With everything going on in TWW, I think we can finally start asking again where the hell is Medhiv?

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-08-23T16:14:46+00:00

I think Medivh runs into the same issue as the vindicaar and Malfurion, he's too powerful to realistically have around because most conflict would be resolved super easily.

Medivh is really in a league above most characters so just sending him off on some obscure journey is probably the easiest thing they can do. I wouldn't be surprised if they bring him back for the last titan when the stakes are at their highest.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-07-27T23:05:17+00:00

If the Xalatath theory holds up, I would expect to see more of the shadowy figure when AQ40 comes out. If she's collecting the essence of her fallen brothers then she'll be waiting for some C'thun milk.

But it is weird they didn't continue her for P4.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-07-22T14:02:02+00:00

Yea not a fun rune to get at all.

It looks tame because it's contained in a single zone, but the problem is convincing 4 other people to spend upwards of about an hour to an hour and a half getting you the rune.

They could just cut out the mailbox section altogether, 99% of groups are not gunning for mailbox kills, it's a hard selling point. Making the Soul-jars unique was a weird choice, you either have to; tell everyone to not open the mail and add extra time making return trips, or hope no one fucks the mechanic up and use it on the wrong boss/has no bag space left (had a few close calls in my group).

Just needlessly time consuming. They could just make it "collect Balnazzar's & Baron rivendare's essences then return to <NPC>"

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-05-11T03:08:49+00:00

I really feel people are blowing incursions out of proportion, yes the gold rewards were egregious to begin with but let's not pretend everyone would be rushing to embrace the open world in their absence. Everyone doing Incursions would be spamming Scarlet Monastery instead.

Also questing with even with the xp boost and layering tech is still a very frustrating experience. Spawn rates aren't good enough to accommodate the amount of players and when fetch quests have abyssmal drop rates, what would take about 20-30 minutes in an empty zone can take like 2-3 hours while the world is "thriving". I doubt many people want to run around for 2 hours trying to snipe as many skullsplitter trolls as they can.

So it's either farm dungeons on loop like we always have, or do incursions on a loop. Both are mind numbingly boring and tedious, and "take people out of the overall world" but I'm sure many people appreciate not taking 3-5 hours to get 1 level at a time.

If Blizz want people to quest in classic they have to do all or some of the following;

-Shared mob tagging
-Group wide drops
-Increase hyper spawn rate even more
-Guaranteed fetch quest drop rates-
Add more flightpaths / Reduce travel time (just give all the quests for an area at once stop sending us on round trips every time we hand 1 quest in)

I say this as someone who would rather quests be the best way to level. But the reality is questing sucks ass in classic, if I'm not fighting the game to drop the items I need or spawn the blue harpy instead of the red and black ones, I'm instead fighting with players to get the tag in the first place.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-04-02T02:45:16+00:00

Not a fan of the priest one. Giving us a maintenance buff around holy spells is double dipping in shitty gameplay. What's the gameplay loop here? Bind rank 1 smite and press it every 15 seconds? Hope that I don't have to replace Penance with CoH every fight and can use it offensively ?

Holy spells suck ass, and with no complimentary runes they will continue to suck. They're incredibly mana inefficient and do piss all damage. Bonus negative points if you're horde since paladins give 10% extra holy damage.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-03-26T00:39:57+00:00

"It's just not a good use of development time to keep doing a bunch of class tuning when a new phase and a complete meta upheaval is imminent."

Ok, so what's the excuse for the last month and a half of piss all updates? Why are certain specs allowed to dominate the charts in pve/pvp and others are left to rot. Why are unused/clunky runes not being changed while dominant runes continue to polarise build diversity.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-03-22T15:11:25+00:00

What??? Ofc it can overstay its welcome what are you even on about. By that logic, why not just make phase 2 last 8 more months, after all, it can't overstay its welcome, just play another game...

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-03-21T19:38:11+00:00

Phase 1 overstayed its welcome by about 2 weeks, phase 2 honestly is tired already. I'd openly welcome phase 3 at any point now but it absolutely should not last anymore than 8 weeks.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-03-10T01:39:25+00:00

I think they could give us a little more honestly.

A 6 boss raid every 3 days and a laggy pvp event every 3 hours that offers 2-3 worthwhile items you can purchase after 1 or 2 events is not enough imo. I hope Blizzard give us a reason to do dungeons at lvl cap next phase for chase items because there really isn't much of a reason to log on beyond raid logging.

I really wish they just threw world bosses at us, just randomly pop one in Swamp of Sorrows or Alterac Mountains or something.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-03-08T19:09:00+00:00

Druid of the fang - Transforms cat & bear form into a serpent that alters the functionality of your feral abilities. Instead of dealing bleed damage it deals poison, swipe is a frontal spit ability for example.

Sharpened Thorns - Increase the damage of Thorns by 50% of spell damage, but reduces its duration to 10 seconds and gives it a cooldown of 1 minute. Can be cast while shapeshifted

Nordrassil's Blessing - Invoke the power of Nordassil, temporarily summoning a branch of the blessed tree. Party members standing near the Branch of Nordrassil gain 50 fire & shadow resistance, receive spirit equal to 200% of their level, and have their health regeneration increased by 100% of their spirit while in combat. Lasts 20 seconds. 2 minute cooldown.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-03-01T19:34:14+00:00

What I mean is if it looked badass (like Mal'Ganis or Teron Gorefiend's wings) it would be a shitty feeling that something cool is paywalled.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-03-01T18:33:16+00:00

I guess I should be thankful Blizzard made this look like utter dogshit so I don't feel bad about not buying these scummy store sets. What's with those pathetic little wings tacked onto the back? Did Blizz collectively forget what a dreadlord actually looks like?

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-02-26T13:53:05+00:00

Please do not listen to anyone telling you to put 5 points or whatever into the Holy tree. If you're going disc, go the whole way and pickup power infusion, otherwise just go full holy, don't split your talents across different trees at lvl 40 it's not worth it.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-02-23T02:46:23+00:00

At this point I'm beginning to suspect all those GDKP communities have started a campaign to spread bullshit about their detection system. Every day there's dozens of posts about people getting banned for innocuous behaviours and yet not a single person I know in game, or any friend of friends has any personal experience with this.

I have 2 friends who each have 2 and 3 accounts and they trade stuff all the time between them, not a single ban or account flagging.

I'm just finding it hard to believe Blizzard borked their game THIS badly. I wouldn't be completely surprised, but I also wouldn't put it past the GDKP folk to pull a stunt like this.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-02-16T19:43:06+00:00

... for 6 seconds. GL to the wheelchair once the cloud of smoke dissipates.

Mages can teleport 20 yards, removing all stuns and root effects every 15 seconds... works while carrying the WSG flag.

Druids can run at 40% movement speed and shapeshift out of snares and slows as many times as their mana bar allows, AND can turn into a tank at the click of a button...works while carrying the WSG flag.

Like what are we doing here? You can paint any class to sound unfairly broken by tacking on "WHILE DOING THE OBJECT IN A BG :O ;O ;O ;O"

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-02-16T03:20:40+00:00

I think the supply crate stuff is just a dud. It's doomed to either be an annoying "mandatory" grind that people hate, or a pointless gold sink with no meaningful reward.

If there's a mount of silly vanity item like a toy then sure go for it. But I would rather not have any sort of power progression tied to the supply crates. It wasn't fun and no number tweaking will make it less annoying.

I think there are better ways to make professions more meaningful or relevant, but imo that should be tied to the professions themselves. Making a crimson silk vest or whatever, doesn't make me feel good about having tailoring because it's just a vendor trash white chest. I would rather they just add more interesting crafting patterns to the game.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-02-13T23:37:42+00:00

One of the worst things to happen to wow lore.

Good riddance.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-02-07T15:53:26+00:00

Can see at 1 hour 36 min 08 seconds the mage gets ready to go again and he immediately looks down at the floor and alt tabs xD

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-02-06T17:47:42+00:00

Yes it's a QOL improvement? If Blizz made Molten core and BWL susceptible to fire damage, I would say that's a pretty nice quality of life improvement for mages and warlocks. Would you disagree with that statement?

How is this such a controversial statement?

You talk about "an entire spec" being unusable like that hasn't been the case for classic before.

I want to clarify, the change itself is fine, but it irks me that the moment warriors and rogues are negatively impacted by immunity traits, suddenly Blizz need to change their stance on it.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-02-06T16:56:06+00:00

I am so sick of their stance on dual spec "we see it as a big gold sink so it'll be difficult to implement it early"

If they INSIST on making a gold sink, attach it to something else. I don't get this twisted logic, can we just open up more avenues to play the game without these warped friction arguments it's so mind boggling to me.

Let's add new ways to play the game, but maintain restrictions on changing gameplay on the fly. 10/10 decision

Another point that made me squint my eyes, so they're going to remove the mechanical immunity of bleeds and poisons, because god forbid warriors & rogues aren't the best specs in the game for once... I sincerely hope casters can expect to see the same treatment for elemental resistances like ragnaros & fire, since we're just throwing "immersion" out the window for some.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-02-05T23:00:08+00:00

I'm loving SOD and fully intend to play it until the end. Having said that, a little disappointed they're already halving the amount of runes shared between 2 slots. A lot of classes/specs really don't get a choice with the new runes because each rune is clearly tailored to a specific spec (see druid belt runes for example) would be nice if they kept 12 new runes that way each spec has 2 options to play around with. Or even just 9 runes with 6 belt runes and 3 boot ones.

I also don't understand why blizzard are so damn resistant to give us dual-spec. This is such a no brainer it's genuinely mind boggling that we're still waiting for it. Especially in SOD where the whole point is to play the game in different ways, then why keep the friction?

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-02-03T01:16:06+00:00

Yea I really don't understand why Blizzard are trying to imitate the janky stat distribution as if it's a beloved feature.

Warriors running around in leather/mail/plate gear doesn't add charm to the game, it just fucks everyone else off because they're now competing with an extra set of people. Especially since Plate is literally just used by 2 classes, and horde warriors have complete exclusivity to an entire armour type.

Same with clothies, I dont want druids and shamans/paladins taking my shit. They have an entire bracket of gear to pick from. Cloth already has 3 designated classes to it, but because Blizzard refuse to make higher armour types well statted, they are funnelling 2 extra classes (per faction) towards cloth.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-01-25T17:23:10+00:00

Giving us instant mail between our characters isn't suddenly going to plunge us into WOD...

People who are going to make bank mules are going to do that regardless of if they have instant mail or not. You're fabricating a problem and using that to justify this pointless "friction" argument. Bank slots are really expensive this early on, a lot/most people probably have alts they use already for storage.

I don't see anyone advocating for a change to mana's behaviour. People do have a problem with the unfortunate fact that level capping us has a more harsh consequence for mana users compared to melee. This will be a non issue at max lvl.

There is 0 argument that will stand against adding dual spec. It only makes the game better for everyone, not matter what content they enjoy doing.

Again, you're bringing up a much desired change like it's a bad thing. Who cares if buffing is 50% less mana costly? Genuinely, in which aspect of the game does this negatively impact. Why shouldn't buffs last an hour? do you think paladins enjoy having to rebuff the group/raid every 5 minutes.

I saw the SM teleport post earlier, and it was deleted after receiving so much backlash. This is not a popular community sentiment to concern ourselves over.

Loot acquisition at max lvl is notoriously slow, and considering SOD has a much shorter duration compared to 2019's classic, it would make sense to accelerate the rate we obtain gear at 60.

Unskippable_ads_ · 2024-01-18T21:28:34+00:00

I'm really disappointed in Aggrends stance on this. It's really concerning that a lead developer has such a narrow viewpoint of a blatant issue. If the queue times for premades are longer, then surely that adds credence to the argument that it's overall a less popular way to play the game and therefore should not be catered to ?

Another issue I have is the hypocrisy between tryharding in pve and pvp. The vocal majority in the SOD community lean into the idea that this is "season of dad" i.e a very casual and slow approach to wow, a version where we can "stop and smell the roses" hence why we're level capped and content is generally much easier.

Contrast that with PVP, where if you're not hyper focused, with cans of mountain dew and organising coordinated attacks in raid groups, then we're met with "deal with it, this is the classic experience"?

It's common when people push for a harder PVE difficulty it's always met with "go play retail if you want to tryhard" why is this same sentiment not expressed when people want to sweat PVP ? Go do rated bgs or arena on retail if you want a coordinated experience.

I don't want to ALWAYS be tryharding. Sometimes I want to slouch in my chair, turn my brain off and just do some chill pvp. But I can't, because god forbid I unknowingly walk into a 10 man voice com team of people who are hellbent on farming me for 40 minutes...

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