Today's update: Two too late fixes and one huge QQ (WoW)

[thistlechaser]

Oh WoW, I was so in love with you for giving out so many more details than FFXI ever did... then I learned the pain of all the stuff you don't tell your players. Listing only some of the changes a patch brings seems almost worse than saying nothing at all.

This morning I read the patch notes. Had no big reaction (there was one 'too late fix' listed, but it was no biggie). Then I logged onto the game.

XP in AV (PvP BG) has been cut by 60%.

FFXI would have at least said "XP has been adjusted", which everyone would know would mean a nerf. Why did WoW say nothing? Why did I have to learn from word of mouth?

Yeah, I can agree there needed to be an adjustment, last night on guild I said it would be nerfed soon, but 60% reduction? Look up "draconian" in the dictionary and you'll find this nerf.

Too late fix #1: PvP dailies. Now the NPC will only offer you quests you can accept. So from 11-20 you'll only be offered WSG. 21-50 only WSG or AB. Why couldn't this have been done, say, back when I was those levels and kicking the NPC because nine times out of ten I couldn't accept the daily?

Too late fix #2: This one actually hurts me, not just annoys me like #1. AV levels have been adjusted. Now a bracket is 50-59, 60-69, etc like the other BGs. Not only did I have to wait a level longer than others now will, but this is going to kill, totally kill, my effort to get 100K HKs. How? Once I hit 80, I'll be BGing only against other 80s. Matches will be less frequent, and there will be a hell of a lot fewer kills. Blah.

All in all, this is just so amazingly frustrating. Happily I was not in a rush to get to 80, but I wasn't enjoying my time in AV so I didn't exactly want to be forced to do it more for the same XP... It's really the next-to-impossibility of getting to 100 HKs that's making me sad.

Stupid WoW.

QQ

Comments

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

You could lock your exp at 79. =p

[citizenbleys.livejournal.com]

Patch day always sucks. Brewfast dailies were bugged today. got up early (5:30PM) to do the last daily I couldn't do before maintenance.

5:30: Each mole machine spat out about 30 dwarves instead of four. Seven people at camp. Estimated time to fail: 30 seconds

6:00: World server went down in the middle of event. Got back in, fail complete.

6:30: Each person got one mug. They did not regenerate, and 90% of the time you could not pick one up from the table. I think the Horde knocked out 4 dwarves before they stole the beer.

7:00: Only bug was an obscene amount of lag, but half the Horde was there. I'm pretty sure I saw Thrall staggering about singing Barret's Privateers. Won, barely.

a 5 minute daily should not take 1hr30mins to complete, but that is patch day for you.

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

So...they introduced leveling through pvp just a few days over a month ago, they saw the problem with the pvp dailies, and they fixed it that quickly, and you're complaining? Your obsessiveness to level so fast is not their fault. You say the xp leveling this way sucks, but it obviously does not since you've managed to level faster than I did through questing on my priest (took from late March to mid June to hit 80 and I was 23 when I really started putting a lot into the character in March) when I don't even have a job.

Also, you hate AV, so why are you doing it? Why not do Eye of the Storm now that you're of a proper level to do it?

QQ indeed. Why on earth do you make everything into a second freaking job?