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Invasion Points Datamined, Explained by Ion Hazzikostas - World of Warcraft - MMORPG.com
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Invasion Points Datamined, Explained by Ion Hazzikostas - World of Warcraft - MMORPG.com
World of Warcraft News - During a recent interview with Ion Hazzikostas, more information was revealed about the forthcoming World of Warcraft "Invasion Points". These single-player Invasion Points will require special riftstone keys that can be found on Argus. They are used in special portals to literally travel to other Legion-dominated locations to take on the demon forces. Icy-Veins took that information and datamined the types of places players will travel to.
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Actually the gfx in Legion and particularly on Argus are way above anything more than 2+ expansions ago, however what is shown in the Rifts video does "look" a decade old.
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I'm wondering though why did they make these solo instances?
At the moment I can only think of 3 options.
1. They don't think that doing it in parties is feasible. From the data they have they feel that it would be hard to keep people to continue doing these after the "hype" from first week after their releaseis over. And we can all agree that no one will spend 10-15 minute searching for people to do... well something. Nowadays if people don't get to do what they want to do within 2-3 minutes they leave.
2. These don't bring anything into the game, so they don't feel the need to actually make people search for more people to do it with.
3. They will be a lot harder to do solo, so that way people will spend more time doing them and consider it eventually as actual content and not just something that was done on Friday right before the weekend starts :P
Honestly I really hope that Argus is about the same as Tomb of Sargeras, aka nothing exciting, so that they can be done with this expansion.
My guesses are...
If they are 5 man then they'll be labeled dungeons by players and this is supposed to be something new.
5man content is more work. Just look at 5man vs 2man stuff in DCUO.
Unless you are in an active guild or they add it to dungeon finder finding groups for anything the old skool way is very hard in current WoW unless you're willing to waste time standing/spamming in cities.
To me this just looks like a scenario with a portal and possibly time/gold sink keys.
You'd think as the greatest hero of Azeroth who's willing to risk his/her life to go to a screwed world to try and save it they'd at least have the decency to give the keys for free but nooooo.