I’ve played WoW for a while, with long breaks. I came back to BfA after stopping in Legion during the Nighthold, because I was tired of the grind, and our raid leader desperately wanted 45 minutes to explain fights prior to even our first pull. It was a fun time, I can’t imagine why I left.
So I came back to BfA, and holy crap, the grind. I’ve gotten through all of the Legion content, most of the BfA content, exalting everything I can, and now going back to trying to collect mounts. I’m used to being in Fang’rila for the claw grind, and something I’ve seen happen over and over now is related to the Challenge Arena. I’m also there to get the lovely fel-corrupted apexis crystals, which means I do the totem summons to get 6 quick.
Why on earth has Blizzard not implemented instantiated summoning? I’ve seen a same-faction kill-steal a dozen times at this point. I’ve had MY summon stolen repeatedly, mostly by OTHER people who are Alliance - and to be clear, this is a waste of multiple things.
- The claws to buy totems (relatively small)
- The summoning
- The long cooldown
- Going back and buying more totems
There is an incentive, because of the cooldown at least, to steal kills. Why wouldn’t you, other than being not a giant jag? I don’t, but I’m not a giant jag, only a medium-sized jag. This is a pretty straight-forward thing, instantiate the summon, or make summons only taggable by you for X seconds. Most people can’t beat a macro, I expect most people don’t MAKE macros, because why should you need to (unless, again, you are a jagoff who steal summon kills, who will most definitely burn for eternity along with people who heckle comedians), and a tag window still lets others take the kill if you’re just having a goof.
To say nothing of “Why is there still a cap on content from 5+ years ago?”
This is PRIME griefing territory. You can macro the three summons and just sit there, auto-targeting and casting any number of instant-kill instant casts (Reaping Flames being my go-to, for any kind of attack right now). It is setup to be griefed, and people are just summon-stealing because Blizzard continues to permit it. So stop it. Don’t let people abuse others like this, it’s infuriating and has a simple solution (in terms of identifying what to do, not the actual development).