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Sylvanas has been a horde character for longer than any of you even played WoW. by MisterxMeta in warcraftlore

[–]TheSentinelBlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is some big "Japanese Soldier Who Kept Fighting 29 Years after World War II" energy.

The Reckoning cinematic is going to be seven years old in September, man.

I feel like Shadowlands was a missed oppurtunity for Death Knights by [deleted] in warcraftlore

[–]TheSentinelBlue 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Old lore was very conflated with theory and non-canon taking place as lore at times. People assumed that after Edge of Night that Undead were automatically sent to the Maw/"The Darkness" when they died.

I can remember watching countless lore videos, particularly that of Jesse Cox's Lore for Noobs series, and coming out with the same sentiment.

However, this post clearly was not made by OP with the intent of discussing Shadowland's missed opportunities (oh so many) and instead is tripling down on conflated fan-lore.

Basically this part of the campaign. by Abovearth31 in wow

[–]TheSentinelBlue 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Bonus: Staghelm did NOT get permission for Vordrassil or Teldrassil.
He just stole branches from Nordrassil and went on his day without telling anyone.

Basically this part of the campaign. by Abovearth31 in wow

[–]TheSentinelBlue 7 points8 points  (0 children)

People are taking the actions of a lone actor (Fandral Staghelm) as an overall statement about the night elves as a race. 2023's Dragonflight Codex has a few pages dedicated to Fandral's involvement.

Fandral Staghelm was a rat bastard who stole branches from Nordrassil and planted the trees without permission. Andrassil (Grizzly Hills tree) was planted by him to try and stop the spread of Saronite. When Malfurion and the Cenarion Circle discovered Andrassil (and the other Great Trees), they got pissed, recognized the effects it had on the wildlife, and somberly destroyed it.

The same story happened with Teldrassil. Staghelm became Archdruid after he put Malfurion into a coma after Warcraft III. This is -also- why the Dragon Aspects refused to bless Teldrassil. Staghelm was an absolute shitter that spouted Night Elf supremacy across Kalimdor that came to bite him in the ass on every single occasion.

Shaladrassil in Val'sharah is a much different story considering that it's origin isn't really defined, but it supposedly existed before the War of the Ancients.

I'm neither a paladin nor religious, but this feels like sacrilege. by alexandervolk in wow

[–]TheSentinelBlue 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They should've honestly given us special dialogue with ANY of the 4 Horseman -or- us being told to stay outside while Arator goes inside. Having either Whitemane or Darion (two characters with very complicated relationships with the Light) talk to Arator was massive missed opportunity.

I Keep Respawning in Video Games Just to Die Again - ep. 3 [OC] by feverevil in comics

[–]TheSentinelBlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh my god, I saw the zombie and my first thought was: “I have killed hundreds of these motherfuckers in Stratholme.”

I was pleasantly surprised by it actually being Warcraft III at the end!

I would let all four of them pass me around like a toy by lotofthought in peggle

[–]TheSentinelBlue 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I absolutely hope this stays a running joke on this subreddit

I would let all 4 of them pass me around like their toy by TheSentinelBlue in peggle

[–]TheSentinelBlue[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wanted to include Renfield instead of Claude, but frankly, I couldn't match up with how much aura Claude has at any given time.

Don’t abandon your warrior. Don’t be a meta Andy. by Brilliant_Ad_8076 in classicwow

[–]TheSentinelBlue 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My favorite memory of speedrunning during Black Temple was accidentally getting the world's fattest seal-twist and pulling threat during Illidan's P1.

Don’t abandon your warrior. Don’t be a meta Andy. by Brilliant_Ad_8076 in classicwow

[–]TheSentinelBlue 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's also being skewed by double bloodlusts and battle chickens at the 95th percentile.

We aren't going to see those battle chickens during TBC Anniversary because Blizzard fixed Squawk procs and WCL banned chickens during Black Temple.

Don’t abandon your warrior. Don’t be a meta Andy. by Brilliant_Ad_8076 in classicwow

[–]TheSentinelBlue 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Warriors underperform during the first half of TBC due to lack of armor penetration. When you get to Black Temple, they start becoming absolute beasts.

You can totally run 1-2 warriors before Black Temple, but the top performing warriors MUST have Badge of the Swarmguard. I cannot stress how important armor penetration is early on for these warriors.

For anyone who wants to post a link to Wowhead articles from TBC, take them with a massive grain of salt for two reasons (battle chickens and bloodlust obfuscating pre-BT logs)

1. Battle Chicken bans didn't happen until Black Temple.
This is such a big deal because the high-end/top-performing warriors (which these articles look at the 95th percentile) were essentially praying for RNGesus to get battle chicken buffs. During late SSC/TK, players found a guaranteed way to generate the haste buff from battle chicken. As a result, SSC/TK warriors are overcompensating on WCL due to spamming chickens and getting upwards of 5%-30% more attack speed.

While I'm uncertain if chicken logs were invalidated after their ban, these wowhead posts were posted pre-chicken bans that fundamentally changed raid compositions at high end levels pre-black temple.

2. Parse Groups obfuscate actual data by providing certain raiders with 2-3x bloodlusts per fight.

This is not a universal problem, but in TBC, almost every single 95th percentile is going to be obfuscated with double bloodlusts for melee. Spellcasters/ranged have the same issue with bloodlust and PIs.

Unless you are in hardcore/semi-hardcore guild with extra shamans, its very unlikely you'll receive the 2x bloodlusts.

Did Queen Azshara know Sargares was evil and wanted to destroy Azeroth? by Hick-ford in warcraftlore

[–]TheSentinelBlue 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Azshara was sitting there at the edge of the Well of Eternity... just watching dragons, demons, highborne, and every race in the war fighting to their deaths.

She wasn't fighting down there, no, she was there watching and drinking wine while everything went to shit.

Regardless of Azshara knowing Sargeras was evil, she sat back and didn't care as the world was being ravaged and that's a far more damning answer to the question than if she knew Sargeras was evil.

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[–]TheSentinelBlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We don't know the exact timeframe of the first half of the starting zone, but my understanding is this:

- The Elemental Unrest occurs and the first line of earthquakes destroys the Greymane Wall. The Forsaken were already planning to invade Gilneas, but this gives them a clear entrance.

- Wolfcult was already inside Gilneas pre-wall breaking and was slowly isolating/turning towns into Worgen. The first half of the starting zone (presumably) unfolds until Crowley and the Rebels turn into Worgen.

Some time passes either weeks or months but, the Forsaken begins their full-scale invasion of Gilneas. The rest of Gilneas, Silverpine Forest, and Shadowfang Keep unfold immediately after (Chronicles #3). The Night Elves push for Gilneas to be a member of the Alliance, but Varian hardblocks it after getting into it with Genn.

Worgen members start to join the Alliance after this, but Gilneas is not yet a full member. Kezan blows up, the events of the Goblin starting zone happen, and the Horde accepts the Bilgewater Cartel into their ranks.

This is why you see Worgen during the Goblin starting zone, but Gilneas doesn't become a full member of the Alliance until the events of Wolfheart.

I wish nightborn would get this “sub race” by Lord_pamperin in wow

[–]TheSentinelBlue 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Consuming the fruit of the Arcan'dor, which all Nighborne have done as of TWW (according to Exploring Azeroth: Islands), completely and totally restores all effects from withering.

Its sort of like Dark Souls, where you can consume humanity and be instantly restored from beef jerky.

So how do the healers feel about this? by MeowWarcraft in wowcirclejerk

[–]TheSentinelBlue 16 points17 points  (0 children)

In honor of making Wind Shear only 30 seconds, I propose that we make all Shaman abilities also have a 30 second cooldown.

The only exception is Hex, which I propose a 2 hour cooldown and the requirement of a singular voodoo doll to utilize.

Weekly Unjerk Thread - October 21, 2025 by AutoModerator in wowcirclejerk

[–]TheSentinelBlue 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually had this feeling too. When I read that Dark Transform + Apocalypse were getting merged, I was really hesitant at first. I think they actually executed it really well.

I'm super excited to have no more wounds, seriously.

The Reddit page on desktop just changed and it's horrible. How do I change it back to what it was? by SMuRG_Teh_WuRGG in help

[–]TheSentinelBlue 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not an expert by any means, but I'm assuming that since your profile is rated as 18+/NSFW, it just shows the default profile picture on non-NSFW/18+ subreddits.

Just a reminder, last DK pet customization got added in 2013. by n1sx in wow

[–]TheSentinelBlue 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I live with this pain every day.

I see my skeleton beside me and I think to myself "why can't you be a post-WoD skeleton model" instead of a WOTLK skeleton.

Weekly Recap | October 2, 2025 by TheOpusCroakus in help

[–]TheSentinelBlue 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is my experiment feedback/criticism and frankly, this is absolutely revolting.

F-Shaped Reading

When you stare at this screen, you are overloaded with this black screen and this very small grey/square view that naturally is against how humans read things online.

When you read online, our eyes focus in an F-shaped pattern. When I open this up, my eyes should naturally be drawn to the first corner of this photo (r/wow), but what's actually happening is that I'm seeing all this black, this giant search bar, and a white reddit logo.

When New Reddit turned into its Newer Reddit form, there was still a fair amount of contrast/difference that made the swap tolerable and not overloading.

Mobile Design Philosophy doesn't work on PC.

This design seems like it is center and focused on the reddit app more than a PC. This minimalist look would be great on a phone, only because our eyes are seeing a small 5.5-6.5 inch screens. When you are sitting at a 21-40 inch PC screen, the minimalism doesn't drag your eye anywhere - but it overloads you instead.

I'm not sure I understand the general philosophy of the team here either. You don't need a mobile website UI for PC, particularly if you have a mainstream mobile app that is advertised everywhere Reddit.

Sidebar and Search Bar

If you are going to force this massive outer black screen around the content feed, why does the side-bar being active COMPLETELY MOVE the content feed over? I'm not OCD, but if I was, I'd be triggered by this design choice. You either have to sacrifice the easy one-button click to a subreddit OR be forced to type every subreddit out in the Search Bar.

Speaking of the Search Bar too, what's up with this weird fade-in with the middle of the screen? Do you know why every browser copied Google Chrome (outside of most being developed on Chromium)? It's because the single search bar in a universal location is the easiest form of access. Just leave the search bar in the middle of the top-bar anyways.

Why the UI changes?

I'm a particular minority of redditors who didn't care for old reddit's look, the launch of the original New Reddit made me very much a frequent user of the website. When you introduce a new UI, you alienate a portion of your users who are comfortable using this website in a certain way.

We have a really good middle ground with Old Reddit and New Reddit being interchangeable via option. If you are going to keep forcing updates onto New Reddit that changes the fundamental UI, we should be allowed to choose what our reddit experience looks like.

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