I have played WoW since vanilla, always loved playing it, because I dont get angry; like I do in other FPS games like battleroyales and MOBA games like League and Dota.
I dont stress and even if I wipe multiple times in a dungeon or in a raid I stay cool and calm… We’ll get it next time!
Then I tried doing visions… I got the hang of it, learned all the mechanics and tried to run 5 masks. One tiny mistake, one little stun or a scorching feet pull, and its over… I have to wait for next weeks grind. Visions make me fuming, but yet I need to do them for cloak upgrade and gear. They are possible the most anti-fun and tilting I have ever tried in my gaming career
I talked with my friend, but he just laughed at me. He’s playing DH, while I am on mage and shadow priest. The one thing I loved about wow, I could log out happy. Now I rage quit like in all other games…
If you do it for the core only, you can do it without a mask too. You can also do it with 3 or 4 masks, to still get corrupted gear at decent item level. If you’re not min-maxing and hoping for a good item with good corruption at 470, you can do 5-masks once each city and be done with it, never do them again, ever. Or just skip the 5-mask too, if you don’t care about the achievement.
Thats your problem, you are not allowed to do mistakes with Shadow xD
I can super ZUGZUG with this WW while it has M+ gear, my shadow with mythic raiding gear is…alot harder.
Anyways, i had the same feeling and the next week after that 5 masks gone like the wind. But with shadow it will never be that easy, at least for me it never is!
If you don’t find it enjoyable, don’t do it. It’s really as simple as that. You can get cloak upgrades even on unmasked runs and the gear reward difference between 4 masks and 4 masks is just 5 ilvls. You can just as well keep doing 4 mask clears and not lose out on anything much. And 4 mask clears are quite impossible to fail if you have full research and Rank 15.
So if it stresses you out, no real reason to do it. Honestly the difficulty spike between 4 mask and 5 mask clears is pretty ridiculous, I would prefer a more gradual shift in difficulty when putting on masks, as it stands it’s really that as soon as you can do one mask, you can pretty much do 4 masks without breaking a sweat and then the fifth one is like a brick wall. I enjoy challenging content and still do 5 mask runs myself, but the difficulty curve is my biggest gripe about the system.
On a serious note tho it took me a while to solo run 5 masks since I was doing it in a premade with IRL friends until I tried doing visions solo and found out that running them solo is actually much easier.
If you want to run 5 masks you should:
download weakauras for gift proc timer (it has 1 min cd), WA for potions (although I personally dont use them at all)
while running 5 masks in orgrimmar dont overpull casters cause touch of the abyss can easily kill you especially in lost area on the left side. There are 2 packs with 2 casters in each pack. Other than that pull rexxar with gift proc, combustion and bloodlust. You will have bloodlust again for Thrall if you go to rexxar straight away. When you enter orgrimmar there is enemy npc that gives you 10% dmg increase which I always check and then to the right there is gamon and he gives you 10% stamina buff which I only kill on melee toons so my Twilight Devastation hits harder. Then in the first corrupted zone?! (no idea whats the name of it) in voidstorage building theres 10% crit npc. I dont use a single orb while 5 masking orgrimmar.
In stormwind you have to be careful in both lost zones as mobs hit really hard. You need to remember where stealthed dudes are and dont overpull or you’ll get rekt. Spam remove curse when you get the debuff. I go straight to dwarven discrit and pull everything while mounted, bloodlust and combustion on boss and entire zone explodes (living bomb is really good). There’s also a room with mine field which awards you 10% dmg buff if you get past it. Other than that you need to interrupt void buffet in both orgrimmar and SW (big void elemental dudes cast it) as it gives you 100% more void dmg taken (dont really remember if its void or other source of dmg but it also increases thing from beyond damage).
thats basically it. I felt bad after making my first comment so I actually tried to help someone on these forums for a change. If you have further questions please ask.
I don’t enjoy them at all so I basically don’t do them. I have given up on the corruption system because it is too RNG. I can get my cloak upgrade from doing a maskless run or killing NZoth.
Unfortunately fire mages need like 8 pieces of masterful corruption (I have only 1 so far so thank you blizz for this amazing rng system that has been phoking me over since day 1 of 8.3) so in my opinion every vision run matters.
“How do you know someone’s been playing since Vanilla?
Don’t worry, they’ll tell you” - hehe
I also don’t enjoy visions at all. I hate the fact that I have to farm a lot for Coalescing Visions. Just do visions without a mask for upgrading the cloak and u gucci.
I quit wow almost 2 weeks ago now because i died to stunlocking to death on 5masks 4 times in a row same bloody place, even saved cds and it wasnt enough
I just …
dont want to play such an unfair game anymore … I could handle getting rank 3 essences on 12 characters, but this is too much for me
Split personality and leden foot can really get to me. Especially if u get a split personality proc in the worst places in stormwind, like those really tight areas
Visions are great design wise but it’s awful that they timegate them. I think it is good that they are difficult. But I think it’s horrible that they’re so timegated. M+ and raids don’t punish you for mistakes, they reward you for overcoming the challenge. That’s good game design. People aren’t annoyed if they fail a visions, they’re annoyed that it makes them fall behind. Imo they should be even more difficult but they should remove the timegates completely (make each mask run reward you once per week on completion and they’d be awesome). Imagine if you play Dark Souls and are only allowed to die 4-5 times until you have to wait for the next week. That’d be so dumb.
I’m quite chuffed with myself today - managed 2 mask run with a spare orb. Yes I know it’s not all masks etc - but I don’t play much ‘endgame’ content coz I don’t usually have the time commitment to learn.
I actually find visions quite fun. Let’s see if I say the same thing before furlough is over
I was doing it on reset day and suddenly it dawned on me - i dont like running them ! Its boring and annoying - and so i left the vision mid run, deleted the other 2 keys and went back to boralus. I dont think i will EVER do another one again
I just found visions to be extremely repetitive and boring it takes so long to get the upgrades so i don’t die in them that when i finally got the sanity from killing elites i already was at the point that i had moved on and started to play other games.
same bloody place, even saved cds and it wasnt enough
