Upcoming Shards of Domination Set Bonus Buffs, Spit Emote Removed on TBC Classic PTR

Ganking? No problem! Camping? Okay! Massacre questhubs on low level zones? That`s the spirit! /spit? Nooo that is too much...

I'm curious why the "nuke it" option was the option Blizzard went with instead of, say, giving players the ability to filter out emotes they don't like. Filtering is more consistent with the preexisting player experience than "nuke it" for all. One has been able to ignore players since the game came out. One is also able to completely leave a channel. (I was rarely in Trade for the last 3 to 4 years I played the game.) One can choose to ignore guild invites. And, curiously, for all the years the game has been out, one has never been able to ignore emotes. I've always found that strange, even back in 2007 when I first started playing.

Originally Posted by Nerovar

It seems to be your stance that this emote that has been in the game for 17 years is somehow problematic. So I'm asking you: what's the problem?

And I told you, you need to ask those that it's upsetting why it is. You know damned well why it's problematic though. It's toxic. It didn't just become toxic, it always has been.

Originally Posted by Nimin

Nice strawman. Nobody said you "need" to do it. But treating it as some sort of terrible offense that needs purging of the emote for all people on the planet is pathetic.

It has only been removed from the TBC-C PTR. Live TBC-C and Retail have not had it removed yet. There is no need to be overly dramatic by saying it is the entire planet when it is still on a test realm currently. Unless of course you are being overly sensitive to a trivial emote...

Originally Posted by rhorle

It has only been removed from the TBC-C PTR. Live TBC-C and Retail have not had it removed yet. There is no need to be overly dramatic by saying it is the entire planet when it is still on a test realm currently. Unless of course you are being overly sensitive to a trivial emote...

"only complain when its on retail and too late"
galaxy brain

Originally Posted by mbit

"only complain when its on retail and too late" galaxy brain

So are you going to point out where I said to only complain when it is on retail?

Originally Posted by rhorle

So are you going to point out where I said to only complain when it is on retail?

"There is no need to be overly dramatic when it is still on a test realm currently"
so you dont even understand what you write gj

Originally Posted by mbit

"There is no need to be overly dramatic when it is still on a test realm currently" so you dont even understand what you write gj

You think the only way to complain is by being overly dramatic?

Originally Posted by rhorle

You think the only way to complain is by being overly dramatic?

If the house isn't burning blizzard isn't turning. We've seen plenty of it.

Originally Posted by mbit

If the house isn't burning blizzard isn't turning. We've seen plenty of it.

Ahh. Gotcha. You projected the way you complain onto something I said. It is entirely possible to complain with out drama. The difference between being constructive and not being constructive.

How about half naked female characters running around with some rather obscene and offensive names/?? Is it really necessary to name a character Mammogram????? And yes I would /spit on anyone with a foul name or an idiot who manages to pull half the continent on you, then drop aggro

Originally Posted by MrPaladinGuy

inb4 this game becomes such a safe space that unrequested linking of damage meters in any type of chat = harassment.

Considering people only post meters in chat without being asked in order to shame the fuck out of people, that'd be a welcome change.

Originally Posted by Firebeast

How about half naked female characters running around with some rather obscene and offensive names/?? Is it really necessary to name a character Mammogram????? And yes I would /spit on anyone with a foul name or an idiot who manages to pull half the continent on you, then drop aggro

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

Reporting a Bad Name
If you see a name that violates our naming guidelines, use the right-click option in-game to report it. If you want to report your own name, contact us. https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/32617

Originally Posted by Delever

How is this protecting them exactly? Like ok shilling has a limit at some point. What stops people from resorting to an emote like /lol now? Will they remove that one too?

Pretty sure any emote that gets abused and misused will be removed eventually... it's usually what happens with things that get abused.
To me it's pretty common sense that if you want to keep something you shouldn't give a reason to have it removed.

I don't really give 2 shits if it's there or not, but it's pretty easy to see why it was removed.

What probably happened was that TBC players started asking for refunds because people spit on them. That caused a panic at Blizzard and them taking immediate action to protect their micro transactions (or macro transactions more like it).

They're not removing it from retail because players on store mounts don't get spit on there.

I don’t know if I like this system. It doesn’t drop in mythic + and you can’t really add a domination socket to a m+ item, which forces you into mythic raiding where I don’t really want to be for now. Then the whole set bonus works only in raid and single shards work in dungeon so that’s fair enough to not farm them at all. I guess for a mage it would be great to have 3 unholy shards, still I’m not quite sure how it works or if it’s really worth sacrificing so much item level.

Just fire idiots who mismanage the company like Feasel the Weasel, and the game will start to improve drastically. Sensitive crybullies shouldn't be running a multi-billion industry.

Originally Posted by TheRevenantHero

Considering people only post meters in chat without being asked in order to shame the fuck out of people, that'd be a welcome change.

Kek, like clockwork

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Originally Posted by xblubbx

Just because some pathetic RL losers whose miserable lives find the tiniest bit of joy in spitting on somebody ingame with the attempt to somehow trigger them (I'm not saying that you are) do think that this is a really useful emote doesn't make it in fact useful.

No emote is useful if we go by this logic.

Originally Posted by TheRevenantHero

Considering people only post meters in chat without being asked in order to shame the fuck out of people, that'd be a welcome change.

People still do that?

Man, I have not seen that a lot the last 5 years. Happened a lot in the good old day though.

Anyway, we are discussing the shard of domination right? I got the 3set blood today as dps, it was allright I thought after the buff, then someone pointed out that the buff doesnt go live before wednesday. Shall not be so bad afterall then. I beat one of the tanks on healing on Kel'Thuzad tonight lol. That blood link was healing quite a bit.

Just noticed I beat both tanks on Tarragrue(I did have heart seeker tho) as well lmao. 20% better on wednesday and not halfway upgraded the 3 shards either.

Originally Posted by Nimin

No emote is useful if we go by this logic.

That is actually true though. All emotes have little value. Some have more then others since they come with animations, sound, or more then just a text line. This is of course different on RP realms.