“This patch is not ready”
It’s about as ready as every other patch
What isn’t ready really
“Classes aren’t balanced”
Balancing happens in heroic week
“Cinematics aren’t all in and some still say ‘work in progress’ so it’s rushed”
7 minutes of encrypted cinematics because story spoilers and the cinematic when you jump in the maw still says work in progress
“There are bugs”
There’s always bugs that don’t get fixed until live because they have trouble replicating it during testing
“Raid bosses weren’t tuned right”
Whole different can of worms because you actually aren’t testing the bosses for kills but to see if they work
I cannot remember an expansion that didn't have at least one standout amazing track. I don't see why this expansion should be the outlier.
Though I guess thinking about it that amazing track for SL might have been The Dreamer, but still. You never know when you get another Nightsong or Invincible.
The world revamp dream will never die!
I'm on the fence. A part of me wants to resub to see the new stuff and scratch that itch, there's no worthwhile game releases this summer anyway.
But another part of me wants me to "vote with my wallet" because unless they're planning to change things around considerably, WoW doesn't really deserve a lifeline right now.
Or because they spent 8 fucking months on it due to COVID and other things. Reminder lots of other game developers got fucked by this as well.
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From what I could get:
The First Ones are the "forces so primal, they have almost no reference", as this would make sense considering almost NO ONE knows about them.
The 6 Cosmic Powers came to be. The Broker started off with 2, but ended with 6, meaning Light and Shadow possibly came after those "Hard to reference" forces.
There is possible mention of a 7th Cosmic Power, tho it may be in reference to an Artifact of the GEOMETRY, meaning it already existed before the framework was built.
The First Ones saw the forces were imbalanced, so they gave a portion of themselves and gave FORM to THEIR design! Key word is THEIR DESIGN!!! If they came after the Forces, then they wouldn't be giving form to their design, since their design would imply they made it to begin with.
The Pattern is made, and all things become comprehendible and realized. Things are made atop of these balanced Forces, such as the Shadowlands, the Physical Universe, etc. And things are fine.
More mentions of a 7th Power, tho maybe it talks about a combination? Idk
More pages go on about things, but it's about a Broker trying to find the Sepulcher of the First Ones.
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What we can confirm: First Ones gave form to the forces, and they're literally not at all comprehendible to anyone. They're mysterious and their Sepulcher is apparently so fucking crazy, even this Broker is like "wtf..."
What we can also confirm: The Forces likely always existed, or...they well...just existed before the Cosmic Pantheon's were even a thing.
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Also, once the Framework came to be, so did everything else we see today.
I will admit, my interest has actually been piqued about the Cosmic War. It is legitimately so much more interesting than this crap about the Jailer and Sylvie. This is legitimately a fascinating plot, and the writing in this particular journal feels very antiquarian in a very good way. I'm getting kind of excited to learn more, in all sincerity.
I'm in no state of denial that Warcraft barely feels like itself anymore, but whatever is being made out of it is starting to feel more interesting. Perhaps there is sincerely enough here to draw interest.
Also, I am wondering what the seventh power is. Is it actually Domination, and the Jailer was never really part of Death at all? Or is it the physical reality as we know it? After all, reality surely ought to be the plane of something. I'd have guessed it would be Order, given it was shaped by the Titans, or perhaps Life, but now we have been told there are Gardens of Life and apparently some kind of Titan dimension. So, ultimately, it does seem like reality, as a combination of all of them, would fit as #7.
Pretty sure we dealt with Order and Disorder's imbalance/Cosmic War primarily, and we're dealing with Life and Death's now.
Idk, the thing here implies that the First Ones likely made these forces, and forged a framework to balance out their designs. Cause, I highly doubt the Broker's legit cannot reference the 6 Forces when they were imbalanced, since they clearly talk about these imbalanced forces with a very knowledgeable mindset. Even the Titans talk about Light and Shadow as if they came first, when in reality, it appears they existed around the time the First Ones provided a framework to their apparent designs.