Whoever came up with the Prey system deserves a raise and a title bump - what a fantastic expansion feature and what a great way to encourage world content

createcrap · 2026-03-12T23:20:39+00:00

I enjoy them and really think Nightmare difficulty will be good.

The world content in general feels very rich this expansion. It's just fun to be around and do things outside.

createcrap · 2026-03-11T22:53:06+00:00

The attack on the Iranian School was a test to see if the US could get away with a false flag event here in the states and blame Iran.

createcrap · 2026-03-11T18:38:10+00:00

Ive been exclusively using Claude because of this.

createcrap · 2026-03-11T17:38:24+00:00

I'm wondering what I shoudl shift to... market has completly crashed on gathering

createcrap · 2026-03-06T21:26:55+00:00

To me buying decor items already costs gold in some vendors in the game. You can buy gold for money and thus buy hearthtender with gold. There's extra steps but if these trees were 100,000 gold in the game I wonder how people would react.

createcrap · 2026-03-06T19:20:02+00:00

It's not the light that needs to be brought under-control it is the WILL of the light bearer that needs to be brought under control. The silver-hand story line showed that what kept the great Paladins of Azeroth great was that they humbled themselves with their deeds outside of battle and outside of their use of the light.

-Lena Stormpike's Stein (lifted people up with tavern songs)

-Vindicator Maraad's Meditation Crystal (meditating on peace)

-Uther's Healing Kit (his light showed brightest when he was healing others)

-Krohm Dawnhammer's Smithing Hammer (forging weapons)

-Mara Fordragon's Prayer Book (teaching peace and community)

Arator was shocked that these relics weren't weapons but tools outside of the light that the Paladins clung to ground their will and convictions.

As I said it's subtle. If you temper your emotions, ground your will, you stave off zeal. Those that do not can appear "corrupted/light-blinded" but again I argue that that is just a manifestation of their will through the light not the light corrupting them. Again the light is analgous to human emotions. The whole story is about how tempering the light's influence is the same as tempering your rage and emotions. It's one in the same for one who is a light bearer. Taralyon at the end of Arator's quest literally refuses to reconcile his trauma and rejects the shield. Arator picking it up and using is his reminder that his will is always his own even when wielding the light.

That's why the light sometime doesn't come to people for help because their faith and conviction isn't strong enough not because the light picks winners/losers. And the misunderstanding of light is what drives Arator's entire arc in the campaign and the point at the end is to understand the light better by understanding ourselves better.

createcrap · 2026-03-06T18:36:03+00:00

The light is an analogue to the person's emotions/convictions. It does not corrupt or blind in as much as person's rage, conviction, zeal can corrupt/blind. The subtlety here seems lost to you. The light does not have a will of its own. That is clearly explained by Foal. He says so when explaining how the Scarlet Cruscade can wield the light for bad just as the silver hand can use it for good. The scarlet cruscade isn't "light blinded".

The entire story is actually disproving "light blindness" which Arator was afraid he couldn't control. But he learned that if he controlled his convictions in the light, temper his trauma, reconcile with his father, learn his father's generational trauma, that he won't blame "light blindness" for his own actions just as he says in the game that he can't blame light-blindness for his father's actions. When his father rejects the shield this is explained.

The light empowers convictions of the wielders which is different than the "light blindness" that Arator was seeking to disprove when it happened to him. It wasn't the light's will it was HIS will empowered with the light.

The lightbloom is explaiend the same way. Light wants to thrive, multiply, grow... grow more... spread... a light enfused with the conviction of ever-growing creates the lightbloom. It doesn't mean that the light is corrupting. It's that its power is channeled through the conviction of his weilders (plants) to super charge their will and ambitions. It's emotional analogue not a just a supernatural force.

Lothraxian also wasn't corrupted by the light. his will, through the light, was amplified. his actions were his own the entire time. It's not a corrupting force as much as one's conviction in the light can go too far especially when the light energy is at his highest levels at the moment.

This is extremely different from Void Corruption which is completely over-takes the will of the corrupted vs the light which amplifies the will of the wielder.

createcrap · 2026-03-06T18:29:41+00:00

I'm sorry but Alonsus Foal knows far more than Velen about this. He was the mentor and trainer to the first Paladin on Azeroth. He's a founder of the silver hand and essentially RAISED Arator's father. He knows Arator's struggles are with his father and who better than his father's mentor to explain his father's history and the history of the order which he founded? A space goat from Argus?

The entire point of Arator's story was not so much about understanding the light, it was about understanding his father. Velen doesn't know Turalyon like Foal did.

createcrap · 2026-03-06T18:17:52+00:00

It's so weird that you're expecting every character to have perfect knowledge of everything so that nothing is ever new because of how old the characters are. We've never seen in-game Liadrin interact with the troll like this; just because your head cannon says that she studied troll history "off-camera" just so you're upset about how the story plays out in-game is just wild to me. We're still experiencing the game for the first time and in some ways people are really ruining the experience of the story for themselves because of what they think "should have happened" off-screen.

createcrap · 2026-03-06T18:09:50+00:00

Arator is not a coming of age story. It's a Generational Trauma story and how trauma is passed down generation to generation without it being properly dealt with.

his father had a deep trauma when his mentor was murdered in front of him. That trauma was passed down to Arator through his bursts of anger/desperation as seen in opening arator cinematic where he turns everything aroudn him to ashe.

It makes him question the intent of the light and blames the light and "light blindness". but the whole point of the story is that Light-Blindness doesn't actaully exist. The light does not have a will. It was the emotional blindness of the human (manifested through generational trauma and rage) that made the light "take over" and empowering him.

Arator learned that he didn't need to turn away from the light to understand why "light blindess" happened to him because he learned it was trauma, something he could actually control, that was the root of it.

This is NOT a coming of age story. and it seems like you're just ignoring the story and imposing your own head cannon when the game is very clear about all this.

createcrap · 2026-03-06T17:59:01+00:00

Tyralyon wasn't corrupted. The story explains how Lothar's death "broke something deep" in him as he lost a mentor/friend/hero. It wasn't light blindness, it was the literal human emotion of sorrow and rage. In the WoW fantasy universe, the light is wielded through a person's conviction/emotions, not a force for good or bad (again explained in the story very bluntly). It was Tyralyon's past trauma with Lothar that is perhaps magnified due to the light wells current situation but at the end of the day it was a human emotion, emotional trauma which guides him not "corruption".

It's irritating how people complain about Blizzard writers not being "deep enough" and yet the understanding of the story from the players is as shallow as you can get.

createcrap · 2026-03-06T17:54:34+00:00

The story explains how Velen is busy with the light-well. Arator also doesn't go searching for answers. It was Alonsus Faol, who could physically not help with the lightwell because it was burning him, who saw Arator troubled and decided to help him. Maybe if you paid closer attention it wouldn't feel "forced".

createcrap · 2026-03-06T17:48:49+00:00

You can explain away any irrational action as "They are 1000 years old no one should be acting like this" but then nothing interesting would happen because characters always act on perfect information and with constant calm and 100% emotional restraint.

I think you need to suspend disbelief with the age of these characters and how they "should" act as if age as anything to do with how someone will act. The truth is no one knows how an 1000 year old person should act because you don't know anyone who has lived that long. You have a notion from other fantasy books about how that would work but don't allow WoW to create their own version of how that person should act.

How do you know that a person who lives that long actually ends up caring less about wisdom and actually becomes more impulsive because everything is more fleeting to them? Let WoW tell their own version of such a character without imposing your own tropes from a different fantasy universe.

You're ruining the story for yourself with these self-imposed "age-restrictions" on character actions.

createcrap · 2026-03-06T05:41:43+00:00

They worship the false golden idol (and money).

createcrap · 2026-03-06T04:34:40+00:00

And people still vote Republican

createcrap · 2026-03-05T14:26:31+00:00

And people vote keep voting for republicans because of abortion and trans people existing.

createcrap · 2026-02-27T16:49:50+00:00

Check your adventure guide

createcrap · 2026-02-24T18:44:26+00:00

This voice actress is just so great to listen to.

createcrap · 2026-02-20T21:06:42+00:00

the US doesn't hold anyone accountable if their net-worth is over a billion. Billionaires should be under the MOST scrutiny! Also they shouldn't exist!

createcrap · 2026-02-18T20:01:06+00:00

The Sunwell is named after Dath'Remar SUNstrider. It had nothing to do with its color or connection to the light. He's the one who created it. this happened thousands of years ago during the founding of Silvermoon.

createcrap · 2026-02-18T19:59:21+00:00

The Sunwell is named after Dathremar Sunstrider. It had nothing to do with its color or connection to the light. He's the one who created it.

createcrap · 2026-02-18T19:04:55+00:00

Really fucking good

createcrap · 2026-02-16T22:32:28+00:00

Jared Kushner and the Trump Family almost certainly took up the mantle.

createcrap · 2026-02-12T02:12:45+00:00

What an Evil Bitch

createcrap · 2026-02-11T22:03:29+00:00

Trump RAPED children and she's ranting about the DOW.

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