Ultimate Guide: Wow: Midnight Beta Introduces A New Mythic+ Dungeon Modifier That's...

Dungeon routing is a huge pain, but this should make it easier.

World of Warcraft's Mythic+ isn't exactly easy to get into. Part of the problem is that… well, you're playing World of Warcraft, and as much as I'd like to speak kindly about the population of one of my favourite MMORPGs, let's be real, if you jump into public groups you're starting a countdown timer until someone starts rifling through their books of expletives to describe what they did to one of your familial relations.

One of the hurdles lies in dungeon "routing". Because Mythic+ dungeons are all on a timer, and because WoW's dungeons tend to be a little more open-plan than something you'd get in, say, Final Fantasy 14, every single dungeon has a bespoke route filled with little tricks. And because this is Mythic+, you are expected to know them immediately, lest you be deemed a n00b, or something far ruder, which I won't publish on this website.

Well, Blizzard's tinkering with a solution. On the Midnight beta test servers, the studio's introduced a new "affix"—basically a modifier—to Mythic+ levels 2-5. Per this post on the game's forums by a dev, "While Lindormi’s Guidance is active, certain non-boss enemies will be afflicted with Temporal Sands, visually highlighting them and reducing their health and damage done by 5%."

The real trick here is that if you defeat all the marked enemies, you'll "fulfill 100% of the Enemy Forces count, providing a basic route through the dungeon. Additionally, the affix also prevents player deaths from reducing the timer."

That "Enemy Forces" bit is important, since it stops some sweatily-optimised, out-of-bounds-jumping, breakneck route from outcompeting the one suggested by Lindormi's Guidance. Which essentially makes this yellow paint for dungeon routing, I am sorry to introduce that discourse to the pot but that is exactly what it is.

It is a (somewhat) diegetic marker for where players should be going, designed to reduce visual clutter and confusion, and you know what? I've always been a yellow paint defender, to a certain extent. If I'm playing a platformer where the devs ought to be signposting my next step with good level design and visual cues, then I resent it—but if I'm playing the new instalment of the FF7 remake, then who cares? It's an RPG. Cloud's elite parkour skills amount to quicktime events, so slather where I need to go next with sunshine.

Anyway, in this case, it seems like a good choice. Making Mythic+ less immediately intimidati

Source: PC Gamer