I know its early days but I feel really positive about patch 8.3, the one thing I don’t like (and really hope goes away in shadowlands) is the daily content cycle where if you miss a day there is no chance to ever catch up, you are forever gated behind the rest of the people in the race because of an arbitrary reset. Would daily quests that were repeatable if you fell a day behind or maybe compounding the rewards of daily quests so that if you skipped a day you would get double the reward for the day you missed be so bad? A sort of “rested bonus” for missing dailies?
I understand having daily content is good, missing daily content or feeling punished for not doing every single days worth of content is not great.
I know this problem is purely psychological, in the long run its not a big deal but I definitely felt pressured to rush through the content and do the daily vision or “forever be a day behind”… even though next week I will probably skip several days.
Open Question
Is this a design flaw or a character flaw I have?
I really worry about this FOMO mentality that gamers are developing. Sure, there are benefits to logging in every day and managing a character but unless you are in a top 100 world class guild, does it really matter if you aren’t in the first 5% to get a rank three essence or push the first +15 keystone of a new season?
People need to chill out. I mean that in the most “prioritize self-care and your own happiness / enjoyment of the game” way possible. They are absolutely not going to delete your character if you miss a round of dailies.
tl;dr - Character flaw, no offense intended. It’s just a game. You’re not being graded or held to a standard. Just have fun, play, and do what is comfortable for you.
No offence taken, I am old enough and comfortable enough now to accept my flaws.
Maybe my use of the word race was a trigger for you though, allow me to phrase it as a different metaphor, progress in wow is designed to be like a herd migration.
Everyone moving in the one direction, you have the pack leaders sure but every now and then us middle of the pack folk like to stretch our legs and run at our own pace, we are prohibited from doing that beacuse we are only allowed to run a certain distance everyday then the herd has to stop… any day we stop we fall further back in the pack and cannot make it back to our “place in the herd”.
That is the psychology I spoke about, it doesn’t matter that I am not leading the pack, its about traveling at my own pace and not feeling like I am locked behind where I would otherwise like to take myself… its a similar concept to playing alts, they are forever locked behind my main.
You are right. But since you’re right, that means a lot of folks should feel entirely comfortable to enjoy content on toons that are alts without cloaks or great gear or essences.
This. it’s not like they’ll be gone in a month. You’ll have time to go back and do whatever to get up to a similar level to your peers. You’re allowed to skip days. Unless you’re trying to get in the most bleeding edge of guilds that do the best of the best content the moment it hits live, what’s the point of pressuring yourself? It’ll be fine - you’re not going to be left in the dust if you take a few days, weeks, or month off.
So long as you do something that’s fulfilling, you won’t be wasting your time.
….Stopped reading the second you suggested doubling rewards if you missed a day. Seriously. If I call in to work should I get double pay the next day. I get it its not a job its a game but the point is. If you invest more time and are more consistent then another person… then you should reap more rewards. What you talk about is some hippy dippy bullcrap. You get back what you put in that is the way it is, and should always be.
unless you’re pushing mythic content, you can take plenty of breaks in between bouts of doing dailies, it’s not like the raid is balanced for a perfectly-geared and prepared player at normal or even heroic
What exactly are you missing out on? The new reps in 8.3 don’t even offer any meaningful rewards.
We’re only 2 days into the new patch and I’m already skipping dailies (kill 4 rares) that are stupid and time consuming. I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything.
Even casually, you will hit exalted eventually. It’s not a race, and I don’t see why people are grinding so hard for their reskinned mounts anyway lol.
My sense of FOMO is more tied to the wanting to be ready for raiding. I can’t be on Long enough some days to actually get all the things I need, done. So now I’m 2 days behind because my Tuesday and Wednesday are busy and I’m still on the intro quest for 8.3
Exactly, there is a social pressure that “this is the expected level you should be at”, its like if you are in a sports league and everyone else is having supplements (daily quests) which amplify the returns from training, sure you could train harder or accept that you will constantly let them down.
Its evident by the responses its more of a me issue though, the game is fine millions love it, I just need to find a game not locked into daily cycles if I cannot commit to a daily cycle I suppose.
You aren’t in a race with anybody, this low budget content with dailies and pseudo assaults can go burn in a fire but honestly, you aren’t racing anyone.
This is just a problem with perspective or lack there of.
I only get to play on the weekends with an occasional day that i can log on during the weekdays. I dont feel compelled to do dailies even when i do log in, but I also accept that I wont be the cutting edge player that so many are. I used to feel that way, but life threw me a curve ball a few years back and it is no longer possible. There are many times i simply forget what dailies are available and do other things instead that i do enjoy…like tending to my Garrisons ( i know, i know…)
The pressure only exists because you allow it to exist.
Back in Wrath, instead of having a “daily heroic”, they had a “run 7 heroics a week” kind of system. Letting folks have more control over when they did the “daily” heroic, vs being tied to the “1 per day” rate.
But they abandoned that pretty quickly. I don’t even recall if it survived Wrath itself, but at a minimum they never really repeated that kind of thing.
The problem with this system is that you can’t really readily apply it to random dailies. They’re simply not set up for that. Each daily would have to track how many each player did each day. The only thing we have that does that now, to a point, is the “reroll token” quest – which is actually two quests internally.
Now, WQs are different. Those are little more than dailies that spawn at different times. But once you do the WQ, it’s done. They just spawn them throughout the day vs the daily reset. But in the end, a WQ is just a daily. They just have a lot of them.