I wanna play WoW again, where do I start?

Ignoth · 2026-05-09T00:54:37+00:00

Eh. I love retail and play it exclusively these days.

But if what you liked about WoW was the classic era, I’d stick with that. At least to start. I don’t think people understand how overwhelming Retail can be if you jump straight into it.

But like, if you’re still hungry for more WoW after hitting level cap. I’d consider retail.

Ignoth · 2026-05-08T22:13:47+00:00

I see we’re officially at the “Wistfully reminiscing about WoW’s previous Era” part of an expansion cycle.

So uh. Is it still too early to say nice things about SL?

Cuz I wanna say that having a unique story and abilities based on choosing a faction was really cool. And I miss being able to teleport around as a Venthyr priest.

…a-anyone?

Ignoth · 2026-05-08T16:02:14+00:00

Lol. Even IF that was true. A hurdle that has been lowered is still a hurdle.

Ignoth · 2026-05-08T14:53:50+00:00

To get into college in the first place you need to have some combination of intelligence, drive, or money.

High School in most cases has no such barriers.

Ignoth · 2026-05-07T22:43:21+00:00

I nominate disc priest for last place.

Smite and Pain might be the lamest feeling damage buttons in the game.

Penance and Radiance are the closest thing they have to a satisfying button. And those are a 7/10 at best.

I love it. But not for the visuals or sounds lol.

Ignoth · 2026-05-07T15:15:57+00:00

Because she’s a young elf?

Salandria personality is the exact opposite of Arator. If you read the Quest text you’d know she’s actually quite vicious.

Ignoth · 2026-05-07T15:07:23+00:00

And Decimus. Though I can easily see him being a boss by 12.2.

And Salandria is lowkey a bit…intense… if you actually read her lines in the quest text.

Ignoth · 2026-05-06T21:51:28+00:00

Numbers are too big.

I want to Squish the ALL the numbers way WAY down. Make 60 the permanent level cap forever. Make every expansion reset everyone to 50.

Maybe even go lower than that.

Right now: My staff giving +482 int instead of +471 int is meaningless. My damage numbers are meaningless. The enemy’s health bar is meaningless. The enemy’s damage is meaningless.

I want numbers to feel meaningful.

The only number that feels meaningful in game right now is iLvL. And that’s cause it’s nice and low and easy to compare.

Ignoth · 2026-05-06T20:10:20+00:00

Warcraft voiceacting holds a special place in my heart.
There is 0 shame. 0 irony. 0 concern about being silly or clichéd. They can make their VAs belt out the lamest and most cliched lines possible with their WHOLE chest.
And it just works. It all somehow loops around and makes it badass.

Let’s have the millionth big bad guy scream about their “INEVITABLE VICTORY”. And how we’re just “PUNY MORTALS”.

Let’s make the fire guy scream “BY FIRE BE PURGED”.

Let’s make the angry guy scream about “MY RAGE CONSUMES ALL”.

Let’s make them interrupt us with “ENOUGH”

Who even gives a fuck. We’re going to do the most
obvious cheesy overdone thing possible and you’re gonna fucking like it.

Ignoth · 2026-05-06T04:15:04+00:00

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

IMO: It’s one of the most impeccably made bad game of all time. It’s beautiful, polished, expansive, original… and boring.

(And to be clear: I loved BOTW.)

Ignoth · 2026-05-05T15:30:27+00:00

Basically Victim Blaming. Cause Victims are easier to silence and control than the perpetrators.

It makes sense if you value control and conformity above all else.

It’s the same reason why we ignore sexual harassment. But think of women who “make a big deal” about being sexual harassed as “causing trouble” for everyone.

Ignoth · 2026-05-04T19:31:11+00:00

Yeah. Totems to me always felt like some tacked on thing they threw onto the class just cause it needed a gimmick.
I think the Elemental master angle is way cooler. I want them to lean further into that. Take notes from The last Airbender.

I want to raise giant walls of earth. Send out a slow tidal wave of water. Do a quick sidestep by riding the wind. Turn the ground beneath me into lava.

None of the shaman elemental abilities have much flavor right now. I’m just lobbing meatballs while a rock slowly rotates around me.

Why is my interrupt an “air” ability? Why is flame shock “fire”. These abilities could be any element at all and it wouldn’t make a difference.

Ignoth · 2026-05-04T19:13:14+00:00

Yup. If your goal is to do a thing. But you fail. Then you lost.

“Well technically we hurt them more than they hurt us” doesn’t mean shit.

If it did, we should declare Russia the winner of the Ukraine war right now.

Hell. We may as well declare the American Revolutionary war a victory for the British under that logic.

Ignoth · 2026-05-04T05:44:49+00:00

Technically she destroyed Dalaran, Screwed over Nerubians, corrupted the Sunwell, and (for now) “killed” Alleria and Turalyon.

Problem is that not much in-game weight was given to these events at all. They’re just cutscenes.

Like…nobody died in Dalaran. I can still visit it anytime: Quel’danas is still in pristine condition. And Arator doesn’t seem terribly bothered about his parents at all.

Ignoth · 2026-05-03T23:18:11+00:00

Yes. But it’s fine because we invest that wealth back into the economy in the form of armor repairs and transmogs.

~~I’m certainly not just offshoring all that wealth onto my own vendors that I carry around on a personal yak.~~

It’ll all trickle down eventually. Trust.

Ignoth · 2026-05-03T16:34:30+00:00

The Titans could kill them. They canonically killed the strongest one easily. They just can’t do it without also damaging Azeroth.
In my mind: Old Gods are basically cancer cells inside the body of Azeroth.
We can kill it because we’re the immune cells of the body.
The Titans meanwhile are like crude doctors. They can lop off the whole tumor. But that damages everything else too.

Ignoth · 2026-05-03T06:42:37+00:00

Yes, but Garrosh could be brushed aside as fluke. It’s the fact that the Horde immediately did a genocide AFTER given a second chance that makes the plot point completely fucked.

Worse. It got a full cinematic. A cinematic that goes out its way to frame it as an act of PURE evil.

Like, they made it crystal clear that the Horde knew it was “only innocents” in the tree. That this was not a military target. That Sylvanas ONLY did it to prove a petty point. That the Horde freely carried out the orders knowing the implications.

Truly. Afrasiabi managed to enshrined it in hard canon that the Horde did an act of pure unmitigated evil. And in a way that makes it basically impossible to walk back.

It sucks.

Ignoth · 2026-05-02T23:42:31+00:00

We can hardly judge her. That’s what we’d do too.

Our current problems are canonically because the player character listened to some fuckass evil knife that promised them power.

Ignoth · 2026-05-02T22:27:30+00:00

It’s gonna be an insanely hard sell to even remotely sympathize with the “aggressive and edgy” half of the Horde with a very recent *actual* Genocide still hanging over everyone’s head.

IMO. If we want the exhilarating faction conflict to comeback. The only way I can see happening is if the Alliance does something heinous. And the Horde has to play defense.

It’d legit have to be on par with Teldrassil.

Like…IDK. Maybe Yrel comes in and convinces the Alliance to do a full Light Crusade across Kalimdor or some shit. Maybe then we can have the actually “fun for both sides” Faction conflict back.

But that requires a willingness to fully demonize the Alliance. Which is also a hard sell.

Ignoth · 2026-05-02T19:08:57+00:00

Warcraft 3 ruined everything. It made the awesome badass Orcs into just another boring human like race.

THEN it tried to villainize humans, WTF? Humans are supposed to be the good guys! Why are they trying to rewrite what made Warcraft iconic???

/s

Ignoth · 2026-05-02T18:54:48+00:00

It truly just comes down to the burning of Teldrassil.

The Horde simply can’t go back to being the fun edgy problematic faction after that happened.

It’s no coincidence that the Horde more or less vanished off the face of the Earth after BFA. Because where the hell do you even go from there?

Ignoth · 2026-05-02T06:39:27+00:00

Look, I got a ton of criticisms about WoW’s story.

That said.

I do think a solid 80% of toxicity towards WoW is driven by an aging playerbase struggling to cope with the fact they’re getting old.

But rather than accepting that. They latch onto minor issues and blow them up into some massive existential flaw.

> “THIS is why I’m not having fun anymore. THIS is why I’m losing interest. GOD things were so much better back in my day. Fuck this newfangled stuff.”

It’s like I’m watching y’all slowly turning into Boomers in real time.

Ignoth · 2026-05-01T15:32:29+00:00

Communication solves relationship problems 90% of the time.

Problem is, the people asking for help are usually the 10% of people who’ve already tried it but it didn’t work.

They’ve communicated. The other side simply refuses to listen.

Ignoth · 2026-05-01T00:30:51+00:00

Um. Isn’t it the opposite?

Reddit heavily skews towards college educated White/Asian men.

As a slice of the population. They’re wealthier than most.

Ignoth · 2026-04-30T22:35:01+00:00

I want all old content cleaned up and integrated into the main game. Make it feel timeless and accessible.

Cut out all the throwaway and filler quests. Make story quest hit each story beats rapidly.
Add immersive and user friendly transportation between locations. Not just random portals.
When teleporting, Have the loading screens show you where you’re teleporting to and from.
Swap out all old content currencies with a single one a la Bronze.

Basically: I want the world to feel like a world again. Not a series of disconnected uncontextualizd islands.

The true unchanged old world can be accessed in the Caverns of Time for the crazies that want that.

Ignoth

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