Not something I usually go out of my way to do but I’d like to speak my mind to the wow community, and this is the most easily accessible platform.
Apparently, Draenor and Legion pathfinders are no longer required for flying in the zones they were previously required for in shadowlands. Yay, great, that’s a positive change, nobody likes pathfinder achievements, I’m all for it. On top of that, I believe allied race rep requirements are being removed next expansion, which I’m more or less indifferent about.
However. I, and many others, spent many many many many hours grinding that content out to unlock those rewards. Now, I in no way expect to be compensated for doing this, as a matter of fact I think realistically these changes are healthy for the game, however, I’d like to open the door a bit wider on this, considering I don’t believe prior to this year anyone foresaw pathfinders being removed.
Find a way to re-introduce MoP and WoD challenge mode dungeons and rewards
I know what you’re saying, “B-but I spent tons of time in [Insert expansion] doing [insert activity] to grind that out!” But that exact same argument can be used with allied races and pathfinder, and to a lesser extent items on the BMAH.
I think that implementing MoP and WoD challenge mode dungeons would be the first step in solving what I consider this games biggest issue, the removal of content. I’m only talking exclusively about cosmetics in this thread, but game systems fall into this category as well. With timewalking scaling, I see no reason challenge mode dungeons from previous expansions can’t be re-implemented as an activity either to be done regularly or only during the timewalking weeks for their expansions.
My reasoning behind this is actually because I recently got one of my friends into WoW (he’s loving it btw), and I can tell that every time he says “Oh wow, how do I get that piece of armor that looks cool!?” or “Mannn, that guys weapon is really neat, where the hell do I get that?” (or anything like that) and I respond with “Can’t get it anymore.” he gets frustrated.
I had never really thought about that before, but I think he’s a part of a group that an enormous amount of players are in, in where they’re actively willing to do the things to get the items they want, but they physically cannot because it has been stripped from the game for sometimes arbitrary reasons (why is Molten Core anniversary event not active every year for returning players, another example).
On top of that, think about the hours of content you’re putting back into the game for absolutely no effort outside of figuring out the scaling for it.
Food for thought, I understand this would be unpopular for the people that actively pushed challenge dungeons when it was current, but frankly, I don’t really think the cons of pissing off people that are already always mad outweigh the positives of re implementing these dungeons, and other content like it. I’ll leave a small list below.
Old Naxxramas (This one I’m not as sure about, but maybe justify it because BMAH T3 sets can be worn by anyone of that armor type, so the old ones could be locked like normal? Use a timewalking NPC like in silithus/uldum to change the zone to have Naxx floating above)
WoW Anniversary Events
MoP Challenge mode dungeons and rewards
WoD Challenge mode dungeons and rewards
Mage Tower (Most asked for probably)