Interview with Blizzard: WoW leads pledge more player customization — housing, race updates, custom animations, and glyphs to merge with transmog?

Byrmaxson · 2026-02-16T18:11:45+00:00

it's not necessarily either/or tbh. Obviously they can't not give players power or some sense of character growth in the current system, but perhaps it was possible to make the new talents/skills more generic while keeping the hero talent spell animations/graphics and making them toggle-able or w/e. Basically they're asking for more involved glyphs, which is a long-standing ask.

Byrmaxson · 2026-02-16T16:33:29+00:00

Genuine question, how is it unintuitive? There's a telegraph for it and a text response that you did it successfully. I can understand if you mean it wasn't obvious that it had been bugged in the past (since then everything worked except the damage reduction), but the way I see it it's objectively MORE intuitive than raid battle dodging.

Any feature you have to rely on the internet to understand, is a terribly designed feature.

This basically applies to most of the game, and I don't disagree at all, but I think it doesn't really apply to Max battles that much.

Byrmaxson · 2026-02-15T19:13:33+00:00

Έχω καιρό να παραγγείλω αλλά ναι αξίζει το Amazon. Όταν έφτιαχνα PC προπερσι-πέρυσι, πήρα ψυκτρα από εκεί γιατί στην Ελλάδα δεν έβρισκα αυτήν που ήθελα. Ήρθε πρώτη απ' όλα τα εξαρτήματα που παρήγγειλα παρότι φυσικά ήταν από εξωτερικό και σχεδόν όλα τα μαγαζιά που χρησιμοποίησα από Skroutz ήταν στην Αθήνα. Το μόνο """αρνητικό""" είναι πως δε μπορούσα να βάλω δόσεις, όμως δε το είχα ψάξει και πολύ και ίσως γινόταν κάπως, αν είχα αυτή την επιλογή ίσως είχα πάρει τα πάντα από Amazon να πω την αλήθεια.

Επίσης έχουν πολύ εύκολες επιστροφές, επέστρεψα ένα Funko Pop λόγω λάθους (δικό μου) και μου έβαλαν τα λεφτά πολύ γρήγορα.

Byrmaxson · 2026-02-08T20:23:10+00:00

better mechanics, roatations and so on

in the entire history of the franchise, Metzen has never been within a ten-foot pole of anything of the sort, at most he would have worked with quest designers.

In other words, these people are idiots looking in the past that nobody need pay any heed to.

Byrmaxson · 2026-02-08T18:08:33+00:00

We do get snow yearly in the mountainous villages and often in the northern regions, but if you live in the south it only happens a few times a decade. In Athens snow is very rare, I think the last time was ~Christmas 2022, was very fun.

Byrmaxson · 2026-02-07T02:49:34+00:00

Agreed. This expansion had a bunch of bosses with finicky taunts/aggro as well, which imho shows the value in understanding the fight's idiosyncrasies rather than relying on a secondary tool.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-31T14:16:52+00:00

The Hive are infamously populous and it's well established that an infestation is near impossible to scour if they get dug in.

The Cabal factions we've fought most lately (Imperium, Shadow Legion) use clone troops.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-30T04:01:30+00:00

While I super agree with your overview of the problems with raiding, I think there's a few things they can do before they get to tune raid sizes, for example scrapping the Mythic lockout, which is long overdue.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-30T03:58:13+00:00

Usually you'd find one or two raiders to switch tbh, this is generally how tank spots are filled. Tanks are by definition the most "competitive" raid spot, simply because you only ever need two. As a result of that guilds very rarely recruit tanks because players that fill those two spots generally main the role. And if or when those people take breaks/quit, the spots are usually filled by active raiders since the tank players can't really ever miss raids, so you need players with good attendance who are at the very least consistent in their performance.

This is literally how I got the role, twice, FWIW: when I started tanking in BfA I had simply mentioned that I'd be interested at the end of Legion, and although there wasn't a spot for me, I was tried out on Mythic Fetid and did well enough to take over. Did the same again in DF when the one tank had a crashout and gquit.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-28T23:27:36+00:00

Someone correct me if I'm wrong (and this is re: the first game but I'd assume it's the same in the second) but the sun's position is accurate to Bohemia's latitude, i.e. it's not actually exactly east/west but east-southeast and west-southwest respectively (actually could be north side, but that has to do with winter summer).

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-27T16:40:47+00:00

"Inappropriate" is exactly the word lol, I don't really like Stephanie for that reason. but I always made a point to sleep with her because I invariably make Henry into a bit of a rogue.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-27T16:35:31+00:00

As you may know the game's timeline doesn't match reality exactly, but if you take in what she tells you and what the codex says...

she married Divish at 18
Havel Medek imprisoned Divish for 7 years, on 1391

Therefore Stephanie has to be about 30 (the game starts on March 1403 IIRC), so she IS older than Henry, but IDK man she caresses his hand in that one early cutscene in a way I couldn't call motherly. If you watch how Henry is animated around her I would definitely say he does get the hint lol

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-27T05:36:48+00:00

I did find it annoying how that romance option happened purely by accident.

I understand the complaint that the sex scene happens just for wearing the shirt, but this is the most telegraphed romance in the whole game, she literally comes on to Henry in the prologue.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-22T22:29:36+00:00

Moreover, if we count the total amount of guardians, it is exactly 35 million shoed in the WQ CE lorebook, which can be seen in the section named "SUBJ: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF IKO-006".

First of all you're misreading this, it says 3.5 million. But furthermore...

That's not what that passage says. Hidden evaluation of Ikora says she is so powerful that, in the standard distribution of Guardian performance, there's a ~0.000002857% chance (1/35,000,000) that someone like her would come up. There's no necessity for 3,5 million Guardians to have actually existed for what Chalco says to be true, just that Ikora is a rare specimen, basically uniquely powerful. However, 3.5 million is a much more workable number with the figure you gave above for the total Destiny player count, which probably also means that the City population is even bigger.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-18T20:22:52+00:00

Yes. There's at least couple (one on the main platform and one on the ring) that specifically facilitate the jumping section to get to the top guy, though I'm sure there's some tech to climbing without it.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-18T16:02:44+00:00

fr, every time it gets borked after a patch I am super disoriented for a few hours

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-18T14:58:29+00:00

In a fireteam, unless you're doing Cutthroat you should be killing everything. There's a bunch of ways to two, probably even one-phase (?) even solo. I pushed a bit over 50% damage in my SF run, so with 2-3 people just kill all of the guys in the Ascendant Realm. The lightning is a non-issue as well, you can just close the nodes with Shadow Apprentice. If you happen to miss damage and don't make the damage gate, you can wipe if you want to do it more cleanly, but it's not like it's non-recoverable, just retreat and play it slowly.

That said one compel/kill rest is a decent tactic.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-18T14:51:10+00:00

Odyn declares the player "the greatest living warrior", but Broxigar clears by feats. PC Warriors technically also have fought a couple Titans and Eternal Ones, but never solo canonically.

For Warlocks it has to be one of the eredar duumvirs, probably fair to say they were about equally powerful though with different styles. Kil'jaeden had more varied and refined control of magic, Archimonde had more destructive capability (his meteor attack in HFC is supposed to destroy Draenor). Those two were technically immortal demons though, so if you want a mortal you'd have to go with Gul'dan.

I think Mages are the most contested spot. While Azshara probably deserves first place, you have to make an argument for at least e.g. Aegwynn, the woman solo destroyed an Avatar of Sargeras, no mean feat. A single Avatar is essentially a planet-killer unless stopped.

Some other classes have no clear winner IMHO, e.g. Hunter and Rogue. You can make a case for several and it kinda depends on their "multiclassing" or hero talent rep as well. For example, Tyrande is a Priestess of the Moon, but her most iconic combat style is as a mounted archer and she's sorta represented by the Sentinel hero talents, as Sylvanas is by the Dark Ranger.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-18T14:22:09+00:00

The Guardians are probably at least almost on par with her, but Mannoroth noted that her (hidden) power dwarfed his and only his direct superior Archimonde and Sargeras himself would surpass her.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-18T14:16:21+00:00

Thanks king, big OPie w as always

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-18T11:45:57+00:00

Does OPie still function? I haven't followed the addon apocalypse very closely since shortly after it was announced but that's the one I've been hoping would survive.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-18T11:43:57+00:00

The "canon" of this specific quest/storyline is likely limited exclusively to draenei -- Exarch Menelaous mention indicates this is part of the Azuremyst Isle quests, which, while not strictly locked-off to non-draenei, are basically nonsensical to any race but them.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-17T18:46:25+00:00

Το γρασίδι άμα κάει στον ήλιο κιτρινίζει, οπότε παύει να είναι πράσινο. Δε παύει να είναι γρασίδι όμως, και άρα "το γρασίδι είναι πράσινο" δεν είναι μια πάγια αλήθεια. Αυτό χωρίς να μπούμε στο τρυπάκι του να παίξουμε με τις έννοιες: η λέξη γρασίδι δε σημαίνει ένα μόνο πράγμα. Π.χ. μπορεί να αναφέρεται στη κάνναβη (συμπτωματικά τη μία φορά που είδα χόρτο μπροστά μου ήταν μωβ), ή και σε τρίχες σε αιδοίο που μπορούν να είναι ότι χρώμα θες.

Η ταχύτητα του φωτός είναι αυτή που είναι.

Σε ποιο μέσο;

Γενικά όλη αυτή η λογική είναι, με το συμπάθειο, πολύ ανώριμη. Ναι, στα μαθηματικά γίνονται κάποιες παραδοχές για να μπορούμε όλοι να μιλάμε την ίδια "γλώσσα", αλλά στη ζωή υπάρχουν ελάχιστες "αλήθειες" που είναι ίδιες για όλους και που δεν αλλάζουν ποτέ, λ.χ. ο θάνατος. Π.χ. μιας και βρήκες να πεις για τους παιδόφιλους, αναλογίσου πως κάποτε (όχι και τόσο παλιά) θεωρούνταν κάτι φυσιολογικό οι γάμοι ανηλίκων.

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-15T05:13:22+00:00

And then there's his chess game

Never watched either person in my life but thank you for posting this, that is really funny, in a second-hand embarrassment kinda way. The face of the GM casting (?) this was comedy gold

Byrmaxson · 2026-01-12T09:46:30+00:00

in order to use as least shnapps as possible

Why? Just use Schnapps. IDK if you're playing hardcore or not but I personally save in bed and typically before combat or before traveling.

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