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Elves being nice is creepy
I liked more when guards were just racist/assholes to most of us. Seeing them being nice, like not talking shit to DKs or human paladins is so weird...
I liked more when they were arrogant assholes...
Is it a change from blizz or does it only happens when we finish the dawnwell campaign?
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My M+ experience this season
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Void Assaults and Rituals Sites are really fun but the rewards are quite underwhelming.
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Today I learned: The female dwarf voices from Vanilla are unknown/uncredited. Male dwarves are voiced by Carlos Larkin. (@yaorenwo)
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Many Class Fixes, PvP Class Tuning, Delve Changes: Big Midnight 12.0.5 Hotfixes, April 24th
https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/news/many-class-fixes-pvp-class-tuning-delve-changes-big-midnight-12-0-5-hotfixes-april-24th/
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Dwarves, the backbone of the Alliance
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In case anyone felt that rituals were just delves with a different name
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The Prey nerf sucks
That is all.
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Just discovered Gleeful Glamours and got to live my fantasy of a panda paladin for an hour.
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Can we please buff the other tanks so that this stops happening.
https://preview.redd.it/dxw6r84g93xg1.png?width=406&format=png&auto=webp&s=c0c205c8316cdb4d1e498e4582309a30eb617ec8
Self-explanatory. Basically trying to do any keys above a +14 requires a BM. A lot of people won't even try with other tanks (and stats show that's for a good reason).
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Glacial Spike - Why the Change Sucks, and Why it’s a Legendary Fumble
Yep, we all hate what they’ve done to glacial spike.
If you’re out of the loop, glacial spike is a spell effect that slowly charges in combat, and at full charge replaces frostbolt with a much beefier spell. Up until Wednesday’s patch, it also had a mechanic which allowed it to charge rapidly whilst out of combat, ensuring we had a satisfying and hard-hitting opener. Not particularly relevant in raids, somewhat more so in dungeons (but still not really since you’ll be chain-pulling a lot of the time). Absolute disaster for world content - I’ll get to this shortly.
Alright, maybe frost mage deserved a nerf, you might be thinking. I was thinking the same - until I was made aware of the devblog. The reason cited for this change was not for the purpose of balance. This change was made because, since glacial spike upgrades and replaces frostbolt when available, some players reported confusion that they could not find frostbolt in their spellbook. That’s right, frost mage quality-of-life has been significantly hamstrung because a fraction of the playerbase do not have the faculties to understand the barebones basics of the class - and this is what I’ve seen dominating the discourse around the change. But why is no one talking about what this change represents with regards to blizzard’s design philosophy towards cooldowns?
Let me explain what I mean. I started Midnight playing my rogue, my forever main. Had to drop it for now because terrible balancing, but that’s a topic for another day. What I remember was, when levelling as an assassination rogue, it felt absolutely miserable trying to kill anything without my one-minute cooldown Kingsbane available. Everyone I’ve seen commenting on this type of gameplay says the same thing, “I hate hitting things with a wet noodle when I have no cds” etc. When I started levelling my mage, I thought hey, having a hard-hitting spell every time I pull something new feels great, why doesn’t every class have something like this?
Well? Why?
Why isn’t it the case that as a general rule, every spec should have some form of cooldown mitigation whilst out of combat, to ensure that every new fight you take out in the world you’re capable of unleashing a fully interactive combo, instead of spamming your fillers in frustration until a cooldown comes up and you’re allowed to do damage again?
And perhaps more importantly, how did no one at blizzard stop to think about this when considering the potential gameplay impacts making this glacial spike change might have?
Why was blizzard’s response to this neat little quality-of-life gameplay element complete and utter disregard, instead of realising how good it was and applying the concept to other specs?
Thanks for reading my rant. Man I’m bored at the office.
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Hey Blizz, how it's going?
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Getting punished in a casual gamemode is peak Blizzard
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The one thing retail WoW is currently missing.
Suspend the time of flasks and weapon enchants in major cities PLEASE.
Especially as a main dps this season when I am trying to push keys. I'll be sitting in town 20 mins waiting for a group and than gotta re flask re apply consumes. Or even playing with friends. Someone needs 5 mins in between keys, now your 1000g in consumes are just wasting away.
Is there a viable argument AGAINST pausing the time of flasks in major citites ONLY?
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Blizzard Temporaily Disabling Void Assault Incursions Due to New Issue
https://www.wowhead.com/news/blizzard-temporaily-disabling-void-assault-incursions-due-to-new-issue-381389
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I understand it now
I’m 280 warrior, 3k+ rio.
I have realised, I’m overgeared for 10s and can easily farm then in tank spec rather than queue for hours with dps, not pushing not worth the rewards, just casual weekly 8/8.
I usually queue wherever, just 10s, and most of them are champions geared players, sometimes even adventure, not a biggie, I can carry them.
Oh my god, I understand why tanks are being so toxic. 0 interrupts, 0 tactic knowledge, they even pull more than THEY can burst down and heal through, and then when heal dies, and dps cannot deal enough, I die too, and then it’s somehow my fault.
I understand why some tanks leave mid dungeon.
I’m by all means no pro tank, this is me tanking for first time in my 20 years of wow, but I’m definitely good enough for 10, but I cannot carry 4 people.
Now I can imagine the pressure on not overgeared tanks which queue for dungeons where others do nothing but complain.
There are still cases where tanks pull more than they can chew, die and ragequit, seen that myself, but when others misdirect on me and die/cause a wipe, sorry, but maybe at least learn to interrupt then?
WoW hasn’t changed but community has man…
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Am I the only one who gets slightly annoyed by this?
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In honour of sharing random floating assets that devs forgot about, here's a lone backpack floating above Scintilas Outpost in Eversong Woods!
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Unholy DK discord having a normal one.
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Incursions are so not worth it it's not even funny.
Made my way to ZA doing my weekly chores quests (gold's pretty good) and I saw the incursion icon on the map for the first time. Said the event was 40-50% to being unlocked. One hour later it finally popped, only for the satchel to give like 30 field thingies, some marl, and some extremely outdated and useless crests. Didn't even give the usual 2k gold that the weekly caches drop.
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I wish there were world quests on the Isle of Quel'Danas
The only reason to ever go there is flying into the raid or flying into the delve. The island itself is just unused empty space, which is a real shame.
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My evolution as a transmog enthusiast
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I hide for three minutes, we found them all, but I lost? How did my team only last 1:06 and yet I hid three minutes??
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The focus on AI and non existent QA makes the product worse
Im working in a tech company and we are going through the same shit like patch 12.0.5.
Everything was fine a few years ago, quality of our product was superb, customers rarely complained. Then in 2023 they started laying off our few QA Testers (it was literally just 3 people but they were crucial for feedback) and in 2024 they layed off our junior developers. Now we have only experienced developers but they need to push out new features and supporting way more customers in a insanely tight schedule. We have no one to review the finished product or update, so we just ship it after reviewing the code and if it works good and if not we fix it after the CUSTOMER reports the bugs.
This is literally every tech company right now including Blizzard. Using their customers as testers. But i guess as long as people pay for it and you reach more customers with AI scaling its a win for leadership.
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