And that is a good thing.
Re: Dracthyr
Iâm dying of laughter. Slightly sad, but mostly hysterical.
Could not have told you this would be what Orgrimmar would turn into in 2004.
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In the short term anyway. But much like Death Knights and Demon Hunters before them, most people are going to quickly grow bored of them or continue to play their Dracthyr occasionally 
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Well I got beta access.
I might jump in and do some stuff on it. I havenât preordered DF yet since BFA and Shadowlands disappointed me with the story.
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Poke the Ardenweald seed and let us know if it rocks or grumbles.
Oh man, this totally did NOT cross my mind when I first saw the visage use the female human likeness/skeleton.
TBH I was slightly relieved that it wasnât another Thalassian elf (at least for the female one anyway) but also somewhat disappointed that it wasnât a unique humanoid OR gave us the option to choose whatever race we wanted our visage to be.
The thought of Orgrimmar being overrun by female humanoid dragon ladies is a bit abysmal but I would have to agree with Micah that the initial hype will die down once DF gets rolling and the folks that donât really want to play a Dracthyr as their main will taper off. I mean, as it stands, there are more Vulpera and Blood Elves in Orgrimmar than orcs anyway. (At least on my Horde server WrA)
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Yeah, itâs not much different than having Elves around.
Iâm absolutely going to be running around as a female human on redside.
To the topic of Vanilla PvP, my very first WoW character was one my friend totally didnât let me roll on her account because that would be against TOS. (She had electric AND internet.) Just to goof off with. She was a female tauren shaman, and in random evenings while they were watching movies I didnât care about and a long stint of house sitting, I got her all the way to level 17.
I was questing in the Barrens when an undead warlock started recruiting in general chat for a raid on Ashenvale. I didnât know where Ashenvale was. I didnât know what a raid was. I didnât even know what Ashenvale was. But he obviously knew what he was doing. He was level 35! I was a genial youngster so I tagged along for the adventure. I knew precisely nothing about the larger Warcraft IP, itâs worth noting. But I liked my tauren. And, though I didnât know what it meant, I was on a PvP server.
Anyway, our fearless leader gathered up about ten of us. The astute amongst you will notice a small flaw from the outset â namely, that we were underleveled for Ashenvale, let alone the players in Ashenvale. I still donât know if the guy was genuine or it was all an elaborate troll, but he seemed sincere. With much factional chest pounding and bravado, we set off in a caravan. Ten underleveled trolls, orcs, and tauren and one guy on a MOUNT. We were sure going to show those night elves! âŚWhatever a night elf was.
Of course, first we had to protect each other from the wildlife. Which should have been an indication of what was laying in wait, but we were trusting dumb ducklings and having to pry a few orcs out of the jaws of random mobs was probably normal. I do remember being struck by the enchanted forest feeling of Ashenvale. There was so much to see! And after the beige and red pallet Iâd been living in, I was delighted. Surely this was a soft and magical land and we, fearless hardened (level 17) Horde soldiers, could run rampant.
Gentle reader, we could not. We hit the outskirts of Astranaar after our glorious march, and to this day, I have no idea what happened. I donât know if it was the flight master, or the guards, or the players. What I do know is that after all our puffery, we were destroyed in seconds. The forest erupted in elves and I barely had a moment to register âOh thatâs a night elfâ before I was running back to my corpse. Our chat decayed into chaos, whining and finger pointing. Our fearless leader had a meltdown about how bad we all were. Everyone left group and corpseran their own way out of the very unfriendly purple forest and back to good old safe beige as fast as possible, harried occasionally by angry elves, cats, and I think a bear killed me at one point too.
It was a formative experience, and it certainly colored my perception of night elves. I know the racial fantasy. The racial fantasy gave me an epic repair bill.
So of course, when I came back to WoW as an internet-having member of civilization, it didnât take much thought to pick night elf. That and the other buddy who talked me into playing was on Alliance and I really wanted to turn into a bear.
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Hunters in PvP are seriously overtuned.
I wouldnât know. Iâm terrible at PvP 
The top three in the last BG were hunters who were just dominating. most people had 3-7 kills, these three hunters had 16-26 each. It was embarassing.
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I would imagine so, all Marksman I imagine? Itâs always the go to DPS spec, regardless of content
None of them had a pet so maybe?
Yeah, sounds like Marks, with people using the Lone Wolf talent.
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Judging from statements in KH3, KH Chi and KH Dark Road it seems that the Multiverse of Kingdom Hearts is ruled by D&Dâs old rule of âBelief Shapes the Planesâ.
In otherwords if you expect the Heart you are studying to have Darkness it will have Darkness but if you expect it to have Light it will have Light. If you expect it to have an uncontrollable Fire it will have Fire. If you expect it to have an all consuming deluge of Water it will have Water.
If you expect someone to manifest a Nobody they will manifest a Nobody.
Xion coming back wasnât the result of her Heart transferring to No.iâs Body but instead Roxasâs belief in her being No.i turning No.i into Xion.
Xion being treated as special is due to Roxasâs belief in Xion being special causing reality to bend over backwards to make her so.
Namine exists because someone believed that Kairi leaving Soraâs Body would create a Nobody.
If someone strongly enough believed that Kairi leaving her own Body would create a Nobody then one would be created. Iâm sure that once Sora understands how Belief Shapes the Worlds he would mention the concept to someone in the Worlds not created by the Master of Masters and inadvertently create a Nobody Kairi by accident.
A cool awesome good being of Pure Darkness if believed to exist would exist to say the least. Considering what Artist loves Black Haired Girls is on Square Enixâs payroll I completely expect the Cool Awesome Good Darkness manifested to be a Girl.
I have no doubt that such insanity will ensue during KH4 just to rub in D&Dâs âBelief Shapes the Planesâ rule.
Square(which has regularly ripped off D&D) has clearly decided for Kingdom Hearts to be itâs Planescape Campaign.
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By all regards. Orcs should be almost extinct. Many died in the second war. More died in the destruction of Draenor. It makes no sense that there are enough of them left to build an actual army without being illogical.
All 3 hunter specs are pretty decent in random PvP at the moment, but MM has VEXINGLY good synergy with a lot of classes right now.
Resubbed and back from another month ban.
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Welcome back! Everything is still on fire.
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Timing game time with account action is a way to go about it.
When I use a token for Game Time, I often think : âblasted Blizzard better not suspend me for some innocuous nonsense the next day.â