If this is all it is it’s lame and makes me worry for the expansion.
I would have preferred them work on releasing a new end zone or something for DF where we could increase our retail characters power in some way and have the zone content last till prepatch.
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I mean… that’s not really how this stuff works to be fair.
They just rounded up a bunch of loose character asset artists and had them make some skins for existing assets and some loose designers to make some game systems. No environmental artists, no VA, yada yada.
Although it does make me wonder where Blizzard keeps finding all of these artists with spare time but then they put like zero effort into making cool mogs for actual gameplay challenges. M+ still doesn’t have its own unique mog and they still haven’t yet finished the class sets added with the Trading Post / added in ReMoP.
It must be some very junior level stuff to have an artist reskin/recolor an asset I guess.
It’s not like artists publish every idea they ever have. Internally they must have tens of thousands of assets in varying states that were considered but ultimately passed over for better/different ones. I wouldn’t be shocked if some/many of these new remix assets were those leftovers.
And yes, of course it’s much less investment to recolor existing textures than make new models.
They never said it was going to be Classic. If you want the Classic MoP experience you’ll have to wait another 2 years for 2026.
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it’s more than that, there are skill gems that give you cool new abilities and you can fully customize your gear/skills through these gems. I think people need to try it out before saying they’re “underwhelm” from just reading about it.
You mythic+ players are never satisfied
What would I have to be satisfied about?
I am having fun. Its nice going back to my fave questlines and zones. Bronze is coming in nicely. Already got a mount I didnt have before from just exploring Jade Forest.
This is great. Far better, leagues ahead, than Plunderstorm.
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8 new dungeons this expansion +1 mega dungeon and mythic quality loot
So literally nothing new? And it’s not even truly mythic quality, since the raid drops higher ilvl from my recollection. Also the mega-dungeon is trash and this pool is unappetizing and they removed seasonal affixes. People who say no seasonal affixes is better than seasonal affixes are capping omega-giga hard considering how the most fun I’ve had with M+ has been Encrypted and Shrouded (Shadowlands had better M+ even if the meta was too narrow in the later seasons).
It’s more like MoP SoD imo.
Or maybe MoP Torghast.
The random gems: effects / augments / bonus abilities you get on gear is definitely some solid flavor.
Everyone gets blink apparently.
I got one where I turn into a ball of lightning and do some massive damage.
We get quite a few slots it seems too.
Bunch of unique buffs, scrolls, potions.
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I agree with that. Seasonal affixes were the bomb
Retail got some era SoD touches. It was a big seller. Till they hosed later seasons. But some liked the new casts put in.
It’s just worse. M+ is just worse this expansion, when I expected it to be better.
I think the only thing we’re getting for M+ that I wanted is that you can use catalyst to mog weapons, so at least M+ has some kind of source of weapon mogs. I have a laundry list of things I want for M+ and that’s the only thing they’ve done right… except it isn’t even in DF! It’s being added in TWW Warthin! We went a whole expansion and not a single thing I wanted was addressed basically, they’re just finally getting around to them.
Maybe they’ll go simpler for dungeon design and add back seasonal affixes. I’m assuming they removed them because it was hard to balance. If they make the dungeons more straight forward they could balance them easier
if you don’t collect transmog, mounts or toys there isn’t much point to doing it.
However, the nicest mount in the game is available from that content
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It’s a way to raise alts and gain new transmogs and mounts.
What, exactly, were you expecting?
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Aw man. I rolled a monk and got roll. You’re lucky.
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I’ve gotten some better ones since I posted that.
Got one with ZERO fall damage and another with a firestorm that works like Blizzard, but happens randomly.
I’m absolutely loving this game mode.
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