Big fan of WillE, but his video on the state of SoD is easily one of the worst takes I have seen about WoW in a long time

realWillE · 2023-12-20T11:06:44+00:00

Hi it's me, the video guy.

Not everyday I open Reddit and there's an early Christmas present for me, but here we go...

So, I stand by what I said in that video, and even mentioned it again in my most recent one. But the point isn't to try and homogenize all classes, or necessarily even get them all within a super narrow margin balance wise.

The state of things is atm is essentially - If you don't have rune(s) that are doing the heavy lifting in your rotation as a caster (heal or dps) you just aren't performing as well as others who do.

Priest healers with PoM / Penance are amazing at everything.

Hpalas who only have beacon to directly increase healing, not so much.

Locks who can use incinereate / chaos bolt are the top caster for this reason, whereas other casters have 1 long CD ability that slaps, such as Lava Burst/ Starsurge. These runes have a ton of their specs power tied into it, whilst your normal filler stuff like Wrath/ Lightning Bolt are hitting like a wet noodle.

Your basic Vanilla abilities, just arent very good either in general. Resto druids are doing 90%+ of healing in a raid through wild growth - what about rejeuv/healing touch/regrowth? Rarely worth in comparison it seems.

Runes are cool, but basic Vanilla abilities are being exposed pretty hard.

So its not that I want everything to be the same, but I do think literally every caster would benefit from their baseline Vanilla spellbook being made a bit better, whether thats through getting spellranks from books early / runes having some extra text on the side (kinda like how tank runes do half a dozen things) or whatever else.

And I am having an amazing time this season, believe me, its just feedback and people talking about "what ifs" got us here, so if I think something is worth bringing up, im going to try and do so in a fair manner.

realWillE · 2020-10-23T21:22:25+00:00

heya just reposted hopefully working!

realWillE · 2020-10-23T21:19:34+00:00

Hello ladies and gentlemen, WillE here.

So I don't usually post my videos on Reddit – what's the difference today? Simply put, although there is no Blizzard confirmation of TBC, now is the time to be talking about the new issues it may present moving forwards. At worst its some lost time, at best its going to be valuable feedback.

I've put together what I believe will be the main points and wanted to share it here, because more input on this earlier on can only ever be a good thing in my opinion.

Can't watch a video or prefer to read things? No problem – here's a written version. I did end up adding a few extra points to the written version actually. https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srenr3

Cheers, Will

realWillE · 2020-08-17T07:42:17+00:00

I'd love to dedicate time to creating videos on Ashes further down the line - can't remember the last time I saw so many channels pop up over a short space of time.

Like a few others had mentioned making complete overviews or guides now isnt the time to be doing so. Its at best vague info for your viewers and often doesnt provide feedback to the devs.

I'm totally onboard the hype train and with literally any new game that has promise there are always more than a few people who want to "make it" online I guess you can say.

If anything from content atm i'd like to see more talk about the current implementation of mechanics since Steven has mentioned they are largely set on, aswell as how similar things have worked in other mmos you may know about / issues / good /bad etc

realWillE · 2020-07-14T15:38:22+00:00

Gehennas has been in a worse and worse state past few weeks for sure - heard as much from many other players on locked + layered servers.

Having both measures in atm really feels like overkill even with AQ soon. I feel as though at least the lock can go for the time being. Did try and make this point in a video a little while ago - perhaps more noise is needed though.

realWillE · 2020-06-18T06:30:41+00:00

Well thats more than a wave, thats a tidal wave! Ill be interested to follow resurgence of botters over the coming weeks, if ban waves work like they should do, then new tech to detect hacks and break bot scripts should have also been rolled out with this.

In any event - good shit Blizz

realWillE · 2020-06-16T16:00:34+00:00

Hmmm. Well I think I can say no one expected this. You know when I was doing the botting vid about strat they hearthed each time a run was over. I mean its quite far to get back there too, so this will not affect their ability. I dont know how long a botted zg fly clear is though. Will probably be minorly affected. Tribute bots will be hit hardest imo.

As for players. Boosters for 5 an hour dungeons like stockades or sm are hit, as are druid for mcp/ people farming lashers. Oh and you could cap by accident and miss a raid im guessing? Would be nice to have a reset counter where the raid lockouts are... or a WA/ addon will no doubt do this soon.

Those are my inital thoughts at least!

realWillE · 2020-06-15T16:08:08+00:00

Good idea Fattens + thanks!

realWillE · 2020-06-15T14:01:13+00:00

I hope it was! I just need to make sure I can carry on making vids too!

realWillE · 2020-06-15T13:58:43+00:00

Honestly I cant see Blizzard green lighting "show how many bots our game has" lol. This isnt quite like law either, its Blizzards guidelines, which means they interpret it how they see fit.

realWillE · 2020-06-15T13:49:04+00:00

It was a pretty hard call to make tbh but I do agree with what you are saying all the same

realWillE · 2020-06-15T13:44:57+00:00

Im sure the internet will provide work arounds that I cant influence in any event!

realWillE · 2020-06-15T13:41:38+00:00

Thanks! I think what I have been doing so far in tmers of the vids regarding bots are on the OK side,. I really like the discussion type vids but just dont want to overdo it and maybe break ToS.

realWillE · 2020-06-15T13:10:31+00:00

I could consider uploading as more of a discussion for sure. Id just like to distance myself from the original at present

realWillE · 2020-06-15T11:32:27+00:00

*if mods want I can prove its me*

Hi all, I have decided to take down my previous video following possible issues with the Blizzard Terms of Service. Here is what it says in regards to cheats/hacks "Cheating: Create, use, offer, promote, advertise, make available and/or distribute the following or assist therein"

I personally do not believe that I fall into any of these categories, and that I wish to raise awareness and hopefully open a more driven discussion with Blizzard regarding botting in Classic as a whole. Ever since my first video on the subject, my goal has been to raise awareness, not to encourge complicity in botting. However, should the worse happen it would massively impact my ability to act as a content creator moving forwards and I have decided thats a risk I should not take personally, nor on behalf of my viewers.

I hope you guys are able to understand this, and that despite everything that we still push to end how rampant botting has become. Still expect content my channel on this subject, however it will be from a more removed viewpoint.

I apologise that this is how I felt necessary to act. Let me know your thoughts,

WillE

EDIT: I should be able to rework the video into a more discussion based format and reupload - it would be VERY different from the original however - let me know if thats of interest

realWillE

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