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[WoW] Shadowlands: It's out!
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World of Warcraft's next expansion Shadowlands is in development.
https://youtu.be/QInBVzBJuU4
Featuring 4 different Covenants that you align yourself with to level up and gain unique powers, transmogs, mounts, and, unique quests. (Think class halls, but not just for your class).
Shadowlands will feature a hub city a lot like Dalaran named Oribos, The Undying City. This city will feature a new currency that is obtained in Shadowlands, replacing gold.
The end dungeon is named Torghast. It is ever changing and inifinite, giving new difficulty through changing switching rules of engagement when fighting monsters. It can also be faced alone.
Shadowlands is releasing this fall [2020].
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It has always been a cultural thing, not a species thing. Gnomes couldn't be priests because their society is less spiritual: it’s not that a gnome priest couldn’t or didn’t exist, but more that you are a playing a typical Gnomeregan Gnome. Cata justified gnome priests as part of the cultural exchange that has gone on between the refugee gnomes living with dwarves for the past years. So Gilneans and Kul Tirans just have nature worship as a deeper part of their society (and in the case of the former, Night Elf druids helping them foster that as a way of coping with their Affliction). Stormwind as a whole worships the light, so they don’t have a large enough druid population to merit it as a class choice.
Keep in mind that there is also a technical reason, and it’s why druids have the lowest number of races open to them. Every race that gets to be druid needs an additional three or four models for bear, cat, moonkin, and travel(?).
Also every Paladin race needs a Charger mount (Lightforged Draenei getting the recycled Draenei one because they had to put everything on the Paragon boxes sucks) and every Shaman race needs a totem model. Note how those classes are spread from less races to more races. Druid < Paladin < Shaman is ordered neatly based on how easy is to implement it.
That's nice and all, but still won't convince Blizz to get arsed to give Druid forms to Dwarves.
3 Bosses, but between the path from the first to the second boss being a puzzle AND that puzzle being also a boss mechanic AND the boss having a cutesy anime/fairy voice "Hey Listen!" that talks a lot while you are getting there, a considerable amount of people are really going to fucking hate that place. So....hopefully you can just DBM/Weakaura it? I think that Blizz will block that, but who knows.
Place looks breathtakingly amazing though. 11/10 for the art team.
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The idea that the player character is just a "Normal" of whatever race they choose is a flawed concept. There's obviously nothing "Normal" about the player character, since they are the literal chosen of Azeroth. They are the ones who defeated the Burning Legion. They are the ones who defeated the Lich King. They are the ones who defeated Deathwing. They are the ones who fought off multiple Old God threats.
There's nothing typical about the player character, and to say that a player gnome can't be a druid because gnomes, as a society are not druidic, is a bit silly, since there's nothing normal at all about the player character who is a gnome. If anything, the player character gnome is more likely to be a druid.
Yes, I realize making extra models for each race is expensive from a game design perspective. It takes many man-hours for artists, modelers, animators, and all of that to make it work. I also don't care. Saying something is "too expensive" is just a lazy excuse for a multi-billion dollar company like ActivisionBlizzard who has enough money that they could bankroll anything they wanted to. Maybe if WoW was made by an indie team of 5 people that would be an acceptable excuse. But it is not an acceptable excuse for Blizzard. Every race should have druids with unique forms. Period. They've got the money to make it happen. There's no "real world" reason why they can't do it, and all of the in-game reasons are just lame lore justifications because they don't wanna.
Eh, I kind of like how our characters start off as fairly unremarkable members of their race, and become exceptional through their achievements along the way, not because they were born/raised different.
When they first started working on WoW, Metzen was seriously considering not allowing night elf women from being druids because the lore had it as a strictly male class. I think it was even Alliance-only until they decided one race and gender was ridiculously limiting.
I've also just finished leveling a warlock alt on Wednesday. I've been playing WoW for 16 years, and up until this week my highest warlock was level 23. I've just never really played or been interested in the class. But right now I've totally got the warlock bug. Made a Nightborne warlock to unlock the heritage armor as I leveled her. She's 120 now and I'm totally in love. I am really enjoying this class. I've been working on her class hall and Legionfall mounts too, but that's still a work in progress. I'll probably also try to farm up the book from Isle of Thunder that starts the green fel fire quest.
I've been considering a change of mains for Shadowlands, and right now warlock has stolen my heart. Obviously, with only a couple weeks of experience as I was leveling her, I still have a lot to learn and experience. I'm planning on running some M+ with her, and once I get her to around 445(ish) and have her neck and essences squared away, I will probably bring her along to some of my guild's Normal difficulty alt runs in Ny'alotha. It will probably take a couple weeks to get her essences squared away and get her to a point where she is actually able to contribute, and not just be a dead weight carry.
The Silver Covenant was always part of the Alliance, the excuse was that it didn't had enough numbers to be playable. Since Blizz proved that they don't care that much about the lore, it doesn't matter anymore, but the stretch is that the return of Alleria served as a rallying call for all High Elves and those Blood Elves that didn't want to be on the Horde anymore. Besides historical reasons, I imagine that a lot of Blood Elves are tired of being jerked around just because "nobody wants to admit that Anasterian was wrong on leaving the Alliance on the first place". Again, is a political difference first.
Them not even being a choice for so long is kind of stupid, plenty of the high elves were like "yo blood elves are fucking nuts dawg"
Humans of Stormwind were not part of the WC3 story at all.
Lordaeron doesn't exist anymore as a human nation, and Garithos is dead. The Blood Elves shouldn't really have any beef with Stormwind at all from a story perspective.
Yes, the Elves of Silvermoon were dicked super hard by Arthas, and then dicked super hard again right after that by Garithos. There's no denying the cultural significance of the pain and suffering they went through. I'm just saying that Stormwind, King Varian, King Anduin, and all of that had nothing at all to do with the events of all the times that Silvermoon got dicked.
Though the story of him not being able to do more for them I think was the story writer's hamfisted way to work in the night warrior stuff for whatever reason.
Seeing him grow from the Boy King, to having his father return and getting to see Varian in action (I love Varian a lot too), to his journey of discovery in Pandaria, to where he is now. It has been great. I think Anduin is a very well developed character, and his story arc is probably the best long-term arc in the game. It has taken a long time and it's still going. And I looooove the fact that Anduin is pretty much solely responsible for the continued existence of the Horde.
For as much as the Sylvanas stuff sucked, the burning of Teldrassil sucked, and all of that, the Old Soldier stuff between Anduin and Saurfang is amazing.
There's a lot to dislike about BfA. But I'd say they nailed all the Anduin stuff.
That's a very unfair take.
After that point I can’t think of any major disagreements that they had prior to the Purge of Dalaran, where Stormwind troops were involved.
Indifference to their continued existence when it stopped being convenient is a pretty big one.
Whoever is responsible for "tuning" these grinds should never be allowed to touch an MMO again.
Neat.
I'm speaking specifically of the decision Anduin made to allow Saurfang to escape from Stormwind. That one decision pretty much saved the Horde.
And it was an act of high treason by the King of Stormwind. But Anduin is a good dude and he did the right thing. And that decision saved the Horde. How is that an unfair take?
So, I guess High Elves are going to join Pandaren as basically being a race that can be identical on either side, since Void Elves can now change their skin tone to be Blood Elf colored.
It's almost like your race and your choices in the world aren't inextricably tied together - as long as you're hot and white.
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Since they're not, I'm not gonna hold my breath.
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63% of my damage, and all of my top three damage sources being random procs that aren't affected by pressing buttons, and autoattacks are a further 8%
I am trying to gear up my enhancement shaman that has a max 455 ilvl coral and freaking td5 worth of gear which I can only use td3 because my cape isn’t maxed yet. I was doing a cute little m+8 and one pull I popped sundering and td procced. I pulled all aggro and died. Rng tho.