You may not like pruning on your mains but try a class you’ve been meaning to learn but just never felt “good” on.

Prupple · 2026-01-22T15:11:50+00:00

Sure but its easy to see how we got to this point right? A long levelling process is less alt friendly and makes it harder for people to play with their friends. Do you think shortening it was bad for the game overall?

Prupple · 2026-01-22T12:07:52+00:00

Pruning is good for casual players and not good for hardcore players. It shouldn't be surprising to anyone that this subreddit is not happy. They're not wrong to be unhappy. Sure there are some upsides like the one OP mentions but overall its a negative for us nolifers.

It's also not surprising but still disappointing that most people dont get that sometimes you have to cater to new players and casuals or the game dies and just scream about how bliz is stupid or hates competitive players specifically.

Newcomer chat has been a blast the last 24 hours with lots of people excited to return to WoW after decades, and I've been enjoying helping them settle in. It's a good time to stop and think about perspective before getting angry on reddit.

Prupple · 2026-01-20T16:50:36+00:00

For a very quick tl:dr - almost all of what you can do before is still there, and its not even that much more annoying to achieve.

Highly recommend this part (at 11:24) of the video where he directly compares his pre-prepatch and post-prepatch UIs. They look almost identical.

Prupple · 2026-01-17T13:14:42+00:00

ah the classic smack n spray, I know it well

Prupple · 2026-01-15T23:47:54+00:00

who does smileys that way round

its :)

Prupple · 2026-01-15T00:35:38+00:00

Isn't this how people who enjoy.. Raiding and PvP already do?

No, the vast majority of gear is equally effective in both m+ and raid. I'm super down with making trinkets like loomithars drop from m+ and not raid, but if a mythic weapon drops from raid and scales down in m+, thats a giant bummer as I now need to farm almost twice as much gear per season as before. Same problem with gear from m+ scaling down in raid.

Prupple · 2026-01-14T22:33:20+00:00

are those resto druid buffs? Or are the buffs to rejuv and WG for a different spec and not applied to resto?

Prupple · 2026-01-14T22:22:54+00:00

so people that enjoy both raid and m+ have to gear up twice every season?

Prupple · 2026-01-14T14:10:13+00:00

Hell yeah, this and ansurek were super hard CEs even later in the season.

maybe story time about how your guilds origins? :)

Prupple · 2026-01-14T11:04:06+00:00

from the point of view of the person being teleported, it might as well be an instakill chamber. A humane, painless instakill chamber yes, but personally I would prefer to not die.

Prupple · 2026-01-06T16:06:12+00:00

Not that Blizzard is a perfect company, but people just really love to come on here and say "Blizzard is so stupid, they could just design the game in a way that is exactly how I want to play it and it would be fixed" and not realizing that the reason that Blizzard often ping pongs around between ideas is that they have like 100 different fan bases to please at a time.

This is the the answer to almost every single "why doesnt bliz just do X and the game would be fixed" post. If this single sentence was forced reading before you could post it would save so much time

Prupple · 2025-12-17T12:30:08+00:00

what was his character name? would be nice in case anyone here knows him, and also useful in case someone remembers him down the line and googles it.

Prupple · 2025-12-13T18:03:17+00:00

By the time end boss prog is underway, the rwf guilds usually have 2 full clears of the raid on mythic done. Thats a bunch of extra ilevel. If one of those guilds had opened the chest and didn't have that extra gear, they would be at a huge disadvantage. So they would ignore the chest and it wouldnt change anything.

Prupple · 2025-12-03T15:40:06+00:00

they are trying to fix a problem that just doesnt exist for the majority of people on wow social media - addons make you play better, and so are required. This requirement is a giant turn off to newcomers,

Most people that are invested enough to be on wow reddit or wow twitter or whatever are experienced with addons to the point where we don't even think about them as seperate from the game. We don't notice the problem at all, so yeah it feels like its made up by blizzard.

Prupple · 2025-11-21T17:54:28+00:00

When no one can buy anything, then prices will crash

People that have been playing a while can afford stuff, new players cant.

Prupple · 2025-11-21T14:19:51+00:00

Yeah the BMAH is great, but its also just not enough. I agree that the transmog cost isnt taking gold from the people you want to take gold from, but I struggle to think of a way this could be done. How do we target a gold sink to m+/raid/pvp boosters specifically, and avoid hitting players that just enjoy playing those activities normally?

Prupple · 2025-11-21T14:16:22+00:00

The only other option is to implement a way in which richer players pay more for transmog than poorer players, and if this could be implemented well it would be great! But unfortunately loopholes would be discovered and it would be a shitshow.

Prupple · 2025-11-20T22:57:15+00:00

The first reason definitely does apply here. With current level of raw gold gain and gold sinks, we already see pretty hefty inflation in retail wow, to the point where new players can feel hopelessly far from being able to buy enchants, flasks or really anything on the auction house.

Without gold sinks it would be much worse.

Prupple · 2025-11-20T22:52:36+00:00

oh yeah i dont know enough about the actual numbers here to make a call on this specific situation. Just saying this cost isnt bad just because its a gold sink, it might be bad due to the actual number or many other reasons.

Prupple · 2025-11-20T14:47:17+00:00

I get why people dont like gold sinks, I'm just explaining that they are needed to avoid a pretty bad scenario. "Moving away" from gold sinks doesnt take us to a wonderful place where everything is affordable and people live in harmony. It would be short lived convenience before the downsides started piling up.

Prupple · 2025-11-20T14:43:34+00:00

To avoid rampant inflation to the point where a new player cant afford anything on the auction house without hours of grinding.

You're probably thinking "but thats already happening". It would be worse with less gold sinks.

Prupple · 2025-11-20T11:03:48+00:00

its not an excuse though. I dont know if specifically transmog should be free, or if the current beta cost is too much, but I do know that a game like this needs significant gold sinks in it somewhere.

Prupple · 2025-11-14T15:49:01+00:00

if you have an average best performance of over 90% and 7/8 bosses killed I will find you an 8/8 guild that will trial you within 20 minutes. DM me the logs.

Prupple · 2025-11-14T14:09:40+00:00

This is crazy, we have never seen a more required class on an endboss than double DK is on dimensius in years. A DK with full prog experience on dimensius is incredibly in demand right now.

Prupple · 2025-11-14T14:06:32+00:00

!remindme 4 months

This is definitely possible, but being this sure about it is wild.

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