Zereth Mortis is epic

Yeah, Jus wanted to say it.

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You’re not worthy of playing a Troll.

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no.
you must be epic troll…

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Epic trolls can stand straight.

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epic or epic fail? i played through the patch in 1 day and waiting for season release now

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I wouldn’t go as far as to say Epic!, but it’s certainly alot better than expected.

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I’d really like to know what ppl see in it. Okay, the scenery is nicer than Korthia, I’ll give it that much… but the rest? Still too many mobs; especially in the elite zone, but not just there. Without having flying or being venthyr / DH / class with “leap” even getting to a chest simply on top of a regular wall is tedious. Yes yes, we’ll get flying… but it’s just a legal hack - I’d like to get around (to chests) without having to wait for it.

WQs are few and the dailies take quite long to do without even reputation as a reward. Killing Korthia rares still gives you more anima.

Rares have so much HP you’re falling asleep while killing them.

Storywise… we are in a place where afterlives are created, yes? So why are there animals walking around? Why is there even a “place” surrounding that forge… why are the animals made of stone but drop meat? Why are robots doing random stuff with no intent behind it just to be there? I mean yes, it’s a fantasy setting, but even in a fantasy world stuff being there is supposed to have a reason. So, let’s say those are prototypes for the things made with the forges… then why are there no people? The brokers didn’t originaly belong there. The automatons are robots, not people and are accordingly boring to interact with.

Zereth Mortis is just Nagrand with golden balls all over it and a little Dune (including film music) in the north… but despite the Nagrand part it doesn’t feel like WoW. Coming across Darion and some of the Ebon Blade in the middle of the zone feels as if theye were misplaced there. Even the music doesn’t feel “WoW-like” it sounds like Aion or Blade & Soul … some generic asian MMORPG.

I did like the original SL zones and even korthia was okay (it just became boring after a while) but although ZM is still new, I can’t find the same motivation to go there I still had with korthia. Maybe the raid and further story chapters will help, but atm I rather spend my time in the old zones than ZM. :confused:

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Wish i could judge that by myself, but until bilzzard fixes the keybinds issue i wont bother to try it

Now please bare in mind I said

and not: it’s perfect.

But here is a list of what I am enjoying about it:

  1. A refreshing change from dull and grey and lifeless Shadowlands
  2. For the first time in 8 months, we have something to do, which isn’t just spamming the same 8 dungeons
  3. I’ve been quite enjoying the music
  4. Its nice to have a story to follow, but I’m not a big fan of shadowlands storyline and would much prefer to be on Azeroth than in Space, but its a story, and it’s better than we’ve had so far in SL.
  5. it’s nice to be on the ground rather than flying over everything.
  6. I find having a ground mount adds a layer of challenges. If you want to wait until you have flying you can, but if you want to get it done now, you have to have the extra challenge. I’m enjoying the extra challenge.
  7. It was nice to spend an evening fishing :).

What I think the zone lack:

  1. The Meta Achievement lacks Depth. It would have been nice to have a slightly more Nazjatar experience. This one seems a little too linear. A
  2. A better story quest line and more mini quest lines throughout the zone. Something I think all patch zones tend to lack.

What I’m looking forward to:

I’m looking forward to doing all the content on a low geared toon and only gearing that toon with ZM gear. It looks like it has some interesting effects on it, and I just want to experience the zone through those eyes.

In first play, I do feel the Cypher of the First Ones lacks purpose. Especially now things such a flying have been removed from it. It would be interesting to see how it works on this ZM geared toon though.

The big reveal when we find out that the First Ones are in fact a group of Space Gnomes… yeh it’s true.

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Yeah, but why? The whole zone is useless if you did korthia enough to upgrade your gear to 233… and even Sepulcher LFR will drop better stuff than the ZM open world gives you after a lot of grind. Rep with the faction isn’t required for anything useful. It’s really just a zone for low geared alts (and I’m saying this as someone only doing open wolrd and LFR with my mains), but those alts had to play the grindy zone so much they’d turn into mains.

Me too, but at least the original four zones had… something. It made me think, the places had a purpose and the NPCs had charm… ZM not so much.

Yes, and I’m not saying I want flying… but the current chests / puzzles are just not fun to do if one isn’t a DH / venthyr, that’s my problem. It’s ok to do around with my DH or venthyr chars, but my hunter can’t teleport or glide and feels, well, grounded. xD

Yeah, it’s a minigame to play dress-up / pet battle with that little robot… which (once again) isn’t WoW for me, so again… the whole zone seems kinda pointless to me. :frowning:

I can see that to some degree… but that would mean I had to “hold back” my mains or play a really low geared alt too much. :man_shrugging:

Why are you doing the zone for the gear? Do it for the fun and enjoyment. You’ll get your gear when the raid starts. I’m just killing the Rares, collecting the transmogs and mounts and working towards the achievement.

But you’re comparing a new expansion to an end of expansion content patch. I agree the zone does lack depth in comparison to previous patch zones, but you can’t compare the main product to an add-on.

I did it all on my Mage. I had alot of fun doing it.

I’m going to give it a chance which is why I’m going to gear up through ZM on a low geared alt. To see how it goes.

perfect :smiley: lol just trolling here…

man this map is huge big feel so empty… who cares greens and musics… no fun no entertainment…

just chase stupid rares, open stupid chests,

Well, that’s the problem. It’s some fun with DH / venthyr, but not with other classes and well, there isn’t much to see. My DH has already collected all trasures that are currenty available. The mogs sadly don’t fit my taste. :confused: Purple version of the gear I saw on WoWhead looked ok-ish, but haven’t found it yet.

You’re right, but they could’ve carried stuff over from those original zones. Moonberry trying to prank automatons, Theotar looking for new herbs for tea and discovering stuff, Pelodis and Nemea training some of the new animals and developing a new rivalry, Necrolords building new bodies with corpses from ZM and having strange experiences etc etc.

Ok. Meh. Guess part of the problem is that I know we’ll get flying later. Whenever I come across a chest I can’t reach without doing pixel perfect jums or looking for a way 5 mins I just abandon it, thinking: well, I can get it easier later on. So yeah, guess that’s really a “me” problem :wink:

Good luck! :smiley:

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The Purple Version comes from the Sandworn Relic vendor which is at Pilgrims Grace (east side where the FP is). I like the Red/Blue one for Cloth, but the Purple one for Leather definitely looks great.

I am grateful that they included some Broker mogs, but I would have preferred them to be slightly higher quality that what we have.

I’m just glad to see the back of all the Covenant stuff. I hated them all. Especially Lady Moonberry! Necrolord were cool, but if you need to lose one, gotta lose them all.

That’s it, for those who don’t want to do it, they don’t have to wait long until flying comes.

I just feel players have been trained to look for the quick way to the goal, rather than taking the more challenging root. So when something like this happens and you have the Raw experience (i.e. no flying), they complain when it’s hard than they’re used to. Then flying arrives and they have that for next 8 months, until the next patch comes.

I’m sure though, if Dragons really are the theme of the next expansion, they won’t be holding back on flying… they can’t really.

For me its a map where I will do 1 quest (the weekly one) and a few WQs and thats it.

Jumpings etc. feel awful as someone that experienced way solid jumpings in GW2 and TBH the rewards are way better in GW2. Treasure hunting and what not is always a tedious process and have no ideea why should be done at all. I don’t even know what I am going to get if i hunt treasures / rares / do dailies / do researches. Chasing rares is not much of a different experience than it was in Korthia; they just die while I am on my way there so I don’t kill them either.

Just waiting for rated arena to start.

Its trash minimum effort content, bad story, forgettable characters, nothing interesting to do. You know it will be trash when the promo when the devs get excited about walking on water.

The area is nice looking, and think they removed the mobs de-mounting you, which is epic the rares are also looking great or at least the World rares that spawn from time to time.

It will become a lot better next week when things unlock, and there is more to do in the area, campaigns and a lot more.

Only downside is no flying,

This is what happens when Batman lets you go out to lunch by yourself.

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The water is actualy very trippy when you play on maxx details. Reminds me of stuff i have seen when i dabbled in psychedelics.

I spent almost an entire day just running around in it and I have to agree it is pretty epic.

They said they didn’t release one of the new arenas this patch but it’s actually there, on the skinny floating island between the new raid island and another large empty island. Sort of interesting that it’s a physical location in the open world.

The button in the center of arena wasn’t active though so still not sure what it does :sweat_smile: