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The torrent of World of Warcraft Shadowlands news & changes continues as we get closer to Pre-Patch & as Blizzard… well, works out how Shadowlands is actually going to work.
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Intro: 00:00
Blizz Closure: 01:34
Water Nerfed?: 07:55
The First Ones: 11:09
Ion & Borrowed Power 17:14
Roundup – Classes, Henry & More: 22:23
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water change is good, its not a qol downgrade WTF… its a balance to mana users in pvp and strategy requirement in m+ clearly…. kinda of a cringe "i dont like this change" take…. seems good for competitive play 100%
I think the borrowed power makes the game feel more episodic and you're more encouraged to swap mains, instead of having this really long journey and development of story with one main hero over several expansions. Not good or bad, just makes the initial experience a bit more jarring
The borrowed power and the feel that 'everything is the same' is the reason why I stopped playing as much during Legion, why I didn't like BFA that much even though I feel like I should have, and am not interested in Shadowlands. There is too much gear, too many levels of items, and the difference in gameplay between low level mythics, island expeditions, world quests, and just leveling all feels like the same exact experience.
Maybe jam in all that 'cut content' they have laying around from this go around and patch their way into a complete game that they once had in mind. Be nice to have a hell of a lot to do rather than sitting in town chat telling dad jokes.
Pls don't give the employees a pass. They are still enabling these terrible business practices by activision by continuing to churn out IP while these changes are being implemented.
I just want all this borrowed power nonsense gone. All these big systems have been flops imo, Even in wod.
Blizzard has long been dead with corporates riding its once good name through the dirt.
I look forward to what DreamHaven has in store for us in the future.
So I’ve never said this before and when others have said I laughed (and rightly so) but now I feel quite safe saying blizzard and wow are dead, but this is a changeling situation or you could say zombie or demon possession (I’m thinking deadits from evil dead) aka the body is dead but it’s still moving around looking like your friend but you can see it’s not quite right, it’s saying odd things and it’s moving more like a puppet.
Yes there will still be a Company called blizzard and there will still be a game called wow but it won’t be the same and the infection is only going to get worse.
On a brighter note I think DreamHaven will have a lot more hiring options open to them (sadly I think it’s going to have more people wanting to work there than it has positions)
21:00 ok so I can fix the whole borrowed power thing, are you ready for the big secret Blizz?
Just let the players keep it! Does that mean that the player becomes over powered? Yes for Azeroth, superman is a god on earth but when he goes to other places and encounters other entities that are on his level he is no longer op, if he goes back to Earth the whole world feels like it’s made of cardboard, if a player goes back to a starter zone at max level they should not be challenged by what was a level 8 wolf when they are something like level 140, the wolf should become a none hostile mob as it looks at the player who is wearing so much armour they look more like a tank than a human or is literally cracking with raw magical power and the wolf goes “”actually I’m suddenly not hungry, I’ll wait for the next guy””
Sounds like you have a lil' crush on Henry…
im good with it. Im stoked to play the new content.
i am so glad i dont touch the pos game anymore lol . well i havnt for the last 2 yrs
Why can't the game be good!!! I just wanna play…
Acti-blizzard is… a mess
If Activision is the creative team for wow at the end of all this then im done. Theyre a greedy company
Been playing since vanilla. This level squish is the last straw for me. I will be cancelling sub because I'm done with Warcraft.
Wow is the only mmo where my character gets worse over time.
I'd be totally fine with just getting a new AP style ability tree with every expansion…NOT tied to my gear, that's only actiive when you're IN that expansion, that doesn't go away at the end of the expansion.
Lmao. That whole rant about how it's silly to have your abilities in some locations and not others.. And yet we have Honor talents that have produced the exact same issue for 2 years already :thinking:
the hunter's mark change isn't great, it makes it barely useful in anything but pvp and even it's not as if it has great utility
I have a very daring idea for Blizzard: maybe stop making players into "the most powerful being" and "the greatest champion" of their faction. Just give them powers that make sense or signature moves from iconic characters of their class. I felt closer to Thassarian as a deathknight by having a talent named after him then actually doing stuff alongside him in Legion.
The players being a serious force doesnt align with anything in the actual world which is why this power always has to go away. So maybe just drop this illusion entirely and spare us more of those cringy N'zoth endings please, because they F-ING SUCK A**.
Not giving my money to Activision Blizzard anymore. They have driven off most if not all of the people that once made this game great and have started selling us the same damn game over and over with a shiny new coat of paint so we don't notice. Same reason I quit pokemon. If you're not willing to do something new and push the boundaries of what you can make then I'm not willing to pay full price for the same game. Vote with your money! It's the only thing these soulless cooperate sellouts listen to.
Quick sips were nerfed because of douche bags in pvp. Eating should NEVER be part of pvp. This is a good change
I hate the new lore. I'm so against it I'm writing a campaign that will diverge from the game after Wrath. The fall of Sylvanas was just as disappointing and random as Denaerys gong crazy. Bad writing is bad writing. And as a fan you don't have to accept it, write your story, they can't ruin it. It will always be yours.
Company becoming ever bigger..
Blizz:- let's cut jobs
Henry as Arthas….
Jason Momoa as Varian….
Narga as Jaina….
Teal'c as Malganis….
Gandalf as Medivh….
Jesus as Thrall
If all the WoW devs quit at once, maybe Dreamhaven could buy Wow off Acti-Blizz, just a thought…
now I know why we've been having to wait for healers in dungeons again. yay (not).
the water change has always been in pvp for a long time already
They should have never gotten rid of legendaries and just continued them through bfa. They might have had to balance them, but it was a huge exhaustion of value to deactivate them. And look, they are letting you craft legendaries now… that feels to me like defeat/bankruptcy
I'm pretty annoyed there isn't a troll-themed afterlife.
1. If you count the elves as trolls, pretty much half of the lore's noteworthy races would understandably go to the same afterlife since they have a shared biology.
2. They have multiple loa/gods responsible for death.
3. I play a troll mage.
4. We just had an entire expansion about how significant trolls are for the history of Azeroth as one of the setting's only naturally created sentient races and would be a natural transition for the NOT Sylvanas part of BFA.
5. It would be a great way to introduce Elune into the forefront of the story.
Lets hope all the unfortunately layed off people steal a bunch of Activision Blizzard secrets and leak them. Activision are assholes and deserve no sympathy.
Night elf healers just got a serious advantage in m+ then, since they can now drop combat and drink at far more opportune moments than any other race of healer
Great video! Now I'm thirsty. I wonder what buff we'll get in exchange for water nerfs, these things always seem to "balance" out. -Says the Druid healer after seeing these nerfs.
Remember that the Versailles office had some top dollar rent, of all locations the highest. It's understandable why they cut that for that reason, if they had to make cutbacks at all, which they didn't.
"Aye-ch", not Hay-ch
Blizzard is a stupid ass company at this point. I canceled my subscription because their lack of passion for the games they make. Seriously looking forward to what the ORIGINAL CEO of blizzard has brewing with his new studio. At this point might as well just call them Activision.
I wish they would get rid of the borrowed power systems… and focus on the classes…. That's what i remember being so great about Wotlk. You could lvl a guy and all you needed to do was grind some battlegrounds and in a week or 2 you'd have a full pvp set. There was no grinding for borrowed power, just gems and enchants. You could grind rep for better ones but wasn't necessary to compete. Who wants to grind for countless hours on each character just to get these borrowed power so they can compete…It takes enough time just to get the gear. The more alt friendly the better imo… I feel that the decline of WoW is due to these borrowed power systems and that these systems will inevitably kill WoW….
if they make gushing wound deal 1k dmg per second than 10k. its fine. or just disable all borrowed power in rated pvp. idc if pvers r doing 10billion dmg on bosses, i dont give a sht.
Welcome to corporate shit America it happens all the time, thats why i work for a french company great benefits and they dont treat you like garbage,
I love the idea of being entrusted with powers to solve a problem and when the problem is taken care of we return that power to where we got it from to be able to move on.
its probably because you can walk while drinking in classic
if you time the drinking ticks
Activision owns blizzard let that sink in.
Kotaku is horse shit.
The more I keep hearing things like this the more I'm glad I don't play WoW anymore.
Curious if we will be going back to T-Set system. You then can still add some minor "borrowed" powers and remove them etc. But the red line should be something that can be built upon, instead of needing removal.
The only way expansion-only class abiltiies could be used only in the expansion zones – is by allowing you to then have your BfA abilties in BfA, your Legion Artifacts at full Power in Legion zones, etc. OR, even simpler – just make good baseline classes WITHOUT the need for Borrowed power.
At this point i would be happy to send Dreamhaven a couple of hundred dollars and a letter saying ill take whatever you come up with. It would be a wiser use of money than giving any more to Activision.
If they don't prune a bunch of crap every expansion, things will build up like they have in everquest — its not pretty..