoyable, I really liked it. This. This is just bad.
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To make things worse, if there’s PVP in the area, it literally knocks you out of the event. Happened 2 times to me just now. Worst WQ ever.
Yep worst quest idea ever. Even after I finally understood it, it still took forever.
Sadly, it has all got to do with RNG. Of all the stupid luck.
In no doubt unrelated news, Activision acquired King, the makers of Candy Crush, earlier this year.
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Dont do it if you dont like it. I had fun and it only took 3 minutes. Shame the game actually requires some brainpower to do 1, non mandatory thing.
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The developers of this game are getting more retarded then ever. Let them ban me for calling them retarded. The hell with them.
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this has to be the worse “quest” to long, annoying, lots of rng needed and sh!t reward
if you have the flight whistle unlocked you can use that and it kicks you out but dosnt fly you away
also, i got chum from it… nothing else… focking really
Not impossible but definitely requires one to think more than usual. I’m glad it’s this hard, actually something challenging and not mind numbingly boring.
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It’s an annoying quest, took me 20 minutes. in the end it was pure luck, I am pretty good with these types of games. But the RNG was bad. And the reward for the quest not worth the hassle. I end up skipping this kind of stuff if it remains this annoying.
What a silly world quest. Firstly its bugged and there are terrain clipping issues with its UI, second if you get in combat it takes you out of the game. Third, its completely fing RNG to get the 5 in a row. Serious SACK who ever though this was a good idea.
I’m colorblind, so it took me forever just to get someone to answer what icon I even needed, then spent about 20 minutes to get almost close, just to have a mob spawn and pull me out of it.
I’ve defended and accepted a lot of stupid decisions, but this WQ you can go screw yourelves with Blizz. Lol
** Edit ** I had someone tell me that the spear one was yellow, and spent all the time before this post up until right now trying to get 5 of them.
Finally I did, just to find out not only was I getting trolled with mobs, I got trolled on the color and spent all this time matching 5 green when I needed yellow.
FFS! Lmao
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Agreeing with pretty much everything else said here.
In concept, this could have been a fun WQ! I love match-3 games, and this has potential to be a fun quest to have pop up, but right now its so frustrating to be sat for ages trying to align the colours right only to have all your hard work go to waste or just simple not be able to make it work.
Please, PLEASE, Blizzard either make it so we just have to accumulate [X] amount of points, or something not as frustrating as this.
EDIT: I eventually managed to complete this after half an hour, being kicked out of the mini-game numerous times by hostile mobs dragged over, and can honestly say don’t even bother wasting your time until/if they make changes. 75 rep and an item for a mini-quest thing I’d already done. Rewards are not worth the hassle unless you get lucky with RNG and solve it within 5 minutes.
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As someone who is EXTREMELY colorblind, I would love if they would give shapes or rune identifiers. Simply saying “yellow” is not helpful what-so-ever.
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Over a simple quest that’s dumb they don’t care about your threats.
If you want to get out of the quest right click of the buff on you called Arcane Runelock. EZ
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This quest is only bad because its wording is bad. You don’t have to match 5 yellow matches in row. You just need a line of 5 yellows either horizontally or vertically, doesn’t matter. It did not take an hour. Just keep matching things to get enough yellows and do your best to find ways to group them correctly to get that 5-long rune match. It’s partly RNG and partly not screwing yourself over by matching things that cause a cascading problem. Also like others mentioned, just right click the buff at the top to leave.
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i’m pretty sure blizzard doesn’t test these things out, this is simply ridiculous, not to mention they forget to add a quit/exit button.
I’ve unsubbed 6 months ago, just came back and i’m already regretting.
it looks like you can constantly reload ui til it sets up 5 for you…I also found out that if your 5th one chains another match it doesn’t count as 5
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wait… if i knew this i woulda been done