Ode to the M+ Timer

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Because some of us love it as our favorite part of WoW.

Ode to the Mythic Plus Timer

Through corridors of ancient stone we race,
Five hearts beating fast as one,
Voices weaving through Discord’s embrace,
Each pull planned, each second won.

Like dancers in a deadly ballet,
We surge through waves of foes,
While numbers count our time away,
And determination grows.

Sweet victory lies just ahead—
Six percent! Two minutes spare!
“We’ve got this,” someone said,
As magic crackles through the air.

Remember when we thought all lost,
Yet pressed on, stubborn, wild?
How sweet that win, how worth the cost,
When timer’s end beguiled.

Each key ascending brings new heights,
New challenges to weather.
Through fifteen, twenty, sleepless nights,
We push ourselves together.

Without your urgency, dear timer,
Our steps might lazy grow.
You make each warrior a climber,
Each mage a rushing flow.

In you we find our perfect pace,
The challenge meant for me—
For some plus-five’s a warming grace,
While others dance plus-three.

So here’s to chances boldly taken,
To interrupts not missed,
To battle-spirits never shaken,
When timer’s numbers twist.

For in these rushed and breathless hours,
These moments sweet and tense,
We find our truest gaming powers,
And friendship most intense.

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Will never be the same. The tension, the toxicity… nothing rivals that. Some might not like it, but I bathe in chaos and gain lifeforce out of it

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Timer is what brings adrenaline rush to M+.
Rush begets rush.
Football games have timer for a reason. How many great games have exciting finishes because someone makes great play as time expires?!

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All the time. Timing keys with < 1 second to go is a rush.

Though, they should just make an untimed mode with different scaling loot options. Would give players options.

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This is my favorite verse. :slight_smile:

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I like the notion of an ode to the timer, but I despise the cheapness of ChatGPT-crafted odes compared to a human artist. /shrug

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If they remove the timer, there’s a high likelihood we’ll get an addon that puts it back in and you still get to build an io score from it.

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it’s kinda like living in the Limelight, wouldn’t you say?

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It was a collaboration. Claude AI, btw, not ChatGPT. I gave Claude task of composing a poem in the style of Pablo Neruda, and also gave it the features I wanted featured. It gave me a first draft, and I suggested changes. And this because I did not have time today to do all that (work this week).

I have done some creative writing in my time, and had this idea because of an Ode I wrote to coffee. This one is all mine (for better and worse lol):

Ode to Coffee

Steamy coffee rich and dark,
your warm vitality
seeps into me,
arouses me,
your spicy scent seduces me
to exotic climes where
my mind wonders
what adventures led you?
To this heated moment
when you caress my lips
and fulfill my longing
with heady caffeination.

Growing up on your mountain
under rain song bird forest,
were your ripe cherries plucked
by loving hands
descended from Incan kings?
Or were you bundled into burlap,
tossed over broad black shoulders
of children from Timbuktu?
Spirited away and sold
to overseas bidders
by the Yemeni sons of Sinbad himself?

You once tempted the goats of Ethiopia
with promise of cavorting kicks
until the goatherds caught on,
and claimed you for themselves.
One thousand years later you fired
beat poet goateed all night kicks
which echo still through coffee shops around the world.

You’ve sailed the high seas
finally crossing the Gulf of Mexico
right into Mobile Bay.
You were roasted on a cool Sunday afternoon,
lazy and sunny,
made warmer by your aroma
luring us to the counter
for one more sip.

And now that I have you in my hands,
I will not apologize!
For your abduction.
I clasp your cup,
breathe you in,
wrap my taste buds around your full body,
and I am alive!

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That’s pretty good! :slight_smile:

I’m starting to appreciate coffee more and more (I’m traditionally a tea-drinker, but I bought my wife an espresso maker and I’ve developed a taste for cappuccino).

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Lmao.

MMORPGs are officially dead.

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Yeah, I know - you’ve been telling us that for 20 years now.
I imagine that’s why Microsoft paid $75.4 billion to buy Blizzard.
Bunch of dummies. If they’d hired you for consult they’d have known better.

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Having players doesn’t make it an MMORPG.

Especially when the players hate the game lmao.

Like Microsoft said to the FTC when purchasing Blizzard, it can’t be monopolization if Blizzard doesn’t have any “must have games”

“Specifically, with respect to Activision Blizzard video games, there is nothing unique about the video games developed and published by Activision Blizzard that is a ‘must have’ for rival PC and console video game distributors that could give rise to a foreclosure concern,” reads Microsoft’s response.