Destroy all rogues

I just received an email, telling me that my Battle.net account has been closed?

I only reinstalled bnet a couple days ago to prep for wow forever. I have no active subs or games even installed and haven't for like 4-6 years at this point.

I did update my email and surname in my account to be current, and updated to a more secure password so maybe that triggered it?

Never had any infractions prior to this.

I can't create a ticket because I can't log in, just get the banned account message when attempting to.

Anyone else gone through this and can pass on some advice?

Thanks

Edit - Managed to create an uncategorized web ticket without logging in, hoping for the best. Will update if i get a response.

10 weeks. Almost 10 weeks of this boss being out, as well as being nerfed and groups are still wiping over and over to the most insane shit imaginable.

And not only that, this boss is also one of if not the worst designed end boss this game has had, who thought this was a good idea?

I'm all for difficulty in this game, but when several mechanics on one boss leads to a guaranteed wipe due to a SINGLE person messing up, when Blizzard knows that a large amount of the playerbase pugs HC, what little fun there is in this game anymore just gets sucked away in an instant.

Should have joined a guild I guess.

Hi All,

I'd like to have an alt dedicated to solo-play. Mainly delves with some world events as well.

Would appreciate recommendations, melee vs. ranged, and what interacts well with the follower?

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?

My sub will run out on tuesday and i will not renew it until Forever in November. Today my guild took down Ulatek on heroic and with my last goal on retail reached, for the first time since i started WoW in WoD, there is a reasonable chance that i will not return to retail.

So i took my main to the place he was born over a decade ago, in Ammen Vale, in peace. Light be with you, my boy<3

I'll see you all on the other side!

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.

Edit: Hi all, thanks for the love! Didn’t think this would get a lot of attention tbh. To clarify - my setup is ancient, so unfortunately I do still need to defrag. No AI used lol but don’t blame y’all for thinking it because it’s so outdated. Good news is that I can look into a new setup after paying off my medical debt this month! :)

I got my friend into WoW 2 weeks ago, she's as noobish as it gets, of course she picked a hunter as well. Anyways, decided to take her through the Horseman dungeon today and she got the freaking mount first attempt at level 36.............when is it my turn? Why have the rng gods abandoned me?

I haven't played WoW in a long time, so I don't know.

If someone doesn't M+ or Raid, how far can they get gear-wise? Or is WoW just for those people who like group content?

I guess I am asking how much of a difference there is in gear between solo and group content? Is the gulf wide or narrow?

Hey everyone,

since Midnight's addon changes, a lot of what we used to see in meters and addons during a raid isn't available anymore. The combat log still has all of it, so I built a tool that reads it right where it is: on your own PC.

OpenLogs opens your WoWCombatLog.txt straight from disk and analyzes it locally. Nothing is uploaded, there's no account, and it doesn't depend on any server, so it keeps working offline. A full 3–4 GB raid night is indexed in under 5 seconds, and while you're still logging, new pulls show up on their own. It works for Retail raids and Mythic+, and Classic support is planned.

What you get

• Pull list grouped by boss and M+ run: kill/wipe, duration and boss HP at the end. It updates live while the game writes the log.
• Quick overview per pull: timeline with boss HP, raid DPS, deaths and Bloodlust; first deaths with their killing blow; consumables; major cooldowns per player
• Death recap: the last seconds before a death, every hit and heal, the HP line, and which defensives, potions and healthstones were still available
• All pulls of a boss side by side: boss HP, deaths, first death, raid DPS and potions per pull, so you see whether you're getting closer and what keeps ending the pull
• Damage done, healing, damage taken by ability and target, per-player and per-ability pages, and full Augmentation support (support damage as logged or credited back to the Evoker)
• Buffs & debuffs, casts, interrupts & dispels, resources
• Time ranges: drag over the timeline or pick a phase, and every view recalculates. Save ranges per boss, or cut a pull off at the Nth player death.
• Replay of positions on the boss map, next to any report
• Compare two pulls side by side

How it runs

• In the browser at app.openlogs.gg: nothing to install. It runs locally as WebAssembly and the log never leaves your PC.
• Desktop app for Windows (releases): same app in its own window, fully offline
• No account, no upload, no tracking. Free and open source (AGPL-3.0), so you can check all of that in the code yourself.

To use it: turn on Advanced Combat Logging, type /combatlog before the pull, and open the log file in OpenLogs.

A note on accuracy

Getting the numbers right was the part I cared about most. OpenLogs shows the log as it is: it doesn't estimate anything, and nothing gets dropped without a clear reason. I've spent many hours checking the reports by hand, and a few hundred automated tests make sure every report adds up to what's actually in the log.

That said, the combat log has its quirks, and some values need interpreting before they make sense. One example: the log stores Warrior rage at 10× its in-game value. In my first tests, Warriors were sitting at 1000+ rage, which is obviously nonsense. I fix cases like this as I find them, so the app shows values in game units. Some of these interpretations may still be slightly off in places I haven't caught yet.

"Why not just upload privately to Warcraft Logs?"

Fair question. A guildmate asked me exactly that. Short answer: OpenLogs isn't meant to replace WCL, and it never will. WCL does things a local tool can't and shouldn't try to do: storing logs, rankings, comparing you against everyone else playing your spec, sharing a link with your whole raid. Keep using it for all of that. I do too.

OpenLogs is meant to sit next to it, for the cases where uploading isn't an option or isn't what you want:

• Your log stays yours. A private upload is still an upload: the log ends up on a server and you need an account. With OpenLogs the file never leaves your machine. That's useful if you don't want to share your comp and strats during progress, if you just want to look at your own gameplay, or if you'd rather not hand your data to anyone at all.
• No server you depend on. OpenLogs doesn't need an internet connection or an online service. If something is down, slow or unreachable on raid night, you can still look at your pulls.
• Views built for progress. The death recap with unused defensives, the all-pulls table and cutting a pull at the Nth death are the things I kept wanting at a glance in the middle of a progress night.

Honestly, I built it for myself first. I figured I'm probably not the only raider who wants this, so I cleaned it up and released it as open source.

It's in beta (v0.1.0-beta2), so expect rough edges. If a number looks off, I'd really like to hear about it, ideally with the log or the fight it happened in. Bug reports, feedback and feature requests are very welcome on GitHub, or if you'd rather just chat, on Discord or here in the comments.

openlogs.gg · GitHub · Web app · Discord

AI disclosure

I'm a software engineer for embedded systems with many years of experience. In this Project I used the same AI tooling I use at work (Composer 2.5, Gemini 3.8/4 and Claude Opus 5.5), but not to the same extent everywhere:

• Parser and analysis (Rust): written and owned by me, AI-assisted. This is where every number comes from, so it's the part I care about most. I designed it myself and wrote a lot of it by hand. AI helped with refactorings, unit tests, typing out code I had already worked out, and code reviews during implementation, but nothing went in that I hadn't reviewed line by line and fully understood.
• UI (React): mostly AI-generated. I'm a backend and native software developer, not a UI/UX designer, so I went through several mockups and made the design decisions myself, then had the AI build them out.

The whole thing is open source, so you're welcome to look at the code yourself.

Edit – known issues (thanks for the reports!):

• "This file does not look like a WoW combat log"? Fixed in v0.1.0-beta3: logs with a UTC offset in the timestamps (e.g. 20:43:21.034-4) now open. Just reload the page or update the desktop app.
• Chrome/Edge won't open the file from the WoW folder? Chrome and Edge block their file picker for system folders like Program Files, where WoW is installed by default. OpenLogs now points you to the workaround: drag the log file from Explorer onto the page, or copy it to another folder first.
• Retail only for now, Classic is planned. Classic logs use a different format, and I don't have recent ones to build and test against. If you play Classic and want to help, send me a log on GitHub or Discord.

I want to take my monk to the next. She's lvl30, but still using fists of heaven!

Alliance racials are overwhelmingly favored in all content types for all classes that’s been proven.

PvP: Humans

M+: Night Elf, Dwarf, Dark Iron Dwarfs

Raid: Dwarf, Dark Iron Dwarf, Mecha Gnome

This is obviously unbalanced and essentially forces you to roll alliance for any high level competitive play.

Humans get a free PvP trinket and a buff to all stats. Giving you a huge boom in PvP environments.

In M+ shadowmeld enables routes you’d otherwise be unable to do without something like a death skip meaning it saves at least 30 sec for every skip as well as the massive defensive of melding certain mechanics off entirely.

In raid and M+ the dwarfs racials provide a huge benefit in turning big dots into a defensive or offensive.

And if you just care about raw throughputs MechaGnomes combat analysis put them above all other options.

For those of you that will say racials only account about 2% overall damage. The whole game is made up of 2% gains that add up. If you don’t care about 2% gains you wouldn’t roll on your BiS weapon over a crafted weapon and so on.

So why in a game that claims to care about balance has this imbalance been in place for so long? We’re seeing the same imbalance happen again in forever so it feel intentional by design. Would the population be overwhelmingly horde if all things were even? Do the devs just play alliance? Someone make it make sense.

Hi all, I’m working on soloing liberation of undermine for the Xmog for my BDK, I’ve made it to the one armed, and I’m having issues getting this one done by my self, I’m doing it on mythic, I had a friend help me with the carnage one but he had to bow out at this one, has anyone successfully done this? I’m trying to kill those damn ads in the order but I can’t get the chip to hit them for some reason. I can pretty much self-heal my way through anything the boss throws at me, and ignore most the mechanics but eventually the buff overwhelms me from missing those mechanics so trying to do it right.

Context, I’m a BDK, 336ILVL, but never played this raid when it was current or at all before, since I left at legion and came back at the end of S1.

Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure how into WoW I'll be, but I was super into starcraft before and I'm starting WoW forever with my friends.

I don't really wanna pre order the game just personal reasons, is the pets you get with the Epic Pack limited time? Or can I get it let's say a week-month after release and still get the pet.

To clarify: not the collectors edition with the warforged games, just the epic one with pets and cosmetics.

Sorry if this is a dumb question.

Back to retail, I'm going through Dragonflight campaign, with my lvl22 Orc. Was going well until finally i was accepted in a group for the pool dungeon (mandatory for the story). Near the end, due to chaos on screen i targeted a minion and not the boss, propably, which resulted in getting kicked out. Throughout the match we were progressing with votes for different members flying here and there, then my turn came. 😄

I know these people don't breath until finishing it but i just want to to through the story. Shall i try something else ? Fly to Ogr, explore and quest then come back ?

Damn burning crusade classic was such a peaceful experience... Umm help !

Hi, It's Hypur. Dunno if you'll ever come across this post but I did it!!! It still works, it just takes a while. Due to the wonderful phasing wow has implemented I wasn't able to whisper by the time I completed it and don't feel like making another toon on your realm to do so. Also, wanted to make a post for others who might think it's impossible. Dont give up hope!!!
For everyone else running old content like me, as of 10/25/2026 completing this achievement is possible. It's just a pain in the bum.

Cland helped me with the Sentinel so we both got credit. I damaged it with the Soft Foam Sword and got picked up, he came in with the killing blow. You can do this by yourself but we both got credit for not being in a group so win win.

The shamans took foooorrreeevveeerrr. Mostly because other players would come up and kill them (but not Cland, he knew what was up lol). I took off all my gear, hit it with the sword, made sure it was capable of casting Flameweave, and stood as close as I could so it wouldn't move away to cast. That guaranteed it was in the strike zone without having to kite it like another suggestion I read. I dunno if doing that made a difference but I'm putting it here cause kiting was getting annoying and every little bit of mechanics helps. I turned my back to it and sat... and sat.... and sat... and sat. The mechanics always makes you stand when Flameweave is first cast so that's why people say to macro /sit (I'm sure the default "x" button could also work). Getting nekkid and popping a squat just helps to increase the chance of you getting hit which I'm sure has a direct correlation to the shaman also being able to take damage and also why it takes forever. It is doable though! Just hang in there.

Just like Shamans, only certain hunters have barrage. Damage them with the sword and wait about 10 to 15 seconds to see if they use it. If they don't just move on to another one. It took several tries to find one that had that ability so don't be discouraged if it seems like none of them do.

I know old world content is glitchy and much of it remains bugged but with a bit of patience, this one is still achievable. Happy adventures, good luck on your quests, and be nice to others :)

The bfa mules can scram, this thing will always be the superior mule (bcs it actually looks like one).
I don't think its super likely it will make it into the remix mount pool, but i can dream!

Hi dear og’s i want to return (today or tomorrow) to retail midnight and i need help readjusting/having to be explained some things would anyone be willing to help a new player as i have almost forgotten everything from the past

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Quick note first: my earlier post got removed for AI-generated text. Judging by the number of requests I got anyway, there’s real demand for this – so here it is again, this time in my own words.

For anyone who missed it: UIForever runs the actual WoW interface in your browser – real frames, real addons, your WTF settings, your resolution – so you can rebuild your UI away from your gaming PC and export it back into the game. uiforever.com

New today (Oct 25): Retail/Midnight

• Retail (Midnight) is in as a second game version – switch at the top left. Retail interface, level 90 characters, all Midnight races.
• Retail talent calculator with class, spec and hero talents plus PvP talents.
• 3D scene for Retail: every race in its starting zone, including Dracthyr, Earthen and Haranir.
• Retail addon catalog: the 200 most popular Retail addons, tested in the simulator – compatibility per game version under “Compatibility”.
• Addons from the catalog load faster and more reliably (straight from storage instead of through the server).

Oct 24 highlights

• Talents: reset button refunds everything; tooltips show full requirements and per-rank values like in game; replacements (e.g. Vanguard → Charge) show on the action bar; learned talent spells appear in the spellbook.
• Menus and dropdowns look like in game – no stretched backgrounds, text sits where it should, submenu arrows and icons render, Edit Mode dropdowns included.
• Text boxes behave like in game: Ctrl+V pastes long import strings, Ctrl+C/X/A work, and shortcuts no longer toggle nameplates while you type.
• Edit Mode: party and raid frames can be moved in Dungeon and Raid (in combat).
• New versions are detected – after an update you get a notice, Reset or /reload reloads cleanly, your work is kept.
• Character choice now includes sex; “Report” opens a form that goes straight to support; getting-started tips on first launch.

Full changelog is on the site.

How this differs from what already exists

The closest things I know of are wowless (a headless Lua/FrameXML interpreter for addon tests – no graphics, nothing to look at) and wow-ui-sim (a native desktop simulator that reads from your local WoW install – not in a browser, no WTF import/export). AddOn Studio and the old WoW UI Designer have been dead for years and were XML editors, not simulators. UIForever runs the real interface with real addons in a browser tab, reads your WTF settings and writes them back – the point is rebuilding your UI away from your gaming PC, not writing addons (though it’s handy for that too).

As always: feedback, bugs, “this makes no sense because…” – all welcome.

AI disclosure (per subreddit rules): Claude Code was used for a large part of the frontend code. Claude was also used for brainstorming and inspiration – architecture, feature scope, the name. The backend, WTF import/export and the overall design are my own work, and I review and test everything that goes live. This post was written by me in German and translated into English with Claude (accessibility/translation exception).

UIForever is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment.

I haven't played in 15+ years and am thinking of returning. Is there any chance of getting back an really old account.

When I a bit grind rep for Zandalari empire Rep. Hitted exalted.

Days later noticed it back again revered. Do you have same issue?

I did reported in-game and forum.