As someone who loves dragons in almost any form and enjoys getting new pets inWorld of Warcraft, it isn’t a huge surprise that the Fracture in Time whelpling daycare questline is an activity I love. I’m at a point in the patch cycle where I’m more or less done with raiding; I’m doing some dungeons, but not that many because I don’t care much about having all the best gear. This makes a perfect storm of timing for the whelpling daycare. It’s a fun, chill activity I can do a little of every time I log in. However, I didn’t expect how much thought and care went into the storylines with these whelps.
One aspect of the whelpling daycare which some people find frustrating is the “time gating” in it. Although I don’t think that’s the right word, but I also can’t think of a better one. Each day there are a few quests to do and one or two dailies as well. All told, at most, I would say it probably takes me about 15 minutes to do what is available on any given day, and that’s mostly because I get distracted often, so I’m going through things as quickly as I’d like to. However, I like these bite-sized snippets because if I only have a short window to play, I know I can knock those out quickly. It also makes sense logically as we are teaching the whelps various lessons, and having a bit of downtime for them between lessons makes sense.
However, I also like the time between sets of quests because it gives me a bit more time to think about everything, and I don’t think any of these quests would have resonated with me in the same way if I could have just charged through everything. I’ve often found that I will remember questlines as short and not very involved when I can quickly proceed through the whole thing. Then, when I play an alt,
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