The Struggle Inside is off and operating and presumably doing properly, which doesn’t seem to be the very best second to jot down one thing about Dragonflight… and but right here we’re!
WoW Dragonflight
I logged into retail WoW final week to gather the Twitch Drop mount that I had collected… as a result of who doesn’t need one other mount you’ll in all probability by no means journey! I do know I would like one!
I did cease quick on the following Twitch “drop” which required you to pay for a two month subscription to one of many chosen Twitch channels on their record, as straight up paying for drops is past my restrict. Good for the streamers on this system I suppose, however I’m a cheapskate.
I imply, are you able to imagine this shit?
However that’s not actually the purpose, the purpose is that I logged into retail WoW to gather my mount, throughout which I used to be bombarded by the standard spherical of “Hey, you’re again! Let me let you know about all the pieces happening and the way your spec is unsuitable and your addons are outdated and hell we don’t even permit that one addon anymore and it is best to completely do that quest and this different factor” and so forth.
I imply, there’s a massive splash display after which issues going off like popcorn all around the UI. It’s form of disorienting at occasions.
That is essentially the most calm, simply handled half and I nonetheless don’t know what it means
I imply, I need to give them credit score for placing within the effort. There are video games on the market that can change basic issues and simply anticipate that you just’ll have learn the message six pages right into a thread on the boards about how some key sport mechanic was up to date in a means that can wreck your day once you finally journey over it.
However, I cannot quickly neglect a earlier enterprise into retail the place I used to be given a gear improve supply that took all my 30 slot baggage and changed them with 22 slot baggage, gave me new gear that was each ugly and never out there to transmog, after which caught all of the my crap in 16 observe on mail deliveries by which I needed to discover all my outdated baggage and substitute them as a result of the brand new baggage left me properly wanting having the ability to maintain all my stuff. It was a literal “WTF?” expertise.
So I wasn’t taking any handouts this time regardless that the sport was nonetheless keen to supply an analogous “gear improve” to each alt on my roster. Get behind me Devil! I’ll not be falling for that trick once more!
That bypassed, I received in and acquire my new mount, which is a good looking instance of the kind.
One other mount collected
The issue is that I’ve so many mounts in retail that new ones have ceased to be particular or have a lot that means. You possibly can solely journey separately in spite of everything. But nonetheless I’m going seize them each time they’re provided.
I then spent a couple of minutes attempting to tamp down all the opposite blinking and flashing parts of the UI, if solely to spare myself at some future go to. As a part of that I seen that I had a quest for the brand new Warband function. I actually don’t know what that basically is other than some basic “character sharing some updates/rewards” form of means, however I figured I might test that out.
That despatched me out to Gadgetzen in Tanaris the place I did just a few quests and received some form of Warband associated skill.
No matter that is
The hunt rewards appears small when in comparison with what I had been seeing in Cataclysm Traditional, the place at degree 84 quests have been handing out 60K xp, however they did appear to even be transferring my xp bar fairly far. Possibly I’m seeing this “leveling too quick difficulty” even after it had been patched/nerfed.
This turned out to be a financial institution factor, which was good as a result of I wanted to dump a bunch of stuff someplace as a result of I used to be all the way down to 4 bag slots in an try to duplicate my difficulty with Guild Wars 2 the opposite day.
Alongside the best way I seen that one of many quests vying for my consideration stated one thing concerning the Dragon Isles.
You get a dragon and also you get a dragon…
Positive sufficient, I used the dragonscale, teleported to him, and received an entire intro cinematic about Dragons, the Dragon Isles, and the truth that the on once more/off once more cooperative spirit of the Alliance and Horde have been on once more. I had quests sending me off to the expansions.
Wrathion and the search givers
And I do know, in hindsight, that is in all probability a “properly duh!” second for a lot of of you. WoW has lengthy since handed the purpose the place they really feel they’ll make folks purchase outdated expansions so as to catch up. This was an issue for EverQuest earlier than WoW was even stay, EverQuest being eight expansions in earlier than Azeroth launched.
I don’t recall when Blizz lastly stated you solely had to purchase the present growth to get all of the previous content material, however I can’t think about it was too far on previous Cataclysm. And I knew intellectually that this was the best way issues have been.
However I’ve additionally by no means been two expansions out of the cycle both. I haven’t actually performed retail since perhaps the 4 month mark of the 2 yr melancholy that was Shadowlands. Plus with The Struggle Inside pre-order they have been making form of an enormous deal about the truth that you get Dragonflight as a part of the package deal, so I wasn’t considering I might simply log in and, you realize, go to the Dragon Isles.
I didn’t truly do this. I wasn’t fairly able to commit. However I’ve the quests ought to I need to.
In the intervening time my xp bar was filling up so rapidly simply doing common quests that I did the Buying and selling Submit intro quests after which the every day cooking and fishing quest… which have been actually the identical rattling quests which can be in Cataclysm Traditional… have they not up to date these since then… which was simply sufficient to place me excessive and into degree 61.
Now simply 24 ranges behind Cataclysm Traditional and 9 ranges shy of TWW
As I stated, it didn’t take too many quests to degree up. I can see why Blizz could be cautious of the having made the extent curve too shallow. And I didn’t even have any rested xp but.
So there we go. Dragons ahoy ought to I would like them.
