🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 3 Nov 2016 05:02:27 +0100, "Peter T." <pinoc10@hotmail.cum>
wrote:

>It's silent in the group.  Are you doing well, folks?  Is Legion a great 
>expansion? :)

Very quiet round here but I'm having fun for sure, got my 2nd lvl 110
a couple of days ago, so I'm enjoying seeing another class storyline
and gearing up.

Positives:
-World quests are great, lots of variety, useful rewards in artifact
power and potential for gear upgrades even when I'm at a gear lvl that
normally would make rewards worthless, titanforged is a very nice
mechanic for me.
-Suramar. Hardly need say any more - beautiful scenery, really alive
feeling city, fantastic ongoing storyline that really makes me
interested in the characters, and just as I completed the first story
they patch in another one! Best zone ever for me as someone who loves
story and questlines (I imagine Lewis hates it though ;-)) 
-Still enjoying exploring the world, when I finally gave up and
installed handynotes for the treasures I found tons I'd missed, even
after thinking I'd been everywhere lol. The amount of detail in the
world seems an alltime high.
-Class questlines are great for seeing more story with a class flavour
and making it worthwhile to level an alt; I'm loving the feel of the
druid hall and story as a contrast with the priest one.
-LFR feels way better than WoD; some mechanics actually can't be
ignored this time, and returning to the tier sets and proper trinkets
improves the value a lot, albeit I do have to hope for titanforges for
them to be particularly useful to me; I think it wouldn't have hurt
being 5-10 ilvls higher, given I have 860 ilvl without ever doing
anything higher than LFR/normal dungeons.
-The dungeons I've tried have been fun and I haven't yet encountered a
bad pug to put me off (usually I only last 1-2 weeks into a new
expansion before giving up on dungeons again!)
-Players seem very very lazy these days so making money is easier than
it's ever been - seriously, people pay 400g+ for 50 ancient mana, or
1k gold for a stack of the easiest fish! Maybe I will get that spider
mount (2 million gold) one day after all ;-)


Negatives:
-Professions questlines are cool, BUT it's frustrating when you have
to drag through a ton of dungeons on an alt you'd normally prefer to
stay solo with; I love my druid but I'm well aware that I am not
particularly good at playing him, and so usually prefer to leave him
out of groups instead of forcing others to carry me! Unfortunately his
alchemy questline means he had to do dungeons to even get any useful
basic recipes...
-Way too much pushing of mythic dungeons. Yeah, they're the cool toy
of this expansion, I get it, but quests for them from class missions,
whole tier of artifiact skin locked behind them, recipes in them, and
worst of all, three mythic-only dungeons, two of which interest me
greatly in both looks and story. Feels like the bad old pre-LFR days
where I'd finally get to see inside a raid two expansions later... and
yes, I *know* everyone says mythic dungeons aren't that hard, it's not
that which is the barrier for me but the getting through the group
finder and the wall of elitist groups that only accept people who
already know everything; I just expect to be rejected or yelled at so
don't even try. Make it queueable and I'd probably give it a try
eventually...

Mixed:
-Archaeology, eh, well ok, quests are interesting, but most are pretty
painful to complete for terrible rewards so far. 25+ digsites for a
piece of vendor trash, for example... ok, a 5k gold piece of vendor
trask but 5k isn't so much nowadays! And who on earth thought it was a
good idea to stick digsites in forced PVP zones??
-Legendary drops are a cool idea, but the randomness makes for a lot
of divisions between the haves and have-nots, I see so much resentment
on forums where those who don't have them get rejected for groups/left
out of raids ("find a better guild" is my thinking there but to the
hardcore types I can see it's pretty upsetting to have no control over
that aspect of their gear). I finally got one a few days back and it
was about the worst possible for me, oh well, luckily I'm not bothered
about it!

Overall it's a winner for me; the negatives definitely don't outweigh
the positives. I don't play as much timewise as I did in earlier
expansions, but that's mainly because after 2 years of playing WoW
hardly at all, I'm out of the habit and have other interests! Still
log on for a few hours every day though, and still very much enjoying
it :-)