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Just posting cause I saw someone with 5 years.
https://redd.it/1r0nm42
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So what will happen with voip chat on wow with the age verification coming to discord?
https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
I don't use voip, at all, ever. I am curious what the fallout will be with this change to discord and what it might mean for the game.
Also, don't do this to use discord, IMHO it is a personal data grab and that kinda crap is WAY out of hand.
https://redd.it/1r09qun
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Found my 4th Anniversary WoW letter while cleaning out old characters… time is brutal
https://redd.it/1qzwrgd
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Housing World Map - Now with more Lobster Sea Monster.
https://redd.it/1qzvd2s
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Instant Transmog on the go
https://redd.it/1qzs05t
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'Greater' undead appearance customisation.
https://redd.it/1qzlwx4
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I think my skinning tools are too sharp, I skinned the texture right off it
https://redd.it/1qzctft
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The only one who can defeat Xal'atath
https://redd.it/1qzgpqy
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Please do not instantly votekick people that d/c in dungeons without giving them a chance to reconnect
https://redd.it/1qzc7am
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Ret pallys represent!
https://redd.it/1qz0y23
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Belf Voice lines and acting
I seriously hope they reconsider whatever direction they decided to take with some of the new voice acting for blood elves. Some of them are good, but too many are so sterile, bizarre and disney-like. Belves are supposed to be prideful, condescending, and intense. Some of these new lines are straight up whimsical.
Not to mention the aversion to any sort of edge in the game anymore, the ancient, pretentious, genocidal, magic crackheads seem to have grown a little soft for a game with dark fantasy vibes deep within its roots.
I'm sure I'll get shit on for criticizing this shit but damn, kinda sad to see the soft design directions since dragonflight.
Edit: as an addendum, I will say Astalor Bloodsworn (Prey fella) and his Sanctum are phenomenal. More of that please.
https://redd.it/1qys5vk
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Learned something new about our girl Xal'atath at the grocery store today
https://redd.it/1qz1luh
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On Midnight Beta, Paladins can currently only see their new charger model with the Divine Steed spell. The charger mounts still use their 20+ year old models and there is no way to obtain the new model as a mount. Sure it's only beta... but we're 4 weeks from the expansion launching.
https://redd.it/1qyvy0s
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I finally got it, after more than 10 years!
https://redd.it/1qyivdv
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My thoughts after witnessing TBC classic release
I never actually played original TBC. I came in later during wotlk. Because of that, I was genuinely excited for TBC classic. Throughout the years of playing I heard a lot of positive things about it and I thought I'd finally get to experience the legendary expansion everyone talked about.
I love Outland, it's the zone where I leveled many characters and spent a lot of time in and I was ready for the vibes. The slower pace and actual immersion into the lore.
Then TBC classic launched, and the hype was there. Seeing so many people in front of the Dark Portal was indeed something incredible to see. Even though I wasn't part of it, witnessing it hyped me enough.
However, more I was watching, more I started to notice one thing that I didn't really like.
Most of what I was seeing were people standing still, following glowing lines, alarms, bis lists, spreadsheets, and step-by-step guides and checklists that tell them exactly what to press, when to press it, where to stand and what path to follow.
Which brings me to the part that’s honestly kind of hilarious.
For years, classic and TBC-era defenders have been roasting retail for losing its soul, being too addon-dependent, playing the game for you, min-max culture ruining immersion and overall everyone just chasing parses and efficiency.
And then TBC classic drops and people min-max even harder, skip anything that isn't optimal, boost, stack, cheese and shortcut everything possible, run addons that literally tell them "do this, then that" and treat what's supposed to be an opportunity to experience what they felt back in 2007 like some mobile tiktok game that you HAVE to complete as fast as you can.
So how is this different from the "soulless" retail?
The way TBC classic is played right now looks more automated than retail in some cases. At least in retail you’re reacting to modern mechanics.
People talk about how TBC was this magical time where everyone explored, experimented, and played for the journey. But when given the chance to relive it, most players immediately optimized the soul straight out of it.
What’s wild is pretending this version of TBC is some pure, sacred RPG experience while retail is the soulless one, when both are being played with the exact same mindset… if not worse in classic.
Turns out the game didn’t lose its soul, players just changed.
And nostalgia doesn’t survive contact with spreadsheets.
Anyway, I hope those who can enjoy it really do and they can relive what they experienced 20 years ago, but the mindset that's been going around doesn't really give desire to play it.
https://redd.it/1qy5hjt
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"WoW is so Disney"...meanwhile the new animation:
https://redd.it/1r0fbwn
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Despite being dissapointed not getting Amani (for now....) I'm really happy and excited that I can use lore accurate colors for my Troll Warlock
https://redd.it/1qzxnqn
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Murloc Monday - ask your questions here
*Aaaaaughibbrgubugbugrguburgle! RwlRwlRwlRwl!*
That's murloc for "Welcome to Murloc Mondays" - where people can ask any type of question about WoW without getting strangled by a Death Knight.
Questions can range from what's new in Dragonflight, what class is OP, and how many Demons will it take to down Thrall?
Questions can come from brand new players, players returning, or veteran players who never got a chance to ask the right question.
Afraid of not getting an answer? Rest assured, we know that at least 90% [of questions get answered!](https://redd.it/djsvm8)
You may want to look at /r/wownoob as well!
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Here are some handy guides to [start World of Warcraft as a brand new player](https://www.wowhead.com/new-players-world-of-warcraft) or [start Classic World of Warcraft as a brand new player](https://worldofwarcraft.com/news/23090134).
Unless you played in the current expansion, pretty much everything has changed. If you're returning after a very long break, check out the [Wowhead Returning Players Guides](https://www.wowhead.com/guides/returning-players).
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One of my Raptor Plushies just found out their wife is cheating on them. :(
https://redd.it/1qztggq
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Tried out Moonguard after 20 years of playing. This server brings back that "magical" feeling the game used to have.
I've always played on high-population servers but found the world to feel dead. Nobody chatting, general & trade channels don't get much action, stuff like that.
I thought I'd give an RP realm a shot just to see if the atmosphere is any different and picked the infamous Moonguard. The community and socialization is unlike anything I've ever seen. No matter where you go there are just people... everywhere. Some are RPing, others are just chatting and hanging out. There's events going on all around you. Stormwind is so busy there's always a two second input lag from the sheer volume of players hanging around. General and trade channels are lively, fun, and people just shooting the shit.
RP isn't for me, but the server definitely is. It almost captures that nostalgic feeling about how the game felt when it first came out. Anyone else try Moonguard after years of regular serviers and experience something similar?
https://redd.it/1qznxlj
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Beyond Repair - Dark Legacy Comics #979
https://redd.it/1qzi8a2
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Why can't the damage meter show how much damage individual casts hit for?
Details used to show how many casts, how much it hit for, how much it crits for, highest hit, average hit, etc. Now neither Details nor Blizz's dps meter shows any of that. Is that really hidden information now?
https://redd.it/1qzgm2w
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Retail isn't dead. The social structure is just different from what Classic players expect
title. my youtube recommendations are overflowing with youtubers who quit playing around pandaria, came back to try the newer retail expansions and only ever did rdf/open world content then immediately fired up their cameras to make videos about retail being a singleplayer game. the typical route if you want to be part of the dead game discourse is to go into the questing zones, queue for the lowest level content you can find and complain nobody you run into wants to be your friend.
i understand that in classic the socialization hits you immediately. you have to manually group up with people to clear any instances at all, and some quests might have you invite a couple people to help. but at level cap finding 40 people to clear raids consistently is such an undertaking that active realms start to revolve around the 2-3 gigaguilds that can reliably roflstomp naxx every week, or around the industry of "tank/dungeon carry services" and if you don't wanna join them have fun sitting in trade chat/discord until a pug forms.
the source of potential confusion is that, in retail, it's in reverse. you won't really find people in dungeons or in open world zones, because that content's been basically made into the tutorial. it's singleplayer intro content made to ease new players into their class and into basic wow concepts before they're forced to interact with people later on. but once you're done with that, you'll find out that hc+ raiding, high mythic keys, rbgs, arenas etc. are all bustling with thousands upon thousands of players who are all looking to make friends and have active tight knit guilds who run daily stuff together. you only need 5 people for keys and 10-25 for raids on retail so it's way easier for small groups you run with on a whim on a weekday night to become consistent regular premades. as a long time classic player trying out retail for the midnight prepatch i felt lied to.
i played classic servers since they launched in fall 2019, all the way up to the tbc release, and then i played retail up to the point where you do m+ keys. i felt like retail was far more active and way more fun because you had more content to do with others every week, and because it takes very little commitment to get into any of it. i found plenty of discords and guilds dedicated to running keys every day, people invite you to hc/mythic raids on a whim as opposed to the gargantuan task of raiding on classic, and dozens of rated pvp guilds on every realm are open to teaching new players.
not to mention the fact retail's level scaling makes it way easier to just invite newbie friends to the game. you don't have to make an alt (although you can), and you don't have to wait weeks for your level 37 buddy to catch up to your 61 character before you can play together. since everything you do contributes to leveling up your character, i can just get up and join a friend on another continent and it won't be a waste of time. in classic if i'm at a different point of the rollercoaster than my friends oh well. guess i'll play another game.
i get that a lot of people like classic and i might get flamed for this. i agree the lore and atmosphere used to be way better, and nobody's forcing you to play retail. but automatically making it an axiom that classic is "the better game" just because retail doesn't force you to manually yell for groups in trade chat anymore even though it has so much more to offer is just delusional.
https://redd.it/1qzepv4
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Class Fantasy, one step forwards two steps back
https://redd.it/1qz4zds
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I started a new character, why are there invisible rabbits on the boat?
https://redd.it/1qz5x1j
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I pray for the day when we get hairstyles like these..
https://redd.it/1qytw1i
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I definitely have a type...
https://redd.it/1qyraaz
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sure man whatever this flight path is
https://i.redd.it/avl0bm1n2zhg1.gif
honestly quite incredible happnings while grinding loremaster
https://redd.it/1qxzv69
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What’s the most beautiful 1H sword in the game?
https://redd.it/1qxs3vh
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