9.0 General Discussion

[Alanar]

Give us bearded dwarven ladies already!

ah not this crap again -.-

[Protar95]

I'd rather keep the Night Elves in Kalimdor. They didn't lose those lands to the Horde. I'm sure some will move to SW or Gilneas, but as a whole there's no reason for them to leave Kalimdor. Perhaps Hyjal will be revamped as a new Nelf starting area? If they do a world revamp in 10.0 I'd like to see the Cataclysm zones updated as well and integrated into the rest of Kalimdor and EK.

[Raetary]

Ugh, this week was depressing.

I hope there's a big build coming to bring some joy.

[Cherry123]

alpha develops slowly, do not wait for the game until 2021.

[Pebrocks The Warlock]

alpha develops slowly, do not wait for the game until 2021.

Lmfao, no public build for a week and people already saying it's delayed. Yikes

[Nagawithlegs]

alpha develops slowly, do not wait for the game until 2021.

They said it was on track for 2020 about two weeks ago.

[Sondrelk]

Lmfao, no public build for a week and people already saying it's delayed. Yikes

Not to worry, next week will be something minor and the naysayers will move on to declaring Shadowlands cancelled. It is the way of the forums.

[Valysar]

Pretty nice animation !
"Shifting power"

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Whoa.... that is beautiful

[FlubberPuddy]

Ugh, this week was depressing.

I hope there's a big build coming to bring some joy.

This week was great with the High Elf news, has thrown people into joy and some into absurdity lol

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Pretty nice animation !
"Shifting power"

Night Fae is more like Night Bae

All their skills are so beautiful looking!

[Raetary]

This week was great with the High Elf news, has thrown people into joy and some into absurdity lol

I meant depressing outside of wow.
The wow news we got where fine, just not particularly exciting.

Pretty nice animation !
"Shifting power"

Its animation is really pretty.
But the spell itself has to become either a cast or be an instant buff.

Having to channel something for 6 seconds every 45 seconds that deals next to no damage sounds so incredibly clunky to use.

[Nagawithlegs]

You know I don't have an idea what Ion could be revealing on the 9th aside from maybe Nathanos as a boss in Nathria. Everything else for launch seems kind of out in the open.

Maybe they're making a big change to Covenant abilities or removing Torments? I assume it's only getting a livestream if it's good news (they've been careful about that this time around).

[Raetary]

You know I don't have an idea what Ion could be revealing on the 9th aside from maybe Nathanos as a boss in Nathria. Everything else for launch seems kind of out in the open.

Maybe they're making a big change to Covenant abilities or removing Torments? I assume it's only getting a livestream if it's good news (they've been careful about that this time around).

Release date, pre-event release date, pre-event info, general info about covenants (Soulbinds), stuff about Torghast, etc.

Nathanos being a boss in Nathria is of no relevance to most players.

[Nagawithlegs]

Nathanos being a boss in Nathria is of no relevance to most players.

Do you really think that? He's the only boss most casual players will give a shit about (besides maybe Hakkar) at launch, they're hiding him for a reason.

Story beats impact everyone, moreso than game mechanics. For better or worse.

[Makabreska]

Nathanos being a boss in Nathria is of no relevance to most players.

Do you really think that? He's the only boss most casual players will give a shit about (besides maybe Hakkar) at launch, they're hiding him for a reason.

Story beats impact everyone, moreso than game mechanics. For better or worse.

Nathanos shit talked both factions just enough to warrant relevancy and full attention of every player and their grannies. Also, do casuals really recall Hakkar?

[Raetary]

Ugh, they are not gonna do some form of big(ger) reveal just to announce that a character that the average joe probably has already forgotten about is gonna be a raid boss.

[Makabreska]

Ugh, they are not gonna do some form of big(ger) reveal just to announce that a character that the average joe probably has already forgotten about is gonna be a raid boss.

Well, it can easily be one of the things they will reveal. But I won't expect them to go that route. And it's not really a "reveal", I expect a talk about state of Alpha, Thorgast, talk about classes and Covenants. The only reveal I expect is (more) open beta announcement.

[LemonDemonGirl]

Pretty nice animation !
"Shifting power"

Whoa.... that is beautiful

I can see why Bwonsamdi would want to live in Ardenweald. It's beautiful! Are the Priest animations available yet?

[Sondrelk]

Ugh, they are not gonna do some form of big(ger) reveal just to announce that a character that the average joe probably has already forgotten about is gonna be a raid boss.

Yes, the character that the Horde still reports to in Zuldazar, and who was massively relevant in the Faction War story of BfA is just forgotten, makes perfect sense that. Obvisouly same thing as why noone remember who the Burning Legion were, or why they were important.

[Nagawithlegs]

Sylvanas and Nathanos are definitely some kind of social experiment by Blizz to create very personal, hateable villains. You saw it a little bit with Gul'dan (arrogant, escaped his fate once, killed Varian) but the undead pair are that idea on steroids.

Arrogant x5, abusive or manipulative to the player character, huge death counts, insult all sides nd the players were unable to lay a finger on them or deal with them properly aside from kicking them out of the Horde. They're written as so horrible and temporarily untouchable that players think they're self inserts/Blizzard stand ins for abusing the player (or in the case of Sylvanas, some people GENUINELY believe she's a girl power "SJW" character and that's why she can't be touched and is so powerful).

They are absolutely being coy about how they're dealt with in Shadowlands, which has led to doomsaying about Kerrigan or Sylvanas winning somehow, but I think it's much more likely that they are treating fighting Nathanos and Sylvanas as huge events for the playerbase. And if Nathanos can be killed by the players in the first launch raid you know that that's going to make headlines.

They didn't spend so much money on these characters bullying players and making them unhappy irl to forget them and or redeem them. They're emotionally charged punching bags and players will absolutely celebrate the chance to kill them.