#1 - Aug. 14, 2014, 8:42 a.m.
I've been playing with the missions a lot, currently with about 5 level 100 characters and 1 character I'm leveling from 90 to 100.
I really love the garrisons and especially the missions and followers. :-)
Here's some bugs, enhancement requests, and some of my feedback from my experience so far. I might update it over time or add more in replies.
@Frimlin
Bugs
Giant Model - Status: Fixed in build 18738
When you look at completed missions, there is always half of a giant female model overlayed over the initial window. It's always the same model on every character I've tried with.
Completed Mission Freeze - Status: Open
Sometimes when viewing completed missions, it freezes and you can't click "Next." The parallax background still scrolls but everything is unresponsive. The only way to get passed it is to log out and back in again.
Follower Scaling Issues - Status: Open
Sometimes followers are scaled unusually when you see the completed mission. For example, two of the followers look normal size, but the third is scaled massively and looks twice the height of the others. It's inconsistent though.
Epic Mount not 50% - Status: Open
The Epic Mount trait suggests mission time is halved (mission time reduced by 50%), but is seems more like 25%. For example, a 16 hour mission is reduced to 12 hours. Edit: Actually, sometimes there is no time reduction applied at all.
Enhancement Requests
Length of Completed Mission
When you see the results of the missions, I missed seeing which was the result of the 3 person 16 hour mission – I had been really looking forward to seeing how it went. It'd be cool if it said "16 Hour Mission" or something in the top title bar, in case you don't recognise it from the mission's title.
Unresponsive Chest Reward
After a successful mission, when you are presented with a treasure chest, sometimes single clicking it isn't enough. This could be a timing issue with the animation that overlays the chest for a couple of seconds. Either way, the chest unlocking is a little unresponsive and could be a little more satisfying - also could use a satisfying sound.
Follower Weapons
Followers tend to have very basic looking weapons: it would be cool if these could change over time and get better. Perhaps as mission rewards.
Follower Armor
Similarly with their armor, it is always the same whether they are level 90 or 100. Not as big a concern for me as the weapons are, as I fear changing their armor over time also makes you lose visual recognition of them.
Chest after Failed Mission
After a failed mission, the reward chest sits there and looks kinda like it can be opened. Maybe it'd be useful to put a big red cross over it, fade it out, or somehow make it look less like the mission had been successful.
Unusable Counters
When choosing followers for a mission, if a follower had a threat counter for the threats in the mission but the follower was too low level, their icon for the threat counter wasn't visible next to their name. It would be cool if it was visible but crossed out, with a tooltip saying something like "Counter cannot be used for this mission as the follower is too low level."
Race of Follower
Please show the race of the follower in text, possibly alongside their class. I have some followers whose race is tricky to identify from their visual appearance. Could throw gender in there too, just in case.
Dismiss Mission
It would be handy to be able to dismiss a mission, if you didn't like it or you didn't have appropriate followers to complete it. Otherwise it kinda hangs around and is a little annoying. I have a 16 hour, 3 person, level 98 mission here, and only one level 98 follower. I can't do the mission, please let me dismiss it so I can get a new one.
Pin / Save Mission
Similarly it'd be cool to be able to "pin" or "save" a mission, to prevent it disappearing but saving it for later, for when your followers are back from an in progress mission or something like that. That's if missions can disappear... not sure if they do or not! Definitely some have disappeared between builds but not sure if they have from day to day, as I usually use them all up each day.