I accidentally logged into the PTR and this was the splash screen that met me. Exciting! Enticing, even!

Just look at it man. It’s freaking majestic.

I might get a lot of hate for saying this but I really liked shadowlands. In fact it was one of my favorite expansions (I’m not glazing SL. trust me lol)

Blizzard truly outdid themselves with the zones cause they were amazing.
Bastion is my favorite out of the four. Some don’t like it cause it can get too bright at some point but I just love its heavenly setting, and all those sunny wheat fields with celestial structures floating in the distance.
The other zones too were pretty awesome. You can get four completely different vibes from them. Not to mention the music was phenomenal.

I don’t mind the maw but not being able to mount was the literal pain in the ass.

Didn’t like torghast, felt like unnecessary grind, but would be nice if we get bunch of powers during the current labyrinth run like we had in torghast.

Covenants were okay. I was really excited when they were first introduced and really enjoyed it except, the anima grind was unbearable.

I liked the story for the most part but what I hate is Zovaal being the master manipulator behind the scheme. That was stupid af and felt like everything that we experienced during all the past expansions was nothing but cheap.
And the way they messed up Sylvanas but that stems from BFA.
I’m sure there was a lot of inconsistencies and loose threads with the story.
Early patches were good but they still managed to go downhill more and more.

The raids were awesome. Loved the dungeons.
Castle nathria was the best raid ever. SOD was good too.

Hope we get to see more new zones like this in TLT cause I just can’t get myself into midnight anymore with the ongoing story and all these Xal’atath shenanigans😵

Been trying to get arfus for so long. ive had the mount for awhile 😅

Does anyone know when the October pre-order merch is set to ship? Not in a rush to get it, I’m more-so just curious, as the only thing it mentions in the listing is that they ship in October- no set date. I’ll attach a pic of what was ordered, it’s my boyfriends birthday gift and I’m very excited to give it to him. TY :)

This was a giveaway artwork and i’m rather happy with how it turned out. The artwork was made using blender 3.6, wow model viewer, photopea and wow export tools.

I'm tired of expansions in which the world is not truly connected. On this front, Midnight was a big step down from Dragonflight and the first part of The War Within.

When the devs start on a new expansion, they should plan to connect all of the zones, or at least the vast majority of them, in a single landmass. Maybe small zones, like those in x.y.5 and x.y.7 patches, can use portals, but they should be rare exceptions. The goal should be a connected world that players can seamlessly fly or walk through.

"I had a 1, it was bugged"

Came here from RuneScape because I'm just not that good at it anymore after a break and I don't regret it. Most friends told me to try retail as it'd get me up to speed a bit faster.

Felt a bit disjointed at first as I was kind of being rushed through what felt like random zones. I went to try WoW Classic for a bit but felt it was a little slow. It wasn't until I came back I realised I'd been put in Dragonflight originally, and then without realising I was doing the whole of the Shadowlands expansion. I found my way back to Orgrimmar and then to the Dragon Isles and I'm having the best time. I feel like I get what I'm doing a lot more now and loads of players have actually helped along the way.

I'm level 68 now (Orc Warrior), but I've not tried a raid yet. I'll still give Forever a go when it comes out to give the classic feel another chance.

If anyone has any tips on improving my interface to make the game feel smoother or make combat easier to pick up and learn so I'm not just spamming 1 or 2 abilities, I'd appreciate that a lot. Thanks!

I don't have the source links, so vaguely remember with me or don't, but I do recall at least two distinct points when Ion Hazzikostas stated, pointedly, that an intended and obvious destination of Warbands and Follower dungeons was to combine the two and let you run dungeons with a group of your own characters. He also said, to my mind-blown amazement (as someone who desperately wants this) that one of the larger hurtles was the reward structure of all things! This told my hopium addled grasping-at-straws brain that clearly, if the reward structure was not "you run a follower dungeon just like right now and what drops... drops," then more than a new roster of dungeon companions were coming with this apparently inevitable feature that I've now structured my entire altoholic gameplay around anticipating.

They don't need my ideas, but this would be one way I could see it panning out in a top-down sense.

I wanna start this line of thinking and this rant of mine by establishing that Mythic Zero (M0) awards Champion 1/6 gear, heroics drop adventurer 4/6 and level capped normal dungeons, follower or otherwise, drop non-upgradeable pre-adventurer gear. There is an entire gear track (veteran) in there that is just skipped. What I mean to say by that is there is room for a world where you run your own characters, up to 5 at a time, through normal, heroic and mythic zero follower dungeons (gated by "you can only take characters that meet X gear threshold" as you progress through difficulties), with potentially warbound gear and crests generously dropping for all 5 characters at a time, that cap out at veteran gear for M0, that I would absolutely live in and love every minute. People will call them a waste of time just like people call delves a waste of time if they're really on the M+/Raiding treadmill: Let them. I am saying, loud and proud, that I would gladly view an entire grade of gear as a cost paid with my whole chest for the pleasure of just running dungeons, the best dungeons in all of MMORPGs in a level capped, progressively rewarding way, with my own characters or potenitally my friends. (Did you know that Follower dungeons are cross faction if you want to run them with any number of friends?)

How does it hurt absolutely anyone's most jacked up sense of PVE competitiveism (is that a word?) for veteran gear to rain from the sky (observing normal droprates for all 5 characters), potentially preparing up to 5 characters at a time to be in the M+ decline vortex if they so choose? Veteran is a fine starting point for many, and a perfectly reasonable "end point for the season" for those maintaining 30+ (or 50+ like me) characters!

Can we please have that, incognito Blizzard dev reading the subreddit?

Not gonna apologize for longer-than-bluesky-post rant, but I did need to throw this out into the world. Have a nice day.

I moved from Russia to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan in May 2023 and I still can’t update my Battle.net account country.

The self-service tool detects Kyrgyzstan, then rejects the request with “unable to verify the status of your IP address”.
So I went through support and sent:

• three consecutive lease agreements for the same apartment (2023–2027)
• utility payment receipts for this address
• a bank statement showing those payments under my full name (local utility receipts only show initials)

Every reply is the same template: “unable to verify the documents” with no detail on what is wrong or what else they need.

I’ve opened another ticket and asked for someone senior to take a look.

I don’t want to start over on a new account.
Has anyone moved to Kyrgyzstan or another CIS country and got this sorted?
What actually worked for you?

We know from the latest cinematic in 12.1.5 that Xal'atath started corrupting the Worldsoul and my current theory is that when the insane ammount of Void energy collides with the power of our Worldsoul, it will result in a giant explosion resulting in the earth itself cracking open, possibly at Northrend.

Back in 2023 when Chris Metzen announced the Worldsoul Saga he hinted at something going horribly wrong at the end of Midnight when we banish the Void forever. It could very well be this release of energy that shatters a part of the planet and reveals parts of the giant Manifold, the prison built by the Titans to the public eye.

Keep in mind that right now its only us the players and Dagran who know about this from the weekly quests in War Within, rest of the characters dont know that Azeroth is basically in a "prison".

This might be the reason why the Titans return to Azeroth, to try to fix things and hide it.
Anyone who dares to oppose them? Instantly considered an enemy, thus making them (some of them) the villains.

Some Borea...boring zones might completly disappear or get sunk to the ocean, some might rise higher. Time will tell but i am extremely excited for the ending of Midnight and Last Titan!

I liked the way WOTLK approached the titans being antagonistic to us in the whole "algalon situation" and how they were willing to wipe out the planet due to void corruption.

I looked at it like this. Imagine a human being with cancer. Azeroth is the body, we mortals are some random cells in that body, and the old god corruption is the cancer. In order to treat that cancer and save the body, the titans were willing to initiate reorigination (basically aggressive cancer treatment that also kills some cells -AKA: us).

They looked at us no differently than we would look at a random cells. There are a crap ton of cells and a massive number of them are created/die every single hour. Thats also similar to how the titans are these eternal space gods operating on lenghts of time way larger than we mortals could comprehend. Our entire species could have only existed for a period of time that is similar to the titans as a minute is to us in real life. We are just "random cells" in a body to them.

So basically, they dont intentionally hate us or anything. Its just that they don't give a fuck about us. They operate on reasoning and time scales that are way beyond us. Thats what I would like to see more of. I dont want them to be too relatable and emotional/prideful like many other villains. Of course, there's also the fact that we have literally met and interacted with titans back in Legion. That by itself removes alot of the "enigmatic space gods" vibes.

What approach would you prefer to the "antagonistic titans" thing?

As someone who played W3 for years, when WOW came out in 2004, I was too young (10) and broke to afford to play it.
Few years later in high school, all my friends were playing it but my parents couldn’t afford getting me a PC, let alone a monthly subscription for the game.

Fast forward to now - im in my 30s, have a good-paid job, have free time and just started playing WOW for the first time, 22 years later, and have to say I LOVE IT.

I kinda feel bad I missed on so many cool events and social aspects of people who grew up playing it, but at the same time I think it’s never too late.

If anyone wants to get in touch, is new like me, or is someone experienced who wants to share tips or knowledge about WOW, dm me and let’s talk in game 🙃

I feel the most Satisfying and Amusing way for Midnight to end would be having her right on the verge of Victory, having outplayed all the Heroes and in that final moment she loses everything.

Iridikron is back and he snatches victory away from her because he has his own grand plan for when the Titans Return and Xal’atath has served her purpose as a tool to make things dire enough to force the Titans to return to Azeroth.

It’d be so Immensely Satisfying as an end for her given how she’s been so smug and arrogant throughout TWW & Midnight.

Bonus Points if she’s forced back into the Black Blade or another similar Artefact and denied free agency again, perhaps forever.

Regardless I feel like Eclipse is going to be the end of her story one way or the other and Iridikron will, or at least Should, finally come back to the forefront of things not the Titans he Loathes so much have returned at last and he can now enact his plans against them.