Timegating, Easy content & just me ranting

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Let me just start my rant.

I have no idea who thought that having another week of no new content apart from a short anti climactic quest was a good idea.

Heroics are too damn easy and provide no upgrades and delves are a waste of time at level 3.

Blizzard is basically forcing us to either level alts or just simply wait another week till we get new content.

If heroics where like 3x the difficulty they are now and they dropped 600 ilvl+ gear they would’ve filled up so much more enjoyable playtime but no we have to farm gold to buy gear which costs 50k+ each only to replace it next week when Mythics come out. It feels like such an utter waste of time.

Then there’s reputation gear some of which unlock at late renown levels which by the time we unlock it are going to be useless as they are lower than 600 ilvl.

I remember a time back in Burning Crusade where you used to have a raid come out with the previous raid barely having been cleared by average guilds, there was actual content that you couldn’t do before you cleared the previous tier.

I’ve already leveled my main and two alts & cleared all the quests with my main character. Now it’s wednesday and I just finished weeklies and got nothing to do to upgrade my character for a whole week.

If only heroics were much harder and provided better loot, it would have made it so much better. It comes with the name heroic, it is of heroic difficulty, not normal, heroic. This is piss easy, we are pulling 4-5 packs and just aoeing them down in 5 seconds with zero crowd control, zero communication, zero teamwork, at this point I would not know if my team mates are bots or not.

Everyone also notices the absolute destruction of any strong male models in the story line, thrall has been reduced to an old cuck, anduin is as sensitive as they can make him, khadgar is reduced to a pokemon inside an orb and obviously the badass female characters are awesome strong leaders… give us a break.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Xal’atath and her story is quite interesting but I want some brutality, might and rage back.

Most of my leveling experiencing was full of narrations, cinematics, story telling and the quests required me picking up plush toys, pulling grass, dancing, playing board games, freeing butterflies, wearing fairy wings and doing backflips to impress kobolds… I used to fight the burning legion and the army of the dead, it feels like (and probably is) the game designers are all women who have no idea how to create content for men and this is destroying the game.

I just paid a hefty sum of money for The War Within but it feels like I’m playing The Soy Within.

Please do better.

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Blizzard are taking a week off to play Space Marine 2

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No, this is game designers being all men who have no idea how to create content to appeal to the female userbase.

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for the emperor!

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I didn’t have to farm gold to spend 50k on gear I’ll be replacing next week.

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Not sure why another thread covering the same topic as several others are needed. People need to chill out, it is literally such a short time and if you have nothing to do currently then just go do something else or build up your wealth or something.

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Well in 6 days these posts will stop, and as you said it’s such a short time so chill :smiley:

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I find it funny all the EA arguments… and now…

People that complained about the unfair advantage of EA are bored out of their minds because they did everything they wanted to do…

:smiley:

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Nothing to do with EA even people who bought standard edition are bored as Fk still don’t get why they didn’t release atleast m0s this week

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I remember at the beginning of DF. Before I even unlocked the “higher” gear rewards from renown, I was already pretty much mythic geared and those items were completely obsolete.
And it looks like history repeats itself.
I reckon they do this for more casual gamers that don’t raid hero/myth.

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You are right. 100%. In DF you were geared up in 2 weeks easy.

And the lesson they learned is that it ruins the RTWF experience and messes up balance of mythic raids.

So they threw under the bus all of us that dont mythic raid or aspire to some world first title.

Those are your reasons right there.

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Next week is going to be funny, all these “nothing to do” thread are going to be replaced with “can’t do anything” threads.

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:smiley: I’m waiting for the M0 are hard blizzard what did you dooooooooo

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I’m fine with this as I have Tyranids to kill (in about five hours from the time of writing).

But in all seriousness, it’s nice to be able to casually drop in and out of WOW before the seasonal madness starts.

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It only amplifies the validity of OP point.
The fact that pre M0 content is meaningless and does not teach players anything is why M0 may be so hard for many.

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100% second this.

The amount of Quests catered towards single 40yo cat ladies pulling grass out and and playing with children. Like wtf is that.
Its getting worse and worse with every expansion.
Instead slaughtering stuff im cooking a dinner, throwing carrots in a pot and getting my loremaster this way. Sad times really.

but the most annoying part is the Timegating.
It was never this bad. I had nothing to do 2 days into the Release.
585 full geared, capped on valor, got an alt up.
weeklys are content for 2hrs. thats it.

Waiting 4 weeks for the actual content is just not acceptable.

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I hope they are…but I have doubts about that.

This. I’ve already mentioned this in another thread but the difficulty gap between heroic dungeons and basically anything after that is insane.

I don’t understand why we need to have 2 dungeon modes (NHC and HC) that basically feel identical and in which you can ignore every single mechanic the game throws at you.

You can brain afk your entire way from lvl 1 up to HC but the game teaches you NOTHING except for how to accept/turn in quests, run after the tank and press 2 abilities. And then, when the player enters the first level of challenging content he gets annihilated.

What kind of design is this?

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It’s way worth than that.

Low challenge content was in WOW since Vanilla. I have nothing against mindless farming of reputation / recipe drop.
What is killing me that currently WOW is over-bloated with low challenge content which requires high attention.

Go try loot this tools from the world quest while playing with a kid or pulling grass.

The content should be either low challenge / low attention, or high challenge / high attention.

Being locked in the content where you constantly need to keep attention on smth and which poses zero challenge is by far the worst experience.

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Well tbh with m0s being out same time as :stuck_out_tongue: LFR, Normal and Heroic raiding why would u even do m0s unless u are really unlucky with gear in raid

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To teach someone how to play you need to throw him into that hard content and let him struggle there.
If he comes out he will know what’s up…
if he don’t he will start doing Wowhead post about how everything is hard and should be nerfed.

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