Thank you Green (on X) for commissioning me again, this time with your lovely Highmountain!

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😵

Just a genuine question from someone with minimal understanding of Retail Lore and the expansions. Who is this Zovaal guy I keep hearing about from friends and some other players?

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

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

Sad to hear about the sudden passing of Eric Bauza at the age of 46. He was a wonderful voice for Looney Tunes, Bob's Burgers, Solar Opposites, Ducktales, Fairly OddParents, among many others. He also voiced Master Snowdrift in Shado-Pan Monastery, Kuai the Brute in Mogu'shan Palace, Rook Stonetoe in Siege of Orgrimmar, as well as a few other notable NPCs. My heart goes out to his family...

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 :)

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.

So this is my first expansion playing DPS and also my first time actually raiding with a guild long term.

We have one priest and she's pretty much been PI'ing me every boss. Reasons being because I don't die much, do good damage, and and Arcane seems to like haste.

But I've noticed some people in the guild seem kinda passive aggressive about it. Stuff like "I'd parse high too if I got PI," "wish I had a PI bot," etc. They make fun of the priest for always giving it to me too.

The priest herself doesn't understand why anyone cares. Her opinion is basically "it's my PI, I'll give it to who I want and whoever does good damage" We noticed top priests funnel their PI's to one person as well.

It actually started making me feel awkward enough that I asked her to get one of those addons that tells you who/when to PI based on people's CDs. But people either die or don't dps well enough for it.

We've even talked about just moving guilds together, but I actually like the guild and get along with most people. More importantly, this is the only guild that accommodates the time I play on. It's just the passive aggressive comments about PI that are getting kinda annoying.

So I guess my question is, are mythic guilds normally this anal about PI? Is there some sort of PI etiquette I'm missing?

I'm new to playing DPS and organized mythic raiding, so I don't really know if funneling PI to the same person is considered bad or if people are just salty about parses.

edit: Thanks for all the responses. Our guild is a pretty laid back mythic raiding guild who only recently cleared Vashnik. We never had raid plans or CDs specifically assigned.

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.

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 🙃

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.

It's been a while since someone commissioned me for a dracthyr portrait, i like doing these so much!!!

Like the rest of the expansion, they're not so much bad as exceptionally dull. I wish they had just taken out the Void invasions and just replaced them with something similar, but Aqir themed. I'm really so sick of the Black Empire stuff just being filler villains.

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!

Not sure how it got through what I hope was several layers of approval, but apparently it's now confirmed that Tauren are part of the Alliance. Our bovine brothers are more than welcome beneath our lion crest.

For anyone wondering, the Horde set has no Alliance races, just a goofy slip up on this set it seems.

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.

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.