WoW: Battle for Azeroth has some issues. You have now decided which problems are the biggest and identified three clear “favorites”.
A few days ago, we wanted to know from you with a survey what bothers you about the current World of Warcraft. There are ongoing complaints about several features and mechanics of Battle for Azeroth that are annoying or underdeveloped. But we wanted to know what the decisive reason is that BfA has such a bad reputation. You participated in the survey in large numbers, so we can now reveal the results to you.
Places 9 to 4: In a quick overview, we check off the reasons that received only a few votes from you. They are therefore negligible, even though they can be of great importance to individual players.
- Place 9: War Mode – Less than 1% of the votes
- Place 8: Other reasons – 4% of the votes
- Place 7: Bad story – 5% of the votes
- Place 6: The community (Social interaction) 5% of the votes
- Place 5: Too few new content – 7% of the votes
- Place 4: Underdeveloped features (Island Expeditions, Warfronts) – 9% of the votes
The Top 3 things that bother you about WoW: Battle for Azeroth
Now let’s get to the “winners” of the survey. These have gathered significantly more percentage points. A total of 70% of all votes went to these 3 points.
Place 3: Corruption and Titanforging
With 18% of the submitted votes, the Corruption system and its predecessor, Titanforging, made it to place 3 on the list. The mechanic was fundamentally intended to keep older content relevant and create a moment of surprise when players could still get an upgrade for their character in easier content.
However, this system received poor feedback from a large group of players. There were constant complaints about “unfair” distribution of items. It was always “the others” who received extremely high items through Titanforging, while players themselves seemed to come up empty. This led to frustration for many players, who simply did not need another RNG mechanic.
The new system with Corruption effects is also under criticism. The effects are so powerful that they can constitute between 20% and 30% of a character’s total damage. Sometimes, the Corruption gear decides whether a player gets included in a raid or must stay out.
Especially in PvP, Corruption effects are a big problem, as “Inter-Pat” writes:
For me, as someone who tends to focus on PvP, the new Corruption system is a huge thorn in my side. When the Corruption effects dominate at the end of an arena round, it is truly sad and has nothing to do with a fair competitive mode in my eyes.
I know PvP was never really 100% balanced in WoW, but with the Corruption system, it has gotten much worse.
Place 2: Too much grind
The second place was awarded to the point “Too much grind (daily quests, artifact power)”. With 24% of the votes, almost every fourth reader of ours believes that the grind in WoW has gotten out of hand.
Especially in Patch 8.3 Visions of N’Zoth, this becomes apparent. Here, daily quests not only give important reputation but also a new currency that is needed for the Disturbing Visions. This is one of the main features of the patch and is also needed for upgrading the legendary cloak.
However, Blizzard deserves some credit here as they have already made adjustments. The rewards for daily quests have been increased by nearly 550% compared to the release day of the patch (initially by 400%, later again by 30%). Therefore, the necessary grind – at least in this respect – has already decreased a bit.
But artifact power was a necessity throughout the entire expansion. Players who were behind could not unlock all Azerite bonuses at the beginning. Later, they missed important slots for the essences of the Heart of Azeroth or significant stamina increases.
Especially annoying in the comments is Leyaa’s complaint about the reputation grind:
[…] Compared to Legion, it takes X times longer. In Legion, I received 150 reputation from a world quest, and even 250-350 from a blue elite quest. In BfA, there are only pitiful 75 reputation, whether normal, blue, or elite.
This is just artificially prolonged. It’s logical that this is frustrating (especially when you know it differently from the previous expansion).
Place 1: Lack of support for Twinks
With a slight lead at number 1 (28%) as the biggest problem of WoW: Battle for Azeroth is the lack of support for Twinks. This mainly concerns catch-up mechanics so that second characters can quickly reach a solid standing to participate in the interesting content. Especially collecting the essences for the Heart of Azeroth, which make up a large part of character strength, takes a lot of time.
Many players are therefore reluctant to play a second character at all. Because for optimal essences, players often have to complete many quests or grind for a long time, sometimes in “old” areas like Nazjatar. For more than half a year, players have been calling for essences to be account-wide or much easier accessible for second characters.
Here, Leyaa also commented:
[…] The essences are an enormous effort, and that already with one character. Especially if you want your essences at rank 3. Not to mention second (or third) specializations. There should really be account-wide unlock, especially now at the end of the expansion.
Wordreth shares this opinion:
I am a Twinker myself and with every Twink it is too time-consuming to grind reputation, artifact power, essences, and reach level 120. You just see no end!
It is also not surprising that almost daily a new post appears on the World of Warcraft subreddit,calling for the account-wide unlocking of essences and regularly receiving thousands of upvotes.
Similar criticism, albeit in a milder form, was made for reputation factions and artifact power. Those who want all the recipes for a profession also had to reach exalted reputation with all the “old” factions, even with Twinks. At least the Heart of Azeroth was adjusted so that all players start at level 50 after completing a quest line. Here, the grind is not as bad anymore, especially since the requirements have been reduced week by week.
In summary, Battle for Azeroth will probably go down in the history of World of Warcraft as one of the least suitable expansions for Twinks due to the essence system. Therefore, it is not surprising that you chose this point as the biggest problem of Battle for Azeroth.
Do you agree with the results? Or did you think that another problem has greater relevance within the community?
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