Anyone have any ideas on how to improve Theatre Troupe events so that they are less… boring and pointless feeling? Not saying that this would be taken into account by blizz, I feel fairly confident they wont be changing/improving it, just curious what ideas are out there.
Or maybe some people enjoy it in comparison to DF events, and if so what about it do you like more?
World events… Going back through all the attempts in DF they always had their issues. I think any suggestions need to take the issues of DF into consideration - but with that said regardless of any of the problems with DF world events, every single one of them felt more worth it, engaging and long lasting than this theatre troupe event. Some lasted longer than others - but the theatre troupe has basically felt pointless since TWW launched. Its worth it for the weekly quest for the bountiful key, the achiev for participating in all the different ones (while you still need those) and that’s about it.
Once you unlock your little dwarven/earthen? friend, you can just stand around and click him each time he spawns and finish the event that way - not participating at all… Just an observation…
My personal feeling is the lack of any loot or drops from the final boss gives and throughout the event gives the impression that this was a half-hearted/lazy attempt in the first place, they don’t really care that it sucks and don’t intend on improving it. Regardless of how little effort you as a player had to put into DF world events, you at least had a farm/grind for all drops or a potential upgrades. I am not saying they were all as a whole more engaging - but definitely felt more worthwhile.
The cooking event - infinitely progress-able, so there was actually a point in trying to gather points and progress the world event. You could get it the boss to legendary, then legendary 2 etc., when you got progressed the boss further, the loot improved. This system was pretty good in it’s infancy when lot’s of people would attend and get the event super far - it started to struggle as less and less people would show. Eventually your only shot was on the first day of reset. It could also be highly profitable from that item that dropped that could be used to make the embelishment that made food buffs last through death.
The emerald dream follow the tree event - there would be multiple instances for grinds - whether it be farming the bears that would spawn, or waiting until the final boss. You would also get more seeds the more you participated generally - so there was some incentive for participation, at least early on when people needed seeds.
I am not saying either of these events were good or great or anything, they are just two immediate examples that come to mind that could have improved the theatre troupe event. I am sure you could find examples from many of the countless DF world events, throughout all the major updates - each one of them felt more significant than this theatre troupe event.