Prey ambushes players in World of Warcraft: Midnight's open world

Prey is a new system in World of Warcraft: Midnight that players must sign up for. It will ambush you with a specific boss enemy you're hunting while you're out in the open world, eventually leading to a 1v1 when you take the bugger down.

The feature is an approach to the long-running challenge of open world difficulty. World quests, dailies, and the like are a core part of modern MMOs, but if you like a challenge those tasks can start to feel like chores.

"It's easy to get into a flow state when you're just doing your routine, you know, you're doing your world quests, your rares, your treasures, you slouch down in your chair…" By ambushing you at inopportune points, Flak explains, Prey shakes that routine up.

Flak adds that Prey forces players to suddenly consider practical choices: "Do I have crowd control? Do I have the right talents? Do I have enough health before I go into this?"

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