SPOILERS If you can call it that because almost nothing is done.
Underwhelming it is putting it oh so nicely.
Start off gathering reports from different nodes while maybe up to 6 ghouls attack lone friendly NPCs. Maybe a poorly done frost wyrm flies by once in a while to do a short inconsequential freeze on an NPC before it thaws and nothing changes… Why not have us cut through swathes of undead to reach each node, reconnecting supplie routes, gathering information, and taking key objectives to not get wiped out. Simply starting this event made me question if it was even worth my time at all… I mean why have us fly to around a long pointless path to wind up at the Barrens, only to do ONE simple easy quest that is no more than dotting up a few mobs. Then we fly back to org? LOL WHAT?! I feel like it was the devs saying “yo we don’t respect you or your time and want to waste 10 minutes flying around for fun”.
No quest chain for Nathanos… he was literally a world quest boss. You fly far to an inconvenient place for a quick world kill and a cut scene. Why not instance it, up the stakes more? Like what?
Going to argent tournament, doing 3 trivial tasks only to fly back to the argent area, fly to ICC, do another trivial time gated event, and fly back. All so you can unlock world quests in an old zone that is scaled up to give junk gear for alts I guess?
Have some pride… I can’t believe people got paid to come up with this. Algalon said it best after the Ulduar fight.
“I have seen MMOs bathed in their makers flames, their programming fading without so much as a whimper. Entire planetary systems born and razed in the time that it takes your mortal finger to strike a delete key. Yet all throughout, my own heart devoid of emotion… of creativity… I. HAVE. Felt. NOTHING. A million, million dev hours wasted. Had they all held within them some tenacity. Had they all loved WoW as we do?” - Algalon
There was a quest for Nathanos. You get it after getting the reports and coming back to your capitol. It comes from a different NPC though than the other quest giver and is easy to miss if piles of bodies are there.
The actual quest to kill him is how you get the cut scene.
Yes the event is pretty lackluster. The rares in ICC really should be up as soon as they die or within minutes of it and/or even drop all their loot. The whole thing is meant to throw catch up gear at toons and it sucks royally to sit around for 20 mins just to spam AOE attacks in a literal cluster of lag for a handful of scourge stone junk.
That is what pretty much killed it for me, not gonna even bother to do it with alts who need gears literally worthless since you are not gonna get geared by killing rare like you did in the legion pre-patch EASILY.
Not only this but the vendor who sell gear, DO NOT sell weapon, rings or trinkets, its a total joke and I regret wasting 150K gold to return to this, if I knew I would have waited until like 1-2 days before the expac release, I wanted to get all my alts to ilvl 100-110 before the expansion but RIP that idea I guess.
The “WORST” part of this is those rares are pathetically weak and their respawn rate is ridiculously long and as soon as they spawn the server LAG and seem to be dying and the rare is dead in like 5-10 seconds after some intense lag.
You know they could have made Frostwyrms fly around similar to the worms in N’Zoth invasion areas, freezing and knocking down people flying too high. That would have been quite brilliant.
