I watch Bellular a lot and don’t often agree with him. But his latest video at the time of posting this hit the nail on the head.
“Blizzard needs to take borrowed power, put it in a bin, blow up the bin, take the ashes, seal them in a tomb and bury it at the bottom of the deepest trench of the ocean.”
Bravo. Imagine if we focused character progression on crafted gear, gems, enchants, and glyphs. You would create a thriving player economy, give meaning to professions again, AND free up so much dev time to work on actual content like zones, dungeons, raids, quests and story.
Some people say if we lose borrowed power, that means no new spells. Okay, maybe just give us ONE borrowed power spell per expansion? Or maybe none, and instead focus on actual content like zones, dungeons, raids, quests and story. Would that be so awful? I would prefer it. Without covenants, conduits and soul binds Systemlands probably wouldn’t be delayed.
We are so many expansions in now, maybe its okay if we dont get new spells every expansion? My keyboard is already full.
Please drop the obbsession with borrowed power Blizz. No one asked for it.
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No new spells is a good trade off if that means we can get the closer to “balanced” classes. It is near impossible to have an entirely balanced game like wow but if the devs can just shorten the gap between classes and have that be the case consistently I’d absolutely love that.
I stopped at when you said you watch Bellular
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I watch a lot of commentators about topics I enjoy. Both commentators I agree and disagree with. I think thats pretty normal.
Just imagine the resources that could be diverted to things like class balance as you mention, maybe class design like MoP. And of course other content.
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Borrowed power or ability bloat?
I’ll take borrowed power.
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The subject of Bell aside, I too greatly dislike borrowed power which is the new WoW MO it seems. However there doesn’t seem to be a good alternative that doesn’t result in the great ability bloat culling of WoD and I guess Blizz isn’t willing to compromise on hybrid system so they’re going full bore with borrowed power.
It sucks but there you have it. Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.
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Surely both, as currently implemented, are a problem.
Borrowed power feels like I’m playing a new season of path of exile every expansion, I usually play path for 3 days.
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Why can’t jewelcrafters make an item that allows you to apply sockets?
Why is Blizzard insistent on sockets being a farmable reward or randomized on gear.
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Then why you watching? Damn.
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Imagine having more freedom in Star Wars galaxies pre CU than you do in world of Warcraft 2020 hahahahahaha
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Here is why they won’t. Their borrowed power always has a grind element to it. AP for example was an infinite grind. This increases their time played metric which is what investors want to see.
I never played SWG, but I did listen to a story about the games first Jedi back when it was hard to obtain. When people found it was some random girl, they got pissed.
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I agree that borrowed power sucks but I don’t know what the solution is either. There are two sides to every coin.
If you revert back to a non-borrowed power model, you will get ability bloat if you release one new spell per expansion. If you have zero borrowed power, players will complain about lack of new abilities, skills and talents.
Baldular just parrots what majority of players say, and alot of us having been wanting to get away from this borrowed power grind. Shadowlands looks to be a pile of hot garbage with tons of mandatory content just to make your char playable.
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Because a well rounded individual listens to opinions they are counter to their own and not just an echo chamber? Side note, this is a big problem with politics right now, no one wants to even listen to an opposing side.
Completely agree. Make professions great again.
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This is a seperate issue but an equally important one. Unfortunately blizz has held core abilities of various professions as hostage and instead gate them behind yet more rng grinding. An incredibly hostile move and one that directly attacks the very tenants of professions to begin with. The original wow Devs would be horrified.
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He’s right. Look at trajectory of the game since the end of MoP until now.
