I have seen countless times on Twitter, Reddit, I game and on this forum, the players are not happy with the intended removal of the observer. The reasoning is a blatant lie. It is an option that has existed for a decade and many many players are connected and feel an attachment to their friendly floating demon. Removing it is essentially like removing someone’s pet from their care. I truly hope someone at blizz is making the effort to change the situation.
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I am willing to bet they are going to remove all glyphs before long. this is just the first round. I don’t really care either way since I do not play a lock. I have read they are also taking away frost mages pet. Maybe the two classes can join forces to get listened to?
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Also due to water elemental removal, all glyphs with that up and gone.
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129 likes so far on the PTR thread, several threads here, as well… still nothing from Blizzard.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/warlock-customization-leave-the-observer-alone/1604415
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Yeah the silence is very frustrating. I truly hope they are listening to us. It’s just wrong.
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Removing an integral part of class fantasy for warlocks and mages with the water elemental is an abhorrent crime against the players. I truly hope they turn it around.
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It is definitely dumb that they are removing it, after them being silent this long I dunno if it’s gonna change though.
Wish more people would understand this. There are still people in threads discussing this that are blaming PvPers even though 0 PvPers have any issue with understanding what the pet does.
Affliction does have darkglare but affliction also doesn’t even use a regular pet in PvP most of the time, they sac their pet so players are going to know that it’s the CD being used. The observer PvP talent doesn’t behave like a pet either, it floats way up in the air so there is no confusion there either. Not to mention, like, PvPers aren’t dumb, they know what every warlock pet does… it’s common knowledge after all of these years.
They just wanted something easy to scapegoat for this bad decision and sadly it seems to have worked on some people.
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Agreed. I don’t want them to remove the observer. I’ve posted about it already in many other threads, and I’ve been using the loot goblin events to spread awareness about its removal. The silence is disheartening, but there’s still time.
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Keep fighting my friend. Warlocks don’t deserve this disrespectful decision.
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I never use the observer glyph, I like my demon dog. So them removing it doesn’t really matter for me, but I still don’t think they should remove it.
I don’t think Blizzard is aware that Glyphs still exist.
This all seems pretty dramatic since we’re only talking about the removal of a cosmetic glyph.
Personally, I don’t care what happens with this, but I can tell you that calling Blizzard staff liars isn’t convincing them to side with you and give you what you want.
I do think a new player would be pretty confused by this pet, though.
My lock doesn’t use it.
But removing it, they should have had something better in it’s place
I mean if they did that they would be taking away an entire thing from Inscriptionists,loosing something they’ve been making for a very long time.
They’re adding a whole customization system for lock pets. It’s being replaced with something pretty solid tbh.
And glyphs are, I suspect, on their way out entirely. They’re super clunky and weird at this point, and a full rework is probably on its way IMO.
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Well aware and good with that but as I said, if they do that they will be removing and entire level of crafting as well .
There’s still several that look really good like the Soulwell one for example.
Every previous expansion’s crafting is rendered wholly irrelevant by the next expansion dropping. The Glyph of Soulwell has been in it’s current form since Mists of Pandaria and uses mats from Pandaria too.
I think it would be completely fine to remove glyphs completely, which is the direction we are heading, and move all these cosmetic options to the barber shop, which has a much better UI and is much easier to understand for new players.
I wouldn’t want to remove all of the options glyphs create, but the glyph system overall is pretty weak. The Observer glyph is being replaced with barbershop customization options for warlock pets.
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No really I had no clue with one of my toons being an inscriptionist. Again well aware.
Maybe to you the whole thing is irrelevant but not to every single last person in the game.
And also again still well aware.
Believe it or not,some of us do actually read up on these things well before getting spammed on forums.
That’s what you’d like to see happen that’s fine and it’s also fine not everyone shares your opinion.
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It’s a pet we’ve had for a decade. Don’t dismiss others, please.
There’s nothing to be confused by and new players aren’t stupid, let’s stop treating them as such. Did it interrupt you? Then you know to stop it. No one cares what it looks like. That’s like saying a new player can’t handle hunter pets.
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I’m not dismissing your opinion. I’m commenting that the extreme language being used in the post I quoted is way over the top for a cosmetic item with zero gameplay being removed from the game and replaced with a new cosmetic system.
World of Warcraft is a remarkably deep and complex game. It’s a lot for a new player to take in. This is just one more level of complexity. This doesn’t make anyone stupid, but you’re kidding yourself if you think a new player, whose first wow purchase was Dragonflight, shows up and understands what’s going on in this game remotely quickly.
All evidence to the contrary–you seem to care a lot about how it looks.
New players are absolutely confused by the different abilities and passives hunter pets have. Hell, I’ve been playing since BC and I couldn’t look at a pet and tell you what family and abilities it has. Zero shot a new player would know that without playing a hunter for a while or really studying.