I’ve never heard of that razor. Thanks! 
I played vanilla to BC, took a 10 year break and came back to play SL. It was fun until I dinged 60. I want to raid, but it’s not really worth the time. I rolled a mage to try something different than my lock of 15 years. I’m the demo blizzard should care about but has shunned.
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probably around May.
The same as every week. Around 3 a week until the campaign ends. When we get flying in that campaign is unkown.
This is hilarious. We’re only getting 40 more renown levels, which took us around 4 months or so total in order to reach absolute max level. It took us way less time to finish the campaign. Getting renown 80 wont even reach a year into the expansion.
It’s 9.1? I have a news flash for you. We hear about announcements, but we don’t get to play them. Maybe you’re testing 9.1 on the PTR, but most of us stick to the main game. We don’t even have 9.0.5 yet, let alone 9.1. We still don’t have flying, and while we have a concrete version number for it, we don’t have a concrete date. For all we know, 9.0.5 comes out in June, 9.0.75 comes out in December, and 9.1 comes out March 2022. It’s a little early for you to be saying that we’re not getting it late. As far as I’m concerned, I’ve been level 60 for three months now. Flight is already three months later than I wanted it. Before you say my expectations are unreasonable, I have to say that in WotLK I got flight before even hitting max level. That’s how it was, and that’s how it should be.
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Except we were told at BlizzCon that 9.0.5 comes out in March, and 9.1 PTR goes up right afterwards. If we’re going off previous testing cycles, PTR should last around 2-3 months. So May, and that’s giving them way more time than usual.
Don’t you think that it’s a little early to be making these crazy suggestions that we won’t have the first patch for a year? I get you’re exaggerating but you’re just being needlessly pessimistic at this point.
i could totally see ion adding portals everywhere just to spite mages. i’m betting there’s some mage back in vanilla that really ticked him off.
In going on four years of playing wow Ive needed a mage port once, lol…and that was only because I was trying to get into Mists two levels early.
I think mages have the home advantage regardless just because they dont have to go anywhere first…they just portal from where there at to wherever they can go.
Druid engineers have a huge mobility advantage too. The Dreamwalk that can get us around classic and legion and then the eng wormholes that are flipping awesome for getting where I need to go.
Or, you know, people have different priorities and preferences. What is intensely important to you, might be completely irrelevant for someone else, and/or relatively less profitable than investing in something else.
I can’t speak for Blizzard, but I can speak for myself. For example:
Never liked it. Immersion breaking, largely pointless, waste of bag space. I don’t miss it at all, and feel the game is better for its removal.
There were too many. The current balance in SL is much better.
Excruciatingly dull and irrelevant to me, personally.
They were trivial to the point of being ridiculous. Fly to a dot on a map, press 1 button to kill 1 enemy, get reward. There’s no gameplay there.
I don’t feel the current iteration gets it right either; some of the activities do feel overly long and have too many steps. But I like that they’re more significant, and there’s less of them, but they’re a bit more involved. Also completely optional, so there’s that.
This is the best expansion for gear that I can remember! I’m up too around 200 ilvl across quite a few characters with minimal effort. I don’t care about m+ at all.
As with any player I like flight, and use it when it’s available, but I fully understand the design reasons why it was restricted or removed, and I agree with them. For now I am really enjoying being more immersed and having interesting traversal and challenges in some really interesting environments. Including the old ones. Since we can now level through say, BFA zones “on foot” (no flying until 30), I’m getting much more of an appreciation of the zones like Boralus, seeing beautiful vistas and level design that I never appreciated before, and finding interesting things I missed because I was always flying over them.
Sure. New customization is cool. But I’m pretty satisfied with the huge drop we got recently. That’s enough for now. There are so many races and choices already.
What content and rewards are we talking about?
Obviously, they do. If only because… and in fact, especially if… they only care about profits. Any assertion that they’re hostile, cynical or hateful of their player base (I see these ridiculous claims thrown around all the time) are completely asinine.
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Not true, I still use it in zones it’s allowed.
Let’s not forget to mention that spending 20 minutes looking for an elevator or some stairs just to get to a quest.
I hate Revendreth so much that I’ll only go there when I have to and that usually entitles find WQ, do WQ use hearth, fly back to nearest flight point try to find second WQ, use engineering portal to Oribos, fly to third quest (by now my hearthstone is back up) hearth back etc etc.
We all know flying won’t be available for months after 9.1 is out. The tediousness playing has gotten ridiculous.
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Actually I find it hilarious that people think that investors are insisting that old popular old raids be made hard enough to do that many of those who currently do them for entertainment are considering quitting; that a few man-weeks to work on promised character customization shouldn’t be done; that casual PvP that millions used to subscribe to play should no longer be for casuals; that mission tables belong in every expansion; that content should feel neither rewarding nor engaging; that multidiimensional systems to support an ever changing meta that requires players to reroll FOTM… I mean, seriously. Investors do not insist on specific changes to games like this. Not ever. These are changes Blizzard has cooked up themselves.
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Well said. Thank you! You hit it right on the head on how I feel presently for wow.
If PTR goes up in March and PTR usually lasts 2-3 months, May isn’t “way more time than usual.” That’s on the optimistic side. You’re calling me pessimistic, but remember the recent October release for Shadowlands that Blizzard announced? Or have you already forgotten how it was pushed to late November? I’m more inclined to believe we shouldn’t be expecting flight before June or July. That’s still 7-8 months later than it should have been released. There is absolutely nothing in the game right now that’s made better with the absence of flight.
I remember back during Cata, they introduced unbreakable forward channeled cleave to mobs in the open world. Which frankly was nothing but brutal toward any melee toons as these guys seemed able to turn while channeling.
And instead of it being in the hands of mobs meant to be a challenge, it seemed like over 30% of the mobs had some kind of unbreakable forward channeled cleave.
Maybe it existed before that point and I simply didn’t see them. But Cata quickly made that “move” extremely obnoxious with just how many mobs had it as one of their core abilities.
Same here. And its unbalanced. The Maw. I mean, if you’re a Worgen or a Druid, you’re able to outpace and do more faster in the maw than anyone else. Having seen the talk about next mega-patch being MORE content in the Maw, I’m worried they’ll be spiteful and still restrict us to walking unless we’ve done Twisting Dookies at all 8 layers.
What would have worked is a moderately difficult group quest to earn a mount usable in the maw. That way you would have gotten players working together toward a common goal.
“Ride Free My Friends!”
THAT would have encouraged people to stay in the maw, to work toward finishing that quest.
But, instead, we’re just giving chores and teases of “maybe, if the gods of luck align, the hunt will give you a maw-rideable mount!”
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I’m aware of that maxim. I was referring to the principle of charity in my post.
But not communicating isn’t
Not to mention: cat speed, cat sprint, stampeding roar, and engineering speed boost on the belt. It’s awesome. And most are night fae so then you have the covenant mobility ability on top of all that.
Okay. May-June.
It was a one month delay. It was needed. It had bugs, but more importantly systems issues. I was in the Beta. I know why it was delayed. These reasons won’t really translate that hard onto 8.1 if we’re being reasonable.
I don’t know what is going on that makes you think we’re gonna have to wait 4-5 months for this patch. Also thanks for proving my claim that you’re needlessly pessimistic.
Cool.
If this comes out in July, I promise I’m going to come back here and say, “I told you so.” If it comes out later than that, well, I doubt you’ll be hearing from me again because my sub will have expired.