1. #69961
    Quote Originally Posted by Sondrelk View Post
    Pretty sure the new levelling is available instantly. The only thing that should change in that regard when the Dracthyr come out is the removal of the Winds of Wisdom 50% experience buff.
    It's not. It will still be roughly the same amount of XP until Phase 2 when we get the beta amounts.

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  2. #69962
    I know people like to shit on Shadowlands for not having Shaman content, but now that we're seeing Shaman stuff in Dragonflight... I think this was intentional?

    The ancestral spirit stuff is not confirmed a retcon yet. There may absolutely be a place that some shamanistic spirits go that is NOT the Shadowlands. Or, the Shaman afterlife will get mentioned here now that Shamanism is relevant to the expansion. We already see that Wild Gods go to restore in the Dream and multiple gods snatch up souls on Azeroth.

    We're getting heavy hints that Elements come from the Lifelands or some sector of it, so I think that the Ancestral Plane being retconed into a place for Shaman spirits to chill in the Lifelands would be cool and make some sense.

    Also: Monks and Shamans use the same energy. It was 100% intentional to leave them out at the same time.
    Last edited by Cheezits; 2022-10-24 at 10:01 PM.

  3. #69963
    Quote Originally Posted by Koollan View Post
    Shadowlands was one of the planes and they pretty objectively ruined the mysticism of death in its entirety. They also said 'f you' to shamans and monks. Their afterlives don't even exist at all. Imho, they'd provide similar treatments to the other planes of magic. It would largely be ruinous to WoW as a whole if we explored more of these planes. The only one I could fathom us going back to is the Emerald Dream, given that it's one of the already-explored-partially planes. We'd best leave all of the others alone until proper depth is added to each of their lores in prior expansions.
    We're prolly going to explore the other realms...

  4. #69964
    Quote Originally Posted by 8bithamster View Post
    your opinion =/= objective... please stop using that word when you have no idea what it means. And again, if you really think more original areas instead of "OMG TINKER INSERT WE NEED GADGETZAN!!!!!!" that Teriz keeps spouting will utterly destroy wow, that's really more of a you problem than an "objective" fact.
    Foul. Logical fallacy. False dichotomy.

  5. #69965
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    Quote Originally Posted by Le Conceptuel View Post
    Foul. Logical fallacy. False dichotomy.
    Don't enourage the Tinker liker. You don't need to be a devil's advocate all the time.
    #TeamLegion #UnderEarthofAzerothexpansion plz #Arathor4Alliance #TeamNoBlueHorde

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  6. #69966
    so tomorrow expect
    1. broken talent loadout system saying you have too many when you have maybe 1
    2. UI constantly resetting and giving LUA errors
    3. broken addons
    4. wonky scaling in all dungeons
    5. people in trade bitching about where evokers and events are

  7. #69967
    Quote Originally Posted by Forum Man View Post
    so tomorrow expect
    1. broken talent loadout system saying you have too many when you have maybe 1
    2. UI constantly resetting and giving LUA errors
    3. broken addons
    4. wonky scaling in all dungeons
    5. people in trade bitching about where evokers and events are
    Hit the nail on the head lol

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    I don't like addons being outdated but..... well the people raging about it..well it'll happen better get used to it. Also You forgot "People bitching about their class being Underpowered" because it will happen and I may possibly fit in that group xD
    #TeamLegion #UnderEarthofAzerothexpansion plz #Arathor4Alliance #TeamNoBlueHorde

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  9. #69969
    Quote Originally Posted by Gifdwarf View Post
    Hit the nail on the head lol
    im not even gonna have addons or do anything meaningful until about wed maybe

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aeluron Lightsong View Post
    I don't like addons being outdated but..... well the people raging about it..well it'll happen better get used to it. Also You forgot "People bitching about their class being Underpowered" because it will happen and I may possibly fit in that group xD
    they will scream for balancing when in reality blizzard shouldnt balance around level 60 with missing talents

  10. #69970
    Quote Originally Posted by Forum Man View Post
    so tomorrow expect
    1. broken talent loadout system saying you have too many when you have maybe 1
    2. UI constantly resetting and giving LUA errors
    3. broken addons
    4. wonky scaling in all dungeons
    5. people in trade bitching about where evokers and events are
    Forget the part where you have constant questions of why they can't go to the Dragon Isles yet? Or wondering where the intro questline is.
    The world revamp dream will never die!

  11. #69971
    Quote Originally Posted by Aeluron Lightsong View Post
    I don't like addons being outdated but..... well the people raging about it..well it'll happen better get used to it. Also You forgot "People bitching about their class being Underpowered" because it will happen and I may possibly fit in that group xD
    Complaining about add-ons being broken is always legitimate because it's blizzard fault. Not wanting to go out of their way to support add-ons would be understandable if they did an adequate job with the default UI, and they aren't because they know they can rely on unpaid volunteers to fix their shitty UI for them.

    So this time around they broke everything (as usual) and all they have to show for it is a piss poor copy of ffxiv's UI edit mode + merging bags in a single window 15 years after addons did it (hilariously not even enabled by default, way to make life easier for new players)

    Blizzard causes the most UI breakage while bringing the least amount of UX efforts. See also: the god awful talent UI.
    Last edited by ClownPrincess; 2022-10-25 at 09:55 AM.

  12. #69972
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sondrelk View Post
    Forget the part where you have constant questions of why they can't go to the Dragon Isles yet? Or wondering where the intro questline is.
    And that with experienced players.

    Newcomer chat is gonna be interesting.



  13. #69973
    Quote Originally Posted by ClownPrincess View Post
    Complaining about add-ons being broken is always legitimate because it's blizzard fault. Not wanting to go out of their way to support add-ons would be understandable if they did an adequate job with the default UI, and they aren't because they know they can rely on unpaid volunteers to fix their shitty UI for them.

    So this time around they broke everything (as usual) and all they have to show for it is a piss poor copy of ffxiv's UI edit mode + merging bags in a single window 15 years after addons did it (hilariously not even enabled by default, way to make life easier for new players)

    Blizzard causes the most UI breakage while bringing the least amount of UX efforts. See also: the god awful talent UI.
    You're pretty much asking for mutually exclusive things here. To change the UI, they need to rewrite the code. Doing so will break addons. What would have been considered good design 15 years ago isn't today, and there are functions that did (not) exist back then that now have to be accomodated differently.

    You're also assuming your personal preference re: bags is "easier" for no real reason. Some people actually prefer having them seperate and use different bags for different purposes.

    Broken addons are an inevitable consequence of ongoing game development.


    Besides, Blizzard is going out of their way to support them. FFXIV is what not supporting them looks like.

  14. #69974
    Quote Originally Posted by ClownPrincess View Post
    Complaining about add-ons being broken is always legitimate because it's blizzard fault. Not wanting to go out of their way to support add-ons would be understandable if they did an adequate job with the default UI, and they aren't because they know they can rely on unpaid volunteers to fix their shitty UI for them.

    So this time around they broke everything (as usual) and all they have to show for it is a piss poor copy of ffxiv's UI edit mode + merging bags in a single window 15 years after addons did it (hilariously not even enabled by default, way to make life easier for new players)

    Blizzard causes the most UI breakage while bringing the least amount of UX efforts. See also: the god awful talent UI.
    Name checks out

  15. #69975
    Quote Originally Posted by huth View Post
    You're pretty much asking for mutually exclusive things here. To change the UI, they need to rewrite the code. Doing so will break addons. What would have been considered good design 15 years ago isn't today, and there are functions that did (not) exist back then that now have to be accomodated differently.
    I know it"s mutually exclusive. I wasn't clear enough so let me restate my point: either you break things and make it worth it by making a really good UI, or you count on the community to fix your bad UX for free and the least you could do is to actively support them (by, among other things, avoiding breaking things more than necessary).

    Besides, Blizzard is going out of their way to support them. FFXIV is what not supporting them looks like.
    Yeah, and the result is good. If blizzard decided to stop supporting add-ons but brought wow's default UI to the same quality level as FFXIV I'd be fine with it.

    Whatever they're doing currently is half assed: half assed "support" (closer to apathy, really, than "going out of their way") of add-ons, and half assed work on the default UI.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sondrelk View Post
    I will admit i could be wrong and it's just personal taste, but i was never all that enthused by the Shadowlands, and constantly found myself wondering what it would have been like to have less out there ideas constantly.
    Everything looked fantastic, but it could have appeared in any fantasy game. It was soulless and vapid. Detached from that which first connected us to the setting.

  17. #69977
    Quote Originally Posted by ClownPrincess View Post
    I know it"s mutually exclusive. I wasn't clear enough so let me restate my point: either you break things and make it worth it by making a really good UI, or you count on the community to fix your bad UX for free and the least you could do is to actively support them (by, among other things, avoiding breaking things more than necessary).



    Yeah, and the result is good. If blizzard decided to stop supporting add-ons but brought wow's default UI to the same quality level as FFXIV I'd be fine with it.

    Whatever they're doing currently is half assed: half assed "support" (closer to apathy, really, than "going out of their way") of add-ons, and half assed work on the default UI.
    That sounds a lot more like you're either giving FFXIV undue credit or WoW not enough. Is the WoW UI perfect? No, of course not. Is it terrible? Far from it.

    Could FFXIV's UI be better if they allowed Addons? Quite likely.

    Does allowing and enabling addons like Blizzard does take quite a bit of work? Yes, most certainly. Your "half-assed" support may well have taken more work to implement than FFXIV's "great" UI.

  18. #69978
    FFXIV is customizable, but other than that, it is terrible.

    It's submenus, hidden within submenus, that all have confusing names, confusing icons and you got so many different things in different tabs when they should logically be under the same menu point.

  19. #69979
    I believed you needed a lvl55 toon to make a dk on classic and get the mount

    Was just informed I was wrong and will now be doing that while people freak out over broken prepatch

  20. #69980
    As they already said back in TBC: "Never play on patch day"

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