The joy of World of Warcraft is being hindered. For errors from the past are now particularly painful.
For several weeks now, the housing craze has erupted in World of Warcraft. This has led to beautiful homes, while also revitalizing the old game world. For everywhere you can encounter characters visiting former factions or gathering old resources to buy decorations for their homes.
But this also clearly shows the problems the resources that had to be farmed in the past cause. Because there is far too little of them – and that hasn’t changed to this day.
What is the problem? Many of the old resources are exhausting to farm. They require either a lot of time or stamina over days and weeks. Because often these resources are also limited, so you cannot “infinitely” farm them. This is a problem when there are many new rewards like decorations for the house, but old rewards are also not exhausted yet.
This is also described by the player Goldman_sax in the WoW Subreddit in the post titled “We do not complain enough about Resonance Crystals/Dragon Isles Resources and Anima”:
The core idea behind these currencies is that you receive them while playing daily. The catch is, I’ve played The War Within almost every day since launch and gathered about 110,000 [Resonance Crystals], but I still need 830,000 to buy every item once (and you often want to buy decorations multiple times).
This leads me to two points:
1. If the idea behind these currencies is that you receive them while playing, why are these currencies not part of core gameplay activities like M+, raids, or PvP? Why are they only received from world activities that you typically no longer engage in once you are reasonably well equipped?
2. Why is there no good farming method for these currencies? Nearly all the fastest methods are blocked by daily or weekly variants through timegating, and the amount is low. To give an example, the fastest Anima grind is from the rare mobs in Zereth Mortis, which give about 7,000 – 8,000 Anima per day and hour. I still need over 600,000 Anima to buy everything once, which means I have to farm for another 75-85 hours and 75 days.
Which resources are particularly problematic? The biggest problems have already been addressed by Goldman_sax. Especially the following resources are problematic:
- War Supplies (Battle for Azeroth)
- Anima (Shadowlands)
- Resources of the Dragon Isles (Dragonflight)
- Resonance Crystals (The War Within)
These are all resources that you mostly receive in small amounts from weekly tasks or world quests. However, the required amount for rewards is usually in the thousands, so a single item can correspond to the effort of 10 or 15 quests. Particularly frustrating for items needed in large quantities when planning something specific in housing.
The community has several solutions: How to solve the problem is also being discussed within the community. Some of the suggestions include the possibility of exchanging resources for others. Some also advocate for converting all “old” resources into a unified “Legacy Content” resource that can be used everywhere, as Whatifyoudidtho describes:
I believe the solution to this is (if they don’t just drastically increase the amount received), ironically, another currency.
A currency that you can only use for old content, for example, for exchanging Anima or War Supplies or whatever. The acquisition can be through all old content – timewalking, visiting old dungeons/raids, old quests, events, and so on.
This would not only fix the currencies that are incredibly hard to farm, but would also simply require playing the game to acquire them.
How do you deal with old resources in World of Warcraft? Do you farm them with a pained expression? Do you simply ignore the rewards? Or are you waiting for Blizzard to “finally cave” and come up with a better solution for the resources of the old expansions?
What grand houses are already possible now, a neighbor shows with a truly bizarre house.
