wow Community-Suggested Quality-of-Life Improvements for Shadowlands

[Stan 5,240]

A list of improvements the community would like to see in future Shadowlands content patches.

An interesting thread appeared on Reddit that deals with quality-of-life improvements for Shadowlands, and in this article, we're highlighting the most interesting ones.

• Shadowlands Intro Skip
  • This one's quite high on the priority list. The Shadowlands intro questline is lengthy, and many would like to see it go and port straight to Oribos and start with Threads of Fate on their alts.
• The Return of Valor Points?
  • The community would like to see some currency for PvE (Mythic dungeons and raids), so most people don't feel like Tuesday is the only day of the week they can get an upgrade. We posted about the likelihood of duplicates in the Great Vault, and given that loot is scarce in Shadowlands, a currency would be a much welcome addition.
• Fix Legion Scaling
  • Legion is 2 expansions old now, and by this time, we should be one-shotting Legion raid bosses. On the contrary, there's something wrong with scaling, so it's even more difficult to solo Legion bosses now than it was before the pre-patch squish. Nothing has been done to-date to offset that. A simple flat buff that would increase damage/healing done in raids would fix the issue.
• Legendary Power Overhaul
  • Some Legendary Powers are underperforming, and some tuning would be nice to bring them on par with the most utilized ones.
• Increase to Anima Gains
  • The game currently offers very little Anima, but Blizzard is partially offsetting this next week, as they announced increased Anima rewards from dungeons and raids that will go live next week's maintenance.
• Soul Ash Catch-up for Alts
  • Currently, there's no way for alts to catch up on Soul Ash, the Torghast currency needed to craft Legendary items.
• More Cosmetic Rewards from Torghast
  • If you earn the mount that works in the Maw, you're pretty much done with Torghast. It would be really great to see more cosmetic rewards, similar to Island Expeditions and the various pets, mounts, and transmog that you could obtain from the mode.
• Solo Queue for Ranked PvP
  • Queueing up for Rated Battlegrounds alone would be a really nice improvement.

Some low-priority improvements include auto-looting Phantasma from mobs in Torghast, solo queue for Island Expeditions, now that the mode is dead, bringing back the Flight Whistle, and more.

Source: Reddit

[FireLordJohn 91]

Agreed. These are good ideas. Especially the anima increase. 

[willowbird 8]

More mailboxes in Oribos please. 

[Libraridan 36]

Anima increase across the boards! I don't raid or dungeon dive for the most part and, as with so much else in the game, that should be my choice without feeling excluded or marginalized.

I might also add either shared covenant rep gains or ramped rep for alts as they have done in the past.

[zigrifid 133]

Flight master whistle enable in SL aswell plz 🙂

[Calysia 229]

With rested XP the intro quest is good for a level and then some...so I don't mind it. There should be an option though for folks that don't like it.

Considering the amount of things that call for anima there either has to be other sources introduced and/or increase the amounts currently being rewarded.

The flight whistle should also make a return. The excuse that it doesn't work in SL is pretty lame...if not an outright lie.

[Mishmish 65]

All solid suggestions. I'd add soul ash catchup for mains. I dont think there's much point to missing out on many legendaries/higher ranks if you're busy/working alot/just wanna play the game in small bursts. 

[Drikor 4]

• Auto speed boost when you enter your covenant sanctum (like they did in another expac)
• Auction house non-stacked items should not be last in, first out - randomize the returned list so crafters don't spend hours trying to keep their item as the last in
• Increase the anima for WQs
• Increase the number of WQs
• Convert left over phantasma to anima
• More reasons to do Torghast (gear drops)
• Ease up on the Maw Jailer aggro to allow people to spend more time exploring it

[Frogspoison 63]

Ability to progress and acquire vanity rewards from other covenants without having to change covenant on one character.

 

Get rid of Eye of the Jailer

[HugeMurloc 43]

Solo Queue for Rated PvP, even only for Arena, would be great 

Please Blizzard, do your magic now that everyone is back to PvP 

[Calorat 78]

Agree with the sentiment that increasing anima gains just for people who do Mythics and raid is a dumb idea,  anima mostly go to the  covenant upgrades for mostly cosmetic rewards and they have no affect on either so tying increased gains so only raiders and mythic+ runners seems petty.  Adding anima as an additional reward to the daily calling reward chests seems like a much better idea.  It's accessible, requires a minimal time investment, and it can't be repeatedly farmed / exploited so Blizz would still be able to control the actual gains.   Adding a way to get gear from Torghast (even if just 1 pieces a week) would also be a nice addition.

[Steveson 193]

7 hours ago, Stan said:

Shadowlands Intro Skip

Yes!!! All the way YES to that! It gets absolutely boring and don't get me started on some very annoying quests ( *looks at Thrall* )

[Wildwitch 108]

4 hours ago, Steveson said:

Yes!!! All the way YES to that! It gets absolutely boring and don't get me started on some very annoying quests ( *looks at Thrall* )

I agree. I play Horde and Alliance and this is the most BORING intro of any xpac! I mean - it's the exact same for both sides!!!!!! Sick of Jaina!

[Bobbis 208]

6 hours ago, Calorat said:

Agree with the sentiment that increasing anima gains just for people who do Mythics and raid is a dumb idea,  

Hardly, the amount granted was so pitiful it was almost insulting. With the loot drops being nerfed as hard as they are, anima was mostly the only reward for doing either, and 35 for a 30m+ M+ was just bleh. Given a WQ would give that in 2m. 

6 hours ago, Calorat said:

Adding anima as an additional reward to the daily calling reward chests (too) seems like a much better good idea.

Agreed it'd make doing the ones that don't give a purple chest more appealing too.

[Steveson 193]

3 hours ago, Wildwitch said:

I agree. I play Horde and Alliance and this is the most BORING intro of any xpac! I mean - it's the exact same for both sides!!!!!! Sick of Jaina!

"Yeah yeah i get it. You've been tortured for days. Yada yada. Can we please just get on with it so i can finally haul my alt's *filtered* to Oribos and get to choosing covenants?"

[SidonisAntares 290]

Anima rewards from WQ should scale at the existing Renown checkpoints. If I can get 194 gear from WQ and Mission Table, then I shouldn't see less than 140 Anima from any WQ.

Also, the Anima rewards are inconsistent. Some days a WQ rewards 70, some days 105, some days 140, for the SAME WQ.

Edited February 8, 2021 by SidonisAntares

[TimmyET 11]

Solo queuing for rated bgs, your rating would never go above 1400. 

[Boothyp 48]

Make Torghast an endgame activity!

Balance it, and make it a viable endgame. Grant a cache on completion that grants some stuff from the World Quest pool (Anima to gear etc), more stuff per layer completed.....

I think the mode has potential, but Blizz will screw it up! They will fail to balance it, make it a chore, make it unrewarding, and drop it at the end of shadowlands, like 99% of their experiments......

[Laragon 269]

3 hours ago, TimmyET said:

Solo queuing for rated bgs, your rating would never go above 1400. 

EXACTLY. If even that high. I don't get why people think solo rated PVP would be a good thing. You're not going to get anything better experience wise than just playing a BG. Have they ever queued into a pre-made? It's miserable, and that's most likely what you'd be doing. Imagine if you could do Raid Finder, but it was on mythic difficulty for that current raid. People would complain endlessly.

If you want to yolo into 2s or 3s, just look around in group finders or chats because it's not hard to find a rando to queue with. If you want to get above 1400 you need to have something that's relative synergy and voice chat. PVP gear can be good for some specs, but it's 200 until you're 1400+. I'd say on whole Heroic Nathria is easier to get 207-213 gear. Even if you're amazing at PVP, getting up to the 1800 area you need is a relatively serious grind for the number of games you have to play.

[ignringerfinger 11]

PANDARIA LEGENDARY CLOAK VISUAL EFFECTS for TRANSMOG PLEASE.

People will be like.. wooo cool cloak. Ohhh.. that was only available for MoP.. and be like oh *filtered*, I should get the exclusives for Shadowlands.. see there is financial incentive. 

GIMME PLEASE.

[Tk144 0]

Yes! I agree with a lot of this but I have some to add.

1. You should be able to fly to an adjacent zone without flying back to Oribos.

2. Mythic Plus listings should have a new group listed at the bottom and those that have been waiting for awhile for a tank/healer sitting at the top of the list. 

3. Tougher banhammer for spammers. No more selling runs! It goes against the spirit of the game.

4. Easier catchup for Alts.

5. Anima transfer when switching covenants and an all-around easier/faster getting renown.

6. Ability to use a 2nd Legendary.

 

[Lunachic 0]

Flight whistle. It has been in previous expansions and worked well.

Fishing, alchemy and other profession world quests rewards - Give fish, herbs, ore that are native to the place you are doing the quest. No one needs 20x lost sole or death blossom, we have plenty in stock. It would be nice to actually receive a quest reward like Marrowroot or Pocked Bonefish if the quest is in Maldraxxus for example.