Anyone else notice the Ornate Spyglass is broken? It used to let you zoom in on distant objects which gave it some really useful in-game photography uses but now it just puts you in FPS mode with no zoom feature.
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Yeah, it’s been for a week or two now? It was like right after one of the recent pre-patches. I saw somebody else mention it on Reddit so hopefully we’ll gain just a little attention to get it fixed… I tried to submit a bug report but that’s actually extremely difficult to do these days? I dunno if it worked or not, I can’t remember at this point.
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I know! Trying to submit bug reports is such a chore now it’s like Blizzard thinks that making it difficult to complain about a bug is the same as fixing the bug.
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I was just about to make a post about this when I found your post. Yes, it’s broken.
Knowing Blizzard, this will likely never be fixed because it’s too irrelevant. Sad. I loved that thing.
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I just tested the Shadowlands engineering goggles which also have their zoom broken. I guess it’s not just the item but the entire effect that’s broken. 
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Also half the portals in the portal room no longer and my shimmermist runner no longer makes a clip clop sound when it walks. You’re making the Pook very sad, Blizzard Wizard.
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Do you mean the portals do no longer work?
I had the issue on a new character. I managed to get the portals to work by entering Chromie time.
Honestly, I’m starting to reconsider whether it makes sense to keep paying a sub. With every little patch for a new expansion (starting with Dragonflight and now continuing with TWW) something in the old world breaks. The World of Warcraft is slowly falling apart and Blizzard seems to care only for the current expansion. It’s sad to see my favourite game slowly dying.
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Yeah I think that somehow the portals only work if you chromie time to the expansion that portal was introduced in. I mean I know every new expansion is going to have its share of bugs when it starts but I can’t help but feel “let’s disable portals unless you’re in Chromie time” is what someone at Blizzard thought should be a feature.
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I’ve been trying other items with that spell (Longsight) and it seems like they are all broken, so there must be something wrong with the base spell or some internal coding related to the mechanics for that spell.
I just checked it again today and realized that I can actually zoom out my camera view into third person, minus my character appearing, which is weird. But the most “zoomed-up” I can get on any of the items is the first-person camera angle.
I doubt that they broke this on purpose… no one would want to carry around an item (or use a toy) that did nothing other than put you in first-person mode and freeze your field of vision.
Reeeeally hope that they fix this soon. I use the spyglass toys to update screenshots on wowhead, and right now I can’t get a good angle on hostiles & shorties to save my life.
Maybe the Moonguard Gnews can do a short segment on this? I’m not sure if there’s a clever RP way to let people know about this problem & simultaneously encourage them to file a bug report… but I’m guessing that most of MG doesn’t realize this is a problem yet. Highlighting the problem to the RP community might just encourage enough people to send in bug reports that Blizz will take note.
TLDR; Longsight is broken, all the toys & items using it are broken, my screenshots of critters now suck, and Breel is the (literal) goat at fourth wall jump-rope.
I also noticed that the clippity clop of my mount while walking was silent but could be heard when galloping. Now the walking speed clippty clop is back but it’s silent when galloping and doing the mount special move.
99 bugs in the code to be found.
99 bugs in the code.
Take one down, patch it around.
102 bugs in the code to be found.