Hello everyone my name is Bibock and today we're going to talk about a well-known subject: islands expeditions!
And also about the 8.1 changes which will arrive in less than two weeks
The other day, I did my... I don't know... 60th scenario of the Battle of Stromgarde
I finally got the last achievement I needed
So I managed to finish the Expansion features > War Efforts category
Then I decided to start the category above: Islands Expeditions!
And I learnt a lot of things!!
I don't know if you remember but Blizzard announced those islands to be randomly generated thanks to a procedural method. And they are supposed to be full of shiny treasures
First thing I did is checking the achievs and I was a bit confused: for example Tell me a Tale... how does it work?
There are some quests in the islands but they are linked to npcs and the achiev Helping Hand and not Tell me a Tale... so what are those quests?
Also, the achievement I'm Here for the Pets... I did a lot of islands expeditions and I couldn't find any pet to battle. Where am I supposed to find them so?
At the end of this video, you'll be an expert and everything should be clear and limpid in your head!
First thing you should know is loots work just as the same as Mythic+: you'll have them at the end of your scenario
As rewards you can have dubloons, quest items for the achiev I just talked earlier, but also pets, toys, xmog...
A LOT! A LOT OF XMOG!!
... and finally mounts
Contrary to Mythic+, loots are not based ONLY on randomness
At the end of your scenario, the server will calculate your drop rates thanks to the monsters you wiped out
Each monster has his own loot table and killing a rare of this kind of monster will greatly increase your drop rates!
Islands are generated with commun monsters such as spiders or crocilisks which loot NOTHING, even if they are rares! That's very important to know
In addition of that, some exotic monsters will be generated such as Naga or Mantid. Those monsters change on every scenario and they may grant you rewards linked to their loot table
On WoWHead home page, we can find informations concerning the Island Expeditions
Every week, you'll encounter a kind of monster in huge quantity on every island
This is supposed to help you farming their rewards... if ofc they have ones
After a bit amount of time, an exotic kind of monsters will invade your island. A vocal alert will appear and many points of interest will spawn on your map
Invasions are really interesting because they are directly linked to rewards. That's why you should never miss one
If you're lucky, a portal may spawn. Going through will teleport you to an old dungeon or raid in order to kill a rare
You'll say: "What's the point of killing a monster on an old dungeon/raid instead of the island?" Yeah you're right, as a gameplay mechanic this is pointless
But I think this is really original and interesting the fact we're invading the invaders
Also, you go through a portal and you're warped to hum... Throne of Thunder... I loved this raid so much!
You're facing a Mogu leader with all the raiding ambient/music
So yeah maybe there is no change on the gameplay but in my opinion this is pleasant
To be more generic, I think those islands are way more interesting than the Battle of Stromgarde!
In Stromgarde, all you have to do is farming resources and wait for the npc to advance the war (even if you can help them). You are waiting 90% of your time... that ain't funny
On the islands there is no time to do nothing: killing monsters, rares, events will spawn more rares + invasions...
So yeah... I did 60+ scenario and for the moment I'm still enjoying this! This is so interesting
Whatever the difficulty you chose, your drop rates will be all the same!
BUT! As I said, there are exotic monsters and some of them appear less than the other ones... some are really rares
So if you want to deal with all of the rewards, I suggest you the normal difficulty!
"Why in normal"? you may ask. It's because the scenario will be fast to finish and then you could change on every new scenario the random generation of the monsters already on the islands (waiting you to be murdered) + the rares + the invasions!
Diversity, rapidity!
However, because we're in normal, you'll win a bit too fast so there are some constraints to respect
You should never, never, NEVER mine azerite, loot chests or help npcs
Each azerite you get from another source than killing a monster, bringing you closer to the end of the scenario, is against this farm. This is counterproductive!
If you want loots, you just have to kill monsters. That's no more farming but bashing! You must bash monsters over and over until the Loot God will hear your pray
I already gave you a lot of informations if you're lost no worries, I was too when I discovered that
I was there: "I don't understand anything, there are too many informations!"
No worries guys because... you may count on me!
You may count on me because when there is a stupid goodies farm... I mean mounts, toy, pets, etc...
Ofc my big nose and I will search a lot of informations in order to present them to you the most clear way possible
That's why... that's why I created just for you... an Excel! What's up bitches?
An Excel regrouping the most interesting loots you can have
Sorting by the kind of monster so you know exactly which monster to farm to get whatever you want!
I removed the xmog because... I already said it but... there are wayyyy too many xmog
I never saw so much xmog in a pve content. I spent hours... no kidding, HOURS to sort which loots could be interesting for you guys
So please guys, please... Do not shout out at me if I may have forgot an item
Tbh, this Excel ain't bad especially with its color code. I mean you don't care about having all the rewards, you just want mounts...
PAF! You know exactly what to farm. This Excel is so awesome, you may thanks me
In bonus, because when I'm doing something, I'm making it perfectly, I gave you the list of monsters you should NEVER kill
If you're just like me and you want all of the rewards, at the beginning you don't care about focusing one kind of monster because you need everything. So there is a list of the monsters with no loot, perfect right?
And after... if I hear I'm not doing my best to simple your life... MY GOD! I'll be so upset
For those who are interested by, there is an addon in-game which show you the list of the rewards for the monster your have for target
This addon's name is Ahoy! Island Expeditions Helper
This addon will show you the kind of monsters your killed, the number of dead rares with the lil skull, the amount of azerite this represents and the loot table directly linked to your current target or the category you clicked on, on the left part
My opinion on this addon: it's quite cool to track ennemies you killed even if it's not essential
The biggest problem for me is the loot table. They didn't put every xmog but there are some and this hinders readability
After it's your decision mate, if you prefer my Excel, this addon or both of them! But in my opinion, I'm not a big fan
Maybe you've noticed on my superb Excel but there was a toy written in red!
It's because this toy ain't yet in game, it will appear on the 8.1 big update planned for the 12th of December
So what's new? First big change is 2 new more islands: Havenswood and Jorundall... I've no idea if I pronunced it correctly but who cares?
But that's not all! And here, I have bad news for you guys...
The replace of invasions! Actually, a scenario egals an invasion
They want to change it randomly. I mean you're doing a scenario and then there is a chance instead of having an invasion, you'll have a trickle of azerite
This trickle will spawn more azerite nods to mine or allow you to put an azerite collector which will grant you azerite passively
Both of them are against this farm because we're here to kill monsters and not to care about azerite!
And because Blizzard loves to mess with us, they decided there were too many monsters on the islands and decided to replace most of them with azerite nods
SERIOUSLY???
No okay, I'm a bad mouth because they won't change that to mess with us
So why will they do that? They think and that's true, most of players, even pve players, do not care about those islands
That's a long weekly farm so people are a bit pissed off because the only thing you're sure to have at 100% is azerite!
A scenario = azerite + odds of bonus items. And after you've collected enough azerite... 15k I guess? You will receive more azerite for your neck
The problem is the azerite system: each week people who have farmed a lot are slowed down and people who didn't do anything will be buffed in order to maintain all of the players at the same progression. That's a cool system but what's the point of farming azerite then?
That's why no one cares about those Islands Expeditions!
So they decided to replace the bashing monsters system by "you click to win" or "you can just afk to win". This will help a lot players to do the weekly cap of those expeditions
For the players, that's good! For the farmers... this sucks so much!!
In addition of that, npc vendors will appear on capital cities
So I created an Excel to regroup the rewards they'll sell and as you can see the amount of dubloons to get is totally insane!
2450??? Really?!
I really hope they'll change the way to get them because on my 60+ scenarios, I've only 120 dubloons... that's so absurd!
The vendors will sell you also tokens to give you reputation for the bfa reps
I was there: "What's the point of those items? I mean bfa was launched few months ago so most of the players should be exalted or close...
The problem... and you know what Blizzard? We're not going to be friendly!
You put this stupid reputation system of Paragon back!!
I thought you learned from your mistakes! People are already pissed off to increase reputations ONCE and you bring back this awful infinite reputation system?! How dare you?
No-no, you didn't understand what your players want! Did you test your game??
And do not start with that stupid argument: players are complaining about nothing to do... no, no, NO!!
You already fucked us with this stupid honor system which is an infinite farm and now you want to do the same for the reputation! No-no-no, I'm playing world of warcraft and not world of farmcraft!
I'm sorry if I'm pissed off but... this is BAD!
This is the worst developers trick ever to extend the life time of their game
"Owh people are complaining there is nothing to do! Let's change what they're actually doing and multiple it by 10.000"
Ok ok great, you did it good, you extended the life time of your game! Is your game funnier? NO!
Of course not!!
~ A break is needed ~
*totally pissed off at the idea of this future stupid reputation farm* Thanks for watching. I really hope those informations were interesting to you
Good luck to all the farmers who just like me will lost their mind in such bullshit
Do not hesitate to stop your studies, leave your job, lock you inside your house... stop eating... stop sleeping... you're wasting so much time guys!!
Give your soul to Blizzard-Activision. Continue playing, forever... and ever... and ever...
Maybe one day... Maybe one day, you'll be just as dumb as I am to pretend you've finished this game
I'm making your big kisses and I'll see you in the next video... tchao!
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