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just WoW being old AND an mmo we wouldn't be able to feasibly have it
something interesting after replaying some legion DK stuff, is that the lich king straight up at the start goes "lets go hunt some dreadlords"
which considering the eventual reveals in shadowlands feels like funnily aged lore to me
I think it is funny (maybe curious is the right word?) that Blizz has different philosophies for different classes:
For example, Frost DK just got a rework in Ghosts of K'aresh that gave us THREE new buttons: one that gives a guaranteed Killing Machine proc (which is great) and an AoE "Obliterate" (Frostscythe is mandatory now) and an AoE "Frost Strike" (Glacial Advance is baseline now). Apparently this design goes on to Midnight.
Meanwhile, Havoc DH, which in live has the pretty much same rotation for ST and AoE (unless you go Aldrachi Reaver hero tree), will lose access/option to THREE skills in Midnight: Sigil of Flame, Sigil of Spite and Fel Eruption (which is stun/utility!!!).
Go figure...
Ofc, Havoc do not have all talents yet, but these active abilities are gone
to be faiirrr
sigil of flame doesn't really have a fit in havoc
that was originally a vengeance ability, and it fits with vengeance way more
and sigils as a whole imo
it's like how blood dk has gorefiend grasp
tanks get more utility because they're tanks
I do think havoc DH desperately needs to have its jank movement stuff removed or fixed
and given maybe just something else to build towards
because I think it's genuinely the most basic builder spender
you don't even have an AOE option available to you all the time
they wanna make vengeance the sigil user no?
but overall utility got pruned didnt it
exception being evokers keeping everything lol
i wonder if theyre a lil late on them
no
utility wasnt pruned pretty much at all
all they are pruning is the abilities where you use them to let you use other abilities
it does need it. Movement should just be movement, not an ability tied in a dps rotation. Maybe felblade and VR can be kept but even those two are problematic
It would also solve the wonky boss encounter where you cant move and thus can't dps
( I'm looking at you, sludgefist HM )
most of our skills are AOE / cleave ... -_-
i understand they wanna add native "addons" to game to make it easier for all players - thats okay, understandable
but on the other hand, why dont they let all the addons useable like before? whats the point of making them unavailable?
The issue rn is that , as far as I know, the Havoc rework is not even finished, because with all the utility, sigil and stuff removed, Aldrachi Reaver cannot work anymore unless it's fixed. All the soul generation talent are for vengeance, sigil of flame that triggered Student of suffering for fel scarred is no more... and it was a mastery boost for DPS... I don't even know how it can work anymore. Without soul generation, you don't have reaver glaive, without reaver glaive, all the Aldrachi Heroc spec is impossible to play.
I do not understand why they decided to give aldrachi to vengeance, when it naturally fits the other two better
Ik name wise it fits veng because artifact but mechanically it’s weird
For annihilation it could have been the more melee swapping hero choice, and for havoc the more glaive oriented choice
new alpha build
yup
hopefully fixing the gear drops and maybe housing exterior customization?
new zone either way
I'm more concerned with them adding more hero and apex talents
oh yeah - they also need to finish the DH class tree lol
no specific dev notes yet
Visions of Shadowed Sun. 🌒
she sounds like she's been through STUFF
(more stuff than she's already been through)
we dont fully know the circumstances
i assume we visit her in the maw to check on her
yea
With Arator, yes
servers are up - housing may crash your game
can you post screenshots or anything regarding this?
No screenshots, just some NPC triggers
still no official dev notes
we'll be going with Arator to K'aresh and the Maw in addition to the Dalaran stuff with Vereesa
ah cool
good thing thats the focus this week
Yeah that’s why I commented
Cause Zul is a mix of both old and completely new
so many sound alert options now
welp cant get to silvermoon with the portal
guess i gotta do this manually
oh its because im desynced
relogging fixed it
reset stuff that i had to redo so i logged off to make sure it sticks
welp - guess theyre definitely out allies for now
zulaman delve - right inside the entrance gate
atalaman
sorry
story description is almost certainly a placeholder or temporary
tried to load - DCed
oh
servers crashed
😬 hope that wasnt my fault
they mightve been taken offline to deploy a housing fix
since they had to completely close housing off
Atal'blin? Gob'aman?
again, definitely a placeholder or temp story
Yaasssss
first area of the zone has a sub area - which i assume lines up with the raid?
roughly?
it has music
but i think its old music?
probably going to be the hub for the zone once we clear the bad guys out
Eager to see the story
cool visuals in the zone from this nasty ogre
ok got to FP - checking out housing changes
That's really cool
All that elven stuff is so nice
ignore the float - plot height is broken
these are all the options i have right now
That's neat!
did some decorating - stuffs a bit broken still - scale is a bit wonky on some stuff, some items can be placed a bit outside the plot and my plot grid is messed up so i cant place things without using advanced mode (same reason my house is floating)
Are you able to ctrl+click housing items in vendors to see them full size, like with mounts and armor?
not yet but that is planned
they JUST added a WIP catalog that shows all available items and i think is supposed to show where to get them
but its VERY WIP
like, full of lua errors and doesnt really work yet
The houses on the Horde plots resemble porta-potties quite closely. I almost feel bad for the Horde. 
Let's just say Belf and neutral exteriors will be more popular
as lady waycrest said, they are made of dung
RIP
Guess the Revantusk got absolutely wrecked
<ref name=Lil>{{text|says|Lilaju|We Revantusk lost our elders an' our village because of the Twilight's Blade, including me grandfaddah. I lead the Revantusk now.}}</ref>
I'm still not sure how I feel about Blizzard thinking Remix can carry almost all of retail for the next 3 months
Housing coming on Dec 2
If you preorder. I just don't like remix replacing current expansion content I guess
would you have preferred a season 4 with reused raids?
I mean you can go play smth else in the meantime
I liked s4...
which is ok
I'm just saying that is most likely the alternative to remix
because remix can't really run alongside normal content
otherwise they'd conflict the playerbase on what to do
yeah
I already feel like remix has massively hurt retail. My guild group barely got together this week
Its probably because legion wasn't as nostalgic for me as MoP but I'm having a lot less fun
I’m having a blast
Legion was one of my favorites and I really enjoyed MoP remix
If you are on heroic, try not doing that
I don’t find heroic to be very fun while leveling
i kind of feel the same as Kyle. Im not as nostalgic for legion. MoP felt a little more exciting to be in
Really just using it for leveling since I own most of the raid/dungeon sets and some of the mounts
Well i mean legion remix literally just came out. People are gonna be grinding the shit out of it so they can get their mounts and transmogs
Once that’s done people will go back to retail. It’s at least something to do versus the old cadence of an 8 month content drought
Blizzard disabling far sight on the alpha is mean lmao
I just wanted to look at the high elf hub
theyre hiding the patch zone lol
(not really)
I mean I get why they aren't hiding it because an island like that doesn't make sense to suddenly appear
But I'm so sad we aren't going to Azuremyst in 12.1
I don't remember how early into Legion we knew about Return to the Broken Shore and Tomb of Sargeras.
So there's precedence to have the patch zone visible at launch
I'm curious how the hell fel, plague, or venom is going to feel like a pressing threat if the Sunwell gets broken after March
Cause clearly we aren't beating Xal in season 1.
I agree they'll need a void break, but there's a lot of work for me to buy a loa or some trolls to be on par with Xal and the Dark Heart
tbf, patch zone changed pretty significantly
Oh I can’t wait to test out some housing on the ptr
I’m curious with 11.2.7 if it will come with crafting too?
For housing items
Never mind it says it in the post
They have less leeway this time since 12.1 will be on ptr by July or something
I'm surprised that Blizzard hadn't decided on the talents we're getting by July
I guess getting the reworks done first did take priority
Apex talents?
I still don’t really know how it’s gonna work I gotta read up on it lol
I'm sure they were discussing what power to give players each level but it still feels weird they hadn't decided as recent as 2 months before reveal
Yeah it’s a little weird for sure
I remember when they announced hero talents they were pretty consistent with pumping out the skill trees
I’m assuming stuff will come out as more phases unlock in alpha
Apex talents will be fully in by phase 4 and I would hope hero talents too
As I understand we get the 10 points and we can spend them in any tree?
not implemented =/= not decided
they still need to actually code stuff and implement and decide if its fun internally
At the very least it wasn't named before Scarizard left
well, realistically those are left to each class design lead probably
They don't have class leads. The current lead class designer keeps a lot quieter profile than Holinka did.
I just figured 2 months before reveal they'd have had a more solid idea of the major combat additions to an expansion lol
.5 together with turbo boost was dumb
it should have remained a final patch thing leading up to the pre patch
You mean this season or season 2?
remix
I certainly don't feel as powerful/ broken as i did in mop remix
I'm hoping they'll change it some
theres timegating so
I feel decently strong as a tank
I'm not even 600 ilvl yet
I don't like power scaling being tied to doing lore master though
In mop well before max it felt strong. Even as low as lv30. But this feels not much different than retail
I did Loremaster in original Legion
Eh, at least with details I felt strong as a tank
A solid 30-50% of my kit is the artifact traits
New alts won't feel as op this time
Because you don't start off any stronger
🤣🤣🤣
Remarkable creature.
Depend on ur class. I have little issue with my dh. Except for those legion emissary popping on obelisks
Undertuned mobs that one shot everything
I am missing the effects we got in mop remix
The artifact powers aren’t that interesting
Feels kinda weird that my Dks best ability afaik is the life one where you summon a stampede
🤨
Interesting if they’re bringing him back so soon even if it is less direct
Like him trying to send a message through to us as a B plot
I was fully expecting him to come falling from the sky like a shooting star in tlt, burnt up and broken
I think it'll be more like he's coming as a warning and a tease of burning legion / titans.
I almost expect the return of Denathrius as the new master of the BL ( before sargeras is released )
Ohhh, I hope Sylvanas and Illidan at least chat during Midnight or TLT!!! 🤩
Missed opportunity during Legion
I'm quite confused about what the Titanforged are doing right now.
I mean... Odyn was a bit involved into defending Azeroth during Legion, but none of the titans construct are here to defend Azeroth from the void ?
Could it be that Xal ultimate goal is NOT to corrupt Azeroth, but to threaten her enough for the titans to come down and wreck them ?
Which would explain why Iridikron sided with her to begin with ( since I don't think he would agree with the full corruption of Azeroth )
Maybe "the last titan" is the only surviving one after she kills them all. That could be fun
yooooooo I need that Vereesa fit
They deserve one crossover action sequence
I hope they kill each other 8|
Instead it'll be "oh sylvanas we've moved on and learned forgiveness, come live in belameth"
The amount a fan service that could be condensed into sylvanas and illidan fighting a horde of void or titan stuff is insane
Might be for lorewalking
I mean the Sunwell exists because of the vials he took
We'll know whenever 11.2.7 ptr comes up cause that'll have the Quel'thalas history
And in a way they’re both victims of the dreadlords plans
In a long form convoluted way
changing the defaults to A and D after 21 years feels weird
I know it's bad but I don't wanna switch, I'm used to it
Huh wdym
"Default behaviors for A and D have been changed from turning to strafe. On login, existing players may be prompted with a choice to set their movement keys to use strafe or keep them to turn their character."
I presume the new tutorial will teach camera turning
Huh, default is turning?!
Always has been
can't imagine playing with tank controls like that 😭
must have blocked it out of my memory
I think the Devourer Demon Hunter is pretty interesting.
When did alleria become ranger general as wowhead mentioned it again but I could of sworn she was never one ?
She briefly was between the mother and sylvanas wasnt she?
Nah she never got it because she is a poor shot
It went to someone else no ?
Halduron Brightwing
Is the current one
There is another alleria the mother but that is not our alleria though
She never got it because she abdicated on her own terms
So why did the wowhead article call her ranger general then in the recent one
Only her portrait for Midnight pre-order is named that
She only was Ranger Captain of Quel'thalas
Mb she's ranger general of something else??.. (like Vereesa is RG of Silver Covenant)
Yeah so how do we make it know to the author of the article it's a mistake ?
possibly things happen between the launch of midnight and the raid fight that she takes up the title, i'm assuming the raid journal is what you are talking about
I mean the only alleria that is RG is the mother of the sisters
Hmm yeah @upper pasture
That be a poor mistake given she is a poor shot and disobeys her king
i mean, she's not a poor shot anymore /shrug
She missed a shot that if sylvanas would of took would not have missed
And could of prevented everything that happened
and then we'd have no expansion nor developing story. how fun that would have been
I mean we could a calm before a storm expansion ( like DF but even so )
Noooooooo. Ive been reloading your page like crazy 😂
Do you think you'll do the panda heritage after?
Tomorrow, probably
gonna do the Midnight intro on alpha first
I must see da Lady
I've got all the Sylvanas bits of the questline starting here https://x.com/Portergauge/status/1976790780619768321

Watch Blizzard be the Titans are the Olympians who overthrew the first ones haha
I do agree the first ones seem oddly ordered for a group that was above all forces
I still don't believe the Titans are actually the order pantheon but more on the level of old gods
Titan Order is unnatural compared to the Celestial balance.
That's not what Sylvanas is suggesting here
My personal idea is Azeroth is the real “First One” who created these forces but let them figure their own selves out.
Aman’thul being a dick organized a conspiracy to overthrow her resulting in her going into hiding where she was then found and contained within the worldcore
I’m so happy they’re not shying away from shadowlands and “fixing” what they can
I speak of an ancient power, one that thrived long before the titans set foot upon creation.
My only problem is the tech of the Zereths is unlike anything the Titans have done in reality nor do they use music like the First Ones or Azeroth/K'aresh
Is ptr still down?
Is she saying death is usually chaotic and not ordered
no, just that what we see stinks of being ordered.
Oh so dope
I’m not hating but they do seem to use these two skeletons quite a bit
so long as it can fly
The first ones are combined order to me
Light, arcane and death
Their aesthetic is those things combined
And also it makes a nice triangle on the cosmology map
And because life, chaos and void seem like a good anti order
I think its not the titans but the constellar that manipulated all everything. We know that each titans got " constellar designates "during the Argus fight ( designate by whom? )
Its even possible that the titans are not even titans but are engineered by constellars who seeds planet and wait them to mature. I find it odd that the titans are the only " pantheon " member being constructed outside of their own realms
And there is the constellar Rygelon casually walking into Zereth Mortis ' sepulcher which is... sus
Yes, and that is why I dislike her. Imagine a being who would burn the World Tree, then dare to question the Great Cycle.
I still believe she was set up by elune who needed souls for her sister
How do I access the 11.2.7 ptr?
I have it selected, but it takes me to Midnight beta servers
I don't think Elune is necesarrily evil
I just think she is the closest thing to a first one we have, and is basically being used by the order pantheon as a political tool to spread order
she represents all the things the first ones have shown similarities to, light, order (arcane), and death
and her being conveniently married away to the life domain, when we have hints that the titans are trying to BIND life
because yes elune is in the life plane we think, but she is definetly not a creature of life
her sister represents life in the death realm, it only makes sense she'd represent death in the life realm.
I really think Aman'thul could have went back in time and subdued all the first ones ( like the greek gods VS the titans ) and locked them up somewhere, like Azeroth. The Titans are not the Titans, they are usurper, and the Last Titan is truly Azeroth
after all, they aren't called BALANCE druids for nothing
Elune's philosophy has always been to allow for mortal life to flourish under her watch as it was intended to
she only puts her thumb on the scale when things unnatural happen that would ruin that balance
but she does not shy awawy from letting mortals die if she sees it as necessary or something not to be intervened in
elune might just be a child of Azeroth that was locked up in the plane of life like her sister in the plane of Death. Those may be akin to Tartarus itself for them
hell the night warrior can be viewed as her reaper form
Can I give a hot take that I actually really like they didn’t go the cuthulu route with the void
It should be more cosmic and alien, the tentacles and eyes is for the old gods: these are a separate enemy
The new void aesthetic is awesome. Lovecraftian ideas and aesthetics were holding them back from making cool stuff
Side note- I’m definitely looking to much into this but it is interesting
The bardiches they released in the traders posts not too long ago literally name dropped Voidstorm, but the description talks about the energies of Telogrus permeating the blade - could support the theory that Telogrus and Voidstorm were once the same planet
Love craft is for the old gods void lords get their own aesthetic
It should be less grounded in life and body horror imagery because void lords are not grounded in body horror because they have no body
Well like physical manifestations
Besides we have a 5th old god anyway lovecraftian imagery is still present we’ll get our old god fix
Ehh idk. They said at the beginning of TWW that the old gods were all dead
Just like the void lords too now I guess
Well there’s still the black blood
we all know n'zoth is in that blade waiting for his moment
the fact the twilights hammers are back as the twilights blade and are seemingly operating seperately from xalatath's forces is intriguing to me

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To be honest, I didn't expect to see her as the final boss of the first raid tier, but I really like her CustomSpells.
And I like her new model, which has become more cosmic-themed.
Yeah that new design of void with cosmic void is amazing!
it's interesting they're using l'ura
does that imply alleria is giving up void powers? or that we'll need to get l'ura back into her or something
curious the know the lore significance
she was already using void stuff before consuming L'ura
she might be losing some of them - its not clear
I find that the cosmic blue that illustrates the void from Xal is so much better than the shadow purple
I can't wait to see priest with more true void spell
You know how Gohan made Cell puke up Android 18?
I didn’t get past kid goku
So I don’t get the reference
do any of you know where to see the full "warnings" quest?
I was following porter but he stopped posting when ptr went down lol
Nobbel streamed it
if there isnt a shrek ref im going to be upset
renown track is visible
new activity type
seems like voidlight marl might be replacing resonance crystals?
looks like we may be getting a new 'leap into the air' toy
covering the specific interesting ones
one of the new eagle mounts
appears based on some of the rewards the loa will play a large role - very much a BfA 2.0 situation in that regard though i liked that storyline a lot
shadowpine, riverbark, and revantusk tribes are involved
looks like theyve all lost connection with their loa
YUP
renown 20 cosmetic
these rewards rule
theyre rationing food
goddamn
there are no revantusk left
i am also a blood elf
so this dialogue takes that into account apparently
idk what gnarldin are
the green djaradin maybe?
theres a stay a while and listen
not the green ones
but theyre not lava either
damn thats my 2nd crash
this zone is not as stable
uh oh
my character might be bricked
nope - eventually respawned
from a treasure
accessible by flight only
another stay a while and listen
VERY similar to the horde side of the bfa zone stories
i like it
ehhhh
this seems too similar to paku now
working cutscene
we jump off and are pulled back up by the wind
another stay a while and listen
i really appreciate the slow growth towards allyship
and more crashing
so unstable compared to eversong
seems like the patch island is there
hidden by a thick fog
is 11.2.7 PTR still down?
probably until monday
theres a tortollan island area
Awesome screenshots Peach, thanks!
There's a Tortollan camp on Isle of Fangs too
not a fan of dyes being consumables lol
they have to be since theyre crafted
otherwise they would be one and done and then no one would continue to craft them
and there was supposed to be a cutscene but it crashed
managed to trigger it so at least the story makes more sense
new blessing replaced the old one - youll probably have some way to choose after the story finishes
theres a stay a while and listen after this
weird critters
before
after
ignore the new passive - i leveled
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yup - can definitely choose
lol - temp assets
very cool
here is the stay a while and listen
now we are in the spirit world
cool dungeon'
i gotta finish later tho
so ill have to restart
@uncut vault Random question; keeping up with your alpha thread. Do any named paladins die? Because they portray it as a big loss but havnt heard anything in that regard
No, no deaths at all beyond void enemies
Ah okay. Thought we might see some more minor paladins or priest perish to sell that.
Thanks! I appreciate you showing all the named npcs
I will say, I hope they add the other Lightforged Lieutenants- like Baraat and Y'mera. They may not be priest/paladins, but they still use the light! And are infused with it. Might be a good suggestion to leave em 😂 😂
Probably no major deaths until end of campaign or in patches
If they kill off people now there’s nowhere to go for 12.1 and 12.2
I think they mean more the mostly irrelevant randos
like all the various draenei paladins with one appearance from TBC or WoD who show up here
12.1 already looks like a side story tangent
What are theories on 12.1?
like all the "heroes" that died in Tanaan in WoD
It's troll themed
Those do matter
lots of green liquid and spirit stuff
I have someone with a contact who actually wants me to tell them if any of those one off NPCs are missing
And I don’t really know that any are
They also want to know if any have weird armor appearances
Honestly my main point of feedback is that there should probably be some more non Light-wielders
you feel absurdly out of place if you arent a priest or paladin in the current one
if this is a call throughout Azeroth by the Light, and they'll summon any player, it stands to reason the Sunwell would summon other worthy people who arent Light wielders too
theyre there
From the empire or just Hallowfall?
See, it makes 0 sense that Lothraxion is there from off world but the Light didn't call the people they forged an entire Empire to fight this battle for.
Unless the Light used the Empire and all the prophecies just to get a handful of Arathi there.
Well Lothraxion is around and with the Army of the Light, we just havent been seeing him
Regardless it doesn't make sense the Empire wasn't called for this unless the Sunwell isn't working with the majority of the light.
If the Light did the entire Empire just for a handful, I don't think I could forgive it for all the deaths and hardship the Hallowfall went through just to get Faerin and others here.
I guess after Illidan I shouldn't be shocked.
I just mean in the intro, they say its all doom and gloom. We have lost so many peoples- so I thought we might see some of the minor, inconsequential light users die in the battle.
Yeah I was thinking it would be more of a mix but it literally is just light users...except if the PC isnt one. And leeroy Jenkins?
it feels like a lack of imagination
Eh to me it makes some sense.
Well based on how it goes for the player character in-game you’re given a vision/talking head of Liadrin calling you to the battle
So it’s probably working on the idea that via the sunwell Liadrin is summoning all who she knows of. The Hallowfall detachment, army of the light, etc…
The Arathi empire is worthy of its own entire expansion- and it’s probably way too early to establish the characters involved there right now before we even finish the saga
Then you don't make the entire Empire's reason to exist a battle they aren't even in!
It's crap writing
i mean, maybe they know this isn't the end all be all battle and they are saving the army for another fight?
The Hallowfall detachment are there? Also Renilash isn’t the sole reason for the empires existence
Then why the hell have Metzen say we seal the Shadow for good, and that we've already destroyed the last void lord.
I get what Kyle is saying cause i think the same. They somewhat hyped the arathi as this huge army of light that will fight the big bad end all be all, then we're just getting some small tiny army of them.
It feels weird but since they divided the expac into 3 parts, i think they've been moved to post TLT. So now it's "what's going to be worse for azeroth than this" or the emperor full of shit and lied
it's literally just 12.0 we have more of midnight that they could be used for
I hope they're brought in proper but i (for now) don't see that happening. Unless they're a major story patch in tlt
I think the issue is that people don’t realize The Hallowfall detachment are literally the army intended to fight in Renilash
Faerin tells us as such very early on. It’s why their society is the way it is. They’re literally all soldiers
Maybe that's where the confusion is coming from?
Then they were just expected to hang out underground for a good 20 years? And maybe get a way out?
They chose to stay in Hallowfall because they believed Beledar was connected to the emperors vision and Renilash
They opted to protect what they deemed as holy ground- hence naming the location Hallowfall
But yeah like a lot of the war withins pacing stuff like this is said once but not repeated as much as it should be because the questing is just breakneck fast
Here is hoping we don't have to wait 10 years to know what beladar is
Well according to the titans it’s just calcified world soul essence - azerite but different
But titans lie so hopefully something more interesting than a scab
No it's not. They were the VANGUARD
They were meant to set up portals
The mages dying was not the plan
The portals were for supplies and reinforcements. Most of the army was there
Either way Arathi from the empire are fighting in Renilash so it’s really no different. This is all going according to the emperors vision so far
Again, if this is the Light's plan, they're worse than the shadow
Didn't they say a whole bunch of their army just died anyways after getting teleported in?
Seems like a bad plan
And it does seem that the lack of mages means the empire might think the whole group died
After what the Light allowed yrel to do, i don't trust it either
The emperor didn’t have every detail lol. He knew it was dangerous and the people who singed on knew that too.
But they weren’t told “hey so you’re going to be teleported into a chasm and plummet a few thousand feet.” The emperor had a vision of a falling star- believing it to be connected to Renilash and sent the strongest warriors across the storming sea to find it.
They got caught up in those storms though and almost didn’t make it through if not for Beledar saving them.
That said they couldn’t course correct their ships and their zeppelins crashed right into the cave walls (which is why Faerin is missing an arm)
if 12.2 or the last raid of this expansion doesn't have the dead gods by the wall of living rock it'll be a disappointment
I don't believe it has
nor has the throwing down of arms when the empire's secret is revealed
Well duh
But the Aegis Wall is supposedly that living rock wall
That verse is referring to the conflict between the Arathi and Nerubians
since when, it doesn't fit the prophecy at all.
The Aegis wall is incredibly important to the Arathi it’s the only reason they survived at all
wow wiki doesn't have that speculation at all and they'd normally be all on that
The verse about the rock wall follows the mention of the nerubians saying the stones of this wall bore the weight of said conflict
And the Aegis Wall was their front line of defense and protected them for most of the conflict until TWW happened
nah, that wouldn't fit in my opinion
Like the easiest way is for a bunch of the Loa to die
Also wonder if the dead gods bit could be referring to the Devouring Host. Xal has Dimensius and all he consumed (every other void lord) inside the dark heart. Breaking it now would unleash hell on the battlefield and might be cause for the Titan’s return.
Granted it’d had to prove Azeroth is the prime worldsoul somehow to bring the titans back based on that recent interview
- The remains of gods, scattered across the battlefield, pulsed with an unseen light. Their echoes, a clarion call, stirred the Arathi, compelling them to fight, to kill for the world's dawn.
- Amidst the chaos, the forgotten one cried, "When the last star fades, the emperor's crown will weigh heavy with the sins of a thousand years." The stalwart soldiers threw down their spears and wept tears of blood and burning anger.
Nothing in Hallowfall fits that
Because those two aren’t about TWW clearly
W Vereesa being hateful towards the Horde?!??!?! 👀
Den of Nalorakk might be one of the coolest looking dungeons ive ever seen
first two areas in in a spirit realm
this last one isnt
shame its a S2 M+
but it will probably need the balance tweaks XD
the 2nd boss area is wild
and it broke
ugh
zuljarra gets the helm
version without hair clipping
ugh - zuljan is an idiot
from this location
this rules
i think the on use effect lets you switch loa by going to their temple instead of just doing it at the table thing in the village
clearly zuljan is going to lead us into 12.1
thats the hidden zone btw
could also be part of like 12.0.5
like the forbidden reach
stay a while and listen
well thats interesting
cant go to silvermoon i guess
boo
nvm city is fine, just not eversong
gotta test 2 delves
but thats for tomorrow
I have read it all!
Fascinating, I am pleasantly surprised by the amani quests.
They are endearing in their own way and the evolution of both is nicely given.
Interesting that he’s having visions of conquering with specifically light wood, possible setup for a light zealot arch?
I feel we probably will get a light patch this xpac, where paladin unlocks for either more or all races
I don’t think so
I think it’s more him recognizing that strength isn’t just physical might
I really hope he doesn’t go “I deserve to lead not you” and go off the rails - story doesn’t seem to be setting him up for that but that’s a story type Blizz likes to fall back on
I hope instead we seek out a lost loa of the ancient Amani’s past
Unfortunately I can’t take a good look at side quests due to all the crashing so no clue where the other loa are
I have a feeling the new flying is gonna be butt
pretty sure its cooldowns now, no?
Surge Forward iconSurge Forward and Skyward Ascent iconSkyward Ascent now have 6 shared charges. It takes 10 seconds for a charge to replenish.
10 seconds gg its actually joever
o7
Midnight worst expansion so far? 🤔
Turalyon dead, Dragonriding dead, kombat mods dead
truly joever
Well i haven't been able to try it yet but from what i know about it, it'll make it easier to fly
There are people who struggle with it still
skill issue lowkey 😭
Mana forge omega proved that lol
I might not be buying the DLC anyways
I dont wanna see mr Turalyon die wft
Why would they do that?!!!?!?
Closing Thoughts @clear apex
Overall, Skyriding feels great on the Alpha. It’s refreshing not having to constantly micro-manage your Vigor bar!
That's the most serious I've ever heard you be. What did you do with Niko
Gurl, its me? 😭
its exactly the same as live, more or less
cooldowns replenish 100% faster when you have the speed buff
so it takes the same 5 seconds as vigor on live
only difference is that whirling surge is a totally independent cooldown now, so it doesn't use up vigor charges
and also that the UI is much less clear unfortunately because there's no vigor bar lol
understandable, thank 🫡
ive literally reported this as feedback
that they shouldnt get rid of the vigor bar
because its unclear
they just need to allow UI customization so it can be smaller and simpler
as it is, i do find it too big
housing beta tomorrow!!
I am excited to see the results and feedback
Think this counts as foreshadowing now?
who is that towards
aluneth is a magical mage staff that talks to you
Arcane Mage artifact. Sentient staff. Makes funny noises with the hidden skin.
I'm just making a joke cause someone finally did send it tumbling into the sea and it was another entity like him
Oh, you're talking about Oculeth?
pretty sure that's not who destroyed dalaran
although AU where he does it accidentally is plausible
Oh, I was talking about how we first met him. He put us in a bubble and threatened to teleport us to the bottom of the sea.
He does do it if you don’t show him the coin
Why does the 11.2.7 launcher take me to the Alpha servers?
How do I fix it?
Ptr servers might be down still
I'm at work. Just wondering if the servers are up for ptr
no
too early
probably 11am or 1pm pst
From what I know the housing 2 day stress testing on the ptr realm is going to be opened today correct?
based on the news post 2p EDT/11a PDT
why do they have to use those weird timezones
just use CET and be done with it xd
ty for answering
you see, much simpler
CET? Why can’t they just MY time zone it’s much easier
For legal reasons that’s a joke. So, are we expecting PTR servers to crash or what
Where are the stitches around his neck
Hello! Just checking but is the 11.2.7 ptr currently down?
yes
ty 🙂
for anyone who keeps asking, when ptr goes up, there will almost certainly be a newspost
and it probably wont be up until sometime between 11am and 2pm PST
and if you post below this and dont bother to read, i will rightfully get pissed at you because it means youre being lazy af
understood. sorry I never use it so i wasnt sure if "incompadible" just meant it was offline
thanks again! 🙂
I don’t know but the undead is slowly look like drow but without the elf ears
Been delayed apparently
Vereesa is based?!?!!?!? 👀
Nooo I hope housing still releases today though
ill be so sad if its tomorrow or not this week
wtf are you pinging me for?
To AXE you
A question
stop bothering me or ill report you to the mods - youre being obnoxious
you pinged me over random bullshit - i dont know you, i dont like you, and it wasnt important. stop it
Ok bro chill
Wonder if the rest of thr ptr will come up without housing or if it'll stay down for a bit while they get situated
We getting house?
We were supposed to stress test the housing system coming in Midnight today but its been delayed
itll stay down
Will there be unlimited for every player created or it will be limited like final fantasy 14 houses and a plot of land
the housing test is like 90% of what they want to test
Its not like 14 from what I can tell
And gamble a plot of land first then buy a house on top of it
Let hope they don’t charge rent like ff14 every month like real life
Good
Hopefully its not too long. Was looking forward to seeing the New Exiles Reach and Returning quest too
its mostly unchanged
the server creates instances repeatedly to let more people buy houses
they just added jaina/thrall and wrathion and kalec, and switched some npcs in
think ff14 apartments instead of the houses
except bigger than both of those
and with an outside you can decorate
One room space apartment but funny enough rent free
Its closer to ESO but with the ff14 exterior
Im still impressed by the housing interior layout
they didnt have to go that hard with it
it was probably easier tbh
theyre just giving us access to the tools they use
and creating a decent UI to go with it
Does not look real. Why would they announce ANOTHER allied race, when Haranir isn't even out yet?
And Blood Elves ARE High Elves, literally only difference was that some gave in to Arcane Addiction and embraced Fel. Literally the same race.
also aint no way theyd give just an allied race to horde
dude - the guy has only posted fake images
louder for the people in the back
it literally says #obviouslyfake
I know, i had to clarify the stupidity.
So this is another out season April’s fool joke? Damn I been baited
if he does it again, im gonna report to mods
yeh
it literally says #obviouslyfake lol AND NOV 31st isn't a real date
To be fair they could release a distinct high elf race
Just they don’t really need to
And it would muddy waters a bit since people would prefer those things as customisations for belf and veld
Wasted resources.
That being said I do think blizz recognises that all alliance high elf’s being void elf is a bit of a blunder
And they might redo how races are even done in future to try and address things like that
Not just for elves mind you
Theyre different factions though is the big thing
Doesn’t help that even as recent as Midnight, all the high elves are still using blood elf hairstyles and colors
At this point they need to just have belfs and velfs share hairstyles
I wish theyd put the draenei all into one group then you pick a sub-race and they share all the customizations
or human/gilnean/kul tiran (let you pick thicc or not)
Why do only mechagnomes get certain hair compared to normal gnomes, why can’t they overlap
Maghar and normal orc as well
Id kill for true playable forest trolls though v v
they used to add hair across races, dont know why they stopped
Trolls as well ye
Nobody plays gnomes or Tauren there’s your answer
The ideal system is using the tech they added in Shadowlands to let people choose what subrace you’re tagged in for quest text
reskin the dracthyr body to let you choose if youre thinner or buff
The shadowlands stuff was only added and never implemented for stuff like nelfs being called Kaldorei, belfs Sin’dorei, etc.
I fully expect them to change the character creator to be sub race based at some point
it would clean up the UI a ton
Especially if they are adding more races than classes
i need all drachtyr visage hair shared on belf/human
Would give them a more solid place to have story tags for stuff like Man’ari or Darkfallen too
I want dragon eyes for all races
Which don’t need to be their own allied race, but also feel very flimsily cosmetic a lot of the time because story still considers you the regular race
scales too
I looked at male blood elf customization and got sad. theyre so bare bones. Nightborne has more!
And all human face for all skincolor hihi
Sorry, we’re just waiting for the right story moment to justify new cosmetics for belfs
hides the entire premise of Midnight
yeah yeah. midnight and all isnt a good enough reason XD
could have had night elf paladins in legion
Blizzard adding cool eye customisation to every race just for DKs to still be forced to use their blue frost eyes
I wish they’d just be truthful and say “yeah our art team only has so much time, they were busy with Haranir”
It sucks, but it’s honest
I want a whole revamp of customizations, its been since WoD 8|
Well, Shadowlands was a revamp of it
skin textures are looking rough
Even just recoloured dk eyes would be nice, for the other dk aesthetics. There are other dks with different colours
i mean the leap we had from vanilla to wod was huge
Sectioning off of a lot more options, and easy addition of new ones
new models
Like maw grey/black, green, red
(Which I guess isn’t as easy as they claimed because they’ve done nothing with it since 9.1.5 lol)
Honestly if dks got a domination magic greenfire quest that would be baller
Especially if they got to forge their own mourneblade as well
Honestly every class should start getting some kind of green fire equivalent even if it’s not much spell vfx changes and more tmog as well
Mages learning from the dragon flights, so they get red fire, blue dragon arcane and frost, bronze time magic, and a remastered tarecgosa style staff
Or a revamped atiesh 2 after a guardian quest
Shamans could get some frosty primalist stuff with vyranoth
Class customisation to each race, they work so hard on primalist for exemple, shaman deserve eye customisation
Something I’d like explored more even if it isn’t that deep is casual things like how humans have the light as a cultural thing, but not all of them are priests and paladins. E.g a warrior who believes in the light culturally, has a locket or jewlery reflecting that and isn’t a paladin
So even if its just things like prayer beads as an option, or maybe some light iconography tattoos and jewellery for both body types
Meanwhile orcs get more ancestral and elemental stuff, like maybe a necklace of teeth or a rudimentary bracelet that has all the elements on it
Maybe even something like a giant hairstyle that’s got hair from clanmates and family woven in
more stuff for draenei that isnt just Light themed
id love more somehow goth things for gilneans, that posh victorian look
not 'goth'
Arcane Crystal and rangari ranger stuff
Shaman tattoos to memorialize those who died on draenor
Something the lightforged wouldn’t share with them culturally
With that information about Lothra, i'm pretty sure we will hear about Dena
Surprised the article used the PH build of the Lorthraxion entry instead of the newer version without PH.
this was written before the alpha actually came out haha, only just published now by the folks in charge of that
thanks for the shout, updating it now
From what I can tell, the new text links directly to the events in voidstorm - || where Lorthraxion feels betrayed that we are teaming up with Decimus to stop the Voidstorm, and thus goes to handle it himself recklessly.
Nothing about Dreadlord machinations or Denathrius plot, just a light guy unwilling to work with void guys. ||
I mean, lothraxion could be a red herring and just be on our side
But it doesn’t explain why he just didn’t tell us anything about dreadlords lol
Personally I think that dreadlords and the void, especially xal have beef
Void hates death, and the dreadlords were the ones who convinced sargeras to go on his anti void crusade
I’m still of the belief that void storm, and xal, are from the original planet that sargeras cleaved to stop the void
Because it sets up some hilarious generation long spy vs spy beef between the two master manipulators of the universe and ties into the larger order plot going on in the background, also sets up motivations
Like it wouldn’t surprise me ifme if xals motivation is effectively an inverted jailer, where she is just a mortal from a planet destroyed by a titan, climbing the ranks and power in the void seeking to use whatever power she can to get rid of beings that can destroy worlds.
Some early datamined texts seem to imply the name of this planet is just called Predation or something, an ancient void-consumed planet.
Although we have had references for Telogrus to be that planet.
And telogrus is near the void storm
Telogrus could be a fragment of the same planet
We have text ingame referring to voidstorm being visible from telogrus
I don’t think Telogrus is remotely near Voidstorm?that’s just a voidstorm, not -the- voidstorm, right?
Needs clarification
The one that Durzaan brought to convert the Void elves, whereas the 11.2.7 says Xal’atath creates the voidstorm over Silvermoon.
There’s velf npcs in telogrus who look out into the skybox saying the voidstorm is growing
Yeah, the literal storm of void energy over Telogrus of when they were attacked, which was used to justify not teleporting to the other platforms?
I guess it doesn’t help that we’re using ingame knowledge to refer to the land as “the voidstorm” when that’s technically the rift connecting our planet to the void one.
Which is maintained by the Nexus-points, seemingly.
You are referring to the very visible like void tempest that was over Telogrus upto Dragonflight, right?
So basically it’s an open thread they could use and not contradict
I’m referring to what they say
"The Voidstorm is growing. It might even consume the big island entirely." this is the quote
Genuinely think this is a case of unintentional re-use of simply referring to “a storm, of void.”, but it could be some reference to when the void links to places it is a voidstorm that links them.
Stage 6: A Force Approaches
Close the rift.
Alleria Windrunner says: This void storm is a conduit... a doorway that must be closed.
From void elf recruitment too.
Should go check if those lines are still in, now I think about it. Gotta report them if they are..!
why report them?
Oh, because they're pre-Tww narrative. The person who did the update in the pre-quests forgot to remove them.
I know who did it- ironically so can poke them.
but it could also be intentional, like the voidstorm in telogrus could be the same voidstorm
I have discarded such a possibility as intentional. But thats solely due to how the Void elves are interacting with the voidstorm - and the dialogues of Umbric and the prequests of Magister's Terrace.
I can’t imagine Voidstorm is ACTUALLY named Voidstorm
That’s just what we call it because it’s THE giant Voidstorm over top the sunwell
we know it has a different name and there’s a whole mystery around it- we’re just not aware of its true name yet
Anyone happen to know how I can check to see if I have a certain achievement in regards to past expansions giving housing decor?
Namely the order hall stuff for mage/paladin. I don't know if doing upgrades for one class would unlock them all or if I'd need to go about doing class hall upgrades now.
https://www.wowhead.com/beta/achievement=60966/legendary-research-of-the-tirisgarde This is the achievement in question.
Research all Mage Class Hall Upgrades. In the Legion Class Hall Achievements category. Added in World of Warcraft: Midnight. Always up to date.
I mean shadowlands, twisting nether, outland, dragon isles, are all actual place names
Well yeah but again- Voidstorm is very clearly not actually named that
Neither is outland tbf
Ig the name is more referring to the idea that it’s a specific remnant
There are other fragments of draenor probably drifting around, but those aren’t outland
Which loops around conveniently to me saying both telogrus and voidstorm could atleast be related to the original planet sargeras cleaved while also being two separate areas
Voidstorm is the rift - The actual landmass has its own name
🙏 please blizzard put the ptr up today
The zone is called voidstorm though
yeah the zone, not whatever locale it is
we dont know where the zone itself actually is
its just the landmass on the immediate opposite side of the voidstorm
I still don’t see how this disqualifies it from being the planet sargeras cleaved
In all likelihood, it's the remnants of Xal'atath's planet (along with the Domanaar)
which we know couldn't be the planet Sargeras cleaved regardless
Why’s that
That’s the reason I think it would be
Xal'atath was Dimensius' harbinger long before the Titans even found Azeroth
Sargeras found the void-corrupted worldsoul after they had already fully ordered Azeroth
Not necessarily
I have zero evidence to suggest it is any more than Telogrus. Especially given Telogrus’ exposition lore and Xal’atath has used the Dark Heart and Dimensius’ power to gather the Devouring Host gathered there.
Sargeras was looking for Azeroth, he didn’t know where it was before the legion invasions
Unless we just say all void-torn landscapes are the same place; Random torn planet by Sargeras.
That's not what I mean
I’m just saying it lines up with motivations and other potential plot points
what I mean is, the Titans fully ordered Azeroth and imprisoned the Old Gods, and then left
How do we know she was harbinger before all that
after that point, Sargeras found the corrupted world-soul, destroyed it, and then immediately went to find the Pantheon
She was imprisoned in the blade of the black empire during the height of the Old Gods' rule
prior to the Ordering
she was already the Harbinger at that point
I thought it was more like sargeras was already corrupted when the titans came upon Azeroth
Yes but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be sargeras who destroyed her planet
Nope, he approached them immediately after he destroyed the worldsoul, they were horrified, and then he decided to go his own way and corrupt himself
Sargeras wasn’t around for the ordering of Azeroth, not in the pantheon anyway
Otherwise the whole plot of him trying to actually find the plane wouldn’t happen
And his influence is nowhere in titan ordering on Azeroth
I don't think you're really following
Sargeras destroying the worldsoul explicitly happened after the Ordering of Azeroth
because he then immediately returned to the Pantheon to tell them about it
Where is that explicitly stated
Chronicle isn’t canon
I don’t know what motivations and plot points this is seemingly working towards - why the lands beyond the voidstorm would reasonably be that world and how that could make the story better?
There is their own species, people, monsters - the “kaiju” file types.
Yes it is lol
It’s point of view
Yes
There are frankly too many differences better Telogrus and Predator void Planet to be linked. But you could always headcanon it.
Dreadlords vs Xal
Death and void fighting
Explanation for that rivalry
Why are Dreadlords getting involved??

