I have a full time job and I am 34 years old. I remember that in my “prime time”, I could do both raiding and whatever else WoW had to offer. These days, I play mostly during weekend and depending on the week, during the week as well. I don’t, like, ever create topics, so sorry for a lengthy one. I just hope feedback is useful.
These days, I am leveling some alts on alliance side to learn more about the story, as I never really played much there and gearing some alts on Horde side.
However, I still mostly play with my warlock as it has been my main for years.
As such, I kept collecting things on warlock and I do so in Shadowlands.
Currently, it feels that is much more enjoyable to wait a few weeks and then play WoW.
Due to catch up mechanics.
I want to clarify - I am not saying I am enjoying WoW more when I leave it for short period of time. What I am saying is that doing quests like “Shaping Fate” which is a weekly one and 1000 anima are…
I am trying to express my self correctly but I think word “stupid” is the best I can do right now. It feels like I am spending too much time on content with meaningless rewards.
When I am done with catch up mechanic, I have 1000 anima and “Shaping Fate” quests which grants 2x renown total. 1000 anima quest is not really that much of a problem now, I’d say its far better once I started getting 500 anima on weekly world boss kill.
However, Shaping Fate quest is too much annoying.
Shaping Fate
For me, it feels much better to do all of side content (world quests, world bosses, heroic dungeons etc.) to get renown from whatever I do but in order to play like that, I have to wait minimum 2 weeks for catch up mechanic to allow me to play like that.
With catch up mechanic done, Shaping Fate quests asks of me to do quests (including the Maw covenant events), treasure hunting and rare boss kills,
Just to get:
- 1x renown
- 1x loot cache (which does not necessarily drop an upgrade)
- Anima
- Stygian ember, which I don’t really have use of.
Problem with this, for me at least, is that:
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In the Maw, some rares are easier to access and some are not. Some will die before you even reach them. I am not even hunting rares for anything they can drop, I just try to find some to get the freaking quest done faster so that I can play other features of the game.
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In Korthia, rare bosses and daily quests are closer to each other and it’s easier to cover area. But, there are times where I don’t want to hunt rare bosses or hunt treasures and I’d rather just do daily or world quests.
If I am not doing all of what I CAN do for Shaping Fate quest, I cannot complete quest within a day and if I want to complete it within a day, I have to spend hours doing it.
So, I have to ask:
- Why Shaping Fate quest, asks of us to do so much for such trivial rewards?
- Isn’t it better to have Shaping Fate unlocked across all of Shadowlands instead of just 2 zones?
I mean, I surely won’t die in Agony because I do not complete Shaping Quest per week but it’s annoying to leave 1 single quest out just because it takes more time than anything else which falls under “chore” category and rewards do not feel adequate for time spend doing it.
By the time I am done with all the “chores”, I loose all will to venture into random battlegrounds or LFR or playing with alts.
When catch-up-mechanic is active, it feels that, to actually “catch-up” takes equal amount of time as if I would do 1 or 2 Shaping Fate quests but with catch up mechanic, I didn’t do just 1 quest but lots of other things like, covenant quests for valor, dungeons etc.
There were times when this was a norm for World of WarCraft, doing whatever you want, without sense of lacking anything.
RENOWNS
I am currently on renown 71, so that means 9 more to go.
In these 9 renowns that is left, it feels and looks like these soulbind upgrades that come with each next renown, are not really much of an upgrade to raiders as I am sure they should be able to complete mythic already with current renown.
But there are upgrades to world quest item levels and anima gain. World quest item level is definitely going to affect players like me and it’s good upgrade but it feels that in 9 renowns, that is the ONLY upgrade to look forward to because gear upgrades can show up anywhere in Shadowlands and Soulbind upgrades buffs are like 50dps increase, which is small.
Soulbind upgrades feels like someone granted you a socket and gave you a gem and told you to be extremely happy about it.
I am not sure if I am being clear enough but I want and I have a desire to go into battlegrounds, raids, torgast (maybe not so much) and timewalking dungeons during actual content but there are things that just take too much time for someone like me to be able to play these features that I prefer and “workaround” for that is to wait minimum 2 weeks.
For me, I think it’s very important how a player feels during his/hers gameplay time. It’s far better to enjoy and have fun than not to, regardless of what the reward is.