The state of this game is quite honestly embarrassing. New systems are quickly thrust upon players that aren’t fully finished and clearly not quality tested (at least not to the degree you would expect). The last boss of this whole tier, the Sha of Fear, has a fight-ruining bug where players can just completely afk on the platforms, trivializing phase 1 (and making the fight much more boring). I did a celestial dungeon yesterday and a hunter detonated 3 wind bombs after the boss died. One person lived and I saw them loot a sigil of power. I really needed 2 more of these for my sha touched gem, so I ran back through the whole dungeon only to find the boss despawned when I got there and I couldn’t loot the sigil. On raid day we wiped to the first boss of heart of fear and a player was permanently mind controlled after the fight ended. We had the player leave the instance group so they would get ported out and the fight could reset, but it didn’t work. We reset the dungeon and cleared all the trash again, only to find one of our players was locked to a different ID and we couldn’t change the difficulty back to heroic (because we had to put it on normal and have that player be the leader to enter the instance). This bug has also been in the game since cataclysm, it happened to us in firelands. Essentially my point is this: Blizzard clearly puts in the bare minimum amount of effort into classic and it’s getting quite old. The insane amount of bugs present in the game are quite frustrating, not to mention the fact they don’t implement obvious quality of life features that are present in retail, for example the postmaster.
I don’t expect blizzard to do anything about any of this, but I would love it if they would at least try to address some of the obvious issues. I guess it’s my fault for still playing their game.
TLDR this game is cool but it sucks blizz plz fix ty
What about tier tokens randomly vendoring for 50g, make them none vendor so its actually de-incentivizes people to need for the sole sake of vendor over people that can actually use for MS or OS. Literally had a hunter with 496 tier need the celestial tier gloves, wonder why. . .
I get the idea that you are frustrated mostly due to bugs, and it seems as though your experiences are exacerbating that.
This part has me wondering though…
Why not just play Retail? It has all the QoL features of Retail, and (as far as I know at least) a much, much larger development team to address bugs, etc.
It certainly isn’t in the greatest shape. For me the biggest thing where the game took a hit is just a total lack of communication. Listen… I don’t need specific dates, I don’t need to know every change that is going to take place, and I don’t need it to be an every day townhall chat. These are unreasonable expectations. What do I need from communication though? Big picture stuff. Do we plan on going to WOD? Is a Classic+ project in the works? Then when changes are going to happen can we get a little insight as to why? Then a reasonable follow up when those changes might need adjustment because they either went to far or not far enough? Really all you get is radio silence. Then once, at the most twice a week, you just get a blue post that just says bug here fixed.
Does it have other problems? Sure it does, but communication just a little bit can ease a lot of those problems. It lets them simmer down a bit. The silence is just a hot fire under the oil and its boiling over.
To me, personally, none of this matters whatsoever. Like, it just sounds like complaining for the sake of complaining. I get that you and others who echo this sentiment probably feel that this sort of communication would be of value to you, so I’m not saying it is meaningless complaining, I’m just saying that’s how it sounds to me.
My biggest issue(s) with MoP Classic at the moment are the same as I had with Cata, which was mostly that I had a schedule change, and it seems very difficult to find a consistent raid group that is progressing outside of prime raiding times (i.e. not Tue/Wed/Thu evenings).
Probably that I make my own raid group, or get better at finding groups would be a fix, I suppose.
I could maybe make a post complaining that a Saturday reset for Classic would work out better for me, and blame Blizzard that my own lifestyle choices prevent me from raiding Tuesday nights, but idk…
Ah yeah, well I think that makes a lot of sense. If you’re used to the polish and general QoL availability of Retail, and enjoy that, then I could easily see why you’d find frustrations with Classic, especially by the time we’re at MoP, and the game has become a lot closer to some of the QoL things, yet still isn’t quite there and then to top it off, it’s in a “Classic” mode where it has a maintenance crew that isn’t a primary developer team and likely doesn’t have the experience and/or bandwidth/resource pool to give it nearly as much attention as Retail gets from its team.
I don’t really mind the jankiness of the Classic team additions, though a lot of it is admittedly not up to par with what one would have expected from the original team at Blizzard that would sooner cancel a project than release something less than exceptional, but it’s also difficult to defend it from frankly justified complaints such as yours.
By the way if any classic wow developers read this, my intention is not to throw shade at you! I understand you are doing the best you can with the tools you are given. My issue is with blizzard and how they clearly don’t devote enough resources to the classic team so that it can thrive. I hope that all the classic developers keep doing their best for this game that I enjoy.
