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World of Warcraft: Shadowlands |OT| Anima Crossing: New Prison
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She's busy collecting souls in The Maw as a way to repent. She'll probably show up again in the future, but for now she's in the background.
that's what I meant. So basically, no Sylvanas in Dragonflight much like Illidan is away doing hhis thing for awhile aswell.
Hot take? I could do without Jaina for awhile too :(
Heroic Jailer lives another week. q_q 1% wipe earlier in the night, and then we ended the night on a 5% wipe where we hit enrage early because our tank missed a pillar break.
I really love the fight though, so I don't mind the wipes tbh. Great fight to close out a great raid.
I really love the fight though, so I don't mind the wipes tbh. Great fight to close out a great raid.
Nice! Our social raid group just pushed to HC Jailer last night, feels good. Looking forward to ending it soonTM.
I'm new to the game so bear with me here:
How do I find a good guild that isn't toxic and raids/M+ often?
How do I find a good guild that isn't toxic and raids/M+ often?
Check the WoW server forums or subreddit. Can't remember what it's called but there's a subreddit dedicated to finding WoW guilds and it's decent enough. The guilds that post there are usually the capable and friendly type. Bottom tier guilds will just spam invites and trade chat ads.
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They released the talent tree previews for Druids and Death Knights.
Druid Dragonflight Talent Preview for All Specs
Blizzard has revealed a preview of the Dragonflight Talents for Druids including baseline abilities, class talents and specific spec talents.
www.wowhead.com
Death Knight Dragonflight Talent Tree Preview for All Specs
Blizzard has revealed a preview of the Dragonflight Talent Tree for Death Knights including baseline abilities, class talents and specific spec talents.
www.wowhead.com
Honestly... it's not like worst-case scenario but they still look a bit dull. Thankfully we have 5/6 months of testing and iteration ahead so hopefully they're a bit more interesting by the end.
Frost have some really cool combos in there actually, I'm super excited to try it out. The base tree looks a lot less interesting but that's not surprising. If they manage to give most specs something like frost though it's gonna be great.
Maybe I'm missing something, but it basically seems to be the same talents repackaged that we've had for a couple of expansions now.Check the WoW server forums or subreddit. Can't remember what it's called but there's a subreddit dedicated to finding WoW guilds and it's decent enough. The guilds that post there are usually the capable and friendly type. Bottom tier guilds will just spam invites and trade chat ads.
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They released the talent tree previews for Druids and Death Knights.
Druid Dragonflight Talent Preview for All Specs
Blizzard has revealed a preview of the Dragonflight Talents for Druids including baseline abilities, class talents and specific spec talents.Death Knight Dragonflight Talent Tree Preview for All Specs
Blizzard has revealed a preview of the Dragonflight Talent Tree for Death Knights including baseline abilities, class talents and specific spec talents.
Honestly... it's not like worst-case scenario but they still look a bit dull. Thankfully we have 5/6 months of testing and iteration ahead so hopefully they're a bit more interesting by the end.
They've also thrown in pretty much all of the best of the previous borrowed powers.
Which is cool in concept, but I was hoping for more new stuff if that makes sense? Kind of a fresh start after a couple bleh expansions. I'll keep an open mind for sure after people get hands on it.
I mean, we've all been complaining about losing the borrowed power after each expansion for ages and, frankly, I'd rather they did that than give us a bunch of "this makes x ability 1% stronger out of 5" talents like the original trees had. These feel like they have a lot of interesting choices so far.
Balance has a couple new interesting talents but I didn't notice much new in Resto or Guardian (haven't played much Feral to know it).
It's been hilarious watching the usual suspects implode over this popup screen. We've gone through everything from Blizzard being a censoring dictatorship, to "if you're offended by words you need to work on your own personal issues" to it being horrendously patronising to tell adults to be nice.
So I'd say the social contract is probably working as intended. Hopefully Blizzard follows through and enforces their rules more strictly.
After 95 wipes, Heroic Jailer down!
The boss was hard for our group (large raid group and lack of DKs meant the P3 adds were a pain), but he was overall my favorite raid boss in a raid instance that I really love, so I'm not mad about it.
I was also lucky in that we got the kill on a pull where I didn't die stupidly, and ended up with a 97 parse. \o/
The boss was hard for our group (large raid group and lack of DKs meant the P3 adds were a pain), but he was overall my favorite raid boss in a raid instance that I really love, so I'm not mad about it.
I was also lucky in that we got the kill on a pull where I didn't die stupidly, and ended up with a 97 parse. \o/
Did any of you EU players get the promotion mail from blizz mentioned here https://www.wowhead.com/news/new-bl...friends-to-wow-for-free-faction-change-327343 and I quote: "Certain members of the WoW community were emailed by Blizzard with a special new promotion. These players were offered a free faction change token if they invite at least one (but up to 5) friends back to World of Warcraft who have not had an active sub since May 31st, 2022?
None of my friends that still play the game got it. If any of you received the mail and have an invite left please let me know as I'm curious to try out the latest patch and get my hands on that dark ranger outfit for my hunter.
None of my friends that still play the game got it. If any of you received the mail and have an invite left please let me know as I'm curious to try out the latest patch and get my hands on that dark ranger outfit for my hunter.
I saw that promotion. I want the free cross faction change, not free game time if I were to come back.
I've gone off the game a bit in the last two weeks. I reckon I'm going to just do my weekly dungeons until Season 4 hits.
Sepulcher has really drained me. I haven't even finished it on normal yet and I have no desire to do so either. It's one of the most exhausting raids in the game, imo.
Sepulcher has really drained me. I haven't even finished it on normal yet and I have no desire to do so either. It's one of the most exhausting raids in the game, imo.
I really wish they made the Sandworn Relics B.Net bound. I've got so many of them on my main that I wish I could just send them to my alts to gear up.
Yeah, it's BS. My Druid has like 700 of them but I can't do anything with it. Blizzard is way too stingy with loot.
I am tickled that the macOS client properly handles the notch on newer MacBooks. Say what you will about other aspects of the game, but the people working on the client seem to do a good job adapting to new things.
I mean, you know, they just announced it lol. They wouldn't say 2022 at this point and open pre-orders if they weren't sure.
It worries me a bit that they think it's going to be ready so soon. Makes me wonder if it's going to be a good expansion.
To be honest I think the date is just there so they can have the pre-order pages up. I expect this thing to launch early 2023 January/February at the latest.
Of course they would? Blizzard delays most of the games they release.
I think accepting pre-orders adds an extra complication, though. Aren't they legally obligated to release the expansion within the fiscal year once they start accepting pre-orders? If they push it back now they'll have to give refunds. Which...is exactly what happened with Shadowlands, but Shadowlands released peak pandemic, and I doubt that even Blizz would make that same flub two expansions in a row.
Anything can happen, sure. But, they must be pretty confident they can get it out. Which, when you think about it, isn't too surprising? They pulled resources off of Shadowlands really early...
Anything can happen, sure. But, they must be pretty confident they can get it out. Which, when you think about it, isn't too surprising? They pulled resources off of Shadowlands really early...
Wonder why they stopped having their deluxe editions give items in their other games, without it have no real reason to buy any edition besides the base one, but I guess that works for me to save like half the cost
Would be buying with WoW Token bux either way of course, but now dont have to farm as hard or anything to re earn the spent ones
Would be buying with WoW Token bux either way of course, but now dont have to farm as hard or anything to re earn the spent ones
They just don't give a fuck anymore. This feels like a last hurrah before acquisition.
If it launches in 2022 it will land very hot and will be a total disaster. We haven't seen any endgame, only 2 talent trees which will need obvious tuning from feedback.
On top of that is Season 4 supposed to only be 1-2 months then?
I feel like they are just trying to inflate the quarter numbers with pre orders and all the other shit (New store pet & discounts today as well).
Once pre orders are locked in and people have used the boosts etc, it makes it a lot more difficult to get a refund as you lose access to those characters and all the other shit you got.
If it launches in 2022 it will land very hot and will be a total disaster. We haven't seen any endgame, only 2 talent trees which will need obvious tuning from feedback.
On top of that is Season 4 supposed to only be 1-2 months then?
I feel like they are just trying to inflate the quarter numbers with pre orders and all the other shit (New store pet & discounts today as well).
Once pre orders are locked in and people have used the boosts etc, it makes it a lot more difficult to get a refund as you lose access to those characters and all the other shit you got.
Talk about overreactions, holy moly. S4 comes later in the summer and was aleays intended to be a shorter season. Will still last 4-5 months, which is plenty for recycled content.
It launching in 2022 does not mean it will 'be a disaster'. There are no covenants, borrowed power system or something else to fuck up here. Just talent trees, which is not hard to adjust in half a year's time and after. Delaying that to Q1 does nothing.
What about endgame do you even want to see? The raid, that they talked about? Mythic+, that they talked about? Reputations, that they talked about? Professions and using it, that they talked about? It has the normal endgame we know by now. Showing more of it can be done closer to launch.
The rest is unneeded pessimism and cynicism, not even worth touching upon.
It isn't a last hurrah because Microsoft won't get rid of WoW. If anything I can see them pumping more money into it and trying to get it working on xbox. They are still supporting Elder Scrolls online and all reports indicate that WoW still beats it for subscribers. Make it free to play for gamepass users, have some sort of paid subscription that gives cosmetics and things of that nature, it'll be a huge hit.
Theres still five/six months before it releases, plenty of time for re-tuning and further feedback.
You may find it an overreaction but I don't. 6 months to Alpha/Beta Test, finish the current season, launch the new one as well as the pre patch is not enough.
Specially when they need to act on feedback from said Beta regarding the talent trees and wherever other systems they may have in the game. Not to touch on the fact that we haven't seen anything other than trailers and teasers as of yet.
Seems to me like these days the WoW community is happy with mediocrity as long as they have their fix.
End of the day you are entitled to your opinion.
I meant it more as a last hurrah for Bobby.
My problem with the tuning is that we haven't even seen alpha and only 2 talent trees.
Keep in mind that this happened earlier this year:
www.engadget.com
So, I don't think Blizzard needs to rely on an extended beta period this time around.
Which, fine be me because hot take: I think WoW's beta periods are way too long and leave the game way too exposed in the first place.
Maybe it's because COVID left way too much time on my hands, but I don't think I've ever been so spoiled on a WoW expansion as I was Shadowlands (and to a lesser extent BfA). And not just on the lore. With so much time between patches, it really felt like you knew the lore, knew the meta, and had content creators screaming at you about what choices were trash and which weren't for months before patches would even launch. And this did contribute to my (lack of) initial hype for new content.
I think Blizzard should dial back on their players doubling as their QA. I kind of like that Dragonflight is dropping this year and there's still so much we don't know about it. 'Bout time.
Activision Blizzard gives 1,100 QA testers full-time jobs and higher base pay
The move comes amid a unionization effort by QA workers at Raven Software.
www.engadget.com
So, I don't think Blizzard needs to rely on an extended beta period this time around.
Which, fine be me because hot take: I think WoW's beta periods are way too long and leave the game way too exposed in the first place.
Maybe it's because COVID left way too much time on my hands, but I don't think I've ever been so spoiled on a WoW expansion as I was Shadowlands (and to a lesser extent BfA). And not just on the lore. With so much time between patches, it really felt like you knew the lore, knew the meta, and had content creators screaming at you about what choices were trash and which weren't for months before patches would even launch. And this did contribute to my (lack of) initial hype for new content.
I think Blizzard should dial back on their players doubling as their QA. I kind of like that Dragonflight is dropping this year and there's still so much we don't know about it. 'Bout time.
I didn't say Dragonflight was mediocre. I said the community is happy with mediocrity and has been for many years.
Dragonflight can turn out amazing but forgive me for being very skeptical due to blizzards recent track record. Not to mention I don't believe a word they say most of the time.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me and all that.
Being skeptical, sure. Stating they don't give a fuck, accussing them of trying to inflate numbers, stating plainly the expansion will be a disaster if it launches this year is not being skeptical though. That's being overly dramatic and conclusive.
Being skeptical would be holding off of judgment while waiting for more information and expressing one's concerns.
I get the sentiment, but I'm completely done with the community absolutely exploding over everything. Look at all these reactions over a launch window. Embarrassing.
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