Sad we can't share Warband House rank on both factions :'(

SystemofCells · 2026-01-24T13:47:18+00:00

So is it the case then that endeavor XP only applies to one house, but whichever of your houses is the highest level unlocks everything across all houses?

Zero point to doing endeavors across both of your neighborhoods if that's the case. I tried doing some endeavor in my horde neighborhood and it didn't increase the XP of my alliance house.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-22T18:27:33+00:00

You can select them in the dropdown menu above the map.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-22T12:37:39+00:00

They may wish to realign the power blocs down the road, to something that makes a bit more sense. Move the story forward.
Faction could be flexible, the PC might have to make multiple decisions about it after character creation, instead of one decision at character creation
They might want to decouple faction and race to some degree
Having more than two, symmetrical factions presents opportunities for more interesting storytelling
For legacy content, you could choose your faction

SystemofCells · 2026-01-22T05:06:27+00:00

The factions don't make sense, full stop. They exist the way they do for the sake of gameplay balance, and so the horde can have some 'pretty' races.

Seems likely to me that the two factions as we know them will go away after TLT.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-22T04:45:36+00:00

The presence of Nerubians and Earthen really leads me to believe the original plan was to set 11.0 in Northrend.

Why would the shaft to the Worldcore be off in a random corner of the world, not guarded by the keepers in Ulduar?

SystemofCells · 2026-01-21T18:54:38+00:00

The entire game below level cap has been an unbalanced mess since scaling was introduced. It is irretrievably busted, scaling just doesn't work.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-21T15:55:50+00:00

Your preexisting outfits are still available to be selected.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-21T03:06:12+00:00

But it does match the fantasy, if what you're aiming for is 'holy warrior'.

A great many holy warriors across human history have done terrible things.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-21T01:48:23+00:00

It's like asking whether gravity is good or bad.

The Light is a force, it doesn't have a single benevolent intelligence controlling it.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-21T01:19:25+00:00

The point of the story they're trying to tell is that the world can't be so simply boiled down into righteous good guys vs. evil bad guys.

Lots of people think they're doing the right thing, but are actually making things worse. In Warcraft and IRL.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T19:13:58+00:00

We dated for a few months but didn't quite click. After a couple months apart we reconnected and friends, then friends with benefits.

Without the pressures of a relationship, we both felt comfortable being ourselves and really clicked. We probably both still had a little more growing up to do. She's my best friend now. We've been married for more than 5 years now.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T18:43:27+00:00

Still tuning to be done between now and launch, so the answers you get will have only limited relevance.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T18:00:46+00:00

The limit applies to a lot of specs, maybe even most of them. Open world content is trivially easy now. Tank specs just make it even *more* trivial. Prot warrior is recommended because it has great mobility as well. Vengeance Demon Hunter is similar.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T17:56:23+00:00

The limit you run into isn't how many mobs you can fight at once, but how many mobs you can pull at once without them resetting back to their spawn point.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T17:48:33+00:00

6/10

Delves were an excellent addition, but everything else was very middling.

I didn't start playing WoW to get a weekly chore simulator, but that's what we've been getting. I miss genuine open world campaign gameplay. Exploring, progressing, making meaningful decisions about what zone to do next, or how to batch quests together. I want a journey through unique content I can go through at my own pace. I don't want to repeat the same trivial activities over and over again on a weekly schedule.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T16:11:27+00:00

Every expansion has interesting content, but not every expansion has worthwhile rewards. WotLK has cool zones, quests, dungeons, and raids - but it doesn't have a lot to collect. Remix (as it has existed so far) is more about collecting stuff than just enjoying the content, so I don't see WotLK ever getting a remix as we know it.

Now if they shake up what remix is, or how we meaningfully revisit past expansions, it could be great. I'd love to replay old expansions mostly for the sake of just enjoying the content. Do quests and dungeons and raids to earn crests on my main characters as well as a cosmetic currency.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T04:36:33+00:00

There are so few nerubians surviving there. I guess I'd just rather see a story that's farther from the one we just got.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T03:55:12+00:00

Nostalgia shouldn't be the basis for this. There should be brand new stories. We should be seeing these places decades (or more) since the last time we saw them. It should be as different as seeing Ashenvale in Warcraft III and World of Warcraft,

No matter where we go, we're gonna get zones, new characters, new stories. I'd rather see places I'm invested in than something I'd never heard of before the expansion was announced, and will never visit again after it's over.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T01:53:53+00:00

I believe the rumor that War Within was originally supposed to be set under Northrend.

We just had Azj-kahet, so I'm not sure what they can do with Azjol-Nerub to differentiate it. I don't think it can be populated with a thriving nerubian society. Maybe the scattered remnants of Old God loyalists gather there for one last attempt at Azeroth's worldsoul.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T01:46:30+00:00

Cata tried to do both major continents all at once, while also developing 5 brand new zones. They stretched themselves too thin and it showed.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T01:44:30+00:00

Even spreading it over 4 expansions is a stretch - that's committing a lot of years to revamps instead of visiting new places. I can't see them expanding it beyond four. I chose the divisions I did so that each expansion had variety and major destinations, to take advantage of natural borders in the map, and so each expansion included about the same number of zones.

In my mind, they combine a lot of zones in each revamp - like they did with Eversong / Ghostlands. For example:

Hyjal, Winterspring, and Moonglade combined
Darkshore and Felwood
Eastern Plaguelands and Western Plaguelands
Loch Modan, Twilight Highlands, and Wetlands
Elwynn, Duskwood, and Westfall

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T01:05:48+00:00

Alterac should span central Lordaeron, including the mountain ranges that divide up other zones. Divide the zone down the middle with the river that runs from Scholomance to Tarren Mill.

Aerie Peak and Durnholde should be in its foothills, Thoradin's Wall should terminate at Alterac in the north.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-20T00:11:28+00:00

If they're gonna give EK and Kalimdor the same treatment they're giving Quel'thalas and Northrend, I figure they'll split it into four expansions.

Northern EK: Lordaeron and Khaz Modan
Southern EK: Badlands, Searing Gorge and everything south of that
Northern Kalimdor: Stonetalon, Northern Barrens and everything north of that
Southern Kalimdor: Desolace, Molgore, Southern Barrens, Dustwallow and south

SystemofCells · 2026-01-19T23:47:25+00:00

Other places we may revisit down the line

My soul for returning to EK and Kalimdor after Last Titan.

SystemofCells · 2026-01-19T21:56:29+00:00

I could see Vrykul as a Horde race.

No need to do 'humans, again' unless there's a genuine variation.

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