Story mode in hours? for each DLC

[Halix]

What is your experience with the story modes with each DLC. How long did it take you to complete all the story missions for a DLC?

[AllergicToBrainRot]

None because they vaulted them :/ I rush through for the rewards.

[Maxine]

less then few hours

[AlphaVictorKilo]

Originally posted by FEAR:

None because they vaulted them :/ I rush through for the rewards.

Dude...come on, we can still do beyond light, shadowkeep, and witch queen, don't be that guy

Originally posted by Halix:

What is your experience with the story modes with each DLC. How long did it take you to complete all the story missions for a DLC?

Rising Light: About an hour with Shaw Han so long as you don't log out and log back in and you get confused because you get thrown into a seasonal quest mission

Beyond Light: About 4 hours since you're going to be power crept to hell and you only focus on it. I'd say another 3 for the "extras" that come after (reclaiming Europa, getting all the variks upgrades, etc)


Shadowkeep: Probably another 4 hours, maybe a touch more because of the nightmare mechanics. Also has a lot of "post campaign" quests and doodads

Witch Queen: Four hours for the normal campaign...for legendary campaign? Depends on skill level/build and whether or not you're willing to bring a friend or two. Also has a lot of post campaign quests

In total if you do NOTHING but campaign missions, you'll complete the main content in a weekend

Edit: Seriously? A clown award? Why?

[Oku]

Originally posted by Halix:

What is your experience with the story modes with each DLC. How long did it take you to complete all the story missions for a DLC?

2-4 hours each, more if you're struggling, less if you're speed running.

If you include the fact that side content and Raids are technically part of the overall story of an expansion, double that.

[Kito]

Originally posted by FEAR:

None because they vaulted them :/ I rush through for the rewards.

That's untrue, they only vaulted, The Red War, Osiris, Warmind and Forsaken campaigns. Shadowkeep, Beyond Light and Witch Queen still in The game and they Will do forever

[Mez Koo]

Depends on you, my first play throughs could be 10 hours because I like to explore but then 3 hours on my alternate characters if I rush through knowing what to do with good builds.

The story missions are also only the tip of the iceberg in this kind of game. For example say you play through the witch Queen story then now you've got a new match made activity to grind, 2 exotic weapon quests to do with one being a mini campaign, there is the raid to do each week, the altars of reflection, powerful/pinnacle gear chase, in game achievements to unlock the title, and an other side exploration there is to do.

[Sel Und Irae]

Originally posted by Akko:

Originally posted by FEAR:

None because they vaulted them :/ I rush through for the rewards.

That's untrue, they only vaulted, The Red War, Osiris, Warmind and Forsaken campaigns. Shadowkeep, Beyond Light and Witch Queen still in The game and they Will do forever

In before they vault them again despite saying "We don't do that anymore" I don't trust this company at all anymore.

[Mez Koo]

Originally posted by Sel Und Irae:

Originally posted by Akko:

That's untrue, they only vaulted, The Red War, Osiris, Warmind and Forsaken campaigns. Shadowkeep, Beyond Light and Witch Queen still in The game and they Will do forever

In before they vault them again despite saying "We don't do that anymore" I don't trust this company at all anymore.

To be fair as much as it sucks that the old campaigns are gone they are kind of irrelevant for the current direction the game is headed, Shadowkeep is the start of the Darkness narrative so they want to keep it.

[AlphaVictorKilo]

Originally posted by Halix:

Everyone thanks for your answer! The clown award is not mine by the way

I'm pretty sure it's fear because he got called out for lying lol

[La Criatura Espada]

Originally posted by AlphaVictorKilo:

Originally posted by FEAR:

None because they vaulted them :/ I rush through for the rewards.

Dude...come on, we can still do beyond light, shadowkeep, and witch queen, don't be that guy

Originally posted by Halix:

What is your experience with the story modes with each DLC. How long did it take you to complete all the story missions for a DLC?

Rising Light: About an hour with Shaw Han so long as you don't log out and log back in and you get confused because you get thrown into a seasonal quest mission

Beyond Light: About 4 hours since you're going to be power crept to hell and you only focus on it. I'd say another 3 for the "extras" that come after (reclaiming Europa, getting all the variks upgrades, etc)


Shadowkeep: Probably another 4 hours, maybe a touch more because of the nightmare mechanics. Also has a lot of "post campaign" quests and doodads

Witch Queen: Four hours for the normal campaign...for legendary campaign? Depends on skill level/build and whether or not you're willing to bring a friend or two. Also has a lot of post campaign quests

In total if you do NOTHING but campaign missions, you'll complete the main content in a weekend

Edit: Seriously? A clown award? Why?

Vaulted content is vaulted content. People still want to experience the Red War and Forsaken. "Being that guy" about stuff that obfuscates and removes story isn't just being an asshat it's genuine criticism. Though I suppose he could have been more informative about what stories there ARE to do in D2 right now...

[Atomicdeath]

Originally posted by AlphaVictorKilo:

Originally posted by FEAR:

None because they vaulted them :/ I rush through for the rewards.

Dude...come on, we can still do beyond light, shadowkeep, and witch queen, don't be that guy

Originally posted by Halix:

What is your experience with the story modes with each DLC. How long did it take you to complete all the story missions for a DLC?

Rising Light: About an hour with Shaw Han so long as you don't log out and log back in and you get confused because you get thrown into a seasonal quest mission

Beyond Light: About 4 hours since you're going to be power crept to hell and you only focus on it. I'd say another 3 for the "extras" that come after (reclaiming Europa, getting all the variks upgrades, etc)


Shadowkeep: Probably another 4 hours, maybe a touch more because of the nightmare mechanics. Also has a lot of "post campaign" quests and doodads

Witch Queen: Four hours for the normal campaign...for legendary campaign? Depends on skill level/build and whether or not you're willing to bring a friend or two. Also has a lot of post campaign quests

In total if you do NOTHING but campaign missions, you'll complete the main content in a weekend

Edit: Seriously? A clown award? Why?

I didn't pay for the initial game to "just" be able to experience content that Bungle feels we should have access to at that given time.

I will die on this hill, Vaulting content is lazy game design. World of Warcraft has been out for damn near 20 years now and, other than the Cataclysm, hasn't changed access to anything. Even with the Cataclysm 95% of the original content is still present, and they had a very good reason for doing what they did.

The vaulted content needs to return and Bungle needs to figure their ♥♥♥♥ out and stop being cheap with their servers. Charging what they do for these expansions they should be more than able to afford it.

[AlphaVictorKilo]

Originally posted by Atomicdeath:

I didn't pay for the initial game to "just" be able to experience content that Bungle feels we should have access to at that given time.

I will die on this hill, Vaulting content is lazy game design. World of Warcraft has been out for damn near 20 years now and, other than the Cataclysm, hasn't changed access to anything. Even with the Cataclysm 95% of the original content is still present, and they had a very good reason for doing what they did.

The vaulted content needs to return and Bungle needs to figure their ♥♥♥♥ out and stop being cheap with their servers. Charging what they do for these expansions they should be more than able to afford it.

Originally posted by Two Separate Bags of Funyuns:

Vaulted content is vaulted content. People still want to experience the Red War and Forsaken. "Being that guy" about stuff that obfuscates and removes story isn't just being an asshat it's genuine criticism. Though I suppose he could have been more informative about what stories there ARE to do in D2 right now...

I don't disagree with either of you. I think that vaulting was a bad idea and a better solution should've been figured out before nuking it

However my response was to the person saying "none" which is clearly false knowing we have three "campaigns" (Shadowkeep, Beyond Light, Witch Queen) and one "campaign quest" (Rising Light)

[AkuPijo]

its for 1 character, im bored when using another char and must repeat each quest/story. especially beyond light.

[Dosbilliam, Boring but Practical]

Originally posted by Atomicdeath:

other than the Cataclysm, hasn't changed access to anything.

That's why anyone who didn't get a chance to do the Legendary Cloak questline in MoP can still access that item and the part of Timeless Isle that cloak is required to reach, right?

Originally posted by AlphaVictorKilo:

*hours-snip*

The only thing I'd mention is that these figures also depend on what you consider part of the story content; Beyond Light's Sabotage objectives alone would probably double the length of time for that expansion if you include them.

[Techno2k8]

Beyond Light and Shadowkeep, couple of hours at most for each.

Witch Queen well that depends on what difficulty you are playing it on and if you are solo, or in a team with 1 or 2 other people because that can vastly increase the time.

Look at the enemy health etc in the new Seraph mission when you have 3 players compared to 1 or even 2, and that is what every boss was like in the Witch Queen campaign.

The "Scaling" is stupid when you have 3 in a team, to the point it's easier by miles solo in a game all about playing as a team!