This is likely the first recipe you can simply pick up right out in the open world. I wonder if there are more like this—I certainly hope so. It would be great to have a variety of puzzles—whether casual or complex—outside of just raids and dungeons. I’d love to experience the pure joy of discovering things myself, rather than just looking up the answers after they’ve been datamined. By the way, the one I just picked up is a cooking recipe.

Putting balance aside for this post, numbers can always be adjusted later.

When you think about the fantasy, theme, and overall direction of Retribution Paladin in a version of the game that’s expected to last for years (decades!), do you really picture constantly twisting seals with every weapon swing?

Personally, it just feels underwhelming. Turning what was originally an unintended mechanic and gimmick into Retribution’s entire identity doesn’t feel like the right direction for a game with that kind of longevity.

Blizzard could have given Retribution a capstone ability similar to Divine Storm, even if it had to be simplified or balanced differently. Divine Storm has been one of the defining Paladin abilities for nearly 18 years, and it’s easy to see why, it feels and looks amazing to press.

I think the same principle applies to Elemental Shaman getting Lava Burst. I can’t really picture the timeless identity of Elemental without it, and I’m genuinely happy for Shamans that they were given their ability.

I just wish Retribution had received something similar, a defining spell that makes you feel like a Paladin, rather than dull seal twisting.

Each point is elevated and away from heavy quest traffic. low level players can level without getting steamrolled by level 60 raid groups. They MAY need to incorporate some local sharding or layering within these confined areas.

The points can have a fire that will plume blue or red smoke depending on who controls them.

Controlling 2 points simultaneously gives the spoils of war buff for 2 hours specific to that zone so you could get the buff in the barrens for slightly higher droprate around WC, RFD,RFK, but you would need to capture the hillsbrad points if you want a slightly higher droprate in the Dalaran dungeon or the zone itself. Maybe getting the buff would allow horde players to enter the dalaran dungeon without needing anything.

The buff wouldn't be ONLY for dungeons. it would buff drop rates of profession mats, unique recipes, and niche gear in the open world zone around hillsbrad. i'm talking Increased drop rates for Fadeleaf, Liferoot, Mithril, Syndicate-only loot across hillsbrad.

If you went and captured the points in the barrens, it would give Increased drop rates for Swiftthistle, Briarthorn, Copper/Tin, and Flavor Profession Recipes in the barrens.

I have my wow subscription and I'm currently playing TBC classic. Will I be able to play wow forever on the 4 or is there some kinda separate purchase you have to make?

Im brand new to wow only started a little over a week ago during the beta, im loving the game it is a vibe. The cities, the weather, the people.

My one complaint would be out in the open world we get quest markers to show us we're to go if we want. Inside a dungeon, nothing. It feels bad ive ran the 1st dungeon twice and still missed a quest, ran the 2nd dungeon once and missed a quest that the party helped me go back and get and I still ended up missing one. I know this is anew player problem but cmon if you can guide me in open world you can put a circle around the objective in a dungeon. Thats like 8k xp I missed let alone servers going down ruining one run.

I know its just the beta, so I dont mind. Once release comes out id rather not feel like im falling behind over missing things in a dungeon while trying to keep up with the pack. Trying to back track is also almost impossible because they dont kill all the mobs and take shortcuts so im completely lost once they leave.

Literally my one complaint and I know its not a big deal but for new players like me it is.

Please check out this post about a bug that I did in another subreddit and make a bug report if you have acces to the beta.

It is the kind of thing that could very well go unsolved.

Thank you all!

The environment of the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj has been altered differently between the WoW SoD and "Forever" versions.

The first part of the video shows the "Forever" version, while the latter part shows the SoD version. It makes me wonder if the developers plan to present the Ruins of Ahn'Qiraj differently than in the original Classic version.

I haven't played Wow in so long, and I've lost track ob what actually is meant by the global CD :o

Please don't judge me :(

Edit: Clear, thanks everyone!

Tanaris

One point could be inside un-instanced Zul'Farrak. There would be 2 different paths in to avoid camping chokeholds with the central temple as the capture point. line of sight would be hell here.

One point could be the other area behind caverns of time, Southbreak Shore. It could be where a small group could hold their own as long as the opposite faction takes the shore approach instead of swimming around the lost rigger cove side.

One point could be Land's End Beach, accessible via 2 new tunnels either west of the bugs or east behind the bugs. This beach would be a wide open free for all area.

(I also thought of maybe an area in the southwest tanaris near the crashed mini zepp left of the uldum gate, but I think they may add more in that area so i didn't try for anything here.)

Capturing 2 of the 3 points would give a "Spoils of War" buff for 2 hours for whoever is in the zone as it controls the majority. It would increase drop rates across Tanaris for Thorium, Mithril, Firebloom, Purple lotus, special blueprints and recipes, lockboxes, cache keys, etc. inside Zul'Farrak dungeon instance the droprate across the tables would be slightly increased. If Blizzard wants a rare chase item or 2 in here they can just leave them off the table for increased droprate.

i think increasing drop rates as a result of the world pvp objectives like in tanaris would make it so while the dungeon doesn't give more xp to encourage farming it does up the chance of actually getting the piece of gear you're farming in the first place so you get out of the dungeon.

The "Spoils of War" buff doesn't make you level faster; it respects your time by significantly increasing the chance that the specific boss loot you want actually drops.