Remember how back in Legion during the Death Knight order hall campaign, it was Liadrin who almost fried Mograine into a crisp when the Horsemen attacked Light's Hope Chapel? Imagine if the Ebon Blade did this after the events of the Kith'ix raid. How the turntables...

Transmog list if anyone wants it (though the shield is off limits for us Death Knights, unfortunately):

• Augur's Lucent Helmet
• Lingering Phantom's Shoulderplates
• Primal Gladiator's Plate Chestguard
• Duelist's Midnight Doublet (shirt)
• Cauldron Champion's Fistguards
• Acherus Knight's Girdle
• Obsidian Guard's Chausses
• Draconic Gladiator's Plate Stompers
• Icy Ebon Blade
• Unchained Gladiator's Barrier (elite)

Silly me for thinking that the Kul-Tiran/Drust/Tidesage themed housing decor and exterior would be tied to the upcoming Kul-Tiran/Drust/Tidesage themed mode that is Talebound.

Silly me for thinking that the new Cauldron mount would be a potential meta-achievement reward for sinking some hours into the new game-mode and truly mastering each playstyle.

This feels so predatory. I can't shake the feeling like a new shop addition would've been better received if it wasn't so blatantly cut from content we were about to receive?

Like, can you imagine if Midnight shipped in all it's Blood Elf glory, with it's signature Housing feature, and then Blizzard just dropped "Oh, the Sin'dorei architecture will cost you an extra £30."

They KNOW that people are going to dip their toes into this spooky new game-mode, and start collecting some Drustvar-themed decor only to see that.. What's this? I can truly complete the fantasy by just paying more?

God, this expansion is really driving me away. Anybody else's blood boiling?

I’m sure in essence this is probably just an image made to look this way for style / presentation reasons. But it really frames how significant the size of Azeroth as a whole is in relation to the continents. Granted, it’s missing a bunch of pieces we know are in between, or just doesn’t illuminate them… but still, this looks like a much bigger planet to continent ratio than the holographic globes and such we’d seen prior.

New bundle is Kul Tiran themed. This is a rule #2 from official post on blizzard forums: https://news.blizzard.com/en-gb/article/24242736/developer-insight-hearthsteel-virtual-currency-and-housing-in-midnight

There’s no in-game models for the Heartsbane Triad, but I have the voicelines from their fight in Waycrest Manor stuck in my head so I drew the sister that doesn’t have a mask as I imagined her to be before the Drust turned them into…whatever they became lol. They were still witches before the corruption, but then they apparently became super witches.

EDIT: Pre Drust transformation might have been a better description.

Azeroth Atlas is a fully rendered, 1/1 copy of the entire World Map of WoW Forever in 16K resolution. It includes every dungeon and raid available to us, plus some we haven't yet seen. Want to fly through Krol'dok Stronghold? You can! Same with all the battlegrounds, and even raids! You can even import your raid from raid helper to a battleground and use the map as a sandtable you can walk through. It's free to use, so come take a look! Disclaimer: The tool was partially created with Claude Codex.

I was excited because I thought that these new cosmetics were related to talebound. Nope, BOTH are shop ads. The worst part is that kul tirans are my favorite culture and I love eldritch themes. I log in and the bug where my mount camera is in the clouds is back after it was fixed for a couple months. I am just genuinely fed up with how buggy everything is and how despite their game barely being playable a lot of the time, they are shoving more and more shop updates than ever before. I feel entirely powerless to do anything about it but watch and let my sub expire. It genuinely makes me sad because I dont see this getting better, I've observed it get worse and worse since dragonflight.

It's not just that, the content that they are rushing out that breaks the game for isn't even quality, they just recycled void incursions/void assaults but now its with bugs, both literal and software bugs. I am overall a fan of the macro story with Xalatath, but their execution of micro stories that revolve around the characters we interact with are incredibly boring and badly written. I know people are going to defend blizzard and accuse me of just being on a hate bandwagon but I am genuenly expressing the sense of depression I get when I play this game now. I only started playing in 2020, so I'm not one of those salty veterans that want only classic. I quit during shadowlands, came back for dragonflight, and played until now. My first MMO experience ever was WoW with me playing around at the end of BFA.

I am trying so hard to love this game but they just make it so goddamn difficult. I still love the world and the art style and I'm a big fan of the solo friendly gameplay, but the bugs just piss me off so much, especially because I am a software developer and these bugs are just not something that most other games have.

I'm also trying to cope with it by saying maybe they do care and the bugs are just really hard to fix, and maybe they are just super generous and I should think of the shop updates as basically free because I can just use in-game gold to buy them, but the more I tell myself that the more I dont want to play or do content because I feel like every death costs me real world money since Blizzard wants there to be such a large link between in-game gold and money.

And not just for orcs and trolls. Every race that doesn't already have them should get a few options to choose from!

Already filling the void left behind!

Hey everyone! I built a haunted mansion! If you want the import code and would like to see more details, I made a video showcasing the build!

https://youtu.be/XA_apyxJwgI

As I discuss with my friends about lore, many share their fatigue with patch 12.1.5 : Yet another invasion on Quel'Thalas, another "Villain of the week" episode that will soon be forgotten.

Yet, those events could have worked perfectly fine had the story been better structured :

Imagine if, instead of directly rallying the loas, the first questlines of Zul'Aman revolved around Zul'Jan desperate attempts at fighting the Twillight Blade, rallying the different tribes in his fight. By fighting the Twillight Blade ourself, we would discover that his force has been infiltrated by disguised cultists, conspiring to push him into delving into the amani dark secrets once prohibited by the loas and the traditions they created.

By exposing the ruse, more sensible amani like Zul'jarra would accept to collaborate with us. Sadly, it would be too late to stop Zul'Jan from unleashing Ula'tek into Zul'Aman and causing chaos. Many followers of Zul'Jan would progressively switch side as they see the results of their transgression. As they proved their loyalty to their old values again, the loa would finally show up and offer their support.

Here things would be the same : Lor'Themar would firmly refuse to help the amani since the Sunwell itself is already under attack, stuck in a constant stalemate against the void. Xal'atath would shine through her sneaky plots as Kith'ix gets unleashed, overwhelming the exhausted amani forces to reach Quel'thalas.

As SIlvermoon gets attacked by the unleashed Aqir, they would be forced to deploy some members of the armies of the light, progressively weakening their hold for the Sunwell. As things get more desperate, they would finally accept to consider Umbric proposition to attack into their world.

Then things go as they did in the first patch, but this time it's more believable that both side are willing to collaborate : they both saw what happened when they refused to listen one another. It would have also let more time for the Horde to arrive and defend against the aqir/ethereals/nagas, while the alliance supports the assault on the voidstorm.

It could have even caused some faction tension, as Silvermoon could blame the Alliance for making the situation worse by making the Well fall into darkness and seemingly failing their mission.

Then the transition into the worldcore would have felt like the logical transition, following Xal'atath path. Really, it fixes so many issues with the story.

I don't mean without following comms just without me specifically speaking, I can understand english without problems, but I don't have confidence in speaking it yet, would it be detrimental to the raid if i play without being able to speak?

I've been having some issues creating my 3rd char name so I tried to relog and I lagged out during connecting. When I finally got through, I saw this screen.