This may of been asked already, but do all characters that are not max level but above level 50 automatically become level 50 with the new expansion?
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I agree with everything except for the JJ Abrams thing. My name and my favorite TV universe in existence came from him. ;)
Heh - mystery boxes aren't always bad, but the ratio of 'successful payoff' versus 'tease that ends up disappointing' is pretty poor, at least in my experience. And that's in more 'static' fiction, as opposed to something like WoW.
(Plus, Blizz has a pretty terrible track record with 'reveals'- i.e. the 'whodunit' of burning Teldrassil backfiring on them super hard)
The only question know is whether or not she ends up as a dungeon/raid boss, and/or goes Illidan 2.0. With how she's being set up, I don't think I can see her going 'back' from any of this without being shelved forever (or at least for an expansion or two)
I imagine Illidan 2.0 has her working 'with' the Jailor to get enough power to either overthrow him and thus subvert her own eventual trip to the maw, return some/most/all? of the souls she had murdered to get there, etc.... (seems less likely now)
While the more likely dungeon/raid boss end has her echoing some of what she says in A Good War or the end of the Three Sisters comic, in that she's trying to become the new Jailor/Arbitor and become the Lady/goddess of death, but gets smacked down by the players and the current Arbiter and gets either killed or sentenced to the Maw anyways for her evil actions.
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I was thinking about her journey compared to the journey of my favorite JJ character, Irina Derevko, after your comment and I can see a lot of similarities in how the writing has poorly handled the characters. In Irina's case, JJ handled her appearaces in her first season and everything after than was handled by different writers and no one knew what to do with her after JJ and while I love her it sucked.
Why do I torture myself like this?
this is extremely disappointing. I hope it's not the case because I think 8.2 ran its course a bit earlier with an (imo) not fun to repeat final raid boss and a really alt unfriendly essence system. All of it was fine the first time through but I'm not doing any of it seriously on an alt. No way.
No, I imagine you just divide your current level by 2.4 once the levels squish happens (since 50 is 120/2.4).
I have to wonder just how much of an undertaking the level squish ends up being with stuff like this. I'm sure 8.3 is mostly a smaller crew while the art and engine guys prep for all the changes in Shadowlands and that probably factors into its development being a little slower... but given how much of the assets in 8.3 are reused it sort of makes you wonder.
Damn that sucks if true, 8.2 sucks. Mechagon and Nazjatar are probably my least favorite zones since Cata.
Does anyone know what's required to get access to Cloud Serpents rn? It's very hard to find up-to-date information for some reason. Do you still need to do the rep with Order of the Cloud Serpent? Or is that only to be able to buy the mounts? And can you farm rep solely by collecting eggs?
You no longer need the training from them to ride any cloud serpents, but there's still 3 base colors tied to the rep.
No. They talked about this in the deep dive panel yesterday. Basically you will be scaled down to a level equivalent to where you're currently at in the game. So if you're only level 50 now you're probably going to be in the 18-25 range.
They scale to whatever the equivalent would be in the new scale. If you were 60 at launch you'll scale to like 25, 120 scales to 50, etc
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I'm hoping they're just removing the restrictions for anything Pre-BFA (and in a perfect world - BFA as well) and just include them in flight training but we'll have to see. I haven't seen them address that specific question yet.
Maybe they'll do what they're doing for zones and covenants where once you've done it on one character it's unlocked by default for every subsequent character from the start
They have to let you fly from the get go if you choose Cata, because you literally can't level in the cata zones without flying.
That's what I'm wondering. You can't even leave until lvl 10 though
With this new setup, they could easily just grant you flying account wide once you get something to 50 for the first time. Then you're free to do whatever. The higher speeds will probably still get locked behind something, but it seems like the easiest solution.
This is where I always have a disconnect from the flight discussion; I'm broadly okay with Pathfinder as-is, but that's in part because I'm a tank; dazing just doesn't happen to us, so I've no frame of reference for the nature of frustration others get from land travel.
Maybe what we really need is a rethink of dazing, rather than changing the flight unlock system. Is it really necessary these days? Should it be removed, or perhaps just curbed a bit (+2 level mobs can daze you? Something like that?). What's it really for?
(That said, I do think it's quite nice to have a benefit for questing in the world to offset the fact that it takes a bit longer to kill things!)
I do have to admit, I've never been very comfortable with the recentish trend of releasing raid patches late in the year - too often our initial forays into the raid get disrupted by family responsibilities over Christmas. I'm okay with a slightly later release in that regard... but I do have to concede it's a bit worrying how far it's going to be from the previous patch.
I'm not sure how true this actually is - I remember noting when playing Cata that the zones still generally felt like they mostly weren't dependent on having a flying mount - I think the only one that really did need one was Deepholm, although it's possible there's a bunch of ramps there that I've never noticed!
The only zones where flight isn't required are Hyjal and Vash'jir (and even the second one still has a version of flying, technically). The others have a lot of places where you can move around on the ground, but certain objectives are on ledges or mountaintops otherwise. There's going to be a similar issue with Wrath where both Storm Peaks and Icecrown will require flight in places.
That sounds like they can just gate it to level 20 or 30, like normal riding is now.
Yeah, that probably wouldn't be an issue. Standard riding at 10, fast ground at 20, flight at 30.
It's actually necessary. It's impossible to get to certain hubs or objectives without. They would give you a loaner mount for only those two zones if you didn't have Cold Weather Flying at the time.
oh yeah. I remember doing just that because I couldnt afford flying. :(
from the MMOC interview:
"The team isn't sure if the transmog and mounts from Covenants will be restricted to the character that earned it or if alts can use it yet."
Always one step forward, 2 steps back with these guys... just let everything be transmogged, thats the whole reason someone would do at least 4 characters for the 4 covenents, so in the future you would have access to all those customizations if you make new characters or change class or whatever >_>
"The team isn't sure if the transmog and mounts from Covenants will be restricted to the character that earned it or if alts can use it yet."
Always one step forward, 2 steps back with these guys... just let everything be transmogged, thats the whole reason someone would do at least 4 characters for the 4 covenents, so in the future you would have access to all those customizations if you make new characters or change class or whatever >_>
So wait, there is no stat squish with the level squish? I thought that was implicit. Was hoping it was, I hate big numbers in RPGs.
The Titan Assaults are taking existing locations and making them extra spoooooky.
there's also the visions of n'zoth which add a lot of geometry to existing locations. it's nothing as exciting as argus for sure, but there's at least some new-ish stuff to sink your teeth into
either way we've got two new factions so look forward to getting exalted for the allied races tied to them in 8.3.5.
Is there anything showing the 15th Anniversary starts tomorrow? Everything had pointed to a mid-November date, but at Blizzcon they specifically said Nov 5, which is tomorrow's reset (a short one too).
I'm thinking maybe they made a mistake with tomorrow's date?
I'm thinking maybe they made a mistake with tomorrow's date?
I'm not sure of the date, but if it is tomorrow a short reset shouldn't be a problem as all the anniversary content was patched in already. It just has to be turned on.
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That's what I'm trying to figure out. None of the WoW sites are reporting on it, which makes me think it is mid-Nov.
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I missed this detail. Which factions/rep are you referring to, and which allied races?!
Probably just speculating based on the Mogu rep (which could lead to a playable mogu race, but I'd be surprised), but I'm not sure what the 2nd is.
There's no confirmed allied races, that's just baseless speculation on my part. There are two new factions coming in 8.3, though:
The Uldum Accord, a group of Tol'vir and their allies looking to prevent the re-origination of the world by the Amathet
The Rajani, a group of Mogu who follow Ra-Den and work with the Golden Lotus to protect the Vale of Eternal Blossoms and the Titan facilities within.
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