Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Lady Atia]

Servers are up again, and it looks like char copy is back on the menu.

[Throren]

char copy still not working for me, sadge

[Lady Atia]

char copy still not working for me, sadge

Yeah same, and my earlier copy is still stuck in Dalaran.

*cries*

[Raetary]

Servers are up again, and it looks like char copy is back on the menu.

Doesn't work for me, the UI is there but can't click on anything including region selection.

[Nymrohd]

Doesn't work for me, the UI is there but can't click on anything including region selection.

I can pick a region but nothing shows up. But it probably will work in a bit

[Doffen]

I still have that account issue which I can't figure out of as I got two options on which accounts I want to play with, but none of those are familiar. Can't copy characters I don't have if you know what I mean :P

Funnily enough when I am on the character creation tab and choose hunter, the pet I use on my live hunter is the pet selected on the creation screen :-) So I guess its just a wording issue on the servers.

[Marlamin]

I still have that account issue which I can't figure out of as I got two options on which accounts I want to play with, but none of those are familiar. Can't copy characters I don't have if you know what I mean :P

Funnily enough when I am on the character creation tab and choose hunter, the pet I use on my live hunter is the pet selected on the creation screen :-) So I guess its just a wording issue on the servers.

Those are PTR (or well, test) accounts, unrelated to your retail game accounts. Character Copy functions independently from those accounts (whenever it is re-enabled, that is).

[Doffen]

Those are PTR (or well, test) accounts, unrelated to your retail game accounts. Character Copy functions independently from those accounts (whenever it is re-enabled, that is).

Yeah I tought it was something like that, but its weird that my pet on live server, Naroua from Argus is there when I choose a void elf hunter, but then its gone when I actually log the created character or another race. So it gotta recognize it somewhat anyway?

Its more for curiousity, it will all be good in the end anyway :-)

From blue post now those wow accounts are connected to your retail account or another of your account, so it's probably related to my account that the pet is showing up. Almost like a ghost file. So its just blizzard not enabling the character copy. I have used wow4 so far since wow1 never actually managed to connect properly, but today I used wow1 and my pet showed up on the character screen.

[Ersula]

After today's maintenace I still can't play the beta for longer than a minute or two without getting thrown off. Maybe they should have waited a few days.

[Valysar]

I'm being disconnected after turning in 2-3 quests

[Nymrohd]

Damn, the Everforged flail may well be gorgeous but it may have the worst clipping ever in WoW. It is trying to decide whether it will smash my face or my shoulder every time I move.

[Hitei]

After today's maintenace I still can't play the beta for longer than a minute or two without getting thrown off. Maybe they should have waited a few days.

A large part of the point of alpha/beta is for people to experience issues so that they can attempt to fix most of them before actual launch. They also can't know for sure what is going to cause instability until people experience the instability. If they waited a few days, you'd just be disconnecting a few days from now as they encountered and then dealt with the problem.

[Ersula]

A large part of the point of alpha/beta is for people to experience issues so that they can attempt to fix most of them before actual launch. They also can't know for sure what is going to cause instability until people experience the instability. If they waited a few days, you'd just be disconnecting a few days from now as they encountered and then dealt with the problem.

Things that are currently causing instability: Everything
Players affected: Everyone

[Merryck]

They should put the cosmic void effects on every Shadow Priest spell. Disc priest actually looks better as Void Weaver than Shadow priest because you're not casting 2 different types of Void magic. It's jarring.

If Shadow Priest got reworked into a Void priest that would be pretty based.

[Scyth]

Picking a main between Mage/Priest/Pala/Evoker for next xpac is going to be quite difficult. All of them feel very good to play atm. Lock as well tbh, Diabolist is so cool.

And then you've got Shaman/Rogue/Hunter who are better off just not playing the game at this point.

[Doffen]

Well copying account data and characters is up now and working

Got my warband ready

[Nightshade711]

Wonder when we’ll see what the renown rewards are.
Hope we can get Speaker Brinthe’s backpack thing - there was an icon datamined for it a while back but still no model attached to it.

[Dracullus]

Well copying account data and characters is up now and working

Got my warband ready

Thx for info I'm checking it now.

Rejoice people, quest rewards are definitely retroactive. For example, I did 4xcovenant campaign on my plate and cloth have all 9/9 sets.

Legacy professions are disappointment. Checked if they merged Gnomish/Goblin engineering so I can delete it on 1 char - nope, checked if I can buy recipe on alt from legacy reputations - nope.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Why would you have been able to? Aberrus was Neltharion's secret lab, he didn't want people to wander in by accident.

The sunshafts are a bit more questionable, though that might be for technical reasons. The whole seamless transition thing doesn't always work properly for Zaralek, sometimes i just get stuck and have to relog to unstuck.

Flying around the Ringing Depths, it is very disappointing that I cannot ascend up back to the Isle of Dorn (or to wherever I guess?) through all the sunshafts around the zone. It does break the immersion. Reminds me of how weird it felt that you could not fly from Aberrus to the Obsidian Citadel somehow.

Having enterable sunshafts would create an artistic challenge for the environment artists sculpting the surface above. It's hard to make a lot of potholes in the ground look nice.

Imagine if there were sunshafts in the Zaralek Cavern ceiling that you could fly through to the Plains above:




But WoW's art team is up to the challenge. I'd love to see how they could make that look good. Maybe disguise the sunshaft entrances not as potholes in the ground, but as many wind caves in a mountain. That would look a lot more natural.



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Now that I think about it, it would be pretty easy to make enterable sunshaft sinkholes look good from the surface. Make them look like that humongous sinkhole in China, where the cave entrance is hidden from most views by canyons and dense foilage and fog. So players flying overhead usually won't be looking at holes down into the black abyss everywhere.

[Jaggler]

I think the biggest issue is with how the Underground zones are actually designed, which makes having just small holes to fly through not very feasible in regards to how the underground zones actually work.