08-18-2006, 11:22 AM
Reading the thread about the new arena, I just realies one major overall problem with the game which directly or indirectly is the root of many of my complains (with the exception of perhaps bad item creation). One of the things emntioned is that you will get "arean points" which you can buy reward for. Although not state, I suppose they are not connected to the honour points/reward of battleground and other PvP.
Right there I think is an indication of a problem. The game has set up a whole bunch (quite enormous if you think about it) ways to go and for each, there is rewards (honour, reputation, instance/raid sets, trade skills and so on). Each one has ultimately good and nice rewards. The problem? For each, it requires a lot of investment in time and you really need to grind them. This means, to get any reward of the late game, you have to spend a considerable time on a specific goal (of which there admitedly are many). If you don't want to limit yourself to a single goal and do a bit of everything? You are lost, no reward at all for you, they investments and rewards are not interchangable. A "casual" player, that likes to do a bit of everything will never reach any rewards anywere and feel it sucks. The fanatics playing all day arround will of course manage to progress and get rewards from several areas.
I think this is in much the reason why one see any rout taken after level 60 as pointless and just a long grind for nothing. Unless focusing completely, one never reach any goal, you just get a whole bunch of different goals partly achieved and there is no price for that unfortunately. You can't do a bit of crafting, a bit of battlegrounds and some instances every now and than and hope to get some reputation rewards. You get nothing anywere.....:(
Right there I think is an indication of a problem. The game has set up a whole bunch (quite enormous if you think about it) ways to go and for each, there is rewards (honour, reputation, instance/raid sets, trade skills and so on). Each one has ultimately good and nice rewards. The problem? For each, it requires a lot of investment in time and you really need to grind them. This means, to get any reward of the late game, you have to spend a considerable time on a specific goal (of which there admitedly are many). If you don't want to limit yourself to a single goal and do a bit of everything? You are lost, no reward at all for you, they investments and rewards are not interchangable. A "casual" player, that likes to do a bit of everything will never reach any rewards anywere and feel it sucks. The fanatics playing all day arround will of course manage to progress and get rewards from several areas.
I think this is in much the reason why one see any rout taken after level 60 as pointless and just a long grind for nothing. Unless focusing completely, one never reach any goal, you just get a whole bunch of different goals partly achieved and there is no price for that unfortunately. You can't do a bit of crafting, a bit of battlegrounds and some instances every now and than and hope to get some reputation rewards. You get nothing anywere.....:(
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