WoW Pre Patch has been TERRIBLE (But Help is on the Way)

it's fine don't be a hater – looks like its fixed now so the event respawns as soon as it is over. Sheesh have a winge

My guess is they tried to maximize the space of time they could send a ping to players to be active in game without logging off completely, but overdid it.

When you think about these dumb decisions through the lens of improving engagement metrics, it can explain a lot…

It doesn’t matter if it’s laggy and if if it takes 90, 120 or 2500 minutes to finish because it’s garbage either way. I remember when wotlk pre-patch was turning players into zombies, creating a new separate faction which stormed horde and alliance towns. THAT was a pre-patch to remember. This is just some uninspired, generic pile of lazy fodder.

My money says they were more focused on the 20th anniversary event, and thats why pre patch is lacking.

They've filled their ranks with DEI. And as expected, everything is literal shit now. Save your money.

Its not just prepatch .
All dragonflight was like this .
Iskaar feast is every 1h30 .
Dragonbane keep event every 2 hours not every hour like ive seen it on timer addons .
Just Hunts no timer .
This week researchers underfire and time rift every hour .
The event i always liked was fyraak assault no timer just play then a little wait to see the fyraak bud to kill .
Dreamsurge to get 100 tokens is good too cause you can do wq ,kill rares ,portals bosses ,kill mobs to get them with no timer except portals but you can do it without waiting for them.
This expansion is wait time for outdoor content and crazy queue for group content .
Still play but i hate the timer thing .
i understand that if events were live too fast not enough players to do them but do like followers dungeons to fill the gaps with ai players .
Except fyraak assault and dreamsurge the outdoor group content were not fun for me .
Just do them to get gear easy for alts .
Dragonflight was the timer expansion for me .
The best example is time rift i see lots of players waiting near the last portal entrance doing nothing until 9 minutes past hour when it opens cause they want the gear not having fun with the event .
I like getting gear and managing alts with professions but most of outdoor events content was not fun .
No hope for delves and new oudoor content feels boring.
If i didnt like the management alt play i would have left this game .

I know this might be a bit of an optimistic STRETCH of a view, but im just hoping that the reason for the pre patch sucking ass so much is cause they are working really hard on making the game good for launch, im tryna give blizzard the benefit of the doubt here, but lets be real this is blizzard we are talking about here they have let us down majorly in the past… COUGH COUGH SHADOWLANDS COUGH COUGH (just to name one)

I gotta say, I love that you use an absolutely atrocious greenscreen, and just own it proudly.

Yep. This is what I've got. It works. I don't mind. Got a problem with that?

Tbh i played wow for a long time but idk why this expansions feels very eh meh to me like some new addition is useful like warband bank and professions but idk it seem meh
The DK talent tree seem fine but only reason for me to come back is to go on moonguard for the social aspect and rp a bit and even then idk if it's justified

I hate waking up the sleeping pupper in Northrend, but the Pook wants those bags.

It's still bad. Also I'm so fucking tired of this "we listened to your feedback" bullshit. It's been 20 years guys, get a grip. The event should be up at all times in every zone, so people can farm whenever they got time during daily.

I just wonder why Blizzard has yet to learn how to make anything fun in this game in the first place without the community complaining and then saying "we hear you, we're fixing it"

I didnt see anything about layering…. christ almighty they never learn

It’ll be way easier to bust these out daily instead of waiting so long that my alts can’t even do them. The gear being account bound also helps my little packrat gremlin brain so instead of buying 4 leather sets that I only need to buy 1 and give it to an alt to hold onto the keepsake.

I gave up on pre-patch. 1 hour to get 1000 residual memories. Weapon costs 8000 residual memories. Takes 8 hours to get a weapon. 25 characters = 25 days just to arm them all with a weapon. Not wasting my time. Every item should be reduced to 500 residual memories.

Oh I am not the only one having lag issues?

Everything about WoW has been garbage since shadow shit show minus dragon flying.

They NEED to just give us WoW 2 and stop holding themselves back on this 20 year old game.

Whats the point of a PTR if this stuff hits the main servers this badly designed and broken??

I've got it to work one time that it .

The pre-patch event is absolutely terrible.

Things all players can learn from this:
Never participate in anything early. Blizzard will realize they have screwed up and will buff drops or currency in the first week or two. The fact this just happened in remix and they still failed the same way here is one of at least a dozen examples they just don’t learn. This also includes any and all content patches. Why play months to earn gear when you can just come back at patch X.2.5 and get all the same things it took your main months to get in the same week or even the same day?

I will be skipping this pre-patch event. I am not a beta tester! Blizzard doesn't pay me to fix their problems.