I’m… really not looking forward to doing this. Why make the Maw miserable just to incentivize Twisting Corridors runs?
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Why use a carrot when you can use a whip?
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I mean the end result is that I just don’t go into the Maw or do Torghast because I don’t care enough to do one type of content I don’t enjoy just to make the other type I dislike slightly more bearable.
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who doesn’t enjoy some friendly bdsm?
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I swear the development team genuinely hate us at this point and just want to see us suffer in pure spite…
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Hopefully they will make other mounts able to do it. Maybe your covenant specific mounts. You probably get those early on.
“Endless” is just an adjective here. It’s not endless. There are 8 levels. A bad player can do one in an hour. A good player can crush them out in an evening.
Yeah, an evening to be able to mount in The Maw. On all characters, account-wide.
Brutal. How will we survive?
Also, there’s a mount that drops from a rare in The Maw. Also, Season 1 Keystone Master allows you to mount in The Maw as well.
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Classic micro transaction game design.
Make it so bad you’re willing to jump through hoops to make it playable.
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It’s a combination of “How do we incentivize players to do X content?” and “How can we increase our played time?”
Tie it to an 8 hour achievement in your new mode of Torghast that doesn’t already have a reward structure built in.
Eight hours is (at a minimum, with decent gear) a full work day. I do not want to spend a full work day in Torghast, when I do not enjoy Torghast, just to be able to make the Maw slightly less painful, when I do not enjoy the Maw.
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Maybe skip this expansion?
Because Shadowlands is heavily developed around those two.
Edit: I don’t see myself ever stepping foot inside The Maw. There is no reason to. It’s purely there as a “catch-up” mechanic for alts to level Conduit ranks. If you want Stygia for sockets, do Twisted Corridors - and even that is an optional min/max affair that the majority of players won’t be investing the time into.
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I raid and I dungeon. Those are the things I enjoy; those are the things Shadowlands is also heavily developed around.
I also wouldn’t use “Heavily developed” and “the Maw” in the same sentence.
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(but the mount is account-wide and can be used on your other characters!)
How at less we have that… sigh
<.< Trailblazer going be the choice for most content hmm… lol
I don’t think we should be saying “at least” when the restriction is arbitrary and silly to begin with. We act like Pathfinder is a “compromise” when we have no need to ‘compromise’ on these things to begin with.
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It’s become apparent that Blizzards target audience is masochists.
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What a ridiculous assertion. The game has never catered to casuals or been easier than it is today. LFG, LFR, welfare epics everywhere. The game USED to cater to masochists, in the Classic and TBC days. Now it caters to mobile gamers and stay-at-home-moms.
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I don’t know many casual gamers/stay at home moms/whatever that think to themselves “ya know, I really wish I could find a game that isn’t fun at all and makes me want to /wrists.”
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“An eight-twelve hour grind session just to ride a mount in your end-game grind zone is casual, actually.”
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Sorry I’m not trying to make light of your plight here, I just think this paragraph is kind of funny. You don’t like or want to do Torghast, and you don’t like or want to do the Maw content. So…problem solved?
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And then another eight-twelve hour grind session to be able to use your flying mount in other zones.
Damn Blizzard is getting this whole “time-played metrics” thing down! I bet their shareholders are stoked!
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The ability for the Maw to give me sockets means I’m going to have to spend some time in the Maw, pretty much no matter what, because I am in a guild that is going to be pushing CE this time around, and not having sockets when I have the option seems kind of like a bad idea.
It also sets a terrible precedent for end-game zones.
One sentence is not a paragraph, by the way.