Shadowlands Week 2 - What to Do

[Elkas]

I am saying, my gaming habits did not change a single bit between bfa and sl. but I cannot keep up with this atm. I will try of course. but I wonder.I do not ask for a change, I do not ask for cut. I just say, so far, it seems too much for me. It will change over the course of time of course as I will slowly catch up but atm too much for me.

All the various things available right now have almost no impact your characters power, apart from soul-ash for your legendary. You can get this soul-ash in an hour or less from Thorghast, that is if you're not lying about the level that you play at. Everything else is optional and can be done at your own speed.

If you played BFA, then you should realize that there is a whole lot less mandatory stuff needed to be done this expansion compared to it. The mandatory azerite level farming was more work, same with the essences, benthic gear and the corruption gear farming. So if you're still complaining after realizing that, it's because you WANT to do everything in combination with Mythic raiding, and not because you MUST do everything for Mythic raiding.

[THEORACLE64]

too much stuff. my daily 1~2 hours of play cannot keep up with this. at the weekend I might go longer but welp, I guess my 16 years of wow career must come to a bitter end. I love hc-mythic raiding and m15+ but I do not think I can keep up with legendary crafting, upgrades, conduit upgrades, renown upgrades.

It’s honestly doable in that time if you did one of those things a day - it’s how I’ve been able to keep up with this week with working 12 hour days.

[dope_danny]

Thats not a lot to do for a game with a subscription fee to be honest. I think i have more things to do in Genshin Impact right now. Just how much is being staggered for later and how much is gating to make it seem like theres a lot more reasons to keep subbed?

[prwraith]

30min to finish WQs in 4 zones?
You're lying.

Whatever helps you justify not being able to meet a barely off the ground bar.

[javierdsv]

Nothing to do, omg, literally unplayable.

[Zeusy]

So much complaining over nothing.

1,000 anima WEEKLY. Can do a few sets of dailies a day that will take 30minutes~ (also can get anima from dungeons, BG first wins, Arena first wins etc)
Torghast WEEKLY. (even if you miss a week you will be a few ilvl behind on one item. Legendary effect is still the same?)
Maw of the jailer - Weekly
Farm Conduits for spec ONCE
Legendary for pve/pvp ONCE

Anything else is optional.

Maw for sockets - Optional
Callings for rep/gold/anima/gear - Optional
Cov buildings - Optional

Almost everything has a catchup system iirc except for torghast soul ash which is like 1-2 hours a week.

Compared to most other systems... this is really low requirements... I think people are psyching themselves out. Only way this is a lot is if you are trying to do it all in one day. Spread it out a bit by bit and pick what matters for you...

[scelero]

posts like this help make my decision easier. validating why i left. 'here's what you have to do this week'

[GreenJesus]

Most of this stuff isn't "required". I have ignored the world quests for the most part and missed some emissary chests (all they drop is grey vendor items anyway), have only done maw dailies like twice, and I'm not "behind". I'm ilv 172 before doing this week's mythic dungeons with my guild and I've mainly just been farming battlegrounds and getting honor gear & upgrading select pieces. The weekly anima can easily be acquired by doing daily heroic dungeon, daily battleground, weekly battleground chest, and doing a few of the mission tables on your phone. It's really not that bad.

The rep vendors don't even offer stuff that is that good anyway so I don't see a rush to get those up.

People complaining about "mandatory stuff" just probably aren't even playing the game.

[Subrias]

Jeeez. Again all this whining of people who don't have time to do anything. I think some of you just need to quit MMO's alltogether.
This expansion litterally has the least amount of stuff you NEED to do. This Torghast takes 1h per WEEK if you only get the ash you want. The renown is basicly automatically gained by doing the covenant campaign, the actualy story of the expansion.... There are no reps that you NEED to farm at all. There is no AP like BFA...

The list above can be done in half a day and you have a full week to do it.

And again, nothing is mandatory. Anything that you think is mandatory is on you.
I would say there are only mandatory things IF you raid mythic early on.

So you would rather go back to a time when you were bored AF and just sat in town 70% of the time you were logged in? Not to mention before lfg you would be spending 30 to 40 mins minimum just trying to get a group for an instance. No thx...

[Zig Zug]

Where do we pick up the dungeon quests in Oribos?

I can only find Overwhelming odds and Observing Battle.

[Gadzooks]

This is just the nature of the game and the (subscription based) MMORPG genre. It's a core element of such games to keep you busy over weeks and months to keep paying. Everything needs to take longer and needs to be repetitive in a way. In such games you long time "work" on your character. But if that is not your cup of tea (anymore), mine isn't as well. Just look around there are other kinds of games that provide this "I just want to hop in and have some fun" feeling you want. WoW is way beyond its pinnacle already, it became a game left for the people who are still truly into it. It's fine to move on, i did as well. I am still around on MMO-Champ because i am still kinda interested in the direction the game takes and how well it fares in general, but i am just out of playing it.

This. I quit wow in WOD, but stuck around the various websites because the game took up a lot of my free time from vanilla to WOD. It's a hard habit to quit, but I'm okay with it. I got the beta for SL, and just determined that MMOs aren't for me, anymore. Jaded? Cynical? Maybe. And I'm okay with that too. MMOs have always been "fill the bar" one way or another, and I'm just not into it anymore. Once you get past leveling, it's all make-work to me. If you're okay with that, fine. Go do it, have fun.

The game didn't change. I did. And i would rather spend my free time doing something more meaningful with my free time and spare cash. What Ion and his crew consider entertainment isn't the same as what i do. So I didn't buy their product. Simple as. No anger, no resentment, just pass.

I think the fascination for me is seeing a company succeed while failing at the same time.

[Ratyrel]

Where do we pick up the dungeon quests in Oribos?

I can only find Overwhelming odds and Observing Battle.

Under the innkeeper; there are stairs down in the next room over.

[Harry Botter]

I am saying, my gaming habits did not change a single bit between bfa and sl. but I cannot keep up with this atm. I will try of course. but I wonder.I do not ask for a change, I do not ask for cut. I just say, so far, it seems too much for me. It will change over the course of time of course as I will slowly catch up but atm too much for me.

It did feel overwhelming to me too at the start. But once I got that chunk of stuff out of the way from first hitting 60 it's not so bad now.

[Lemondish]

So the catch-up system isn't in place yet, eh? Been stuck at Renown 3 all week after changing covenants. No extra drops. No extra quests. About 45 dungeons done (farming for a Leggo).

[elena25love]

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[Zenfoldor]

They've struck a perfect balance if we have people complaining about nothing to do and too much to do. Surely you see this.

[Alatie]

Maybe kids and people with nothing else to do. There is currently way too many systems to keep up for a normally functioning adult.. (pointing at Torghast, it should be possible to catch up)

Oke for some reason with a full time job and extra hours its also pretty easy but i guess if you are a bit slow it can be a struggle