Instead, I finished out the evening doing Delve in Path of Exile. There was just too much to do and no real sense of purpose where I needed to start. Last night I bounced though after dinging 100. I mean it is better than it used to be, but it is still pretty far off from what I would consider ideal. I get that this is a flippers game and for “financial pvpers” but it sort of feels miserable for someone who wants nothing to do with that nonsense and just wants to convert “bag bloat” to liquid currency. I always sell items in those games because it is so painless… but I really hate managing failed auctions and the fees that rack up with them. I kinda hate the WoW Auction House system and wish it was something more akin to FFXIV or GW2 where you could list an item and forget about it. I should probably just Auction House the bulk of what is saleable. I need to reconcile all of the junk that is in my bank as well so that I can figure out what I want to do with it. I’ve reached the point where I can no longer accept quests and exclamation points are screaming in my face everywhere I go. I think I am going to spend some time burning down the backlog of quests that I have sitting in assorted zones. The transition from leveling to endgame has never been as smooth as it was during Legion, and I’ve not really seen much in the way of world events yet so I am wondering what I need to do in order to unlock those. Now I just need to figure out what I need to do in order to get some starter gear. I am hoping that this same cohesion flows through to Dragonflight’s post-expansion zones because I know at a minimum at some point I will be stepping foot into the Emerald Dream. Shadowlands instead felt like a bunch of post-launch patch zones where narratively they did what they needed to do… but structurally were a bit of a mess. Dragonflight instead feels like a place you could actually visit with a natural feeling flow to the transitions between zone boundaries. The Shadowlands feels like a number of disconnected content islands that have radically different themes to them. I still did not really enjoy the experience at launch. Technically the expansion had three zones, but it feels like each zone is multiple zones at once with a lot of regional biome shifts and cultures.Įvery time I have complained about Shadowlands, I get some diatribe about playing it at launch… I did play it at launch. Dragonflight created this enjoyable ride from the moment you set foot on the docks of your capital city, to the moment you arrive in Valdrakken for the first time. So much is focused on the narrative story… but the mechanical flow through zones is super important and often treated as an afterthought in games. The team that created the flow of these zones deserves some massive credit because leveling through each area felt extremely enjoyable. There are also just some really cool visual setpieces like this cave full of spiders that were frozen in the state of descending. The Waking Isles are phenomenal and have these nostalgic ties to so many other “favorite” World of Warcraft zones. I think what makes Dragonflight really stand out is the world design. I am looking for Arcade gameplay, whereas too many people seem to be leaning into the more slow and prodding Dark Souls feel. I think the design pattern of the MMORPG feels a bit dated, and I still wish that someone would come along and create the Destiny of MMORPGs with tight action combat with really enjoyable feedback. World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy XIV are so much slower-paced than I am used to now that I had to keep trying to make the combat more active than it was to stay engaged. Guild Wars 2 scratches the ARPG itch so that I can flow seamlessly between it and something like Path of Exile. I ran into this a bit when trying to ease into Final Fantasy XIV as well… my brainwaves seem not to flow along the traditional MMORPG patterns as much these days. I think it might be one of the better World of Warcraft expansions as a whole, but I also think that maybe my tastes in games have shifted a bit. Whelp friends… I have finished the main story campaign in Dragonflight and for the most part, I enjoyed it.
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