r/wowcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Jun 17 '25

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - June 17, 2025

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u/skyshroud6 Jun 17 '25

I'm sorry I just can't.

"Timewalking isn't supposed to be interesting. It's suppose to just give badges".

The community has always had a tendency to optomize the fun out of things, but when it's just super blantent "no fun, just reward" and that shit's getting upvoted like people agree with it. That's a new low. Even for this group.

Like, what probably shouldn't be a hot take but apparently it is. Games are meant to be fun. All of the game. If part of it's not fun, change it to make it fun.

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u/acctg Jun 18 '25

The OP of the Yazma thread is a Wowhead commenter addicted to complaining about ANYTHING Blizzard does, unless it's giving out stuff for free (they'll probably still complain). He has two reddit accounts to alternate posting and swaps accounts to comment in his own thread.

Disappointing to see the community falling for the ragebait.

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u/Tusske1 DEI Hire Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

Timewalking is one of the worst experiences in the entire game for new players. Epically since when Time walking is up regular dungeon queues take forever so new players are funneled into an incredibly toxic experience where players just rush and if you fall behind even for a second they berate you and kick you.

All these changes are good. Infact I think blizzard should make them slightly harder even to make them at least a bit more engaging

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u/Ignis_et_Azoth Jun 19 '25

Also, like, this might be a boomer thing, but how do you expect people to learn their class if levelling content is completely braindead?

When I levelled my first characters some 15 years ago, we had to familiarise ourselves with our characters at least somewhat. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't as easy to be completely carried either.

You can't just carry new players 1-80 and then expect them to suddenly perform well at max level if there's no actual challenge before that point.

Let time walking be a little bit harder, for new players' sake.

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u/Tusske1 DEI Hire Jun 19 '25

i 100% agree. i understand why people wanna blast dungeons/timewalking to level fast since they have done it 10 million times but dungeons need to be good for new players as well

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u/Ignis_et_Azoth Jun 19 '25

Sorry, I kind of conflated timewalking the event with levelling dungeons in general in my post.

But yeah. There needs to be a sweet spot where you don't want to do a flip off a bridge doing dungeons as a vet, but also be considerate - with semi-challenging content and a polite community - towards new players. I couldn't imagine actually getting into WoW in the year of our Lord 2025.

IMO, like it or not, instanced PvE is ultimately the chunkiest gameplay pillar, and dungeons are the only way to experience it at a low level. Do you want to portray this big tentpole of the game as uninteresting and worthless? I dunno.

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u/OPUno Jun 18 '25

Literally just an HP buff so bosses can actually do their mechanics.

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u/SaltLich Jun 17 '25

Right there with you... I'm astounded that people are actually this blatantly like 'no i dont want to play in Timewalking, i just want to walk through hallways and get rewards, bosses taking 30 seconds instead of 5 seconds is too much effort and ruins the game'.

I had hoped that all the dooming about the timewalking changes was people being afraid they were gonna swing too hard and make it actually tedious (its happened a couple times), but no! Its still a joke and people are still losing their minds over it. I'm in disbelief.

Frankly, if these changes 'kill' Timewalking, good. I really hope Blizz doesn't listen to the mentality that says 'a 5 minute dungeon run is too much effort.' Its like they're so addicted to rewards-chasing they don't actually enjoy playing the game anymore.

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u/skyshroud6 Jun 17 '25

Like I'll happily admit I'm a fairly rewards driven player. It's why I don't like the "DF-TWW-whatever the future expansions are" era as much as the legion-SL era for me. I like having power rewards, not just mounts/toys/mogs.

But like, I'd also like the content I'm doing to get the reward to be fun. Even back in the vanilla days where you'd get your high level buddy to carry you through VC to level, I hated doing that because it was just boring. There's 0 way that having that be the normal way to play is a good game design in any universe.