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![]() Arch-Druid Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Brazil
Posts: 2,230
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![]() It doesn't need to come from Blizzard to become a meme. It just needs to be catchy.
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![]() Hippogryph Join Date: Oct 2016
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Yes, I noticed in the article Bybee didn't say that, the article writer did. They should have separated the paragraphs to distinguish them. |
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![]() Arch-Druid Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Brazil
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![]() I'm still advancing on the Alliance War Campaign, and I'm enjoying it. My main gripe is that it isn't voiced. Of course, the story is far from perfect, but, compared to how the Alliance is usually portrayed, it's been so much better.
I just did the chapter on the boats ("Blood in the Water", I think?), and boy, it was very good. I loved to see Shandris killing Dreven, and Falstad and the Wildhammer being effective at their own thing. Falstad owning Nathanos was also a great moment. I also liked the previous chapter, with the blood elves. I like Umbric. He uses things that I consider morally dubious at best (sending people into the Void seems to be a horrific thing, but we don't get to know what happens to those characters after being banished. Is the banishment permanent? Do they die? Do they stay suffering forever? We don't know.), and yet his motivations make he feel like a genuine good guy. Moral grayness, Alliance style. Also, the little interactions between the races has been good. Void and night elves, dark iron and wildhammer dwarves, gnomes. Even the dynamic between Wyrmbane and Shaw is a nice way to show Stormwind humans as less generic. The only races I'm missing there are the draenei flavors and worgen, but at least Genn is the main Alliance figure in Kul Tiras so far and is essential in rescuing Jaina. Alliance works so much better without the High King figure being the sole focus of attention. Anduin really feels like a king, because he's absent, a figurehead at best, rather than being a warrior in the frontlines. And that is awesome.
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![]() Trade Baroness - Admin Join Date: Oct 2006
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![]() Sha of Disappointment Join Date: Feb 2010
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![]() Some guild-invite spammer is trying to sell me on the idea that guilds are now server-spanning, did i miss something?
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![]() Elune Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 12,257
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![]() It has been that way since at least late Legion. I know because I joined a guild where I am from Nagrand but most people are from Kil'rog. Servers that are merged (except it looks like your server still exists because Blizz are pussies) share everything including guilds.
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![]() Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2006
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If memory serves that's a thing, but it's limited to only working between specific pairs or groups of realm servers that are connected. That may be a functional design choice; if a zone or instance becomes over-crowded, sharding of non-grouped players to manage the population may initially start with filtering them by realm name. Last edited by ARM3481; 08-22-2018 at 01:38 PM.. |
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![]() Elune Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: The Slaughtered Lamb
Posts: 22,046
BattleTag: Grimtale67#1407
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![]() While I like the Void Elves' whole "we align well with the ideals of the Alliance and will put this shadow magic we've learned to proper use" it does make me question why they didn't do that concept with Worgen rather than just making them into furry Night Elves and now just trusted advisors to High King without any real other "thing" to them that sets them apart in terms of their thematic. Just seems unnecessary, but again it's why I've decided to accept Void Elves instead of questioning it too much.
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![]() Sha of Disappointment Join Date: Feb 2010
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![]() Hmkay thanks
i always assumed spambots just didn't register different realms as different. Cross-Realm Guilds is just weird. Guild Chat must be a crowded nightmare if there's many people from long named-realms. |
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![]() Arch-Druid Join Date: Nov 2012
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![]() Elune Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: The Slaughtered Lamb
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Of course, I would have also just liked Worgen to have their own sub-factions with at least one group, maybe cured Nightbane Worgen from Duskwood, to have all those shadow-wielding trappings as part of their theme whereas people who like the civilized dapper Worgen or the feral savage Worgen can have that fantasy in either the Gilneans or Bloodfangs. |
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![]() Sha of Disappointment Join Date: Feb 2010
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![]() I'm about a dozen quests into Drustvar on my human. It's my least favorite zone on Kul Tiras. I don't particularly care for the theme of the cursed village.
So far, it's been more tun than 90 percent of the Zandalari content. Here's my main gripe with the faction-split this expansion: in Legion, i could easily stomach Stormheim and most of Highmoutain. Can't stand the elf-zones but i could, for the most part, avoid them just by chosing. In BFA i hate every single Horde-zone. Unless i reroll over a dozen characters, i'm screwed in regards to levelling my alts. |
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![]() Time-Lost Proto Nerd Join Date: Aug 2010
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Unrelated, I just had an idea on what they could for the faction conflict resolution based on how we've now got two pratically identical Proudmoore brothers on opposite sides. What if a way to make Sylvanas "not Garrosh" while having also written themselves into the corner that it's impossible to say she's not a villain/raid boss (she's done every single thing Arthas did except kill a family member without them expecting it, which she almost did and still plans to anyway. So if Sylvanas isn't a villain and doesn't deserve to be a raid boss, than Arthas wasn't a villain and didn't deserve to be a raid boss) then maybe the solution could be have her only be a boss to the Alliance instead of doing a Siege of Orgrimmar style rebellion as well. In other words, what if the faction conflict is resolved in a raid that's completely different for each faction. The same number of bosses and same layout (or identical but reskinned ones depending on where it would be located), and the bosses and trash all have the same abilities but renamed. You'd have Derek Proudmoore for Horde, Tandred Proudmoore for Alliance, Jaina for Horde, Talanji or Thalyrssa for Alliance, etc. Not all of them would even have to die, just get beaten. Then the final boss would be Sylvanas for Alliance, Alleria (a perfect opportunity to give them the exact same abilities, just void themed verses shadow and blight) for Horde. Double unrelated:
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![]() Sha of Disappointment Join Date: Feb 2010
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o) the Tortollans have barely a role in the story, very few quests and their endlessly repetitive three World Quests have managed to annoy me so much i don't even enjoy the disgustingly cute hatchling-quest anymore. o) Turtles and Dinosaurs are awesome but you never do anything interesting with turtles and there's only a few Dinosaur-related quests that were really fun, like any time they put you on one Dino Rider-style, pimped out with guns and turrets and crap; give me THAT as a World Quest... Plus, the Dinos are mostly present in Zuldazar. I don't like Zuldazar's layout and the entire Zandalari-Questline bored me to death; Nazmir wasn't much better, aside from more Tortollan content, but there's almost no Dinos and they're practically absent from Vol'Dun. Plus it's going to take me months to get the Brutosaur mount, if i ever manage to save up that much. That one really put a damper on my enjoyment for Dinosaurs in BFA. o) The Mission Table doesn't seem to have the self-sustaining Resource-generation that early Legion had so i'll have to actually play all my alts for my Gold-making army. I don't see myself doing that, i'm not even sure if i'll play any alts to max level besides my two main Warriors. I'm currently starting in Kul Tiras on a human and i'm fairly sure i would enjoy BFA A LOT more on the other side. Except i have every class on 110 on Horde. Not on Alliance. Plus, World Quests suck. o) Warfronts aren't just not open yet, they're also not always available. I'll likely do them on my human for the absurdly awesome plate armor but the limited availability really grinds my gears. Plus they're supposedly equally as boring as Island Expeditions; that does not make me hopeful. |
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![]() Time-Lost Proto Nerd Join Date: Aug 2010
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On the mission tables, unfortunately either those who like them are an extremely small minority or Blizzard is listening to the vocal minority since they said the changes to mission tables were to make them as unrewarding as possible so that all the players who didn't like them would have no reason to do them outside of the introductory quests, leaving only those who genuinely enjoy that type of gameplay.
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![]() Yeah, the Mission Table is pretty slapdash. Even the Followers are kind of treated like they're superfluous; the only one Alliance-side who actually does anything with the player before becoming a Follower is Kelsey Steelspark. Umbric, Keeshan and Falstad are just sort of nearby in the Zandalar hubs doing nothing of consequence while you quest, then suddenly offer to become Followers out of nowhere at the end of the local quest chain.
It's unfortunate, since the Mission Table is the only thing they really have that reinforces the idea of the Alliance and Horde at large being at war (rather than only in the new continents and island expeditions), but the whole thing's such an afterthought that I barely even remember to visit it and clear out finished Missions much of the time. Incidentally, it may just be a psychological thing, but the way that Rep and AP "tokens" are used on receipt now instead of being given physically to my character negatively affects the "feel" of completing them for me. It makes it feel like there wasn't really a reward at all. I guess they figured it was a good way to streamline things, but there's just something hollow about completing quest after quest and seeing nothing to represent each victory but some blue text in the chat box saying that some math increased somewhere in my character's profile. Click-to-use tokens might have seemed like a waste of bag space, but it was a very temporary one that felt "solid," like I actually got something for my efforts. |
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![]() Troubadour Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Brazil
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You don't like Zandalar and about a third of Kul Tiras. What do you seriously want? A return to Wrath? I'd rather see the concept of Southrend being explored than a return to Northrend, myself. But yeah I think your body needs help producing happiness hormones.
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![]() Sha of Disappointment Join Date: Feb 2010
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![]() I have the same feeling, actually. I don't think it even shows in the chat.
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![]() Eternal Join Date: Apr 2015
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Anyway, seems Krainz was right about the marketing. |
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![]() Time-Lost Proto Nerd Join Date: Aug 2010
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BC - 2.4 million Wrath - 2.8 million Cata - 3.3 million MoP - 2.7 million WoD - 3.3 million Legion - 3.3 million BfA - 3.4 million Unrelated: They talked about the worgen and goblin model updates on the Q and A. Nothing to share at the moment, as they want to wait until they're very close to finished to show them, but they're actively being worked on and the early models look "amazing."
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![]() Troubadour Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Brazil
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Also, on the matter of the Q&A, I'm really happy overall with the questions that were tackled. Many questions that were popular in the community, such as scaling and feeling weaker as you level. Not to mention that they're working on solutions for the issues with the AH. This part got my attention: ![]() I'm happy they're going to approach that subject in-game.
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![]() Sha of Disappointment Join Date: Feb 2010
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Disappointed about Worgen and Gobo models. I'm interested to see the new styles. |
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![]() Time-Lost Proto Nerd Join Date: Aug 2010
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![]() I think they're trying to prevent another worgen 2.0 issue by only showing the models once it'll be too late to take fan feedback into account since that's what hurt the worgen so much the first time.
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