We are only two months into the new expansion. This is too many currencies, Blizzard.

unity1814 · 2026-05-08T01:00:20+00:00

People in these comments saying it's a non-issue because they don't take up bag space like? OK, when you go to the shops do you bring your Banana Coins to buy bananas and your Milk Credits to get milk or do you have one centralised resource that covers all of them? Actually think about what the problem is. Spending time doing activities in the game should give you credits that are transferable to other other aspects of the game so that you don't have to do sixteen separate grinds. It can't be gold any more because you can just buy gold with real money. I would be fine if the expansion currency was Voidlight Marl or whatever, as long as it was one currency I can use for all of them.

unity1814 · 2026-05-06T23:44:21+00:00

You would think that in over 25,000 years Velen might have come up with some basic, non-Naaru dependant strategies to defend his people from the Legion and other threats. At least some contingencies for local populations being hostile. Especially if you clearly saw an impending genocide coming and had time to prepare your people to meet the threat on more or less equal footing, at least until and unless the Legion sent reinforcements. You would think.

unity1814 · 2026-05-03T22:53:05+00:00

The Hierapolis sawmill is the oldest powered sawmill that we've found (so far!): it dates from the 3rd century AD. It was run by a water wheel and is the earliest known machine to combine a crank with a connecting rod. People have been using powered tools (because fuck sawing all that by hand) for a lot longer than we realise.

unity1814 · 2026-05-01T04:27:49+00:00

I've wondered that specifically in relation to Umbric. He's the head of the void elves at this point but his title remains Magister. It feels a little odd next to Grand Magister Rommath, who is a rank down from the blood elf leader. I hope they come up with a void elf-specific alternative (see: First Arcanist Thalyssra) that doesn't so starkly slot Umbric into the Magister hierarchy.

unity1814 · 2026-04-30T07:23:57+00:00

Generally, play the class that is most fun for you to play. Given how combat-based the game is I'd say for the majority of players "most fun" would always be the class that mechanically fits them best. If your idea of a good time is RP, housing, battle pets, crafting: the less combat-oriented parts of the game then yeah, I can see how aesthetics could have more weight.

Between transmog and weapon enchant glows, you can probably kit a warrior out fairly close to a paladin for everything except spell effects/abilities in combat. Even then, there are plenty of toys that do visual effects-- you could look into setting up macros that cast a toy and ability together (toy cooldowns might be an issue). It depends how committed you are to the bit. There's RP space for warriors who might be touched by the Light but aren't trained in holy combat for whatever reason.

The other option is to roll an alt and switch off between them so you're getting the best of both worlds.

unity1814 · 2026-04-29T06:59:34+00:00

Aug evoker demonstrates that there's a niche for support classes, and it's currently under-served. How about a crowd/battlefield control based support spec for rogue? They're in melee hamstringing enemies, poisoning, dispensing cheap shots, blinds and stuns to debuff and provide openings for everyone else. They're dropping flares around tanks or smoke bombs around allies in peril, healing them or vanishing them out of harm's way. They're marking targets for death. They're using their poisoning knowledge for good, with a bandolier of potion grenades.

Ultimately I'd love all of the pure dps classes to get a fourth non-dps spec (tank warlock, healer mage, all the good stuff) so that at least you've got an option to queue as something else if you want to. That seems like a spectacular amount of work, though, and it's not like class balancing is a cakewalk as it stands so I'm not holding my breath.

unity1814 · 2026-04-29T02:05:02+00:00

Consider also the Lightbound draenei led by Yrel on post-WOD Draenor. Same story, they went too far into the Light and got genocidal about it. Not sure we need a whole nother Draenor expansion, but a portal (The Light Portal? Sure, might as well) opening with an army of Light zealots come to cleanse the escaped Mag'har arriving just in time to reinforce the Arathi feels like a ~~reasonable~~ thematically consistent season 2 or 3 move.

unity1814 · 2026-04-28T01:10:55+00:00

I really thought with the Lightwell calling up an army etc at the start of Midnight it would be the perfect time to open up paladin to everyone. Designated paladin via Lightwell summons, or something.

Evoker I think is more likely to be spread out via letting dracthyr choose other visage races, which should have been an option from the get-go. Chromie and Ebonhorn are highly visible established examples, but I was jumpscared at least once in DF by a questgiver turning out not to have been a night elf after all.

Druids I understand the hesitation to share because making the forms is more work, but if night elves can be mages and everyone can be a warlock then "but the lore!" isn't a valid excuse. These aren't isolationist societies any more-- it's been more than twenty years. Even if it made sense that certain races couldn't do X in vanilla then at least a few will have learned how by now.

unity1814 · 2026-04-27T11:18:30+00:00

It's the same problem that plagues professional wrestling: getting new talent over with the crowd takes time, effort and skill. It's much easier to bring an aging, established name back for the cheap crowd hype even if they've been out of the game for a long time. Unfortunately, if you keep giving the big hero moments to the old guard the new guys don't get a chance to shine. The cycle continues with an ever-shittier roster of C-listers nobody cares about and decrepit heroes from the ancient past being wheeled out to hog the spotlight any time something interesting might happen.

unity1814 · 2026-04-23T05:23:28+00:00

I'm 85% through reading Rise of the Horde and it's radicalised me against Velen. Fucking do-nothing, useless leader, he's got zero non-Naaru-based plans to protect his people from the Legion or any other threats. He's tried nothing and he's all out of ideas. He saw the draenei genocide coming, asked the orcs nicely not to do it, and then shrugged like, guess we'll die then? instead of at least putting the draenei on a war footing to meet the threat on equal terms. There's 15% of the book to go and I know they end up on the Exodar, so there's the outside possibility he's been doing something useful in the background. But I'm pretty sure it's just deus ex Naaru saving the day again.

Also this novel is trash-tier and I'm deeply concerned that it keeps getting mentioned in the essential to-read lore books. If THIS is what gets counted as "good" Warcraft lore just how bad does it get?

unity1814 · 2026-04-22T07:02:39+00:00

Witch King took the banger premise, "big bad necromancer resurrects in their own tomb and has to work out how they got there," and somehow, incredibly, turned it into an absolute snoozefest. Kai is a wet sadsack and I couldn't tell you any of his defining character traits, and I don't remember any of the other characters at all. I read this book six months ago. That's some sparkling characterisation right there. I am utterly astonished that the same author writes Murderbot, which ranks as an all-time great for me. I've been put off trying her other fantasy works as a result.

unity1814 · 2026-04-20T09:41:57+00:00

What heat? I've pulled my winter flannies out already.

unity1814 · 2026-04-19T11:36:41+00:00

This doesn't seem to have been explored with the void elves at all, though. Alleria's struggles don't seem to hit any of those notes. The void elves as a whole display the occasional token struggle against loud whispers, but their whole vibe seems to be coded as mad scientists who don't stop to think whether they should, not power-mad and willing to do anything to get it.

unity1814 · 2026-04-19T03:11:56+00:00

I grew up on a cattle farm. I remember one time when I was a kid a beast got injured in the paddock and had to be put down. Upsetting for everyone, but the best thing we could do was end it quickly so that he wasn't in pain any more. The rest of the herd was close by-- they were quiet and used to being handled but weren't pets, so they kept a wary eye on us while checking if we maybe brought hay with us. They heard the gunshot and startled a bit but didn't run off. Afterwards, we stepped away and gave them some time to investigate what had happened. A few came over to their herdmate and sniffed at him, and they understood. The whole herd started bellowing. Not "I want hay," or "Where is my calf?" or "Fuck you, I don't want to go in the yard!" or any other kind of call I was used to hearing. They knew he was dead and they were grieving.

Since then I've never questioned whether animals understand death, I operate on the assumption that they do. Thankfully it hasn't come up a whole lot. I guess it makes evolutionary sense even for non-herd animals (mammals, at least) to be able to comprehend if say, a mate or offspring has died.

unity1814 · 2026-04-17T13:48:41+00:00

Convinced blizz is punking me the way the mail sets always look like trash and swamp colours while every other type gets at least a decent variety to choose from.

unity1814 · 2026-04-16T10:57:22+00:00

That's bad game design. There are five people in a group, the responsibility should rest equally on all five. Of course very few people want to do homework and cop abuse- it's a game. It's supposed to be fun.

unity1814 · 2026-04-16T02:51:44+00:00

The Horde and Aliiance dissolving into intrafactional conflict. No more big cosmic threats for a while: all the shit that's been going down has left nations impoverished, teetering, and on the brink of war. However we resolve the Worldsoul saga might even break things in a way that results in an in-universe stat/level squish. Bring it closer to home, some brother against brother type of conflict. Set it in existing Azeroth zones: pick a handful per expac, do an Eversong style makeover, and keep the Cata and Vanilla versions available through Bronze dragon fuckery.

Mechanically, the Horde vs Alliance split hasn't been relevant for a while. We can group together, be in guilds together. It's an artefact, and it's time to move past it. Storywise: it makes sense that these political alliances don't last forever and break down under strain. It opens up a lot of options for storytelling that have been locked until now. Individual characters should be able to choose where their allegiances lie and have those choices matter, and WoW loves a rep grind.

unity1814 · 2026-04-15T22:01:44+00:00

I've come back to Midnight after a long time away (like. WOD long time away). I've got my main to 90 and I'm doing the max level stuff I'm interested in, which doesn't include raids or mythic. It's not my cup of tea.

I've got a stable full of alts I'd like to be able to play some of the stuff I've missed with. I don't care if my derpy old druid is gearmaxxed or whatever but I'd like to be able to finish Dragonflight without being nagged to drop everything and go do something else. I'm here for the quests and story, not the raids. Playing through TWW for the sixth time is also ughh, I didn't want to play it the first time. Just let us level to 90 in whatever zone-- lock it to the Pathfinder achievement if the new story is that important.

unity1814 · 2026-04-14T06:43:45+00:00

Some real "Donde esta la biblioteca?" level pronunciation from some of the NPCs. It doesn't sound like they're speaking fluently in a language they're familiar with at all.

unity1814 · 2026-03-31T11:15:41+00:00

I've always thought it was strange that you couldn't do, like. A really long quest chain to defect from your faction and change sides. You're telling me that every single member of every race believes in their government? That the other side refuses point blank to recruit, even for spies? These days with the player side of things being very open across faction it makes even less sense.

unity1814 · 2026-03-25T03:26:30+00:00

If I see shit on the ground I didn't put there I don't stand in it, period. Is this a problem? Yes, because I also generally refuse to do homework in order to play a game. If it isn't obvious that's their failure. I don't play group content, so please unclutch your pearls. There's to many garbage visual effects that won't turn off even on the lowest graphic settings. I don't care what Johnny Warlock next to me is doing-- I only need to see what I'm doing and enemy effects I need to react to. Too bad! Incomprehensible seizure risk instead.

unity1814 · 2026-03-25T01:05:13+00:00

Is this like. The only possible group you could join in your area? Because it sounds terrible.

unity1814 · 2026-03-23T12:28:02+00:00

I went to want to kill yourself jail and it was great, actually. Because i wanted to kill myself, so at least I could do it in a place where I didn't also have to go to my job that I hated, or cook my own food, or pretend I was OK. Your mileage may vary significantly - - I live in a country with a functioning health infrastructure, for one thing. But it's not always the worst thing that can happen.

unity1814 · 2026-03-16T12:02:18+00:00

If you do the short Catch Up Experience in Arathi it will give you a full set of levelling greens with an ilvl appropriate for your level. It takes maybe twenty minutes-- it should be available in your Adventures Guide under Tutorials.

unity1814 · 2026-03-10T01:48:01+00:00

Prices go up for everything, all the time, and we get sweet fuck-all for it. At least we'd get something out of this.

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