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That moment when you realize how wrong you were for playing. Mine was in WOTLK.
I honestly barely played the game before MoP, and in MoP and WoD I didn't do much better. I just quested to max level and unsubbed till next expansion, silly me for effectively treating it like a singleplayer game.
in MoP I realized that "patches" happened, so I played a bit more then and in WoD (though I was unamused with 6.1 adding a jukebox and pretty much nothing else I cared about. legendary ring quest? who cares about a ring, I thought. at least the cloak was cool).
then my actual "realization" moment was legion pre-patch when working on my new DH (because I knew tanks were important and I didn't want to screw up)
Thats for SWTOR
i like swtor, but not enough to pay the sub
I think I tried SWTOR for a few days
clearly not enough to experience the endgame, but that was back when I also didn't think too much about that
I simply didn't have any friends who played there, unlike in WoW
oh theres hardly any endgame to it.
I paied my 15 bucks for a month, never did after and kept playing during WoW Droughts.
since I took an unfounded break (I can't be a tank, my life is over) in 7.2, how was that before ToS opened?
was it a "drought"?
from all indications I would think it was (story entirely composed of filler quests and reputation grind, legion assaults just for catch-up), but I'm relatively new to classifying this sort of thing
Try Warlords, that’s a true drought.
I knew warlords was a bigger drought, but that's cuz it's a filler expansion. I just want to know if 7.2 was a "filler patch" in the eyes of others since I didn't play then
the challenges certainly were cool, but you would only experience 3 of them per character (unless a DH or druid) and just for a weapon appearance, most of which were datamined in 7.0 IIRC (my point being that it's less content than it appears). and honestly, with the gear most people had access to pre-ToS, I don't know if I could have classified them as "fun"
I assume ToS was cool, but there was a gap before ToS
maybe the fact that nighthold was still current provided some "relief"?
7.2 had plenty of content
It had broken shore
It just was dripped too slowly
And it had a new dungeon
Which helped
Plus we got the chrome scenario
Chromie
ah, so the chromie scenario was a 7.2 thing. well that certainly helps sway my opinion
Essentially a WoW drought is when thete is an extended period of time (6+ months) of no new patches and minimal content.
ah, so legion hasn't really had that yet
7.2.5
End of Pandaria, end of WotLK, all of WoD, end of cata, etc. These are all content droughts.
There has not been a serious drought
And i dont think we will have one this expac
Because the patch is supposed to end by the 21st of september
The shortest patch between final raid wing and the new expac
Bfas launch is supposed to be 21st.
And we will get the prepatch before that for sure
interesting. so the prepatch and probably some other storylines related to silithus will "bridge the gap"
Indeex.
at the moment I am pretty satisfied with the content available, but once my guild gets 11/11 H I don't know how I'll feel. I certainly didn't care back in the days of EN and ToV because we didn't get 7/7 H or 3/3 H until right before the AOTC period ended for them, so there was theoretically always fresh content
my guild doesn't consistently have 20 people to do that
Neither does mine. Thats why we have a sister guild.
Or run mythic +
Also level allied races
And wait for prepatch
Work on unlocking the appearances that will go away
The +15 appearance and the heroic kiljaeden appearance
I've unlocked all the apperances that will go away on my main
heroic kiljaeden isn't going away, is it?
Yes it is
crap.
P[retty sure
no
Check the pin
I thought the heroic kiljaeden would stay, just the challenge base appearance going
well, I want the heroic KJ ones anyway
alright cool. my DH has +15 (my guild actually ran m+ for once... otherwise I would have had no hope with my M+ score lol) and both challenges, my mage doesn't have +15 but has all 3 challenges done
the looks for other classes that I have considered honestly aren't too compelling IIRC
No kidding
The mage tower appearance for brewmaster looks like a ball of neon
I dont want that
U just tend balance of power
And i need the pvp one
Because its a dragon staff
alright. so I was wrong to say that the other classes I considered didn't have compelling looks. all 3 warlock spec challenge appearances look neat
and how could I forget the tank warrior thing, the bearman, glowcat, and the cool looking arms weapon
Yeah the warlock appearances are all pretty great
hunter ones don't look as good as balance of power ones IMO
DK ones look really cool
alright so clearly I want to get the appearances for about half of my classes
so 1/3 of the way there, having already gotten DH and mage
druid I am kind of mixed about. I liked playing bear, the other specs look legit, but I don't like being forced to have warts or be a furry (I am a horde player)
might be worth getting in case they add more race options or if pigs fly and I switch to alliance
I mean if you're gonna go druid is playing the furry race really that big a deal
if I would play resto or balance, yes
none of my other classes are forced to be huge&furry or have warts
also it's not just the fur
I can't stand how tauren and trolls treat boots
I mean it makes sense for Tauren/Draenei
Not 100% sure why trolls can't wear shoes though
Toes are to irregular and itd be a pain in the ass to make
it makes sense, but I wish it wasn't forced
Plus theyre tree hoppers
Tree hoppers with perfect tree hopping feet. You dont ruin that with shoes.
Jungle trolls sure
Forrest trolls sure
But frost trolls, desert trolls, zandalari... They live in places where shoes would outweigh the inconvenience of having weird feet lol
mountain climbing definitely better with shoes lol
What are the Darkspear, technically? Are they considered Jungle Trolls?
Jungle trolls yes
yea, they were originally part of gurubashi IIRC
I guess it fits then.
I would think, though, that warriors, at least, would have plate-covered-boots
They were apart of the gurubashi empire but had seperated out of fear of being killed off iirc
Not gonna be jumping around trees all that much in full plate, so not having barefeet that an enemy can stab/stomp on would be beneficial
limitations of game design
True
^
I would argue though that playable trolls really don't hop around in trees
That's actually why I really like the t21 paladin mock-mog boots for Trolls
They ysed to.
for casters they can't really cast when moving, and for melees they get out of range
makes it kinda look like armored sandals
Game mechanics dont equate to lore tho.
true, but you could argue the same thing if playable trolls did have the option to wear shoes
the quest transmog kul tiras is alliance only?
Probably not
there's always look-alike pieces in an expansion.
i hope so, i liked the leather set, looks nice on my panda
It'll probably get a recolor in the dungeons
Faction only pieces have generally been pretty rare
endgame legion quests gave look-alikes to the dungeon gear
And the dungeons aren't restricted
so i'd assume endgame BFA quests will give look-alikes to the opposite island's gear
given that endgame BFA quests will be based aorund "invading" the other island
Or unlocking it on one side will just unlock the mog account wide
Probably
So if you plan to see the story from both sides, you can get both sets
Which I still haven't decided if I'm doing that or not lol
i wont play ally just for transmog :/
Welp, when most if the quest content is faction specific this time around
Only getting 50% of it if you don't
too bad for me then, i don't have ally
My paladin is ally, cause I hate the Horde options for Paladin, so I'll probably do the campaign on him
Unless of course during the Horde campaign we connect the Prelates of Rezan to the Sunwalkers/Blood Knights, thus helping them reconnect to the light and we DO in fact get Zanda Paladins in which case I'll be rushing through the campaign to unlock them and then faction xfer lol
I don't play melee but I hope Zandalari get paladins
I mean, the people want it, and it's not like they don't exist
People want a lot of things that exust
Dont mean they get em.
People want a lot of things that exust
Dont mean they get em.
Dont mean they get em.
yeah but from what it looks like, they lose their connection and right to be paladin
so no zandalari paladin
Thank goodness we've seen the entirety of the Zandalar questline
Leading to the playable Zandalari on alpha
So we know for sure what the class options are
Playable zandalari won’t be on alpha
They aren’t even coming with the main release of BfA
They are coming at a later date
Are they?
Yes
Said where?
During the QA
They lost their connection to Rezan, which caused them to lose faith and conviction which severed their ties to the light
It IS technnically possible for them to collude with the Sunwalkers and Blood Knights who could show them how to wield the light by other means
Or Rezan could be resurrected, or a new Loa could bestow Light powers on them
They could always have a storyline where we fix Rezan or help them return to the light
Anything's possible
Even blizzard isn't dumb enough to confirm lore that people have been murdering eachother over just to say "but you don't get to play one middlefinger"
Because we've literally only seen the first act of the story
Exactly
Heres my issue with it all
Which would tie into why we have to get exalted/finish the campaign before unlocked Zandalari as a race
(I still don't get how paladins are apparently -the- iconic Zandalari class, but still)
Youd have to indicate it to happen through the paladin flag.
On zandalari before hand
Zandalari which are not playable in alpha yet
Cuz they aint adding classes halfway through an expac
they arnt iconic, its just they do exist and people want them
Much less if they aren't coming until 8.1
I want night elf paladins
Doesn't mean I'm BETRAYED because they're technically in game and Blizz is mocking me
@rich apex Zandalari had paladins long before the Silver Hand ever existed, that's why people call them an iconic class.
I want playable dragons. Dont mean we're gettin em.
Regardless
There's 1 Nelf Paladin
- One of em is dead
Zandalari druids, aka Dinomancers
That’s the most iconic class for them
@dense plover Actually, no.
The most iconic class for them is priest. They're the "priest caste" among trolls.
Yeah, I would go with priest or druid
Transforming into dinosaurs and controlling them. Thats not iconic to the zandalari in the least.
Priest, followed by Druid.
Thankfully they're getting dino forms for all shapeshifts
They're glorious
That rustles my jimmies to no end that they backed out of their no dino morphs
Night elf: we have inherited the greatest druidic traditions from Cenarius himself
Zandalari: hysterical laughter
If they go back and add unique Druid forms to everything, ill be satisfied
Nerus Moonfang is not a Paladin. His NIECE, Delas, becomes one. Nerus is not one, he's a spectre/ghost/spirit who joined the Silver Hand to give penance for his actions
If they don’t, ill be disappointed, but I’m still going to make a zandalari druid
Other races already have unique druid forms
Even has a crummy alliance grand marshal sword.
Except Highmountain I guess
What was it you said, gameplay isn't lore? 😛 Lorewise Delas is the only Paladin
Worgen just have darker skin.
Id argue the same on zandalari paladins from ToT yet herr we are
I thought it was still fairly different from nelf forms
googles
Prelate lore, ToT lore, and Freethinker lore
And now we have BfA lore backing up all of it
So, in this instance, lore and gameplay cooperate
Hes labeled a paladin, he uses paladin abilities, hes a paladin m8
Abilities in a raid aren't exactly lore
The lore disagrees with you lol
Oh, that one
He's talking about the Prelates in ToT
Yeah
Like it's argueable, full stop
(Every race that can get priests should get paladins, imo)
(Well, maybe not Forsaken)
Forsaken or Velf, otherwise yeah I agree lol
Yeah except lorewise they maim themselves every time they use the light
A super masochist Forsaken would be great >_>
So do priests. Your point?
Technically the only Priests that are part of the forsaken are Shadow Priests
Much like all the troll "priests" are witchdoctors
Eh, they specifically said at least some use the Light, even if it's super unpleasant
It all goes back to the point that the game class you play is an archetype, not necessarily the class itself
Not true. Again, the Scarlet Undead as well as the Argent Crusade.
They only give so much credit to race specific things like that anymore
And if we're gonna talk about archetypes
Paladin archetype is a shining knight
Argent Crusade =/= Forsaken, separate faction
(Aside from Tauren, of course)
(Question is if they're still willing to say one can be a tribal paladin like that)
Also, archetype as in "Paladin" includes Paladins, Blood Knights, Vindicators, and Sun-druids
The rest of the paladins are functionally similar enough
They all function differently and technically only Humans and DWarves are Paladins, but they all fall under the Paladin Archetype
Sunwalkers are just the odd ones out because they decided to give pallies to another Horde race
They're all using the same Light tho
Except Sunwalkers
(Maybe)
Ehhhh similar but not the same. Vindicators =/= Paladins
90% similiar
Blood Knights are closer to Paladins than Vindicators
Vindicators get their light through the Naaru as opposed to purely through faith and conviction like Humans and Dwarves do
Which enables them to use the light significantly more aggressively
Them being in the crusade doesnt stop them from being undead. Them being forsaken doesnt stop them from using light.
They still believe in the Light
But man I would actually maybe play a Forsaken paladin
That'd be cool
Still doesn't make sense for them to be Paladins since every time they use the light they seriously wound themselves in doing so
Blizz can't lock priests off of them though because Shadow
Like. Non vindicators can still be aggressive in light usage tho. Look at the Scarlet Crusade.
Blizz said the Light still heals them
It's just painful on a physical and existential level
Because they can feel they're a walking corpse
^
So an undead holy priest is just masochistic af
And I am 100% for a paladin who is -super guilty- at his cursed existence and thus is super okay with being on constnat pain
If he can still bring the Light to evil
Any light using undead is either that or overly zealous
if a paladin is about convictions, then a undead paladin absolutely works
A paladin is 100% about conviction
the question is how bad will the judgment set look with the bones poking out 🤔
That's really the archetype beyond shining knights
Faith and conviction, yes
Pretty shit like all undead armor sets
^
Did I miss the Forsaken talk?
Ye
Darn ah well
It was just the topic of priest users getting paladins
Oh, as cool as that would be I have given up on forsaken shadow paladins anymore, so I guess I am ok missing that one
I mean
Forsaken using light to be normal paladins is perfectly plausible
Like they're ashamed of their forms so they see the pain as penance.
Its like the perfect angle. Though none would work with or for Sylvanas.
It would probably require Blizz to actually consider the internal dynamics of the Forsaken society like that, yes
Alas, pretty sure at Blizzcon they said they weren't really considering new combos
Admittedly, there aren't that many obvious ones beyond giving out more paladins
Considering they, as a whole, believe the light has forsaken them, which largely severs their connection
Eh, it's not like there's supposed be that many paladins in the first place
They're supposed to be elite and requiring a great faith
Not....entirely? The Forsaken, to my knowledge, call themselves as such because of their undeath
Sir Zelek's a good support for an undead pally. And hell, he was Scourge.
Didn't they say in hindsight the reasoning for that was fairly wonky?
Like the Lich King was controlling his body but he was still aware enough to warn the players
But could also still use the Light
Despite the Lich King controlling them
Well since Paladins in wow are faith based it makes sense ether way, as long as your faith is strong enough, and would have worked perfect in Legion, BUT i can't see it working to much while a faction war was raging
But yeah, giving that pretty clear confirmation that Forsaken priests can and (if rarely) do use the Light
and considering Blizzard's track record for horde leaders dying suddenly....
I think the forsaken may lose some more faith soon
Zep: depends on which Paladin you're talking about. Blood Knights gain power directly from the Sunwell and don't require faith as an aspect of their power. Vindicators get power directly from the Naaru, Sunwalkers from An'she which doesn't necessarily require "faith"
I'm still not betting on any major deaths after the first act drama
Sunwalkers, as far as I know, won't lose their power just because their faith weakens or wanes, neither will Vindicators or Blood Knights
Human and Dwarf Paladins, however, can have their powers weakened or completely stripped if their faith and/or conviction wanes
Pretty sure they all still gotta believe
That's the entire thing that separates holy magic from other magic
Scarlet Crusade as well Xan
It still functions differently though.
Thwyre almost entirely undead now and still use the light heavily.
Scarlet Crusade is an example of them able to wield light, despite being batshit crazy and genocidal, because they have conviction that their cause is just and faith in the light
But if the sunwell gets destroyed again then they are screwed lol
Yep
Still undead.
And faith won't do shit for them
And, once again, they severely wound, nearly kill, themselves in wielding it
Forsaken masochism aside, they're still not suicidal
But ya, I can see the Forsaken becoming paladins since human paladins are faith based, and forsaken being ex humans means that they potentially could work, but at this point I almost think we are more likely to get Murlocs as a race then Forsaken Pallys
Just like Tauren Rogues lol
... except they dont.
sec.
I mean, rangari
A horse walking barefoot is shocklingly quiet.
Cows and goats have pads that are on the inside of their hooves and actually can be much quieter.
Grimtotem
^
I mean the rogue stuff kinda goes against the Thundertotem Tauren culture and philosophy but they have some Grimtotem among them now soooooooo
thats like barely louder than some regular person walking
and that's a freaking horse.
Plus, yknow, its magic
And since Tauren are based more on Bulls anyways, who have padded hooves
Imagine a tauren or draenei, that have cloven hooves. Cloven hooves are padded---YEP.
You know those cherry trees that laugh when you pass by?
those are Tauren rogues laughing at you
Basically the rule of fantasy
'tauren can't be rogues'
(...admittedly, Dagg isn't a -good- rogue)
Dagg is the best rogue. Six months later, nobody's noticed him in legionfall
wait what? he is in legionfall?????
Eheheh
I wonder if they're gonna make a hybrid of Paladin and Death Knights.
Blood Paladins, when Bliz?
I'm actually wondering what, if any, classes they could still implement
We got a monk, which people have asked for for a long time. DH's were this xpac, and while I don't know if they were requested they were implemented pretty well I thought
they were in TBC.
They just became playable this expac
Void Knights
Tinkers are still a popular request
A Void Knight would be interesting. A shadowy version of apaladin
Tinkerer / Necromancer as pet-based classes
Mixing the wc3 tinker and alchemist into a class would be great
Alchemy heal spec, turret/summons dps spec, mech tank spec
Combo of Death Knights/ Paladins could be...
*Void Knights
*Blood Paladins
*Prelates
No one wpuld drink their healing pots tho
Implying they have a choice
^
Projectile potions
Blood paladins are not anything close to resembling Dks
And they side step and pop their lockstone instead
wdym
Combo of Death Knights/ Paladins could be... *Void Knights *Blood Paladins *Prelates
?
What you typed not a minute ago arson
and?
Blood knights and prelates are nothing even close to what a deathknight is.
:khadgarface:
so they say
I mostly just want tinker next in 9.0 because it would probably be a gnome/goblin class
^
Necromancer for WotLK 2
The dream is gnome/goblin only tinkers
(it'll never happen)
I feel like necromancer is fairly likely for the Bolvar expansion
Paladin Undead for WotLK2
But I haven no idea how they'd design it without cannibalizing unholy DKs and demo locks
Which is, of course, why I don't work for Blizz 😛
I mean, unholy losing half of their undead army in BfA
You make it a pet based/buff class
No apocalypse
Well unholy is losing their 90 second cd summon so....
There was a class in City of Heroes/Villains called "Mastermind"
But necromancer is admittedly one of the last archetype classes from WC3 that can possibly stand on its own as a class
You got 3 tiers of minions: basic, advanced, ultimate. 3 basic, 2 advanced, 1 ultimate pet. You get a few attacks to help as well as buffs and heals if you spec into them
And doesn't need some mechasuit design like tinkers
guys what are these rumors i heard,of vulpera having faction specific colors?
is there any basis to it
Nothing but rumors
Could work in WoW too, it'd be like making a whole class out of expanding and steroid-ing Beast Mastery
Well there is Festergut... but he is just kinda there, I guess Valk/gargoyle also... then our 10min CD spell that I only get to use maybe twice a dungeon lol
There'll be a wowhead post within a week, I'm sure
^
ew beast mastery
But like they already established demo locks as 'dark magic class with waves of temporary minions'
And unholy DKs as 'plagues and undead pet'
And we have enough edgy classes anyways
Blizz just needs to give em some undead cosmetic glyphs
Turn all their demons into skeletons
Idk i feel my unholy deals more with plagues then minions without Apocalypse
That's how I always saw Unholy too, Zep
They're not gonna change the most iconic aspect of a warlock via a glyph
plagues and diseases
Blood = War, Unholy = Pestilence, Frost = Death
That's what I always viewed it as
Ya the minion is just kinda there anymore, I mostly just plague and run on mobs anymore
Well tbf, plague is kinda always undead related in WoW
Plague+Death and Decay
Mmhm
I would settle for a tinkerer/alchmest class though
I played a DK back in Wrath and I have one at 110 just cause I wanted to see the Frost artifact story
Outside of that, meh, stick to my paladin and my warrior-paladin-wannabe
All I'm saying is, if they can do this much work for weapons and forms for every spec, the art team should probably have time for diverse mechs
but ret paladins are wheelchair wannabes
Back in wrath you had more minion summoning with raise undead giving your friends a 5 minute ghoul before it became a brez
I enjoy my Unholy to much since my warrior is an orc (Blackrock armor, I kinda had to)
More boring than shiny arms warrior?
More boring than MM hunters that just auto attacked and stacked armor pen
Disagree, but okay
Ret was the tits in Wrath. My favorite expansion
On the topic of mm, im both happy and sad for the BfA changes
Judgment, crusade, divine and occasionally you hit Consecration
Ban top of the charts
Divine?
Divine storm
Ah
The changes look great and move away from the vulnerability rng, but RIP consistent aoe, and RIP arcane shot
Eh, MM does need a tuneup
Was thinking DI
Mine was Judge - CS - Cons - DS - Exorcism
And then keeping Consecrate up
DS only when CS and Judge were on CD
They also already gutted a talent on the alpha that made the spec flow properly
Exorcism wehn Art of War procced
Yea. Pretty boring tbh.
For you, maybe
No thought process=boring for me
It's almost like alpha is a work in progress
That's why you like arcane mage? LOL
Ya but progress in the wrong direction isn't a good thing
What talent, Porter?
The one that made quick shot have 1-2 free charges
You clearly dont play arcane then
Gave time to generate focus for your aimed shots
Now it doesn't reduce the cost, but reduces its gcd, meaning it's worse to use quick shot
Oh you're talking Hunter
Arcane Mage has had 3 buttons for like 10 years, and you wanna talk about no thought process? At least with Ret I have to try and maximize my Judgment window and not use HP when it's off the target, which requires me to pay attention to boss debuffs and my own rotation/cooldown.
3 damaging buttons yea. But those 3 damaging buttons is far from the entire rotation of Arcane.
I'm glad you enjoy Arcane Mage, dude, but don't sit there and say "Arcane's 3 buttons are way more intellectual and thought-provoking than you boring groundpounders"
I'm not
you're the one pushing that narrative onto me
The most I've ever said is 'I enjoy arcane mage because it gives me more thought process than any melee I've played'.
"No thought process=boring for me" in reference to melee/Paladin
"Melee = no thought process = boring. Arcane's 3 buttons are for me!"
eyeroll
In reference to your comment of 'For you, maybe'
Yes, you literally made the argument that melee doesn't have a thought process
Again, I will iterate that arcane is a lot more than just 3 buttons. Especially now-a-days to maximise.
Why can't we link direct pics here I have the perfect pic
Idk, Porter. I noticed that too
kek
😂
I mean direct link from devices, the plus in the corner is gone only in this channel
oh yea. For some reason mobile doesn't remove that button but the desktop and I think web clients do
Idk, I can't Ctrl+V images into chat anymore either
Anyways lemme take the hit and be the big boi and come halfway benj: In terms of pure rotation, yes arcane mage is more boring. However, as I iterated before, Arcane mage gives me a lot more decisions to make during a raid fight than just the buttons I hit which melee simply hasn't.
You just have to throw in the backhand with that don't ya?
Death Knights are boring, what
Playing melee is boring for me.
ur boring
Lol
ur borin
no u
but u gei
i hope that's not what it looks like
oh what, now is when you take offense to memes
lol
i don't take offense to anything. Period.
Would you like me to define my name for you?
I thought vol 3 would go to at least legion. Since that'd be the most up to date and its the last of this three parter.
Oh yeah that's out this month
Eh, Im fine with this, gives us more detail with each xpac
chronicles 4 will probably have a longer wait anyways
Also, Azshara confirmed to be behind both Zandalar and Kul'tiras main villains
Faction war over by 8.1
🤔
I dont expect it to be.
I mean, I feel like that was already a moderate given that she/N'zoth were behind everything
Would be a cooler twist if the faction war continued
"yeah theyre fuckers but also you're fuckers"
N'zoth eats the world if we don't get our shit together
Not smart though. Actually, revisiting the faction war isn't a smart thing in general but w/e
Well that was a given but too late now
"We've had back to back doomsday events for the past decade! Instead of prepping for the next inevitable one, lets go back to murdering one another!"
Makes for good first act drama, admittedly
I am all for Teldrassil/Undercity going up in flames
Definitely an interesting direction
But they can't have an actual winner and loser, so
And (hopefully) they can't have Sylvanas go Full Garrosh already
Because god forbid the Horde be the honorable people they're supposed to be
I mean she's basically already Girl-Garrosh
they were when Vol'jin led
But blizz said "Wait, we can't have a troll be a major NPC! Kill'im off like a bitch"
Let's make the Edge-Queen the Warchief, that's a great idea
Admittedly, there wasn't that many obvious choices left
Until Saurfang and Baine got new models and lines in a cinematic, anyways
Gotta have PVP
Willing to be diplomatic but also not afraid to cut you down in the middle of the night if need be. He was awesome
I miss Vol'jin V_V.... and Zul'jin
Voljin for Loa 2018
Pretty sure he's becoming one, I know we deal with him in Nazir
Apparnetly he'll have some char-dev with green jesus
Who I also can't stand anymore -.-
You mean regular orc with no powers?
Thrall, yeah
Forsaken by the elements
Yeah cause the mofo cheated lol
Gave away his hammer
well his hammer was taken, and then when the farseer picked it up after doing some recycled cata quests, he realized the farseer knew how to use it better than him so he let the farseer keep it
Thrall was supposed to be the honorable one. Cheated and kicked around himself, he was supposed to be the one who valued honor above all else. And then GARROSH turned out to be the one who showed up honoring the rules of Mok'gorah
Thrall shows up in his armor, wielding doomhammer, and kills Garrosh with magic. There's only 2 rules and he broke them both! Lol
At least Sylvannis keeps her word... I kid I kid
lol
garrosh used a weapon too, did he not? using magic was certainly crossing the line though since garrosh did not have this opportunity
OSX
Garrosh came to the duel with no armor or weapon
The rules of Mok'gorah allow you to choose ONE weapon if you want to
In which case you may choose a weapon OR shaman magic
ah, I see
And even then, iirc, you get one element
You can't use your entire array of shamanistic powers
yea thrall went too far...
But Thrall showed up wearing armor, with Doomhammer, and then used stone, fire and lightning to kill Garrosh
Because Thrall didn't want to lose
because Garrosh was channeling years of anger at being abandoned, again, and left with the responsibility of Warchief that he DID NOT WANT
elements abandoned him because water felt left out /s
He was a soldier, a grunt, he was good at it and wanted to stay at it. But then put in power, he did what a soldier does
He went off to war and unfortunately got WAY carried away
They could've done a lot better withhis development tbh
true but a game isn't the perfect platform for storytelling
Quite frankly, during the cutscene with their duel, I was rooting for Garrosh
I was also rooting for garrosh simply because he was actually beating up thrall before thrall cheated
He was a dick, and a war criminal certainly, but he seemed to be 100% justified in his rage
A real shame since playing through some of the old zones he seemed cool
Level scaling actually allowed me to finish that arc
He had his moments
He seemed to bounce back and forth between whiny bitch and epic warrior
It's like the writers couldn't make up their minds if they wanted him to be the exact opposite of Grom because of his shame for his namesake, or if they wanted him to live up to the badassery that was Grom Hellscream
Finally. People who understand that Thrall is an honorless cheater.
he's still Green Jesus tho
Alex in chains while everyone fights deathwing!
I’ll be honest I’ll take Thrall over about half the alliance, but I liked him better before he went all green Jesus
Still wanting some gnome stuff, poor buggers get nothing
Well it is true lol, they have the least plot relevance of any race, even less then the pandas
And maybe trolls post-Vuljinn I guess
Lol I saw that panda
he was a swell warchief and admirable adversary. Shame he tossed that out the window to prove he was a better man than garrosh.
Here's some more pics
It looks like different people get access to different pages
text refers to pre-Arthas Lich King as 'the Lich King' and 'the entity' and not Ner'zhul
🤔
Bolvar 9.0 confirmed
He has always been the lich king
He was the lich king before Arthas
Nerzhuls spirit is the one in the armor
DK class missions = best class missions right Vris?
But that doesn’t change him being the lich king
Well, older stuff sure implied it was just Ner'zhul's spirit
And the old Arthas novel said that Arthas killed Ner'zhul's spirit
You misunderstand Peach, I have been a strong proponent that Lich King, Ner'zhul and Arthas are all seperate Entities.
Well Arthur is in Frostmourne
Not in the armor
No
Nerzhul is the lich king
Until Arthas is the lich king
But that’s still sort of nerzhul
Arthus’ stupid auto carrot
It’s like two spirits in one body and a suit of armor
I would argue that the armor enchanted with ner'zhul's soul likely had magic of its own. you'd expect a prison of sorts made by the burning legion to have some sort of restrictions
Then Arthus gets pulled into frostmourne when it breaks, DK artifact quest
We find him in the shards
surely the personality of "the lich king" was ner'zhul, but I don't think it is wholly ner'zhul
well Arthas already had given his soul to frostmourne
and Arthas tells us that we're still bound to him. Him being the Lich King.
yes, arthas was already in the blade
Not Bolvar or Ner'zhul, but the Lich King itself. We're bound to that curse the Legion created.
But nerzhul is the lich king
He is the spirit of the armor
There isn’t another entity beyond him
but he's not the helm.
Yes he is
The helm of domination was part of the armor
it's always been doubted whether or not arthas' vision of killing nerzhul was correct
because he also killed the boy
Well yeah
This is, after all, the whole point of the Chronicles 😛
yet the boy was around in Wrath
Nerzhul technically died
Legion kind of literally did say that Ner'zhul's fragments and Arthas's fragments now lived in the blade
His body was destroyed
If I take your soul and put you in armor and call you the lich king, you are yourself, you are the lich king
the thing is peach, until now, it's always been the Lich King and Ner'zhul were interchangable
now that's no longer the case.
Oh
I actually never noticed that
Guess they are confirming they are one and the same then
Or there is some kind of transition?
Yeah, far as I remembered, it used to be more that Ner'zhul might have been changed, obviously, but he was still Ner'zhul, bound to the armor or not
Hence why the seperation of Ner'zhul from the Lich king entity is such a big happy day for me. I theorize that once you merge, scraps of you are left behind.
But it's just interesting that the text isn't saying Ner'zhul, and calling it an enity
Think of it like going through a shredder. The paper is apart of the garbage but pits are still there and can be identified.
And part of nerzhuls soul somehow
Even though I’m pretty sure the blade wasn’t legion@made
No clue how nerzhuls soul got into the blades
It was. The whole scourge was legion made.
"The Lich King would never forget Kil'jaden had done to him"
still betting nerzhul is inside the helmet, but he was just frragmented with arthas' icicle vision
I thought the sword was forged earlier
Despite the fact that KJ did that to Ner'zhul
explaining why theres a fragment in frostmourne
Dread Lords had made Frostmourne and the Armor.
🤔
according to wowpedia the sword was made by nathrezim
it cites the "arthas" book
I will try to find the book on my shelf and find a more direct quote
it was, frostmourne and apocalypse are similar nathrezim made blades
All the cursed runeblades were made by the Legion to make DKs similar to arthas to empower the scourge
I did not know that the sword was cursed in order to trap you into putting on the armor
thing is, mortals still have will power even with the sword.
This has damn near made my day
When does volume 3 release?
27th
Vrykul sleep was caused by the Dragon Aspects to stop them from taking over the world
Cool
I think it was vaguely described in the quests
Something related to the Curse of Flesh and the tiny human babies
I thought they were put to sleep by the titan keepers to wait for when they were needed
And that they awoke post curse of flesh
some were put to sleep by keepers/dragons, some went to sleep on their own
To Wowpediaaaa
(before it gets updated =P)
"In an effort to stave off the curse of flesh, the Dragonflayers went to sleep beneath northern Kalimdor in facilities such as Gjalerbron.[10] The Tribunal of Ages, a record of false history created by Loken,[11] erroneously claims that he ordered this hibernation. "
Ah
Doesn’t make it wrong
Those that awoke post curse of flesh maybe went back to sleep
Or it’s talking about other vrykuls
Given people have reacted with the greatest betrayal of the notion Chronicle stuff getting retconned
There’s a lot of vrykul in northrend
Oh, wait, yeah
I'm skimming the article >_>
Other bit says that Tyr asked the Aspects to stop different vrykul from pillaging
Which is different from Ymirion's vrykul dealing with the Curse
page 61 chronicle 1, ysera and norzdormu put winterskorn to sleep
page 66, dragonflayers decide to sleep because the curse of flesh is causing malformed newborns
I wish I could find my Arthas book lol
now I'm curious about the frostmourne and armor thing
wanted to check the citing from an article on wowpedia I found
the dread lords had made it at Kil'jaedens wishes I believe in an effort to create the Lich king and the undead scourge that would soon plague Azeroth. its why Mal'ganis leads him to the blade, to start corrupting him for the Legion.
yes, that was what it said on wowpedia
was just curious how it was referenced in the book
so where are you finding these images?
oh, ok amazon prime people get to see it?
@heavy cairn 'Tichondrius seemed not to notice. He pointed to Frostmourne. “The runeblade you carry was
forged by my kind, long ago. The Lich King has empowered it to steal souls. Yours was the first one it
claimed.”'
Alright, done
All the amazon prime pics from everybody in one album https://imgur.com/a/1JDsG
Are they allowed to post them publicly?
I mean its viewable on amazon so
yes but its viewable by the public
The paying public
You can get a free prime trial
Amazon does not care if people copy the book previews
^
there's no NDA saying prime memebrs have to stay hush hush.
It’s the internet. If they cared they would have a watermark
that'd be like the alpha for BFA. It was put for the public to enjoy. If it weren't, there would be an NDA about its information.
^
shrug
Nothing like alliance getting shafted with boralus and overall zones compared to horde
That's just like, your opinion, man
saying this as a horde player, I find the alliance zones really nice looking.
from what I've seen, that is. can't really tell much without actually being part of the alpha 
Is it actually proven Boralus is gonna be fucked up through quests in there?
nope
So no reason to feel bad over it being fucked up, since it's not certain it actually will be.
No problem, no worry.
WoWhead didnt include it in the recent post, but theres a line that hints Jaina may save boralus
exactly, just like people shouldn't freak out over datamined horde story text
the only confirmation is its release into live wow
Except for the horde zones are far more complete have more of an exciting story
I don't see why Jaina WOULDN'T save a city/town from where she's originally from.
Even though she was exiled/imprisoned.
I mean the scenario, which is certainly not complete, and is not open for testing
The alliance story seems half assed
That doesn't mean anything, Manaless. It's still alpha
I mean if it wasnt obvious
The game is months away from being complete
Just wait until it's actually fully fleshed out.
Worrying needlessly helps nobody.
Sure it does, it just confirms there horde bias they've always had. They have better allied races better bfa zones
Idk i think the Monster hunter them is pretty cool in the Alliance zones
Again, your opinion.
The giant constructs
Horde has never looked nice for its leveling zones tho.
burning effigies monsters
I've heard more complaints of an "Alliance bias" more than a "Horde bias" throughout my time of playing WoW.
horde's allied races aren't really better (until maghar comes)
^
Not really an opinion when a far amount of people share the sentiment and there's been a blatant horde bias for years
Well the highmountain racial charge is nice....
currently we have a night elf subrace that can't be a druid, then two restricted subsets of tauren and trolls which are almost identical minus new tattoos and standing up straight (minor additions)
There has been Thrawl bias for years, not horde bias
Zandalari is its own model
Dinosaurs > glowing beards
It's its own skeleton and everything
Not entirely. It's half troll half nelf.
Thrall Bias =/ Horde Bias
Horde bias being what you claimed there'd been lots off.
yes, zandalari is unique but doesn't solve any problems other than "hunching"
no shoes, etc.
What thrall bias lol
green jesus
Misread who said it
Metzen had a hard on for green Jesus but that's besides the point
he's literally green jesus
My bad.
so horde may get two new druid races but they are literally subraces that are barely different. alliance is wrong to be complaining about horde getting "better" races when both factions' situations are basically the same
Horde has had no areas get destroyed outside of maybe one or two while alliance gets fucked every expansion.
Thrall got all the bias on horde side, horde as whole is only just getting it
You mean camp taurajo
Horde are getting recolours and new models, alliance are getting recolours, thats why people are saying horde bias
Horde has always had uglier zones compared to alliance, for example WoD, look at the zones that they start in
WOD was a shit fest in general
Horde gets Ice and spikes, Alliance gets a beautiful valley
Its beginning really wasn't.
yes, alliance gets pretty zones, at the cost of sometimes getting destroyed. but horde zones aren't immune either
Wtf? Shadowmoon was shit in comparison to frostfire, cmon frostfire is amazing
warchief number 5?
Looks, not questing btw
I absolutely loved the forested planes of Shadowmoon compared to the glacier plains of Frostfire tbh
Yes, but frostfire was better
Frost fire was ice and black mountains
Frost fire was nice the garrison was dog shit but the zone itself was nice
It was objectively not better
shadowmoon is a lot prettier than frostfire in my opinion. frostfire is certainly the prettiest winter-themed zone, but doesn't make it better than shadowmoon
Everything the horde makes that isn't elf is horrible to look at mana
that hasn't changed since vanilla
theyre meant to be more barbaric, cobbled together
@dense plover btw all my toons are alliance, so not even fanboying
Slow your roll vris
Thunder totem is awesome
Thunder bluff is awesome
And now we get zuldazar
Sky cows
Thunder Totem didn't start out as intrinsically Horde to be fair
thunder totem made before horde, but I have to say "prime" tauren structures are fine
That shit is supreme awesome
Indeed. the horde didn't make thundertotem
Anything Orcs make look like dogshit though 😄
re-read what I've stated.
I like some of the orc structures though
It’s just that a lot of them in one place feels like too much
Post garrosh when y'all went Ironclad yea it looked somewhat better
still looked like absolute eyesores though
ME ORC, BUILD HOUSE, PUT MANY SPIKES
LOL
^
It defends you from aerial pigeons landing on your roof
yea those Aerial Pigeons are a true terror and threat to teh stability of the horde
The only three alliance leaders I like (not counting pandas) are the gnomes, space goats, and dwarfs
-Humans/Worgen i can't trust
-after a certain legion zone i hate Nelfs more then ever (Tyrande TYRANDE TYRANDEEEEEE) also they are the reason we have Shelfs
MORE SPIKES NOW
The tyrande thing was funny tho
I dont get why people hated it
Why hate night elves for Xavius mocking them?
it was literally the best ten minutes of trolling ever done in legit warcraft canon
Tyrande is the reason we have Shelfs, Allaince hate her more then I do
since they lost out on shiny elfs, and got emo elfs
high elves haven’t gone because of her
High elves are still part of the alliance
But they are visually too similar to blood elves to ever be playable
Literally the only difference is a slight skin tint change and eye color
Honestly though, only 3(and a panda) out of 7 leaders I think are good leaders, that is not really good odds
@sharp bluff Shelves*
Same could be said with orcs
Sorry it auto corrects Bowbee

nah its shelfs
On horde, I trust Suarfang, Baine, Panda, Belf, the spirit of Voljiin
like belfs and nelfs
belves and nelves
still undecided on Sylvanis
same with shelves
shal'dorei
Noalliance hates Tyrande
what are you talking about
and she is not the reason the Shal'dorei joined the horde
she didn't help in that regard, but she wasn't the cause of that
zep, I think it's shiny, but shal'dorei also works
they joined the horde because blizzard wanted them to join the horde
Really? evn though what happened in suramar, where she insults the Shal'dorei non-stop?
They joined horde because the Horde was nicer to them than the alliance, Tyrande was a bitch, and they have a kindred spirit in the elves that also used to be mana-crack addicts like they were/are
Secondly, she was interacting with people who backstabbed her then had the gall to invoke the 'kindred spirit' thing when they turned their backs on her collectively.
It was more then that, every incursion quest she did on horde side
wait, when?
also lol third time's the charm
No i mean she insulted the Shelfs' (not horde we had the other elf insult us horde every time) every quest
The other chick insulted us horde everytime
Tyrande: speaks with concern
Thalyssrah: "f*ck you we gnna join the horde and murder you lmoa"
^
thalyssra already proved herself as a bad leader in my eyes
They will ether learn to live without the well, or die
Tyrande has legitimate concerns and Thaly gets insulted by it. She tries to force Tyrandes cooperation with guilt and nostalgia, Tyrande in turn does not take kindly.
the issue I have is that the nightwell only was the way it was because of being cut off from azeroth (that's the theory, the actual reason is unexplained)
they didn't really have to destroy it. why can blood elves keep the sunwell but not nightborne elves with the nightwell?
They're bitches to each other for their ideologies.
They did though. The Legion wouldn't stop coming after it and unlike the Sunwell, it wasn't going to get light blessed anytime soon.
They had the means to break its hold on their people, a symbolic breaking of the old chains.
From a horde standpoint it sounded like all she said was bitch, your people will man up or die, we wont help you
not a single care for the people
that is a pretty big symbol to use
Because she was there to fight and win a war. not make friends.
^
tyrande is justified, this is on thalyssra
Belves did both, and quite well
Zep doesn't believe such.
Tyrande: "ur mom gay"
Thaly: "no u"
joins horde
Belves did both because they had common ground.
My Bias is mainly from the horrible quest line that dealt with her a few zones earlier
They had been in the same situation as the Nightborne and thus had more commradery in such.
its still literally just "How dare she imply I'll betray her like the last two elven leaders? just for that, im going to betray her!"
I see the alliance becoming more military like ether way
Implying Thalyssa made any agreement with Tyrande beyond 'let's kill elisande and defeat the legion'
The alliance has always been more militaristic.
either way, give me more gnomes over elfs
You got more gnomes back in cata.
Keep dreaming fam
that's really all they've needed to do on the world scale because theres not much else presence for them anywhere on Azeroth
I will lol
Like i said 3(4 if count pandas) leaders only make half the leaders I trust, I will trust the Prince-ling again when he get the worgen outta his ear
But we shall see
who knows maybe BfA will change my mind
Why wouldn't pandas count?
Implying the pandas will do anything
Well on both sides they really havnt done much since SoO
so idk what to say, i dig them
I love them both.
but not much has happened plot wise
Theyre just star crossed lovers who unfortunately, had to pick a side.
The horde one just kinda meditates in our hut
I take it you dont read the books
And i hear their are currently 2 of the alliance panda a few seconds away from each other currently
One at the lake, and one in the embassy
I did not, but I did enjoy the starting zone, the story of those two was lovely, and it is sad when I see them in SoO
I have not done the Monk class quests yet, but I know they are there on the turtle
So I am glad they met up again, even if just for a bit
they also met up during War Crimes
the novel that is
and they were described as slinking off for supposed nuptials.
uh huh, little cubs when?
They'd be alliance cubs, but no idea when
I know they would, but good for them
They've been one of those adorable couples in WoW.
one of the few left alive that is