Lot of people honing in on my "higher difficulty" claim when what I mean is that the game is engaging more with numerical tension and environmental awareness. Also generally my argument is more about traversal than combat. I think flying mounts ruined the game, big whoop!
I find it a little frustrating and interesting that people are rejecting WoW Forever's slower pace, lower drop rates for quests, higher difficulty, more downtime. They are frictional elements, sure. But isn't it so nice that the world has scale again, that quests take time.
I find it a little frustrating and interesting that people are rejecting WoW Forever's slower pace, lower drop rates for quests, higher difficulty, more downtime. They are frictional elements, sure. But isn't it so nice that the world has scale again, that quests take time.
@Vivalahey hopefully the endgame is something that forever expands upon and builds over the course of its runtime. i just really like playing WoW and of leveling and growing and feeling how each level feels in relation to the part of the world I'm in. It's just as engaging as endgame to me.
@StardewAddict Lotta folks really going in on my use of the word difficult and maybe it was a poor word choice but it's less that and more that there is more tension with numerical values and aggro ranges. It is undoubtedly slower but there is a lot more going on that gear and buffs influence.
@aikalo_x That's confusing the ability to personally abstain from using a mechanic with the ability to opt out of the mechanic's effects on the game :)
@Lagerale I think that sometimes I get the opposite effect when I play retail where handfuls of quests are disposably brief and can be as simple as exploding two or three packs of mobs. It feels more like folding laundry than hunting for Easter Eggs.
@Lagerale I feel like a lot of people brush this off and say "that's vanilla for you" to stuff like this as if it's like "oh well it's supposed to suck" but stuff like inventory management and butting against rare quest drops can be satisfying mechanical design!