Signs of the Lion

Seriously.

I don't have time for this crap, eighteen floors? Absurd! As if there aren't enough things already that artificially bloat time spent in-game, now this?

Edit:

As other users have discovered and have kindly pointed out, you can do levels 1-6 three times to receive credit and move on and away from this dreadful event.

With that said, for me it just shows a massive disconnect between Blizzard and how they communicate with their players. Nothing in the quest text makes it clear on how much actually needs to be done to complete this quest, aside from the vague "explore deeper" comment within the text.

When I first tried, I was under what I thought was the fair assumption that it would be like all the other quests we've been getting on a weekly basis. Talk to Bolvar, to a Torghast run, and complete. To my surprise, Twisting Corridors kept going. And going. AND going. I got to level 11 and wondered if I was in the right place. I came here to look, and discovered the horror that there are 18 levels.

I have a family, including children. I'm head of the household, and I work. There are times where I simply don't have the time to engage in content due to length. Therefore, I plan accordingly.

This is where I see the disconnect. The quest text should be the bottom line for where we're told what to do, along with a general expectation of the time it will take. For Twisting Corridors, it would have been so simple had the quest text or the side bar read: "Twisting Corridors: find clue one on level 6, find clue two on level 12, find clue 3 on level 18."

I would have seen this and immediately recognized the longer time requirement. I would have told myself to wait and do it when I knew I'd have the time. But, it didn't say this, and based on the comments here at the time, I was under the impression I had to complete levels 1-18. As a result, I had to abandon the run at level 11 because of real-life commitments, and needing to get ready for work.

This was immensely demoralizing. I felt my time was wasted because of lack of information. This is where I see the disconnect. Blizzard needs to be setting an expectation for these things. Not only this quest, but for other Shadowlands content. For example, there's a wide variety of world quests which simply say, in effect, "here are the quest's requirements." I look and see what the tooltip says, and I make the choice to do them. But when I get into the world quest, more keeps coming. I complete what the tooltip says only to find out there's more. There's one in Bastion that says to activate three targets, and kill 15 mobs. Simple enough, until I learned to activate the three mobs, I first had to kill other mobs that didn't count for the objective. Those other mobs dropped fragments of the item needed to activate the three targets. Once I finally had that done, I thought I'd completed the world quest. But no, it sent me to another area, where I had to handle another ten objectives.

So instead of being able to rely on the tooltip saying 18 objectives, there were really THIRTY SEVEN! That's ridiculous, it's not effective communication of expectation from Blizzard, and from a certain point of view, it's deceptive. We're being made to invest more time because Blizzard isn't being transparent enough to really tell us what needs to be done. Maybe they just don't want us to go to the "kill one thing" world quests anymore. Maybe they're insistent on us seeing as much as possible to satisfy someone. Maybe they're just artificially padding everything in sight to show increased playtime to their investors. I guess we'll never know.

I just needed to get that off my chest. My time is valuable, as it is to so many other player who don't have the luxury of playing for hours upon hours per day. If Blizzard is going to feed us massive amounts of content, they need to have prepared to be forthcoming with clear explanations for how to complete said content.

My thanks to anyone who decided to take a look at this.

My even BIGGER thanks to those who called out the true requirement for this quest.

If you run through floor 6 (easy enough to do) 3 separate times, you will get the items you need for the quest. Instead of going through floor 18.

You don't need to do 18 floors in a row, every 6th floor regardless of progress, the floor bosses will drop the quest item required

You can do 3x6
1-12 and 1x6
or all 18 floors.