World of Warcraft

[Primarch]

I have to keep remembering that the Alliance is now run by a one-eyed, one-armed nigger sheboon when

No We Are Not she is "faction neutral". We're run by Turalyon, who's...honestly just been a big nothingburger so far, as compared to everyone who assumed he was gonna end up as Light Hitler.

 

[That Chris Guy]

No We Are Not she is "faction neutral". We're run by Turalyon, who's...honestly just been a big nothingburger so far, as compared to everyone who assumed he was gonna end up as Light Hitler.

He at least looks like a leader, but it's only a matter of time before they do something to ruin it.

With the goblins now being happy peaceful merchants, and the Defias being thieving incels that help no-one, who is likely to be next on the chopping block? What's still good enough to be regarded as 'cool' by most of the WoW community?

 

[StacticShock]

one-eyed, one-armed nigger sheboon when I try to peek into modern-day WoW. It's so ridiculous it's retarded, yet it's exactly the way things are.

one detail many kiwis haven't noticed...

she has elf ears...

Holy fuck Blizzard sure knows how to squeeze money from suckers.

you can laugh because even then, that's not enough for investor profit margin projection.

 

[Susanna]

one detail many kiwis haven't noticed...
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she has elf ears...

All the Arathi do. They’re descendants of an expedition sent out by the Kingdom of Arathor a couple millennia ago, consisting mostly of humans with a few high elves along for the ride. They got stranded on the other side of the planet and I guess it makes sense elf genes would proliferate, given they live for thousands of years.

They’re not exactly elf ears though, Warcraft elves have ridiculously long ears since they needed to be visually distinct in the old RTS games. They look most like orc ears, which was why when the initial trailer was revealed everyone assumed she was some sort of orcish paladin (since she shares her skin tone with the mag’har orcs).

 

[StacticShock]

All the Arathi do. They’re descendants of an expedition sent out by the Kingdom of Arathor a couple millennia ago, consisting mostly of humans with a few high elves along for the ride. They got stranded on the other side of the planet and I guess it makes sense elf genes would proliferate, given they live for thousands of years.

They’re not exactly elf ears though, Warcraft elves have ridiculously long ears since they needed to be visually distinct in the old RTS games. They look most like orc ears, which was why when the initial trailer was revealed everyone assumed she was some sort of orcish paladin (since she shares her skin tone with the mag’har orcs).

non round human ears = PURGE.

 

[Breadbassket]

All the Arathi do. They’re descendants of an expedition sent out by the Kingdom of Arathor a couple millennia ago, consisting mostly of humans with a few high elves along for the ride. They got stranded on the other side of the planet and I guess it makes sense elf genes would proliferate, given they live for thousands of years.

They’re not exactly elf ears though, Warcraft elves have ridiculously long ears since they needed to be visually distinct in the old RTS games. They look most like orc ears, which was why when the initial trailer was revealed everyone assumed she was some sort of orcish paladin (since she shares her skin tone with the mag’har orcs).

The most important question to ask is, would Othmar Garithos approve of them?

 

[Disc]

WOW in 2025

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What really pisses me off about this is that it would be SO FUCKING SIMPLE to give the chair literally ANY means to fly. Just tilt the wheels into a V-shape and add some glow and particle effects, BAM! Flying chair that doesn't look completely lazy and terrible.

Not to mention that it looks so... handmade, but is completely translucent. Usually magic, flying platforms in wow look like they're made out of a single piece, or at least as few as is possibly required.



Which means Khadghar intentionally created a rickety wooden contraption out of magic, way overcomplicating the spell to add wheels and shit, and then never uses the wheels. We're supposed to believe he's one of the greatest archmages to ever live... It's all so frustrating.

 

[Kotol]

What really pisses me off about this is that it would be SO FUCKING SIMPLE to give the chair literally ANY means to fly. Just tilt the wheels into a V-shape and add some glow and particle effects, BAM! Flying chair that doesn't look completely lazy and terrible.

Not to mention that it looks so... handmade, but is completely translucent. Usually magic, flying platforms in wow look like they're made out of a single piece, or at least as few as is possibly required.

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Which means Khadghar intentionally created a rickety wooden contraption out of magic, way overcomplicating the spell to add wheels and shit, and then never uses the wheels. We're supposed to believe he's one of the greatest archmages to ever live... It's all so frustrating.

Ah, but you see, the writers thought about this. Khadgar uses this particular wheelchair thingamabob because it was gifted to him by a dear friend, but I cannot be fucked to look up her name.

Still looks awful and awkward no matter how you spin it.

 

[Disc]

Ah, but you see, the writers thought about this. Khadgar uses this particular wheelchair thingamabob because it was gifted to him by a dear friend, but I cannot be fucked to look up her name.

Still looks awful and awkward no matter how you spin it.

That's just outsourcing the idiocy. It doesn't change the fact that spell to create a rickety wheelchair that flies without using it's wheels is all sorts of idiotic.

 

[Well Intentioned]

So uh...how much longer is this supposed powerful mage gonna be stuck in his cripple arc?
Imagine being one of the most powerful mages and you're lobotomized to the point where instead of using magic to walk, you conjure up a fucking ghost wheelchair for...reasons.

There was a really stupid debate raging like 2-3 years ago about how handicapped individuals should not be an issue at all in fantasy because magic and folks getting pissy that a character in a wheelchair is 'unrealistic' for your D&D campaign.

I get the feeling whoever greenlighted this was particularly mad over one of those arguments and tossed this in as a 'fuck you.'

The problem (and I think this came up with the fucking wheelchair dragon) is that in a setting where magic exists, alongside weirdass technological stuff that outstrips the modern world, a basic bitch convention like a wheelchair makes no sense.

It's the same shit that I personally don't like in FFXIV, where there's been an influx of contemporary/modern clothing items so people can look like a fish out of water character. It's just...you're that unimaginative that's the best you can come up with?

And that fucking tourist orc looks like it was AI generated. What the utter fuck, lmao.

Ah, but you see, the writers thought about this. Khadgar uses this particular wheelchair thingamabob because it was gifted to him by a dear friend, but I cannot be fucked to look up her name.

Yeah, and if my kid draws a picture for me, I'm not going to try and get it into the New York Museum of Modern Art. I'm going to pat him on the head, tell him it is a wonderful drawing and stick it on my fridge.

It is always a bad sign when you're writing stuff not because you enjoy it or because it is flowing naturally, but because you're trying to bake in answers to 'own' the haters.

E: I really hope Khadgar gets the Nordberg treatment from Naked Gun at some point. If anyone should've gotten the 90s Professor X gold hoverchair treatment, it should've been him, lol.

 

[ChiliChumper]

My buddy just told me about the fucking Mount droprate event.

Holy fuck this game is actually dead.

I'm not even mad or salty as a former collector who liked mount hunting, but this just reeks of desperation. Like throwing just ANYTHING at the wall to get players to keep playing or try and entice old players back because "Hey man remember how you wanted Invincible?"

I can't believe I'd see a day where Blizzard would get this fucking desperate.

 

[Trash Pandit]

The problem (and I think this came up with the fucking wheelchair dragon) is that in a setting where magic exists, alongside weirdass technological stuff that outstrips the modern world, a basic bitch convention like a wheelchair makes no sense.

It's the same reason Faerin is so dumb. She's got the blacksmith offering her a perfectly useable prosthetic/robotic arm, one that apparently she's tweaked repeatedly to make it better, but Faerin just says "nah I'll stick with the retarded ball-jointed shield arm."

That alone is bad enough to make her worthless as a character and deserving of mockery, without even getting into all the other things wrong about her.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Im gonna give Project Epoch a spin just to spite Blizzard.

 

[StacticShock]

It's the same reason Faerin is so dumb. She's got the blacksmith offering her a perfectly useable prosthetic/robotic arm, one that apparently she's tweaked repeatedly to make it better, but Faerin just says "nah I'll stick with the retarded ball-jointed shield arm."

That alone is bad enough to make her worthless as a character and deserving of mockery, without even getting into all the other things wrong about her.

funny how devil may cry 5 fixes that whole prosthetic arm thingy that is introduced by simply having demonic magic juju.

nero's lost arm grew back but he can retract it to slap the prosthetic at will, same thing could have been applied to the sheboon but nah, less DEI points i guess.

 

[Enward Cullen]

Blizzard's first interactive pet in Hearthstone, King Krush, will be available next month in a FOMO Gacha system, where you can "pull" for him, but the initial chance is 0.1%, and it costs more for subsequent pulls after the first "FREE" one, meaning that you need to do 10 pulls to get it if you don't luckily get him on the pulls before 10:

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So most players will be needing to pay ~$160 to get this pet. I don't know of other gacha games where they have the "each subsequent pull gets more and more expensive" system.

But then again, since Blizzard did sell a FOMO reskin version of the Brutosaur AH mount in WoW for $90, you could have seen this coming miles away.

I’m glad that I quit this mess when they added signatures and gave you zero way to craft them, Brode could only have dreamt of monetization this bad back in the day. Yet it all makes me truly miss the first couple years of HS.

 

[ChiliChumper]

Blizzard's first interactive pet in Hearthstone, King Krush, will be available next month in a FOMO Gacha system, where you can "pull" for him, but the initial chance is 0.1%, and it costs more for subsequent pulls after the first "FREE" one, meaning that you need to do 10 pulls to get it if you don't luckily get him on the pulls before 10:

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So most players will be needing to pay ~$160 to get this pet. I don't know of other gacha games where they have the "each subsequent pull gets more and more expensive" system.

But then again, since Blizzard did sell a FOMO reskin version of the Brutosaur AH mount in WoW for $90, you could have seen this coming miles away.

Seeing what happens to Hearthstone genuinely makes me sad. Despite the games ups and downs over the years, it was still fun, even past it's hayday, and was easy to understand for new players. Now its all combo bullshit, infinite value, and shitty cashgrabs. They went whole hog on pandering to the mobileslop audience and it's depressing.

The biggest loss for me was, funny enough, all the fun little stories they made, especially with the Villains all teaming up. Hearthstone had this way of really loving Warcrafts established lore and having creative fun with it without making it preachy mary sue garbage.

 

[Tanner Glass]

I'm not even mad or salty as a former collector who liked mount hunting, but this just reeks of desperation. Like throwing just ANYTHING at the wall to get players to keep playing or try and entice old players back because "Hey man remember how you wanted Invincible?"

I can't believe I'd see a day where Blizzard would get this fucking desperate.

I'm not sure about desperate because this is still one of the absolute laziest way Blizzard could have gone about it.

The big massive pain point for WoW farming are lockouts - and those are still there. The odds are boosted but not very high so you could still do the event and not get any/many mounts you want. Like everything in WoW it's also timed, so basically you get 4 pulls at ~10% each before they get spiked down to 1% or less.

They really need to do just do what FFXIV does and just permanently boost the drop rate (old XIV mounts base drop at 20% and have 0 lockouts), make them available in other ways (through events and crates), and have some level of bad luck protection built in (99 totems can be turned in for a mount). It's shocking they're so behind the curve but I guess it must boost retention numbers.

 

[Dopey Cunt]

The big massive pain point for WoW farming are lockouts - and those are still there.

Yeah, they should really just get rid of those for old content. What is the point of lock outs for old raids? There's no system that let's people just do them again as if they were current so it makes no sense to force people who are mount farming to wait a whole fucking week before trying again. It's retarded and designed to specifically waste your time. Even if they don't raise the drop chances, just let people have the freedom to go in there as many times as they want for a shot at it. Don't force them to wait.

I remember farming for Invincible and Ashes and how much of a goddamn arbitrary "grind" it was. I gave up after like 3 weeks. I'll be damned if I'll be forced to make farming old mounts in old content a fucking chore when it's structured specifically to waste my time and annoy me as much as humanly possible.

 

[Tanner Glass]

Yeah, they should really just get rid of those for old content. What is the point of lock outs for old raids? There's no system that let's people just do them again as if they were current so it makes no sense to force people who are mount farming to wait a whole fucking week before trying again. It's retarded and designed to specifically waste your time. Even if they don't raise the drop chances, just let people have the freedom to go in there as many times as they want for a shot at it. Don't force them to wait.

I remember farming for Invincible and Ashes and how much of a goddamn arbitrary "grind" it was. I gave up after like 3 weeks. I'll be damned if I'll be forced to make farming old mounts in old content a fucking chore when it's structured specifically to waste my time and annoy me as much as humanly possible.

Primarily if they let you grind it out - it would be something you could get in a day and then unsubscribe. It's also a measure to prevent botting as without the lockouts (and the 5 dungeons per hour lockout) running bots that farm the instances for money/exp/whatever would be an even bigger problem then it is.

 

[Well Intentioned]

It's the same reason Faerin is so dumb. She's got the blacksmith offering her a perfectly useable prosthetic/robotic arm, one that apparently she's tweaked repeatedly to make it better, but Faerin just says "nah I'll stick with the retarded ball-jointed shield arm."

That alone is bad enough to make her worthless as a character and deserving of mockery, without even getting into all the other things wrong about her.

How obnoxious is Faerin? Just looking at the character's design annoys the fuck out of me.

Not because it is a black character or whatever, but that she seemed to be designed with 'Just try and complain about me' as the guiding light.

A damaged, battle-scarred character is fun and interesting and there are tons of similar types done throughout fantasy and speculative fiction in general.

But the preachy, hamfisted attempts at arguing someone is fully capable (or whatever) despite having a disability, or that a disability doesn't hamper them? It's stupid because it just ignores the realities of a situation.

There's a difference between infantilizing or coddling someone who has a disability (ie, pretending they're retarded because they're in a wheelchair) and acting like someone in a wheelchair can do the exact same things an able-bodied person can do.

I hate characters like this because it is so patronizing to people with disabilities and ignores the actual issues they face by just hand-waving it away as not being a problem with magical thinking.