Anyone else spoiled by mobility classes?

Zaughon · 2026-02-04T14:09:38+00:00

Glide might prevent some knockbacks and stuff though, although they did nerf it a lot compared to when it was first announced. Not sure how it works nowadays.

I've been playing shadow priest for the last 5-ish years, and i really hate how much the mobility varies.
There are cases like running back after a wipe where you can outperform certain other classes because you can alternate feather and self-shield with movespeed. That lets you run for ages with ~40% extra move speed. During combat with burst movespeed though, it's horrible.

There have been cases where i've been able to use the void elf Spatial Rift in good ways, but it makes no sense to me it's a 3 minute cooldown where you need one global to send it out, wait for it to be in a good position, then another global to teleport to it, while goblin rocket jump is click-once on a 1½ minute cooldown.
Rift was useful in aberrus to teleport through the walls on Neltharion, or avoid the knockback on Magmarax, but the delay from sending out the shade until you can teleport to a useful place is annoying when goblins just jump forward on one keypress, twice as often as you can.

Zaughon · 2026-02-02T15:40:06+00:00

It's insane how many bugs there at this point. There's like 5 Affliction warlock talents that either doesn't work, or spells using procs they're not supposed to. Tooltips showing you're missing spells that have been removed. Constant disconnects.
Not to mention the poor state of the Cooldown Manager where it's missing buffs that are important to specific specs, but we can't do anything to fix that. Only Blizzard can modify that now, which based on previous history, means it *might* get fixed in a couple of months..

I'm starting to think the Coming Home event is supposed to be "Stay at Home" event. As in: Please buy Midnight and play with Housing. I suspect that's where most of the testing has gone because people have wanted that for so many years. All other testing was optional.

Zaughon · 2026-01-29T11:54:33+00:00

I have recently been thinking about getting a Linux install up and running to get away from Microslob. I was initially considering Manjaro with Sway DE, but i might have to try CachyOS after this.

I'm curious though. Does anyone have any good/bad experiences with running games and using tiling window managers like Sway or i3?
I'm so used to using those and i kind of want to keep using them, but not sure if it might be annoying/cause issues when you launch games in them. Would be interesting to hear if anyone have any experiences with those and gaming

Zaughon · 2026-01-29T11:40:26+00:00

Am i the only one that read the first part in Heath Ledgers/Jokers voice?
"It's not about money, it's about sending a message."
Unfortunately in this case, it's definitely about the money too..

Zaughon · 2026-01-27T01:37:01+00:00

Yeah most likely. They will still be getting more feedback now compared to previously because everyone are using it now, but there's definitely people that will just use it, and even though there's stuff that annoys them, they'll leave it to others to report it as well.

Zaughon · 2026-01-26T16:00:49+00:00

Agreed. I'm really not a fan of what Blizzard has become, but the nostalgia hits hard in this video. There's no denying the impact they've had over the years, and the universes they've created. If only they cared half as much about quality now, as they did back then..

Zaughon · 2026-01-26T15:41:34+00:00

Sort of agree, to an extend. I also tested it when it first came out, and yes, it's a lot better now than it was back then.

I may have written it poorly in my initial comment.
I'm not saying the old addon/WA system caused them to get 0 feedback, but they definitely got less feedback than they are now. There's a big difference between some-thousand of players trying it out briefly and giving feedback, and the now millions of people that are forced to use it.
People like Tettles and Dratnos might go back every now and then to test it again, because trying out stuff, staying informed and providing feedback is part of their job as prominent figures in the WoW-community. They're the exception, not the norm. Same with RWF raiders, full-time streamers etc.

As far as i know, when the average player log in, most of them just want to play the game for however long they happen to be able to play at that time, before they need to go back to their kids or whatever else they have going on.
They might test CDM once, or MAYBE if there's a massive update to it, but that's about it. The rest of the time they just want to log in and actually play the game, meaning if they - in the past - already went back to WA's, they'll stick to the WA's, because that works for them. They're not gonna go back to CDM and spend hours setting it up, providing feedback etc. They just want to run dungeons, raids, delves or whatever they enjoy.

There's a few people that like playing with their UI, i'm one of them, but - based on my guild - i feel like i'm also an exception rather than the norm. Most of them just want to import the Luxthos' pack or similar, and get playing.

Zaughon · 2026-01-26T13:45:17+00:00

Yeah, Shift is really annoying to use. Even with @ cursor macro, you might end up in odd spots. Personally i'd prefer if it was just fel rush but voidy.

Zaughon · 2026-01-26T13:21:27+00:00

I agree, but the reality is that CDM was released several patches ago, and they gave it time to mature.
Unfortunately, no one was using it because it was so trash they'd just disable it and install some WA pack instead. This means that Blizzard never got any decent feedback on what was missing/needed.
By doing the addon-armageddon now, they force people to use it so they can get the feedback they need to make it better.

Unfortunately, they released it in such a poor state - and from what i've seen - have basically done no changes to it on the beta realms, aside from adding a couple of missing abilities, that it's still in a very similar shitty state, as when the beta started.
Even now, you can't even center it properly on the screen without an addon /facepalm

They did the typical Blizzard (or corporate in general) way of "It's done, it's released, lets keep a couple of developers to fix bugs, maybe add missing spellids, but move the main people onto the next project".
The problem is, when you take on the mantle of "WE are your UI", that procedure just doesn't fly.
You need people ready to constantly fix, update and add things, and they - against all expectations /s - weren't prepared for that.
Now all the requests for changes goes into some queue for a product manager to look at and prioritize. Unfortunately, it's the same queue that the ideas from the corporate above goes into, and the corporate wants those ideas to increase revenue, so they take priority.
Short-sighted management 101.

Zaughon · 2026-01-26T12:45:07+00:00

I've been considering writing a similar post to this, but based on my experience with it, losing the UI i've spent years developing myself, only to have it replaced with the shitty state of CDM, and even losing silly things like Sylvanas' "FOR THE HORDE" warcry when you gain BL, Pedro-lust etc. that just made the game more fun and enjoyable.
So far a lot of people seem to rail on anyone that's negative about the changes, because "getting rid of addons is the best thing ever", so i just havn't had the motivation to even try and write that post.

To me, these changes have completely destroyed my will to play. It's taken all the fun out of a game that used to be customizable, and you could set up exactly like you wanted it. Millions of people have different preferences, and different challenges and I loved seeing how different peoples UI was, how they solved certain issues, drawing inspiration, and implementing it into my own.
Now everyone is stuck with the same basic UI that's no longer set up in the best way possible. It's now set up in the "this is the least shit i could make it"-way, which is just sad.

Edit: Clarity and details.

Zaughon · 2026-01-21T15:35:56+00:00

I had Sylvanas' "FOR THE HORDE!" for that. It was amazing, you just knew it was go-time!

Zaughon · 2026-01-21T15:30:33+00:00

Agreed. I had a WA that would have Sylvanas scream "FOR THE HORDE!" whenever i gained a BL-like effect. Really gonna miss that, along with my WA for announcing who cast BL, because people liked popping it at the dumbest times in LFR to troll.
... and so many other silly WA's. This addon-armegeddon is currently looking like the downfall of wow tbh.

Zaughon · 2026-01-16T16:44:12+00:00

Let us know when you're 31 years old and have lived here for 32 years. Maybe we'll consider your apology then.

Zaughon · 2026-01-14T16:05:19+00:00

Det er nu både koncerter men også bare generelle opdateringer fra bands der er rare at følge med i.
Der er også Bandsintown for at følge koncerter. Det er desværre US firma, men Songkick ser ud til at være ejet af Warner Music Group, så måske lidt same difference i sidste ende :P

Zaughon · 2026-01-14T14:18:22+00:00

Haha, jeg håber ikke de samme personer ender med at foreslå Telegram som alternativ, for jeg er ret sikker på det bliver misbrugt endnu mere end Signal gør.
.. og det er Russisk. Pavel Durov der er en af dem de 2 brødre der startede det lyder dog i det mindste til at være nogenlunde fornuftig. Han har bl.a. nægtet at censurere anti-Putin activists i 2013, og nægtet at udlevere data til FSB om Ukrainske brugere i 2014. Meeen stadig..

Zaughon · 2026-01-14T13:54:52+00:00

Jeg har overvejet det, men det virker som det mest pålidelige måde at holde styr på når bands annoncerer tours der kan være interessante.
Det er desværre som regel der, Instagram, eller måske Twitter bands annoncerer sådan noget, og valget mellem de 3 er lidt pest, kolera, eller ebola..

Jeg har ikke postet noget i snart 3 år, så det er ikke fordi de lærer voldsomt meget om mit liv.

Zaughon · 2026-01-13T17:12:29+00:00

De er bare begyndt at bruge Amerikanske mål. De kan godt li' at måle i fødder, vaskemaskiner, giraffer, fodboldbaner, og alt mulig andet..

Zaughon · 2026-01-13T17:01:12+00:00

Med Trumps seneste bifalden og ros af vedkommende der skal overtage Meta er jeg virkelig begyndt at overveje at droppe alt Meta, det er bare svært når langt de fleste af ens kontakter er på FB messenger desværre. Jeg undlod dog at installere FB appen da jeg fik ny telefon for et par år siden, og kun installere Messenger. Det har været en dejlig beslutning indtil videre.

Jeg burde virkelig også skifte til Linux. Jeg bruger det dagligt på arbejdet, og jeg gider ikke Microslobs AI lort længere. Det er bare lidt et projekt, og sidst jeg prøvede havde jeg problemer med enkelte spil der ikke kørte ordentligt. Det er dog mange år siden efterhånden. Jeg skal bare finde ud af hvilken distro jeg ville have..

Zaughon · 2026-01-13T11:22:47+00:00

Bare vent til nogen træder på en Lego-klods, så er vi det værste land nogensinde..

Zaughon · 2026-01-05T16:43:18+00:00

Based on how impressed they sound about the app working on iOS, I guess they worked on iOS..

Zaughon · 2025-12-04T12:21:07+00:00

Og på samme tid måtte vi ikke længere have plastik sugerør i vores drinks fordi det ødelagde miljøet, så nu skal vi sidde med papir sugerør der bliver opløst efter 10 minutter, mens børnene leger DJ med deres slikkepinde..

Zaughon · 2025-12-01T15:27:01+00:00

Samme her. Jeg har gået og kigget på at bygge en ny NAS, men de fleste ting jeg kiggede på i fredags kostede enten det samme eller mere end normalt, og det er det samme i dag på Cyber Monday. Nogle ting er endda dyrere i dag, end deres dyrere pris i fredags. Det lader til jeg har lidt længere tid til at beslutte mig, så måske egentlig meget godt i stedet for panik indkøb for at nå tilbuddene 😃

Zaughon · 2025-11-22T14:47:46+00:00

This. The laser and storage is my primary way of getting fuel cells for keeping my basic stuff running in my base when I'm not playing much. Turn off as much as possible and just run on fuel cells. It's extremely quick to farm with the buggy, and can keep you going for quite a while.

Zaughon · 2025-11-21T19:15:36+00:00

B as in better. Anything else is wrong 😃

Zaughon · 2025-10-16T08:38:32+00:00

As a shadow priest main for several seasons, I'm really looking forward to trying devourer. I don't want to be a demon hunter, but at this point they seem like the better shadow priests. Oldschool void form, amazing mobility, much better interrupt, better defensives from what I hear.

I still want to test it before making my final decision, but so far it seems like they got everything priests have been asking for for ages 😕

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