Originally Posted by
Falkano
Played since the start and got to commander rank in old pvp. Anyone who did that knows a grind when they see one....
But I have to say these dailys are stupid. The mechanic behind it is stupid. People who defend blizzard especially on this should probably re-evaluate your life because there is no excuse. This was a bad decision and needs to be rectified asap.
I can't play as much as I used to, who can? But when I do get time to play my time is taken up with running these dailies. Some might say you don't have to do them but that's bullshit. You HAVE to do them to do the other things. To get into the LFR beyond Mogu you have to have at least 470 gear. Can you get that from dungeons? Nope.
Can you get them from crafting? Nope. Can you get them from raids? Yep but you have to be very lucky. After doing LFR since the start and using my coins I have received two drops. So you could be waiting an eternity for enough items from there as it all boils down to luck. You could spend the rest of your life in there but still not get the drops.
So what other ways are there? The only way is to buy the items with valor. But even then you can't just buy stuff with it, you have to have reputation with factions to get it.
Not a problem right as we are used to the rep grind? Wrong its a pathetic slog that means your giving up maybe an hour or two of your gaming time doing those before you can even do the things you want to do!
Having Golden Lotus rep give 120 rep per quest is stupid but nothing beats the stupidity of having to be revered with them before you can even start other ones....why? What does that achieve?
Add to that the actual quests themselves are annoying. Go collect 120 feathers from a mass farmed area where everyone is trying to get that 1 bird as soon as it spawns. So your time is spent rushing around trying to actually find those things!
So the point is your spending hours and hours every day just so you can get enough rep to buy gear to then go do a raid that will replace that gear....that's it. That gear will be gone. Is it right to spend so much time on something so meaningless that will be replaced soon? The mounts are fair enough. They will be with you forever. They should be difficult to get. But something that will be replaced in the raid that your grinding to get into is just stupid.
There has to be another way or people will get burned out. SO many of my guildies have just given up on them. How long will it be before they quit game if they have nothing to do? As a community it is in everyones interests to keep as many people playing as possible. A decreasing population does nothing for the game nor those playing it.
If your going to make people grind rep for items then at least give them multiple ways to do it. The tabard way at least meant you could go kill stuff in a dungeon if that is what you prefer to do. The dailies don't give you a choice at all.
People play games to have fun. This is not fun. It's like playing battlefield 3 but before you can go out on a map and shoot people you have to spend a few hours in the barracks cleaning the floor, washing dishes, changing bed sheets etc. If they did that nobody would play. This is no different.
As I said above there is no excuse for it and anyone who thinks there is needs to ask why they are defending it....