Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
Blizzard is committed to tedium for whatever reason. The questline is interesting the first time, but alts make it hell. Blizz really don't want you playing alts, or maybe they think grinding is something people like. Based on MMO Champ replies, seems like people really do like doing the same story line over and over
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
Is it only negative that people who have spent more time (and over a longer period) have a significant advantage over those just stepping in?
I realize people feel differently about this, but personally I think that time is a very valuable currency in an MMO if it's done right, and WoW appears to have lost its way in this regard. I firmly believe that those who started earlier and put in more time (a combination of both) should have an advantage, and that you should only be able to catch up to some extent with alts. Do you disagree?
This is different to the mechanics pre 8.3 mechanics had way shorter intro quests, with long play quests to improve the character.
Your cloak is the 'neck' piece of 8.3 ... you don't get it until you've done a VERY long intro quest line.
This isn't about being optimal quickly, it is about being able to participate quickly.
In 8.2, you got two level 1 essences and unlocked the essence system in under 30 minutes. From that point on your game play loop was unlocked and ready for participation.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
Speaking of, where in the whole expansion questline do I need to be on my Alts before I can access any of this patches content?
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Indeed this questline is not really alt friendly... And, if I have not missed anything, we can only skip 2 quests... (first HoO scenario and the Nalaksha one)
Getting the "Legendary" cloak (using "s because theres nothing legendary about it lol) is not the issue AT ALL.
GETTING THE DAMN ESSENCES, then grinding all the reps, obtaining all required currencies, farming M+, farming PVP... and all that for MULTIPLE weeks in order to get rank 3 essence JUST SO YOU COULD COMPETE WITH OTHER CHARACTERS is WRONG!
And it killed ANY desire for me to play any alt for sure.
Like, I want to casually play arena @ 2-2.2k cr/mmr on my alts? Nope. Getting lucky with gear is just the beginning. You have to grind EVERYTHING all over again just so you could use ABILITIES (and not to have powerful stats).
Just finished on my alt:
Start : 5pm-7pm local time (2hrs)
Dinner : 7pm-7:45pm
Finish : 7:45pm - 9:30pm (1hr45min)
Total : 3 hours 45 minutes That's skipping both skippable instances, skipping cinematics, skipping WQs and side quests, just doing the one horrific and normal vision required for the quest line. iLvl 440 Balance Druid alt.
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You have it the wrong way around - the essences system is unlocked within no time, the cloak system takes almost 4 hours per alt.
After that - both systems required game play to unlock/improve/advance.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
I literally just quoted you on the "catch up" part, that has nothing to do with the intro quest. A one time quest that takes a few hours is not something that hinders alt participation what so ever. Genuinely, if you can't spend 2-4 hours on an alt before you step in to raids that alt doesn't belong in a raid in the first place. Not even in a Mythic dungeon to be honest.
Damn, you actually have to play alts?
Why did i make them in the first place????? I don't want to have to play my alts!
The cloak quest line - timing from quest line start to questline end, nothing else in between, skipped both instances I could and all cinematics - (apart from dinner break as designated).... as fast as possible.
As before - the Uldum assault is the breaker - everything else is 10-15 minutes a pop, but that assault takes ages looking for stuff to kill.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
how do you skip just curious ?
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.