World of Warcraft: Current Year
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TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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That's what I meant. Handcuffed timesinks where you cannot progress until their magical gate unlocks in 3 weeks. I expect it so much now I'd be shocked if they didn't implement one.
xzi
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Was listening to a video with Preach last night speaking after they interviewed Ion and they were pretty much saying that the general timeframe they were getting from blizzard for Shadowlands was late 2020, like December late.
If that's true I have to wonder what the fuck they're going to do with BFA. Are they going to pull a Siege of Orgrimmar and make it a 14 months tier? Because please no. I wonder if the Black Empire really still might be coming even past 8.3. Or if we're REAL hopeful, maybe a new class in 8.4? (doubt it lmao)
If that's true I have to wonder what the fuck they're going to do with BFA. Are they going to pull a Siege of Orgrimmar and make it a 14 months tier? Because please no. I wonder if the Black Empire really still might be coming even past 8.3. Or if we're REAL hopeful, maybe a new class in 8.4? (doubt it lmao)
Teekey
Mr. Poopybutthole
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I guaran-fucking-tee that there's going to be daily/weekly caps on Anima/Whatever.
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a c i d.f l y
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I thought that was Legion, and then BFA came out. So you may be late on this, and Blizzard just hasn't realized it yet.
Daidraco
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I mean, color me grey in this conversation - but I already have a pretty good damn idea that the tower is going to be about as entertaining as a Mobile Games version of a tower climb. The Tower is a new system, so since the devs want you to "try" their new system - now its "required" to progress, just like World Quest Dailies. When we first heard about Islands, the possibilities of what they could have been got your imagination to run wild and look how they turned out. Taking bets that even though you can climb 50 levels in the tower - that once you've made it past the first 3 levels, your Anima Power is capped for the week from that source. The next week, your tower level falls down 2 levels from your top level climbed. You can climb to the top of the difficulty level quickly, but you would just be screwing yourself into working harder to get that last level.
I assume the tower is going to be heavily influenced by their previous withered army/chromie/nzoth invasion thingies, just with some roguelike elements tossed into the mix. Something you get better at through progression until it's just a grindy boring mess.
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TJT
Mr. Poopybutthole
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Withered army was pretty good. It was just retarded because if you were any tank class you just destroyed it without even trying. If you were a warlock or something the withered army sucked dick for a long time.
Damn I hope the tower isn't like that... oh wait. Fuck.
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Daidraco
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I liked the Withered Army thing in Legion. I was a Shadow Priest and
TJT
, you're right.. It took me weeks to get through it on that class. But it wasnt long before I had completed the thing and was proud of myself for beating it. Grind it a few more times to finish up all the chests, and by that point.. my rep was at the point I didnt need to do it anymore anyways. I feel like if they would have made the layout random, sort of like a level generator for Diablo - then it would have a longer shelf life. Also tune it for classes that have dick all problems in there, such as the tank differences that were mentioned. But did they even go that far? Did they put in anymore thought into it? Not at all. They moved on and dropped it like they do everything else. They could have added extra twists into it each week like Mythic or just.. something.
As far as talents go, I feel like they are purely designed from the perspective that limited talent choices causes little to no variability in their design choices. If they want to stick with that, I'm personally cool with it. But drop the facade, own up to it and try to make it cool from that perspective. I loved some of the ability changes that happened to my Shadow Priest in Legion from the Artifact traits. More Void Tentacles when I Mind Flay? Yes please! More and more orbs spinning faster and faster the deeper into Insanity I go? Yes please. They drop some awesome particle effects that are tied to abilities each and every expansion - why waste that art asset? Give that Mage the ability to change his Frozen Orb into an Arcane Orb instead etc.
A lot of people love the Star Chart that is the Talent Tree of Path of Exiles - but the entire philosophy behind WoW would have to change for it to be implemented in a similar fashion. At least in my opinion.
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, you're right.. It took me weeks to get through it on that class. But it wasnt long before I had completed the thing and was proud of myself for beating it. Grind it a few more times to finish up all the chests, and by that point.. my rep was at the point I didnt need to do it anymore anyways. I feel like if they would have made the layout random, sort of like a level generator for Diablo - then it would have a longer shelf life. Also tune it for classes that have dick all problems in there, such as the tank differences that were mentioned. But did they even go that far? Did they put in anymore thought into it? Not at all. They moved on and dropped it like they do everything else. They could have added extra twists into it each week like Mythic or just.. something.As far as talents go, I feel like they are purely designed from the perspective that limited talent choices causes little to no variability in their design choices. If they want to stick with that, I'm personally cool with it. But drop the facade, own up to it and try to make it cool from that perspective. I loved some of the ability changes that happened to my Shadow Priest in Legion from the Artifact traits. More Void Tentacles when I Mind Flay? Yes please! More and more orbs spinning faster and faster the deeper into Insanity I go? Yes please. They drop some awesome particle effects that are tied to abilities each and every expansion - why waste that art asset? Give that Mage the ability to change his Frozen Orb into an Arcane Orb instead etc.
A lot of people love the Star Chart that is the Talent Tree of Path of Exiles - but the entire philosophy behind WoW would have to change for it to be implemented in a similar fashion. At least in my opinion.
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Aaron
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BTW what I mean by a Hail Mary in this case is that I feel they are trying to recreate their past glory days by lvl squishing, bringing back abilities and complexity and such. They are changing so many core elements of the game this time round that I just get this feeling of desperation.