The cross-realm stuff is bad, I don't want to play with Brazilians. A guy somehow invites me to a party from another server, and we group up, he's max level, he gives me some bags and stuff, nice gesture, I type my jokes and thanks in party chat. But he doesn't respond, I do this for 10-15 minutes as he follows me around skinning my leftovers. This is because he cant even see party chat even though we're in a party. What tranny coded that?
Questing is different, the default is this beacon thing that tells you how far you are to the quest objective, because apparently thats more fun, walk to the diamond, press the button walk to next diamond. I turned it off.
Who designed that new instance system? It was so nice to be in a region, and seeing in general chat people forming an instance group, then you'd meet up and do the dungeon, this does not exist anymore. Now I get matched with other people of wildly different level in some Godforsaken "Temple of Sethralis" with two level 55s and a 28, and im the level 18 healer. Nobody speaks in the group, zero. It takes what feels like ages to burn down a single group of mobs, we make it through the first boss, easily enough, takes ages to kill it. The second giant snake boss covers the entire floor with AOE poison shit (the entire floor im not joking), it also periodically blinds you, and now the game yells at you "incoming ur gonna get blinded lmao" by the end of the fight everyone is dead but me and the tank, because there is nowhere to walk that isnt poison, and people are 40m+ away from me dying. The third boss just did a ton of aoe damage, and people kept getting hit with these slow deploying floor spears and taking tons of damage, and I don't think I have the talents to mitigate it at level fucking 18. We wiped twice and I knew there was no way I was healing through that so I left out of courtesy (I'm sure I would have been kicked anyways). I got zero XP for doing 2/3s of the instance, and zero loot, you don't get items when you kill bosses, you get some gold. I enjoyed almost lagging out 6 times during play, that was fun. We lost one guy from disconnection, seems like these instance servers have conection issues. I wanted to do a simple instance cause im rusty as shit, but nope, cant do those. I wanted to do deadmines, but nah these new ones are the only ones you're "allowed" queue for. It also makes the world seem very disconnected, as you don't actually run into the dungeons anymore, or travel to them at all.
Some of the new spell animations are good, some of them are not so good. Some of the old ones were more visible, and I think they may have even assisted people in seeing if they are getting hit with them, and thereby hinting that they are standing in the correct area.
Why do they constantly nag me about the pet window, why do I care about 'hoppy the elephant limited edition TM pet?' They even have certified "guides" to answer your "newbie questions" in a special quarantined newbie chat, and they give these people a special badge to show they are "doing it for free." One of the guides informs me that the instance system is "the new streamlined WoW experience" What does that even mean? Streamlined to what? I don't recognize the game.
can be used to buy any piece of gear the boss drops - acting as bad luck protection. On top of that - the patch where <Current Raid> comes out - the Tomestone gear is updated (if you're a wow player think of Justice/Valor gear) with the <Current Tomestone> gear also being nearly as good as raid drops (and can be upgraded from raid drops) - becoming another avenue for gearing up.