Hi all.
I wanted to share some recent frustrations surrounding the random extra clicks / confirmations you have to do in the game. They are all over the place once you start to notice them, and one of the most impactful ones is guardian raids.
TL;DR: Guardian souls blend in with their environment, are not loud enough, and are very easily missed if you are even slightly distracted after killing the guardian boss. If you forget to click the soul, you’re out of luck. There goes one of your daily loot attempts. It is not a good system for distributing rewards after putting in 10-20 minutes of effort. Because the human brain can only focus on so much, and because we checkmark a box that says we want to harvest the soul before entering, there are so many opportunities for distraction and missing the soul harvest after the boss.
When I queue up for a guardian raid, I am required to either check or uncheck a box that says, “Harvest Guardian Soul”. This is what tells the game you want loot from that boss when (if) you kill it. If we have to confirm whether or not we want the soul when we Q, why on earth do we have to physically click the soul in the raid instance after killing the boss. Why doesn’t the game just harvest the soul automatically when it sees the checkbox is checked?
This is extremely frustrating because it leads to tons of missed harvests, where in the cluster of congratulation screens at the end of the raid, it’s extremely easy to forget to click the guardian soul before leaving the raid.
Why doesn’t the “leave” button gray out and become unclickable until you harvest the soul?
Why does the MVP screen cover the entire screen AFTER the guardian soul has spawned, drawing your attention off of the soul even if you noticed it beforehand?
Why doesn’t the soul emit a much louder, more obvious noise if you haven’t collected it but are still standing inside the instance?
How come the soul can sometimes spawn INSIDE the corpse of the boss, where you cannot see it?
I have missed at least 5 soul harvests while having the box checked. These are not re-doable. If you enter the raid with the box checked and forget to physically interact with the guardian soul, it will strike off one of your daily loot attempts. You cannot get that loot back, it is not mailed to you, it’s just wasted.
Other games have extra steps too. The problem is that this game doesn’t have consistency in how the loot is distributed. In games like WoW, it’s either a loot chest at the end, or the enemies are clickable to loot. That behavior is ingrained from the outset of playing. For this game, you are not introduced to harvesting souls until you reach endgame guardian bosses, meaning there is NOT a muscle memory to doing this.
PLEASE consider this quality of life change. If I enter a guardian raid with the harvest box checkmarked, I want loot. Don’t make me have to remember to click a tiny glowing orb after the boss is dead 15 minutes later. The mind wanders, it’s easy to forget. This system is unforgiving sometimes.
