Tauntworth
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World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Penance
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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It sucks this expansion is going to be so gay because the dragon riding is going to be fun and the talent system is the best thing they've implemented since M+ two expansions ago.
Leveling off these invasions seems to be pretty good. Went from 56-60 in probably less then an hour and got enough currency to get my guy geared.
Leveling off these invasions seems to be pretty good. Went from 56-60 in probably less then an hour and got enough currency to get my guy geared.
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Burns
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All the xpac info in one place (or best I have seen so far):
docs.google.com
🐲 Dragonflight All-In-One
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Runnen
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The pre-patch invasions are a great way to level up at the moment, especially at levels 40+. Just tagging mobs and letting the masses kill them gets you from 50 to 60 in just over an hour or so, with the +18% XP buff still ongoing from the anniversary. And you can use the tokens looted from mobs and received from turning in quests to buy catch-up lvl 252 gear at the vendor. Even better, all the tokens are account-wide allowing you to work on several characters and then move the currency as you see fit.
They did say they intend for this expansion to be more alt-friendly by making more things account-wide such as renown, reputations or dragon riding skills, so that's a direction I like for that at least, as someone with many characters.
Drachtyr still look dumb as fuck but I at least managed to make two that look almost heterosexual.
They did say they intend for this expansion to be more alt-friendly by making more things account-wide such as renown, reputations or dragon riding skills, so that's a direction I like for that at least, as someone with many characters.
Drachtyr still look dumb as fuck but I at least managed to make two that look almost heterosexual.
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Ukerric
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"During your journey, which should take you around 8 hours." So apparently, the MSQ is short, not enough to level to max, and you have to fill your bar with random side stuff.All the xpac info in one place (or best I have seen so far):
🐲 Dragonflight All-In-One
Eh. "I play for the story", indeed.
Burns
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Yar, I guess that means the that you can run a few dungeons while leveling, in order to skip some side "fill the bar" bullshit. You will just miss the rep they give, and it sounds like rep gives a decent amount of stuff... so you want to do almost all the side quests.
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Ukerric
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Tholan
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Does this mean anything ?
Blizzard have announced that they will be suspending "most Blizzard game services in mainland China", as they did not renew their licensing agreement with NetEase. This includes World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Warcraft III: Reforged, Overwatch, the StarCraft series, Diablo III, and Heroes of the Storm.
Inc gold farmer from Vietnam ?
Blizzard have announced that they will be suspending "most Blizzard game services in mainland China", as they did not renew their licensing agreement with NetEase. This includes World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, Warcraft III: Reforged, Overwatch, the StarCraft series, Diablo III, and Heroes of the Storm.
Inc gold farmer from Vietnam ?
Daidraco
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I leveled a character to max in the expansion not even a week ago. "The first one, main quests will be far, far from enough." That's relevant if you are seriously doing the only fucking quest in the entire camp of quests available to you at each hub. WoW has never been like Final Fantasy and this same "problem" has came up in BFA and SL's. Dont blow it out of proportion, cause if you're just playing the game like a normal person - you wont even notice it. Of course there is an optimal route to take if you follow some guide, Im sure. But generally, there wasnt many pain in the ass quests. Respawn on mobs and item objects in the world is fairly quick (you'll still want to be ahead of the pack) and like
Burns
said - you'll want to do these quests anyways.
In a statement, NetEase CEO William Ding said Blizzard and NetEase had “material differences on key terms” in deal negotiations. “We are honored to have had the privilege of serving our gamers over the past 14 years and have shared many precious moments with them during that time,” Ding said.
Burns
said - you'll want to do these quests anyways. If I had to take an uninformed guess - It looks as though Netease made this decision? But at the same time, this could be directly related to the Microsoft acquisition.
In a statement, NetEase CEO William Ding said Blizzard and NetEase had “material differences on key terms” in deal negotiations. “We are honored to have had the privilege of serving our gamers over the past 14 years and have shared many precious moments with them during that time,” Ding said.
Juvarisx
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Its a separate deal apparently.
You are remembering right, but it launched quietly in July and mentions of it are still banned (or were on Weibo)
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Unless I’m mistaken, this is World of Warcraft shutting down in those regions. Those peoples accounts, being sealed? They will lose access to their characters forever potentially.
I don’t see a backup plan. This seems sudden as hell.
Netease put out an updated press release I’m too lazy to link. Game services close on January 23rd, 2023. This is huge unless I’m misreading. I feel bad for those players man.
I mean, I’m pretty sure people would kill themselves if they lost their wow characters forever right?
edit: NetEase's Response to Suspending Game Services in China - MMO-Champion
I don’t see a backup plan. This seems sudden as hell.
Netease put out an updated press release I’m too lazy to link. Game services close on January 23rd, 2023. This is huge unless I’m misreading. I feel bad for those players man.
I mean, I’m pretty sure people would kill themselves if they lost their wow characters forever right?
edit: NetEase's Response to Suspending Game Services in China - MMO-Champion
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Kirun
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Anyone who would kill themselves over losing their MMO account is doing the world a favor.
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Daidraco
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Figured I would mention this if anyone is bored af. Inactive accounts have subscription access till the 20th for free (retail only).
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Burns
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Perfect, I can get all my UI squared away over the weekend and now wont need to resub until hours before release.Figured I would mention this if anyone is bored af. Inactive accounts have subscription access till the 20th for free (retail only).
Runnen
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So I made a dracthyr evoker (named Trakanon because of fucking course I'm gonna) and played through their starting zone, here's my report for those who may be interested.
- Class feels a little like Demon Hunters but less mobile so far, though there's a few draconic abilities that provide some intesting mobility. Feels a bit too powerful in some regards but I don't do any competitive content so what the fuck do I know.
- Starting zone was OK, it's about 1 hour and some of content to blow through, nothing difficult and no grouping required to do anything even killing elites.
- Even if you aren't interested in playing an evoker, you get some cool transmogs and 8 mounts from the drachtyr starting zone, so you may want to go through it at least once.
- Dracthyrs start at 58 but by the time you're out of the zone you'll be 60 already so there's no leveling to do after that until Dragonflight releases.
Here's a few screenshots below, I had some fun with Soar, the drachtyr flying ability, the mechanics are simple and fun so far. It also feels pretty fast because you can gain momentum up to 540% flight speed if you use the terrain to your advantage. Visage appearances are an abomination but you can tone it down by wearing a full face helmet easily, I went with an undead rotting theme for Trakanon's visage appearance for armor, and dark spiky armor on his draconic form, I find that some of the armor options (that are done at the barber shop not actual mogs except belt and shoulders) reduce the scrawny look of the draconic forms somewhat, but I still wish there was a more buff body option.
- Class feels a little like Demon Hunters but less mobile so far, though there's a few draconic abilities that provide some intesting mobility. Feels a bit too powerful in some regards but I don't do any competitive content so what the fuck do I know.
- Starting zone was OK, it's about 1 hour and some of content to blow through, nothing difficult and no grouping required to do anything even killing elites.
- Even if you aren't interested in playing an evoker, you get some cool transmogs and 8 mounts from the drachtyr starting zone, so you may want to go through it at least once.
- Dracthyrs start at 58 but by the time you're out of the zone you'll be 60 already so there's no leveling to do after that until Dragonflight releases.
Here's a few screenshots below, I had some fun with Soar, the drachtyr flying ability, the mechanics are simple and fun so far. It also feels pretty fast because you can gain momentum up to 540% flight speed if you use the terrain to your advantage. Visage appearances are an abomination but you can tone it down by wearing a full face helmet easily, I went with an undead rotting theme for Trakanon's visage appearance for armor, and dark spiky armor on his draconic form, I find that some of the armor options (that are done at the barber shop not actual mogs except belt and shoulders) reduce the scrawny look of the draconic forms somewhat, but I still wish there was a more buff body option.
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Cinge
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Was anyone expecting otherwise? Are not all hero classes pretty OP on their inception? It's a shame its race locked. Could of still locked it behind the expansion buy and open to caster races(which are all now I guess).
Honestly the talent trees and some UI stuff seems the good overall changes. Also race/class combo are opened a lot more iirc. And seemingly no more additional powers, see if that holds true. Otherwise, I expect more of the same. Which means I will get 2-3 weeks of bnet cash out of it before I get bored. It's a bit disappointing, I enjoyed the dragon lore years and years ago, I even remember reading some books about it, with krasus/rhonin and such. But this story just isn't interesting at all, thank god for instant quest accept and turn in.
Honestly the talent trees and some UI stuff seems the good overall changes. Also race/class combo are opened a lot more iirc. And seemingly no more additional powers, see if that holds true. Otherwise, I expect more of the same. Which means I will get 2-3 weeks of bnet cash out of it before I get bored. It's a bit disappointing, I enjoyed the dragon lore years and years ago, I even remember reading some books about it, with krasus/rhonin and such. But this story just isn't interesting at all, thank god for instant quest accept and turn in
.