It was NOT a 3-day quest though. It started the evening on Tuesday after the patch and ended this morning at the 10 am reset. That’s approx 19 hours on Tuesday/Wednesday morning, 24 hours on Wednesday/Thursday morning. That’s a total of 43 hours. Not even a full 2 24 hour days. That’s NOT a 3-day quest. That’s a 2-day quest. Plan for it next time I guess, but not plan for a 3-day quest.
Losing my give-a-___
The new one I just picked up says Time left: 2 Days 20 Hours. What happened on the first one. It was 1 day, 20 Hours.
Honestly it’s “fill the bar” or miss out crap like this that’s driving me away from the game. I hated this garbage in Korthia and I hate it even more here because of the scarcity of options to fill it. In Korthia at least I could knock it out in half an hour. This takes quite a bit longer. It’s very clear the devs don’t care to respect my time, so I don’t respect their game.
How many people logged in today to finish up the last 5 or 10% of (what most probably thought was) a “weekly” quest? Meanwhile “Shaping Fate” remains at 51% on one of my alts. It never expires.
Why would they do this so poorly?
What a horrible letdown. Total fumble.
Yes definitely. That is quite a pile of crud that the progress doesn’t retain. Most likely due to the code for this quest being based on the covenant callings which do exactly this, stick around for three days then vanish regardless of your progress.
For those having trouble getting Patterns done quickly, a suggestion based on my experience is to accept the quest playing with portals and keep the quest until you’re complete your ZM work. While you retain the quest you can use that portal every 12 seconds to move to one of several locations (randomly chosen) on the map.
So I would portal, check for anything of value or note, pick it up (a good number of the treasures are gettable from the portal locations), or run to a nearby rare/boss. I had 94% complete on day 1 despite the latency, zerg of players, and a server crash.
i saw the timer and don’t mind having one… but it’s stupid that the first 3-day timer started on monday when the patch came out on tuesday
blizz wake up this should be a hot fix!
not going to stay online waiting for quest to keep popping up to finish the bar.
Would be nice if the portal quest was available daily.
Ahh genius, didn’t even think of that I may never actually “do” the quest again just keep it for random movement
I’m surprised they don’t let it carry over. They already designed it in a way that wastes people time. Could at least let people have their progress carry over.
Nope its tri-weekly.
they only missed one quest, which makes them 3 days behind. Upsetting and annoying? yes, but in the grand scheme of a wow patch its barley a blip on the radar in missed time
The only people who saw this are the people who already knew it was time-limited.
It very clearly indicates in the quest log with a big yellow clock near it how much time you have left. This wasn’t a secret or anything like that.
Progress reset. That’s asinine. Glad I pushed through and finished it on Wednesday. I almost logged off when I had it around 90 percent. I figured I would finish it another day. None of the rare mobs were spawning that I could reach in time before they died and I couldn’t find any chests.
The fact that your progress resets……seriously who the hell makes these decisions to implement that crap.
Good to know. Yea I was at 80ish perfect last night and it reset today. I guess it won’t be as much of an issue going forward but shouldn’t reset.
Wrong, as usual. It’s every three days. Not tri-weekly. Not bi-weekly. Every. Three. Days.
its 3 times this week, so I’m right.
You’re wrong. It’s every three days, not three times a week. Stop acting obtuse and spreading false information like you always do.
Patterns Within Patterns has a 3-day timer on it, so you are able to complete the quest twice a week (and in some weeks, 3 times a week).
Don’t tell people it’s three times a week when it’s not going to be three times a week all the time.
Three. Day. Timer.
No, I’m right because this week it will reset on Sunday or Monday making it 3 days due toa bug.