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you have to start one fresh
Totally isolated 1-70 Pandaria-only leveling experience
10-70
Yep yep
What day does the Northrend cup begin? Is it next week?
30th
Cool
Was this a typo?
I though the mount was for completing on normal difficult awakened
Not heroic
if you do it on heroic you earn everything beneath it too
SL Fated was heroic for the mount too, wasn't it?
Oh well that's datamining
I mean the blizz article could also be wrong
Complete all three Awakened raids on Normal difficulty or higher in Dragonflight Season 4. In the Feats of Strength category. An achievement from World of Warcraft: Dragonflight.
It could be
I’m at work so no access to wow. Anyone able to check the achievement in game right now?
it's a FoS it doesn't show until you earn it
Oh I see
you can use the in game link off the wowhead page tho
although this is EU so no seasonal rollover yet, might have been hotfixes
still doesn't show rewards
I posted on the forums about the discrepancy. Hopefully a blue catches it and clarifies. Would just like to see if it was a mistake or intended.
Also, someone on Reddit said the weekly events (like Siege, Researchers) give updated rewards now. Is that true?
wouldn't surprise me, since the World boss can be awakened too
That makes sense
I’m planning out my gaming session while at work. Don’t have much time to play this week so want to be as efficient as I can be lol. Seems like TW quests and M0 is the best way and maybe *empowered world events because it drops veteran track gear.
dreamsurge weekly gave veteran
you get a box that awards veteran for doing hunt, feast, and siege this week
I actually got two items from feast but it was a lag fest
So - I should do all the things?
The addon?
just don't open your TW box yet
Also do the TW raid quest Im hearing people got 2 pieces of champion I think?
Oh I just thought has anyone checked if the vendor that uses dilated time pods next to time rifts has updated gear? It was/ is 454 ilvl.
veteran world gear cannot be catalyzed this time around
dreamsurge vendor isn't active at all this week
same with time rifts
those vendors will only be up during their relevant weeks
Ah okay - so time rift vendors will be relevant next week since it was introduced in 10.1.5?
is that true? that would suck if so.
It's that or not at all
And which vendor is currently up for this week?
none that I know of
dreamsurge vendor isn't active but there is the quest to get 100 coalescence and it rewards 1 veteran gear
I think maybe the bronze bullion vendors are gonna be the only relevant vendors all season
it's likely to prevent you from using the vendor for old non empowered gear on weeks that it would give you the strongest you might be able to spend at them
My guess is the vendor only has one level of power on it, and they can't adjust for awakened and not
so it'll only sell when up
So there’s no point in buying gear from those vendors at all? Unless you’re gearing an alt I suppose.
Word. Man I wish blizz would provide more details on best ways to get gear. It just seems so bloated in all the options with no clear guide.
Maybe that’s just hyper critical of me
basically you want to do whatever's awakened each week
there's a chance the vendors give good stuff so doing weekly rift and surge might be worth it
next week I get to finish my soridormi rep grind
Okay, thank you.
I’m still 2 tiers away from maxing that rep lol
time rifts do give a new currency
so probably worth doing if you love those trinkets
goes with the new dreamsurge currency
I like the Fragment of Shalamayne. I hope the Colossus Warrior hero talents work kind of like that trinket.
As long as they drop current S4 ilvl gear then I’m down.
a 503 shalamayne sounds fun to have
Based on my reading, the vendors are just broken.
Warstrikes + Kingstrikes are fun.
just got a 480 veteran 1/8 neck from the 100 dreamsurge stuff so
Just waiting on hot fixes.
It's just a gigaload of burst damage.
"Welp, this trinket just did more damage in one tap than my entire burst rotation. Womp womp"
they are doing VoI now, on Dathea atm
it's so fun to see pros playing this game, if someone want to watch it!
they went straight in without getting any gear from elsewhere, so they're like 30 ilvls low for it
yep, that's why is fun hahaha
It does seem like it should be a fairly easily tuned season once you get gear
yup, up to 6/8 now
i love RWF, i think its amazing fun content
Amirdrassil was extremely close, one of the best one i remember
even tho that existed, i think WoW base UI is pretty easy to watch and understand from a new player
That is one very crowded UI O_O
it is funny bc when you see someone on twiter saying things like: "oh who can even know what is happening there"
actually im sure we all here can understand it
That UI gives me claustrophobia
Oh aye all that info is useful I'm sure...but for myself I'd have to locate the target mob via sonar id I had that
yay 5 more slots for Remix!
more than I was expecting
how do u play with this
hey, they pulled through on the more char slots thing!
woohoo
oh damn did all my unused currency go into the void
if its the old stuff, yes
thats normal for seasons
oh man
my old stuff is still there for time rifts and dreamsurges, it's just vendorable
any sign of an alpha build tomorrow?
its happening this week
¯_(ツ)_/¯
we dont know when
Well from DF they usually updated the vendor the night before
Given the rough season launch maybe they're waiting for Thurs
Jesus that's really a short small notice for abandoning the companion app
That sucks, I used it for ingame guildchat while offline and tracking current available world quests
This is a dumb announcement
Doesn't the bnet app also do guild chat?
maybe this is a sign we're getting an updated app?
Maybe. It would suck if they just removed access to a bunch of these features with no substitute or replacement
This is wild. Especially a week after I had a group conversation with other people with physical disabilities that take them away from their computer and love the convenience and various tools provided by the companion app
Like, was JUST having that conversation with us gushing to each other about how it makes our lives easier
I’d honestly be surprised if they don’t have another app that they haven’t announced yet
well, it's a bit more addiction to the game
you spend hours on your pc and even when you go away from your pc you still play the game
Not everyone “spends hours” at their pc to play WoW and the point was it’s convenience for people who do have trouble sitting in one place for a long time.
sometimes i even wonder why you're here since you take every opportunity to try and talk down about WoW players
Like ffs I'm talking about accessibility for people with disabilities and your first go to is having an addiction and playing too long? Shove off, clownshoes 
Yeah that’s a wild take bro… I do hope they have something coming to replace the companion app. Maybe it’s a like a Warband themed app.
no much people use it tho, I think for them is not worth to keep putting resources on it
sad that it's gone
Battle net app still has messenger
but guild messenger?
isn't it just personal?
honestly it sucks but most of what the app did can be found elsewhere barring the AH stuff, which didn't they like just update at the beginning of DF?
i really just hope this is a sign of a better more functional app on the way
didn't interpret it as people who couldn't play on a pc/laptop 😄
It's pretty obvious what I'm saying if you read the words I typed
I'm talking about people with disabilities that take them away from their computer
hmhm
You can tell, specifically where I said the words "other people with physical disabilities that take them away from their computer"
i only read it half
Yeah, reading the whole thing is usually how you know what someone is talking about
Just say you had a moment of ignorance and ableism and say you'll do better 
i first need to look up ableism
ahah
like people said here, many things of the companion app can be done by other apps, so i understand that Blizzard might not want to invest into it anymore maybe
https://www.wowhead.com/beta/spell=415488/the-gladiator https://www.wowhead.com/beta/spell=415648/skyshield-breaker
You can now wield a two-handed weapon and a shield and your auto-attack damage is increased by 25%. In the Uncategorized Spells category. Requires Warrior.
Leap into the air and appear above your target, then slam down with destructive force to deal (23.5% of Attack power) Physical damage to all enemies within 8 yards and applying Colossus Smash to them [ Protection: and resetting the remaining cooldown on Taunt]
that said, there are A LOT of things in the data that never make it live
especially in alpha
most of the other things in that spell id range seem to be 10.1.5 or 10.2 content, although that doesn't necessarily mean much by itself
They do backfill unused IDs, afaik, and there's quite a few other warrior spells in that area that are new
As well as some delve stuff
It could be a discontinued arms/prot hero tree concept
Oh definitely rolling warrior for remix so I can do this in TWW
Oh wait nvm I didn’t read that fully
ptr is working now
but characters from remix are locked
so idk if they figured the problems out
If it's more stable then it's at least progress, I guess
My already-converted remix character isn't locked
Neither is a level 10 I hadn't converted
oh wait no, it is, just doesn't tell you til you try to login
Not seeing anything new around valdrakken or bel'ameth
I can't remember if this guy was here before, at the bel'ameth docks, but ties in to the new boat to gilneas
Does seem to be some confusion over whether it's named the moonlit rose or Rutheran's reminiscence
report it?
waiting to see what the boat is saying
one of the crew was moonlit rose before, might have all been changed
Yeah, all updated to moonlit rose
shame, I liked the rutheran's name more
I guess this is a more hopeful name though
rip
pain
no alpha build yet though, so presumably no invite wave?
Same 🙃
Build probably tomorrow
Wonder if we will get the next zone
I assume they want to test the airlock tech asap just to make sure it scales well
Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a larger wave
Actually
Ion said weekly builds to test each zone.
And after all 4 zones and dungeons are available beta will start
They’ll want to test passing between the capital and underground
So they might lock the quests from the first zone, maybe
Idk - dynamic flying makes that hard
I bet they either don’t lock it or just encrypt the quests so they can’t be done
And leave the zone open
DF didn’t have massive airlocks between the capital/first zone and the second one
what do you mean
as far as i saw, there was only one entrance and i assume the ceiling is rock
Isle of Dorn and the other three zones are separate instances similar to Dragon Isles and Zaralek afaik, just in reverse
the only entrance i found to ringing depths was from the city
like, you hit a loading screen and you're pretty much insta teleported to SW/Org
it was so quick i didn't know what happened the first time lol
Was there a vendor build?
yeah on monday
In reality there won’t be a loading screen
It’s gonna be like zaralek
And since it’s loading into and from a capital city, they’ll want to do heavy testing of that to make sure it works
Especially because it’s more vertical than zaralek
So momentum plays a bigger role in both directions
Yeah I agree, they will definitely keep the city open but I’m not sure about the actual zone around it
We will see
do you guys think dragonflight being the base leveling will mean they get rid of the 'choose your zone' thing like they did in SLs?
Probs
oh, 10.2.7 ptr updated
ptr realms are up again at least
Have they said anything about the “new holiday event” that’s on the roadmap?
no
Word
uh oh
What do you mean
i don't really want to say anything since i'm sure it's meant to be encrypted
yeah and it wasn't here before
Hmm yeah I wouldn’t blame you to keep it under wraps
i regret posting anything lol
I would just report it as bug and see what happens
Haha delete the message if you still can
i can but then it looks bad
I don’t think Blizz monitors this discord channel anyways lol
oh well
like you saw the cinematic??
no
oh
well what ever it was I missed the fun
well yes
there's a bit of a silent agreement to not try and get past things that are supposed to be encrypted
and definitely not try to crack any encryption
oh if the 11.1 raid was datamined I missed that too lol
no it's pre patch stuff
yeah, an icon and a weapon model
oh
prepatch its not that big of a deal
it looks kinda shitty to me already
just another invasion and rares to kill
gonna suck to collect all the mog but I will
more so pre patch story
bro i did it for the DF prepatch event, and then all the transmog came back in DF
well, its up to you, but in my opinion, if we already know that khadgar dies because they put that fucking yellow text then nothing matters anymore
Bellular already put a video out that the prepatch video is Azeroth reliving traumatic things
Like she's having a nightmare or something
content creators had full access to the prepatch event during the media weekend
even the story?
I'm not sure about the quests, but Bellular knew enough that it was Azeroth reliving things
see that's why i'm hesitant
no
oh, ok
i still don't know what triggered it because it's not here on another chracter
yeah it must be some obscure thing cuz none of my other chracters can see it
i would but if it's not showing, it's for a reason, i'm sorry
fair
Was it involving Magister Umbric or something?
aw i think i saw something about npcs
fine fine fine
oh, I saw his name earlier today on the mmo-c thread
People spectulate he's there for Khadgar's stuff
man
someone found it already
i feel dumb now
but yea i found him in game, no model yet
don't we all
going to wowpedia now
ex council of six
oh, are you talking about the various cube guys in Dalaran? Yeah they've been there for a while
Aethas and Umbric are there too for some reason
well, no, this is on alpha, on ptr the archmages are down in the same room
We know part of the plot is Kalecgos is retiring
That said, Drenden has been missing since WC3 no?
so i assume what i'm seeing is the "state" after the prepatch quests but before launch
that's what wowpedia says
pressumed dead after archimonde destroyed dalaran
unless one of them has a title like council of six I imagine it's not that big a deal yet
Is this in dalaran like the ptr version?
alpha version
Like but is it the same dalaran we see in the ptr for dark heart?
Like we see all the archmages and one encrypted model
no
new build today likely?
Based on Zorbrix twitter (lead game producer) they took a 3 day weekend after launching alpha and getting season 4 finalized (although there are still a lot of bugs in the live game lol). I could see a build today but they might be taking their time with this one.
Oh, no blizzcon 😦
Probably wouldn't be a lot to announce at it
I'm sure later in the year (winter) we'll just get another roadmap
I imagine they can't talk about midnight until halfway through tww
im having a hard time choosing what i wanna play on S4, any idea?
Class wise?
I’ve never healed in any xpac really pac but if it’s something you want to take into TWW I would look into hero talents
bandage warrior for S4
Also take into consideration what you’d like to do for MoP remix if it’s something you’re gonna do
I would say destro warlock is pretty fun imo I’m leveling an alt right now
yeah i was thinking about that, im playing monk on remix so not playing monk on S4
Yeah I’m going warrior, monk and Druid in MoP and maybe evoker if I have time.
alpha realms just went down
checks launcher every 5 seconds
Yeah, the only thing they could announce at this Blizzcon is what, MoP classic? 😄
maybe 11.1 patch? but still not a lot
alpha servers down
im waiting for stormbringer, and archon
and warlock changes
if they manage to make affliction medicore instead of being dogwater, im all in.
You have alpha access?
Ah
you have convinced me, I'm going to play warlock
Hallowfall alone is gonna decide whether or not I reroll paladin
So far it’s REALLY making me want to
well you have another week to go
sorry for the ping idk why it replied to you, i was replying to taukkens thing about hallowfall - discord mobile is finnicky
anywho, still really curious whats gonna end up going on with the crystal. we cant just have a giant light crystal in azeroth's crust and not have it be important
kinda hoping its related to An'she. Maybe its a part of him that fell onto azeroth when he was wounded.
My advice is don’t roll affliction. It’s not very enjoyable from what I’ve heard. If you want nice bursts go destro or if you want your pets to do the work go demonology.
i've always enjoyed the fantasy of the warlock
i just feel like it's a "slow" class
that is probably because i don't know the class enough
Like slow movement wise or slow rotation wise?
slow rotation
Gotcha. I mean, destro isn’t that bad, and hell I’d say the massive chaos bolt hits make up for it
Yeah for sure coming from my shadow priest main it definitely feels slower. Like chaos. Lot is a 2 second cast. Obviously I need some more haste in my life but he’s only lvl 31
i just want dots
but i dont want to be a bookchicken to do it
and shadow is......sus.
their hero talents so far look terrible
like, the worst i've seen
Voidweaver?
yeah
i think it's really cool
Yeah I think voidweaver is dope
weird
Have you chosen a race for your warlock yet?
Well won’t really have a real opinion until I play it
well i see it requires void torrent
so its going to force shadowpriests to spec into void torrent
and lower the cooldown of it
Voidweaver got me respeccing my disc priest to shadow, I think it looks fun
Tbh hero talents are gonna change a lot. What matters most to me is the fantasy. I think all around most of the hero talents fantasy wise are freakin solid. That said, I’m saying this as a Devastation player who’s looking at Paladin. Both classes having literal S+ tier hero talents so
Maybe not warrior tho… but that’s another thing
didnt sp go for void torrent in like every build anyway?
ive played sp since s1
and never not had it
Basically
I honestly like void torrent. Pair it with shadow crash/ and dots for some great aoe damage
i have my warlock at lvl 63, undead
We already have a name for the Crystal. It's Beledar
Shadow not taking void torrent hits the same cord to me as another hunter taking barrage
I just groan internally
unless they added more complexity or abilities to sp it feels incredibly barebones without torrent
So we know the crystal is a Naaru ship of some sort
Is it?
maybe i actually play shadow then
is a nice short and pretty dope looking ability that hits hard and is very much needed to break the monotony that is current sp
WE IN BOYS
I have to wonder if the Bel in Beledar is at all related to the Bel in Bel'Ameth
I guess so
Praying
some time in the last 30 odd minutes
All Naaru ships we know of end in -dar Exodar Xenedar, etc
So if the crystal is Beledar
The one thing I hate about SP is mind games - totally useless spell I don’t even include it in my rotation
Is that the crystal’s name?
it's not useless, it's an alright chunk of damage and a decent amount of insanity
does this mean its doing 120% of spell power max 8 times?
better filler than mind spike
Pretty sure that's what I read was datamined.
or each of the 8 times is 120% spell power?
What if one of the early Titan experiments to purge the void corruption of the Old Gods was to just stab it with a big ship made of Light stuff 
Oh. I thought beledar was the night elf name for An’she. Maybe I’m confused
so 8 x 120% is 960%?
I mean shit when has that ever failed
Okay maybe not completely useless but I’ve found my DPS is much better when it’s not in my rotation compared to when it is
key part is up to 8 times
Tbf the Titans do a lot of trial and error. Sometimes technical troubleshooting can be very dumb
afaik you don't get anywhere near 8 without already being in an AOE situation
new Alpha invites!
Alright I’m opening the launcher wish me luck 🤞
i might actually do shadow if they dont fix affliction.
H onestly, they should of just left legion affliction alone, it was fun. They've pretty much been on a downward spiral since then.
What's Shadow's highest damaging ability in a single target fight?
Probably shadow word: death when it procs
Let me double check
I mean, at the end of the boss fight.
lol
I'm not sure if details tracks them separately, I think they're combined but maybe there's options for it
No alpha for me. Maybe next week
oh the build isn't even out yet, no wonder servers are still down
New #Warcraft build found:
Beta (wow_beta): 11.0.0.54311 --> 11.0.0.54361
Found at: 04-25-2024@09:06:01 UTC
lets go
oh hey, a build
time for datamining!
The War Within Alpha has been updated with Alpha #2, build 54361. NEW ZONES AND DELVES The Ringing Deeps NEW DUNGEONS The Stonevault Darkflame Cleft NEW ALLIED RACE Earthen CHARACTER LEVEL Developers’ note: With each phase, we encourage players to make a new template character and avoid using their previous characters as they could po...
notes
servers are up too
god damnit they ruined it
get this shit out of my spec, worst thing to happen to it
😮
So much new info since last week i feel overwhelmed
malefic rapture just kills the spec for me
rip, no city this week
It's still not glad spec 
magni got new vo
Oh I hope that’s a trans mog someday
DOC OCK?
Gdi... client update.... cata classic. *beta
Thanks blizz
..
ok not having any dragonflying talents is a really, really awful experience
the script to open the window doesn't work on alpha :(
some day blizz will save settings after you change them, rather than on logout, so disconnects don't wipe any changes
That helm is badass
Also, translucent veil???
crazy theyre trippling down on that
Is it insane to expect a dot spec to do dot damage
they can figure out the numbers dont care
they make changes for fire to address ignite and their other aoe spells
They can put the same effort here
kik
I got alpha!
Nice, and there are plenty of bugs to report too!
Damn, treasure basilisk is a new basilisk model
That’s like the 3rd in the past decade and the giraffes still look like shit XD
when was the last time giraffes even appeared?
I know
Still tho
It’s one of the only remaining WC3 models
Unrelated - they still haven’t updated the brewmaster tree which is odd
But master of harmony is available so I’m excited to try that when I get home later tonight!
Not mine
bad guy
it didn't used to go dark
and when it's all voidy bad things happen
all the wax
Really liking the kobold quests so far
oh no there's a pipes minigame
I love pipes mini games
help my brain is smooth and there's an NPC blocking the quit button
figured it out
guess it ends up being a toy
I have a feeling this quest will be a little divisive
Some more neat kobold quests but I can't finish them cause they send you back to the earlier zone which is blocked off for now
CHAMPIEN
the ability by itself is dope class fantasy too
literally making ur curses explode
hoping to see the dk stuff in the next few weeks 
How’s alpha build 2 for my lucky comrades out there
Haven’t gotten home yet
oh, the time rift vendors are back
booo, the trinkets are explorer only
I guess you'll just get a chest with the 480 gear next week and the vendor stuff is just "back up"
The warlock tier set for TWW is… interesting to say the least
just got home - can confirm alpha
its only partial
not finished
Oh ok
Glad you got in faster this time
wait, that's real?, i thought it was a meme
ayy nice!
Watching toweliees stream right now. Gosh the ringing deeps looks amazing
Even as the most “basic cave” type of zone its geometry is so fantastical and looks so good
it's bugged I think
there was a script but they disabled it
FUCK
when you unlock a flightpoint you get a little banner, also the flightmasters have fancy abovehead icons
apparently flight path guys can refill your vigor?
Looks so good
you just need to get to the dragon isles
oh, other people said they couldn't last build
the drop from ringing deeps to anj kahet is INSANE
its like from top of valdrakken to bottom
neat
alliance has trouble, horde can use portal room
looks like the awakening machine in the ringing deeps is going to be its own game system
I was able to use the boat to dragon isles as alliance to get my vigor
REnown track mentions awakening the machine a bunch, but haven't unlocked it yet as the renown levels are bugged and need 42k rep
Not sure if this was in last build but there's a new map icon for lore clickables
it also tracks, so once you've read it the icon goes away
which is interesting
elp
What’s that?
pipe minigame thing
gotta slide around the tiles to connect the inpipe to the outpipe
i love those
i completed that puzzle.
it gave me the item
"pocket lint"
i raged so hard
yeah, but i didnt want to be a plumber for the day for pocket lint
I'd rather [Placeholder DNT]
pocketlint is just mean XD
yooo i loved pipe dream. glad to see i'll get to do it in TWW
looks like DF goes 10-70 now
I noticed this too
I hope they add a lore book to see them again
heh, WQ rewards don't scale down well
would be nice if they fixed that
gear drops are all worthless while leveling
If that's a giant light's heart that can't be a Naaru lol
It's not shaped exactly like a typical Naaru ship though
Could be more to it, the top here doesn't look like something we're intended to see
It's shaped very much like a giant heart
I guess the "This week in wow" previews on monday are fully dead, if that's now what they're calling what used to be blues news on friday
😔
Inconsistency is fun
They must have restructured how they do weekly stuff after a yearly review.
At least I think the this week schedules had been around for a year at that point
Sounds very Scarlety
just remember there are few arathi groups not just one.
You'd imagine the Empire and Emperor is the largest
this book may also be up to 300 years old or so
If we kill the Emperor, I think that's our first of that title to get the chop
Love this… but if I were in alpha, I’d probably report that they shouldn’t be called paladins, given paladins didn’t exist until 3000 years after these humans split off haha
Unless Beledar taught them paladin ways
You'd think it'd be a different word if it was Naaru taught though
They still wouldn’t be called paladins though, they’d be more likely to be vindicators in that case
That’s what I assumed Lamplighter was, their word for paladin basically
Maybe they don't want it to be that obvious there's a live Naaru inside that
it is quite tricky to go there . i will try to see if i can manage f6 it
Hardest thing for me to believe is that they still speak common.
https://www.wowhead.com/beta/npc=222191/knight-elvaen the person who likely to wrote this tome
So it’s not an ancient thing, interesting
Makes me wonder if they have a current emperor or if it’s a deification of Thoradin
I'm personally getting lich vibes
you'd figure the custom light undead models would be used in that case haha
I could see it. Then they reclaim arathi highlands in midnight - could work because of the rework of quel Thalas and possibly the wider region of lordaeron.
That's so adorable.
Would not make any sense
The Menethils are descendants of Arathi nobility
Technically Arathi is already reclaimed by it's current king
But he has no heirs
I feel like we've done the help an exile take control before.
That's basically the Nightborne plot lol
She's part of the council in Dornogal
It isn't really the same
She's part of the main government
do you see a world where they could add some small content between patches in order to present us some new characters?
like, for example, 10.2 comes out, and in week 6, they add a questline that send us to "x" and we do "y" there
Dornogal isn't a central government. The earthen appear to be three drastically different nations and the Speaker was just the representative of the underground group.
We know the society is kinda falling apart when we show up
oh wowhead just posted the big spoilers for the zone quests
so you can get the info there if you want
council
They may be sects within one culture but they're together
Council can mean a lot of things, you wouldn't say the Horde council directly rules the affairs of Thunder Bluff or that Turalyon has any say whatsoever at Bel'Ameth
OK let's take a step back there quick lol
The Horde Council absolutely has the absolute power in the Horde. It's the warchief but with everyone having a say.
The Alliance isn't even one nation. They're just a coalition of sorts, allies sworn to defend eachother.
Dornogal has a council ruling, and they all have very specific jobs. Different sects have different jobs. If they weren't one body then they wouldn't be so segregated
Seems like a caste system
Though it seemed implied or stated (back at blizzcon) that there's one group who seems more like rebels
or Dreadlords xD
Even the warchiefs didn't have absolute say when they existed. The two that tried were both deposed fast
It seems to me that Anduin will be the only main character who will remain in the center throughout the whole saga.
And among the cast will be at least one of his peers acting on the side, if not more.
In Midnight it will be him, the elven leaders and Turalyon, with Vereesa's sons and Arator as main peers. Someone on the Horde side will be active, too.
In The Last Titan it will be him, the Aspects, Jaina and Bolvar (the latter two will most likely die), with Wrathion and Taelia as main peers.
Arator has a strong chance of not even living this expansion
Key word right there. They had the power but the people resisted and overthrew them.
All the power in the world is meaningless if you can't employ it. Thrall and Vol'jin lead the Horde only in military matters primarily.
It was Garrosh and Sylvanas that tried to exceed that purview for their own gains and it lead directly to Garrosh's death and Sylvanas's current penance.
I don't think a single warchief ever had the power to make Silvermoon do anything it didn't want to.
They had all power to command them to do what they want. Whether they did or not is another question.
They did/do have the authority to.
My understanding is Warchief is literally the name, the chief that lead the entire Horde in War matters
Every clan/race has their own leaders still who handled local matters
iuf they decoupled malefic rapture from requiring dots to do its full damage, it would be looked on more favorably.
(Which basically means get rid of Malefic Rapture)
setup for setup feels bad
I'm not sure that's meant to be anything, there's a few things like it in the ringing depths, they're just basically light sources
got invisible walls and everything (except one which just lets you fly out of the map)
https://i.imgur.com/9nWVXd5.jpeg like this
could be a delve
like, a not currently enabled one
theres an elevator with a rusty lever in ringing deeps
and it has a quest
and if you fix it, it provides a new way to return to the isle of dorn
it just teleports you (a bit sad) but its still cool
"Rust and Redemption" is the quest
looks like there are several elevators like that
Ooh okay, then maybe just succeeds because of the no heirs part!
Some VERY BIG spoilers here
https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/78824-unraveling-the-war-within-story-through-datamining/
Weve uncovered portions of the War Within story through datamining! The post obviously contains spoilers so proceed at your own risk! The cutscene and cinematic text is in no particular order here. In-Game Cinematic Movie (IGC): Title: 11.0 [MAG] - Magnis Sacrifice Scene Description: Magni sacrif...
Light Army??
Huh
reading through
seems neat
i think the big crystal in Hallowfall is either The Eternal Flame, or Beledar
some of these npcs arent even in the files yet tho
like Orwena
the cutscenes sound cool tho
i like how there are cinematics leading into dungeons
dungeons didnt play a significant role in dragonflight and it looks like theyre returning to dungeons being part of the story again
especially now that you can do them with npcs
this is the most interesting so far
jaina and thrall are coming in by boat and wont be in dalaran when it is destroyed
we are getting new 2.5D cinematics!
didnt expect lilian to really be present in TWW - interesting choice
It's Orweyna- the Harronir leader
ah so its a typo
And Thrall and Jaina are on dalaran when it crashes, they left to get reinforcements
This is them coming back
ah ok
Yeah typo. I'm real excited to see her
Oh wow another "kill the queen on of the mantis" But this time its spiders
yeah im fairly sure The Eternal Flame is the name of the order of light, since the other guys are The Order of Night
Gorgonna, VossN Geyarah and others are in the files.
This family problems that being solved by players once again
and Beledar is the giant crystal in hallowfall
Interesting Voss is in the nerubian zone
right?
I'm glad to see it because I was a bit...disheartened? By the lack of Horde in the first two
And probably third
lol
Who is Y'tekni?
Or what is that?
The most intriguing parts to me were seeing Thrall and Voss being present made me feel a lot better.
And the earthen intro/unification.
Aurora was mentioned in the intro cutscene for earthen. I wonder if in the end, Dawn and Aurora will be the faction representatives
A high ranking nerubian I assume
what are those?
Voss usually goes by calia and it does make sense calia eill be in hallowsfall . With the light and the risen npcs.
The link above
Calia isn't in the files at all
Voss probably came with the reinforcements that a Theall gathered.
We see many notable leaders and then generic soldiers in the files
like the warbringers cinematics
oh, amazing
Thrall/xala/anduin/alleria i suspect
Didn't they open up ringing deeps on alpha?
I ask because so far i haven't seen much about it. I mostly watch vod stuff on YouTube but... haven't seen it
finding bugs like this are why they bring me in
camera angle can make the zone disappear
yeah, found a few of those
Also nevermind. Hazelnutty vod uploaded for ringing deeps.
Neat looking zone
idk
i dont think i like it?
it feels weirdly empty
some parts are full of life, other parts have no critters or decorations and its just rocks
it feels unfinished i guess
i hope it is
It's alpha so it likely is very empty right now. I think they said the topside was also empty right now bc they don't have all the npc placed
oh neat, speaker brinthe's house has music
I want to tame these weird mole things. But i haven't seen any hunter gameplay
so i did this quest on an alt - because ive already done it on my warband, it shows as a paler color
MJSIC? is it cool?
think so
We know multiple leaders are hearing Azeroth
We already know Talanji is in the bottom zone too
"You, Faerin, and Anduin entered the cave to stop the Order of Night's shadowy ritual to corrupt the Sacred Flame. " It does seem the sacred flame is not the crystal
Odds are we're gonna see a mix of other stuff with the Arathi
At least one quest or achievement will be named "For the night is dark and full of terrors"
I hope icy-veins -will block the hell out for this. Just why? Like, what did people there want to achieve with this? What was the goal????
As the one who recently finished re-reading all of the material somewhat circling around Anduin's character
I swear if I see one Azor Ahai prophecy from the Arathi
||IT HURTS how much of an obvious "future love interest" she is, it's not even funny||
||I had doubts given the lack of info about her, but this||
Sacrificed himself what for? 👀
im willing to bet she was a placeholder for orwenya
dont think theres been any evidence of talanji in the expac so far
yeah there is no talanji npc, items, quests, icons, or anything
this is the talanji image
its 100% orweyna
probably used talanji as a placeholder
this is orweyna's model
the fact that she has a unique model certainly puts her in a significant role this expac
found it
@deep pawn
100% an orweyna placeholder
Aww, I was hoping for some Talanji and Loa stuff
I wonder if these are gonna be dark trolls or void trolls haha
Dark trolls come from primal trolls that popped off somewhere somehow
So probably void trolls lolz
Those new trolls?
I think they are a byproduct of troll getting too close of Elune's tree roots. Proto night elves I guess, influenced by life magic
||anduin gonna face jailer moment but with Xal'atath this time lmao||
||To let us escape the nerubians (they were about to destroy the ship we escape on), Varian 2.0, only he is not seen actually killed||
Nonono
He had similar moment when he sacrificed him self: maked shield so everyone can escape from the maw through the portal
Everyone was thinking that he is ded at first but no
This is a weak narrative tool used there. I mean, he just returned, its the first part of the expansion, we know he won't die, so what's the point of this turn of event ?
Blizzard being blizzard
My friend joked that in this expac anduin will became bad
In midnight he will be one of big bad but then we will beat shit out of him and he will return back to light
And with that writing i mean
Ain’t no shot
Ugh please don't be repeating the baddie is collecting the named chars plot.
Yes I know that lasted a total of 2 hours in Shadowlands but still.
"this ritual requires an arcane and divine caster!"
Anduin collects those like others collect gear. He's up to Wrathion, Taelia, and now someone else? Taelia still makes more sense being the child of Anduin's childhood guardian.
Wrathion was entirely fans
same with Taelia tbh
oh no - a person interacts with anduin and has voice acting, they must want to be anduin's love interest!
main characters dont have love stories in wow
those only happen when the character isnt the story focus
And this Arathi is probably gonna be fans too. Unless Anduin falls in love in a book and 12.0 has his wedding short story /s
i dont think he will end up in a relationship
and if he does, itll be someone who matters or someone who REALLY doesnt
I forget, Thrall fell in love in a book right and Aggra just showed up in Cata?
Except the wedding
Oh that was a fun patch, people hated it
If I remember the Thrall wedding was the entire quest of a patch and alliance was furious
we wont get a full romance
we might get some stuff with lorthemar in the next expac
or the one after?
but we wont get a NEW romance in game
I suppose we could see Anduin being all "there will be no more king" and try to transition to a Republic.
dont think thats a priority either
we are going from TWW to Northrend
so the focus will be on northrend
i dont see us revisiting stormwind until 12.X
Otherwise his lack of an heir in a very dangerous world kinda will be an issue eventually
since that patch will involve blood elf areas and silvermoon is close-ish to stormwind
except they can just appoint people
plus turalyon is in charge currently
and genn has a child
Usually that type of appointment involves civil wars.
Tess won't suddenly become queen of Stormwind
she might if turalyon, genn, and anduin cant
I still can't wait for the Trollbanes to meet the Arathi Emperor or his heir if we have to end him.
arent the trollbanes dead?
One is a Horseman, and I think there's another still in charge.
theyre not gonna matter
the arathi are in hallowfall
youre creating scenarios that arent going to playout
I'm gonna bet they will think they deserve to rule the surface now that the way is fully open again.
You don't have an expansionistic empire with an emperor that deified that isn't a problem eventually.
what evidence do we have of them being expansionists?
because they were thousands of years ago?
youre inventing things to fit the story you want
none of the datamined stuff hints at any of what youre saying
it appears right now the primary focus for hallowfall will be a sect who believes in the light, and the Order of Night who are siding with the void
and we are probably going to be working on stabilizing the crystal thing
has anyone found the underhold or whatever delve
hold on
i dont think there are any delves in the ringing deeps currently
like - enabled
so theyre probably closed off like they will be during delve rotations
There's that book of a paladin who's entire goal is to spread the empire and it's light to every chasm of the underground
this is the map
looks nerubian
so - we might not have access at all
it's listed under ringing depths
The Arathi are a militaristic religious group.
dont jump to conclusions - just wait a week. the story will be live next week
yeah i know, they changed the name to The Underkeep
oh, well they kept the map name
so
¯_(ツ)_/¯
there is no underkeep map
not that it matters much since brann's ui is throwng lua errors now lol
my guess is its in the bottom right corner - the pink area
i'm assuiming that most of his stuff is NYI
or needs him to be a higher level, but i think unlocking stuffup to level 8 and then nothing after means NYI
nvm delves ARE working
yeah but only that one and maybe the onei can't find
@dense plover this is the book that makes me think the Arathi are a bit of zealous expansionists
wasnt that guy literally dying?
You think he is just delirious and that's not the type of fervor we should be expecting from a society that's built entirely around fighting "the shadow"?
You can level up to 75 i think.
if you take the "get hero talents" option you get capped at 73
if you just take the regular teleport to zone option you can level from 73 to 75
thats wild because none of the quests are giving me xp
OH WAIT
i know whats happening
when you teleport back to the zone, it resets your xp to 0
nope nvm
my characters xp is just broken
turns out fearbreaker is wow's mjolnir
and moira is the new wielder
reward for the questline
hopefully that's a world quest tri nket too
think ive done all the quests i can do
the rest require returning to the isle of dorn or moving forward to hallowfall
i dont love this zone
but i think it might also be me suffering from confusion caused by missing cutscenes and also the previous zone's story
i definitely think the visuals need work
the back half of the zone feels unfinished
any ideas for what i should test before next thursday?
Professions?
professions dont seem particularly functional yet
that looks like a new model tbh
oh okay i thought i read somewhere some are partially functional
alchemy and enchanting is fully I think.
yepp thats a rare that can be found in Uldum
Haven’t seen the model before, fits in well tho
i think it looks cool tho
Nice crab 🦀
+1
you can highlight yourself.
Its old. Several with different colors at start of nighthold raid
well we know it now.. but i found this sound file. of magni
and our most beloved word
looks like the stockades map lol
Danath is in the files and seemingly arrives with the reinforcements alongside stromic troops
He got a snazzy new MOG too
Nice, I knew they'd have to be involved somehow
Now if Thoras can take some time off being a DK pet...
Pet??? He's one of the Four Horsemen what are you on about this time
The Rider of the Apocalypse stuff are essentially just fancy looking pet summons haha
The 4 horsemen are literally dk pets, sorry, guardians, in TWW
Are there any Hallowfall/Azjkahet story-related voice lines available currently?
hard to check
nearly no voice files are in
I think all we have really is the story recaps
There's some unencrypted stuff
hmm, childrens week is live but none of those datamined holiday assets with the patchwork rainbow decorations have been added
or any updates at all, it seems
maybe the art was just done at the same time as the rest, and they plan to update it later?
Maybe. I remember reading they extended the duration by 3 days. Maybe it’ll update with the reset? That would be unusual tho.
Blizzard is going to Gamescom this year
wings feel a bit weak to me but I like all the regular stuff
And I do like the wings, it's just they're a recolour of just one bit of the faerie dragon store set
I like the trading post but this is a very summer/ fall theme and confuses me since they usually try to be thematic
woo, I get to save tenders cause no mounts I want
bug but you can skyriding in Dreadscar rift and Skyhold
I would’ve liked the wings to include multiple colors
The prices are still kinda crazy
Wish the weapons weren’t 200-300 each
That should be the cost of a set of weapons, not one weapon
Unrelated - new dev build on wowdev
Maybe we will get the next deploy before Thursday
¯_(ツ)_/¯
dobut it, it was the same last week, dev on monday
they want a week for each zone
I could see them moving the alpha patch earlier, it's not like there's a whole lot to test right now
Let it rip.
There really isn’t - a lot of the ringing deeps stuff is stuck because it requires going to the Isle of Dorn
Plus there's fewer other deployments going on this week
And a bunch of other stuff is rep locked
Eh, it's only a couple side quest bits that go to dorn
Like whatever the awakening machine stuff is
rep needing 42k/level is funny though
I don’t think so - the kobolds are half of the rep quests
you can actually do the awakening the machine event, but it's set to level 80 (and you need a bunch of rep to get more power in it anyway)
There better be an achievement for flying into the big glowing gem that's totally not Gorribal.
I don’t think you can actually fly to it
D'oh.
It’s either part of the skybox or just too far I think
I could be wrong
We never did find the third delve, did we? @silent urchin
I hope you can fly into it and take death times a thousand damage.