What's the point of time runner?

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When I saw the new time runner thing pop up on login I figured, what the heck. Played about 15 minutes and found it to be a massive waste of my, ironically enough, time.

Just a rehash of the Mists expansion, but with mechanics even more stripped down and genericised than the current game is over classic.

There’s a lot of stuff I like about the new game. Don’t get me wrong. The classic game had plenty of stuff I disliked, and the new one some things I consider improvements. But the mechanics seem to be a bit too, for lack of a better word, streamlined? The game seems to be designed now around making it easy to create a generic loot machine that will provide gear people can use by making the things that improve a character a lot more similar.

The real kicker for my complaint about this Mists teaser thing is that they almost immediately lead you to a quest to learn how to fly a dragon. I thought, well cool. I don’t have Dragon Flight. This could be a bit of a teaser to what I should get when the next one comes out later this year.

But no, the instant I tried to complete the quest I get an error telling me “you must have the Dragon Flight expansion to perform this action” or something like it. But they KNEW I didn’t have DF when I TOOK the quest. Why even offer it to me? Why tease me with it?

There is no way in heck I’m going to buy DF NOW! A few months before it becomes obsolete and is available for free. I have thought about buying WW, but considering how bad Shadowlands has been I am leery. I levelled most of my guys up through Legion, which I REALLY liked. When SL became my only gear advancement I tried it and have not cared much for it.

War Within is available for preorder now. If they included in that an immediate upgrade to DF, with no refund if you take it, obviously, I’d maybe think it was worth it. Instead I just delete the TimeRunner and went back to what I knew.

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Wrong forum

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What would be the “right” one? I didn’t do much looking around. But I don’t know what could be more “general” than me making a complaint about a random thing.

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You’re talking about the Mists Remix event, right? I’m not really familiar with it, but I think that’s more of a retail (Dragonflight) special event thing.

This area here is more for Classic Era-Cata, SoD, and Hardcore, if that’s still a thing.

I think this is where you want to go:

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As Eekamouse says WoW general forum is the place to go - The forums are split into “compartments”:

  • Community - that’s WoW retail (Where this topic belongs)
  • Wow Classic - here where we discuss the soon to be 4 Classic expansions
  • In development - well things in development :wink:
  • Support - for technical issues
  • and some more …

You can move your topic, using the pencil next to the topic’s subject line, or you can delete this one and make a new in the right forum if you do not want to drag along all this back and forth about forums :slight_smile:

Good luck.

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I’ll make a new on. I did not notice until just now that this was classic. I must have been looking around in here about something days ago and when I clicked the “forums” link in the wow app it took me back here. Strange it would do that when I’ve only played retail since returning.

I suppose I’ll just take my rant and go elsewhere… thank you very much! humpf!

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I may be the only one but as a Classic enthusiast that was intrigued by the possibilities with the MoP remix, I was glad to see that someone in a situation similar to my own (haven’t played retail since Shadowlands/don’t own the DF expac) posted their reactions here.

You took the hit so I don’t have to.
And I appreciate and salute you for it.
:+1:
Happy gaming wherever you go, friend.

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The real goal of the “retail game” is, well, sell gold and cosmetics to you that brag about your “experience” on the game store.

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I understand the sarcasm. But retail vs. classic are really about catering to a different crowd, or at least trying to. Blizzard has always faced the dilemma of trying to design a game that satisfies as man people as possible. And many of the factions to which they are catering to have diametrically opposing goals. What I would call, the good, the bad and the ugly. Or, as they are called in the game, casual players, raid players, and PvPers.

I’m kidding of course, well, kind of. The raiders always seemed to want raid content to deliver the top end gear. And it had to involve a lot of “hard work”. At least that was the response I would hear whenever I complained about how much I HATED almost everything involved in raiding. I would be told I was lazy and did not want to “work” for my gear, I wanted it to be GIVEN to me.

My response to which was always, while I’m fine with a challenge, however hard, they are correct that when I am playing a GAME, especially one I am PAYING for, I don’t want it to be any work at all. I want fun.

Raiding to me always seemed to be 90% organization and logistics, with about 5% challenging fights (aka fun), and 5% complaining about how lazy non-raiders were.

While I did my fair share of PvP back in the day (was in an Alterac Valley that lasted 36 hours straight. Was there for the whole thing. Something that would LITERALLY kill me now) it always seemed to be a bit of a chaotic cluster F^&*. But then my experience was always with PUGs.

As a casual, mostly soloer, I would like a chance to gear up without the grind of raiding or rep grinding. Something different and challenging every time. Kind of like what they WANTED Torghast to be, but in its current form is more tedious than running the same raid 60 zillion times to fill out a set of 10 gear pieces.
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I understand the sarcasm. But retail vs. classic are really about catering to a different crowd, or at least trying to. Blizzard has always faced the dilemma of trying to design a game that satisfies as man people as possible. And many of the factions to which they are catering to have diametrically opposing goals. What I would call, the good, the bad and the ugly. Or, as they are called in the game, casual players, raid players, and PvPers.

I’m kidding of course, well, kind of. The raiders always seemed to want raid content to deliver the top end gear. And it had to involve a lot of “hard work”. At least that was the response I would hear whenever I complained about how much I HATED almost everything involved in raiding. I would be told I was lazy and did not want to “work” for my gear, I wanted it to be GIVEN to me.

My response to which was always, while I’m fine with a challenge, however hard, they are correct that when I am playing a GAME, especially one I am PAYING for, I don’t want it to be any work at all. I want fun.

Raiding to me always seemed to be 90% organization and logistics, with about 5% challenging fights (aka fun), and 5% complaining about how lazy non-raiders were.

While I did my fair share of PvP back in the day (was in an Alterac Valley that lasted 36 hours straight. Was there for the whole thing. Something that would LITERALLY kill me now) it always seemed to be a bit of a chaotic cluster F^&*. But then my experience was always with PUGs.

As a casual, mostly soloer, I would like a chance to gear up without the grind of raiding or rep grinding. Something different and challenging every time. Kind of like what they WANTED Torghast to be, but in its current form is more tedious than running the same raid 60 zillion times to fill out a set of 10 gear pieces.

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