Is 8.3 the best patch ever?

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I criticize a lot. It’s time for some positive feedback.

IMHO I think 8.3 is the best patch ever in WoW history: essences are awesome, azerite traits are interesting and enhance gameplay, visions are like mage tower (!!!), every 3 days changing corrupted zones world quests, new m+ affix is super cool, corruption gear is fun (you may say that bis never drop for you but it was that way forever, in classic some items never drop for you too), PVP is fun as hell now with so many gear/essences/traits/corruption combinations available. Specs are more balanced also. 12 bosses raid!

Yeah, there were some bugs. I am still getting cloaks in m+. But I’m sure it will be fixed too.

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lol

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As someone who has 36/36 Mage Tower skins, no it is not.

Topkek. PvP is HEAVILY unbalanced right now because of overtuned Corruption traits.

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It’s purple. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

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Man I could not disagree more. I think its very bad, and very boring.

I foresee a real sub drought this year for Blizzard unless something changes quickly.

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I would say the best patch of the modern era is 8.2. It just added so much stuff its really insane.
People may like or dislike different things, but if you look at what was actually added to the game, I don’t think there is a patch that rivals that.

For me personally though, 8.3 may end up as my favorite patch ever.

I absolutely love the raid and the story / setting we are in currently.
Uldum and Vale/mop are some of my favorite zones and storylines ever, so I am very glad to have returned to them.
I hope they will continue to find new uses for old zones, especially those so steeped in value to the world like these.
Wish we could have seen Scholozar too!

The reason I am confident in my future enjoyment of this patch though is because of the Awakened Affix.
It is such a unique and interesting affix, I already feel confident in saying this season will be my favorite time to do M+ ever, as long as the leavers don’t crush me too hard.

The icing on the cake is corruption + player power going to steadily get out of control.
I honestly can not wait to see how powerful our characters get.

Its going to be strange next expansion though, losing this gear.

How are they going to handle that?
Just unequipping all these items is going to be a MASSIVE dps loss, so I imagine people are going to be pretty salty at the start of the next raid tier.

But still, in terms of what was added, its relatively light.
Just the stuff that is there, I love.

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The only good thing about this patch are this visions you can visit if you wouldn’t need to grind 5000 years for it.

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Sounds :fish: lol 0/10 … it being Sunday I’ll say this OP lacks creativity.

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It wouldn’t be so bad if they hadn’t layered in so many grinds on top of one another.

Horrific visions are neat but farming for a very limited amount of them each week, and being punished for failing, makes it annoying.

More essences that are time-gated grinds…

Grinding more heart levels after just reaching 70…

Grinding the new rep…

The new raid is neat but holy heck they added a bajillion trash packs, and if you come back on a different night you basically have to reclear all the trash…

Theres a lot of good content in 8.3, but they stumbled on how it was executed imo.

Edit: didnt even mention the RNG on top of RNG for corrupted gear… hoping that a piece corrupts with exactly the trait you need with the corruption level you want…

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no, it’s not

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Call me a lair then, but I find if you eat pink with a little bit of orange it tastes better

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I’m enjoying the visions, but really doubt that’s going to hold my attention until the expansion. Honestly it feels more like a pre-patch to an Old god expansion than anything else.

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Posting in a sundae thread.

There’s not much depth to the reasons why OP claims the new additions are substantial to making this patch the best patch ever.

I’m gonna say this is bait rather than a genuine opinion.

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This is what happens when you get up to fast from under the table after passing…err… dropping something…hic!

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Oh I forgot vulpera. Vulpera are cute. I plan to play one at some point.

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flagged for trolling.

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Yep, it added a ton of poop. It wasn’t polite what they added in, it smelt really badly, but they made sure there was a whole smoldering pile of it and then made sure we would eat it and keep eating it and be finally content and not complain about “the lack of content”.

Doesn’t matter that we were still swallowing gallons of poop in the form of essences, benthic socketed gear and loads and loads of that oh so lovely azerite.

Here as reference, everything Preach and this guy have said on the topic:

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If it is taking you that long, then you are doing it wrong. Try reading guides and do the Assaults and Dailies.

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Blizzard is lowering their standard and some of the people posting in this thread are encouraging it saying this is a great patch/game design. Very saddening. Im not even going to get into it because they will defend Blizz in the end.

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If you don’t enjoy the current direction then don’t play. The people who are “encouraging” anything the most are the people who claim to dislike the game or dislike the direction the game is going but still keep paying for and playing this game. You don’t make a business change the way it does something by force-feeding them your money and time when you claim to dislike the product.

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Uhm, yes you can. Especially if you have a high stake in a company, you essentially direct it. Don’t know what you’re trying to prove here.