Blizzard must implement hard changes in the Season of Discovery in WoW Classic. Buffs of 1,000% are part of it – but it hardly helps.
The Season of Discovery in World of Warcraft is likely to be counted as a complete success for Blizzard. Many are trying out this “Classic+” variant of the original WoW and discovering something new every day. However, there are also a number of criticisms forcing Blizzard to hastily patch the game. One of them is so serious that some enemies are “just” buffed by 1,000% so that game mechanics do not get undermined.
What problems exist? Basically, there are currently two problems that are causing a lot of criticism. Some of these points have already been addressed by Blizzard, while others still require further fine-tuning:
- Warlocks can only receive one of their most important glyphs from the content in which they actually already need to use it.
- The PvP event in Ashenvale is too chaotic and rewards only a fraction of the participants.
The biggest problem currently lies with the open-world PvP battlefield in Ashenvale. In this event, heroes must eliminate various commanders and then a general of the enemies, similar to the battle of Alterac Valley.
What is happening in Ashenvale? In best “tunnel vision” fashion, it has simply been enough to rush directly at the general, to simply beat him to death with hundreds of players as soon as he spawns.
Worse yet: When groups decided to play it “right”, meaning to eliminate the commanders first, they often did not arrive at the general in time. They essentially did all the prep work while another raid group waited for the general to become vulnerable.
Another problem with this event is that only a portion of the players are rewarded with reputation. Since usually several raid groups are active on-site, the rewards are given only to one of the groups – the rest goes empty-handed and receives hardly any reputation.
Blizzard has at least fixed part of the problem. The respective general and commanders now have significantly more health points. As long as at least one commander is still alive, the general is immune to damage – in addition, the general deals 1,000% more damage as long as all commanders are still alive.
What is the problem with warlocks? Even more problematic was the Glyph of Metamorphosis for warlocks. This allows warlocks to function as tanks. The problem, however, is that to get the glyph, one had to visit and complete the raid “Deep Black Grotto” – exactly the raid for which one actually wants to be able to tank.
Warlocks had to first find a group and complete the raid as a DPS character to then be able to tank exactly in the content they had just played through.
Blizzard has at least apologized for this small oversight and has since made the glyph accessible outside the raid.
Although the Season of Discovery comes with some flaws, it is still quite popular – even if thousands of bots have already taken over the economy.
