Cortyn suddenly feels like Draenor again. Missions from the Order Halls in WoW are causing frustration.
Patch 7.3 with Argus has provided World of Warcraft with a nice amount of fresh content that, with various world bosses, plenty of pets, toys, and artifact power, continues to attract players to the alien planet even weeks after release.
However, there is one thing that annoys me, which has become increasingly irritating in the past few days: the Order Hall.
Through Argus, there is a completely new quest line that offers a lot of new missions and follower types for the Order Hall as a reward. Together with new rewards, higher item level caps for followers, and better gear that outshines everything seen before.
Those who meticulously carry this out on all their characters can make gold in five figures per day, and this large sum is, of course, a strong incentive.
Order Hall – More Duty than Fun
However, it quickly turned back into an annoying obligation. Instead of being able to handle everything from the Order Hall now, you must always travel to Argus to pick up special companions, like the new servants from the Army of the Light.
The Order Hall demands that you move across the entire game world more than ever before. Not only to collect world quests for order resources as it was previously quite sensible, but also to recruit additional servants that overshadow all champions and other upgrades of the Order Hall.
No wonder that there are now more and more gold guides that basically say: “Yes, use all your characters and shuffle the order resources back and forth so you can always send all followers on gold missions.”
Sure, ultimately the missions are still significantly longer than they were in Warlords of Draenor.
However, the more of my characters reach the “endgame” and the followers gradually settle around item level 900, the more annoying it becomes. If I really want to collect gold “effectively,” the nagging thought always creeps in that I have to perfectly manage 7, 8, 9, or even more characters. That is time I do not want to invest anymore – and I even hope that Blizzard will soon tone down the gold missions to relieve this “pressure.” This is a bit selfish, but we can all be that way sometimes.
At the beginning of Legion, I liked the Order Halls because they seemed like a much more streamlined version of the Garrisons from Warlords of Draenor. But now, I am just glad when I can manage to not deal with it for longer periods. And that is somewhat a sad development.
What do you think of the Order Hall missions since Patch 7.3? A clear win or just another annoying obligation?
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