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slate ingot
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Blizzard has a horde bias lol

dense plover
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lol

slate ingot
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Don't be in denial

dense plover
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youre shitting me right?

slate ingot
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White knight much

dense plover
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fucking 3 warchiefs

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3 fucking warchiefs

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and you just now lost your first leader

uncut vault
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Manaless, have you actually played the alpha? Cause Drustvar has a coherent, interesting story

dense plover
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we lost cairne in a book

slate ingot
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It doesn't tgo

uncut vault
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Order of Embers stuff is great

dense plover
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^\

slate ingot
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Drustvars story is bad

meager warren
dense plover
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drustvar is cool

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@slate ingot if drustvar is so bad

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mind telling us the plot?

uncut vault
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But have you actually played the alpha?

dense plover
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since you seem to know so much?

heavy cairn
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yknow, I like the fun discussions we have, but I'm going to leave if you're just arguing about unfinished, unfinalized content

meager warren
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Manaless is probably just complaining because they have nothing better to do

dense plover
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^

slate ingot
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I'm more than one person?

dense plover
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seems like it considering the bullshit being spewed

heavy cairn
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Singular they is the use in English of the pronoun they or its inflected or derivative forms, them, their, theirs, and themselves (or themself), as an epicene (gender-neutral) singular pronoun. It typically occurs with an antecedent of indetermin...

dense plover
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^

meager warren
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^

slate ingot
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Using Wikipedia as a source for English lol

meager warren
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LOL

uncut vault
floral grotto
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Not knowing the basics of pronouns. lol

dense plover
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^

uncut vault
heavy cairn
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[Manaless] I'm not using it as a source personally. I knew of singular "they" before googling it just now to grab that wikipedia link. but it's a quick way to get started before you actually look at more reliable sources

meager warren
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wikipedia is a lot more reliablle than most shit

slate ingot
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God I forget how toxic most of this community is

floral grotto
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Honey, no one was being toxic.

meager warren
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^

heavy cairn
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to be fair, you're the only one acting remotely toxic

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complaining about horde bias and the like based off of early alpha content

uncut vault
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complains about shit they dont know about or havent tested

slate ingot
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Lol no

uncut vault
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calls everyone else toxic

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๐Ÿค”

slate ingot
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I don't think you know what that word means

sharp bluff
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Horde leaders lost count: Baine, Garrosh, Voljiin, Sylvanis at least twice, Thrall kinda left us, the Belf guy betrayed us, Goblin guy betrayed goblins

floral grotto
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You were complaining endlessly, someone pointed out you were complaining endlessly. And we educated you on pronouns. That's not toxic.

meager warren
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Says that both Zandalar and Kul'tiras are amazing
Gets talked over.
Gets called toxic

slate ingot
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Asserting facts isn't complaining

sharp bluff
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Alliance: the only good human

meager warren
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what facts?

dense plover
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its not a fact

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opinion is not a fact

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ever

meager warren
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^

slate ingot
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It is your just to oblivious to it

dense plover
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never ever ever

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oh fuck off

heavy cairn
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you're arguing opinion not fact, and stuff in early alpha may be a fact but it's a fact that doesn't matter at all since it's changing before live

dense plover
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grow the fuck up

uncut vault
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tfw people dont know that two entirely different continents have separate aesthetics, and you dont have to enjoy both

meager warren
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welp. there's the ad hominem.
about time

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peach, don't stoop to their level

dense plover
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if you dont want to participate in a coversation, fine. then go

floral grotto
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Peach, relax.

dense plover
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dont just say everyone else is wrong and go on complaining

slate ingot
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Naw you should pay attention to the shit blizzard is pulling

dense plover
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its rude, and adds nothing to any conversation

floral grotto
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Don't pull out the profanity. There's no reason for it.

meager warren
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Manaless should also pay attention

dense plover
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^

floral grotto
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I agree

meager warren
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And hey, imo there isn't any word that is "profane" as long as it's not directed towards anyone

slate ingot
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Instead of being ignorant to it there is a blatant bias and its comical how many people don't see it

heavy cairn
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๐Ÿฟ

dense plover
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if only you see something, then it isnt there

meager warren
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Manaless, i see it.
Trust me.
We all see it.

dense plover
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thats called a conspiracy

wide lance
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tin foil hats!

dense plover
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its a normal thing the human brain does

meager warren
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Alliance and Horde both get everything they ask for but both sides complain no matter what

dense plover
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we look for patterns

slate ingot
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But hey go ahead and stick with the guise of alpha is alpha its not a conspiracy when they've done the same thing for years

dense plover
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we put them together

uncut vault
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I can agree that Horde zones and races got more focus. But that doesnt mean that the Alliance ones didnt, or that their stuff is objectively bad.

sharp bluff
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๐Ÿฟ ๐Ÿ˜ฎ ๐Ÿพ

dense plover
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and then make a decision about that pattern, whether the decision is educated or not

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yeah horde stuff is just a lot more finished

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its extremely obvious just by looking at the zones themselves

meager warren
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tbf, a conspiracy is something that is actually happening.
A conspiracy theory is something that some asshole made up

uncut vault
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They clearly spent the brunt of their initial time on Zandalar, as it is basically finished

floral grotto
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I'll wait till beta hits before I begin making opinions on what's going on with this. Alpha is still unfinished stuff.

uncut vault
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Kul Tiras very clearly is not

dense plover
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alpha can mean rewriting an entire storyline

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they did it for highmountain

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and a bit for azsuna too

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suramar wasnt even implemented for most of alpha

floral grotto
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And they simply could be working on one side first and then the other. We truly don't know.

meager warren
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What if Manaless is just mad cause Alliance isn't getting those sweet orcs

uncut vault
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I also have another simple tip: you arent bound to one faction

meager warren
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^

wide lance
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I'm ok being orcless

uncut vault
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if horde content is so good, go play horde content

floral grotto
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I am

dense plover
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im going to play both

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im excited to play both

floral grotto
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I'm not dragging my decade old guild Horde side.

meager warren
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i need to get a 110 ally b4 bfa hits

dense plover
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Boost

meager warren
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no

dense plover
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or allied race

meager warren
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boosts are for plebs

dense plover
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not to use to unlocked allied races

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and then level the allied race

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(which is what I did with the 100 boost)

meager warren
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why

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and i have a 100 draenei shaman so using a 110/ 100 boost would be kinda stupid

heavy cairn
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what's the big deal if you already have a 100 shaman>

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legion content is very quick compared to older content

floral grotto
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Broken Isles invasions with heirlooms are your best friend

meager warren
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because i hate my shaman

floral grotto
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I love my shaman.

heavy cairn
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who cares? get on your flying mount, hover over the broken isles, get into groups for invasions, get XP

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you don't even have to PLAY (though you would be a waste of group space technically)

meager warren
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pffff

floral grotto
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Lava Burst spec is so much fun as Ele

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I always participate in my invasion groups.

heavy cairn
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I do too

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but technically you do not have to

strange falcon
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i like my sham too

meager warren
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ye, everytime i do nothing in a group, i get kicked.
not happening

floral grotto
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Eh... I kick people who don't participate.

meager warren
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^

floral grotto
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People need to play the game.

heavy cairn
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fine. I guess I never tried not participating. well let me rephrase, you don't need to concentrate on playing

meager warren
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pay to play.
pay by dying a million times

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and play by crying

heavy cairn
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how exactly do you die when you have a group tho?

meager warren
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NEVER UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER

floral grotto
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Oh it's possible in invasions.

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I do all the time.

heavy cairn
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hm, I've levelled at least half my alts (so 6+) using them and only when I was stubborn and wasn't in a group did I die

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well, I guess some people have more alts than me

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ยฏ_(ใƒ„)_/ยฏ

floral grotto
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Especially in Highmountain. The one with the wolves and the one in the cave are a pain.

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Otherwise, I don't usually die.

heavy cairn
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alright thanks for the insight

meager warren
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lol
usually it's the opposite for me. i know, 80% of the time, what my character can do. the other 20% of the time, i'm dying. Or, when i'm in a group and the tank pulls EVERYTHING, thereby overloading the healer's abilities and killing us all or a dps pulls shit and everybody dies or healer only heals tank and doesn't pay any attention whatsoever to dps

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ye, needless to say, not a fan of groups

hollow dock
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For me its; I know what I can survive until I don't. Like that jump I miscalculated and overshot.

meager warren
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kek

hollow dock
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Gravity is my arch-nemesis in all RPGs.

heavy cairn
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I just avoid jumping down even sorta-closes distances on classes with no ability to cancel fall damage

hollow dock
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So only hunters, DHs, and mages jump?

heavy cairn
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hunters (disengage) (oh you said that), shaman (that wind thing), priests (levitate), there are more, I think...

meager warren
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what, hunters can cancel fall dmg?

strange falcon
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technically you can use flap for druids

heavy cairn
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druid flap, thanks, also paladin bubble

meager warren
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drlap

strange falcon
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warrior heroic leap

heavy cairn
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yea heroic leap but I generally avoid doing that unless I tested it before since it's unreliable

meager warren
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a fall a day keeps the doctor away

hollow dock
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If you disengage at a reasonable distance from the ground it 'resets' the fall

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and thus reduces the fall damage

meager warren
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heroic leap doesn't work on falling dmg

hollow dock
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heroic leap does if you time it right

meager warren
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unless ur that good

strange falcon
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it does

heavy cairn
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heroic leap does work, just in general it says "no path available" (at least it feels like it's in general, perhaps I don't remember all the times it succeeded)

hollow dock
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As again, it 'leaps' you to the ground.

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Never said that for me. Unless I was leaping onto a mountain.

meager warren
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hopefully they make its distance farther.
i wanna jump from New Dalaran down to Nighthold.

hollow dock
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You can do that with a glider

heavy cairn
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I mean, you can already go from heaven to earth

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what more do you want

strange falcon
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if you are jumping between buildings it may say "no path available" as there is in fact no walkable path available

meager warren
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Heaven? wat

hollow dock
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I miss when you could leap up to heaven

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as well as down

heavy cairn
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warrior class hall = halls of valor

meager warren
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Heaven =/= Halls of Valor

heavy cairn
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and warriors get out by jumping down to earth

hollow dock
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Halls of Valor is the standin for Valhalla

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it is the Vrykul heaven

meager warren
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^

hollow dock
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so yes it is a heaven

heavy cairn
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it's vrykul heaven

meager warren
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eh

hollow dock
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Valhalla being the Viking Heaven

heavy cairn
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whether it's heaven or not, it's higher in the sky than "new" dalaran and you can land anywhere on the broken isles (well, a few set locations)

meager warren
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Valhalla lets more people in than Abrahamic Heaven :khadgarface:
Yeah, religious myth is discriminate af

hollow dock
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let's not get into that

meager warren
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2l8 m8

heavy cairn
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not really

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just delete the message as it contributed nothing to the conversation

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and carry on

meager warren
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ur the one who started talking about heaven

heavy cairn
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because that is totally what I meant ๐Ÿ‘

meager warren
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"the sky"
"heaven"
one is easier to say and the other has a lot of... controversy behind it

hollow dock
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We started talking about it because its something that is being done.

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Halls of Valor is the Heaven of Vrykuls. Warriors leap down and sometimes back up to it.

floral grotto
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^

heavy cairn
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don't they leap up more than they leap down?

hollow dock
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they only got six places to leap up to it

heavy cairn
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there's no way to get there except leaping up, meanwhile you can get out without leaping down

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so, while each leap down must be accompanied by a leap up (meaning leaps down at max = leaps up), not every leap up needs to be accompanied by a leap down

hollow dock
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I remember a time when you could leap up at any time anywhere.

heavy cairn
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yes, in the alpha, I heard

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every class got a teleport

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I wish DHes still had a portal :(

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all hero classes deserve it

uncut vault
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they should have had their own death gate

hollow dock
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all classes deserved a teleport in there

heavy cairn
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[porter] they did until it got removed

uncut vault
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that said, the way they get to their class hall is ๐Ÿ‘Œ

heavy cairn
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I hate how we get to our class hall!

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well not anymore

meager warren
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all classes deserve a teleport to their class hall like DKs

heavy cairn
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but gliding down was a pain

hollow dock
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and mages

heavy cairn
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slower than just riding to a portal

hollow dock
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and monks

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and druids

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essentially, everyone except hunters, shamans, warriors, etc.

heavy cairn
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only the classes that had a teleport before get a teleport now. the issue I see is that the teleport was basically useless before (minus mages' teleports, but that's one of the features of the class, not something arbitrarily decided for a set of classes) but now it's really useful

meager warren
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at least we still have the hearthstones

hollow dock
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Give that 1/3rd their teleports

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Hunters can call down an eagle

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Shamans open an elemental rift

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Warriors just leap like the hulk

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who else

meager warren
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Shamans can't open an elemental rift from anywhere on Azeroth

hollow dock
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quiet you

meager warren
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Warriors can't access their class hall from anywhere on Azeroth

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Hunters can't call down an eagle from anywhere on Azeroth

heavy cairn
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why can we call our mounts anywhere on azeroth and even on draenor...?

hollow dock
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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Why can I call up my Huntsmaster wolfhawk from anywhere?

meager warren
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wat

hollow dock
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I whistle for it for petes sake

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The animation for mounting the Huntsmaster Wolfhawk (the hunter class mount) is you whistling for it

meager warren
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Huntmasters Wolfhawk isn't an eagly ffs

hollow dock
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Yes it is

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its part bird

meager warren
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no it isn't

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it's more like a griffin

heavy cairn
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hunters can call an eagle to fly them to class hall, warriors can call a val'kyr to make a trampoline, warlocks can signal their other warlocks using magic to start a summoning ritual, etc.

meager warren
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but instead of a lion, it's a wolf

jade basalt
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Actually Odyn and his val'kyr could call down a beam for you to leap up/down anywhere. The reason there's only 6 or so, one in each region for you to reach, is just gameplay.

hollow dock
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WARLOCKS TELEPORT DOWN VIA DEMONIC CIRCLE

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no

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but its something they can do

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that green portal thing they make. Summoning Circle I think it is

meager warren
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they can only summon people to their location with summoning portal. can't teleport themselves anywhere iirc with it

heavy cairn
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the teleport thing they can use remotely is "demonic circle"

hollow dock
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Demonic circle thats what it is

jade basalt
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They also got the 2 portals they can place

hollow dock
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Gateways

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!!!

jade basalt
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To leap from one spot to the other r

heavy cairn
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gateways are leaping from one spot to another

hollow dock
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yea thats not really teleportation.

heavy cairn
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I don't think it's a good idea to leap across a continent using them

hollow dock
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I mean

heavy cairn
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unless you have like 20 gateways in a chain instead of just 2

hollow dock
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as long as you dont hit anything

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you should be fine

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but if you do hit something

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well.

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cue the ending of TLJ

jade basalt
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The reason they only take you like only 10 ft forward is because of gameplay again. Technically portal gateways could take you anywhere (well, depends on how powerful you make them), hell you even take one to reach Dreadscar Rift.

meager warren
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*Warrior tries to jump from Eastern Kingdoms to Northrend. Splats on the side of Highmountain

heavy cairn
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the gateways aren't teleportation portals

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they just make you into a ball and throw you to the other gateway

hollow dock
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Yea. The gateways need to be in the same plane of existance. (as the one that takes you to the Dreadscar IIRC has a portal in it.)

heavy cairn
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you can't do that across long distances or through dimensions

hollow dock
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the normal ones dont

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well we can. We take a gateway up onto a legion ship

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just gameplay restricts that

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cuz that'd be broken

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Imagine WSG with a global gateway

heavy cairn
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well yes clearly warlocks have access to cross-world stuff

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but the "demonic gateway" spell isn't going to cut it

hollow dock
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demonic circle channel

heavy cairn
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whatever legion uses or dreadscar rift uses would work

jade basalt
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They are literally called 'Demonic gateways', this is what gateways do in lore. But for very obvious reasons yours can only be like 10 ft apart and you can't put one on each continent.

meager warren
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well, hey.
Gul'dan was a warlock and he did it cross timelines

heavy cairn
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again, it's not the same type of gateway

meager warren
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shhh

heavy cairn
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in lore the warlock's demonic gateway isn't really there, but I'm sure it would be if raid encounters existed...

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my guess is that "throwing the ball" consumes less energy than a true portal
cuz fel-powered portals consume life, which isn't very helpful when you're trying to send living things through them

hollow dock
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I mean

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just sacrifice a few demons

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not like we're running out of those anytime soon

meager warren
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depends on which ball it is

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;)

heavy cairn
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true teleportation really only matters long distance if you're not a nightborne

jade basalt
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It's a Demonic gateway. That's all. It literally says it takes you through the Nether. It's a gateway like all the others. It's just that for gameplay reasons they can only take you 10 ft further.

heavy cairn
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so that's why the ball is thrown instead of extra energy being consumed

meager warren
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so demons are gonna be a problem for a while.
We're gonna need more DHs in that case

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TROLL DH CONFIRMED

heavy cairn
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traveling through the nether isn't teleportation, it just has its benefits

meager warren
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how about those rogue stealths tho.
where do they go when they vanish? ๐Ÿค”

hollow dock
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in the shadows

heavy cairn
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in lore they probably aren't invisible, they are in the physical world just hiding in places that aren't obvious to people looking around

jade basalt
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It's a gateway. I really don't see what there is to discuss. It's a demonic gateway like all the others. There's even one that looks exactly like yours in Dalaran that takes you to Dreadscar Rift, it's just that for gameplay reasons yours don't allow you to go to other worlds and continents, but just 10 ft.

heavy cairn
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"It literally says it takes you through the Nether."
my demonic gateway does not say that

jade basalt
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Yes it does, check your debuff.

heavy cairn
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being faded into the nether doesn't necessarily mean the gateway was used through the nether

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could just be a side-effect

jade basalt
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'Faded through the Nether'

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It means you were faded through the Nether.

heavy cairn
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that's just a random reason to have a 90 second cooldown for gameplay reasons

jade basalt
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Yes. It also means you were faded through the Nether.

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It's a gateway. I really don't see what there is to discuss. It's a demonic gateway like all the others. There's even one that looks exactly like yours in Dalaran that takes you to Dreadscar Rift, it's just that for gameplay reasons yours don't allow you to go to other worlds and continents, but just 10 ft.

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They have the same name, they have the same look, they have the same functionality.

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It's just a gateway.

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Nothing contradictory about them.

meager warren
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Quiet, you don't need to say the same thing twice

heavy cairn
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repeating yourself isn't going to change the fact that both the debuff and the spell are only for gameplay. so we have no proof that such a gateway requires fading into the nether, nor that it's actually done by throwing a ball (because such a spell doesn't happen in the lore)

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so both of us are wrong, I guess

floral grotto
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What did I miss while I was cooking dinner?

jade basalt
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discards all the proofs
"we have no proof"

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The flavor text of the debuff says you were faded through the Nether.

heavy cairn
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just like the DK resurrection debuff says void-touched even tho shadowlands is distinct from void

meager warren
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Quiet, are u new here?
People use logical fallacies all the time here

heavy cairn
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it's random text meant to sound cool that doesn't really have lore basis

jade basalt
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@heavy cairn You realize you can use Shadow/Void magic to rez people/reanimate right ?

heavy cairn
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yes, but the death knights use necrotic magic

jade basalt
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They also use Shadow.

heavy cairn
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but they use necrotic to reanimate the dead.

steel venture
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Don't frost DKs use shadowfrost ffs

meager warren
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OSX, by that logic, no text in the game has lore basis and is just meant to sound cool

steel venture
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literally the lich king himself used shadowfrost

jade basalt
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We can see the Shadowmoon animating the bones of their ancestors with Void magic.

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Nothing weird about Shadow being used to rez.

heavy cairn
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[edgy] not really. these debuffs both existed before lore really existed for void & nether

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so since they touch on them it's safe to assume they are inaccurate

steel venture
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but it doesnt mean they aren't canon

heavy cairn
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unless it's been proven otherwise

steel venture
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you realize the shadowlands is literally the fucking land of the dead right?

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and the raise ally spell taps into the shadowlands to bring the player back

heavy cairn
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shadowlands is not void tho despite "shadow" being in the name

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it's decay / necrotic

jade basalt
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Look, it's called a demonic gateway, like all the other, many demonic gateways, and it looks like a demonic gateway, so really there's not much debate to have.

meager warren
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Bliz isn't very good at keeping shit consistent.
They've retconned shit so much that anything we can think of about the topic, based on the old lore, is likely to be conjecture

heavy cairn
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[quiet] fine. warlocks could have a gateway across content

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I wasn't arguing against that anymore.

steel venture
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Like, you're not going to disprove Mind.
Mind literally is one of the folk that catalogues. All of this.

heavy cairn
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I was arguing against the validity of the ingame ability

jade basalt
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Yes they could and they literally make one in the warlock campaign, which is the one you later use to reach your order hall

steel venture
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most spells are canon.

jade basalt
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Which looks just like your own demonic gateway

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Just more powerful

steel venture
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just how they WORK might be limited by lore.

meager warren
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tbf, Mind is showing their foolishness by arguing with a fool

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"When you argue with a fool, they will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience"

heavy cairn
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I'm a "fool"?

meager warren
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ur both fools

steel venture
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or how they work by lore isn't respresented because it'd be game-breaking.

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basically.

floral grotto
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Xan is correct.

heavy cairn
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I agree with xan

meager warren
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we've done a lot of lore-breaking shit at this point so why not game-breaking

floral grotto
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We have?

heavy cairn
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so you call people fools for so-called "fallacies" yet you display similar patterns

meager warren
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that's not why i called u fools

steel venture
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EX: Resurrection is typically more difficult than gameplay makes it seem. (Lore-limitation.)
But mages and warlocks get limited by game mechanics for balance reasons. Otherwise portals and gateways would be more broad. (Game-limitation.)

floral grotto
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You're not going to live that one down, Edgy.

meager warren
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Anyway,
we killed Kil'jaeden, Archimonde, the Sha, Avatar of Sargeras, Deathwing, Ragnaros, Argus, and other shit

heavy cairn
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"Quiet, are u new here?
People use logical fallacies all the time here"

(implying me)

"OSX, by that logic, no text in the game has lore basis and is just meant to sound cool"
(reinforcing that)

... no other comments that really edge towards "fool", until...
"tbf, Mind is showing their foolishness by arguing with a fool"
(so, you are either just calling us names for no reason that we know of or you are calling us names based off of the only reason you gave, which to be fair isn't the most logical)

meager warren
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all of that, i think is pretty lore-breaking

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no, that was to Quiet's claim that there was proof against your claim that there wasn't proof.
Did that specifically refer to you? No. It's not implying you.
Reinforcing what?
I called you both fools because that argument is likely never going to end until you both sit down and talk by listening to the other

heavy cairn
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it was implying me because he was talking to me, and you were implying it was someone other than quiet by using "people"

meager warren
#

it was implying the general person in this discord and literally everyone

heavy cairn
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so, "literally everyone"

that smells pretty fallacious to me. I find it unlikely that everyone exhibits a certain trait. almost everyone? sure

meager warren
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Hey, i don't discriminate. i hate everyone equally

heavy cairn
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most fallacies are probably not based off of your opinion. I don't get why you are using your feeling of "hate" as justification, except to provide another example of a fallacy.

steel venture
#

Kil'jaden's defeats = Armies, by lore. Both times.

Archimonde's defeats = Supernatural beings the first time, and some of the most powerful forces of Draenor the second time.

Deathwing = The Dragon Soul did the final blow, and Maddness of Deathwing isn't really Deathwing anymore, it is the possessed, deceased husk of his corpse. Horde and Alliance armies involved.

Ragnaros = Already suffered defeat by a large army in the past, and then another at his doorstep. Once again, not a singular effort.

Argus = The most powerful individuals of Azeroth, aided by the titans, slew Argus. And there was a massive campaign to get to this point?

Sha = Sha are simple enough to be felled by adventurers, and the larger ones. Doubt, Fear, etc? ... Campaigns for those. Again.

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By lore it is never JUST 10-25 people.

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So don't even pull that card.

meager warren
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if i acted rationally all the time, would i deserve this nickname? ;)

dense plover
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except illidan

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that one is canon as of the illidan scenario in legion

heavy cairn
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I highly doubt that is fully canon

steel venture
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It isn't.

heavy cairn
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"pulled aggro" doesn't happen in lore

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he doesn't "drop a glaive"--at least a real lore character would not say it like that

steel venture
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The depiction in the Illidan novel is the canon version.

dense plover
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^

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i was teasing

steel venture
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I do appreciate how they're deciding what kills whent to which faction though.

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EX: Lady Vashj was an Alliance kill, Mag was a Horde kill.

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since both factions needlessly spreading their resources to try to take out the EXACT same threat versus neutralizing things on a wider scale makes no sense

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especially when some kills made no sense to be by both factions

sharp bluff
#

Who won the ship battle in ICC lore wise?

steel venture
#

Not sure if addressed previously, but is it mentioned in the Chronicle previews so far Mind? @jade basalt

jade basalt
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Not that we have seen so far

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I'm not sure if they will address it

steel venture
#

I wouldn't be surprised if it is though, since isn't it covering up to Cata?

jade basalt
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It is covering up to and including Cataclysm yup

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Last pages are the Dragon Soul raid etc.

steel venture
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Nice. ๐Ÿ‘

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...

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dissapointed that they didn't address why and how the night elves joined the alliance though

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from what we've seen

meager warren
jade basalt
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There is a lot that won't be covered. V3's "lore value" will inherently be lower than the other volumes because they decided to cram 5 entire games and expansions into 200 pages, so of course there is a lot of skipping and little room for details, or even simple expansions. It's mostly going to be a retelling of what we know, with some twists maybe. The Lich King section is literally word for word the same as the WC3 manual (with a couple additions like the Vrykul/Val'kyr bit). Though there's still some neat stuff, mostly regarding the WC3 campaign parts, and the Vanilla/TBC ones.

floral grotto
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"After the third war, the night elf nation also joined the Alliance, though the exact moment at which they joined is unknown. They were motivated to do so by the continued logging operations of the Horde in Warsong Gulch." That's all we know. And I don't know what of that is covered in the Chronicles.

distant folio
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@uncut vault wow, where did you find this?

distant folio
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Are these legit?

jade basalt
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Hey that's the one I stitched together. It's missing like 10% of the lower half but it's just more icy path.

uncut vault
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2/10, needs more ice

zinc sandal
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I disagree with everything that has been said so far.

jade basalt
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Agreed.

hollow dock
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I agree and disagree with everything said

tranquil steeple
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I disagree with myself, and agree to disagree with my disagreement over my own agreement.

restive sage
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so your saying you disagree with your argeement

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okay

sharp bluff
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I'll be I was right, even though I was joking, Big LK was trying to unite the Horde and Alliance lol, Chronicles has some good stuff

hollow dock
#

wat

steel venture
#

....

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yeah unite them in undeath to take over the world.

hollow dock
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Was he meaning Arthas?...I dont comprehend

uncut vault
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even kul tirans want to be zandalari

rich apex
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I don't blame them

hollow dock
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Like. Arthas tells us his plans. Did you really need chronicles to learn that?

sharp bluff
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nah, but it makes it better that it is written down in a book meant to confirm things

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Now I just have to remember what LK 2.0's desire was....

uncut vault
#

this volume is great for me personally because it distinguishes between what was just "hey this is badass" quest designer writing and what story they actually wanted to tell

dense plover
#

you have to pay the troll toll

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lol

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i was waiting for the its always sunny reference

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i knew this expac would have one

meager warren
#

Vol'James seems like a fraud. Says 'mon' too much

hollow dock
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But. He tells us. Personally. While we're dead. His intentions. There was no need for a book to tell us that. :L

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Bolvar has no real desires. He took the helm to become the lich king. For what reasons we arent aware of but he just hints his plans.

sharp bluff
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Yes I know he tells us that, but considering how much they retcon, to have it confirmed is nice

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That he was mostly in control, and his desire was (while twisted) his own

hollow dock
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But. What? They hardly retcon anything large. Last large one was the eredar. In BC.

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The arthas book even tells us that he was in control :v

floral grotto
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I'd consider the chosen one and the Exodar pretty big retcons.

crystal forum
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Sooo... How many chronicles are there? 3 now? Time to spend some money

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I should be asleep cuz I have to get up at 2am but lol I'm scrolling cuz this discord is my fav

elder otter
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Yes, the third comes out this month.

sharp bluff
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Are good Warden friend not being wanted for killing High Elfโ€™s

floral grotto
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*Highborne. And yes, she should've been locked up. Then I wouldn't have had to listen to that gravel voice and her obnoxious comments.

uncut vault
#

I mean, she still probably is wanted

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she just didnt interact with basically anyone from night elven society save her brother

floral grotto
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Uh... killing a bunch of people and attempting to stop an alliance between the Worgen and the Alliance is kinda more than just a Nelf matter.

uncut vault
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Good thing she didnt reallyt interact with any alliance members either, except for us murder hobos

floral grotto
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Nope! No one at all. Just everyone on the Broken Shore.

uncut vault
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yeah, like I said, not alliance members

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Aside from Velen, who is Velen

rich apex
#

I for one can definitely live with that whole 'maiev went psycho because she didn't have an illidan to chase' plot being quietly retconned

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(bonus points given the end of Illidan's hunt is portrayed as triumphant instead of soulcrushing)

uncut vault
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I mean, I took it as the same character flaw she's always had, an unhealthy obsession with justice

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10k years can warp your view ofwhat's just

floral grotto
#

Still doesn't make it excusable in any way, shape or form.

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And I am sure that there were Alliance members on Broken Shore somewhere. Unless we're saying that all of those NPCs are somehow neutral. I'm not even talking about Velen, either. Genn was down there a couple of times, along with Anduin, as well-- and obviously those two know the situation. Why no one seemed to care that a murderer and someone who tried to commit treason was running around... well... I guess demons are more important than previous storyline. She should've just been locked away before all of that so it didn't seem like we were all just ignoring it. Made for an awkward storyline in Val'sharah and Broken Shore. Also: they won't retcon the Maiev thing or they'd have to retcon an entire book. Let's not go the way of Star Wars. lol

uncut vault
#

I mean, yeah, thats exactly it. Who would focus on imprisoning two people who are renowned for killing demons

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when we're facing demons

meager warren
#

wht'd Maiev do? o.o

floral grotto
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Killed Highborne and tried to pin it on the Worgen in an attempt to screw up the talks between the Worgen and the Alliance to bring them into the fold.

meager warren
#

oh.
Nothing any of the other leaders hasn't done

floral grotto
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Uh... okay.

meager warren
steel venture
#

So, think it's kind of obvious now that Highborne ARE supposed to look more different. Blizzard's choice to use an NPC nightborne model for a highborne is very intentional.

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They don't throw that NPC tag out at random.

serene geyser
#

I cant find the WoW Blog I read, but is it true that Guilds will become cross server in BFA?

dense plover
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i dont think so

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but there will be communities

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which are cross server and allow you to invite people to groups easily, chat with them, etc.

serene geyser
#

I see

tulip sun
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That is interesting

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Where will that npc show up

dense plover
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Tbh, pretty sure you can be highborne and also be a nightborne since suramar was a higborne city prior to the WotA

tulip sun
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As long as they make them look a tad different.

hollow dock
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Highborne arent genetically too different, depending on exposure to magical enerfies, to night elves.

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The issue is that you cant get the differences out in WoW, or really any MMO, because the work is just to much. And the art teams arent really told anything. So ๐Ÿคท

proud karma
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They're between nelfs and helfs phylogenetically

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So I say go wild bro

hollow dock
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Theyve always been portrayed, on majority, as being very light skinnes but still nelves. Being a highborne has always been more of a social caste than a physical state.

tulip sun
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I mean, having arcane tattoos and such like nightborne does not make much sense

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If they share models

hollow dock
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Idd. Which is why I noted up top, depending on exposure to magical essences.

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Night elves are more resilient but still change to them.

stray anchor
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Nightborne models aren't exactly like the Nelf ones though

proud karma
#

I'm just saying they had to make the switch at some point

hollow dock
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Theyre mutated ones.

proud karma
#

A nelf didn't just wake up one morning as a high elf they
Yeah they mutated

hollow dock
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They didn't start changing to Helves until the Sunwell was made.

proud karma
#

I just think it's fun to imagine the arcane changed em

hollow dock
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that's...exactly what happened. :o The sunwell changed the Highborne who went to the Amani lands and their overuse of it is what triggered it. Just like how the nightbornes overuse of the Nightwell changed them.

stray anchor
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So in a nutshell, what is the sunwell is it like the well of eternity but infused with light magic?

hollow dock
#

The Sunwell was made to replace the Well of Eternity for the High Elves dependance on magic. Overtime they've found otherways but the Sunwell to sate their addictions, but it was essentially a smaller second Well. Until arthas came and tossed Kel'thuzads ashes in there and corrupted it, severing its ties to the elven people. Kael'thas further corrupted it by letting hte Legion try to summon Kil'jaeden through it but we beat them back. Once we did, Velen placed the heart of M'uru, a Naaru the Blood Elves had stolen Light from, into the Sunwell and then cleansed it. Now infusing it with Light energy of Creation rather than arcane, effectively reducing the addiction to pre-Arthas levels and begun cleansing the Blood Elven people of their fel corruption.

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that is what the Sunwell is.

proud karma
#

They're not going to mutate more

hollow dock
#

They already are. It's confirmed that a few generations down the Line, Blood elves would, lore wise, be born with Golden Eyes rather than Green.

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Plus the whole thing with Umbric and the Void Elves.

stray anchor
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Aren't their eyes green because of the time they were afflicted by fel?

hollow dock
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Yup

stray anchor
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Or does the fel addiction go back so far?

hollow dock
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Fel acts like radiation. It's spread through their ranks and the Sunwell is fighting it off, but its slow. Like radiation and its half-life.

stray anchor
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basically wasn't it a "recent" development, rather than something thousands of years before?

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I guess recent in elf time can be a really long time

hollow dock
#

Timeline wise, it is 'recent' but the Sunwell is reducing it. The Blood elves as a full people never sucked up Fel, they were exposed to it by the higher ups who did suck it up through the fel crystals around Eversong.

proud karma
#

it was very recent, like last 10years or so

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i can't remember when exactly arthas did the thing but a blink of an eye for an elf

hollow dock
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Arthas had performed his act I believe 5 years prior to BC and the cleansing and a total of 11 since then.

proud karma
#

oops pardon, 16 then

hollow dock
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It's a long time, and we dont know the exact half-life of Fel, but we do know that Light can instantly cleanse its corruption when directly applied from a powerful source. (See Velen clearing Fel Fissures and Gas in the Exodar at breakneck speed.)

half nebula
#

Well, we have Quel'dorei, Sin'dorei, and now Kylo Ren'dorei. Bring on the Alah'dorei.

dense plover
#

dont forget shal'dorei

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those are the nightborne

sharp bluff
#

Shelfs Belfs Nelfs Velfs

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lol

hollow dock
#

the elves are in every color of the rainbow at this point

sharp bluff
#

pretty much lol

terse patrol
#

grrr

#

when we getting part 2 of silithus

rich apex
#

Soon (TM)

#

The post expac drought hasn't started yet if Blizz still technically has more Legion content in the wings ๐Ÿค”

stray anchor
#

Do you think there will be some sunwell plateau style mini raid before the end?

dense plover
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no

#

they specifically said no

#

we are done with raids

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as soon as the silithus content drops, we wont be getting anything else until prepatch

stray anchor
#

Ah very well. It wouldnt seem right after such a grand ending there

hollow dock
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We are getting no major raids were their exact words

floral grotto
#

I have this feeling there is no part 2 of Silithus soon. I think it'll just be Prelaunch.

hollow dock
#

That's exactly what they want you to think

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THEN BAM

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part 2 silithus

rich apex
#

Clearly the entire PTR patch with draining the Sword was just a red herring

#

What really happens is C'thun rises from Silithus and consumes Azeroth

#

BFA isn't actually happening

hollow dock
#

^

#

this is just the long con

rich apex
#

I mean, Blizz probably -does- have the spare money to do that

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But you don't exactly become a billion dollar developer by wasting money like that

#

Unless you're Chris Metzen trying to make an MMO that doesn't compete with your other MMO and also lives up to the name Chris Metzen

hollow dock
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And then fail at it because not even Chris Metzen can live up to an MMO made by Chris Metzen.

rich apex
#

I'd get anxiety too if I had to tell Morhaime I burned a million bucks worth of dev time with nothing to show

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Poor bastard

hollow dock
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Well it wasn't an entire blunder. It turned into Overwatch didn't it?

rich apex
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Truuue

meager warren
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World of Warcraft > Overwatch

crystal forum
#

HAH I was really confused what you guys are talking about until you said it turned into overwatch and I just burst out laughing this was the best scrolling session I've had

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Also I think we deserve a channel on specifically just to discuss lore and stuff like that but that's just my opinion

hollow dock
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Nah this is the perfect place for it

meager warren
#

no, this is the perfect place to discuss spoilers.

hollow dock
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Exactly. Lore, for people who were unaware of it, are spoiled it.

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and all lore in the past builds up to BFA, so its all relevant.

meager warren
#

wat

hollow dock
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You had said this is the perfect place to discuss spoilers.

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If people are unaware of the lore, it will get spoiled for them. Thus it belongs here, all lore leads up to BFA and so its all relevant to the discussion of BFA spoilers.

meager warren
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A lot of the lore is retconned so that's not quite true

hollow dock
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Not entirely? if its retconned lore, then it has no relevance to anything. So why would it be talked about?

meager warren
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You may have mistakenly used a word up there

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when u intended something different

hollow dock
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When we're talking about the Lore of Warcraft, all of it pretains to the current situation of BFA as it all leads up to it. If its retconned, then its no longer apart of the Lore of Warcraft.

meager warren
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I consider the term ''all lore'' to refer to all lore.
As in, retconned or otherwise lore.

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๐Ÿ˜‰

hollow dock
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If its retconnes then its no longer in the lore though.

meager warren
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it's no longer in the canon lore, u mean.

hollow dock
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No it simply isn't in the lore. To retcon something is to write over that piece of information. It's no longer brought up, unless someone is unaware of the fact that it was retconned.

meager warren
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define lore

zinc sandal
#

Lore that has been retconned is no longer relevant.

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Thus, not worth bringing it up under any circumstance.

floral grotto
#

People are allowed to bring up whatever they want.

ivory meadow
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of course they are but if it pertains to discussion about the canon and current lore then retconned lore shouldn't be brought up as it has no relevancy or value.

floral grotto
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Everything has some relevance or value in some respect. We've brought it up before. What's the issue with talking about it?

hollow dock
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If you would scroll, I'm making the argument that Lore can be brought up here as it all has relevance to BFA.

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retconned lore

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doesn't and can't

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because it never happened or has been overwritten. Thus isn't relevant.

ivory meadow
#

^

meager warren
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"Lore" is a broad subject, of which retconned lore is.
That's my argument

uncut vault
#

lets discuss the merit of god and hellspawned orcs in warcraft

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:^)

meager warren
#

no

uncut vault
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its lore

meager warren
#

they're neither spawned by god nor hell

uncut vault
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ya but in the original warcraft lore, orcs were brought to azeroth by the demons of hell, so clearly we need to take this into account in all theories

meager warren
#

possibly.
But as Vris is set on, that's not worth discussing since it's not canon anymore

#

About our talking of Pirates of the Caribbean a while back, @hollow dock Jack Sparrow's debt to Davy Jones was his own soul, not that cargo of souls that would have died by Cutler Becket.
Here's a convo in the movie,
"You have my payment. One soul to serve on your ship."
"One soul is not equal to another."
"We've established my proposal is sound in principle. Now we're haggling over price."
"Price?"
"Just how many souls do you think my soul is worth?"
"One hundred souls. Three days."

plain vigil
#

wait we're STILL on this!?

zinc sandal
#

Donโ€™t you know? These guys never let go.

meager warren
#

hey, people are still complaining about pandas and there's a lot of vitriol in #classic-wow of which i participated in some ;)

floral grotto
#

FINE. SUBJECT CHANGE. So how about that weird cat form thing Zandalari got? I think it's dumb.

sudden oak
#

I mean its as dumb as a lizard cat could be

floral grotto
#

It should've been a little raptor. Ninjasaur.

ember tiger
vast roost
#

Nice.

stray anchor
#

Where can I see the new cat form?

frigid crater
stray anchor
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Thanks!

tropic trail
#

Lol, that moment when you already saw the bee mount in wotlk.

floral grotto
#

They did a poor job with how we sit on that bee.

twin kindle
#

do we know zandalari racials?

hollow dock
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We know their names but not wjat they do

eternal carbon
#

Hopefully they will have the 20% haste racial

hollow dock
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None of the revealed abilities indicate its a haste buff.

dense plover
#

Also, a 20% anything racial would be broken af

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Maybe 1% like highmountain

hollow dock
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Trolls already have it tho peach

eternal carbon
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Yup

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It's an ability

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But no matter the racials, I will still change my hunter to a Zandalari Troll

high crag
#

One of the logos for a racial looks like a regen or healing buff/spell

dense plover
#

it definitely is

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this is about zandalari right?

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City of Gold
Embrace the Loa
Pterrodax Swoop
Regeneratin
Ward of the Loa

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those are the names

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so regeneratin is definitely healing

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city of gold probably has to do with getting more gold or getting cheaper prices or something

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pterrodax swoop sounds like some kind of attack

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and ward of the loa looks like a totem

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embrace the loa i have no clue

eternal carbon
#

yes.

steel venture
#

Embrace of the Loa might be their version of a Berserk.

#

Sounds like an active spell + cooldown.

hollow dock
#

maybe AP/SP?

steel venture
#

Probably!

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(probably not as great as darkspear's mini-heroism is but yknow)

hollow dock
#

unless it itself is heroism or resource granting, very doubtful it'll ever be as great. Unless its CD is like. 3 minutes.

dense plover
#

well they need passives too

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im assuming the ward is probably a passive

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and the gold one too?

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so maybe yeah, then the loa one could be active

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i would love for pterrodax swoop to be equivalent to a flight whistle but at any level

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then that could match up with the dark iron mole machine

steel venture
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Regen / Ward / City probably are the passives. like, at the very least. i'd say.

dense plover
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i thought regen would be active

steel venture
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Regular troll regen is passive so, i wouldn't doubt this one.

dense plover
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making it passive would be more OP

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but its possible

steel venture
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The tradeoff is that it's really not that great for darkspear trolls, so. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the same regen.

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Unless they do reflect the more-up-to-date lore with troll regeneration and make it an active heal like Gift of the Naaru, but for self-heals only.

sharp bluff
#

Well I doubt it, but it could be

#

I have been thinking about the DI Dwarves Mole Machine racial, and all I can think is flight whistle

hollow dock
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I think it'll be more like the eagles Hunters can research

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Fixed points in somewhat convenient points across the world

sharp bluff
#

That would be pretty cool actually

dense plover
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that would be way more work

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its way easier to just make it take you to the nearest flight point

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although i hope they also add an heirloom flight whistle

hollow dock
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? How is that more work to take a system that already exists and just plop in a temp mole machine?

dense plover
#

no im saying its less work to take the current system

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you are suggesting adding fixed points

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thats way more work

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you have to go back and select points

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flight whistle just automatically selects points

hollow dock
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They've already proved it's something they can do. Look again at my example of the Eagles.

dense plover
#

yeah

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they had to add those though

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do you expect them to do that for every zone?

#

thats a ton of work

hollow dock
#

1 per zone

#

that's not hard

dense plover
#

okay

#

thats a lot

hollow dock
#

It really isn't a lot of work when the system is already in game

dense plover
#

its a lot more work than just a flight whistle with a different animation

hollow dock
#

thats the exact same system, it just wouldn't go to a flight point. Like the eagles.

dense plover
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the eagles are new flight points

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you have to add those

hollow dock
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They aren't

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they teleport you

dense plover
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but they had to be placed manually

strong python
#

it's more work than a flight whistle but it's not a lot of work when they already have it made

dense plover
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they arent the same as flight points

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im not saying its a lot more work

hollow dock
#

you just said

dense plover
#

but i am saying it is more work

hollow dock
#

it would be

strong python
#

it'll just be a matter of replicating

hollow dock
#

[12:44 PM] mrpeach774: thats a ton of work [12:44 PM] mrpeach774: okay [12:44 PM] mrpeach774: thats a lot

dense plover
#

yeah

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compared to copying code?

hollow dock
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Yet. you're saing its not a lot of work.

dense plover
#

they have to go through and edit all of the zones

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all of them

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then they have to make sure that the model they use looks good when placed

hollow dock
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They dont. They just take a system that alreayd works in game, they know how to do it, add it to the rest of azeroth.

dense plover
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because it would be a mole machine

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yeah

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but the system isnt just code being copied

hollow dock
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They already have a working mole machine model

strong python
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yep

dense plover
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they have to place those locations

strong python
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it's not really that much of a trouble peach

dense plover
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the flight whistle would literally just be code with a different model

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its less work

hollow dock
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It's just as much work as mine. Because you'd have to code that flight whistle to take you to the closest flightmaster across all of azeroth

dense plover
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no

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im fairly certain the whistle just detects the nearest flight point

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and all flight points have the same code

hollow dock
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Yes

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in a closed world

dense plover
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so theres no need to do anything

hollow dock
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with very spread out flight points

dense plover
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and?

hollow dock
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Have you seen how many flight points there are in Azeroth?

dense plover
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do you know how easy it is to get the game to do math for distance?

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its really easy

hollow dock
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and how many are very bunched up

dense plover
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so?

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it literally does basic distance math already

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you dont have to do anything

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im fairly certain that if the current flight whistle was enabled in current zones, it would work by default, no work required

strong python
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I agree with you peach

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it's less work indeed

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but it's not an acceptable "excuse" you see?

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they could easily do it

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although just doing a flight whistle would be even easier

dense plover
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im not saying its an excuse, im giving a possible reason why if they do a flight whistle ability, it will be more likely to do this one

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these are allied races, not fully fledged races

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less work is expected

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but

strong python
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I know you're not saying it's an excuse

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I didn't mean that

dense plover
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if they do a flight whistle ability system, they have to make an heirloom flight whistle

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or the people will form a mob

strong python
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yes, it is an allied race but a much more developped one

dense plover
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yeah

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both are so far

strong python
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like Zandalari are with their unique druid forms and stuff

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yup

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I wouldn't be surprise with the whole eagle system

dense plover
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i hope the rest of the races get new druid forms

strong python
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but I get your point and a flight whistle it's more likely to come

dense plover
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or this will be a little bit bullshit

strong python
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^

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true

hollow dock
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that's probably why they didn't want to do it in the first place

dense plover
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im still going to make a zandalari druid

strong python
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I have high hopes regarding the unique druid forms

dense plover
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which means Vris, that they might plan on doing it

strong python
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for everyone

dense plover
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they really only need to do half of highmountain

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3/5

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and then redo worgen, nelf, and tauren

hollow dock
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I think nelves can stay the same, just change everyone else.

dense plover
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maybe tweak troll a bit

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yeah, the forms are most iconic for nelfs

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i would love tauren to get bull instead of bear form

strong python
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holy shite that would be awesome

dense plover
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dont get your hopes up though

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its probably low priority

hollow dock
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Id honestly want the Tauren forms to just be more gruff.

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Like the Quillboar.

strong python
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worgens getting on four instead of cat form

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oops

dense plover
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once current art is finished then they will work on extras

hollow dock
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The worgen forms to be more wolf-life

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Troll forms to be more island-based animals.

dense plover
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^

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but not dinos

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dinos make the most sense for zandalari

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i could raptor travel ground for regular trolls

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but outside of that

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an update to bat form

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maybe make the cat into a sabertooth or tiger

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make the bear a turtle or crustacean or something

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and no clue about moonkin

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maybe a mix with bat similar to zandalari being mixed with lizard?

tropic trail
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Well, if the forms were more island based, then I'm sure Blizzard could throw in a parrot flight form

hollow dock
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Nah, the bat form works fine for em.

dense plover
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yep

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it has a canon reason for being different

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but it could use an uprez

hollow dock
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aren't they updating the bat models?

dense plover
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maybe?

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i havent seen an updated model

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but i wouldnt be surprised if they do because of Hireek and Nazmir

uncut vault
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The existing bloody bat models actually fit Nazmir really well

dense plover
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theyre just a bit old

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arent they from mop or cata?

uncut vault
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Was a mount in MoP and mobs in WoD

dense plover
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found another cool new weapon

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and another

hollow dock
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thats not a cutlass. thats a broadsword.

dense plover
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not quite

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the grip isnt meant to block an attack like a broadsword

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it really doesnt match either sword quite right

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and since when has blizzard gotten naming right?

hollow dock
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this is as bad as Dark Souls 3 tho

rich apex
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that helmet tho

hollow dock
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yea its a pin head

zinc sandal
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If the helmet looks like that....what does the guy's head look like?

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@_@

hollow dock
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Oh if you think thats bad

meager warren
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That's an odd-looking human.
Unless it's not human?

hollow dock
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His head is 100% normal and he is 100% human

meager warren
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he's got a giraffe's neck

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he also looks like beefed-up Schwarzenegger on steroids

solar trout
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Iโ€™M SELLING MY SPECTRAL TIGER CARD (CODE) FOR 400GBP OR INGAME GOLD! WHISPER ME ON DISCORD FOR PICTURES ETC..

sharp bluff
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not sure your in the right channel mate

dense plover
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^

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definitely the wrong channel

solar trout
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What channel then?

sullen dagger
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general / offtopic?

hollow dock
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it amazes me taht people head here. is this just that active of a chat?

sharp bluff
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most active one, but they also posted in screenshots to so idk

dense plover
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if they post in all of the channels, theyll just end up getting their messages deleted or banned

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its against the server rules

meager warren
untold fractal
tulip sun
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A nightborne camp o.o

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Fighting dark iron

dense plover
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well

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nightborne are there for the artifacts

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its a pastime

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and so are dark iron

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nightborne are horde and want the artifact

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so they fight the dark iron

tulip sun
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I just like they have a nightborne camp

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It's really neat

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And the invading the opposite island, lol

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Gallywix xoming

dense plover
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oh ofc he is involved

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apparently he also pays the alliance for some islands

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he gets most of the azerite so in a way, the alliance help the horde

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i really wouldnt be surprised if he ends up being a boss or something

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him as the king of diamonds makes a lot of sense

terse patrol
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ye i get the feeling he's playing both sides

hollow dock
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What the business man is playing both sidesin the conflict to expand his profits

rich apex
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I will laugh if Gallywix is the King of Diamonds

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Turns out the real villain

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was capitalism

hollow dock
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LOL

rich apex
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Morhaime laughs as he counts his pre-order numbers

hollow dock
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can we get that Tom Cruise meme but for Mike?

uncut vault
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camps arent just for artifacts, dark irons are fighting two fights at once

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nightborne for artifacts, goblins for azerite deposits

meager warren
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Capitalism is the real villain.
It's always been the real villain.
If it weren't for capitalism, Gallywix and Sylvannas wouldn't be ruling the Horde

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and it's because of irl capitalism that Vol'jin chose Sylvannas probably

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he could have chosen Saurfang or Baine or Thrall

uncut vault
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I mean, if his choices were really only saurfang and sylvanas. Maybe lor'themar, but Baine's like 6, and thrall's going through a mid life crisis

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in the end, Sylvanas is probably the best military leader in the Horde

dense plover
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or maybe

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just maybe

meager warren
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Baine has more maturity than Sylvannas. And he's chief of the Thunder Bluff Tauren

dense plover
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the loa really DID tell him

meager warren
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the loa don't really have a track record of making the best choices

dense plover
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because they knew she would be the only one willing to do what needs to be done

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they generally make better decisions than the average npc

uncut vault
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I mean, I still think it was Bwonsamdi telling him, simply because he wants souls, and whether demons or Alliance, he'd get that from sylvanas more than anyone else.

dense plover
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he said loa plural

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the loa

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not a loa

meager warren
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loa can refer to singular or plural, iirc

uncut vault
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and bwonsamdi is probably included in that

dense plover
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it can

uncut vault
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and probably the person he'd listen to most

dense plover
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but the sentence structure implies plural

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the loa be speakin to me

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they be whispirin a name

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Sylvanas

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they

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the loa

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it implies plural

uncut vault
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Im not saying it wasnt many loa. Im just saying Bwonsamdi was probably included in that.

dense plover
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probably

meager warren
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maybe.
we'll just have to wait and see, that's if Bliz ever clarifies what Vol'jin was talking about

dense plover
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but bwonsamdi isnt completely selfish

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he helps

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hes a loa

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maybe hireek too

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maybe gonk

uncut vault
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He's definitely selfish in BfA

dense plover
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not completely

uncut vault
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and Hireek's corrupted

dense plover
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not at the point of Voljins death

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not to our knowledge

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we have to assume it happened in the year since

meager warren
dense plover
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discussion

uncut vault
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Not really arguing, we're agreeing on most things ๐Ÿคท

dense plover
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^

rich apex
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Quick

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Someone say Garrosh did nothing wrong

meager warren
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you've been contradicting each other

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no

uncut vault
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I'll try to find the text but it talks about the blood troll threat building for years, and Rastakhan ignoring it, with loa going silent

meager warren
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Garrosh did a lot wrong

dense plover
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oh

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the threat has for sure

uncut vault
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Hireek is one of the loa that went silent

dense plover
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but i dont think hireek has been quiet for that long

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i could be wrong

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in which case, maybe hireek chose sylvanas to cause chaos

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because that would benefit ghuun

uncut vault
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I'll be playing through Nazmir again next build so I'll pay attention to quest text more

meager warren
dense plover
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i ignore the forum

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its toxic

uncut vault
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Gen discussion's turned into the story forums for people who dont know the story, from what Ive seen

meager warren
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Discord is also toxic

dense plover
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not like the forum

uncut vault
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equal complaining and argument, but without knowing what theyre complaining about

dense plover
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not even close

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i so want to playtest alpha

meager warren
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T. R. Y. M. E

dense plover
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i would kill to walk around a populated zuldazar

meager warren
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I would walk to kill around a populated Zuldazar

rich apex
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I did question the logic of Blizz wanting to remind people of WoD with AU Allied orcs >_>

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But now that they've shown the clan skins, I admittedly can't complain

meager warren
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because it made more sense than multiplying the number of uncorrupted orcs in Outland by the thousands when there's only a handful of orcs left there

rich apex
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Eh, can't be thousands of void elves

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And people can still RP Outland orcs now

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So as win win as it gets

meager warren
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there's thousands of blood elves.
Blood Elves corrupted by the Void turn into Playable Blood Elves.

uncut vault
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I dont think Blizz hates WoD as much as we do

rich apex
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Probably not

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But it ain't like they're not aware

meager warren
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wat

rich apex
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Of course, they're dealing with endless whining regardless of the expansion ๐Ÿ˜›

uncut vault
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the nightborne camp actually fits Zuldazar quite nice in terms of color

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some dark iron shamans in zuldazar

dense plover
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yeah

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they are confirmed shamans

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they have cool anvil totems

uncut vault
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Wonder what the Eye is

dense plover
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its a gem from what i gathered watching nobbel play through

rich apex
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Plot device

dense plover
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probably

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it seems like they are actually attempting to make archaeology fun too

meager warren
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wouldn't be the first time

rich apex
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'only the Eye can defeat G'hunn/Azshara/N'zoth'

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alliance and horde start murdering each other to get it

dense plover
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i doubt that

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thats too central for a side quest

rich apex
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Who knows at this point ๐Ÿ˜›

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Alpha be alpha

dense plover
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its not a required story quest

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so we have to assume it cant be that important

meager warren
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are they talking about the Eye of the Kirin'tor?

dense plover
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no

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Eye of Xibala

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artifact side quest on zuldazar

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nightborne and dark iron are involved

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its on the coast where you can see the big dino skeleton

tulip sun
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Can you get anymore up close of the nightborne

dense plover
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they look like nightborne

hollow dock
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wha

dense plover
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its a mix of the old and new ones

hollow dock
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no

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the nightborne dont look like nightborne

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I must know what they look like

tulip sun
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So? V.v Dark iron are dark iron

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I just like to see what's there

dense plover
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ok

floral grotto
tulip sun
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Where are these located

floral grotto
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What do you mean?

tulip sun
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Nvm

uncut vault
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Theyre in Zuldazar in the southern coast

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they use old models

terse patrol
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salt

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I like how angular the old models are.

meager warren
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is strong

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new models > old models

proud karma
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the new men are so ugly

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raisin man

karmic ridge
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it's raisin men, halleluja

meager warren
#

rainin' men*

plain vigil
#

HOLLLY SHIT the wowhead forums are a race batting shitshow rn.... why do we have to fight about allied races like its the end of the bloody world ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Race bating*

meager warren
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Alliance are never going to be satisfied because apparently the Horde got it better.
And Horde is never going to be satisfied because they didn't get enough

rich apex
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Gotta make that Alliance/Horde bias explicitly clear