Got my rogue to 110 through invasions and bonus objectives. Invasions only provided me with 1 piece of loot and 100 shards, so not much to start with, but the chests on the shores gave me some more pieces of equip and shards which, coupled with some of the lieutenants and the turn ins of resources gave me almost a full equip of 850 items. I'm still missing relics though, and gotta get a second trinket to boost up my ilvl to a more decent level. I went subtley on the rogue and I love being able to just drop from up in the air without taking any fall damage but I suck so much at playing it. Fun though.
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World of Warcraft |OT9| People still play this? Isn't it from 2004
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Wait, whaaaa - the invasions are scalable content, too? My level 100 alts can access that content, and it's good xp?
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
I kind of wonder if the 2500 nethershards was originally intended to be 'one of' the mechanisms for the broken shore that acted as a 'gate' before they introduced the weekly limit to the quests....
As most people would (generally) be using their nethershards for gear upgrades or gambling, there'd at least be 1 invasion worth of questing to do, with maybe a few rares or sentinax farming as well.
Instead, if you don't have a lot of rares up on-server, you're either server hopping or waiting for the next invasion to come up.
Yeah, I'm kind of curious as to why there is 'only' the 880 relics to buy from shard, and not an 850 one for 500.
Similar situation with my alt rogue, who just finished out the other weapon quests - no relics up on the WQ area, and don't want to waste 15k gold (which is absurd) for 830 crafted ones.
Yes. You can't do the 'finisher' quest, but a full 5-6 quests is like 80ish % of a level.
As most people would (generally) be using their nethershards for gear upgrades or gambling, there'd at least be 1 invasion worth of questing to do, with maybe a few rares or sentinax farming as well.
Instead, if you don't have a lot of rares up on-server, you're either server hopping or waiting for the next invasion to come up.
Yeah, I'm kind of curious as to why there is 'only' the 880 relics to buy from shard, and not an 850 one for 500.
Similar situation with my alt rogue, who just finished out the other weapon quests - no relics up on the WQ area, and don't want to waste 15k gold (which is absurd) for 830 crafted ones.
Yes. You can't do the 'finisher' quest, but a full 5-6 quests is like 80ish % of a level.
Robin64
Member
Based on the achievement, it looks like some upcoming weekly quests are:
Complete 12 Broken Shore WQs
Kill 5 rare elites on the Broken Shore
Kill 100 demons
Open x number of Wyrmtongue chests
Basically, all "tutorial" things, so I guess they really were all meant to be up on day one until someone at the last minute decided otherwise.
Complete 12 Broken Shore WQs
Kill 5 rare elites on the Broken Shore
Kill 100 demons
Open x number of Wyrmtongue chests
Basically, all "tutorial" things, so I guess they really were all meant to be up on day one until someone at the last minute decided otherwise.
For some reason the weekly resets on different things seem to be out of sync. The quest givers in Dalaran now seem to reset 1 hour later than the rest.
cartographer
Member
I think they intended for it to be drawn out and these are effectively the simplest possible quests to count as weekly progress on a campaign. Little to no narrative attached, just has you doing things already there on the Broken Shore. It's just naked padding.
7.1 Suramar had the do 8 Suramar WQs bit, but it also had narrative stuff every week and actual quests versus meta quests.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Yeah, the main difference between Suramar and this is that the base (forget the name atm) of your Suramar campaign actually improved, changed, and you got access to new areas of the city (via portals, exploring, what have you) over time to actually show you were making progress into winning back the city, and stopping Elisande and Gul'dan - especially after you finished the 'initial' exalted grind, and then they change up the portal system and bring the demons in.
With the Broken Shore, it's literally just naked 'here are the quests to help you get flying' padding.
I realize there's more to come with the class hall quest lines, but even the artifact skin story introduction, while kind of cool, could stall out for people if they can't beat the challenge atm.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Fucking Khadgar.
At least I'm really close to flying after doing that.
At least I'm really close to flying after doing that.
Carpe Libertatem
Member
I really wish every class had the option for an auto complete advancement. It's so useful.
The 110 one or the 100 one? lol
The 100 one, yeah you can go to some dude and say "I've seen this before ..."
110 one? Don;t think so.
When daylight savings hit, most of the resets shifted back an hour. But oddly it didn't affect everything the same. I used to be able to get things done before leaving for my shifts at the hospital that started at 12 PM, but after daylight savings things reset at 11 EST on my server instead of 10 EST so its much harder. No idea why some things didn't shift though.
Anyway, this week is WQ weekly, 50% more rep from WQs. Should help anyone late on flying or anyone farming rep caches for mounts. Really wish the reward was better than 5k resources though, not much to do with those now hah.
I agree. One of the factors in choosing an alt for me was having this ability, nothing else even really compares. Healers kinda get screwed the most, I think of all the healers only pallies have auto WQ complete as an upgrade?
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Doing invasions is way faster, at least - on a related note, leveling speed for alts goes way up, and Herbing/mining gets way easier.
Other than that....you're almost half done with the class hall mount grind, and don't have to rely on the convoluted flight paths, I guess?
Yeah, I initially went with the free seal for my raiding Ret paladin, but switched over to the free quest once I realized the free seal for 1k resources/gold really didn't mean all that much in the grand scheme of things - especially with the free seals from mission hall and Timewalking every 2-3 weeks.
(To be fair, at the time the selection of the quests that were 'able' to be completed was really bad, and was the 1 per 3 days, instead of every 18 hours.)
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Yep. At launch auto-complete was straight up awful.
Now its just a free 500 honor every day.
Now its just a free 500 honor every day.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
So I got Prydaz today, finally.
Couldn't escape it forever I guess.
Though I did get http://www.wowhead.com/item=147843/siras-extra-cloak as well, which is pretty rare I guess. Really cool transform toy.
Couldn't escape it forever I guess.
Though I did get http://www.wowhead.com/item=147843/siras-extra-cloak as well, which is pretty rare I guess. Really cool transform toy.
RoninChaos
Member
Which one, Minerva?
I can only imagine how those people that grinded it out in a weekend feel lol. Alts are super easy to level I guess?
Feels great. Now I can finish everything faster.
So these weekly quests are really stupid, especially this week "give me 2500 nethershards and I'll give you 2499 back, in case by week 4 you didn't know nethershards were a thing" but I am glad for them for 2 reasons:
1. It will make getting exalted on alts for the mount WAY easier. A series of super short and easy quests that give 1500 rep each? Yes please. Suramar campaign was much cooler story wise, but holy hell if that isn't the WORST thing to do on alts. And it gates a TON of AP (just from the Gul'Dan quest) and a super useful item (self rez every 30 min). It is also just nice to get big chunks of rep sometimes, as opposed to Suramar's "finish a major questline, here's 100 rep, do a blue elite WQ, here's 250"
2. It protected people against themselves. People are self destructive in WoW, if class mounts were available on day 1, imagine the people going crazy farming treasure chests non-stop, then complaining about what a crazy grind blizz implemented. With this 12 week gating, people will close in on exalted without really thinking about it, and it softens the blow of the "grind" since it happens passively.
And while these quests are lame, this truly is the first alt friendly thing they've implemented in legion, which is great when it is tied to class mounts. 12 weeks from now you'll be able to get ~24k rep in one day just from these 1-10 min quests, which gets you quite close to the mount. My main might've wanted more story a la Suramar, but my alts certainly don't hah.
1. It will make getting exalted on alts for the mount WAY easier. A series of super short and easy quests that give 1500 rep each? Yes please. Suramar campaign was much cooler story wise, but holy hell if that isn't the WORST thing to do on alts. And it gates a TON of AP (just from the Gul'Dan quest) and a super useful item (self rez every 30 min). It is also just nice to get big chunks of rep sometimes, as opposed to Suramar's "finish a major questline, here's 100 rep, do a blue elite WQ, here's 250"
2. It protected people against themselves. People are self destructive in WoW, if class mounts were available on day 1, imagine the people going crazy farming treasure chests non-stop, then complaining about what a crazy grind blizz implemented. With this 12 week gating, people will close in on exalted without really thinking about it, and it softens the blow of the "grind" since it happens passively.
And while these quests are lame, this truly is the first alt friendly thing they've implemented in legion, which is great when it is tied to class mounts. 12 weeks from now you'll be able to get ~24k rep in one day just from these 1-10 min quests, which gets you quite close to the mount. My main might've wanted more story a la Suramar, but my alts certainly don't hah.
Lady S'theno. Her Italian VA is great and her bubble ability (absorb shield and 100% haste to everyone of your faction in 20 yards) is a pretty nice DPS boost.
AlimNassor
Banned
How are Frost Death Knights in PVE now? Good damage? Nice skills? Not gunna get wrecked by elite mobs?
that khadgar quest is awesome lmao
I love this meme
So fucking awesome
jaundicejuice
Member
7.2's content outside of Cathedral of Night and Tomb of Sargeras is stopgap. Catch-up gear, if you haven't been running mythic+ for whatever reason, a crafting mat for prof leggos, flying and the class mount are the only real carrots dangled in front of players to drive them to actually play through some paper-thin time-gated content.
Legion's PVE zones are a hell of a lot more manageable with flying though. Glad I kept up with doing what little there is to do on The Broken Shore.
Blizzard wrote a short story that explains Nathanos' new look
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20704258/warcraft-short-story-dark-mirror
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20704258/warcraft-short-story-dark-mirror
You know, after revisiting Legion (I played for a couple months in the fall, back now), I really am noticing that whatever the next expansion winds up being, it is seriously high fucking time for Blizzard to make a new city.
Like, how has there not been a new full in-game city since... Wrath of the Lich King!?
Like, how has there not been a new full in-game city since... Wrath of the Lich King!?
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Yay I can fly
Pretty cool. Nathanos has always been a fairly interesting character, glad they gave him a role in Legion.
Pretty cool. Nathanos has always been a fairly interesting character, glad they gave him a role in Legion.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
that khadgar quest is awesome lmao
I love this meme
Oh God i had completely blocked from my mind the grind to get the legendary ring in WoD.
Yeah, it is kind of weird that its been so long. We were suppose to have had two new ones in WoD but they got scraped. I suppose those resources went to Class Halls in this expac. That said, I'd be ok with another expac with no new city if they decided to rebuild the old cities and make space for proper player and guild housing.
Blizzard's loaded dice are at it again. 5 level 110 characters, none of them have ever seen Arcanocrystal before. 3 of them got one today. After rolling back to back Chrono Shards from Relinquished Trinkets on different characters, I'm a little skeptical and a lot happy with this state of affairs.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
While anecdotal, I keep getting some variant of the PVP trinkets on my characters.
Sure, they seem to titanforge often (Pally got 900 static STR+crit) , but at the same time, I don't need some static vers and an AGI proc for my DH or rogue (even though outlaw does like vers, relatively)
Just give me an eye of command or a nightblooming frond, lol
And to be fair, it's not like this is the first time this Xpac Blizz has messed up some of the 'RNG' aspects of Legion drops.
Usually I'm very skeptical of this kinda thing, and err on the side of RNG is RNG, but I am hearing a lot of people getting Arcanocrystals today, moreso than past Withered Jim spawns. In fact, 8 characters in my guild got one today, of the maybe ~12 that did the world boss. Obviously 3 of the ~4-5 that didn't get it were my 3 characters though...
Robin64
Member
King Anduin Wrynn Cinematic (spoilers)
Kid wakes me up at 3:30 because he wet the bed. Change bed sheets and clothes, lay down with him, back to sleep at about 5. Welp, I gotta be up in like 45 minutes, will take me another twenty after laying down to get back to sleep, fuck it, lets get some WoW in.
Servers down from 5am EST to 6 AM EST for scheduled maintenance.
On a Wednesday.
/sigh....
Servers down from 5am EST to 6 AM EST for scheduled maintenance.
On a Wednesday.
/sigh....
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Is this from 7.2.5?
Robin64
Member
Azzurri
Member
I hope Blizzard adds way more cinematics like this. I love stuff like this, it's the reason I liked SWTOR for the little time I played it. I know people don't care much about story in WoW or MMORPGS in general, but when they add a bunch of cinematics like this I find it so much more engaging as a player. I feel like I'm in a world where you care about what's going on and not just logging on to kill generic raid boss 134 or some monster. Plus, WoW has SO much lore, and the tech now allows Blizzard to do so much more than they could years ago.
I hope Blizzard carries this on with class stories too, I wish they added a bunch of cinematics to class stories and such.
I hope Blizzard carries this on with class stories too, I wish they added a bunch of cinematics to class stories and such.
Absolutely beautiful.
Yep. I remember being completely blown away by the Wrathgate cinematic back in wotlk. It was so damn awesome.