It’s true right now.
Remember when it was required for the Order Hall campaign in Legion though?
Urgh, awful. But yes, I can just ignore it now, thankfully.
Still a waste of development time and resources though. I say scrap it and give the employees in charge something else, more interesting to do.
I like them a lot , gold , mats , ilvl for alts .
It’s a huge downer if they remove them from my side .
I like mission table ,tho current state is not great as Kyrian are still noticeably weaker than maldraxxus and over-nefred night fea.
As long as the tables dont become a WoD 2.0 i couldnt care less. Right now is fine, if they really want to keep them that is.
I’m still living off of my gold earnings from WoD so, yeah, safe to say that the mission table is partly to blame for some of the gold inflation. It’s easy, near passive income.
My one issue with the current version is how grindy they’ve made it to reach max level compared to the previous ones.
It’s nice now i’m actually winning stuff.
Could do with more anima though.
The table and WQs exist to keep people logging in frequently, not just daily but throughout the day… with how they update every 8+ hours.
I often feel that levels are not the grind, they are the power rewards. If you view them that way levelling becomes a lot more fun.
Of course, with most of WoW’s content, you literally can’t look at it that way because Blizzard scales the mobs to your level but not your gear…
Anyway, that’s a story for another time I suppose. I agree with you that the mission table’s first and primary problem - the real damage it inflicted - came in the form of gold. Tons and tons of gold.
But its negative effects are more temporary but also far more insidious as well.
The reason they put in the table and the app and the timers is so that you can feel a sense of addiction to checking your phone for Warcraft notifications all day long. It is an attempt to invade your non-gaming time with thoughts about your World of Warcraft time, keeping you hooked and addicted.
The system is designed the same way as those mobile apps that ask you if you wanna play with notifications, or that reward you only a certain amount per session, but then turns you away. It does not seek to engulf you, it does not seek to engage you, and it certainly does not seek to immerse you. It only seeks your attention.
The mission table should be removed.
It’s just hard for me to have that mindset when it comes to the mission tables and it’s consequently also why i do it sparringly or more in spurts. Downloading the app for it never crossed my mind outside of maybe back in WoD when the gold missions gave a ridiculous amount with the right follower perks.
The whole mobile game adaptation is something i’ll never fully understand and i do think the game would be better off without that aspect.
You don’t understand it because you rejected it before it got its grips on you, and good thing, too. You dodged a bullet.
Current table is good only downside is that u need to w8 for guys to get full hp again, if they had full hp all time good.
Well mission tables and ah play are the only things I do now so take that away and there’s absolutely nothing left.
The covenantmissionhelper addon significantly simplifies the guesswork in setting up your troops. Strongly recommeded.
I have not minded the mission tables until Shadowlands. This desire to turn it into an RTS for no reason is awful.
Now I require an addon purely to be able to see the chance of success. I should not require an addon to be able to use the Mission table. It should work in it’s own right.
The addon also shows me how much XP I get for completing missions. This is also valuable when trying to level your army of companions.
Due to lack of the most basic information (success rate) the phone app is useless to me. The imbalance between covenants was also a pretty silly move. They should have been carbon copies of each other with suitably named companions.
I get this too. The thing for me is, the only use I have for the app is to do the mission tables. It just seems a slow, not very interesting past time. I also don’t get why there was any point in adding it to the app when you don’t really get any real useful information. Also as you say as an RTS, its barely engaging. I couldnt give a monkeys and always fast forward the encounter rather than watching A few sprites bonk each other on the head.
Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree. The current mission table is pure fail in execution, and should have the baseline information given by the covenant mission helper addon.
And the ‘minigame battle’ might as well not exist. Testing out your minions against what the AI packs and until you get a win condition listed. Or simulating a win for those battles with random abilities.
The higher up you get in enemy power, the more the crucial information becomes extremely important to not have fail after fail after fail.
Though it cant be said enough. You can throw no hp minions into battles that gives high amount of exp as the baseline reward. And not caring about the second, you can ‘lose’ a lot of battles and still progressing with levels up, as you always get the baseline exp. But to get the bonus xp like 2500 for some missions, you need to set up a winning hand, which can be all but impossible without the addon.
I remember the argument back in WoD when someone noticed that there were a mission to explore Faralon zone. Sending followers to a zone which could’ve been a major patch in Draenor I remember made many upset. “Lol mission table content -> actual game content”.
I have no issues with the mission table myself, it is as previous posters said a nice side objective which provides (almost) free stuff.
I can’t speak to the app, since I don’t have it.
Warlords Mission Tables were bad, obscenely over-rewarding.
Legion Mission Tables were occasionally annoying - 12 hours to wait for a required mission to complete before getting the next Class Hall quest, anyone? - but mostly harmless. Still too much gold.
BfA and Shadowlands Misssion Tables are entirely harmless. Do them if you like; ignore them if you don’t. They’re obviously relatively cheap to develop, so it’s not like they’re going to lead to the death of Ray D. Tear. Some people like them. I don’t see why you would want them removed.
I can’t say I do them much, but you don’t require an addon to do the missions. I looked at a couple of addons, but didn’t bother with them. Once you understand the mechanics, it’s nearly always pretty trivial to see whether a mission will be a success or not, though it may not be obvious whether an underlevelled follower will actually survive to get the XP bonus.
its a really good tool for ppl who don’t want to spend to much time on the game it provides crafting materials, soul Asch and so much more, if you don’t want it fine then don’t use it.
so you could say i disagree.
idisagree with you and aparently blizzard making app possible to managet tables Legion-SL disagrees also
you personaly may not like it but a lot of people nejoy it as mini game to do in work or in toilet 
plus its providing decent amount of gold still almost passively + slowly gives you souls ash anima reps.
only thing im sad about is that there is no app entry for wod garrison missions 
that would be sooo much fun if we had access to it via app