CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Interesting HFC DPS data:
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/3f20kn/dps_spread_in_heroic_hfc_week_ending_72815/
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/3f20kn/dps_spread_in_heroic_hfc_week_ending_72815/
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
All this expansion talks has me feel the urge to go back and start leveling my alts.
The cycle begins again.
The cycle begins again.
Just make sure you target all the Garrison building books for 90-100. Easy 5k in addition to the 5k you make from powerleveling. Can do 90-100 in a day with no preperation.
Freyjadour
Member
If Garrisons are any kind of significant feature in the next expansion, I probably won't bother. The only way I'm okay with them is if they're an entirely optional and cosmetic player housing thing, or what they should have been to begin with.
Blizzard needs to figure out how to produce timely MMORPG content again and quit experimenting with gimmicks. If we're going to ~1 year expansion lifecycles, then major content patches absolutely need to be releasing at least once every 3 months or so.
I'm to a point where I sub once, maybe twice during an expansion's lifecycle and it has been that way since Wrath. If WoD's lifecycle is a pattern, I'll probably start skipping entire expansions.
Blizzard needs to figure out how to produce timely MMORPG content again and quit experimenting with gimmicks. If we're going to ~1 year expansion lifecycles, then major content patches absolutely need to be releasing at least once every 3 months or so.
I'm to a point where I sub once, maybe twice during an expansion's lifecycle and it has been that way since Wrath. If WoD's lifecycle is a pattern, I'll probably start skipping entire expansions.
In a way these numbers are somewhat artificially inflated by gimmicks or AOE in fights. Something like Fury is buoyed by Kormrok, so it's less noticeable that the spec is pretty much drowning if that factors into the average. I still find the numbers interesting though.
JSoup
Banned
So, I wouldn't mind another garrision-like thing. I have to assume they identified what failed here and are going to come up with something theoretically better. There is a certain allure to being able to say "this area of the game belongs to me and me alone" if executed correctly.
Outland EU is literally just spammed with people looking for arena partners (I really wish I didn't re-roll onto a PvP server with almost no PvE guilds..).
That, or Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker.
Really? Because outside of the Monk class I didn't really enjoy it. They went way too hard on the reputation grinds.
So? That's like a small part of a big expansion filled with qualities and it didn't last very long
Except they gimped the shit out of the old dungeons and running them was mostly terrible.
Robin64
Member
I love pre-expansion rumours and hype. Such a fun time.
Seeing rumblings around now that the next expansion is about Sylvanas resurrecting or using Tyr's power somehow, as Tyr is the one under Light's Hope and the surrounding areas. (Remember how the Lich King was shit there because of some power?) Also that Tirisfal is a name derived from Tyr's Fall.
Not going to be it, of course, but I still love stuff like this and how people do their best to make expansion rumours fit.
Seeing rumblings around now that the next expansion is about Sylvanas resurrecting or using Tyr's power somehow, as Tyr is the one under Light's Hope and the surrounding areas. (Remember how the Lich King was shit there because of some power?) Also that Tirisfal is a name derived from Tyr's Fall.
Not going to be it, of course, but I still love stuff like this and how people do their best to make expansion rumours fit.
There's too many rumors concerning Tirsifal and stuff....is it a coincidence? 
I hope we get Azshara as planned and not some dumb stuff to tie with the movie. Movie's release date and WoD's existence has me worried though. Also it makes too much business sense ;(
Anyway we should remember that, as history showed, one of the expansion rumors we get this week will be true, no matter how far fetched it sounds
I hope we get Azshara as planned and not some dumb stuff to tie with the movie. Movie's release date and WoD's existence has me worried though. Also it makes too much business sense ;(
Anyway we should remember that, as history showed, one of the expansion rumors we get this week will be true, no matter how far fetched it sounds
Plenty of people have forgotten it by now but there was that IGN interview with Blizz at WoD launch where they asked what future expansions would be and Blizz's response was we haven't seen the end of Sylvanas and the Emerald Dream seems like a cool place.
So I wouldn't be surprised if there was something where she is at the center of the story.
Oooh, that would be great. I've been wanting an expansion to deal with 'the thing under Tirisfal' since before WotLK. Back before flying was made available in Azeroth and we could only ponder what's the deal with Western Tirisfal Glades. I loved when they added that curious event with Fey Dragons at the beginning of Cata. The name 'Tirisfal' itself is damn cool too, to me it just screams somber mysticism.
Yeah it's always been a really mysterious part of the lore I'm just not sure what direction they would go with it for an expansion (basically what would the new landmass be).
Speaking of that though I like how that one unused zone above EPL is still a thing that is there and is doing nothing. They had the chance to take it out in Cata but didn't and it still on all the maps.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
LFG is where it's at....
Not that far off...
Explore DraenorJump to Guide
Explore Frostfire Ridge 80.0%
Explore Spires of Arak 82.4%
Explore Gorgrond 100.0%
Explore Nagrand 100.0%
Explore Shadowmoon Valley 100.0%
Explore Talador 100.0%
Loremaster of DraenorJump to GuideView quests in the Profiler
Between Arak and a Hard Place 77.8%
As I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Moon 100.0%
Don't Let the Tala-door Hit You on the Way Out 100.0%
Nagrandeur 100.0%
Putting the Gore in Gorgrond 100.0%
Securing DraenorJump to Guide
Securing Draenor 75.0%
Master Treasure HunterJump to Guide
Treasure Hunter Complete
Expert Treasure Hunter Complete
Master Treasure Hunter Incomplete
Tanaan DiplomatJump to Guide
The Saberstalkers 85.8%
Hand of the Prophet 100.0%
Order of the Awakened 100.0%
Yeah I know
I just find it amusing they didn't remove it when they had the chance in Cata. Made me wonder if they ever planned on using it for something.
Yep pretty much, nothing of interest. But maybe someday!
Also just saw that we should be getting Q2 sub numbers next week. Wonder if tokens/6.2 was enough to stabilize things out or what. Really feel like it could go either way this time.
I'm expecting a trailer (not cinematic) and some broad info, but I imagine we'll get the total blowout at Blizzcon.
Or they could just reveal everything at Gamescom during the live event. Which would make more sense, actually.
Robin64
Member
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-future-of-world-of-warcraft/#page-2
Tel'abim!
(Yeah, this is fairly old now)
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
They sort of already did
Didn't they say Draenor was built from the ground up?
Which obviously turned out to be bull?
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I meant thematically, not like literally taking the existing outland geography and reworking it.
And no, it did not obviously turn out to be bull. Draenor Nagrand is the only zone that even bares a passing resemblance to an Outland zone.
Kadin
Member
What's the state of the game if I resub but haven't purchased WoD? For whatever reason, the latest expansion doesn't sound appealing at all. Is the game still very much playable just without the higher level cap, etc.? Am I really missing out on anything essential? I still have a lot of characters to get to the prior cap.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
I get unreasonably butthurt when people throw hate at Vol'Jin. Some people just hate admitting that Trolls are better than Orcs.
WoW itself has always been a very max level-centric game, so not having the latest expansion means that you will have a fine time hitting the previous level cap (90) but at that point pretty much be finished.
They nerfed the reputation grinds really fast. I personally loved Pandaria compared to Cata and WOD.
Cata's dungeon difficulty & a mix-match of raids with MoP's everything else would've been a pretty cool expansion.
Obviously from a design standpoint it wouldn't make sense to not use Outland as a template at least. That's not really a valid criticism, and Draenor does feel like a new place.
... they aren't going to change Warchiefs again. lol
Robin64
Member
xrayregime
Member
Demon Hunters for sure (if this riddle rumor dude is right)
Robin64
Member
Making a "leak" is so easy though. A dash of things that will obviously happen, a bunch of stuff people have talked about wanting for years, and some unexpected stuff that must be true because the other stuff sounds it. Bonus points for using obscure bits of lore that can be verified when people look them up. We should make one!
- Wrathion turns up and tells us he was paying attention all along and now we have to go and rescue Gul'dan from where he's been sent, Argus, because he has some vital info on how to defeat the Burning Legion.
- Recruit Illidan to train up a new army of Demon Hunters in preperation for an assault on a major Burning Legion stronghold.
- Liadrin and Yrel together convince the Naaru to lend us The Tempest Keep to get there, and that is our shared capital city in the expansion, protected by the power of The Light.
- Personalised Quarters in Tempest Keep, acting as your home space for this expansion, like Garrisons and Farms did previously.
- Timewalker Zones: Repeat old Azeroth zone questlines at max level for appropriate rewards. Zones on rotation to encourage activity within them.
- Dance Studio
- Wrathion turns up and tells us he was paying attention all along and now we have to go and rescue Gul'dan from where he's been sent, Argus, because he has some vital info on how to defeat the Burning Legion.
- Recruit Illidan to train up a new army of Demon Hunters in preperation for an assault on a major Burning Legion stronghold.
- Liadrin and Yrel together convince the Naaru to lend us The Tempest Keep to get there, and that is our shared capital city in the expansion, protected by the power of The Light.
- Personalised Quarters in Tempest Keep, acting as your home space for this expansion, like Garrisons and Farms did previously.
- Timewalker Zones: Repeat old Azeroth zone questlines at max level for appropriate rewards. Zones on rotation to encourage activity within them.
- Dance Studio
xrayregime
Member
Battle for Azeroth Expansion
- Continent north of Tirisfal rises, the Titan city of Uldex, home of Tyr!
- Naga ruins west of Ashenvale see a huge resurgence in activity, possibly attempting to resurrect the Old God to which the Faceless Ones pray!
- Med'an returns, and as host of Sargeras
- Demon Hunters enlist with both Horde and Alliance to fight the menace
- Sylvanas and the Forsaken believe they are best suited to lead the Horde
- Continent north of Tirisfal rises, the Titan city of Uldex, home of Tyr!
- Naga ruins west of Ashenvale see a huge resurgence in activity, possibly attempting to resurrect the Old God to which the Faceless Ones pray!
- Med'an returns, and as host of Sargeras
- Demon Hunters enlist with both Horde and Alliance to fight the menace
- Sylvanas and the Forsaken believe they are best suited to lead the Horde
Maybe I'm just salty because I really wanted to see Farahlon and more Draenei content (Auchindoun and Shatt in their glory days, completely wasted... ).
At least I'm glad that dumb roadmap fake seems to have finally died.
At least I'm glad that dumb roadmap fake seems to have finally died.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
fuck you I want this now