People will will follow the fastest or “best” way of doing things even if it isn’t the most fun. The gaming culture, and WoW community, are very concerned with playing “the meta”. The distance between places, vertical & horizontal scale, pacing of play, mob density, tree density, and many other factors are all affected by how we’re expected to traverse the zone.Ģ) The question of efficiency. You can see this very clearly if you compare a zone designed to never have flying (ie Timeless Isle) with a zone designed to require flying (ie Icecrown). In my opinion:ġ) Zones, and the content in them, is designed around how you can travel through the zone. But anyway, the reasons why are complicated. Well, given that we’re headed into our 4th expansion with a Pathfinder achievement to unlock flying, I’m not sure what unlocking it by “normal means” is anymore.
Thats not a very good or appealing experience for a brand new player.Įxisting players, who play an alt from the start, will simply avoid BFA like the plague, unless they already smashed their heads against the grind wall and unlocked it. With the new mechanics in place, new players are forced to level up in ONLY BFA, which means even though they can get flying at 30, they cant use it at all as they quest. Sure, they get cut off from flying at 90, but at least they got to have fun with it from 60-90. Right now, new players can get flying at 60, and fly in content from 60 to about 90. Much of the level revamp, new starting experience, etc etc is all designed to give NEW players a better experience through the game first time through. Here is the the messed up nonsensical part. To keep that same mechanic around in the NEXT expansion, for old content, is even more ridiculous. Throwing in additional time gates, rep grinding, and random grinding, is just dumb and pointless.
Make them complete the main quest lines for each new zone before they can unlock it account wide. Sure, make people stay grounded the first time through. The pathfinder bs was always such a bad design mechanic.
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