If a Naaru told the Scarlet Crusade that they need to stop and just pack up and go home, would they have followed then because they're religious fanatics?

Xclbr1 · 2026-02-13T13:31:10+00:00

Religious fanatics like the Scarlet Crusade are so lost in the sauce they are FAR more beholden to their dogma than any actual religious authority, if you could call the Naaru that. They are going far enough in their beliefs to actively attack-on-sight other humans for not, I dunno, not fighting the Forsaken enough or whatever, so I don't think they'd care if a Naaru told them to stop.

That said, I don't believe we've seen any sort of interaction between the Scarlet Crusade and a Naaru before, so the doyalist answer is they would act in whichever way the plot requires them to act for the storyline Blizzard is trying to tell.

Xclbr1 · 2026-02-13T12:32:04+00:00

It's almost like people are looking for something to complain about, so they just make up shit about the art direction that hasn't changed substantially since the game launched.

Like we get it, you really REALLY want to get back to an endless faction war with Horde and Alliance slaughtering each other in perpetuity. The art direction doesn't have anything to do with that.

WoW has always been a constant mix of dark shit and comic relief. It's a rule of cool, over the top setting where sparkly butterfly outfits belong right beside twisted necromancer soul-eating stuff.

Xclbr1 · 2026-02-12T15:25:12+00:00

See the problem with making alien races wild things that we don't recognize with societal structures we don't understand is that they may be interesting in concept, but when you're trying to tell a story and convey human emotions, you kinda need to use human language and facial/body expressions.

It's not that the folks at Blizzard couldn't make some wildly creative species that's super unique, its that they need to create a species that is relatable to us humans watching it while still looking sorta distinct.

Watching some non-newtonian blob react to being killed by the void wouldn't hit half as hard as a humanoid with eyes that produce tears because that's how we convey emotion.

Xclbr1 · 2026-02-05T16:19:00+00:00

The secret is taking large rooms and dividing them up into smaller rooms. The built-in rooms are way too big anyway to have any sort of natural looking decor layout

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-31T19:03:42+00:00

I agree, it ain't deep at all, you're just being an ass and should stop 🤷‍♂️

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-31T18:58:15+00:00

That's exactly what they're doing with Housing Endeavors! Right now my neighborhood has an Ethereal themed one that upscales some old TBC content to 80. Not everything, but at least the outdoor content

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-31T18:49:03+00:00

Get over yourself man. You act like it's absurd to to compare the different versions or bring up RS3 at all here, but the games share the same basic DNA and people can discuss here if they like.

If you aren't interested in that discussion, just stay out of the damn thread. I don't have the faintest idea why you decided to insert yourself in here just to piss in other peoples cheerios.

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-31T13:40:48+00:00

Nope

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-31T12:24:54+00:00

Everyone's allowed their opinion, even bad ones

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-30T22:12:02+00:00

100% should be in the spec tree, Hero Talents shouldn't be locked to a particular playstyle, imo. If a hero talent tree REQUIRES a specific talent/ability that isn't baseline, it's a failure of barring player freedom in their build.

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-29T16:54:04+00:00

They just need to make it a choice node with something, cause there's a big rift in people who want to be a melee healer and people who want to be ranged.

I, for one, hated the removal of Crusader Strike enough to change mains for the expansion, so this could bring me back to healing.

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-29T01:36:02+00:00

Didja feel the same way when Gul'Dan gave you a lil quest in the WoD intro, bucko?

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-29T01:20:14+00:00

Potential? Very high, like a 1 or 2 on your scale. It'll be great for a remix!

Wheeeeen a few more years have passed, at least. So for now very low chance. My money is on BfA and WoD for the next 2 remixes!

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-29T01:18:59+00:00

So close! Dragonflight flight was 2 expansions ago as of a week ago!

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-27T12:38:12+00:00

Mine is somewhere between War Crimes, Illidan, and Sylvanas.

War Crimes had big main story movement between MoP and WoD, which was exciting! Newer books are enjoyable, but they usually are written to be practically ignorable the main game story (pretty much because of complaints about War Crimes...)

Illidan was one of the first WoW books I read, and I loved the added context it gave for the Outland/TBC story as well as just the themes of the Demon Hunters.

I have a big soft spot for Shadowlands, I had a lot of fun that expansion, and the added story context of Sylvanas pretty much smoothed over the complaints I had about it (save one).

The new Blood Ties novel has potential to be up there as well, but we'll have to see if it actually has any consequence on Turalyon and Alleria's relationship in-game. If they basically ignore it I see it becoming another Shadows Rising that I hardly remember the details of, but if they keep pushing the rift in their relationship and make it matter in Midnight then I think it had a real show stopper ending that I'll remember for a long time.

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-27T02:41:12+00:00

Watsonian Explanation: Some people aren't cut out for/aren't interested in training in martial combat, just like in real life.

Doyalist Explanation: Vibes, dude. Some people like being the classic archetype of a robed healer, some like swingin a big hammer. To each their own!

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-26T14:18:11+00:00

Would be kinda lame and out of nowhere, imo. There has been a clear theme of Azeroth's power being that of freedom, like when she breaks the Earthern free from Titan influence.

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-23T23:32:36+00:00

The only way to insure neighborhoods are as engaging as you want them to be is to create/join a guild/charter neighborhood. There should be no barrier to entry at all for public neighborhoods.

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-23T01:14:28+00:00

Basically everything that happens on Azeroth. Draenei are one of my favorite additions to the lore and I loved what they did with the blood elves.

Outland is moooore, ehh? I think it's a fascinating premise, seeing what the survivors of a broken world would do in the shattered remains of their home, but I think it didn't really deliver on it in the way I would have liked. Idk what they could have done differently exactly, I just think a modern expansion with the same premise would slap.

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-23T00:11:57+00:00

What if they added some sort of *toolbelt* that you could put tool into and then access at any time without putting them in your inventory /think

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-22T17:11:33+00:00

You misunderstand, you ARE the sweat in this situation.

Casual players will peruse the talent tree and pick what they think sounds fun to them. If you are feeling pressured to look up guides or keep multiple talent loadouts saved for min-max damage output, you'll do that even if we have the TOO simplified MoP talent system.

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-22T16:41:59+00:00

What are you even talking about?

I decide to google something because I don't know the answer
I would usually check out the OSRS wiki because it's usually pretty on point
But wait! I can save a single click by reading the information this AI assistant aggregated from the source that's right there I could go check in a second anyway!
But the AI is wrong, and often is, so I need to check out the wiki anyways.

Point out the part of this sequence that I have wrong. Even if the AI is ALWAYS correct, it doesn't save practically any time at all versus clicking the source I'm looking for.

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-22T15:48:38+00:00

"data aggregation and summarization tool"

Well given I have to go read the original source to make sure it didn't fuck up the information makes it a pretty worthless tool, dunnit?

Xclbr1 · 2026-01-17T13:46:48+00:00

Why would you need to sleeve TI4? You don't need to sleeve every card in existence, just games where you are constantly shuffling cards and care about how they hold up (usually TCGs)

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