It’s not a knock on this xpac. I think it’s been great. I’ve been playing Wow since 2007 and usually get bored after a year or more and stop playing until the next xpac comes out. I stopped playing this one two weeks ago. Just can’t bring myself to log in and grind out the time-gated profs and do the same world quests and delves over and over.
So I’m already done, for now. No, you can’t have my stuff. I’ll be back in a couple of years.
Yea shadowlands 3.0 is getting real old.
perfectly normal. Games Ive loved over the years cause burnout sooner or later.
I came into TWW entirely burned out over running so many characters.
TWW is definitely one of my top 3 expansions at this point, but I wish I had come into it fresh instead of needing a break from gaming entirely for a month or two.
Can I have a hug before you go?
I really don’t know how many times people can to the same end game over and over again. A new dungeon with the same mechanics mixed around. No innovation. No evolution. The M+ and R+ has been proven to be not enjoyed and toxic by most of the community and that is the end game blizzard keeps feeding.
How far did you go?
You might be burned out. I’ve had it happen. There was a point I was so burned out, I couldn’t muster the energy to level a character, not just in WoW, in all games. I took like a 6 month to a year vacation to all games with traditional leveling…and you would be surprised how many games require leveling your character in some manner these days lol
I’m not bored but I am PO’d at this stupid company.
The game has been a buggy imbalanced mess. Its 4 steps back for every step forward. This 20th anniversary event just plain stinks. They have turned a celebration into a chore. Every holiday is a chore, the base game is a chore. I like daily quests but the game has turned into a damn chore. Why not make something not a GD chore.
Shadowlands covenants gave you meaningful choice (no matter what Preach wanted to say about it) that really made playing any class feel fun no matter who you are unless you were a meta slave. I had multiple characters of my fav classes and played them differently depending on what covenant I put them in. Class design was so much more engaging. Hero spec is covenant light. And it’s boring.
I leveled 7 toons to 80, all iLevel 600-606 so that I could have all professions (Tailor and Enchanting on one of the toons). I would spend a full day with each toon doing all weeklies, Theater, profession quests, all 8 raid bosses in LFR and then if I had time Awakening (more like sleeping) Machine, and Delves. I’m retired so I can play all day if I want. After several weeks of doing the same content over and over on different toons, I just totally burned out.
What were you doing in DF at this point? To me, there is much more variety now than there’s been, maybe ever. It may not be the game specifically, just you being burnt out?
Agreed. I was so enraged at the feedback for covenants.
They should’ve made covenants DEEPER and MORE meaningful. That would’ve made them awesome.
Instead a bunch of non-casuals told blizzard what we really want is a watered-down, meaningless “choice” that’s already been made for us by the meta.
We’ll we got exactly what Preach wanted…and it sucks. Stop listening to him blizz, thank you.
Shadowlands covenant choice sucked. There was no real meaningful choice. It’s either be bad or experience story if covenant and meta don’t coincide.
Idk if it’s content creators or blizzard, but a pitfall the industry is falling into is the idea that players are categorized as hardcore or casual.
All MMO gamers are hardcore. There is no casual. Trying to make content for “casual” gamers will never work, and thinking that a guy who would prefer to log in for raid night only is somehow more hardcore than the guy who spends all week playing the auction house is just blind.
Different people like different content and if your “hero spec” needs to have a tooltip that says “don’t worry about your choices, it doesnt matter in a few hours when you hit 80” then it doesn’t need to exist.
Every covenant had active abilities that you had to use that significantly affected your playstyle
Every hero spec is mostly passives and you get all of the talents in it at 80. There are choices but they are meaningless. It’s just a flash at your UI every time u ding, forcing you to click a talent for no reason.
What doesn’t need to exist?
The talent choices.
So get rid of Hero talents?
Half of the Hero talents should’ve been made into full 4th specs (or entire classes)
And the other half should’ve been left on the cutting board.
Sub specializations are a dumb idea. Blizzard should stop attempting them.
Yeah basically. The spec basically says "pick one. Don’t worry it doesnt matter. If it doesn’t matter why do I pick?
And to reinforce that now you can just import your spec from icy veins.