Hello everyone!
We haven’t done one of these Q&A’s in ages, the last one is over a year ago now
so I figured why not sit down and talk about a few thing that have been going on recently
while also giving you the chance to send in new questions.
A year later, most of the ones that I had stored are not really relevant anymore so
if you have any, leave them in the comments down below and I might use them in the next
Q&A...which hopefully shouldn’t be a year later.
So what’s been going on...well I just finished a little holiday in which we did Preachcon
which was absolutely amazing again.
The first time I went there, I was a secret guest so I had to stay somewhat hidden but
this time I could just walk around and hang out with everyone which was a lot more fun.
Because of technical difficulties, we were unable to livestream the event but if you’re
curious about the party, I’ll link a highlights video in the description.
In short, plenty of beers, a lot of hugs and just an awesome time.
When I got home again, I tried to get back in the work rhythm but I really felt like
doing nothing at all for a bit, played some games, hung out with friends, took some time
off and now I’m more then ready to get back into it.
Last week we finally did the last order hall campaign which means that I’ve finally caught
up with all the things Legion had to offer and now it’s mainly waiting for the next
patch so the end of the story.
Before the expansion came out I had the plan of covering every bit of lore that the expansion
had to offer and normally that wouldn’t be a huge problem right?
Did the same with mists of pandaria and warlords of draenor, but I didn’t realize that Blizzard
decided to dump a whole bunch of stuff into the game, a lot of time consuming things.
Leveling up 12 characters, doing the order halls, the artifacts, thinking that I’m
almost caught up and then we got the 12 new followers with 7.2 and the artifact upgrades....It’s
been quite overwhelming and time consuming, but also a lot of fun to do.
Looking back it would have probably been better to pick and choose the most juicy bits rather
than try to do it all, but hey...it’s done now, those that don’t have the time to play
other characters can look up what happens and hopefully the videos will be useful in
future expansions so that people can look back and see what went down.
Some of you have also asked me what I think of Legion as an expansion...I’ve thought
quite a bit about it and despite the Legionfall campaign, I’d say that Legion is one of
my favorite expansions if not my top favorite one but that’s too soon to tell since it
it’s not quite finished yet.
It’s not without problems and fuck ups of course, but overall it’s been mindblowing
what they’ve been able to put out.
The leveling was quite enjoyable even on so many
characters with each zone having it’s own distinct feeling and theme to it, not to mention
that being able to pick where you want to level first was quite nice, gave a bit of
freedom.
The order hall and the campaigns were a lot of fun to do, sadly not all classes were equal
but they can’t all be the best.
The mission board, despite some calling for the end of days when it first showed up, worked
out quite nicely as an extra side thing rather than main content as it was during Warlords.
I think the mission board itself was never really a problem, just that here wasn’t
much else to do besides it which Legion thankfully fixed.
There were some smaller extra things to do like I remember grouping up and fishing in
Dalaran for the new mounts and the way they’ve used the fishing artifact actually improved
the profession.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s still not a fantastic thing to do, but it’s quite nice being able
to transform into a fish and all...I’m quite happy to have it in my bags.
Another smaller update which I really appreciate is the brawlers guild, this time not just
numbers tuned and bosses mixed around, this time we actually got whole new fights which
was a lot of fun and I hope we’ll get more of that in the future.
It’s the side things besides the raiding and pvping that make a game for me, the filthy
casual that I am, and Legion just offered a whole lot of side things to do.
I still have no idea how the community was able to figure out the secret treasure hunt
quests for the mounts or even some of the hidden artifact quests had a nice questline
attached to it.
Those minor touches just add to the overall experience for me, I’ve even stepped into
the pet battle dungeons despite pet batteling not really being my thing.
It also has one of the best features ever added to the game, mythic plus, a somewhat
challenging content with high rewards that can be done in much smaller groups and in
a much smaller timescale.
At first I never even bothered with the mythic plus system, but once they made it a requirement
for the illidan quest, I figured why not, lets make a group with the stream and go for
it.
It was a ton of fun, I remember going through the revamped Karazhan the first day it was
released and just wiping for like 2 hours trying to get through it.
The feeling of such a massive dungeon, not to mention that mythic plus keeps the old
dungeons relevant...A really awesome system, but I do wonder if I would think the same
without the kind people on stream that are always willing to go.
I’ve tried the group finder on my own a few times with changing results, sometimes
you’re stuck with never being accepted while at other times you get a dream team and the
run is extremely smooth so I am aware of being in a special position with most of the time
having people willing to join.
So yeah those side things really add to the game for me and of course the main events
like end game raiding and campaigns..
At max level we got the suramar campaign which I found really enjoyable, especially when
you can now compare it to the Legionfall campaign and see that one just outshines the other
greatly with a nice payoff in the Nighthold.
Voice acting brings the story more to life, sometimes it works out really well and at
others time..well...
“Malfurion goes noooo, omg classic,” I have heard the feedback from people that
never cared about the story, that the voice acting did get them more invested and curious
as to what’s going on and of course the cinematics are once again of great quality,
that’s one department that never fails to improve and outdo themselves each and every
expansion.
The Ysera one still has people in tears, the latest one with Anduin and shalamayn on the
broken shore...Greymane versus Sylvanas despite the story not going anywhere...Can’t wait
to see the ones planned for 7.3
As you know I am very much casual and the raiding that I’ve done has not been of any
high level so I can’t give a proper opinion about the end game, but from my experience,
the raids were kinda fun.
Fun mechanics to deal with, good scenery...the only one that was a little bit disapointing
was the emerald nightmare, just from the novel I expected them to do a lot more with it.
The creative freedom when talking about nightmares becoming a reality is nearly limitless and
what we got was a foggy white room...I feel like more could have been done there.
Sitting here trying to list the things that have been added to the game, trying to remember
if I didn’t forget anything, just shows that there’s a lot added to the game, but
I like I said...Legion isn’t perfect.
The two things that stand out for me as learning points for the next one would be first of
all the artifact system.
On paper the idea of having a progression system, something that you can always work
towards is a really good idea but in practice it turned out to be almost too much for people.
If there’s a way to improve your character, some will do everything in their power to
obtain that.
Maw of Souls must have haunted people in their nightmares and again, this is from what I’ve
been told, but apparently some guilds put up insane requirements for people.
Insane grinds which some simply couldn’t keep up with, yet you do have to wonder if
that requirement was really a thing for everyone or just the very small percentage that’s
going for being in that top list of raid teams that taken the bosses down first.
My casual experience had no problem with keeping up with my main character, but I did feel
that it restricted playing your alts or hell even your offspecs.
Some catch up mechanics later down the line did make it a lot easier, but I feel those
changes should have been there from the start.
A system in which you can exchange order hall resources to send over earned artifact power
to your alts, I think that would have made it a lot easier and also interesting to actually
play on different characters.
I’ve heard the argument that we’ve become to spoiled and that alts were never meant
to be as strong as your main character which I can agree with up to a certain point, yet
in an expansion where a lot of content is class specific, it doesn’t seem like a good
idea to make it more difficult to actually play those alts.
That said, the system as it is right now works in my opinion, artifact power is a nice reward,
a nice motivation to actually go out and keep doing things in the game, a system that I
wouldn’t mind to see flow over into the next expansion.
Then the second major thing that really needs a change in my opinion is the randomness.
Random drop chance is not a bad thing on its own, it would be a very quick and boring game
if you could calculate precisely when and where you’re going to be done gearing up,
but Legion has just taken randomness and tossed it everywhere.
Random chance at recipes for your professions, random chance at extra artifact power or follower
gear, random chance of getting a mount in your reputation box, random chance of getting
epicly massivly titanforged gear, random chance at freaking legendaries.
Randomness can be motivating to keep going, but it needs to be in moderation.
When so much becomes connected to randomness then the motivation just flies out the window
not to mention that it’s not fun.
It’s not fun to try your hardest to keep up with your raid team only to be screwed
over by random chance and see the wrong legendary drop.
I personally never found it fun to go into LFR, kill something and see a legendary pop
up.
Again, an idea that sounds good on paper, the more you play the game the more you’ll
be rewarded but in practice I don’t think it worked out.
From my experience the legendaries didn’t have much of an impact and for those that
it did matter, they found themselves praying to the gods of rng in the hopes of getting
the item that they needed.
Not to mention that legendary is no longer legendary, but then again...that also happened
with epics.
If in the future they’re going to add more legendaries again, then I’d much rather
see it connected to a questline, the one with kalecgos could have been a great one.
Those would be my 2 major things which need some adjustments, there’s also the legionfall
campaign with the quest being timegated.
Something that wasn’t very big to begin with cut up in small little pieces which just
ruined the experience, yet at the same time 7.2 did add the follower questlines, the artifact
quests with the mage tower and I freaking loved the mage tower so despite a shitty campaign,
the patch itself still offered a fair bit of fun.
Storywise, the main thing that I’m interested in for the game, I’m a bit conflicted and
actually very curious what you all think about it because we all experience the story differently.
For me Legion definitely had some awesome story moments like Varian’s sacrifice on
the broken shore leading into Anduin stepping up and picking up the blade getting ready
for his new journey.
Alternate Gul’dan was established very nicely as its own character in the audio drama, Sylvanas
versus Greymane was really cool to see it play out especially with their history and
what’s on the line right now.
The way Ysera was send off into the stars and again the entire Suramar campaign, learning
of a new race which we liberate.
There have definatly been some great moments, Azsuna had me laughing and wishing for more
stories written like that, yet at the same time I sometimes miss the pay off for a story
build up.
Greymane versus Sylvanas for example, a lot of speculation as to what Sylvanas was doing.
What kind of deal did she make with Helya, how is this conflict between the worgen and
the forsaken, the allianve and the horde going to play out and we didn’t really get any
of that.
All we have are the world quests with the towers that really don’t add much.
Go claim this tower it will help greatly in our conflict, a conflict that doesn’t really
exist.
Gul’dan was greatly established, but didn’t really do much in the overall storyline and
the poster child for the expansion, the return of Illidan...hasn’t really done much.
For months and months we build up to the moment where the demon hunter would make his return
and when he finally does, we first had to wait for a new patch to even get some dialogue
with him and when we do it’s either during a world quest where he tells us how much the
legion sucks or he’s joking around with Maiev.
Freaking Illidan has come back to the world, shouldn’t we atleast see some sort of dialogue
with him and Malfurion and Tyrande maybe?
No?
And that’s what I sometimes miss in the story of Legion, there’s quite a bit of
build up, but then it doesn’t really have the impact that it should have.
This could just be me though, as always this is just me spewing out my opinion so by all
means let me know how you’ve experienced Legion, I’m very curious to see how others
view the game and the story.
I haven’t really mentioned PvP, but that’s because I don’t do PvP so I can’t really
give an opinion about it.
To wrap this video up I want to talk a bit about what’s going on with the channel and
what I’ve got planned.
Those unaware, youtube is a bit shit at the moment with new algorithms, advertisers dropping
out and slowly coming back, some channels even get completely demonetized...scary times
man, but hey that’s what you get when working with youtube.
I’ll be here as long as there are people that enjoy watching the videos and as long
as I can pay the bills because at the end of the day, I really enjoy making these videos.
With the order halls done it’s pretty much waiting on 7.3 and we’ll cover the story
that goes down there once it’s live while I’ll always keep going with the character
stories like the story of elune that we’ve done or aethas or hemet, ya know, them good
old videos as well as a new project that I have in mind for the friday but don’t want
to spoil that one just yet.
My promise for the streams has always been at least once a week, but I am going to do
my best to stream a bit more often because it’s a ton of fun to do...and besides that...we’ll
see where the road is going to take us.
For now let me just say thank you so much for sticking with me and making my dreams
come true.
Wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you...so yeah....thank you everybody!
Right like I said if you have any questions for future Q&A’s, by all means leave them
in the comments down below and let me know what you think of Legion...curious to find
out!
Until next time guys.....see ya!