Are Daily Quests a Good Thing?

Blizzard are quite obviously pushing Daily Quests into the game of World of Warcraft. With Patch 2.4 and the introduction of sunwell isle there were 36 new quests, although some were 'continuation quests' once a phase had been completed. (See Here for the Full Shattered Sun Offensive Patch 2.4 Daily Quests)

Now despite the occasional daily quest being fun (I love the bombing run dailys) suddenly people realised you could make a lot of gold very quickly by doing daily quests. All of a sudden the influx of people doing daily quests destroyed raid groups, set to motion people logging on for 4 hours and doing nothing but the same quests over and over, and eventually saw a lot of people quit because what they were doing was boring and held no challenge.

My view on dailies is that while they are a good idea their implementation makes them too powerful. The fact is that these should be a supplement to the game, instead because they reward so well they are infact BECOMING the game. In my personal opinion the daily quest rewards should be significantly dropped so people can play the game once more.

I like to raid, I can see why people PVP, Hell I even agree that arena Epics aren't welfare (Though the ones bought with honour and tokens most definitely ARE welfare epics!) Daily quests have turned world of warcraft away from a game aimed at focusing on being the best and instead have shot it right into the realm of boring repetitive questing.

The End of Loot Chests

From the beginning of World of Warcraft we have known chests. Random drops of excitement that may contain anything from a shady green to a tasty blue, not to mention food, cloth, leather and all those other nice little bonuses. It does seem however that with the release of the Magisters' Terrace in Patch 2.4 the death toll of the chest has begun.

Yep, no where in the new Magisters' Terrace instance or Sunwell Plateau raid will you find a chest. Personally I think this is a shame. Chests always gave that little bit extra excitement, they could contain anything, even helped pay those repair bills and most importantly actually made me choose rogues to run instances with occasionally instead of hunters and mages.

But despite the excitement, tears and cheers that came from chests there were some draw backs. Ninjas would always run in and loot, rogues would claim they had no lock picking skill then return to the chest after the party disbanded, sometimes parties would just disband because somebody rolled need on a green that they clearly didn't need (Queue flashbacks to people needing useful greens for enchanting mats in deadmines back in the early days)

Instead of the chests focus will now be made on bosses dropping loot, while this is all well and good it does present us with a small problem.

Bind on Equip Items.

Those rare blues and occasional epics that we could sell on. Worth a lot, made your day, godsend to those down on their luck. Unfortunately not may bosses drop bind on equip items. While I understand the Bind on Pickup principal, and agree with it on many levels, I do tink that high quality bindon equip (Non craftables) are a great addition to the game. It is rather sad to lok back on what I have won and then realise that in the future this will more likely happen from a one in a milion random world drop over picking up a juicy chest item.

What do you think?

Attunement, Should it be Removed?

Attunement is required for many raid instances to enter the portal. In most cases it entails a quest chain following certain bosses, completing certain instances but in all cases making sure you are geared and ready for upcoming instance.

Several months ago Blizzard removed SSC and TK attunement and in patch 2.4 they are removing Karazhan attunement. This has caused an uproar from a lot of people, but there is some reasoning behind it in my eyes.

Attunement is incredibly good at keeping out the poor players from instances. This removes a lot of guild drama, failed runs and all in all people leaving the game.

On the other hand however, many poor players end up getting boosted through the instances by better players, usually in the guild. This means that the once relevant (Especially Kara) attunement becomes an annoyance, especially to guilds having to run lower standard players through the attunement process.

Do you think Attunement to lower level raid instances is still required?