For years I played wow with the same out look, Level asap → farm gear → then raid → kill boss then wait for new content most wow players I think follow the same path. But the older I get and the more experienced I get with how wow works I realised I was missing out on so much cool stuff.
This lead me to start farming things i could keep from one expansion to another and slowing down my progress, Am lucky in the sence that wow as content down time that lets me go back and farm old content and experanced things I have missed, but what shocked me most was seeing more and more people doing the same.
So With posts like Mage Tower Artifact Appearances It made me think WHY are people drawn to old content? Souldn’t it be out of sight and out of mind at this point? The simple truth is no, a lot of old content matters for a large part of the playerbase and sould be given the respect its due.
So rather than bleet the same old I WANT!! I WANT!! mantra I wanted to lay out some points that I hope blizz take to heart.
Old locked content as prestige
This is a fair arguement, but in truth its a short sighted way of looking at it, Items only matter to the people farming them, I agree with putting some behind a skill check or a gear check whatever it may be, but to lock them out to people who wasnt around for said content is just unfair, unlock old items so people can farm them is it would be a pain to balance but things like that matter to a large part of the player base.
I worked my butt off in x expansion, keep it locked
Again a fair argument, people dont want there hard work deminished in past years. Farming the Challange Sets in Pandaria or the Mage tower sets or weps, took time and hard work, I understand the want to keep them locked. But thats unfair to the meny new and old players for one reasion and another couldn’t get them. Yes keep them hard to get, Yes Balance them correctly but let everyone experance what you have experanced.
Putting people off
As a druid main for so meny years i collected everything i could, I missed the Challange Sets, but I got all the mage tower items for the druid, one of the hardest things was to switch to a new main, I had stopped enjoying the druid but didnt want to re roll due to the unobtainable items I could now not earn, that feeling of “being lesser than other people” was prob in my own head but I wanted to earn everything i could. So when the new mage tower was released I went crazy trying to get every item, even playing classes I didnt like and so I quit wow due to burn out, that feeling of being rushed or forced ( even tho none was behind me with a gun ) that fear of they might be taken away ment I missed more content.
Old content is not bad content
And lastly Old content is not bad content, IT feels sometimes blizz can’t understand WHY people go back and farm old content, The thing is Blizz as a very cool way of opening up a new world of content to players by unlocking old locked content people farming the challange sets in M+ would be a very cool way of bringing back more people to M+ you could add in getting a 2500 score on a monk in my case unlockes the challange mode for my set. For the mage tower you could have it that on Legion timewalking you have a shot of rearning the wep skins you would still have to finish the mage tower in that time frame and it would need to be balanced correctly.
In short in content gulfs like this one why not open up locked content so people can earn them? you lose nothing at this point only gain more people experancing the challinge modes or doing the mage tower would be a nice way of keeping people playing