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zealous basalt
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Its not about the size of the world

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its not about the story even

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MMO-. Massive Multiplayer Online

plain vigil
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It's about the amount of people you see playing the game.

zealous basalt
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A lot of people connected at once

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RPG - Role Playing Game

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You play on a role of something else that level up

plain vigil
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And when the world is old and dead with no incentive to redesign it, old areas, leveling zones, do not feel massive in player count.

zealous basalt
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That is incorrect

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Like, in many levels

ivory meadow
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hold up

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that is a completely different argument

zealous basalt
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It is not an argument even

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Like, why argue about what it means to be massive or if its because the lack of redesign

plain vigil
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Wow used to be a web of activities, and now it's a linear short story. Basically an RPG with DLC and people walking around you revamping the world would bring back that concept of exploring the world, you'd see more people everywhere.

zealous basalt
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....Because it grew up

plain vigil
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The people exist they're just concintrated in the same zones

zealous basalt
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Expacs are DLCs

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And trust me when I tell you

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If they revamp the world

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they will make it more linear

ivory meadow
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damn Destiny must suck then.

zealous basalt
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Also

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A linear story doesn't mean it's bad

plain vigil
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I really don't like destiny

zealous basalt
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There are

plain vigil
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Not saying it's bad

zealous basalt
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a shit ton of linear games that have a great story

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Heck

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WoW -is- a linear story

plain vigil
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Just that it's risking leaving the genre

zealous basalt
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what the fuck are yout alking about

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RPGs -are- linear

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you have your definitions wrong

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even classic is Linear

plain vigil
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No. They have a main storyline yes, but they have non linear content throughout

zealous basalt
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THAT'S NOT WHAT IT MEANS

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gods

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dude either you need to learn about linearity and free-roam or stop

plain vigil
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Lmao let's just move on and agree to disagree yeah?

zealous basalt
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no , fuck that

plain vigil
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Cause this isn't getting anywhere

zealous basalt
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You are making it hard

ivory meadow
zealous basalt
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Stuborness is one thing, but you are different

plain vigil
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I'm not making it hard ๐Ÿ˜‚

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We just have different opinions

zealous basalt
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Im not trying to insult you but, gods, linearity is something different

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Linear or having a free way to roam

uncut lintel
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heheheheeeeee

tropic trail
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What's going on, monk brother?

zealous basalt
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WoW is

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A linear story

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with multiple choices to the way how you want to end at the beggining

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but making a story with multiple choices

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makes it different from a storytelling narrative

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Because it comes with the cons of the question of the billion

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"What is considered canon, and what is not"

plain vigil
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By definition wow is open world and non-linear because you can choose the zone you want to quest in and the line of quests you follow. As they've put more focus on expansions they've moved away from that into a singular storyline

zealous basalt
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Not even

ivory meadow
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it was never non-linear from a story perspective.

plain vigil
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Classic?

night swift
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It is now though

zealous basalt
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You tied it from zone to zone

plain vigil
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BC?

zealous basalt
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The first 5

plain vigil
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Both non-linear

zealous basalt
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Wotlk is non linear too

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all the expacs are non linear

night swift
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Ok but like MoP

uncut lintel
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im sitting here wondering what the ffuck linear means

night swift
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Warlords

zealous basalt
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MoP is non linear

night swift
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Legion

zealous basalt
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Legion is non linear too Jhock

plain vigil
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Same with WoTLK you chose where to start. Mop is where things began to go linear and it got worse each xpac, taking more choice away from the player

zealous basalt
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because its the best for the player

plain vigil
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Legion is linear because you're required to complete every zone in order to progress

zealous basalt
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As a player you want to be immersed in the story

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i meant all expacs are linear

tropic trail
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I still wonder... was Taelia the adventurer in Kul Tiras questing lorewise?

zealous basalt
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That is why it started becoming fixed to each zone

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So the player can feel

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Immersed into it

plain vigil
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Wotlk isn't linear, sure the end game content is, but you choose to either progress through the right or left side of Northrend.

zealous basalt
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And it ends on the same place

ivory meadow
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which means fuck all in the grand scheme of things in the story.

zealous basalt
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Non-linearity hurts narrative

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I think there is a canon explanation of who started where

tropic trail
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Tirion was in the Fjord and Thassarian was in Borean Tundra

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Right?

zealous basalt
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Fuck the Fjord

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but yes

plain vigil
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Wow is about the player though not the ending of the story

zealous basalt
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Sadly

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Flaw of design if you ask me

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Giving a player that amount of freedom leads to very controversial things

plain vigil
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Like fun?

zealous basalt
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Not that

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story issues

ivory meadow
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the player is just there to let the story play out.

zealous basalt
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In theory

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but we have become so entitled

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that we want the story to move WITH us

night swift
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Its cause they keep making us super story important

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Weโ€™re not the adventurer anymore

zealous basalt
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A stupid decision tbh

tropic trail
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I miss being a random adventurer that happened to be there

zealous basalt
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I like dealing a lot of damage for the sake of easyness

plain vigil
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The player is there to be the player and Experience the world, the story is there to give the player a reason to move forward. The issue with our argument isn't a lack of understanding of each other, it's that we view how the game should be created differently

night swift
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Like we go from โ€œThe Highlordโ€ to โ€œThe Mainlanderโ€ in bfa

tropic trail
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I like my Grandmaster title. But use Brawler

zealous basalt
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Unless you are mean to start from the beggining as an op person that's good

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but again

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it's different for everyone

night swift
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Like ff14 we are a set title from basically the beginning

zealous basalt
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The PC should have that amount of influence?

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I think it depends

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Since the NPCs of WoW take any NPC as the NPC that went through raids

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....

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PC*

night swift
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The only thing that was kind of confirmed was the factions that took down some old raids

zealous basalt
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And it kinda conflicts with how are we treated in game

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But it's done nonetheless

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Legion was the decisive point of PC storytelling

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And it kinda fixed it as "the godly person"

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No matter what they do I don't think they can ever delete that

night swift
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Legion screwed a lot of character development tbh

zealous basalt
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BfA made us "The Mainlander"

night swift
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Especially with new classes now

zealous basalt
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and worse

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"Champion of Azeroth"

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So you have two conflicted titles

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And I agree JHock

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Legion screwed character development

tropic trail
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I like how Valtrois called us Outlander at the beginning of Suramar

zealous basalt
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And then we shut her up

plain vigil
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I feel like we're starting to get on the same page here Makore, we just have different philosophies for how to fix the issue

zealous basalt
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A world revamp is not the way to fix the PC development

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Because you will still become godly

plain vigil
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Correct, but it's a way to make the game feel less linear and more relevant.

tropic trail
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"Bystander! Help me kill The Jailor!"

zealous basalt
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that is not the solution

ivory meadow
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when you go from essentially the savior of gods to just mainlander...

zealous basalt
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if all making it linear is the best thing

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but

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extend it

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Let's be honest here

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the "Open world" RPG thing

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Is not a good selling thing anymore

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Open world as in being free of start whenever you want and do the story you want

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Linearity is a good way to be introduced to a story

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I would have loved a million of times

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Following the story of Westfall

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Since it abruptly stopped at the burning of Sentinel Hill and we didn't know anything after it

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Just...a filler quest to go to another area

tropic trail
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Isn't that why they make new players start in the new zone then get sent into BfA?

zealous basalt
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I'd have to play the new zone, Lyo

tropic trail
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True

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Honestly, I don't think people will return to old world questing unless they farm rare mobs

zealous basalt
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But really

tropic trail
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Which I doubt will exist in the new zone

zealous basalt
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I think, gandem, that if they remake a new world for a new expac

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Say goodbye to the "freedom" of non linear

plain vigil
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How so?

zealous basalt
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Because if all they wouldmake it a strict linear storyline taht someone have to fit on the new area and touch all the expacs

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You would have to bend in all the topics of the past expacs

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And sandboxing it would make it a mess

plain vigil
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That's what I'm saying tho. They wouldn't make any linear storylines. Go to Kul'Tiras, what type of world quests do you get?

zealous basalt
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Oh

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but they -would-

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and they will

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I am not talking about the world quests

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I am talking about the mqs of the world revamp

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Just think about it

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in a developer stand-point

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Why would you revamp a whole world?

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Put aside the excuse of "its because players would like it"

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Come up with straight facts

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A) You would fix all the holes of the stories

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B) You would come up with resolutions

tropic trail
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Honestly, a visual revamp would be nice

zealous basalt
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C) Coming up with ties to old expacs that feel fresh

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D) Simplify it for a better and enjoyable experience for the player

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Because new players aren't that interested in getting lost

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let me tell you

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Here comes a story from a noob Makore a lot of years ago when I tried Cata

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I choosed a quest that sent me from Elwynn to Loch without any knowledge of dwarves

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Feel how much was the change from Westfall to Loch

tropic trail
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"Bearded midgets?"

plain vigil
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You get simple stuff, like help this farmer kill some seagulls. Stuff like that. They don't have to make quests, they just need to put up engaging world quests with a few strings of story to move you through zones. Want to stay local to the dwarves? Stay in the Dun Morough-hinteroands zones and help the local townsfolk. It doesn't have to be any major big stories, have bounty boards for example with world quests for killing a specific type of job or rare to that zone . You remove all the focus on past expansions and put the focus on helping the locals of each zone. Maybe getting things unique to that zone along the way. Hell, you could even consolidate zones by reputation. So the hilsbrad and arathi could become one big zone for example.

zealous basalt
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Why do you want world quests?

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My question comes because

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you aren't looking for the msq btu just the world quests

plain vigil
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Can you define mqs? I'm unfamiliar with that abbreviation

zealous basalt
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The thing we do in every rpg when following the main story questline

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The thing you and I do when we go through the areas

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Questing

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not world questing

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Focus on questing

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Let put aside the system that is world quest

uncut lintel
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?

zealous basalt
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Why would you want a game where you do everything via world quests?

plain vigil
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Right. Your goal in leveling from 1-50 Should be just that. Leveling. You save the big crazy questlines for expansions and focus 1-50 on raising your hero through completing worldquests to help the locals.

tropic trail
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I think... for simplicity's sake?

uncut lintel
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World quest suck no thanks

plain vigil
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Leveling with worldquests, and then major questlines saved for end game content

zealous basalt
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That's nto how should it be

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No-

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no no no

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stop right there

uncut lintel
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Loool

zealous basalt
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Why the revamp then?

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Like, do you just care about new graphics and wqs?

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Stop being selfish for a moment, please

tropic trail
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Aw... I want a visual revamp. But only visual

plain vigil
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@uncut lintel with the current state of world quests I would agree, however they're revamping the worldquest system in Shadowlands. So I'm building this concept off of the idea that the Worldquest 2.0 system is successful

zealous basalt
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Gandem

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stop

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one moment

plain vigil
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How am I being selfish. ๐Ÿ˜‚

zealous basalt
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Wq's is good for alts

uncut lintel
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ehhh i still wont do them though lol

plain vigil
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Correct

zealous basalt
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Because you are just thinking in overleveling

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Which is good for alts

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But as a dev your main objetive are the new players

tropic trail
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You know Mak

plain vigil
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My point is to revamp the world FOR alts and new players. Not for the main.

zealous basalt
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That is a waste of resources

plain vigil
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Edited

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Please reread

zealous basalt
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WQs doesnt help new players

tropic trail
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World quests during questing would be nice if they were done like in GW2

zealous basalt
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If they are a side thing

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yes

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but not the main thing

tropic trail
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During. Questing

zealous basalt
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What im reading from Gandem is that he wants to make leveling mainly by WQs

tranquil steeple
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if that's the case

plain vigil
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Correct

zealous basalt
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with main sequence of story being a small thing

uncut lintel
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If that ever happened I would just buy boost

zealous basalt
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which is an

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awful idea

plain vigil
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I'm glad you finally get what I've been saying for the past 3 hours ๐Ÿ˜‚

ivory meadow
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wait what?

zealous basalt
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Gandem

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That is a stupid idea

uncut lintel
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Is dumb

tranquil steeple
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throw in more breadcrumb/connecting quests (between zones or simply hubs within a zone) and then area bonus objectives at certain level checkpoints

tropic trail
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^

zealous basalt
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It not just dumb but also an insult to new players

uncut lintel
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I would quit

zealous basalt
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I would too

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Also Sel

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that is a perfect idea too

tranquil steeple
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that way you feel more engaged in the story, and/or feel better about doing an optional objective

plain vigil
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Again keep an open mind, I'm basing this off if worldquests 2.0 is successful. If it's unsuccessful obviously the current state of Worldquest in underwhelming

zealous basalt
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One moment

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Just a question

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do you know what

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wq 2.0 is?

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Like do you know if it would do storytelling?

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Because so far what I have learned is that it is just a better reward system

plain vigil
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Hey Makore can you please type paragraphs so I can have time to respond rather than going line by line?

uncut lintel
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Shadowlands is like a whole yr away

ivory meadow
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no, they will not.

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just read.

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and then respond.

tranquil steeple
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wqs ๐Ÿ‘ are ๐Ÿ‘ rep ๐Ÿ‘ trackers

zealous basalt
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When something says 2.0 it doesn't mean that it will revamp it entirely and make it something new

plain vigil
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Cause I go to respond and then you're into another question Makore ๐Ÿ˜…

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I understand that

tranquil steeple
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I hate myself for that message, but I had to say it

tropic trail
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You know, for as much as I hate the horde, the transition between Silverpine and Hillsbrad was excellent. I want more of it

zealous basalt
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And again I ask

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Do you think a world quest will do the job of a questing line when coming to storytelling?

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Because if it's not then what MaoMao said will be better than a revamp

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just buy a boost

ivory meadow
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^^

zealous basalt
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And the revamp would be a waste of resources just for eyecandy

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Good for roleplayers

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Bad for the rest

uncut lintel
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Wouldn't ppl still just go to main xpac city?

zealous basalt
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That too

plain vigil
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I actually feel like this conversation would be better had over voice, would y'all mind jumping into a voice channel?

zealous basalt
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No

uncut lintel
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I cant talk

zealous basalt
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I don't do voice in english servers, apologies.

ivory meadow
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basically, all the world revamp will do is put a chain around the problem and fumble everything up.

plain vigil
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Not a problem, it just may take me longer to explain my point then

ivory meadow
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I mean we've been here for how many hours now?

zealous basalt
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Just go straight for the point with these questions

ivory meadow
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some time to figure what one wants to say wouldn't be too much

zealous basalt
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1.- Will the world revamp solve story issues?
2.- Will it be a pleasant experience for new players?
3.- Will it be nice for alts?
4.- Linearity? How? Non-linear? How?

tranquil steeple
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and to make it easier to read, if possible separate answers either by new line or number

uncut lintel
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Y is he still typing

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Oh god

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o-o K e k

tranquil steeple
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so give 'im some time

uncut lintel
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Oh RIP

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Srry I do not have a phone so Idk wut it's like lol

tropic trail
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I'm on my phone, too

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What do you mean?

uncut lintel
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o - o

zealous basalt
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You all know, its considered good manners to wait until someone ends the typing

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Just...letting you all know.

uncut lintel
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yes

tropic trail
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Sorry Makore

uncut lintel
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Anyone got any idea when next store mount comes out

tropic trail
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Hahahahahahaah

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What?

uncut lintel
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I'm serious

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I want a new mount

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From the store

tropic trail
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Rare sight

uncut lintel
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What?

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I buy every store mount lol

tropic trail
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You support the game, that's great :)

uncut lintel
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They support me by putting cool mounts that I can just buy with just 25 bucks so I'd be satisfied enough bcuz I can't get any cool raid ones untill 2 xpacs later and my RNG sucks

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(fuck you invincible..fuck you)

tropic trail
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Is that bracket an insult or a wish?

uncut lintel
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Both

tropic trail
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Sorry I had to ๐Ÿ˜‚

uncut lintel
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xD

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It's the only mount I want but every time I run it I just leave with a broken heart and pure dissapointment

plain vigil
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Okay so I'm going to use an example from Kul'Tiras. There's a Worldquest where you go and help a fisherman with a seagull problem. He has a voiceline where he asked for help, you kill seagulls, get your reward, and move on.

When leveling throwing big storylines at a player can get confusing, especially in a new world of lore. If you make zones with a goal, say help out x amount of villagers, or gain x amount of rep (not locked on time but amount of Worldquests completed) you can have little self contained stories about the people who live in that zone. This helps new players slowly acclimate to new lore. While old players would have more of a choice on which zone they want to spend their time in.

Q: 1. Will the world Revamp solve story issues?
A: Ideally yes. You won't have issue with past expansions because the focus won't be on the world, just you leveling, and story focus on that zone, making a name for yourself.

Q: 2. Will it be a pleasent Experiance for new players?

A: Ideally yes. Players won't be sent to go kill major expansions bosses, maybe meet their racial leader, and a few important lore characters from each zone, but nothing that would be hard to swallow.

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Q: 3. Will it be nice for alts?
A: That really depends on playstyle. If you're an RP person you'll be able to go start a new adventure and have meaningful RP interaction with people in the villages. If you're a speed leveler, you can just farm WQ's and not have to worry as much about travel time between quest givers and quest hubs. As the quests will just be visible on your map.

Q: 4. linearity? How? Non-linear? How?
A: So this question is a bit more complicated. It's really however the devs decide to go with it. I do have some ideas though.

If the devs want a linear story, they can frame each zone with a Worldquest or rep requirement. But how will you make rep not time gated for questing? Well, with the new party sync feature, everyone having the same worldquests on their map is no longer an issue. You could have worldquests cycle normally, but also allow players to get more worldquests just by completing them. So say you need to be friendly with the zone to progress in the story, doing 5 world quests will open up 5 more, no time gates, and party sync would sync worldquests between players.

If the devs want a non-linear story, maybe set some boundaries with level requirements for new players so they stay within a zone, but for returners allow them to go wherever they want.

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Either way, the story wouldn't be synced to a specific expansion time, the storyline would be you working your way through the ranks by gaining favor with the denizens of Azeroth. Over time gaining levels until you can return to the playerbase and start the content questlines for the most recent expansion.

Bonuses Q: How would this then serve returning players?
A: you could have major world events like the legion prepatch where limited time worldquests spawn around the world. These worldquests would stay all expansion and/or all patch until a player reaches the level required to start the current expansion's questline. That way new and returning players would Experiance the current expansion without having a Perminant effect on the zone and future issues with zones being in a time paradox.

For those who are curious the old world would be instancable via the caverns of time, so they wouldn't have to remove old items/mounts/pets.

If I missed anything, or there's any more questions or holes you'd like to poke, i'd be more than happy to answer. Remember, the format is just to make things easier to read, all of this is speculative.

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Damn character limits

tropic trail
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๐Ÿ‘

tranquil steeple
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that much text well explains the 20 min typing, now to get to reading

uncut lintel
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I am not a good reader

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; - ;

zealous basalt
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So from what I read

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You are making the character the -main- focus of the revamp, basically a revamp for the PC itself

plain vigil
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I hope this makes things easier to understand where I'm coming from. I feel like the issue with wq's now is that they're only for rep. With he prepatch it was a lot of fun leveling toons with the legion invasion world quests

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Right but only from level 1-50 makore

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Level 50-60 would be current expansion progress and normal quest-line Experiance

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Although if a player really wants to return to the old world and level with wq's through Max I don't see that as an issue

zealous basalt
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While the idea of having a world for a character is tempting

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It doesn't convince me entirely over the use of WQ's

plain vigil
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And that's well and fair

zealous basalt
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It would have to wait and see how is 2.0

tranquil steeple
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I am still heavily in favor of just throwing in bonus objectives (prime example being the ones in WoD) with sparkly rewards/good amount of EXP, that are only available for a few hours after reaching any applied level checkpoint the developer(s) want

just so that WQs stay max level related, and there not needing to be a tracking system to your progress while leveling beyond the zone(s) story

zealous basalt
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I didn't really like how it worked, the bonus objetives in BfA

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Like you are suddenly going from point A to B

tranquil steeple
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... i just realized i made a pointless edit, undo-ing

zealous basalt
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then it pops out

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no explanation of why

tranquil steeple
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hell, even only adding a breadcrumb quest telling you "go to X or Y area, there's something going on there" for THEN the bonus objective to pop up

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would make the BfA version of bonus objectives actually... nice.

plain vigil
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The reason I'm opting for worldquests rather than normal quests is worldquests already have skeletal presets while quests require being built from the ground up. Additionally worldquests can be quickly edited to fix any time issues in order to keep the old world relevant regardless of expansion and have their own self contained stories

zealous basalt
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Yeah but remember that you want to have a good story to tell

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Not just having objetives

ivory meadow
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right

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that's why there's an opposition to the worldquests idea.

zealous basalt
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World quests are nice for completing flat objetives

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But they suck for storytelling

tranquil steeple
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the reason I'm against WQs is that all they do is tell you "do this thing we tell you to do here", which doesn't work unless you have 100 wqs per zone

ivory meadow
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main quests makes you interact with the NPCs and generally get you acclimated with your new surroundings.

zealous basalt
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That is why traditional quests exist and that's why dailies evolved to wqs

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I feel that MQs prepare you for WQs

tranquil steeple
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to add to the level pop-up bonus objective (with potential breadcrumb to make it more fluid), make completing it give bonus exp buff for an hour or something aswell, so it's rewarding beyond the initial completion only

plain vigil
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If blizzard could come up with a way to add more story interaction to world quests it could maybe work out in the end

ivory meadow
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on Q1 as well, it seems the solution is to make expansions happen independently is what it seems like it's saying

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is that right or wrong?

plain vigil
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Basically the story of the worldquests would be in tangent with the beginning of Xpac but because the story is localized to the zone and day to day life of the people that live there Rather than big picture stuff. So yes from a mechanical perspective, from a story perspective it frees up the issue of "omgdeathwingisinvading" 10 years after his death

tranquil steeple
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isn't that effectively what the new leveling stuff for Shadowlands is doing, by letting you choose BC, WotLK, Cata, MoP or whatever you wanna and being either fully ready to head to the Shadowlands, and if not be close to the starting point of Shadowlands levelwise

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so it all ends up being "if you wanna see what deathwing did to azeroth, do the Cata leveling cycle"

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or "if you wanna see the rise and fall of the iron horde, go ham and enjoy yourself"

plain vigil
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Right but this updates the world so the world is relevant again

ivory meadow
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also, isn't that how BFA storytelling works when leveling? you go through each zone seeing what's the problem, and then go through another zone without needing to go through another to understand why it's happening while all of it is working to the bigger picture?

plain vigil
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Yes but BFA's questlines are very much tied to the fourthwar timeline wise

zealous basalt
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Tied timewise but not very into it

ivory meadow
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^

plain vigil
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So questline wise very much so tied to it, but if you strip away the Magni world quests and the regular quests all the wq's on Kul'Tiras are basically help the villagers.

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The difference is worldquests aren't used for leveling in BFA

zealous basalt
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You don't really get into the Fourth War unless you really want to

ivory meadow
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yeah

zealous basalt
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WQs arent used for leveling

tranquil steeple
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just like they weren't used for leveling in Legion

plain vigil
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The entire Stormsong zone is about Sylvanas's invasion

zealous basalt
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Not really

ivory meadow
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Azshara becomes the real threat

zealous basalt
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It's about the stuff happening with the Stormsong peebs

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Sylv's invasion is like

plain vigil
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You walk up to a town and people are screaming because nthe horde is invading

zealous basalt
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one part of the storylines

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Yeah

plain vigil
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True

zealous basalt
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but that's not the main thing there

ivory meadow
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it's a side thing though

zealous basalt
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The main thing is discovering what is happening with Lord Stormsong

plain vigil
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Which in turn is still tied to the timeline of events in BFA

tranquil steeple
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which actually were ongoing before we got to Kul'Tiras

ivory meadow
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the zone questlines though have little to no interaction with the Fourth War though; it's just you going around helping them out so you can get them on your side.

tranquil steeple
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we as players get there and REALLY speed up the events that was already happening

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which goes the same way with fighting back the Nightmare in Val'sharah back in Legion

plain vigil
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Right but it pertains to the same issue of timeline. Which is where chromie comes in

zealous basalt
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What issue witht he timeline now

ivory meadow
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you may be there because of it breaking out, but you don't really see the Horde or the alliance in the zones a lot until you're past 120 and the War really picks up.

plain vigil
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My concept with world quests could just be another option to level as well, no point in throwing away the systems made for BFA to allow you to level through other expansions

ivory meadow
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how exactly would you get the story in the zones to matter through world questing?

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the same way MQ already do.

zealous basalt
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WQ's dont have a dialog box because they assume you are familiar with the story already

tranquil steeple
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WQs haven't been used exclusively for leveling

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specific, conditional ones have been tweaked to work while leveling

plain vigil
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Well you focus on the individual stories of the characters you help. The goal of leveling from the get go is to level up, so maybe having intermission quests every 10 levels like the monk teleport where you meet up with increasingly important people of your faction's military? Or heck even receiving a letter with the cool voicebox they added in BFA . As for dialogue, most worldquests in BFA have a character who speaks to you and tells you the issue.

zealous basalt
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its not the same

plain vigil
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You could also have hidden quests, like random drop quests. Or rare worldquests

zealous basalt
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Like how it happens already

ivory meadow
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to the Story?

tranquil steeple
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but the way they're designed they're simply meant to give rep, resources or items that you may need initially (and becomes more and more worthless as you grind dungeons for gear) that then simply becomes a daily activity tracker, instead of a nice experience you're going through

zealous basalt
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Why not

ivory meadow
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I mean yeah it already happens.

zealous basalt
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just continue with the normal quests but having holes fixed

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Like there is a say

plain vigil
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I mean for newer players an intro quest and outro quest for each zone comemorating you for helping the people and encouraging you to move on couldn't hurt

zealous basalt
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If it is not broken don't try to fix it

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The way how the game delievers the story with normal quests is just good

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The issue is how the story is written

tranquil steeple
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that's what I'd call "breadcrumb quests", essentially

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if my 6am mind can be trustworthy to "work"

plain vigil
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The problem is current quests are basically worldquests but you have to put more work into them. Notice how a lot of Worldquests in BFA are just repeating quests you've already completed.

tranquil steeple
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because they're daily quests you don't pick up at an npc

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they're designed to be repeatable

zealous basalt
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Yeah

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It's

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an evolution from the daily quests from before

plain vigil
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Sticking to worldquests only allows them to place the quest base and build off it without having to build new quests from the ground up

zealous basalt
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But they -want- to build new quests from the ground

plain vigil
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And then you over time add to that library new types of work quests

zealous basalt
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You aren't agilizing that aspect of how wow works

plain vigil
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So every playthrough is different

zealous basalt
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you are making it cluncky

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that is

uncut lintel
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ill be back at 5 AM

zealous basalt
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a big mess narratively speaking

ivory meadow
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for real.

tranquil steeple
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ok, worldquests are daily quests.
aka repeatable quests you do for reputation
that are intended to be re-done OVER and OVER end on end... NOT be a means of telling a story and providing you with a leveling experience

zealous basalt
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If you are looking for a randomizer every time you log in or create a character

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just buy a boost

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Because it will be tedious

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I mean WQs are a chore nonetheless when you are maxed out

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Also sorry to burst the bubble

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But I don't think 2.0 will be made to replace the leveling system

tranquil steeple
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current quests like the ones we have to go through for Loremaster achievements... tell a story, while providing you experience... so you can get to max level and do the endless worldquest grind for rep (until exalted, at which... endless grind for paragon)

plain vigil
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Enter zone: gain quest: "welcome adventurer come speak to me in the tavern"
Go to tavern: "hey we need your help go to each area and help out the villagers"
Go to area and complete a few wq's: go to next areas: return to inn: quest to move on, or you can stay and continue worldquests. But it would build a randomization to it so if you do the same zone 5 times you've helping the same villagers but doing somewhat different tasks to reduce it feeling old.

tranquil steeple
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... you're

ivory meadow
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to me...

tranquil steeple
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essentially just putting

plain vigil
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No bubbles bursted here, again this is a concept, not really a guess

tranquil steeple
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"world" infront of "quest"

zealous basalt
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You don't really know

ivory meadow
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that seems really lazy from a storytelling point of view

zealous basalt
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How questing works

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Or storytelling right?

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That's

tranquil steeple
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y'know, quest... the thing we already do... the thing we go to a place to grab and do

zealous basalt
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essensially

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Making WoW an asian style rpg

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where you just enter to level up

tranquil steeple
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to then move on to the next to continue leveling

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shit noticed an error

zealous basalt
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That is how you kill wow, man

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You kill WoW by getting rid of the only thing that makes it WoW

plain vigil
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You can guide a player through a story without them having to kill the same 20 mobs every time you come back on an alt. This would add some variation to the quest Experiance.

zealous basalt
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The dialogue of the questing box

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The storytelling

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Because you want to agilize it for level...that's now how it works

plain vigil
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Nonono

tranquil steeple
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so instead of 20 of X mob, it's 20 of Y mob... or 20 of Z mob

plain vigil
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You can still maintain the same level of story, you'd just have to adjust the Worldquest systen

tranquil steeple
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what's the difference?

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you're still killing 20 mobs

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the quest still needs you to do the same thing

plain vigil
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No it's instead of killing 20 of x mob, kill this rare, or complete this puzzel, or go find my lost cat.

tranquil steeple
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bonus objectives

zealous basalt
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You would be ending the same

tranquil steeple
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IN ADDITION

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to quests

zealous basalt
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Like

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All you say

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It's what we usually do

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but instead you want to make it one at time

tranquil steeple
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you're just making quests into "world"quests

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it's the same thing it's just... "world"quests

zealous basalt
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in the end it will be the same after the 4th add

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alt

plain vigil
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Yes that's true Makore, but it's better than it being the same after the first time.

ivory meadow
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the storytelling takes a lethal hit though

zealous basalt
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That is a lie

tranquil steeple
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like, yes, I want change. but the change you want, as far as I can tell, is going to make people wonder why the story of a zone is different each time they go through it

zealous basalt
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Wayward

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As far as I see

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he cares little to nothing for the storytelling

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Atm its just

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"make this faster or different"

tranquil steeple
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a story that for a zone should be linear... THEN sprinkle sidequests, objectives, or, I suppose... a "world"quest

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but the zone's entire story SHOULD STAY THE SAME EVERY TIME

ivory meadow
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not trying to mean to you Gan, but because the answer to Q1 falls apart instantly, so too do the other solutions.

zealous basalt
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Sel

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Basically

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A lying system

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Because it says

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"Oh, we have a bunch of objetives, but you will just see these in this run...if you come back -maybe- you will get the rest"

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Imo that's....adding RNG to questing

tranquil steeple
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yeah that's another thought I had; "that just sounds like RNG"

ivory meadow
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and adding even the smallest amount of story to it.

uncut lintel
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๐Ÿ˜ข No more RNG plz

ivory meadow
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you have no way of getting the full story because of the RNG

tranquil steeple
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adding RNG to something that should be clear and simple WILL kill the purpose of it

zealous basalt
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Not only that

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It's an heresy

plain vigil
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I mean the system's not perfect here, never said it was, but if you could somehow combine the variety of world quests with the story of quests it would kill two birds with one stone, adding timelessness to the gameplay and adding a meaningful story to the player. In the end every quest is the same, you're helping someone with something. It's just a matter of how many words you out on the page.

tranquil steeple
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like I thought going through DDDA's story and being locked out of something I had full control over was bad... imagine being locked out of something because of RNG

plain vigil
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Keep in mind this is for 1-50 51-60would continue the normal leveling sydtem

tranquil steeple
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no offense, but

ivory meadow
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that's even worse.

tranquil steeple
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I'd rather suffer through classic PvP realms than try the system I'm envisioning you're proposing

zealous basalt
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That would

tranquil steeple
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aka I'd rather die 1k+ in-game deaths and spend 2 years leveling

zealous basalt
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Be the real nail to the coffer

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And the worst part

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It's just the revamp part

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Not the whole expac plan

plain vigil
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I guess another part of it is faction, because the 1-50 quest Experiance on alliance is way less linear than the quests like the story of Dun Morough is literally, help out the villagers, the story of northern barrens is investigate the destruction of a town and help with the aftermath. So it may just be my perspective is coming from the faction with the more simple questlines

ivory meadow
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so you're leaving story details that could be essential to understand something in a story up to RNG?

tranquil steeple
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adding variety should not kill off something else that's already working just fine

zealous basalt
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The whole mention of RNG is enough to make it a failure

plain vigil
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Nonono like for example the quests in Loch Modan don't really matter. You kill some bears and animals and invade the kobalds but there's no story that underlines the loch. Maybe that's the issue with cata? All the story was about repairing broken zones

zealous basalt
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What the

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You haven't done it entirely right?

tranquil steeple
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I'm going extreme with this next short message, but...

uncut lintel
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i wish i could post emojis

ivory meadow
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wtf?

tranquil steeple
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I'm starting to understand Des leaving..

plain vigil
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I've done it multiple times through

uncut lintel
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omg wayward i love u

zealous basalt
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Yes

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You

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Again stop being selfish

plain vigil
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Wow I didn't even realize Des left but now that you mention it

zealous basalt
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And think on a new player

plain vigil
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I am.

zealous basalt
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You are not

tranquil steeple
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Des would be SUPER vocal about what you're suggesting

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there's be no way you wouldn't notice

zealous basalt
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The moment you are leaving stuff out to rng you are assuming that they would know

plain vigil
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I'm not being selfish here ๐Ÿ˜‚ the best way for a new player to Experiance the whole of Azeroth is to bring the visuals of it up to par.

zealous basalt
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IT

tranquil steeple
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THEN LET IT BE VISUALS ONLY

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NOT THE WHOLE LEVELING PROCESS

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JESUS

uncut lintel
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x'D

ivory meadow
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don't affect everything else to make it happen though

zealous basalt
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You are messing

plain vigil
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But then you still have to fix it so the quests aren't tied to a specific Xpac @tranquil steeple

zealous basalt
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BECAUSE THEY WERE MADE FOR THE EXPAC ONLY

plain vigil
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Else another world revamp would be required down the line

ivory meadow
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holy shit my dude.

zealous basalt
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Making the world relevant all the time

uncut lintel
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?????

zealous basalt
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MAKES A GAME EXTREMELY BORING WITH A LOT OF CONTENT

tranquil steeple
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why do you think blizzard didn't do a cata 2.0

zealous basalt
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I already told you

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Games can suffer of over content and lack of content

tranquil steeple
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because it's THAT much of a pain in the ass to rework A FEW ZONES

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why would they want to rework the entire planet at the same time

zealous basalt
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Unless it is extrifty necessary

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You cant be that dense

uncut lintel
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im honestly laughing

tranquil steeple
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hell ding ding think back to the hot shitfest adding more bagspace was

zealous basalt
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You are suggesting

tranquil steeple
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MORE BAGSPACE

zealous basalt
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A world revamp

tranquil steeple
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BROKE SHIT UNRELATED TO THE BAGS

zealous basalt
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Enhanced graphically

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Getting rid of the quest system we have that works

tranquil steeple
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not to mention on the visual update

zealous basalt
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And change it for a world quest system

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With no impact on the storyline for a new player

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AND RNG BASED?

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Dude

tranquil steeple
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wow being the way it is... IS PART OF WHAT MAKES THE GAME ENJOYABLE, BECAUSE BASICALLY ANYBODY CAN GO AND PLAY IT

zealous basalt
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You can work at Activision you know

ivory meadow
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as Gordon Ramsay would say "What in the fuck..."

tranquil steeple
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I'm... not only "starting" to understand Des leaving, I just about do at this point

plain vigil
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Don't worry Makore my goal is to work at blizzard one day

zealous basalt
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I am too

uncut lintel
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LOL

zealous basalt
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The amount of stupid in that idea is just

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Wow

uncut lintel
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LOOOL

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ok ok uh yea, haev fun destroying the game

tranquil steeple
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like listen

zealous basalt
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If there was a trophy of stupid ideas

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You would have earned the platinum

tranquil steeple
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i get wanting visual upgrades, a freshened up leveling experience

zealous basalt
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Tell me it's a bait

tranquil steeple
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but atleast make reasonable suggestions

zealous basalt
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Please tell me we took it

tranquil steeple
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atleast THINK

ivory meadow
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but to completely sacrifice story to do so is just... wtf?

zealous basalt
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The problem with the wow community

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Is that they are so spoiled

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They want things without thinking on the developer way of doing things

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I can't still believe you came out with an rng questing system

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Like

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I'm in awe

ivory meadow
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A: Ideally yes. You won't have issue with past expansions because the focus won't be on the world, just you leveling, and story focus on that zone, making a name for yourself. ```
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you need to go back and think about this a lot

plain vigil
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Lmao

ivory meadow
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i'm not kidding man.

zealous basalt
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You need help with logic

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Like

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You need to understand how things work

ivory meadow
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that Q1 right here is your whole gateway as to how the other three things will matter.

zealous basalt
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You need to understand many things

tranquil steeple
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I'm equally amazed and scared on how you made a suggestion to WoW be nightmare fuel.

plain vigil
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This shit's not that deep, y'all are acting catatonic as if this concept will actually happen. Makore and Sela are out here just being straight up bullies. If you don't like my ideas fine but name calling? Grow up guys

zealous basalt
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We are scared that you came up with such idea

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And calling out

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In this case is a shout for you to get help

ivory meadow
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even if it is just an offshoot idea..

zealous basalt
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It has to be a bad idea

ivory meadow
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it needs a little more thought put into it.

zealous basalt
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You want a good criticism?

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Don't change the current questing system

plain vigil
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Oh 200% wayward, but y'all are acting like I don't understand that

zealous basalt
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You just suggested an Rng based quest system that fucks up storytelling

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As a wow player we assume you care about storytelling

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But when you want to get rid of it

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It's like a big insult

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I may be overreacting or underrreacting

ivory meadow
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if you do understand though, why would you consider such an idea to even be one?

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even if it's one made just a few minutes ago.

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especially one that required a lot of time to type out.

zealous basalt
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Evil

ivory meadow
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to establish the goals you were trying to accomplish with it.

molten pine
#

Not sure if the wowhead team has posted about this any where but they've changed the soulbound items you used to turn in for rep from island expeditions into BoA rep tokens that can't be used past exalted

uncut lintel
#

o

zealous basalt
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Pretty

tranquil steeple
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i can admit that i may have been overreacting due to, well.. lack of sleep aka 6:30am right now, but at the same time the way (it seemed to me) you were going about it, a lot of what you said went against your own words, that you at a later point go back to claiming is the main point you're going for... and then go against it again, and it just kept going back and forth like that until 20-30 min ago, where the cup overflowed

plain vigil
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It's called brainstorming my guy.

uncut lintel
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o _ o

ivory meadow
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your core argument didn't change though

zealous basalt
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That's how they call it

ivory meadow
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throughout the 20-30 mins we were talking you only talked about how it would affect leveling, nothing at all about storytelling.

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which was the whole point of the 20-30 mins we were talking.

plain vigil
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Yeah I haven't thought the storytelling bite through yet ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

tranquil steeple
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well, you do some thinking then. I'mma satisfy my brain with sleep before it short circuits from not getting the sleep it wants

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and pray I don't wake up near nighttime tomorrow, and at best middle of the day

cyan prairie
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I know that it's a bit late to say that when the argument is over, but @plain vigil all these dumb ideas you had here would take a lot of effort, forcing a big part of the dev team to waste their time on that instead of making raids, new zones or even working with the new expansion. Just because you were bored with current quests doesn't mean that the world revamp is needed since there are other ways to lvl up alts than just questing and all the new players should be able to experience these zones since they are made especially for them to see some story. About your complaining that people sit at one place - would you enjoy flying from Zuldazar to idk. Northrend just to clear some World Quests? WQ System is meant to be something quick to complete and placing them all over the world would be a complete mess. Most of your "ideas" or "discussions" here were useless and pointless, since your argumentation was wrong or it was just your personal, irrelevant opinion which wasn't a fact at all.

zealous basalt
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Daamn

ivory meadow
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damn talk about brutal honesty...

limber mural
#

scrolling through this chat has uh reminded me of two things

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-why the hell I have gandem blocked cause I couldn't really remember up til now

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-why blizzard should really never pay attention to what the community says

cyan prairie
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sometimes people complain about things that shouldn't really be touched

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but they don't realise it for most of the time

peak fern
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as someone said here, the community is pretty spoiled

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when there are no real, "burning" issues that require fixing people tend to look for stuff to complain about

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that's what I think

plain vigil
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Y'all are Fucking cruel, calling an idea dumb because you didn't like it is just Fucking rude. Like y'all are after me for no damn reason just because you don't like an IDEA. What the fuck is wrong with you? Grow up. Be adults, and if you're not an adult, I repeat, grow the fuck up. I'm not here to Fucking complain, none of my ideas are a complaint. I'm just looking for ideas to improve the game and make the world more open and relevant again. And most of all I'm here for fun. I don't know who raised y'all, but the internet isn't the place where you take your issues out on someone. Y'all are all bullies. Learn to have a respectful conversation/discussion for once. We had it for a second there when y'all gave me the time to type my brainstorming out, but holy fuck y'all have a hate boner for me or something. TL;Dr you don't call someone's idea dumb, it's highly disrespectful. You should give constructive criticism sure but just going on a slew of hate spewing doesn't help anyone in the long run. If your goal was to hurt me or my feelings congrats. You've done it. Have some Fucking compassion goddamn

zealous basalt
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Trust me, we weren't cruel

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The only thing you were called out was for being selfish as you seem to ruin the storytelling with making WQs so into leveling instead of just something as a side

strange falcon
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oh boy,another hurt feelings rant ๐Ÿฟ

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would "impractical" feel better to you than dumb?

zealous basalt
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We didn't call him dumb though, I don't get where he is getting being cruel

cyan prairie
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we're cruel because we have different opinion

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and as we all know, having an opinion in 2019 is forbidden by law

plain vigil
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Literally yes @strange falcon

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No. Maul that's not it at all, maybe it's a language barrier? I know some people here English is their second language

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Calling ideas dumb is hella rude though

ivory meadow
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@plain vigil ok first let's get one thing straight. You typed out that outline for that idea for us to read so we could understand it more. We couldn't even get past the answer to Q1 before the whole idea fell apart. We called the idea dumb sure, but let's be fucking real here, is that the worse that's been said about an idea before? Also, we told you why exactly it was a really bad idea and then I proceeded to tell what you needed to do in order to get it going if you thought about it again.

zealous basalt
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I mean, that's up for everyone

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I have got called out for having dumb ideas for projects and I just make them better

cyan prairie
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man, i've heard much worse things in my life and i didn't cry as much

plain vigil
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Calling something a bad idea is different from calling something a dumb idea @ivory meadow

zealous basalt
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Not really

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A bad idea is something that you can enhance

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When your idea gets called dumb

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You need to check up what you messed uo

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Which

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We actually helped you in telling why it was bad

ivory meadow
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it means there's something you didn't consider.

cyan prairie
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bad idea has a point, but it's gonna cause some issues

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dumb idea is just completely wrong

zealous basalt
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And you decided to ignore what we said and say we are Cruel

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And /cry

restive marten
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So did we manage to discover all the vulpera tricks ? Those i ve seen are all on the gcd and barely do any dmg. It s like vulpera dont have any dps racial atm

dense plover
#

Racials have never been about dps

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The places that racial will shine are utility

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They already have a second hearthstone and 8 more bag slots

night swift
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^

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Well, the only real โ€œdpsโ€ racials are orcs and trolls

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And the LF draenei

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And I guess the goblins

cyan prairie
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Mag'har Orcs too

night swift
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Yeah theres has that little bit of rng though

worn crown
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Velves have a passive racial that increases dpd

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dps

night swift
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Weโ€™re talking more of active spells

plain vigil
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The man just wants to find out if there's any new news on Vulpera bag of tricks and y'all go on a tangent about other races racials ๐Ÿ˜‚

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@restive marten there's no new information on Vulpera bag of tricks

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My best guess is they're waiting for patch launch to add them as a secret to discover

uncut lintel
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lol

ionic terrace
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@restive marten We've found Flames of Fury and Sinister Shadows

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FoF is from H Rag in Firelands and SS is from Cho'gall in BoT

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Not found Holy Relic yet though!

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Also doesn't appear to be a 100% drop

plain vigil
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Oh nice I stand corrected!

night swift
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They did say that โ€œIts like they have no dps racial atmโ€ and we just talked about how not all of them have to be dps racials

restive marten
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all race have some sort of racial t hat increase their dps wether it s an active or a passive

dense plover
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vulpera have a tanking racial

worn crown
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Actually you guys didn't specify at all before if were talking about passive or active racials. And I see no point to only talk about one kind.

azure estuary
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I hope the reveal how and when the โ€œmachine of deathโ€ got broken in Shadowlands

icy narwhal
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I think I know but I don't want to spoil it for you

round zenith
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well thereโ€™s only so many major events that have happened that could explain it

novel zodiac
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@icy narwhal But is not actually confirmed, isn't it?

icy narwhal
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Right.

novel zodiac
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so, what's your theory?

icy narwhal
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Well it has to do with the Emerald Nightmare, I am still working on it to be honest

plain vigil
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I don't mean to be that guy but wouldn't this conversation be better suited for #beta-shadowlands

dense plover
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it probably would

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also you cant spoil something with a theory

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it would be a spoiler if it was inside knowledge

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a good guess makes you look smart - if youre right

ionic terrace
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My theory is that mrpeach is the Jailor

dense plover
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XD

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more likely, im the guy who originally assigned the jailer and have been planning this expac since the start. I knew the jailer would eventually side with sylvanas and that the players would end up in the shadowlands, giving me the time to release nzoth from the dagger and DESTROY AZEROTH

plain vigil
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@ionic terrace that's not a theory.... I know a guy who knows a guy's uncle who's grandmother's nephew works for blizzard, and I can 190% garuntee Peach is the jailor

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spoiler alert the guy who works for blizzard is JJ Abrims you heard it right, world of Warcraft trilogy where JJ can't do the second movie so the guy in charge makes Sylvanas the queen of the alliance because the light

zealous basalt
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Kinda sad there wasn't a w2 movie

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Erm

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Warcraft part 2

dense plover
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they will hopefully eventually make a tv show

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big budget tv seems to work

plain vigil
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Personally I think they should do a Tv series like the witcher

dense plover
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and warcraft has way too much to fit into movies

plain vigil
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Ah yes same page!

dense plover
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tbh, im not sure wow could get that support

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even if everyone who plays wow watches, thats not enough to support that large of a budget

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might be smart to go from a clone wars perspective

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get people interested in thge story

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THEN go full cgi

plain vigil
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The power of China compels you

zealous basalt
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Which is not bad

dense plover
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china didnt watch the movie enough

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and they are NOT the tv market

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the tv market is the US and EU

plain vigil
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Rip

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They could always do a more mundane, easy to follow story like with the Witcher and build up to orcs and elves and such

dense plover
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lol the witcher is in depth

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but the witcher is MOSTLY real footage

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with SOME CGI

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warcraft would be cgi heavy

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like the last season of GoT

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thats why i suggest a clone wars style series to capture interest

plain vigil
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Right but if you focus a specific part of Warcraft history, with either eleves or humans, you can get away with practical effects

dense plover
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yeah but the warcraft story starts with the orcs

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and its easier to secure funding if you have an audience who already watches your tv stuff

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no way the mandalorian would have happened without both GoT AND clone wars

plain vigil
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Warcaft starts with orcs yes but there's other events further back that you could begin with. Or even tell a new take leading up to Warcraft

zealous basalt
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Eh

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Half cgi in Warcraft movie didn't look good when it came to elves

plain vigil
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You can easily do elves practically

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You also can do height practically too!

icy narwhal
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Blizzard probably does have the resources to create a really cool series/movie but things got/get in the way

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The cinematics are so gripping they need to make an Amazon original or something.

uncut vault
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Boo, they removed the ability for anyone who can use a weapon type to xmog a legendary in that category

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so warriors cant xmog dragonwrath anymore

frigid crater
zealous basalt
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F

whole cedar
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wait, really?

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yeah just checked, my monk lost her dragonwrath xmog on her staff

sullen dawn
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They'd be better of doing a castlevania style series - would be a lot cheaper to produce and could cater to core fans

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Have it play alongside wow storyline - high fantasy and meant to compliment in game story

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Have a new season launch at the start of each expansion and major patch

plain vigil
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Animated Azeroth just isn't as worth it imo. Also locking gameplay story behind a tv schedule and streaming platform seems risky

zealous basalt
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It's just extended universe but more visual

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343i is doing it with Halo, comics, books, series, webcasts

tulip sun
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It is like expanding the lore with books

plain vigil
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Okay here me out, Disney buys out Blizzard, aquires wow, Warcraft Disney+ series

strange falcon
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i dont want to be part of that timeline

plain vigil
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Lmfao

zealous basalt
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I can make it worse

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It gets movies made by JJ that are politically correct

plain vigil
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Ah I see you're throwing it back to my secret source

zealous basalt
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So..

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Does the eye work for something?

sullen dawn
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soo....Blizzney?

uncut lintel
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whos blizzney

sullen dawn
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Blizzard/Disney

zealous basalt
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Actiblizzney

uncut lintel
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eewww

half summit
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Will Artifact Knowledge start week 1 of 8.3? I'm wondering if I should save my paragon turn-ins even tho I'm not heart level 70 yet

sullen dawn
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should start week 1

half summit
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Thx!

limber mural
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Actiblizzney is the most cursed thing I've seen in a WHILE

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I can only improve it by EA Actiblizzney

zealous basalt
#

EActiblizzney*

dark furnace
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ApplEActiblizzney

zealous basalt
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ApplEActiblizzneysoft-two Interactive

mighty wolf
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Blizzney? Is that really or meme?

uncut lintel
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meem

mighty wolf
sullen dawn
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i dunno bwonsamdi is straight out of a disney movie

novel zodiac
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he really is

uncut lintel
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i wanna marry him

languid yoke
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bwonsamdi is the underworld guy from princess and the frog

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yesyes

uncut lintel
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Dr.Facilier

languid yoke
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ye

uncut lintel
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ye thats one of the best badguys

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kinda right though, bwon does remind me of him

sullen dawn
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well they're all based off of Baron Samedi

uncut lintel
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wait

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who?

sullen dawn
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Loa of Haitian voodoo

uncut lintel
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o

sullen dawn
uncut lintel
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whoa thats badass

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BRUH HE HAS A SNEK

languid yoke
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"Baron Samedi (English: Baron Saturday) also written Baron Samdi, Bawon Samedi, or Bawon Sanmdi" huh.

zealous basalt
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Bob salami

plain vigil
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The thing I love about wow is it's a slightly dark disney

limber mural
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Oh fuck me Baron Saturday? I just understood a reference in a book I read once

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Never knew he was called that

harsh wedge
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"Samedi" is French for Saturday, litterally

strange falcon
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also,SMITE's god artwork being useful once again

plain vigil
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SMITE out here acting like a loa is a god ๐Ÿ˜”

strange falcon
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i mean,at least they got his pantheon

plain vigil
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But like, loa aren't really a pantheon

strange falcon
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*mythology

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*what group of people worshipped them

plain vigil
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That's the thing Loa were more personalized Dieties, like they weren't all worshiped by the larger group it's semantical but still

zealous basalt
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So is 8.3 Ptr like complete? Or more builds are a possibility?

strange falcon
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i mean,the vulpera racial just got updated o.o

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and the patch itself is coming in like 2 weeks soo

tulip sun
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SMITE does a lot

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Like..

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Hercules, Medusa

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Arachne. Stuff that is not technically a god

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But still mythological or whatever

tropic trail
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how do i get ptr?

tulip sun
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King Arthur

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Etc

tropic trail
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in overwatch u just download the ptr server

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how in wow?

zealous basalt
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Hรฉrcules is funny

whole cedar
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baron samedi is a voodoo deity that watches over death. he can prevent people from dying (if he refuses to dig a person's grave, they can't die) and he also has a twisted sense of humor

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I actually researched on him a bit when I wrote the lore article on bwomsandi ๐Ÿ™‚

plain vigil
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We love some nice research ๐Ÿ™‚

limber mural
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It makes sense, I remember a character in a book I read brought back from the death who was the lord of the area, and his name was Baron Saturday

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I never got the reference

plain vigil
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Did it happen to be the phantom tolebooth?

limber mural
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Nope

tropic trail
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Do i need to buy a new subsription for ptr

zinc sandal
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Nope

tropic trail
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hmh if you make allied race DK, will it be eligible for heritage as long as you level it to 110? since they start at 55?

strange falcon
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Dont think so

night swift
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We dont know

dense plover
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^

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My guess is they might be eligible currently, but theyโ€™ll definitely be eligible with prepatch of shadowlands since AR start and DK start will both be at 10

uncut vault
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I hope that they fix the NPC elf eyes before the patch goes live

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some of em just dont work

dense plover
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Theoretically we should get a RC this Tuesday

zealous basalt
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Rc?

uncut lintel
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we are getting a 8.3.5 or?

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after 8.3

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obvs

thick saddle
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RC = Release Candidate

As for 8.3.5, not likely. Next patch after 8.3 will undoubtedly be 9.0 (pre-expansion patch)

uncut lintel
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so we will get our last allied race in SL? i guess?

uncut vault
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we likely wont be getting them for a long while after this

uncut lintel
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D:

dense plover
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8.3.5 is apparently a thing according to a source I have

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Itโ€™s going on ptr very shortly after the patch but very short was in quotes

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So my guess is the week after the raid launches

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So that spoilers are spoiled

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Also I donโ€™t know why people think there wonโ€™t be a .5 - the fucking patch story needs to be wrapped up

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We have to do something with the heart and the dagger

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And none of that is currently in the patch

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Also the grind nerfs that usually come with the .5 patch

thick saddle
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Apparently you've never heard of hotfixes? Also, they have the ability to add content (or turn content on) without a specific patch. I suppose it's possible they might have an 8.3.5 patch between now and SL pre-patch, but it's not likely

dense plover
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Itโ€™s extremely likely

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You really think we wonโ€™t have any patches for more than 6 months? Unlikely

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Theyโ€™ve been doing .5 patches for years

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Find an expac that DIDNT have one

vernal juniper
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Does the serviant of nzoth buff

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gives coins like the timeless ordos buff thing?

thick saddle
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@dense plover ok boomer

dense plover
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?

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Iโ€™m in my 20s that doesnโ€™t even make sense

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Youโ€™re literally just saying you have no valid argument

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So thanks

uncut lintel
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thats an old meme, its 2020, come up with something new

dense plover
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๐Ÿ˜‚

vernal juniper
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rip

sullen dawn
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8.3.5 is likely coming with 2 new ARs, essence/grind nerfs, more heritage armour and some small story quests to close out the expansion

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might get a new BG like 7.3.5 - something to do with undead maybe?

languid yoke
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I forgot the new BG existed

dense plover
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i dont expect more ARs

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maybe with prepatch to hold us over

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but probably not with 8.3.5

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thats too close to the ARs coming in 8.3

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they wont have time to test them

sullen dawn
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depends when we get 8.3.5

dense plover
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probably the week after the last wing of lfr

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mid-march

sullen dawn
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cycle is dffierent to legion so they might push 8.3.5 out a bit to fit more in between 8.3 and 9.0

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like may

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especially if 9.0 is launching later than august

dense plover
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i doubt the prepatch is later than august

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considering the latest the expac will drop is december

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and even then theyll probably want to have the raid out before thankgiving

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probably a while before

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dont want the mythic race around christmas

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or during thanksgiving

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i fully expect prepatch sometime in july

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with SL in august or october

sullen dawn
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Late September, early october feels right to me

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not hugely out of sync with other expansions, but an extra 6 weeks or so

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and yeh prepatch maybe late july

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/early aug

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and sorry when I said 9.0 i meant the expansion, not the patch - my bad

dense plover
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ah ok

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yeah prepatch is no later than august

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just because its 1-2 months

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and raid cant come out later than mid october

sullen dawn
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Agreed they'll want mythic race finished before xmas

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Actually brings me to an interesting thought I havent seen discussed much yet. What lore/zones/stories would you guys like to see in 9.1/9.2/9.3?

dense plover
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before thanksgiving even

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its impossible to say

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SL is like MoP

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we know nothing

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so we cant predict patches

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we dont even know the current plot

languid yoke
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we still have a better idea than with bfa to where the end of the xpac is heading with jailor/sylvanas

ionic terrace
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What are the chances for a build today

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0?

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I'm pretty sure it's 0

dense plover
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0

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they dont go back to worth until the 6th

ionic terrace
#

oh

dense plover
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its why we dont have patch the 7th

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we definitely do not have a better idea

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when we got the basic bfa story they mentioned azshara

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and we knew ghuun was boss 1

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it was fairly clear last boss was gonna be nzoth

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assuming we didnt get an old god expac

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which we didnt

ionic terrace
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Thankfully AR DKs don't need to be tested

uncut vault
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we also had 8.1's content basically told to us from an early alpha build

dense plover
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^

uncut vault
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the dazaralor raid map was in the game since the beginning

dense plover
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vs SL where we have 0 fucking clues right now

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we barely know the zones

uncut vault
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also yknow, MoP was a pretty handy template

dense plover
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we at least need some dataminable content

ionic terrace
#

We do know that mrpeach is the jailor

dense plover
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no no

ionic terrace
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either that or 3 vulpera in a trench coat

dense plover
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you dont remember

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im the jailers boss

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i set all of this up

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everything you do plays into my plans

ionic terrace
#

๐Ÿ˜ฎ

vernal juniper
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oh found the "currency"

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is not a currency

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but you can't buy with it

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bad

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is only for upgrade gear recipes

dense plover
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i dont know what youre talking about

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theres only 2 currencies in 8.3

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both are tied to the visions

vernal juniper
#

yeah I asked before about the serviant of n'zoth

dense plover
#

thats just a buff

vernal juniper
#

if it dropped a currency like the mop version of it

dense plover
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it does nothing

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it just denotes an enemy as a nzoth enemy

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or do you mean the pvp buff?

vernal juniper
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this one drops "coins"

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pvp buff

dense plover
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yeah it doesnt give anything

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its tied to some achieves

vernal juniper
#

it drops coins

dense plover
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one of which gives a title