The thing is though, what is that specific grind is there for?
It’s too short to benefit bliz with extra game time, it’s too boring to benefit the players or the game. Is just there like a pimple.
Normal edition gives you only early access to the new DKs.
Heroic edition gives you the mount to The and a boost on top of that.
Epic edition gives you a pet, a weapon visual and a month of game time on top of Heroic.
Memes aside, I think it’s meant to make it feel a little more special, that everyone isn’t wearing it on day 1 and changes it on day 3 since it’s gotten old.
That is assuming the design decision wasn’t purely numbers driven 
I honestly didn’t think there even was a quest behind it. I’ve seen plenty of people running around in it, so I assumed it was a regular preorder reward.
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Not really, you can just play the game as you would normally do and the quest will complete itself or you can go out and grind it at your own rate.
In fact it is just what the forums have been crying about since forever as there is no enforced time gating on the quest whatsoever.
Ain’t making it less dumb, it serves no purpose, it’s just there. Too short to be any kind of achievement or time investment, too long to not be annoying.
Yeah, we get a “give us more gather 40 bear butts quests” threads every day.
Personally, I love gathering bear rears, cant get enough of them. I wish I could get a “Bearer of bear rears” title in game.
Look, I ain’t against the set or any other preorder reward being quest gated, in fact I’d much prefer them to be, but not like this. Is just a minor annoyance for no gain.
Although, if the quest was even semi-substentional, people would cry blizz paywalls content. So yeah, it’s still pretty dumb, any way I look at it.
I am not sure I get you here, you go out and do your normal quests, WQ or dungeons and every now and then a mob will drop one of the items required for this quest. Alternatively you can go and and grind mobs for the item to drop.
Could you explain what would make it a substantial quest for you? Would you like it to be a longer grind with only a specific named mob dropping it? Or something else?
That’s the annoying part.
It would’ve been ok if it just was an ingame quest, but it’s just a small annoyance in between people and a cosmetic they payed extra for. No one payed for it and thought, “man, can’t wait to get them 40 bear rears”, or at least I assume no one did.
So as I stated earlier, my problem is that I don’t see a purpose for that.
If there is a piece of lore assotiated with that quest, then what’s the 40 butts for? To feel a sense of pride and acomplishment? Then why just 40, that’s way too small of an amount to be an achievement. I doubt people’d be glad to having to grind more, but at least I could look at it and say “yeah, they added a bit of grind to extend the playtime”.
We have some pretty neat quest chains now. Some gimmicky ones, some with good story, some with scenarios. If they added a questchain with some gameplay and lore value I’d be fine with that, personally, even if it’s dangerously close to paywalling content.
But we have “grind 40” instead for no reason.
Maybe it is just me then as I don’t see it as a grind, more of something that will eventually happen just by paying the game as I usually do.
I think that’s a valid point. It’s not consumer-friendly in my eyes.
Well this might be a valid one, but I’m annoyed I don’t really have a reason to be annoyed at it, as it’s too small of an issue to be really upset. But it’s there for some reason, so I think it’s dumb.
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