WoW lacks in-game information

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There is no information where vendors are you have to use a website.
There is no information where the lfr npcs are you have to use a website.
There is no information where instance entrences are you have to use a website.
There is no information where you get a transmog from when looking at items, only boss name, you have to use a website.

Every other mmo I have played the game tells you everything you need to know, all vendors have icons on the map, it tells you where to find specific items etc but not wow.

The vendor at the flight master, didn’t know it existed. Mythic key guy, didn’t know he existed. Vendor in korthia selling the chisel for the gems, didn’t know he existed. Nothing told me they existed.

You have to go to a website to know anything in wow.

It’s a problem.

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Ever played games like Skyrim?

You had to explore and memorize on a genius level

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“I didn’t know the vendor at the flightmaster I use every day existed” fix your game Blizz.

If you autopilot with your monitor off then sure, you’re gonna miss stuff.

Also, “no idea where instances are”? Explore, adventurer.

You can’t make this :poop: up.

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Nah its all fine, at least you have Guards at every city to ask main directions. OP, I suggest you to get 2nd monitor so you can have wowhead opened on it to not bother with ALT-TAB. See how excellent QoL I offer to you?!!

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I bought a game guide for Skyrim it was so complex…
I love game guides, I still have my old WOW ones from the first two expansions knocking about somewhere…

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They’re literally marked on the map

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Mate, you would never have survived in 2006. You had to look for everything and to be completely honest with you, that was the beauty of the game.

The problem with the game these days is that it’s rush rush rush rush, it’s taken a lot of the exploration out of the game.

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You need to explore the map was the point - which you missed.

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aint no body got time for that

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That’s the thing that annoys me the most.

In my main game Destiny 2 every Vendor except for the exotic item vendor you have a marker for on the map.

Much better experience over there than finding NPCs in WoW.

Edit: Even Elder Scrolls Online has markers for almost all vendors on their maps. They even added markers for hard-to-find collectibles like Shards once you found them.

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Wat.

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to be fair you need to rush the content. otherwise they already removed the content rewards. no time to explore

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I really don’t care searching for stuff, but a lot of mechanics and endgame stuff is really hard to understand and find. I still don’t know how I make a legendary, upgrade it and which slot I should have it without regretting it later.
This whole thing is completely outsourced into fanpages, WoW itself doesn’t help you at all with that.
Same goes for new players that get thrown into SW or OG and confronted with tons of quests that all lead in completely different directions and stories.
There is tons of problems like that.

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You can see where instances are by going to the Journal and clicking the map icon.
Then right click to zoom out and it wil show the zone.

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I have the opposite feeling, the game basically guides you to nearly everything, in a “click this - good work! - now click that” manner.

The only way to make this simpler is by having that auto-navigate feature Diablo Immortal has and the game might as well do all the walking for you… :sleeping:

Most games require you to either explore or read a guide outside of the game. As it should be.

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:100:

Far too often I find myself having to use google to get information for most of these things.

World of Warcraft is the only game I need to do this.

Genshin Impact is light years ahead of them.

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I tend to agree. Stuff are supposed to be semi hidden and encourage exploration, but people are just used to have all information available to them.

First time I went to Stormwind I had no idea what wowhead was. I just ran around trying to see as much as possible of the place, even found a toy vendor patrolling (which I was too poor to afford at the time).

But yeah the problem is they add new places and stuff each patch, so it’s almost impossible to keep up with it without an external database.

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Sorry guys. But im unable to find mankrik’s wife. do you know where she is?

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I suppose my first time in Stormwind, my friend was sat behind me and said “just speak to the guard to find out where to go”.

That mentality of asking a guard has been engrained in me ever since.

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The new player experience teaches players this now once they arrive in SW.

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