The change made the rares reset bi-weekly instead of daily.
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Part of me thinks ion wants to sabotage open world and solo content to double down on trying to make raiding happen.
Instead of reworking lockouts or makings pugging feel better heâs just making everything else feel worse.
One of the reasons itâs been easy for me to ignore all dragonflight content the past half year. Theyâre doubling down on trying to steer people towards trash timegate gearing systems, but instead theyâve fully knocked me off DF and it feels like trolls holding content hostage while trying to bait you into their worthless troll.
IMO they donât care. They want people to feel bad unless they interact with their quintuple double downed design philosophy of lockout timegate raiding where you have to socially manipulate others to progress unspecial worthless timegate-as-progress loot.
I do think this sort of thing stems from top down management. Essentially demands to cater towards designing for MAU metrics first, feel good grind secondary. ie, it looks like Bobby has doubled down himself on hyping very specific metrics on the shareholder reports and this has caused a chain reaction of people like ion and others below to pigeonhole themselves into the game design you are seeing.
Itâs like a corporate version of trickle down office politics.
Has no one taken into consideration that ZC sucks and thus people jumped from having to do that asap. The zone is obnoxious and the format of kill rares and find treasures is stale. This is also coming from someone who honestly enjoys the rare farming.
Itâd be pretty good for farming ore and herbs, if those markets werenât broken.
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Ask them to license riotâs vanguard then if you want people to play fairly with gather professions.
Always fun when you can tell the majority of the market is throwaway mule toons that sell mats pointed at them by thousands of gather bots.
The Stonecore has a higher player population than Zaralek Caverns these days.
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Yep, its pretty sad how this zone is a ghost town now. what a waste.
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Well when you add contet on par with norm/heroic raid content for most people in an open world scenario you will fail 99% of the time.Dragonflight has been the overtuned expansion with emphasis more on grouping strangers together just to accomplish something that gives minimal rewards.World quests used to offer epic Gear here and there once you past a certain threshold now you just get greens greens blue and maybe once a month an epic.Zaralek Caverns was never tuned for anything but 5 man groups or players who are very very proficient at there class and can manage the solo aspect.
As a Prot warrior Tank main outside of a fe clustered spots @420 item level I can do ZC comfortably.My 415 or around that Prot Paladin sort of similarity but is a bit aquishier despite having more on hand healing Bubble and interupts.Just got my demon hunter to just around 410 item level as Vengeance and is by far my weakest atm until i get more gear and that should change.and my rogue which I just did yesterday which is around same item level is the same.Compound this with the worst gear system/currency addition the game has had with no way outside of raiding to even get higher versions of them made patch 10.1/.5 the 2 single most boring/overtuned patches I have had the unfortunate task of doing.(I did not even bother gearing till 10.1.5 due to how I viewed the garbage Crest system which hashad no changes (You can even downgrade the lowest Tier crest Whelping by spending the next tier Drakeâs.which honestly put the big clown nose on this patch.the vendor is useless far as I am concerned.)And since I have been gearing outside of the âMeta Contentâ I can safely say blizzard does not want you to be anywhere but there and this has never been forced to this degree ever.I have always managed to be 20-30 item levels behind the maximum possible just from open world and event like timewalking etc but I think as of this expansion post 10.1 those days are most likely over but will have to see how blizzard handle the blaze of this catastophe before there the next random island of insignificant origin appears and we all go there and do more barely believable lore based content.(Quite sick of island hopping. Would rather they go back and fix the old world which is riddled with Lore issues itself and them t stop ignoring it.)
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I like the easy catch-up gear in there. A fresh 70 can get a full set of gear good enough to queue for LFR in a couple of hours or less.
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I was in ZC wanting to form a party for boss rares.
I waited an hour and only had another dps to join group, so I just gave up.
I guess people donât like Flightstones to upgrade their gearâŚ/cry
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While I understand the frustration trying to get a group to farm ZC rares with (basically non-existent most of the time), most of us are constantly having to dump Flightstones because of the 2k cap, as we get more than we need from just playing the game.
really not trying to be a jerk but what did you expect OP? Itâs a patch zone, grind the rep and kill some rares, and be done with it. Howâs it different than any other patch zone?
The new thing is time rifts. Weâre supposed to go do time rifts, now. They need to keep as many players on task with the latest thing as possible to make the game work with the available players.
This is par for the course when Blizzardâs idea of âcontentâ is boring, laggy open world trash that becomes obsolete immediately.
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Iâm glad I donât feel âforcedâ to go down there.
Im glad that it is optional.
I only go now to do the once a week quest needing 1500 points to complete and any gold quests that are more then 600gs other then that now even the rares do I go after.
Blizzard keeps adding new content and then a couple months later itâs completely abandoned.
The Timeless Isle is crawling with players.
for them to actually care about it.
Yaâll didnt read any of my posts and it shows. The main point is that ZC was changed not even 2 weeks after the patch it came with dropped and made it a literal ghost town when it was supposed to be âcurrent contentâ. For the months leading up to Time Rifts no one was down there after the change they made to the rares; again I reiterate this change to rares happened not even 2 weeks after the introduced patch dropped, and it killed any hope for future farmers of gear, pets, toys, mount, and drakewatch scripts.
IF this change had never happened there would most certainly still be people down there farming and you wouldnât be forced to sit for what feels like hours trying to find people in LFG or not to take down a rare.
To summarize what this change was because I realize some people might just be coming back and not realizing what happened. The change to rares in ZC made them only eligible for loot on a bi-weekly schedule. You killed Karokta on Tuesday? Well you gotta wait til Friday/Saturday to kill him again for a chance at the mount on that alt you just killed him on.
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