World of Warcraft: Current Year

Finished the road to 60 last night. AAP must have been built on the old xp values, hit 60 with over half the story chapters left in Ravendreath. Overall a fun experience except for a few moments like desyncs and the first big mob in Ardenweald (he would despawn if a single person was AoEing, and the servers weren’t forcing shards that early in the zone so.... shitshow). Good to see Blizzard didn’t bother to fix “Character Not Found” after it’s been on the entirety of beta. Way too much RP, especially early on, but every zone has multiple moments of sit on your dick rp. Through Bastion it felt like the most on rails leveling experience every put into the game. It opened up a lot more thereafter but still, quite annoying at times. Will go back and slow roll once my character is ready to actually experience the story and cut scenes so I’ll know what the hell is going on.

Bubbles said:

also, is the character boost still included when you buy an expansion? I remember getting one when I got back in wow during legion

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Boost is not included in the basic edition, only get added on one of the more expensive tier.

The debuff they added onto beta last week, to stop rep gain in the Maw, until Tuesday reset, didn't make it to live.

If you had a stealth group, you could probably get something like ~1000 rep and maw currency, by just hunting the rares, and minimizing trash kills.

Bubbles said:

really? that's such a bullshit move by them.

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Yeah. It's only included starting with the Heroic Edition. They just added the bullshit "Base" edition with nothing except the expansion.

Malkav said:

Yeah. It's only included starting with the Heroic Edition. They just added the bullshit "Base" edition with nothing except the expansion.

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The base version is slightly cheaper with the change, and the boosted version is slightly more. Boosted version is still a pretty good deal vs just getting a boost out of the shop.

Blitz said:

Found out you could get $20-25 keys for Shadowlands in SteamGameSwap thanks to a recent AMD promotion, so I picked one up.

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Thanks for the heads up. Did the same as well.

meStevo said:

I'm almost 54. Bastion was nice and didn't seem very congested but now that I'm at Maldraxxus I'm just running around among a sea of players.

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I was wondering where everyone was. I forgot it came out today and didn't start till late. I've only seen a few people in Bastion.

Runnen said:

I mean I know EQ didn't invent much new stuff either, it was mostly D&D stuff repurposed or renamed into Norrath, but considering who's the creative director of WoW it's pretty funny to imagine this is a nostalgia trip for Furor. (And yes I know he left Blizzard in June 20 but this expansion's been cooking for the better part of 3 years probably, so it was his last work there).

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Why did he leave Blizzard? Never heard anything about that.

CaughtCross said:

Why did he leave Blizzard? Never heard anything about that.

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Huh yeah, I haven't heard about that but I did find this today:

Had 2 toons level 50 before launch. Main is on a medium server. Figured he would be my go to when launch happened because my other lvl 50 is on Tichondrius and it usually has queues during expansion launches.

So last night I couldn't get on to my main. Hosed medium server kept kicking me out telling me my toon didn't exist. etc.. Said fuck it and tried Tichondrius. No problems, no queue, just logged right in and started playing Shadowlands. No lag, no issues with contested mobs. Got to level 53 before going to bed. Had fun.

Just a filthy casual, but it's been a pretty easy launch so far.

Springbok said:

2 little kids are really fucking me over right now. Vasectomy inc!

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Wife just told me I need to get one. 2 boys constantly raging. I was planning on playing Shadowlands in October. After it got delayed I took a deep dive into project1999 blue and now I can't seem to bring myself to play WoW. 21 year old elf simulator or latest and greatest WoW expansion. Decisions decisions.

Defiance said:

https://www.wolfsheadonline.com/ale...-with-blizzard-entertainment-comes-to-an-end/



wtf? LOL

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Which one of you miscreants is "demanding transgender representation in EverQuest"? Inquiring minds want to know.

Defiance said:

https://www.wolfsheadonline.com/ale...-with-blizzard-entertainment-comes-to-an-end/



wtf? LOL

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Clearly not reading all of the forum. Came here to check out people’s impressions. This news has made me feel good about staying unsubbed.

He left the company in June, no idea why it was kept so hush hush though.