tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post6606697391246228908..comments2024-01-04T02:49:23.470-08:00Comments on Blessing of Kings: Alt-based Design and Battle for AzerothRohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09090769681887119989noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-33463852460470098992018-12-01T16:02:06.270-08:002018-12-01T16:02:06.270-08:00I'm also a little confused. I've always be...I'm also a little confused. I've always been an alt person, but I've hardly ever argued or even wanted it to be mandatory. I just didn't like the idea of having to grind up faction rep multiple times - I think it was just TOO taxing to have alts. Let's say there are several axes of "catching up" - first, reaching max level, then gearing, then reputations. Sure, some are intermixed - but if leveling and gearing are per char, I'm absolutely for shared rep. That's a hill I'm willing to die on. I don't want anything handed to me that takes anything away from the only-one-main players - but I also don't want to be punished for enjoying a little bit of everything. Some people excel at one role - I've always been more of generalist. With a Rogue main that a bit crap, so I had to take alts to be a tank and a healer - something that e.g. Druids had baked in from the start.Nogamarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16541775026595839236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-16236268905054042892018-11-30T07:17:29.819-08:002018-11-30T07:17:29.819-08:00I think FFXIV's allowing you to level all clas...I think FFXIV's allowing you to level all classes on the same character is a great feature, and one which I wish WoW would steal. Too bad it will never happen.<br /><br />As far as BfA being "alt-based", I have to disagree. A large part of character power is locked behind the AP grind, which is very difficult to do on multiple characters simultaneously.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11034188152893251734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-9164458219839878072018-11-30T05:13:32.180-08:002018-11-30T05:13:32.180-08:00You can collect Azerite Power for your main in Wor...You can collect Azerite Power for your main in World quests. That was the main reason to do WQs in Legion too.<br /><br />What changed for you?Gevlonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07072766785893313616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-46708270565899005252018-11-28T14:30:22.910-08:002018-11-28T14:30:22.910-08:00I agree that SWTOR showed that trying to cater too...I agree that SWTOR showed that trying to cater too much to people who love to play alts doesn't seem to pay off, but I'm not sure I see the connection to BFA. Most of the negative responses I've seen to the expansion go along the lines of: "There's lots to do, I just don't enjoy any of it."Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-740329198737344872018-11-27T16:05:29.686-08:002018-11-27T16:05:29.686-08:00I don't think alt-friendliness is a good way t...I don't think alt-friendliness is a good way to approach analyzing BfA design. I think the continent/zone split was more about separating the Alliance and Horde than encouraging alts. In the end, it's left less content for alts, since we only have three zones per faction for leveling. Even if I wanted to go over to the opposite continent and grind mobs for experience (and a chance at a low-drop-rate mount, for example), almost everything over there is max level, regardless of player level. In many ways, alts seems to be an afterthought in BfA.<br /><br />Legion had a lot more content that required alts to enjoy--primarily a story line for each class. Also, professions in Legion required you to level an alt in order to level the profession since most of the recipes were locked behind level-gated quests.<br /><br />Anecdotally, many people in my guild have basically stopped logging in at all, aside from raids. This seems to have happened a lot faster than in Legion. Nobody even seems to be leveling alts, for the most part.<br /><br />BfA is the most conservative expansion, in terms of new features/systems, and I think that is probably a better way to frame its problems.Jawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15617872052025889005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20292755.post-74621190146529244062018-11-27T15:19:33.977-08:002018-11-27T15:19:33.977-08:00I think this is confusing the pros and cons of alt...I think this is confusing the pros and cons of alts vs. the fact that people feel the need to play alts due to lack of meaningful content on their main. Only takes a bit of tweaking to your arguments above and it's pretty clear BfA has a lack of meaningful content as compared to Legion. I specifically play a monk instead of rogue to avoid alts, as it has multi role specs. <br /><br />And that's not even covering the horrible hand dealt to shaman, or priests, or even just ferals.<br /><br />I loved alts in swtor. My issue was the repetitiveness of all the non-class grind, and little to do at max level. No idea how that measures to others experience.<br /><br />You have experience in ff14. That alt system works wonderfully. Its has unique story content per class. It's not rocket science, but the game clearly has to have the right design intentions. Asmirothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09769824275250465235noreply@blogger.com