Personally, I enjoyed WoD because I could log on whenever and not feel like I was behind. Honestly, this is true throughout BC-WoD in my case.
I enjoyed raid logging or popping on to RP and logout until raids.
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Type A personalities man, donât underestimate the allure. One of my coworkers is a recovered WoWaholic himself. I consider him a pretty chill dude. He still is an obsessive gamer when it comes to what snares his interest and he absolutely HAS TO HAVE the very best stuff even if heâs going to put down the game shortly and never return to it.
This is a guy who hard reset one of those predatory mobile games that gives out a free hero for new accounts until he got one of the rarer/better drops.
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So apparently conduits arenât interchangable if you want to replace your tank one with a DPS one. This is not spec swapping friendly and pretty concerning.
Think of them like gems. Once itâs in, itâs in and if you replace it, itâs gone for good. Youâll have to reobtain that tank conduit.
please tell me we can at least catch afterlife fish
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yeah, I liked when they built on and continued systems instead of justâŚintroducing new currencies every month.
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Weâre catching the souls of all the fish weâve caught before.
Spectral Dark Herring seeks more than your life this time
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Yeah, it doesnât seem like it worked at all. If anything, it had the opposite effect. Even Asmongold quit BfA for a while (even before Classic) lol which says quite a bit.
Full disclosure, I donât know much about business and even less about game design. But my theory is they know this. That doesnât mean theyâre going to move away from trying to boost play time, but I do think theyâre going to work a little harder to obfuscate through gameplay that thatâs what theyâre doing.
My partner and I absolutely adore how much we can do in WoW together compared to other games and we dipped out when things didnât look like they were getting better by 8.2
I love WoW, I love Azeroth and the lore around it, but my goodness BfA was so obnoxiously a hamster wheel from islands to Azerite armor to the mythic chest having not given me a 475 ilvl trinket save for ONE that was actually the worst I could have gotten all of 8.3âŚ
I enjoy playing alts as well and thatâs been pretty impossible for me to do since the cloakâs introduction. I didnât loathe visions initially, but since Iâve been running them from day one and theyâre the same thing every time with awful affixes⌠I just canât bring myself to do the 2 hour of fetch questing required to unlock visions of boredom.
Sorry to rant a bit.
âŚIâm incredibly hopeful Torghast will be to my liking. I love rogue-likes and I want to play my alts for more than just old raid farming.
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This is where Iâm at. In fact, I still enjoy myself in visions. What I donât enjoy is them being mandatory on any character that wants any semblance of effectiveness, or the entry fee to get in. It neuters alts like crazy, which sucks because this expansion is the first time since Wrath that Iâve actually had a main, and this time itâs more or less not by choice.
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Theyâre changing âEvery Man for Himselfâ to âThe Will to Surviveâ come SL. Which is nice because the saying âEvery Man for Himselfâ made no sense when 9/10 times itâs used offensively.
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Should have called it âhuman potentialâ.
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BfAâs gameplay failing was from unscalable system bloat. From things like Islands and Warfronts becoming unnecessary or boring, to Azerite gear being independent of player agency (since nobody could target a piece of gear) and not patching the hole artifacts left behind, to the constant layering of more stuff (essences, corruption, etc).
Turns out when you have a problem, the answer isnât to just ignore it and throw more new things into the pot. Even if you donât have a problem, throwing new things into the mix every major patch leaves people overwhelmed and bewildered over time if you donât phase out other content. Itâs a corner they put themselves into - if all aspects of gameplay yield the same rewards, all aspects of gameplay begin to feel mandatory to progression-driven players. And when your whole game model is built around time-gated progression, youâre making everyone feel pressured to do everything.
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Iâm going to miss the ironic contrast of one racial being âEvery Man for Himselfâ and another being âDiplomacyâ.
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Spoilers for Shadows Rising novel below
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Am I the only one irritated by the fact that we find out Saurfang, who was complicit in the murder of innocent Night Elf civilians up until the burning of Teldrassil got to go to a good afterlife with his son and wife? According to Bwonsamdi in the book. So while innocent Kaldorei men, women, and children suffer for an eternity in the Maw Saurfang gets to have a peaceful afterlife??? Really?
Now could Bwonsomdi have been lying or just showing Zekhan what he wanted to see? I guess it is possible, but I donât think thatâs the case. This just seems like BS to me.
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If he went to the maw heâd probably have to appear in-game, with 5 worshipful fully-rendered cut-scenes as we adventure through it, so going to the zug fields of serenity might be a mercy for players
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I would have liked to see the zug fields of serenity ingame as one of the covenants. Something more inline with the orcish/tauren concept of an afterlife.
Maybe replace one of the two dark/edgy covenants with that
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Blizzard: The afterlife is broken and literally everyone, no matter what, goes to Superhell when they die.
Also Blizzard: not our fave tho 
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I canât say for certain but from my understanding Bwonsamdi is the reason Saurfang got sent to good afterlife⌠So Bwonsamdi can just redirect and save souls, but Elune an actual god canât save some of the Night Elf souls?? Okay Blizzard.
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Bwonsamdi: I can pull souls from the Maw and send them to their normal good afterlife, so I used it on this random orc that I donât care about and literally nobody else ever
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You all using the spoiler collapsing feature are peaches.