Although World of Warcraft: Forever has brought back a record number of lapsed players and boasts the biggest concurrent player launch in the MMO's history, fans aren't entirely pleased with it – or, at least, not with Blizzard's treatment of dungeons.
The point of contention here isn't Forever's inclusion of dungeons or the way that any of the nine new group activities play out – it's to do with the heavy nerfs that Blizzard applied to experience points players can gain from killing enemies inside the dungeons.
These rolled in over WoW: Forever's Beta period, when developers cut XP earned in dungeons (resulting in a massive gap between them and Classic's own dungeons) to encourage questing.
Those cuts were not popular, to say the least, spurring discussion among fans questioning why there was such a difference between WoW: Forever and Classic in terms of dungeon XP – and, evidently, Blizzard's been listening.
Just yesterday, the studio confirmed as much, writing on its forums, "We deployed a hotfix that increased kill experience in dungeons by 50%, so it feels better to go back in for more runs."
Dungeon XP from monsters in WoW Forever has been buffed by 50%from r/classicwow
The thing is, however… that's still not enough for lots of folks.
A thread on the matter over on Reddit proves so, with comments expressing discontent despite Blizzard's hotfix. It still leaves a lot of room when considering Classic's dungeon XP.
As one person asks, "So 37.5% instead of 25% of Classic?" Another adds, "Great that they are listening. But it seems like that would still be a big nerf compared to normal exp?"
A separate post pokes fun at the situation with a meme, outlining how dungeon XP is "still only 1/3 of Classic" – oof. Replies are similar to those aforementioned, with one exclaiming that "Blizzard's shamelessly bad at math or they're trolling."
Unfortunately, I'm not sure it's either myself. I do think the aim was to balance dungeon XP with questing, but it's clear this might not have been the best way to go about striking this hoped-for balance.
I wouldn't be too surprised if we saw more changes roll out to World of Warcraft: Forever with how the community is reacting to Blizzard's first remedy to its brutal dungeon XP nerfs – but I suppose only time will tell for certain.
