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zealous basalt
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Blizzard Shadow Priest battle royale

hollow dock
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but it MUST be done before BFA

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since BFA removes the STM kills you clause

zealous basalt
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They should have made it a dot

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So you can see how you slowly die

hollow dock
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they sorta did

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it's when your void bar hits 0

zealous basalt
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Nono but with your hp

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So you can try heal yourself but nope

sullen dagger
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that would be funny

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but i guess it's exploitable with divine shield or whatever

sullen dagger
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best of them all fury warrior

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clearly

grizzled sleet
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no, arcane mage lol 0.10 sec

sullen dagger
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shitty wizards

hollow dock
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Fury war is hella less bursty

sullen dagger
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yeah, removing the artifact skill kinda removedall his burst

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but it's as fun as a clown trainwreck

zealous basalt
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You kno

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We should do a 40v40 class spec vs class spec

hollow dock
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what was that mages burst damage

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.10 seconds

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what

grizzled sleet
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lol

restive sage
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so uh

hollow dock
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no

restive sage
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did everyone choose their main for bfa

hollow dock
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DK for me

restive sage
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pally for mee

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or should i say pld

hollow dock
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I say DK because Death Knight is lengthy to type out

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so DK is better.

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Pally is the short hand of Paladin.

restive sage
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pld is even shorter

sullen dagger
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YES

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WARRIOR FURY

frigid meteor
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does the seahorse work in BFA?

sullen dagger
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STABBY MC FACE

restive sage
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i mained fury warrior in legion

sullen dagger
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I STAB WITH MY SORDS

restive sage
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ya know i might just stay fury

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😦

sullen dagger
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SHARP TINGY POITED TO ENEMY

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AND I DO SPIN

restive sage
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poited

sullen dagger
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OH MY GOD DO I SPIN

restive sage
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do y now

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u

sullen dagger
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YES

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man fury warrior is so fun

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i mained retri bubbledin on legion

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deus vult

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fun cute little thing

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but after trying fury on beta, it feels fantastic

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cant go back to paladin

hollow dock
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Dk

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all the way

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I'll summon an army of dead

sullen dagger
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ah the good 'ol gypsy dk

hollow dock
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I'll summon a swarm of bugs to infect you with disease

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I'll rot the ground beneath your feet!

sullen dagger
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GYPSY CURSES

hollow dock
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YES

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AND I'LL DO WEIRD DANCES AND SPEAK IN A VERY ODD ACCENT WHILE DOING SO

sullen dagger
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the bayou answer your call

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OH GOSH

hollow dock
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This is why the trolls say 'Stay away from the voodoo'

sullen dagger
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CURSE YOU NOWI NEED TO WATCH SNATCH again

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damn great movie

grizzled sleet
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I will never make the same mistake again

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This time I will play all classes

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But not all specs

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Maybe all classes except shaman

sullen dagger
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SMART CLASSES ARE BORING

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PICK GOOD CLASES

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WITH HONOR.

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also, magicsucks

hollow dock
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DKS ARE MAGIC

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YOU FOOL

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YOU INCUR THE WRATH OF GYSPY WOMEN

sullen dagger
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ACK

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BUT but

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it's ok you use tpointy things

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just dont usemagic

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problem solved

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FURY WARRIOR LOGIC WINS AGAIN AND FOREVER

restive sage
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oh god

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I CANT DECIDE WHETHER TO STAY FURY WARRIOR OR GO RET PALLY

sullen dagger
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dont go pally

hollow dock
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a pox upon your bloodline

restive sage
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which has more dps

sullen dagger
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it''s boring af

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it has even lessrotation than fury

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just saying xD

restive sage
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oww

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my eyes r hurting from looking at my computer screen

sullen dagger
restive sage
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jk

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._.

hollow dock
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We can't say which will do more

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until Uldir

sullen dagger
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agree

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i hope the "let's not do class tiers " dont fuck things up

hollow dock
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I dont think it will

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no tiers means that certain classes won't be propelled over others

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IN THEORY it should actually help even out the DPS charts more

sullen dagger
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yeah, but tiers make things nteresting

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and it has been a staple since

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erm

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wotlk?

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i dont remember if in bc had sets

hollow dock
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Eh. Agree to disagree there

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Tiers have been staples of the game since Vanilla o3o

restive sage
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warlocks are confirmed gonna be at the top of the dps charts

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confirmed by blizzard themselves

sullen dagger
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well, that

hollow dock
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tiers 1 2 and 3 were from BWL, AQ20/40 had its own mini-tier, molten core, Ony's lair and naxx

sullen dagger
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right

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forgot about that

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how i hated the old naxx

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-_-

hollow dock
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BC had tiers 4-6 and WotLK had tiers 7-10, cata had em 11-13, MoP had 14-17, WoD had 18 and 19, and Legion had 20-23.

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Tho we stopped calling the tiers by their number by WoD

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and we just refered to it by raid

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Like 'BRF tier'

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and such

restive sage
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so is bfa gonna be vanilla 2.0

hollow dock
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since who cba to remember these god damn tier numbers

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WE NEED A TIER NUMBER SQUISH BLIZZ

restive sage
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no

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we need a level squish

hollow dock
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I dont think that can work

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like ever

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there's to much content

restive sage
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i am NEVER leveling anymore alts as long as level 120 is the max

hollow dock
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then don't?

restive sage
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think about how long its gonna take

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when we reach level 200

sullen dagger
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i agree with that

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it's taking more andmore tme to level

restive sage
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mhm

sullen dagger
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i preffered the old leveling system

restive sage
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soon enough new players are gonna be scared to play

sullen dagger
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nah

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since they have a 110 bboost

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they will try the leveling

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get bored

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and sspend the boost

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thats it

restive sage
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-Bv-Slayer2105 - Today at 1:15 PM
soon enough

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-Bv-Slayer2105 - Today at 1:15 PM
soon enough

sullen dagger
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and when you have nothing to play

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yo will level

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Β―_(ツ)_/Β―

restive sage
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nope

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id rather uh

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go on moonguard

hollow dock
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it really doesn't take that long tho

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I've leveled two alts during the 7.3.5 changes. since I dont got much else to do

restive sage
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oh my god i just noticed since im maining fury i gotta go do mage tower

hollow dock
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took me about 2 and a half weeks of on and off play

sullen dagger
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i leveled one

hollow dock
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to get em to 110 and then a week or so to get them to 920 illv

sullen dagger
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80 hrs 20-110

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well, 79, but...

hollow dock
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I took around that much time yea.

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just not direct play

sullen dagger
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it's alot

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compared to old leveling

hollow dock
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compared to old leveling yes.

sullen dagger
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i leveled with somefriends new to wow a year ago

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and it was a breeze

hollow dock
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Well yea. If you maybe had ya know

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old recruit a friend

restive sage
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how long did vanilla 1 to 60 take

hollow dock
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when the xp thing was 300%

restive sage
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a month?

hollow dock
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4-6 months

restive sage
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not even that bad

hollow dock
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1 to 60. 4-6 months.

sullen dagger
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yaep

restive sage
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when you think about how vanilla was that sounds pretty reasonable

hollow dock
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the last two months being the 55-60 grind

restive sage
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im excited to do it in classic

hollow dock
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Im not

sullen dagger
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it took ages, mostly beccause the rests between mobs

hollow dock
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I am only playing classic to have old ashenvale

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and darkshore

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that's it

restive sage
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it just means your gonna be REALLY dedicated to your character

hollow dock
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once I finish those areas

sullen dagger
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you had to recc your mana

hollow dock
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I am NEVER going past it

restive sage
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._.

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but what if bc comes out

sullen dagger
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meneiter

hollow dock
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Don't care

restive sage
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wotlk???

hollow dock
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I have old ashenvale

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and darkshore

sullen dagger
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people willing to play classic again,are crazy

hollow dock
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Im content with just that

restive sage
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im willing to play classic for the first time lol

sullen dagger
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they remember the game with ping tints

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pink*

restive sage
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i never played it in the first place so its like a brand new mmot o me

hollow dock
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I got to play 'real' vanilla in private servers. It' snot fun

sullen dagger
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it's not worthitbv

restive sage
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DONT SAY THAT WORD

hollow dock
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Pick up any new korean MMO, Slayer

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and play that

restive sage
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i did

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i got bdo and it sucks weeners

hollow dock
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the experience is roughly the same for vanilla wow

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that's basically what vanilla was.

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Only far buggier

sullen dagger
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endless grind

restive sage
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bdo doesnt even have raids or dungeons

sullen dagger
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broken classes

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bdo is a pvp game, dude

restive sage
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ik

sullen dagger
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obviously aint gonna have raids / dungs

restive sage
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it should

sullen dagger
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it relies on control of nodes

hollow dock
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Vanilla for the most part didn't either. Most of the dungeons didn't work or were overtuned.

restive sage
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should try to appeal to all parties

sullen dagger
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it appeals to korean players

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or chinese

hollow dock
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It wasn't until the last patch that vanilla became 'fun' as a properly constructed game

sullen dagger
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which are the playable base

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drums of war?

hollow dock
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TBH if WoW's vanilla came out today

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it'd immediately die

sullen dagger
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^

hollow dock
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as far as functional games go, it was pretty bad. But it was that, Everquest and Runescape as the big contenders at the time

sullen dagger
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better of the bad

restive sage
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if wows vanilla came out right now it would definetly not die

sullen dagger
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also, it was unexplored

restive sage
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its like bdo with more content

hollow dock
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It would 100%

sullen dagger
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now everyone can minmax shit outta vanilla

hollow dock
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BDO was DoA in the West

restive sage
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no it wasnt LOL

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bdo is one of the most popular mmos

hollow dock
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Clearly you weren't around for BDO's launch when every streamer called for it's death and the game crashed down only to have hte devs scramble to try and rebuild it

restive sage
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streamers arent everyone that play the game

hollow dock
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the game itself crashed here in the west. It tanked hard and has only started to recuperate its losses my dude. It's hugely successful over in the asian market because it's an asian game.

sullen dagger
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YAEP

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i did bught the top tier buying option

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and it was a shitshow the first months

hollow dock
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remember Archeage?

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Oh boy archeage

sullen dagger
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99 € spent for naught

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another one

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xD

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every wow killer it's ded

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the only other kinda good mmo it's ff xiv

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and because the rework

hollow dock
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Grindy asian MMOs do not do well here in the west. We don't have the time and they force to many options to be microtransactions

sullen dagger
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the first launch was plain shit

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then they fixed kinda like most of the problems

hollow dock
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heck, wow clones don't do well in the western market.

rich apex
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WoW chews up and spits out the battered corpses of competition

hollow dock
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basically. It's got the MTG situation

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it's just so large that it will never die off

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and nothing can dethrone it

rich apex
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Exactly

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For bonus points, remember that BFA -pre orders- crashed Bnet's payment system

hollow dock
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Yup.

rich apex
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Blizz has been doing this for 13 years and there's still enough demand to break their systems

hollow dock
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WoW is far from dead and nothing is dethroning this badboy in the western market.

rich apex
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Other bit aside that Blizz can most certainly afford wildly varying slumps in WoW when they've got Overwatch and Hearthstone

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And Diablo 4 will inevitably sell a boatload whenever they get around to it

hollow dock
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Yup. At this point, blizzard can self-sustain any failures.

rich apex
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They already did, given Titan

hollow dock
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Titan wasn't even a full failure. It gave them HOTS. and while HOTS didn't succeed it didn't fail

rich apex
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Though Overwatch probably did recoup that lost dev time by now

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But I can certainly see why poor Metzen got anxiety from spending 1-2 years of a presumably high paid dev team's time, and then not have a product to show for the effort

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That'd utterly bone any other dev

zealous basalt
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What are we talking now

grizzled sleet
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BFA pre-order not only broke Bnet payment systems but also in-game tokens for at least 24 hours

rich apex
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The unkillable nature of WoW

hollow dock
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WoW's inability to die. Like MTG.

zealous basalt
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Because

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It can be shitty but it's a good shit

restive sage
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remember when everyone was saying bless online wouldnt die

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and it was gonna be the next big mmo

hollow dock
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I kinda just laugh everytime people say that

grizzled sleet
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A new game from 2018 is your argument ?

hollow dock
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He's joining in us in saying that WoW just won't die and nothing is going to uproot it from it's place here in the west

grizzled sleet
restive sage
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the game has like 2k players now

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XD

zealous basalt
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I prefer WoW than any other MMO tbh

night swift
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Same

restive sage
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hmmmmmm

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if ffxiv didnt have a storyline that takes 8 years to finish before you can do anything it would be a tough decision

grizzled sleet
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Once you entrer WoW you are corrupted by the void, you can't find a better MMO unless you're immune to the corruption

ruby star
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@zealous basalt WoW is the supreme leader of MMORPGS

hollow dock
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In the western market*

ruby star
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Yeah but the other markets don't matter

restive sage
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there are some mmos better than wow but they arent released over here 😦

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atleast i think they might be better if they ever even release in the first place

ruby star
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All Eastern MMORPGS are terrible

restive sage
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lost ark has been in the making for so many years now

ruby star
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Honestly I know it's all personal opinion, but all these eastern games come out and fail, they all try to beat WoW and fail

grizzled sleet
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Some are just copy-paste of each other

restive sage
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is guild wars 2 an eastern game

grizzled sleet
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The only to beat WoW is to bring an MMO from another planet / universe

restive sage
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gw2 ffxiv and eso are the only mmos that have a chance

meager warren
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I bet a lot of them are better than WoW in terms of story but not gameplay

restive sage
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gameplay as in combat?

meager warren
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Gameplay as in everything

restive sage
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most mmos have a better combat system then wow

ruby star
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eSO, gw2 and ffxiv won't beat WoW, they have all tried and failed, sure they might be good, but they are not at WoW good

restive sage
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they havent failed lol

ruby star
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read what I said

restive sage
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yes said

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tey have all tried and failed

ruby star
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at beating WoW

restive sage
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yea

ruby star
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exactly

restive sage
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but the thing is

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they havent failed until they die

ruby star
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I never said they failed as a game, they failed at trying to be the WoW killer

restive sage
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take it like this

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of your trying to be better than someone else at something

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when do you think you fail at goal

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when you both die, or in like 5 years

ruby star
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This isn't in worth the discussion, ESO,GW2 and the weeb game, all failed in trying to be the WoW killer, any MMORPG thats tried has failed, hence why it becomes a meme, once WoW dies (doubt it will for a very very long time, it's already lasted this long at the top) then there will be room for a new leader of MMORPGS

hollow dock
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Lots of games tried to be the WoW killer in the west Slayer.

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Short of private servers, nothings come close.

restive sage
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ffxiv has

ruby star
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^^

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No it hasn't slayer

restive sage
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yuhu

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over 1 mil subs

night swift
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ffxiv had to completely redo the game cause it was so bad at launch though

restive sage
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i just find it weird how wow players speak about other mmos as if they were made just to be more popular than wow

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what does that matter if its a good game now

hollow dock
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I assume you were not paying attention to about the last ten or so years

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When every single mmo that was coming out was proclaiming ti be the next WoW

meager warren
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If your only goal is to beat someone, you'll never win

restive sage
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what mmo creators said themselves that theyre gonna kill wow

hollow dock
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Rift, SWTOR, Guild Wars, And so much more.

restive sage
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the creators of gw2 never did

meager warren
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What slayer said

restive sage
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or swtor

hollow dock
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I never said GW2.

restive sage
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you said guild wars

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as in the franchise

hollow dock
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Then you misunderstand. Guild Wars is the first in this series no?

restive sage
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if your gonna say guild wars 1

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say guild wars 1 lol

ruby star
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Why? it only takes common sense to understand what Vris is saying

restive sage
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take this for example

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if i talk about a certain call of duty like call of duty 3 or something, and i dont specify it, will you know which one im talking about

agile token
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Well i never played call of duty so no

restive sage
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see

ruby star
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sighs

near cosmos
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WHAT IF I TOLD YOU
Whether a game is a WoW killer or not is individual, and depends on which game you happen to like the most

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For some people, XIV is what they wanted from WoW but WoW never was

restive sage
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i would say thats not how it works

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lol

near cosmos
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Then you are wrong

restive sage
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a wow killer is a game that surpasses wow in population

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and pretty much makes wow die

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aka killing it

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whether you like a mmo with 2k pop or not doesnt make it a wow killer

near cosmos
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Then again, that's an impossibility because it would be very difficult to prove that any given MMO leeched subs from WoW

agile token
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In this case a wow killer means that the game can surpass the feelings people got from wow

near cosmos
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Correlation does not equal causation πŸ˜ƒ

agile token
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which will never happen

restive sage
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eh

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thats not what a killer is tho

near cosmos
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Just because another MMO has 15 million subs and WoW goes down to 1m subs, doesn't mean that those 15m came from WoW, so that game didn't necessarily kill WoW

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WoW will die when everyone who has built years and years of memories in WoW stop playing for one reason or another, be it family obligations or death πŸ˜›

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It is completely unrelated to any other MMO

restive sage
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i mean

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it obviously doesnt mean the game sucked every single player from wow lol

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with that logic no mmo can be killed

near cosmos
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Which is true. The only thing that can kill an MMO is the company running it, by not running it any more πŸ˜›

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Up until the second the servers are shut down, the game is not dead, so long as even one person plays it

restive sage
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but a wow killer is just an mmo that surpasses wow in players

near cosmos
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Calling a game "dead" before that point is people either
a) trying to justify to themselves why they switched to another game
b) trying to make other people feel worse for playing that game instead of the other game

restive sage
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not really

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with that logic, bless online isnt dead lol

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which it is of course

near cosmos
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Which one are you, A or B?

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Do you feel an intense desire to let people who enjoy Bless know that they are doing it wrong by enjoying that game, and not another game like WoW?

restive sage
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theres only an a with that

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lol

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wheres the b

near cosmos
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well I'm assuming you didn't switch from Bless to WoW so A is out πŸ˜›

restive sage
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if you dont tell me a that point is pointless

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question i mean

lone fern
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havent played beta for a few weeks, the traits with a region attached to them, do they only work there?

zinc sandal
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No

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They work everywhere

lone fern
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whats the hint for then πŸ€”

zinc sandal
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Could be flavor

heavy cairn
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Are there any other options for other traits.

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Like is there one for e.g. nazmir?

lone fern
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no, but i got the item via world quest cache in voldun

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ones not selectable due to spec

heavy cairn
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I would think then that it's pure flavour then. To indicate that it can only be obtained from voldun content

lone fern
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lets find out 🀷

uncut vault
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It comes from Vol’dun is why

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All the non-spec traits say where they come from

lone fern
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nop

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not on my old gear at least; immo aura is tank dh exclusive yet it doesnt say where its from

zealous basalt
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leans from hole

lone fern
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turns out it works :p

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shit traits but +20 level

shy timber
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sucks not being able to play the beta in fullscreen

zealous basalt
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Prepatch date?

hollow dock
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Prepatch date is august

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1st

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2019

zealous basalt
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OOF

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Also

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What did I miss

hollow dock
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not much

tropic trail
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guys, i was going to roll a different class with the BfA. can someone tell me if it would make sense to get The Legion Fishing Artifact Rod, or will there be a new rod in BfA ?

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don't want to invest time now in the "old" rod

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when there will be a new anyway

agile token
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There won't be more

hollow dock
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there's 0 garauntee that there will be a new rod

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The more useful traits of the Legion rod will work in BFA

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it just wont fish up entire pools of fish at a time

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since that's legion fish only

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but it'll give you water walking, the reduction in aggro range while fishing

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etc

tropic trail
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okay, thanks guys, then I will get it for my new class!

radiant finch
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Does WoWHead has a community on the beta ?

hollow dock
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nothing official as I know

radiant finch
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Is there an unofficial one ?

hollow dock
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not that I know

ruby star
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I'm sure if they make one they will announce it

zealous basalt
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And the announcement

grizzled sleet
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What if wowhead post a news saying that prepatch is confirmed to be July 31 (lie) just so that blizzard react and make a real annoucement murloc

rich apex
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Blizz don't give a shit if Wowhead makes a mistake

zealous basalt
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I say

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Let's cut the yaks horns

restive sage
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no yaks r my fave mounts

dense plover
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@hollow dock where are you getting the August 1st date?

heavy cairn
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August 1st 2019 (split into 3 messages)

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It's just a joke

dense plover
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Oh

restive sage
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whats just a joke

dense plover
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I missed a thing again

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Whoops

hollow dock
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no probs peach

zealous basalt
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You are always missing things peach

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Go reforge yourself to expertise and hit

hollow dock
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topkek

sour burrow
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For some reason I picture there being 3 weeks between launch and pre-patch drop.

restive sage
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k?

heavy cairn
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Tobias same

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I don't believe they will launch without one week of notice

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So that rules out this upcoming Tuesday

sour burrow
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In terms of speculation. Phase 1 Teldrassil, Phase 2 Teldrassil, and then Lorderon.

fresh axle
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It's most likely 24th for US

night swift
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Maybe th 24th

sour burrow
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That's 3 weeks. Then Prison Escape for actual launch day.

heavy cairn
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Yea

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Cuz prison escape is how you go to zandalar

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So it has to be launch day

restive sage
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yoooo the new elemental models look sikk

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theyre on the ptr

night swift
#

you break out of a prison on horde side as well?

restive sage
#

ugh so its gonna be another week?

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😦

zealous basalt
#

@heavy cairn akrwe talked about this before

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The Legion prepatch announcement was 2 days before the prepatch itself

sour burrow
#

Yes, both sides have jailbreak scenarios.

heavy cairn
#

Legion prepatch was super early and only cut off AOTC, no material benefits (moose obtainable)

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Like afaik legendary ring was still going

hollow dock
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it cut off CM

uncut vault
#

Alliance is less of a jailbreak, and more of a jail escape, we're the one being jailbroke

zealous basalt
#

I loved Horde jailbreak

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"The old wolf is coming for us"

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And then fucking jaina

hollow dock
#

I really don't understand why she couldn't have frozen them over, left her mages there and dealt with the fires herself and then come and execute the horde infiltrators

rich apex
#

Rule of Plot

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Why is a city of stone flammable?

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Rule of Plot

hollow dock
#

how did a city of stone catch onto a widespread fire that quickly?

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Rule of Plot

rich apex
#

How did Zul and Talanji (assuming she was sailing for the Horde to reach out for an alliance) end up getting caught by Stormwind?

zealous basalt
#

....

rich apex
#

Rule of Plot

uncut vault
#

because cities of stone arent all stone lmao

zealous basalt
#

πŸ€”

uncut vault
#

you make stone buildings with wood too lol

rich apex
#

Well, from what we actually see in game

uncut vault
#

zul himself comments on that

rich apex
#

It's a lot of stone

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And Zul literally comments on it

uncut vault
#

he burns a construction site and it spreads

rich apex
#

The point is that everything is dumb and illogical in WoW

hollow dock
#

I thought it was some hay

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next to a barn

uncut vault
#

they added some logical assets

hollow dock
#

or did they change it

uncut vault
#

bunch of construction assets beside the building

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burns the wood beams and it spreads

hollow dock
#

Fire doesn't spread that quickling within what. 3-5 minutes? On treated wood? Was all of stormwinds wooden assets just super dry?

sudden pollen
#

A city by the sea, you'd think they wouldn't be

hollow dock
#

Like. You can't even say that it's not forced plot

sudden pollen
#

Oh it's definitely forced.
It was better before when Zul was just like "You're gonna let us leave."
And then they just left.

rich apex
#

Admittedly

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With Zul's foresight

uncut vault
#

all plot is forced plot

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its fiction

rich apex
#

He probably knows exactly where to light the fire for the greatest effect

#

But exactly

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WoW is goofy and tropey af

sudden pollen
#

Wood fires don't spread that fast. It was a way to get the horde out of there and they cut the realism out of it.

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Which is normal at this point lol

hollow dock
#

the horde player is ofc just trying to say everything is a forced plot :p

urban dew
#

I mean, is it magic fire?

hollow dock
#

nope

#

he took a torch

sudden pollen
#

Nah. Straight just a torch he found on the ground

hollow dock
#

burned some hay near a construction site

#

all of stormwind is now on fire like 2 minutes later

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as Dorave pointed out, the city by the sea caught fire within 2 minutes.

uncut vault
#

its not all of stormwind, it's the buildings above the docks

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and if jaina doesnt handle it, it will spread to the entire city

sudden pollen
#

I mean.

Unless Jaina super freezing everything sucked the moisture out of everything.

hollow dock
#

I mean I point to the scenario I pointed out which seemed far more logical

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Jaina nad her mages pop up

dense plover
#

Fires need heat

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Cold stops heat

hollow dock
#

they freeze the baddies

ruby star
#

Theres no point debating this, they had to do it for gameplay and a forced plot, realistically/lore wise they wouldn't of been able to escape like that

dense plover
#

Puts out fires

hollow dock
#

Jaina alone goes to stop the fires

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she retursn

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horde gets executed

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Β―_(ツ)_/Β―

sudden pollen
#

Gg bfa is over guys

hollow dock
#

even better. She just teleports the lot of them back to stormwind, since mass teleportation doesn't require consent.

sudden pollen
#

My favorite part of that scenario is Jaina going full halls of reflection arthas on the horde

grizzled sleet
#

They was also able to teleport everyone in the broken shore scenario but she didn't

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Oops I mean she* not they

hollow dock
#

They omitted her existence from Broken Shore

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just to kill off Varian

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like

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cmon

sudden pollen
#

I won't say omitted but she seems like she was added after they made the cinematic

hollow dock
#

Blizz makes magic all sorts of hella OP but doesn't want to deal with the consequences of making hella OP magic

ruby star
#

sadly they have to do this sort of stuff for forcing a linear story and gameplay

#

it's just like blizzard won't let the alliance use the vindacaar

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when we could easily win the war with it

hollow dock
#

Blizz just needs to pony up, make rules for magic that also flex into gameplay somewhat; or just do what all other fantasy series do: Let lore be lore and let gameplay be gameplay

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like Star Wars does

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SWTOR heavily narrows down what you can do with the force. Doesn't matter for the lore cuz you can still crush planets with it

viral terrace
#

Am I allowed to give away beta keys on here? The WoW Twitter just sent me one...

ruby star
#

YOu don't want it? O_o

viral terrace
#

I won one from WoWHead

rich apex
#

Jaina's a lore character tho

hollow dock
#

You can hand out the key to someone yes

viral terrace
#

So this is my second one

rich apex
#

(other bit aside that the PCs can kill demigods)

ruby star
#

I know someone who needs one but up to you what you do

hollow dock
#

I will happily take it mind you

#

Again Hyper, other fantasy settings still have OP fun stuff in games but lorewise it's better restricted.

#

Blizz just doesn't do that with arcane, light or shadow.

rich apex
#

Rule of Plot πŸ˜›

viral terrace
#

@hollow dock Don't you have beta already?

rich apex
#

It's less about the magic than about the plot

hollow dock
#

Nah.

rich apex
#

Obviously Jaina isn't going to just oneshot Rexxar if they fight

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Because that's terrible plot

hollow dock
#

Obviously

ruby star
#

xd

hollow dock
#

but like the Stormwind Docks situation

#

there's so many other outs

rich apex
#

The fact that she can oneshot ice-freeze people in a different scene is ultimately irrelevant

hollow dock
#

that are just left out there

#

it makes the character seem heavily incompetent

#

if we can at least get a say of 'Oh yea they couldn't have done that because of this'

#

it'd make things a lot better

rich apex
#

There's a million things Blizz can do better

#

But ultimately they're not going to bend over backwards to ensure every single scene is perfectly logical

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Because Rule of Plot πŸ˜›

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The plot isn't being written as an actual competition between characters/factions

hollow dock
#

They wouldn't have to. Just don't make the characters seem so grossly incompetent

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to push a plot point

rich apex
#

It's not a Warhammer 40k game of throwing two sides together, rolling the dice based off their strengths/weaknesses, and seeing what happens

#

It's a story and they have a plan for the story to go a certain way

#

A character's only incompetent if the scene is actually painting them as incompetent

hollow dock
#

And when they're able to do something, but do not do it

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cuz plot

rich apex
#

And the heroes are generally depicted as doing their best with shitty situations

hollow dock
#

that makes them look horribl incompetent

rich apex
#

That's still not the intent of the scene

hollow dock
#

Let's take other examples of this happening: Tyrande rushing into an ambush from Garroshs' invasion and having to be saved by Varian. Despite having fought orcs that were far stronger and doing far better than she did against garrosh

rich apex
#

There's a decent point being made, that when Jaina is forced between chasing her vengeance and saving innocent people

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She chooses the people

hollow dock
#

Tyrande in Pandaria not realizing a temple is a perfect kill funnel only to have Varian teach her how to war

rich apex
#

Okay, I will admit that one is really freaking dumb

#

But it's like

#

The worst example of dumbness

#

It's unfair πŸ˜›

hollow dock
#

Which apparently isn't their intent with this Jaina since she has this 'bad side' to her as they describe

#

with the new shorts that are coming out

#

So that intent isn't even all that solid

rich apex
#

I mean Jaina's still clearly ready to gun down the Horde in the scenario

#

But ultimately she's not so lost as to kill them at the expense of innocent people elsewhere

terse patrol
#

my kitten says hi btw

rich apex
hollow dock
#

ty honk. Kitten made me less salty.

terse patrol
#

hes looking for things to break

hollow dock
#

All kittens do and its adorable

zealous basalt
#

Vris

#

I told you

#

Nelves need to retire ready

hollow dock
#

Ya know who needs to retire?

#

The horde.

meager warren
#

No. Sylvanas

hollow dock
#

Again I just gotta point out

#

In Siege of Lordaeron, they aren't gunning for the horde. They're gunning for Sylvanas.

#

but apparently the intents behind the Siege aren't as just as they seem*

#

*says a writer from the WoW team

uncut vault
#

well, genn also outright says they want lordaeron back

#

its not JUST about capturing sylvanas

hollow dock
#

I never said it was just about capturing Sylvanas

viral terrace
#

I heard Sylvanus expected to lose Lordaeron

hollow dock
#

I just said the focus was not on removing the horde, or even crippling them, it was all pointed to Sylvanas. Not the Horde as a whole. Is what I wanted to point out.

uncut vault
#

@dense plover looks like contributions are on a cooldown, rotate on an every other basis

#

cant contribute to money dude on my guy that did it last week again

restive sage
#

i see nothing wrong with wanting blizz to put a lil more effort into some stuff

#

Β―_(ツ)_/Β―

uncut vault
#

that may just be for money, though

#

cause last week, engineering dude asked for the ice ammo

#

now hes asking for fire ones

restive sage
#

ice ammo???

uncut vault
#

stuff to attach to ranged weps

#

basically engineering enchants

restive sage
#

do people even enchant stuff anymore

#

i dont see the reason to

uncut vault
#

I mean their purpose has never changed

#

increase your stats

grizzled sleet
#

or damage for weapon enchants

restive sage
#

but you cant enchant art wepos

uncut vault
#

yeah and we're not using them next xpac

viral terrace
#

@uncut vault Well, we are.... Until level 115-116 unless you're artifact is super low ilvl

#

But if you've got good relics then you will be using it until those levels

uncut vault
#

so, not using them

viral terrace
#

Then you will probably get an upgrade.

uncut vault
#

we're replacing them before max, which is when enchants matter

viral terrace
#

They're a stat stick

#

But hey, we keep the appearances in tmog

#

so that's a bonus

restive sage
#

im using them

#

am not switching wepos

#

ever

#

ok fine 😦

viral terrace
#

2 years later:

"Do any of you remember Legion and the artifact weapons? Those were beast yo."

hollow dock
#

100%

grizzled sleet
#

5 years later

Do any of you remember BFA Hearth of Azeroth?

zealous basalt
#

10 years later

Do you remember that they didnt Announce the prepatch date until 5 hours before?

grizzled sleet
#

20 years later

Do you remember Varian?
Varian who ??

tranquil steeple
#

30 years later when the horde is gone: "HORDE BIAS"

restive sage
#

40 years later when wow 2 comes out:

tranquil steeple
#

"I miss the original WoW"

zealous basalt
#

"It was trash"

#

"But a good trash"

hollow dock
#

"It was trash because back then you couldn't mentally link in there"

#

"God what barbarians we were back then"

ruby star
#

Xd

zealous basalt
#

"But Goldshire II is still the goatx

ruby star
#

I mean a WoW 2 surely will happen one day?

#

WoW can't surely last forever

terse patrol
#

When MMOs die out for a while.

#

MMOs aren't popular now, and won't be for some time.

west relic
#

WoW 2 won't ever happen.

#

It doesn't really have a reason to.

restive sage
#

It does

#

The textures in the old places are dated and stuff

terse patrol
#

As long as Blizz is making money on WoW, they'll keep updating it.

#

So

restive sage
#

And wow needs a new engine

terse patrol
#

If anything, we're in WoW 2 already

restive sage
#

They're not gonna remake everythint

grizzled sleet
#

No chance, If they make WoW 2 they have to update all old transmogs and mounts and everything, or people will cry about them

restive sage
#

Uh why

hollow dock
#

and by that logic

#

why bother tyring to port everything to a new engine

#

just update the current one

#

Β―_(ツ)_/Β―

grizzled sleet
#

Yea they can simply update things slowly, instead of releasing WoW 2 that will take forever

hollow dock
#

Which is what they're doing

#

I wager within the next expansion or two, we'll see the texture updates to the old world

restive sage
#

We are gonna need more than that

hollow dock
#

Like?

restive sage
#

Modern stuff like dynamic lighting and godrays

hollow dock
#

But.

#

Why?

restive sage
#

Because it looks good

hollow dock
#

What does it add to the experience over say

#

another dungeon

restive sage
#

It makes everything look better and more appealing

hollow dock
#

can this engine even support that?

restive sage
#

Exactlt

hollow dock
#

and Slayer, this game is now 16 years old

restive sage
#

Exactlt

hollow dock
#

if you account for

#

the Vanilla beta

#

this game

#

will survive

#

without god rays

restive sage
#

It isn't 16 years old

hollow dock
#

they aren't required

#

If you include the roughly 2 years of Vanilla beta/alpha

restive sage
#

Whatever

jade basalt
#

Spending thousands upon thousands of dollars, man hours and every kind of resource to not add content but just * recreate* the same content that already exists (added value = 0) is honestly completely nonsensical from a development standpoint. It will always make more sense to upgrade what you have than start it all over again from scratch.

restive sage
#

The point is, wow has dated graphics compared to every other mmo on the market. If they aren't willing to remake wow a wow 2 should be in order

hollow dock
#

but why

#

You just says it looks better that way

#

but this game has been on this market

#

for 14 years

restive sage
#

So?

hollow dock
#

16 if you count the beta/alpha

#

and has been the dominate force on the market

restive sage
#

10 years ago the games didn't look like that lol

hollow dock
#

despite all the 'dated' graphics on it

restive sage
#

Have you seen games from 10 years ago?

jade basalt
#

Today's WoW graphics are nothing like the graphics from 12 years ago. Which proves that they don't need to recreate WoW, they just need to keep improving on it.

hollow dock
#

hell there are games that are coming out now without godrays and all the fancy graphics

#

and are world wide hits

grizzled sleet
#

And you can play WoW on 4K and still enjoy it

restive sage
#

Keep improving on it

hollow dock
#

Graphics are not a good enough excuse to remake an entire game

restive sage
#

Uh yea it is

hollow dock
#

No it isn't

jade basalt
#

Nope

restive sage
#

Yes it is lol

hollow dock
#

It really isn't

jade basalt
#

Especially when they are already more than good enough

hollow dock
#

otherwise, games like Cuphead, Undertale, etc would have flopped and never become popular

restive sage
#

Cuphead?

hollow dock
#

Graphics do not make a game

restive sage
#

My guy

#

Cuphead is in a completely different situation

hollow dock
#

It's a fully hand drawn game with no godrays. 'shitty' graphics by comparison of every other game on the market.

restive sage
#

Graphics don't make a game but they make it better

hollow dock
#

They really don't

restive sage
#

They do lol

hollow dock
#

if I can't see the game Im playing, I'm not really enjoying my game

restive sage
#

Can't see the game your playing??

jade basalt
#

In Heroes of the Storm, they're unwilling for now to give green or blue tint colors to Ragnaros because it would mean having to change his FX and particles and everything as well, and these resources could be used to create a full skin for another hero or create a mount or something.

So re-creating a whole, entire game, 7 expansions of content, billions of items and textures and sounds and FX and data ? Yeah..

agile token
#

Graphics from WoD and later are good

jade basalt
#

Cataclysm was the farthest they had gone in terms of 'remaking stuff we already made' and they said they'd likely never do that again

hollow dock
#

My experience with things like godrays and extra lightning has always been pretty terrible. To the point of me turning them off.

agile token
#

The game looks good

hollow dock
#

they get in the way of my enjoyment

restive sage
#

Lol what

hollow dock
#

If I wanted the invasion of lights, I'd go watch the Abrams Star Trek

grizzled sleet
#

Except BC everything else is good atm

restive sage
#

So, godrays which you see irl make you not want to play?

west relic
hollow dock
#

I wear sunglasses out in public

west relic
#

It's also still the biggest MMO on the market.

#

So...

tranquil steeple
#

If the only thing it does is make the game prettier than it already is, when it's pretty by itself without those extra settings... fuck it.

hollow dock
#

for a reason

restive sage
#

What does that have to do with its graphics

#

Lol

hollow dock
#

You wanted to make it about real life

restive sage
#

When did I make it about real life

#

LOL

hollow dock
#

I already made that point Thulm. They kinda spat at me

jade basalt
#

Even if they wanted to, they could not possibly recreate WoW from scratch, you just have no idea what this means honestly. And nobody would allow them. It would make no sense financially.

hollow dock
#

[7:44 PM] -Bv-Slayer2105: So, godrays which you see irl make you not want to play?

#

are you kidding

restive sage
#

I said they're also irl

west relic
#

Meaning that the game doesn't have to look like the latest greatest Unreal Engine crap from EA in order to be a great game with a sizeable playerbase.

hollow dock
#

Yes and I countered with my sunglasses

#

are you just trolling at this point?

restive sage
#

What is with people saying that I'm trolling

#

Lol

west relic
#

But basically what @jade basalt just said.

#

To a tee.

restive sage
#

I love how everyone ignored the fact

hollow dock
#

It's either you're trolling or woefully ignorant

west relic
restive sage
#

That I said if they aren't willing to remake the game

#

A wow 2 should come

hollow dock
#

that's remaking the game

#

are you blind

restive sage
#

No it isnt lol

#

It's making a new game

agile token
#

????????????????????

hollow dock
#

he's woefully ignorant

#

this can stop now

tranquil steeple
#

Why would they make WoW 2 when what we have now is sailing on the seas peacefully without a hitch?

agile token
#

Slayer you got alot completely confusing points

restive sage
#

How

#

All I said was that they should make a wow 2

jade basalt
#

'Should we use our resources to make 3 to 6 more expansions ? Or do we just recreate Vanilla-Legion slightly prettier ?'

There's only one choice here really. From both the devs and the players point of view.

west relic
#

Agreed.

restive sage
#

Yet again

#

Ignoring what I just said

#

LOL

jade basalt
#

'Creating WoW 2' ?

restive sage
#

Yes

jade basalt
#

I literally addressed that.

tranquil steeple
#

WoW 2 = "here's the game you already play, without everything you already have, and have to re-do everything... enjoy"

west relic
#

Alright. Give me on really good reason why a WoW 2 is "needed"

restive sage
#

Alright so first off

west relic
#

One reason.

#

Not two.

#

One.

restive sage
#

Why would i give you just one lol

west relic
#

Because you should be able to drive home your point with just one.

jade basalt
#

Emphasis on 'needed' as well.

west relic
#

If there is one.

restive sage
#

alright

#

even though that makes no sense

#

one reason is that if they did make a wow 2 they could make it in a different engine without having to remake everything.

#

which would make it appeal to more people that are used to other mmos

west relic
jade basalt
#

That sentence is contradicting itself

west relic
#

Hence the travolta.

agile token
uncut vault
#

making it in a different engine IS remaking everything

restive sage
#

LOL no it isnt

#

if you make a sequel of a game, is it a remake

jade basalt
#

I'm not sure you know what an engine is

uncut vault
#

if its in a different engine

#

yes

tranquil steeple
#

WoW 2 = "here's the game you already play, without everything you already have, and have to re-do everything... enjoy"

restive sage
#

no lol it isnt

west relic
restive sage
#

your not remaking the game

#

your making a new game when you make a sequel

uncut vault
#

I feel like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what an engine is

west relic
#

I'm just going to respond with emojis that represent how I feel about the current conversation.

jade basalt
#

You're asking for a new engine

When they already have a working engine

restive sage
#

an outdated engine

jade basalt
#

So they'd have to make everything all over again

restive sage
#

that limits what they can do

tranquil steeple
#

A working engine for what they want to do

west relic
#

No @jade basalt it's like the engine in your car. Just because your 2000 Toyota Corolla is now 18 years old, you must replace it.

#

Not because it needs to be replaced.

#

But just because.

#

For no reason.

#

Β―_(ツ)_/Β―

restive sage
#

that is a completely different thing lol

west relic
#

It's literally what you're saying.

restive sage
#

not quite

uncut vault
#

what is the NEED to replace it?

#

what issues does it have?

west relic
#

There isn't any.

restive sage
#

there is loll

zealous basalt
#

I dont see any issue with the engine

restive sage
#

think of it like a graphics card

west relic
#

"Don't fix what isn't broken"

restive sage
#

it plays the game at medium

jade basalt
#

Some parts of the current engine are outdated, yes. But the 2018 engine has nothing to do with the engine they started with, it's a completely different beast. And it will always be more worth it to keep improving that engine than making a whole other one from scratch just for it to do the exact same thing.

restive sage
#

but you could get a new one that plays it on ultra πŸ˜›

#

and thats only part of it

west relic
grizzled sleet
#

Engine doesn't work like a graphic card, no reasn to compare them

restive sage
#

missing the point yet again

tranquil steeple
#

So you'd rather throw away a sandwich you made, and started eating, just to make a new one?

agile token
#

There is no point

#

at all

#

in what you are saying

restive sage
#

hmm

#

if you think of it like a sandwich

agile token
#

Because it goes nowhere

grizzled sleet
#

Not a sandwich, a WHOLE WORLD

restive sage
#

its like making a sandwich that you dropped on the floor

#

would you make a new one

#

or just eat it

jade basalt
#

I have a car. I bought it 10 years ago. Since then I have replaced a few parts, customized a few others, I painted it red, I added cool lightning bolts on the sides for style. I can either keep making it cooler and cooler, or go literally build another car from scratch piece by piece by myself. Blizzard will do #1.

restive sage
#

yea it still OKAY

grizzled sleet
#

I just destroyed earth to make a new world, and everyone is happy now but wait, what if I destroy again to make a better one

west relic
restive sage
#

what

tranquil steeple
#

I'm not saying it was dropped or anything else but taken a bite out of (by you)

#

Would you go make a new one, even though you already had one?

jade basalt
#

If it's okay it doesn't need spending millions of dollars to 'fix' it.

restive sage
#

that doesnt describe wows engine

#

tho

uncut vault
#

america has problems, we should destroy it and make a whole new one :^)

jade basalt
#

It's okay. They are fine with okay. That 'okay' brings them billions of dollars of revenue. They're okay with okay.

west relic
#

I now know you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

restive sage
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i love how my whole point

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was that i wanted to see a wow 2 one day

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and it turned into this

tranquil steeple
terse patrol
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this guy is reminding me of that one guy who would come in here a lot

restive sage
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thats like saying

terse patrol
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and he'd just make everyone angry

zealous basalt
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Ryz?

restive sage
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theres no reason for there to be a new call of duty every year

terse patrol
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idk

west relic
zealous basalt
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Did hou

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You

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Compared cod

restive sage
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mhm

zealous basalt
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...

tranquil steeple
west relic
restive sage
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its uh

tranquil steeple
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One of the few cases where I actually think my brother isn't stupid after all...

restive sage
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nice to know

jade basalt
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Which is a bad example because nearly all the CoD since BO2 look the same because they use the same or a similar engine

restive sage
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that i cant express my opinion here tho

terse patrol
restive sage
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cod bo2 also looks nothing like bo3 in terms of graphics

terse patrol
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@west relic

west relic
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Actually me @terse patrol

agile token
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Slayer

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You said everything you had to say

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so thank you for saying what you think you know

jade basalt
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It does. Another difference is that Call of Duty's are throwaway games. They are built, sold, forgotten. Make another one that is slightly different, make millions, throw away. Kind of like PES and Fifa. WoW is an evolving world that is meant to last literally decades, they add content to it, they don't scrap it and throw it away every year.

restive sage
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what i think i know????

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i KNOW that i want a wow 2

agile token
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yes

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you know that

restive sage
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and that it would have better graphics than wow 1

agile token
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But is it logical for it to be done? Nope

restive sage
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does it have to be for you to want it
?

jade basalt
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Honestly, not really. You want 'better graphics' for WoW (which is a fair opinion), you don't need or even want a WoW 2.

agile token
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So do with what you have because the game looks good

grizzled sleet
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Slayer....... Your crusade...is.... OVER!

restive sage
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uh what

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my crusade?

tranquil steeple
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hey see this perfectly working car? yeah let's scrap it and buy a new one that has different rims

west relic
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I'm on my second bag of popcorn.

restive sage
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litteraly triggered everyone because of an opinion

grizzled sleet
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That's what Amanthul said to Sargeras murloc β€œBrother, your crusade is over!”

jade basalt
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Should I add caramel to your popcorn or go harvest corn and make you new caramelized popcorn from scratch

west relic
jade basalt
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I'm being sarcastic, I think I have just said everything I had to say on this subject.

grizzled sleet
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Or you didn't kill Argus yet ? murloc

restive sage
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i killed argus lol

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i just skipped the cutscene

terse patrol
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This has to be the same guy

grizzled sleet
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If you skipped the cutscene why do you want WoW 2 ? murloc

west relic
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New rims.

restive sage
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for better graphics

terse patrol
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This has to be Rys

restive sage
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what does skipping the cutscene even have to do with that

grizzled sleet
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If you don't enjoy the cinematic why would you enjoy WoW 2 with better graphics ? murloc

restive sage
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because i dont watch cutscenes in general???

agile token
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wait why would u skip a cinematic you haven't seen it before?

west relic
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Because the rims spin.

restive sage
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because i dont care about it???

agile token
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That's like trying to not play the game

terse patrol
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Guys

jade basalt
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Also keep in mind that WoW's style will always be cartoony. The graphics can onlt get so much 'better', they'll never become Skyrim or Crisis level of realistic, in fact they'd just be pretty much the same, or rather marginally better.

terse patrol
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He’s a troll.

restive sage
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how is that trying to not play the game???

terse patrol
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I’m 90% sure this is Rys again.

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Should just ban him and be done with it.

restive sage
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ban me?

agile token
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Because you ignored a part of the game on purpose

restive sage
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for saying i want wow 2?

west relic
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Is that a request?

tranquil steeple
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that's a tad extreme

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and lul Thulm

terse patrol
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I think it was.

restive sage
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there was a question mark infront of it

tranquil steeple
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after

west relic
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That usually happens with requests.

restive sage
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after it

zealous basalt
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Wait

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A mod

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HEY THULM

west relic
zealous basalt
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Where is the date

tranquil steeple
west relic
restive sage
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nice to know that you can get banned for saying you want wow 2

zealous basalt
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grabs small bread cupcake gun

grizzled sleet
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You will get WoW 2

agile token
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oh come on slayer

grizzled sleet
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in 2105

west relic
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You can't be banned for wanting a WoW 2.

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But if you are seriously requesting a ban, I can oblige your request.

grizzled sleet
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Just wait for 2105

restive sage
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when did i request a ban

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lol

west relic