The Bronze Dragon Celebration tokens cause stress in World of Warcraft. Because now you have to play content that you don’t even want – that will change.
In World of Warcraft, the 20th anniversary event of the MMORPG is currently taking place. However, the event is quite long, lasting over more than 2 months. Therefore, the event is also designed in such a way that many rewards can only be unlocked over time. The desired Bronze Dragon Celebration tokens are particularly criticized, as you have to complete a lot of activities for them – many of which you might not actually want to do anymore. At least that is the view of many in the community.
Blizzard has reacted to this and announced major changes.
What is the problem? World of Warcraft has taken the approach with The War Within that all players only have to do content that they really want to play. Therefore, for example, only the first two reward boxes from public events yield direct loot. If you don’t feel like the theater event, you don’t have to participate in it to get the box.
However, with the anniversary event, it’s a step back. Because almost all activities are associated with a Bronze Dragon Celebration token. So if you want the fancy Tier-2 sets in modern graphics, you have to play a lot of content that you might not even feel like doing.
This is how the problem is discussed: In the WoW subreddit, the player Neyubin writes in the thread “The anniversary tokens in the game are just far enough out of reach that I don’t care”, that the event falls a bit short of expectations. The biggest criticism is that the various actual mini-events in Tanaris (so far) don’t give any tokens at all. Instead, you have to play content that often has little to do with the event – like various weekly tasks on Khaz Algar.
Unreliable Potato agrees, stating:
It’s not bad that it takes a long time, but it’s not fun, offers no challenge or interest. It’s just work.
What ideas did the community have? Within the player base, there are many ideas to improve the event relatively easily. One of the approaches would be to limit the acquisition of the Bronze Dragon Celebration tokens weekly but to expand the sources.
For example: Per week you can get 35 tokens, but from all activities endlessly. So if you want, you can run Timewalk dungeons all the time and collect all the tokens for the week there.
This is how Jinxzy phrases it:
The worst part is that this is a solved problem.
They could have easily made it so that almost every activity grants the tokens and is repeatable. And then they would have a weekly cap for the tokens. But no, they have to try to force people into EVERY type of content in the game until they are sick of it, for several months.
Blizzard drastically increases drop rates for Bronze Dragon Celebration tokens
With the weekly maintenance on Wednesday, Blizzard implements exactly this feedback and drastically increases how many Bronze Dragon Celebration tokens you can obtain from various activities, as stated in the official WoW forum:
- Weekly Dornogal quests give 10 tokens
- Bonus weekend quests (Timewalking, World Quests, Arena, Battlegrounds, Dungeons, Depths) give 10 tokens.
- Area activities (collecting wax, theater performance, covenants in Azj-Kahet, etc.) give 8 tokens.
- Special mission world quests give 8 tokens (2x per week).
- 11.0 world bosses give 8 tokens.
- Queen Ansurek gives 15 tokens.
- PvP weekly quests for conquest points give 15 tokens.
- Honor, War Mode, and Brawl weekly quests give 8 tokens.
The intent behind this is that everyone should only play the type of content that they enjoy, and still be able to earn enough tokens to unlock everything. This should be achieved with these changes. So if one puts in the effort, starting Wednesday, you can easily collect 100 Bronze Dragon Celebration tokens per week and rapidly unlock many things.
If you don’t feel like farming tokens right now, you can perfectly use the time to level a few characters. Currently, a bonus of up to 85% XP is possible.
