Sod was fun Phase 1, Phase 2 the raid was really yucky, now in Phase 3 we got Incursions, STV PVP, and nobody is out grinding dungeons. Its the endless loop of MIN MAXing the fastest way possible. I just don’t get why people think playing the game that way is fun.
I love the new abilities being injected into all the classes new raids is a really cool idea (except why Gnomer?); however the other stuff is taking away from why I liked SoD. Its starting to feel like its not for me.
That’s ok but it makes me sad. Its just training wheels to get you to buy the new expansion and get back into retail.
I agree with incursions. No one really asked for it, and its basically made it way harder forming lower level dungeons. No one is really questing above level 25 or running dungeons, at least in my experience.
If they wanted levelling to be faster they could have just kept the exp buff until level 50 without adding retail gimmick levelling catchups
I have a feeling that you are not mistaken. Classic and particularly SOD feels like a way for Blizzard to ease us into retail. Unfortunately, for most of us old timers, wow jumped the shark sometime around cata. I have tried retail and all it did was make me feel old. Like my old man trying to get the VHS player to work…. It just ain’t happening.
Its just grind Princess, or BRD and ZF for Wild Offerings killing the easiest bosses as fast as possible, skip all the trash you can. Gone are the days of just being stupid with some friends in Vent, Teamspeak, or now discord. ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM everyone its a job.
You can’t do a full BRD now. They have it partially locked down. Mara was very very rarely a full clear. ZF people are doing full runs because I’m seeing people wearing loot off bosses people don’t do for offerings.
I know that, But you can do alot of it. All anyone is doing is Arena spams, Skipping Roccor, The Houndmaster, the Inquisitor lady, heck they are not even going up to Pyromancer. The only reason they kill bosses other than arena is 2 exta for the wild offering.
The XP increase, does seem like they are funneling players more quickly to max-level. Incursions give repeatable, farmable max-level content which gives options for those who want to grind rep/gold but also want to maintain dual crafting professions, regardless of class or spec.
You can gain honor and rep through multiple paths now, including BGs, WPVP, STV, and the Ashenvale event.
I actually really like the STV Bloodmoon event, and think that that, and perhaps the level cap phases are some of the best parts of SoD. A lot of the rest of the stuff seems very frivolous, but it is a seasonal server, so while I’m enjoying it a lot, I also feel somewhat wrong for doing so!
no one can deny it