🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 00:33:03 +0100, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum>
wrote:

>An ex guildie owes me 100k for the bike mount in SW.  I better have to 
>send a few Horde Angels to his house so I get them before I quit. ^^

Hehe yep, else he might claim amnesia whenever you return ;-)

>I went to Nagrand again this morning and also found a few Highmaul 
>Reliqureruywrssh boxes too.  Oh well.  I decided to check those relics 
>out on wowhead.  Aha.  350 rep for each.  BoA.  Cool.  Farm mode.  34 
>relics later I sent them to my main (mage) and got him halfway through 
>honored with the excavation faction.

That was the one faction I've actually got to exalted, as hunting
treasure chests and rares turned out to be quite fun! Just a shame
they made factions so pointless, since pets and mounts are
accountwide, there's no reason to do that one on any alts.

>More elite mob farming.  Oh btw.  Got 3 bloods from my druids barn this 
>morning.  Zero from my lock's barn.  Bleh.  I have enough primal spirits 
>for 14 bloods + 3 from the barn so I can actually upgrade something. 

I took the lazy approach on that one, primal spirits + auction house,
who needs a barn ;-) Got it on an alt as I need fur for tailoring, but
not bothered on my main and don't think I will, not like upgrading a
max of 3 craftable items at a time will cost that much... at least,
until I start swapping them in and out to suit what non-craftables I
have for other slots, I guess...

>Too lazy.  I'm stuck in my garrison because I keep my slaves on their 
>toes with new missions.  Annoying, tedious, repetitive...  Checking the 
>friends list now and then.  90% of the list is sitting in the garrison. 
>  Permanently!  Not a good sign.  Checking the list with ID friends.  A 
>handful havent logged for the last 7 days.  2 peeps havent logged for 2 
>weeks.  This is 1½ months after WoD went live.  And some of those peeps 
>were online in MoP in several hours every day and they all were looking 
>very much forward for WoD.

Yep. Most my friends were long gone tbh, but 3 returned for WoD, of
those, none do anything much outside of the garrison, other than
worldboss once a week, and old content. Oh, two do garrison invasions
from time to time - when I round them up to help me with *my*
invasions! I'm expecting to be down to just one friend still subbed
fairly soon, and even that one does 10x as much old content as WoD
content... I think he's only subbed for farming old raids for mounts!

I'm afraid I remain very disappointed with the amount of max lvl
content this expansion, I do hope that once the holiday period is over
(next week!) we get some concrete info about 6.1, and that it includes
a lot of the solo open world content that we've been missing. Isle of
Thunder/Dominance Offensive type content is badly needed!

>Last night I had a chat with an ex-guildie who has loads of contacts to 
>persistent HC raiding guilds on a handful of different realms... not so 
>persistent anymore.  Guilds are slowly falling apart.  Peeps are simply 
>quitting due to boredom.

If even the raiders are quitting then ouch. I tend to get the
impression from forums that raider types are happy and it's only
casual types like me who are bored, at least, according to the
"raiding and pvp is the whole game, why do you play if you don't do
them" types... my response to them is that I never needed raiding or
pvp in past expansions to not be bored within 3 weeks of launch!

>Blizzard wanted us to get out in the world in Draenor.  They invented 
>the garrison so now 90% percent of the playerpool is stuck there as 
>there is close to zero content outside the walls and we have to keep our 
>slaves at work.

Yep. I LOVE the garrison as a minigame, but there's so little reason
to leave it after you're done levelling. Now that I've finished the
stables dailies, I have (in Draenor, got plenty older content to do,
but, that's not WoD, is it...): 

Apexis dailies, well, I maxed the only item slot that's worth getting
(legs), rest have rubbish stats. So ok, I can farm a few more for
pets, wow. I do them for the sake of it most days since at least it
procs invasions now and again, but I now skip the ones I like less
(Skettis, arrgghhhh, whoever designed that one needs to be forced to
complete it on a high pop server and then redesign it)

Garrison campaign weekly: all of them are too short and too low on
actual cohesive story so far, not very interesting. Fills an hour a
week, max. 

World bosses: Two available, but you can only do one a week. Nice, so,
that's 10 mins a week filled? Maybe 20 if you count standing around
waiting for the group to fill up...

Repgrinding: did the one fun faction, the rest are vanilla style
grinds, eh, I'll pick them up as I do the Apexis dailies, I guess. Oh
and 4 factions total, we usually have 8+ to work on... and no, I do
not count my bodyguards as factions, that's just even more mindless
grinding.

Archaeology: still fun for a bit, but never a major part of my
content, just something I do now and again for a change. Also I need
to grind to max one of those vanilla style factions to be able to
refresh my digsites and I'm stuck with a few which are a total pain.

Pet Battles, like Arch, fun some of the time, but not as my main
content; I've caught one of everything, all that's left is upgrading a
few to rare and levelling up a bunch... and I already have over 100
max lvl pets, so really, not a priority.

Professions: haha. Past expansions I'd happily spend ages mining, then
even longer in front of the auctioneers crafting and selling! This
time: no use mining, I've got an overload of ores (donated 1k True
iron to a friend the other day to start him off on blacksmithing!),
and thanks to huge reduction in sockets, green gems are worthless, and
blue gems thanks to the 2-3 day cd requirement are priced so high that
they don't sell either. All I can do is make blue rings to send to my
enchanter to convert to dust. Professions are dead :-(

So... any reasons I've missed to actually leave my garrison and go out
in the world? 

Sorry for the wall of text but argh, they seem to have made the
outside world as unattractive as possible this time, which is SO
disappointing when I look at the awesome zone design, and the great
stories we got while levelling; there is so much potential for fun and
interesting areas, but it just stops. 

For all that a year of SoO sucked, releasing WoD too early with half
the end content missing wasn't a good solution either, they'd have
done better coming up with a Ruby Sanctum type patch to tide people
over for a bit longer... as it is, that 3 million who came back, won't
be seeing much reason to stick around, nor to return again in the
future :-/