In legion, getting path finder for flying was frustrating. Not because of the amount of requirements, but more so because Blizzard literally stop you from progressing in the form of daily q’s for rep with each faction.
In Shadowlands we got renown capped, and it left me on launch with pretty much nothing else to do than M+. Naturally, I stopped playing because of nothing to do. I came back towards the end of Shadowlands when 95% of the content was out, and renown wasn’t capped. That experience was so much better than launch, as the more effort I put in, the more I got back. Whether it be gear, or story progression wise.
Dragonflight, once again we are effectively time gated through renown again to be able to progress the story line. WHY? Why am I being punished for wanting to play the game… I bought the expansion for full price, so why am I not getting the full expansion and instead being drip fed?
Again, I’m in this predicament where the only realistic thing to do is M+ and I’m already getting bored.
You can grind the rare mobs near the Obsidian Citadel, as well as participate in the Dragonbane Keep Siege which rewards both rep, and items for turn-in.
It’s not much rep, but you can grind it if you want.
This is what players wanted. They hated having to login everyday or they would feel like they were behind. They want to finish and be done for the week. It takes more time but they don’t want to grind.
You can’t really grind something that is gated 2 hours apart each time. The keys, as I mentioned previously are almost pointless due to how very little rep they reward, vs how long it takes to get key frames.
I’ll go try kill some rares, but even then we’re at the mercy of spawn times and other player groups being up. But for example, I’ve got to get from renown 14 to 19 with valdraken by just killing rares… ? Do you know how much rep that is? I’m good to grind hard, but that’s just insanity
put your money where you mouth is. you’re right, the xpacs are just better in their final seasons.
but people buy and play more at the start so they’re likely not to care until it hits them in the pocket book, even still, they probably wont notice why. they’ll just chalk it up to there not being enough politically correct bs in the game.
It shouldn’t have to be this way though. Why strangle player progress? Why is it so hard for those who wish to progress and put the effort in are having to resort to things such as this?
If Blizzard allows people to earn rep as fast as the can/want the no lifers would be fully maxed out in reputations right now. They aren’t stopping you, they are stopping them.
Old expansion content is not the antidote to a lack of new expansion content. WoW has plenty of ‘content’ to do, but what I’m only interested in is Dragonflight content. I don’t think that’s unreasonable.