In classic thru Mists If I waste my time killing something, even trash. there is a payoff that rewards me for it. It nearly always at least pays for my REPAIR costs…and I can get tons of green drops to sell.
Ive killed a number of elites in BFA the last couple days just for craps and giggles.
Know what I got for my wasted time? Crap gray trash that is literally not even covering 1/4 of the repair bill for the damage I took fighting the trash you put in your world for me to fight.
You want me to ENJOY your game?
Make it WORTH THE TIME INVESTMENT.
I dont mind playing for HOURS fighting all that garbage stuff to fight you filled your world with, but i REFUSE to do it if all Im getting is a flipping REPAIR BILL that isnt covered.
Why would I…why would anyone…want to to WASTE their time ‘farming’ for gray trash from all that stuff you put out in your world if theres nothing coming from it but worthless garbage?
Conversely, I’ll spend half a game session just running around on foot in Kalimdor, EK all the way thru to Mists, at level even, killing mobs of trash just to see what cool stuff might drop from them.
once I hit Wod…Legion and this godless BFA expansion, its pointless.
Not even worth the time it takes to portal over, let alone spend 5 minutes looking to see if something worthwhile might ever drop.
YOU killed the fun …YOU destroyed the enjoyment of EXPLORING your world.
YOU made me not want to spend time with the world trash you filled your game with.
BFA just made it even worse.
Do yourself a favor. Instead of just borrowing storylines from Mists, in this next expansion how about borrowing something that might make your game fun to explore again…making all that living world actually worth my time investment outside of just the stuff I fight at Points A, B and C.
It’s funny because in one of the interviews for BFA, I believe a reasoning for the mist similarities given was "We didn’t feel the essence of what it means to be Horde was properly conveyed by the end of Mist of Pandaria."
Even classic fanboys don’t like the idea of farming endless overworld mobs for gold making, literally no one playing classic even does it. Everyone farms lower level dungeons for gold, just like a lot of people do in retail.
99% of elites in classic also drop nothing but garbage.
You’re nostalgic for something that doesn’t exist and never has.
am I the only one here who actually sees the HUGE differences in running around the game world from classic thru Mists compared to BFA?
The OP was pretty clear. The PAYOUT for killing stuff makes it more fun up to mists.
BFA drops pretty much nothing, even those huge elites that take 5 minutes to drop.
I got a gray chicken wing and a repair bill
In MISTS Id have gotten a CHEST with stuff in it.
I have to agree with you on this at least the parts I read (sorry shouldof done a TL;DR) .
Yes the drops off of trash mobs since MoP ended have been just that trash.
Like you said you used to be able to get that random green here and there which you could either vendor or auction off . Not only that if it was humanoid (which could be any thing that walks on 2 legs or in some cases 4 like Dragonkin you would get coin . In comes WoD and you get plant based humanoids and what do you get ? Plants no coins nothing of value just plants.
To top it off this is where we get into the era of if you didn’t loot it it comes in your mail box now.
Hey Blizz there’s a reason we didn’t loot it .
As a side note I partially blame this as part of the reason for the increase in price of certain things including why people go I would have to pay (rediculously high price) for each toon to have.
