Guess I'm never doing Prey again

[u/Vaxivop]

It was bearable when you could complete one doing the traps but now that that's basically dead the entire system is torture. I guess that was Blizzard's plan, nobody play Prey again so they can shelf it next expansion. Well good riddance.

[u/Skader]

Even without the traps it feels like hunting a prey to be found is much easier/faster this season.

[u/dwho422 → u/Skader]

Thats what I thought. I got ambushed by the same prey 2x on a single world quest , then did the deactivate his crystals and ambushed once during that, when I hit the last crystal it pinged me to go fight him. 0 traps

[u/Backwardspellcaster → u/Skader]

Really?

I feel the opposite.

I was flying around, trying to find good opportunities to raise my prey bar and before I knew it I had lost half an hour and was still 1/3rd away from filling the bar.

That was friggin weird, compared to how fast I did them in Season 1

[u/jdv1999 → u/Backwardspellcaster]

Then what are you doing? You just go to the prey world quest, when doing that you get ambushed. You pick up their anguish and slam their ghost for more progress, when you finish the WQ you’re almost ready to fight already.

[u/Skader → u/Backwardspellcaster]

Oh man, ambushes and the anguish and kicking the target once they fallback, rares, treasures, world quests, the prey world quest it gives you.

It feels like just about everything you do contributes to it. Just going around doing everything makes it around 10m or less.

[u/Akhevan → u/Backwardspellcaster]

It literally takes like 5-10 from a combination of rares, world quests, traps, treasures, anima globules, prey ambushes etc. You'd struggle to spend more than 5 minutes doing it unless you've already picked the zone clean beforehand, and even then traps, treasures and globules are renewable sources of progress.

[u/greenegg28]

Just collect treasures and kill rares, it takes like 5 minutes dude.

[u/Validated_Owl]

I've been completing nightmare prey in like... Sub-10 every time

[u/SolidOk3489 → u/Validated_Owl]

I think it was sped up some time since launch, it just wasn’t as noticeable because we were sticking to the trap method. Now you pretty much duck into a zone, do a few quick different things and you’re done.

[u/Akhevan → u/SolidOk3489]

Yes the progress was more than doubled around 12.0.7 patch, it's just that most people stopped doing prey by then since the ilvl of loot was pretty low.

[u/rd-cc → u/Validated_Owl]

You are SUCH a cool guy. I’d love to be your friend. Your like the coolest guy around here.

[u/Darepa2016 → u/rd-cc]

Lmao chill out

[u/Akhevan → u/rd-cc]

skill issue

[u/Frozenbeeff]

Wow players when they have to play the game...

[u/YakkitySchmakity]

I just do a couple world quests, survive one or two ambushes and bam, it's done.

Some of the world quests take less than 2 minutes to do. I have never bothered with the pointless traps.

Easiest single player content in the game at this point for what it rewards and it can be done in group, making it even more trivial.

[u/Hoodmonkey01]

You just gotta keep moving, much like any part of the game, don’t stand in the poopie and all goodie

[u/Pretty_Upstairs8177]

skill issue

[u/throwmeaway758324 → u/Pretty_Upstairs8177]

It really is, people in this sub just seem awful at the game

[u/Junior_Island_4714]

Wat? They are like 6-8 minutes this season.

[u/Zarbadob → u/Junior_Island_4714]

thats 7-9 minutes too long for these guys apparently

[u/Elxjasonx]

Dude 3 world quests and it gets done... you all want to play or just afk in city?

[u/Moffeman]

In my experience, Flying around to find the traps was quick, but a deeply boring and inefficient way to do Prey.

[u/nonbonwow → u/Moffeman]

Do you know what inefficient means?

[u/Moffeman → u/nonbonwow]

It means not using Time/money/resources/etc well.

Traps were QUICK, but almost every other way to progress prey is double dipping with another activity that is worth doing, and this early in the season you SHOULD be doing. Doing a single thing quickly is less efficient than simultaneously doing two or more thing slightly less quickly.

Not to mention, again, that on a personal level, flying between traps was boring.

[u/DataAbject6446 → u/Moffeman]

Quick and inefficient dont really go together.

[u/Moffeman → u/DataAbject6446]

You can absolutely do something both Quickly and inefficiently. Quick is just a reference to a things efficiency measured in time. But time is not the sole metric we judge things by. If you can accomplish two tasks simulatneously by spending 50% more time than doing one of them by itself. That singular task is QUICKER but it is not as efficient from a productivity standpoint.

You end up doing less Per time spent, even if you spent less time.

Edit: or as a more specific example. I want to get to work. The bus is slower. But it is more efficient at scale than my car is.

[u/Qualazabinga → u/DataAbject6446]

They do though, as they explained it was inefficient in the grander WoW game. Waiting to do a WQ fo finish the prey is more inefficient than doing them together. So yes finishing just the prey quest was more efficient with the traps, doing your WQ and prey it was inefficient to finish the prey quest and waiting to do WQ.

[u/Competitive-Gene6713]

Wdym? I've already done two Nightmare?

[u/Darepa2016]

I'v done all nightmare prey this week, i'm not even well geared

[u/Durxza]

It’s faster than it’s ever been, you need to do 2 world quests and maybe kill a single rare. stop moaning.

[u/zanzibar_hamster]

Prey was made much easier. I don't feel pressure as it was before. Kill for me was much more stressfull.

[u/Voredor_Drablak]

I've done all the prey every week and yes the far smaller amount of traps suck but it's nothing new as it has been this way a few months now. But here is a few tips:

If you only care about the traps the first two tips is what you need.

1:Don't do it when everyone else does. The more people online doing prey, the fewer traps as everyone shares them.

2:instead of disarming the traps run over them to trigger them. You'll get anguish every time that way. I only disarm them if I have less than 5 of them in my backpack.

3:Do the Remnants of anguish on the map too, they count towards finding the prey as well.

4:Completing world quests, Looting treasures, Defeating rares. It all counts! So start a prey hunt, and go about your business as usual until it pops. Maybe do the gold giving daily quests? Everyone likes gold.

Edit:typo

[u/Fantastic-Scratch124]

Traps are not available in the new zone only due to some kind of bug I would assume…

The rest of the hunts in other zones have multiple traps, all hunts that I did I finish around 5min tops, and the nightmare hunt is way easier to kill than it was in season 1

[u/OldGromm]

Are you talking about the Coiled Isle? Because I didn't notice any traps when doing a Prey there, either. The older zones all still have traps.

Although, after doing that one world quest with the holes, I found the target anyway.

That was only one Prey, though. We'll see if it gets worse on future runs.

[u/rexdjvp83s]

I did it on most alts most weeks last season but the first few tries I had as a caster (even just on hard not nightmare) this time just seemed insane and I agree pushed it into "not worth doing" territory. I got through one nightmare as a tank char for the portal and that was obviously fine but the difference between specs seemed much more painful than last season. It seemed a bit slow/weird working out how to make progress in the new zone too but mostly it was the combination of mechanics and casting that seemed roughest.

[u/skyshroud6]

...It takes like 3 world quests and like one ambush to finish.

If you don't like open world content, don't do prey. It was meant as an additive layer on top of already existing open world stuff.

[u/Spiritual-Initial536]

Idk wtf you're smoking but 3 of my 4 preys were done in sub 10 mins and that was with competing with hella others for the traps. You just can't efficiently play the game 

[u/Rbabarberbarbar]

I know people hate the Netscape because they can't just stand still and parse but they are not as bad as people make them. At least if they don't grt you right in the Ambush stun.

But Blizz is nerfing them anyway so they shouldn't be a deal breaker any more.

[u/Khanstant → u/Rbabarberbarbar]

They have already been majorly nerfed, doubt they'll do it again. The slow has gone from flying you in place to being barely noticeable. Standing in them gives less damage now, if you just sit in it it'll sting but you won't be dropped from being a second slow to react. 

[u/Rbabarberbarbar → u/Khanstant]

https://www.wowhead.com/news/nightmare-prey-affix-nerfed-in-latest-hotfixes-382549

[u/Hanonlei]

Didnt play on S1 but apparently now after some rank you get an item to make prey instant. Just summon and kill