Since a week I can barely do any group related activities in the new underground zone. I see some people yes but doing the elites and elite dailies are almost impossible no one’s does them ever. This shows how bad the upgrade process within a given expansion timeframe with just a few months, areas are completely empty out l, makes people joining later impossible to enjoy the content. everyone literally doing the dreams now.
Another bad development decision that makes content unplayable. ;(
Really like this new are quite line to spend more time there but it’s hopeless since no group activities going on there due to lack of players.
Sure I can go up and do the dreams of course and do something else. But then it was a waste is resources from Blizzard to even spend time on the development.
I’ve been playing the game again since two months or so, i’ve been down there barely because getting there takes too much time, and there’s little incentive to do so.
Did the opening quest once on one of my characters, but it took so long and it felt like a chore / bore so i zoned out of it.
Only went down there this week to kill the world boss to claim the gold, because if it wouldn’t reward gold, i wouldn’t have been there in the first place.
Many things in this expansion like story progression and that obnoxious renown system makes me zone out and just don’t do it at all.
Lots of stuff hidden behind that renown wall as well, makes me avoid professions as well.
All in all, i love the game for it’s combat and i love running dungeons with people, but the rest, not so much.
It’s the newest “zone” in the game currently. You’re missing the point on purpose it feels.
It’s a pretty bad area on a lot of fronts. There is little incentive to go there and bits like the elite area are just sadistic with their massive knockbacks, mobs going immune or placing debuffs on you etc. Rares are also pretty pointless but if you did decide you want to kill them, most classes won’t be able to solo them and the ones that can will get bored doing so.
Same goes for the forbidden reach, they take all this time making a zone just for it to be a ghost town a very short amount of time later. They need to rethink it a bit, stop putting them in if they are going to be redundant so soon.
Yeah,
A few reasons why down there is so empty. Primarily due to the rares not being soloable. There used to be groups flying around killing them but Blizz added a weekly lock-out on looting the rares and these groups dried up.
Doesn’t help that the zone isn’t that easy to get around for many players, especially that elite area where you get shot down if you’re not an Ace pilot.
A very simple solution is to nerf the Rares to be soloable with open world gear so item level ~400.
Same issue on Forbidden Reach. Time Rifts will be like this soon if not already and Dreamsurges will be like this in a few months.
Honestly, way back before WotLK was released there were rumours of an underground Azjol Nerub zone. I thought that sounded awesome. Of course that didn’t pan out and all we got was 2 dungeons.
It really depends on execution and Zaralek just isn’t very well executed in a number of ways.
So a 3 month old content considered old now? Yes I didn’t play since early this year. And? Its a punishment for me to enjoy a content? That area constantly want to pull me in to elite evet and full of rares that is clearly not for 2-3 people to do. Again I’m having issues with the person(s) designing the area, timeframe if the related events, the amount of people required for events. I couldn’t do it with my g.f. even though I can either tank or heal if necessary WITHINA TIMELY ACCEPTABLE MANNER. In my experience need a full team, 4 or 5 people.
it was just a waste of resource , it was empty after 2 weeks and completely dead after the lockout changes. quantity won over quality this expansion but i guess we’re not ready to argue about that yet
Do you use the group finder? There are nearly always groups for the zaralek world bosses, the weekly Researchers event, the elite quests and a few other things.
Sadly there aren’t for the rares so I’ve barely killed any. I don’t know why as some are needed for daily quests. They really do need to cut the health so people can solo them. Make them hard to solo is fine just don’t keep them so you’re dead in a few seconds.
The area is completely deserted because anything there minus extremely few WQ’s require at least 1 or 2 players with you, which just is not worth it
If the area was soloable, the events as well and the rares, and when I say soloable I dont mean take 10 minutes to kill a single rare, there would be more people there, until then, i’ll stay a deserted wasteland because it just isnt worth it in its current implementation.
It is depressing, those rares usually take a group of about 5 averagely geared players to take down.
I really want one of those manuscripts that drops from one of them but now Ive missed my chance til I outlevel the zone next expansion!
/sniff
I havent managed to do the main event there in a few weeks actually, there is literally no one there at all, it’s completely deserted, and take in mind this is on Draenor too, I cant imagine on other servers
I understand that they wanted to make the world feel more alive with bunch of public events but when there are so many and so little players who are scattered all over the isles there simply are not enough people for them.
This isn’t just the problem with the cavern, it’s also with soup event or siege…There are barely any people to do it with especially if you are playing in the morning or late at night.
Also I don’t understand why they made The Dreamsurge event and Time Rift start at the exact same time, it doesn’t feel thought out and people need to choose which one to do if they want full rewards instead of doing both.
They are trying to spice things up while wee wait for path 10.2 which will have a new sandbox zone. I assume many people already have all the rewards they wanted from time rifts.
Yes I didn’t play since early this year. And? Its a punishment for me to enjoy a content? That area constantly want to pull me in to elite evet and full of rares that is clearly not for 2-3 people to do. Again I’m having issues with the person(s) designing the area, timeframe if the related events, the amount of people required for events. I couldn’t do it with my g.f. even though I can either tank or heal if necessary WITHINA TIMELY ACCEPTABLE MANNER. In my experience need a full team, 4 or 5 people.