Titanforge Podcast 152 – Shadowlands Retrospective



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This week’s show looks back at the Shadowlands expansion and all of the systems, raids, dungeons, and decisions that came with it.

Trivia Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhIbIAunPlI

Here’s a link to the reddit post from Dratnos’ tip of the week: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/yeeep9/performance_issues_stutters_try_this_no_clickbait/

And here’s Fronk’s Shadowlands Rewind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw9o2saI9Zs

0:00 Intro
7:56 S1+S2 Retrospective
51:03 Tip of the Week
53:50 S3+S4 Retrospective
1:15:10 Patreon Thanks

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Music: Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeod
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30 thoughts on “Titanforge Podcast 152 – Shadowlands Retrospective”

  1. Another thing about choosing a covenant, it wasn't just picking the best for your spec, but if you played multiple specs you had to compromise between all specs and end game content

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  2. The console commands in the Tip of the Week fixed some serious stuttering I was experiencing. If you're having trouble with graphics run…
    /console GxAllowCachelessShaderMode 0

    /console gxRestart

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  3. About Legendary Power sfrom Nathria.

    It is interesting to see on Reddit how people complain that old raids become obsolete so fast and no one wants to go there.
    Blizzard put in the Memories in Nathria and if players wanted those powers they had to go there to get them, yet no one wanted to do it..
    Lesson learned, never have old content be relevant in any way since players will complain.

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  4. I mean, Night Fae had more mobility. It wasn't a balance thing, most people played the better mobile covenant. And to boot at that.. if you tried PvP without Night Fae you were dead. There was no Necrolord, no Venthyr, no Kyrian in PvP. You were Nightfae or melee hard stomped you in 2 hits because you couldn't get away from them. Also for Affliction, they literally nerfed Necrolord just before 9.0 launched. It used to be Decimating Bolt gave you 3 Drain Souls. Once it get nerfed you only had the 1 single Drain Soul, and so people got mad at them for that, too, and then NF stood out. If it stayed at 3 Drain Souls I think a decent number would have stayed or went Necrolord. 3 Drain Soul booster NL vs NF I think woulda been an even split of 50/50, probably, unless you were PvPing then it was just NF all the way.

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  5. Personally I think SL wasn't that bad there are just a few things that stand out as bad decisions/systems. The bad systems in my mind were conduit energy, shards of domination, and covenant specific buffs in dungeons. I think the worst part of covenants not being switchable was the buffs in dungeons. Other than that I know for any system even talents there isn't going to be much choice, its going to be all about power for me. I enjoyed soulbinds/conduits other than the energy, the maw/Korthia/Zereth Mortis were fine as long as you didn't force yourself to spend 5 hours grinding them every day. I also think they need to stop introducing mega-dungeons and not making them M+ dungeons right away, the mega-dungeon is completely pointless after the first week after you complete the hard mode.

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  6. Thank you for being my Friday/Saturday morning podcast for months now! I listen to you guys every time I clean up the apartment for the week! Looking forward to more podcasts with Dragonflight!

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