So all this stuff with WoW Remix got me thinking about the hear treadmill. Now I don’t care about it – at all. I never have. I participate in it because it’s part of the game and it’s impossible not to, but it’s not something I care about in of itself. It’s not why I play.

I explained this badly when it came up in my guild discord but I just had a thought which I think expresses my view better.

I imagined the question being posed to me of “so you think somebody running solo in story mode, should be able to get the same rewards as someone completing a mythic raid then?” and you know what – I actually do.

A great example of this is PlayStation games. PlayStation games. Take say the Marvel Spider-Man game. Somebody can play that on Easy and get all the collectibles, trophies, see all the fights, the story, the cinematics etc. just the same as somebody that plays on Ultra Crushing Hard. The difference isn’t in what they get – it’s in how they like to play.

Some people have epic skills. They are blessed with fast reactions, and they enjoy the challenge. They like throwing themselves against the brick wall until they eke out a victory. Absolute power to them. I wish them nothing but happiness. Personally I am neither that good, nor do I find that enjoyable. I like a bit of a challenge, I don’t mind a few attempts while I work it out but I like it to feel possible. If victory doesn’t feel within reach then I’ll switch to an easier difficulty mode for that boss.

Purely my personal POV but I like the way the PlayStation game does it. Separating the reward from how people like to play. Everybody gets the same cake, no matter how they enjoyed the journey to get there.

In Warcraft I am definitely the minority in this. The entire game is set up so people can feel superior I guess? I remember all the talk of “dirty casuals” when I first started playing back in 2010. It’s sad really. Personally I don’t think other people having stuff takes anything away from me. Let people play the way they enjoy.

You know when you are trying to be patient because it’s only been a few days and that includes a weekend? Yet have zero faith it will get better?

Yeeeeeah…. I’m talking about WoW Remix. I am so disappointed in it.

Think I might do a proper blog post later to rant 🙁

But TLDR highlights – what was advertised, was not what went live. They got my attention with “currency for items” and “accelerated levelling”. I watched lots of videos and I hadn’t felt that positive about the game in a long time.

What I was expecting was the first character levelled would be slow/normal speed, but getting slightly faster/more powerful as they levelled up and the cloak got power. Then as the cloak was account-wide, the next character would be even faster/more powerful, and the next one even more than that. Aka the more you played, the faster the levelling and the more OP you got. I was giddy. I had planned my levelling order. I was thinking I would perhaps do 8 to knock out various heritage armor quests.

But the cloak is not account wide anymore (it was on the PTR and why would they program something so complex only to hardcode what people got instead???). Now once one character gets the top “infinite power” (ha! what a joke) achievement, any alt will simply start with the same baseline ‘upgraded’ cloak – the same. So the second or the tenth is identical. And this baseline ‘boost’ is no more than what the winds of wisdom is that they give us sometimes yet I had to earn it??

Now with the currency accumulation to buy stuff that was like double bubble. This one is probably on me because with currencies going account wide in the next expansion, I assumed bronze would be – but it’s not. Also it accumulates so slow that someone did the math. You’d have to clear mythic Siege everyday for the full 95 days to stand a chance at getting all the things, and that’s if you don’t need to use the same currency to upgrade your gear to be able to run the raid in the first place.

I just feel super demotivated when I was ready to heap praise on the mode. Because I thought it was set up super well because everything in the mode was a way to get more powerful and make progress. I had been planning on spending most of my free time in Remix. Now with how disappointed I feel I don’t really want to play at all.

Aaaaand that was basically a rant not a TLDR – oops! I didn’t even mention how broken the scaling is. Like want to get weaker and weaker the more time you put in? Yeeeah that’s how it goes. Worse I don’t think they will go “ok our bad” and revert the batshit nerf and make the cloak account wide again, because some people realised the frogs were farmable and have powered their cloak mad high. That was always a way to farm lesser charms back in the day (I did it myself sometimes when I was short) and so it’s not like blizz didn’t know that was a thing. But yeah I foresee this being the excuse now for why cloaks can’t be account wide and have to be capped 🙁

Their promo is about being “overpowered” so I don’t get it. Well actually I do because the community is toxic. It launched Thursday and already the “if you don’t have X or Y don’t even bother applying to the group” has started. So I sort of get why balance is a concern but at the same time it’s a limited time mode, that has no bearing on the actual live servers as it’s all locked away. Boost everyone up. Although this clearly anathema to them. I’m on a Fury Warrior and my primary stat is in the red because they have thrown a class wide nerf buff thing, that lowers my stats just by logging in. Like why? They said in an interview about powering up enough to solo raids and sure, make that possible without exploiting creative game mechanics (aka frogs). Let everyone have mad fun and not just those who have spent all day everyday racing ahead.

Sorry ranting again. I’m just disappointed. I shouldn’t have got so enthusiastic about this mode. I shouldn’t have believed the PTR or all the videos of players excitedly talking about it. I should have expected it was too good to be true. But I was counting down until launch. I hyped up my guild. I rearranged my regular Thursday night plans as I wanted to experience the chaos of the launch, and jump right in. And now yeah I am just so demotivated 🙁

Tags: #in which I rant#maybe they will fix it there’s certainly enough angry posts about it#but the hotfixes this weekend give me zero faith in that talk about bandaid on a bullet hole#sighing forever

135 wipes and then on the 136th attempt…

Honestly I did NOT think that was happening but yup Ahead of the Curve: Sylvanas is finally mine. Now I never, ever, ever, ever want to do that again.

This guide is magic!

I have had the Blood Infusion quest to get Shadowmourne in my logs since about 2010, never managed it as even back when I had friends organising a run just never happened.

Well this meant I soloed it 🙂

Took a little doing. I had trouble getting the alts into the same instance to start. The trick was to clear the poison wing (I had skipped it) and then form the group outside the instance. After that it was a straight one shot.

This and Illidan’s Warglaives are my last two remaining legendaries. Last month the bow finally dropped for me and I finished Dragonwrath.

Not a bad way to spend part of a Saturday morning 🙂

I had to run a couple of dungeons for the Pride of Kul Tiras questline so I was a ret pally and the mage in the group made one hell of a fuss as apparently we took the wrong door down to the basement. Now I have no clue really, I was just following the tank, but it just brought into sharp relief why I haven’t clicked to queue as tank this expansion.

In fact I barely clicked to queue as tank when I was playing during Legion, and I think I did it once when I got Warlords and my pally played so differently (lost abilities, changed stats, the ilevel squish, all in addition to the usual drop in power because we’re levelling again) that I was scared. I’d lost my selfhealing ability which had made me fall in love with tanking in the first place.

Simple fact is that I haven’t really tanked since Mists when I was the main raid tank for my guild. I think I said this in my last rambling post about Warcraft; that I once had a grasp on the game and now I’m just ??? no clue about it all.

Which brings me to my reason for this ramble – Siege of Boralus Mythic.

I have to complete it in order to finish the ‘A Nation United’ quest, get the achievement AND (from my perspective) fulfil the requirement for unlocking the Kul Tiran allied race. Logically I know I’m being dumb as I haven’t finished levelling my Void Elf Priest (and haven’t touched at all the Lightforged Pally, or Nightborne Mage I rolled). So it’s not like I need the Kul Tiran Druid anytime soon (I have a 110 Worgen Druid) but I just like the aesthetics – it looks cool!

BUT as a solo player, without a guild, without friends, and with crippling self-confidence issues – I’m never going to be able to find a group to complete this Mythic, which means I won’t be able to finish this quest until the next expansion when I can (hopefully!) go in and solo it (*insert grumble about Hellfire Citadel not being soloable*).

I guess this ramble is a slight rant because yes Warcraft is a MMO, it isn’t a single player game, but they brought in LFD and LFR so more players could experience all the areas of the game, it is lower difficulty, rewards are less but that’s fine with me! These days I’m just here for the story and to see all the cool stuff. They should have made Siege of Boralus have a heroic mode, and let us do the quest on that.

Anyway I’m going to shut up now. I need to do more Horde side but merlin help me if there’s some kind of Mythic requirement for unlocking the Zandalari allied race – I want my dino!druid and also they can be paladins – paladins! I mean sure I don’t need like a 5th paladin but they just look so cool!