Animosity
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World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Asshat wormie
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kaid
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Why the fuck did these retards release this at the same time as P6 for classic. I may end up grabbing it but I really don't want to split time between both.
Fuck it I already know why. it's so they can boost for Q4 numbers and tell Mr. Kotick how many million of MAUs they got which measures absolutely nothing.
Fuck it I already know why. it's so they can boost for Q4 numbers and tell Mr. Kotick how many million of MAUs they got which measures absolutely nothing.
Daidraco
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Im on Renown 3, but only held up in the quest by Soul Ash. Did I miss a Soul Ash reward or something? Or is that where everyone is stopped. I could have swore I heard people in guild were Renown 4, for instance.
As far as feeling invested in characters we meet? We've had several dungeons and raids over the years with multiple bosses per. I would guess that somewhere around 95% of the characters we remember are just targets that we've killed in some capacity. They have a wealth of characters that we have some type of investment in that they could pull from. They could always use them for more relevant parts of the story. For instance, Ursoc (which I liked, and they let die). Lady Vashj, which Im sure will turn coat on us soon enough etc. etc. They need to do that more and introduce new characters slowly. Instead of putting the Jailer up front and center, the better part of the Shadow Lands tease was not knowing who was helping Sylvanas. Keeping that guy a "Mystery character" till the end would have been a more suspenseful route to take. I'm not expecting Blizzard to all of a sudden have a coherent story, but they could do so much more. Which is basically their theme for the last 10 years - "You did an okay job, but you could have done so much more!"
I totally get why some people are just overly annoyed with the direction of the game. Something we've invested so much time in, it's hard not to have an opinion on what they could have done. Especially when we know how much money the game makes - like are you really telling me that you pay some of the lowest wages in the industry, have the most popular player base.. yet you cant devote the extra dev time to make things at least enjoyable, and not just "passable"? But truly, at the end of the day it's just a game and Shadow Lands has been fun. Is it a breath of fresh air? Not exactly. But Im not making some personal battleground between the company and myself when they cant get their shit straight. If its fun, I'll play it. If not, Ill cancel my sub. I did it in Wod, and I did it in BFA.
"I just think its funny how" every day I log on, there are more and more people online. Someone said this morning that 10-15 people are online at any given time. But when I looked, it was 21 on at 9am this morning. Right now, there are about 40 people. If anything, I'll repeat myself and say "its worth the box purchase at minimum".
As far as feeling invested in characters we meet? We've had several dungeons and raids over the years with multiple bosses per. I would guess that somewhere around 95% of the characters we remember are just targets that we've killed in some capacity. They have a wealth of characters that we have some type of investment in that they could pull from. They could always use them for more relevant parts of the story. For instance, Ursoc (which I liked, and they let die). Lady Vashj, which Im sure will turn coat on us soon enough etc. etc. They need to do that more and introduce new characters slowly. Instead of putting the Jailer up front and center, the better part of the Shadow Lands tease was not knowing who was helping Sylvanas. Keeping that guy a "Mystery character" till the end would have been a more suspenseful route to take. I'm not expecting Blizzard to all of a sudden have a coherent story, but they could do so much more. Which is basically their theme for the last 10 years - "You did an okay job, but you could have done so much more!"
I totally get why some people are just overly annoyed with the direction of the game. Something we've invested so much time in, it's hard not to have an opinion on what they could have done. Especially when we know how much money the game makes - like are you really telling me that you pay some of the lowest wages in the industry, have the most popular player base.. yet you cant devote the extra dev time to make things at least enjoyable, and not just "passable"? But truly, at the end of the day it's just a game and Shadow Lands has been fun. Is it a breath of fresh air? Not exactly. But Im not making some personal battleground between the company and myself when they cant get their shit straight. If its fun, I'll play it. If not, Ill cancel my sub. I did it in Wod, and I did it in BFA.
"I just think its funny how" every day I log on, there are more and more people online. Someone said this morning that 10-15 people are online at any given time. But when I looked, it was 21 on at 9am this morning. Right now, there are about 40 people. If anything, I'll repeat myself and say "its worth the box purchase at minimum".
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Burns
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Soul Ash is caped at 810 this week. Optimal Torghast runs (for the wings that spawned this week) are Soulforges layer 1, Soulforge layer 2, then run both Soulforges and The Upper Reaches layer 3.
Renown caps at +3 per week:
Soul Ash caps:
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Daidraco
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Certain dungeons have Epic tier anima rewards. Sanguine Depths awards like 750-1000, De Other Dside awards similar. The Weekly quests in Oribos award 250-750 for doing dungeons. Pvp 1500 honor awards 250. Check Maldraxxus for the quest marker that shows up on your map for the epic arena boss rewards which are good. Some of the mentioned ones are weekly. I cant think of anything else other than WQ or daily rewards which are like 105 anima total'ish.
Keep in mind, anima isnt "directly" tied to player power.
Zindan
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So we get the 2 Weekly Renown quests, which will bump us up to R5, and that will unlock the next Campaign chapter. Doing that will bump us up to R6.
Cellblock Sentinal sucks as a mage. Might take a bit of time to get past that boss for me.
jayrebb
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It's worth it. but I'd preferred they add the mechanics and scaling to BFA.
I'm not sold on SL as a world.
BFA would have been a much better host to build off of Legion and keep the momentum going.
Fucker
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It's just some shit they Xeroxed from other places and made to look good. Bram Stokerville being the most laughably unoriginal thing they've done, but at least it isn't as ridiculous as an enitre expac filled with Pandas and Chinese architecture.
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Arthas will be the hero of the expansion, he’ll finally be redeemed when he goes HAM on the jailers ass, but his experience in the maw has changed xir, and xim shall rise as Arthania the MTF heir to the throne of Lordaron. Donning an Orc Lives Matter shirt shim will set in motion the key to restoring the shadowlands.
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Yeah, Unholy is bonkers aoe... until unholy pact and swarming mist/slappy hands wears off. Then their aoe craters. Still pretty good though, just not as good as it looks in low dungeons where packs die inside 12 seconds.
jayrebb
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unholy seem legit in PVP. root pet run meta seems viable.
frost being a glass cannon, without gear, you are just glass. hybrids like monks smash ungeared frost.
Dalien
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Arthas kills Sylvanas and the Jailer, redeems himself and saves the world? Could happen but naw, this is Woke Blizzard now.
It's more likely that Sylvanas is a stronk womyn who's been playing 4d chess this whole time to save the world (never mind that she burned thousands of women and children to death). She will save the universe with Arthas as her bumbling sidekick, and then ascend to godhood like Kerrigan did. Final cutscene is Arthas sitting in a bar looking at her picture.
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