Shadowlands Alpha…
Have you ever played Tyranny? Its really good and its actually pretty hard to make decisions. Huge fan of it.
Baldurs Gate 3 is starting to release videos and I’m so excited.
I have an inkling towards it.
I know they sell pillars plus tyranny on steam.
Thanks for the heads up though.
After I finish pillars one and two I’ll look into it.
Holinka said we’re long lost friends and we’re back together!
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Can confirm that G2A is reliable. I have bought a dozen or so games from there and have never had any issues.
He’s a genuine guy that I truly believe to fix classes
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Imo they messed up when they decided to do three grind systems that are ok instead of focusing on one that is really good. Take the HoA, essences, or cloak and corruption. They are all ok but if they focused on just one and made it good i would have been happier.
Trying to run three grind systems makes it feel kinda disjointed.
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Yea, it also feels like too obvious a time sink.
The visions thing in sw and org is cool and fun, but that will lose its allure at some point with the continued grinding for a weekly key.
And I think the general flaws in class identity lead to the lack of fun in doing the grinds, which wouldn’t be as bad if it wasn’t so boring playing the game.
And personally, idgaf about the story at all.
I like the war story concepts but they always get poorly done and then hashed for some wacky old god stuff.
Also the continued “champion” thing. I don’t want to feel like I’m always the world savior from the next huge conflict.
As grindy as classic was and is, I want to be an adventurer, not some walking hero to be idolized everywhere I go.
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He will give it his all I am sure. It’s just a matter of blizz holding him back. Even from a pve m+ perspective, there is a bunch of utility spells that could be fun and actually change up the m+ meta instead of stuns and purges (aka dh and rogues).
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He got way more crap than he should have. Blizzard had set him up as a target dummy. Papa holinka will be our savior, mark my words.
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Id love it if they scrapped the pvp talent sht so the wonderful utility talents (a la disarm and war banner for arms, cyclone for druids, etc) could be usable in the varying areas of the game.
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Even shattering throw could have it’s uses if blizz wanted to put a couple mobs with an immunity bubble in dungeons. Plus it’d help against rmpal.
And I just looked at the shadowlands unpruning page and it looks like many of those are changing (which is appealing)
Yea like I said above, they are saying some good things but seeing how they’ve doubled down on forcing alts through horrible grinds and using reputation as gating progression I am going to remain skeptical of SL.
They’ve seesawed expansions so SL is suppose to be a good one. Just hope they drop the stupid ideas.
Yea, I’m taking the wait and see approach this time.
I may wait a bit into the games cycle to enter depending on how it launches (not the launch itself, but the gameplay past n initial euphoria)
This. I’m holding off until people actually say it’s not a grindfest anymore. I came back from classic for less than a week now to peek at changes and do some BGs. The grind aspect is overwhelming. I really don’t know how people are doing it/having fun with it.
Thus far for me, it’s grind swirly coalescing things to buy horrific keys which means grind out eyeball-man map invasion points. Grind cores to upgrade cloak. Grind neck lvls. Grind neck essences. Grind void splinters to make some kind of void anvil, oh wait, more now, grind 45 shreds of insanity for that. Grind gear in w/e way your preferred method of repetition torture might be. Grind rep for various and sundry must have vendor items. Grind rep to fly.
I’m sure I’m forgetting something, there’s too many grinds to keep up with. It’s feeling like Ragnarok back in the day where the whole point of the game was the grind.
It makes me hopeful knowing Holinka is involved. I like his passion for PvP and that he actually established a relationship with the PvP community.
I’ll be watching to see what iconic spells priests get back. Having two schools again is going to be a nice change for baiting kicks. No more losing everything if you’re locked out of shadow.
Oooh, tell me more. I don’t keep up with devs much anymore. He pvps? Actively?
It’s really only a grind fest if you make it one. My Alliance Lock which was ignored since before Classic released is already 70 neck, rank 5 cloak and 433 ilvl. It’s not the best but that was just by doing the cloak quest and a few world quests and a couple temple brawls. I should add it started at 387 ilvl and the neck was well under 60. As for essences, rank 1s are easy to get. I ignored the vision of perfection essence pretty much the entire xpac until I realized you get it from the heroic dungeon version. Queued for that on my alliance and horde, ten minutes later I had it.
I have no faith after what happened to Xelnath. That guy was the reason Warlock was what it was in MoP, and the reason why it will never be that good ever again.