WoW Companion

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This app does what it does: allows you to upgrade your character’s reputation and resources while not playing the game. Is it fun? No. It does allow you to level faster when you do play the game so it prepares you in that respect but it could do so much more. Warcraft is a constantly learning environment. Each item or location can have significant value but it may not be understood right away. There are websites, like wowhead, that contain pages upon pages of information. Researching your strategy becomes a big part of playing the game as you level up. This app works but it would have been perfect for just that purpose: research and learning, but it does none of that. It doesn’t show your inventory or your professions and skills or any way to find what quests, raids or dungeons you have. Being able to research something with the app would be like playing the game in a way in that you would be able to create some goals for the next time you play. I wish they would incorporate that or come out with another app that does. (Hello WoWHead, are you listening?) Until it does, it’s more of a maintenance chore than an engaging game tool.

After finding out this app, a lot of time has been saved and I can send missions for my champs on the go. Undoubtedly helpful. However, several programming issues I’ll mention. First off, there isn’t an option for using the 18 hour cool-down order hall talent to instantly complete a quest, only for ordering it. Next, switching between chars is a huge pain, having to return to character list and wait for it to connect, char after char.... A character drop down for all, not just some, characters should be available or there should be a back button with minimal to no load time. Next, I noticed that if my character is in an invasion point or in between ‘worlds’, I am immediately disconnected from the server when I try to access him from the app. Lastly, if we are already logged in on our computer, we cannot gain access on the app from our phone. This app should allow for us to force log out of our computer from our mobile device. This is a feature that even most basic programs have. While everything I’ve said will probably not be fixed or changed, especially with the new xpac coming soon, I irregardless share my ubiquitously-shared criticism in the infinitesimal hope that whoever programs this app have some basic integrity.

I like this app very much, however the WoW apps are lacking something they used to have: Auction House. Currently the only thing related to the AH I can find is a Notifier which is Just That, a Notification System. I want back the ability to use the AH when at work or out in town, whatever the case may be, whether it is baked back into the AH Notification App, or it is added to this one. Also, not sure if others are able to see it, but I am not able to see XP bars for my companions, maybe it’s a bug I’m experiencing, maybe there isn’t xp info. Either way it would be helpful to see this to plan which guys to send on missions, see if it is worth it to level one up through some quick missions before sending it on a more important one where all the % I can get on it helps. Would also like timers of sorts on how long a mission will be around before it changes. I was trying to level a couple companions before doing a 400 rep Champions of Azeroth mission so I could have 200% chance on it or as high as possible instead of 140%, but the Morning After the mission popped up, it changed from 400 rep to 100 rep and there was absolutely 0 indication this would happen.

As of 8.2, the app is useful for: sending out follower mission w/o moving a toon to a table, create fresh troops, gearing followers, doing research upgrades, seeing available WQs and any active assault, progress on warfronts. It is bugged in several ways, the biggest being available emissaries. The list displayed for a character is ALWAYS the still-available ones from the PREVIOUS view of a character; to see the correct current set, one must view a character twice. The list of characters refreshes while one scrolls down, returning to the top; there is no good reason to refresh the list. The app re-connects and reloads data if you switch away and back, or the screen has locked; depending on timing, this often fails but leaves an abandoned login, forcing you to restart the app. The pretty character image doesn’t have a way to show text for gear, one must drill into each item for details. No overall character data, such as iLevel or stats. Being able to see reputation progress would be REALLY USEFUL to decide what missions to do, but is missing as well.

2 stars because it lets me recruit troops, complete missions and see world quests. No more stars because this has potential to be a 5 star app if it wasn’t given up on. Add the ‘coming soon’ features that have been on the ribbon for as long as this app has been out as far as I can remember. Add a blank wow calendar with only game events on it and that would be easy enough for a third star. Go the extra mile and include guild / community events too, but I don’t expect anything so even a tiny basic feature would be welcomed. I don’t know if it broke the game to have an auction house feature remotely, but that would be an instant 5 stars from me. I can see that maybe having more uptime on it in the armory app maybe made it too unbalanced or something, but I sure cleared up a lot of junk out of my alt’s banks just by being able to quickly post items. Either way, the great armory app was retired with the assumption that the features would be rolled into this replacement app, but it’s not fulfilled. Bottom line, as I have seen echoed in so many other reviews for this app, is this could be an amazing app with more work put info it. By this point, it may be a lost cause, but I would appreciate at least a statement saying that no features are planned for this app, rather than me waiting week after week for a chance to be surprised with the promised coming soon features.