Isnt this basically the Isle of Q?

 

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Perhaps I'm jaded or burnt, but I hate this new grind.

We did multiple rep grinds in WOTLK. We did an extensive ultra grind at the end of TBD (QD). We did rep grinds in cata already. On top of that, at the same time, is the emblem redo whereby you can now grind all your not favorite heroics or trollics even more.

So it doesn't really matter whether it's interesting lore-wise, it doesn't matter if you get a few easy epics out of it early that're barely slim upgrades to 359 pieces, it's still a hellish grind.

This grind is also an extra kick in the nads for anyone with alts, which I'd guess is the majority of people, since doing this grind once will suck enough - doing it multiple times for several alts...no....NOOOOO.

I've got a few of my characters thru the thrall elemental snoozer quest line to get the cloak. I've got a few of my characters thru 20 tokens to get the "freebie" item from the repair vendor inside the FL portal. Beyond that...I can't bring myself to start or continue (started on one) the grind.

I also have zero desire to do heroics of any kind. I have 10 85's. I've already done a lot of heroics and trollics. Doing the same instances, even with gear to almost WOTLK-ify faceroll them, is still misery. It's content that's been beaten to utter death, and cata heroics are generally long and time sinky.

Also, I'm on an underpopulated RP server. I don't PvP much these days, and no longer enjoy WoW PvP (I really, really hate resilience and everything else they've done to PvP for years now). So, having flagged people running around griefing in the middle of 100+ questors during the first few days of this patch was really kind of annoying.

The reprieve here is that you get good rep doing trash runs, if you can stay awake. I find trash runs to be boring beyond measure even with the BOE lotto potential. Dunno if you can grind to exhalted via trash runs but if you can, it could be faster than getting to friendly via the token nonsense.

You'd get rep via raiding too, and I'm usually a raider, but it seems like half of my guild has had it lately. We have 4 raid nights, that feature a mix of players and 4 seperate teams, and we haven't had 10 people on to raid since the patch hit. People just aren't logging on or signing up for raids.

So, IMO, this patch if a failure, and Bliz is failing to deliver content and gameplay that people want and deserve. We pay premium prices for game and xpacs and pay a monthly sub for year after year...and bliz is just sucking up cash while inflicting a designer that nobody likes on us who's not delivering the gameplay people want.

I think on my retarded server (and I mean that literally, not figuratively or insultingly, because my server is one of the worst for progress and population) there are more people sharing stupidity in trade chat than actually playing the game. I honestly don't know how people can manage to log on to the game and be so stupid at the same time. But, I think it speaks volumes when trade is so hopping with idiots that people would rather sit in cities spamming @the gay bar links than to be actually playing the game. It shows that people are so bored they should log off or not log on.

 

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Wall of self-righteous text crits you for over 9000 million hp.

You die.


Seriously Voqar, you need to just quit. Like, cancel today bro.

 

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You go through all of that to end it by not being able to figure out why OTHER people still log into the game. You ARE one of THOSE people!!

No offense.. but read your post (and other posts you have made) and seriously explain what you are doing still playing WoW.

*pumps fist while looking directly into the camera*

Huge wall of text no one will read hell yes son rock that s*&t

 

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I generally like that "grind". You can feel that Fargo is in charge of quests now. The quests are varied enough not to always get exactly the same stuff every day, and it's also fairly quickly done, without having to run the other side of Azeroth (think Crusader dailies in WotLK). The associated achievements are fun too.

My biggest critic/grief would be that it's once again quests that pit players of the same faction/side against each other. Instead of working together for a common goal, people fight for spawns. Granted, on elite mobs, kills are shared now even among alliance/horde. But it's still not enough. Way to go though, this is the best "daily quest hub" I've seen yet.

 

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Just because it's the best turd doesn't make it not a turd.

 

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What if htey made it more like the opening of AQ? Although one person on the whole freakin server getting the mount was...stupid.

 

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Yea I liked the Isle of Q. Not only the constant conflict, but when you were done you could go out and hunt Horde or Alliance, grief, etc.

 

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