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I’ll say this, as a human it was unplayable. Even the torches didn’t do a lot outside a small lit perimeter. I couldn’t see the curvature of the terrain even with a full moon, and finding my corpse 50 yards from the city gates was near impossible. My plan come release was to exclusively roll...

well i mean… there’s gotta be night. So you can’t get rid of the system. And they didn’t say how wide the slider effectiveness would be. I doubt you’ll be able to totally negate the darkness.

I don’t think this is a reasonable expectation for anyone who isn’t a veteran player. Veteran players will be the easiest ones to satisfy and retain.

One of the team said they’re looking into settings-based solutions for darkness at night (Shawn I think? The livestream zone design guy). Like a ‘darkness slider’ type thing. I think that’s a good way to deal with this.

Ya the night is unacceptably dark if the moonlight isn't favourable, even with Infravision. You can manage it by leaving your wilderness XP loop and going to find a place to grind in the city, or use a torch to get to a well lit MOB camp/dungeon until morning. But man, constantly being worried...

What makes you say that? I'm digging the way lights look, but I don't have sophisticated knowledge of this to say the least. My spell effects light up the MOBs I'm fighting at night and I love it. There definitely needs to be more of them.

Logged in for a bit but it feels mega jank this test... Not sure what happened. Half the mobs in the newbie yard are stuck in geometry. EDIT: Seems to have cleared up almost entirely. Might've just been all the folks crammed into one zone messing things up. Maybe extra folks this time since...

They’ve changed their language from January 2026 to ‘Q1 2026. So likely closer to March assuming no delays. They are also not being shy about admitting that EA will begin without the full map released. I also get the impression that the periodic stress tests are as much about community...

@Secrets shut down Quarm voluntarily as well.

There are so many mechanics and encounter options that are not Dance Dance Revolution. i just want everyone’s contributions to feel important in raid encounters. It’s easy to accomplish without making everything a loot pinata.

I’m just hoping the encounters aren’t total one dimensional dogshit. i did avatar of war as a druid last night and wanted to kill myself.

I had a ton of fun in early WoW raiding. Didn't feel like a part time job at all.

That’s good - but i would like to see some multi group content that requires enhanced coordination at a guild level. You could even do group level stuff that is a multi group event. Like having to defend a castle with 3-4 separate vulnerable points, then coming together at the end for the big bad.

Ya that’s about it… and there’s 70 players and only 8 or 9 of them actually have responsibilities outside of ‘do dps and patch heal’. You’re basically stationary every fight. didn’t realize how boring it was back in the day. Guess i couldn’t imagine anything better.