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The Red Shirt Guy from Blizzcon 2010 through 2019; check out my writing at Blizzplanet and

Florida

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Joined April 2013

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Thanks to @Portergauge I have an invite to a place without clouds (based on other tweets I don't think we're supposed to say the real name, for some reason?). If the X nonsense kills twitter for good (or maybe if I just like it more) you can find me at @theredshirtguy .bsky.social

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"Female employees working for the World of Warcraft team noted that male employees and supervisors would hit on them, make derogatory comments about rape, and otherwise engage in demeaning behavior, the agency alleges." What the heck, Blizzard?

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Activision Blizzard Sued Over 'Frat Boy' Culture, Harassment (1)

Video game giant Activision Blizzard Inc., maker of games including World of Warcraft and Diablo, fosters a “frat boy” culture in which female employees are subjected to constant sexual harassment,...

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Wild unsubstantiated guess: part of the 20th anniversary event will be new HD versions of famous old tier sets.

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War Within brings back Anduin. Midnight is in Quel’thalas so that’s probably where Sylvanas comes back. The Last Titan has the Titans come to Azeroth and Illidan’s been with them all this time…

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So, thoughts on TWW leveling experience: It's not just super good, but shockingly good. The general writing, the characterization, the worldbuilding, it's all improved over Dragonflight in every way. (1)

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If I had a nickel for each time they introduced a new female character about Anduin's age descended from a famous human bloodline, who both have ae as the second and third letters of their name, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice. 😜

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I received a super great present from @Warcraft today! Thank you so much!

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Attention everyohe, since it hasn't really picked up steam. The Stony Tony/Rock Guy/Ugly Guy/the Watcher from the Cinematic has a canon name! He is Watcher Koranos.

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Well... WoW.

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Important: the developers and regular employees at Blizzard had absolutely nothing to do with what happened. I hope people remember that during Blizzcon, as outside of the opening & closing ceremonies its the developers who are on panels/Q&As, not the execs responsible for this.

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Okay, there's "why didn't Jaina have anything to say about Arthas" checked off.

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Wait a second. I just realized!!! Today is the exact day that marks the tenth anniversary of my original Red Shirt Guy question! I feel so old!

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Aren't you a little short for a Warden?

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The golden one claims a vacant throne. The crown of light will bring only darkness.

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It’s hard to overstate how MoP turned Lor’themar from a literally who character into one so popular people were seriously suggesting he should be the Warchief after Garrosh.

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WHERE DID THIS LOR'THEMAR GO I MISS HIM SO MUCH

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Diablo Immortal is a really good game, one of the few times I've played a mobile game that feels like a full fledged PC or console one rather than a mini-game, but it's marred by very aggressive and over the top monetization. So here's some advice: (1)

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Also, even ignoring the debate on whether Shadowlans was traumatic Anduin to be in this state, the Shadowlands prequel novel Shadows Rising was all about how Anduin was cracking from the pressure and the horrors of the Fourth War were taking its toll on his psyche.

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My boy has been through hell since he was a child! I don't understand the "lol he's crying again" posts. I am sorry YOU are uncomfortable with emotion, but this is what pain looks like friendos! I will hug my lil lion!!

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Another interesting "leak" update. While fake expansion logos are a dime a dozen during leak season, I have to give this one credit for being weird. Its like how when the Shadowlands logo actually leaked and people dismissed it for being too strange and not "Shadowlands themed."

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More Dragonflight info from various interviews: -Dracthyr can use their own wings for dragon riding -Covenants/renown are back. One for each zone, but you do all of them at once instead of picking one. No player power, and it replaces traditional reputation factions.

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"the very bones of the Maldraxxus?" THE Maldraxxus? Does that mean the zone of Maldraxxus is a giant living thing? Would explain all the fleshy growths and bone spikes.

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Same with how 2 out of 3 rogue specs can transmog daggers and nothing else ever. ☹️

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@Ainastrasza @WarcraftDevs SMF should've been deleted years ago and fury warriors should be able to transmog into 1-handers It's silly that they can't

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Is that a sea otter mount!?

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The fifth dragonriding mount, the “winding slitherdrake,” remains one of the most tantalizing unsolved mysteries of Dragonflight.

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Now THIS is a Dragon

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I never would have considered it before Midnight was announced, but it's funny how perfectly a remade Quel'thalas fits as an expansion continent. It's got the "four standard zones" (Eversong, Ghostlands, Zul'Aman, Quel'Danas), and its already instanced which means...

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This is the greatest concept for a mount ever.

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Okay, I didn't plan to colorize it but now I started it anyway. 😅Still, time for some Zs! Will continue tomorrow.

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A reminder: the way Sylvanas has been written the past few expansions means that whatever happens in the cinematic tomorrow, some people will be angry and upset. That is no excuse to be mean to anyone, not fellow WoW player and especially not developers. Just agree to disagree!

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So all the things we know about QT revamp in Midnight: -Quel'Thalas will be remade to be much larger than the TBC version. -The TBC version will still exist via Chromie Time, unlike Cata's revamp. -There will be a "seamless transition from EPL to Ghostlands, etc."

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My father, Ronald "Young Ron Brewer" Bates, passed away last night. He was 68. The outpouring of support from people around the internet who were touched by his work on the Paul and Young Ron radio show is very sweet and appreciated. Thank you all.

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It's kind of interesting that the twitter response to Dragonflight has been super positive and seen as a step in the right direction, where the MMO-Champion thread is super negative and regard it as doing everything Shadowlands did wrong even worse and that it looks like...

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Excelsior!

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Just realized. This is the first time we've had an expansion announcement with only a cinematic trailer and not an in-game trailer showing the features. Instead we've got pieces of the deep dive cut into different mini videos uploaded to the WoW youtube channel. I wonder why?

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All the discourse on how Blizzard's handling of the Alliance is part of what's caused the faction to nearly die player wise (it's apparently at 80% Horde players to 20% Alliance players worldwide) reminded me of one incident from Blizzcon that's very illuminating: (1)

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A funny thought: the Primal Incarnates had even less build up and came even more out of nowhere than the Jailer (who at least had all the foreshadowing in BfA and, to a smaller degree, Legion), and yet they're still so much more interesting villains.

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After the war campaign, you can find him telling stories about Saurfang to the orphans in Orgrimmar.

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Dear united people of Azeroth, let us pause for a moment and appreciate what a GOOD BOI Zekhan is. Someone please adopt this blueberry muffin ... I should adopt him. #Warcraft #BFA

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OH MY GOSH GUESS WHAT JUST DROPPED! [Ashes of Al'ar] #Warcraft

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I have a quest to fulfill 5 engineering crafting orders, but I've never seen a single crafting order show up since the expansion launched. Am I using the interface wrong and missing something?

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They changed the Hallowfall Fishing Derby from rewarding 25 derby marks to 3. Upside is supposed to be that you can now do the quest on multiple characters, but you have to do the quest eight times to get the same amount of marks doing it once gave you before. Horrible change. ☹️

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Unpopular? Opinion, but I really like that the trading post can be finished in a day. It makes it even farther removed from the negative aspects of "battle pass" type systems and issues with FOMO.

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That nerubians have just so happened to evolve into something that looks much closer to the framework they'd need to be a playable race, plus the "three part expansion" idea, makes me really hopeful this is a Nightborne 2.0 type situation.

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@TheRedShirtGuy What do you reckon the chances are that we'll get a Nerubian allied race?

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BASELESS SPECULATION: At some point, either 9.1 or 9.2, we'll get an additional soulbind for each covenant and they'll be: Kyrian: Uther Necrolord: Draka Night Fae: Ysera Venthyr: Kael'thas

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I still don’t get why the “quests unlock all armor type transmogs” feature has been removed. It was first announced back at Blizzcon with the rest of the warband stuff, worked for the entirety of the beta, and now is just gone with no comment or even acknowledgement from Blizzard

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Some Patch 11.0.2 Changes This Patch is expected to launch sometime between now and August 22nd as it contains various War Within changes from Beta • New Login Screen & Music • Khaz Algar on the Map • Honor is Warband Transferable • Dates changed on many reoccurring events

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Glad to see that Blizzard is keeping to their "it'll be out when it's done" philosophy. A delayed expansion is always better than a launch that's not up to par.

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Another great thing about TWW is the handling of Dalaran. It solves the biggest problem with the "destroy an iconic, almost always Alliance, city for shock value at the start of an expansion" that it happens and then is immediately forgotten about. (1)

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Cool idea: What if ghost wolf form had racial variants like the raptor glyph? Ex: Dwarf: Ram Dark Iron: Darkhound Tauren: Kodo Pandaren: Yak KT: Horse (like a kelpie) Draenei: Talbuk Vulpera: Hyena Highmountain: Moose Troll: Raptor Zanda: Direhorn Orc: Wolf Mag'har: Other Wolf?

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"Nesingwary and I have moved on, with so many words left unsaid." No comment.

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The engravings on the cavern ceiling around the Beledar look vaguely familiar...

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Interesting note on Dragonflight's potential amount of content. During the live stream, they said the Azure Span is "possibly the largest single zone we've ever done" and then in an interview said the Dragon Isles themselves are "possible the largest continent we've ever done."

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Fun fact: The Alliance TBC race was originally going to be pandaren. But they realized pandaren didn’t fit the theme of the expansion and went back to the drawing board. They eventually settled on eredar, and had Chris Metzen come up with the draenei retcon to (1)

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If you stand in just the right place, you can see Sargeras' sword all the way from Azshara.

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This is big news to all those discussing dracthyr. TLDR: -Some (not all) armor displays on their dragon form, like mechagnomes -You can choose between a slender and bulkier body type -Heads can be more draconic looking, lots of customization options they weren't ready to show.

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Regarding Dracthyr:

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The biggest lesson from BfA should be that no one wants to play a story where half of the playerbase has to play as the victims of what is referred to in-universe as "genocide" the other half of the playerbase has to carry out. The story will probably never fully recover from it

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@skymagpie I still wish the prepatch had been retconned instead of trying to fix or make the best of it. For the rest of the game's life, the writing's going to have to ignore the elephant in the room that an entire faction and most of its PCs were plot-mandated to aid in a genocide story.

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So Dragonflights' alpha is already on WoWdev. It took four months for Shadowlands alpha to get to wowdev, and another two months to actually start the alpha, so we seem to be going at an accelerated timetable.

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Funniest bug: Adjusting the settings for view distance and ground clutter cause the new login screen to change to this...

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I have questions:

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Would fit the elf theme. Wait a second. "Reunite the scattered elven tribes to Quel'thalas..." Naga are cursed elves... I was thinking Amani would be the obvious equivalent to earthen in Midnight... but maybe... 🤯

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Having a STRONG feeling Midnight is going to be HER expansion! FOR QUEEN AZSHARA ALWAYS

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Whoa, Highmountain at night is beautiful.

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Apparently the community council has mostly devolved into arguing about the new racially diverse customization options for humans in Shadowlands, which I thought was settled over a year ago. I'm starting to think I dodged a bullet when I didn't apply.

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Woo! Thanks to the Winds of Wisdom buff I finally got the Dark Iron heritage armor! I wish the buff would last through all of season 4 @Warcraft @WarcraftDevs . It would fit perfectly with season 4's concept of revisting old content while waiting for Shadowlands.

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They should implement that unused hunter only Dark Ranger questline from 8.1. datamining as a special questline to unlock the Dark Ranger skins like the night warrior one we did get.

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@Drorith @TheRedShirtGuy @keyboardturn Remember the subrace proposal by Moira on EU Forum last June? Now she made teasers for #nightelf and #bloodelf DARK RANGERS! Don't you agree that @WatcherDev and the @WarcraftDevs should really take notice of them? #Shadowlands #Warcraft

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Since there's been some confusion on the expansion leak. The expansion's name: 100% genuine, it was found on Blizzard's own website and they purchased a separate domain name for it as well. The only way it's fake is if they're trolling. The Artwork: Unconfirmed.

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"Dracthyr can glide and get a little bit of lift in a manner like Demon Hunters, but cannot fly outside of the Dragon Isles in their form." Aw, that's too bad. If they can fly in the dragon isles (which they can, had to cut the quote for space), they should be able to out of it.

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I don't know why it bugs me so much, but the original expansion is called "The Burning Crusade" but the classic version is called "World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade." Why did they get rid of the "The?"

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It not being the tip of Sargeras' sword piercing into the underground was a huge missed opportunity for an incredibly visual, though.

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Since a lot of people are saying it, it's definitely *not* Sargeras' sword haha. It is a literal source of Light, with a lot of intricate crystal details. They said that it's been there at least since the Arathi settled in the cavern, too, which was a few thousand years ago.

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Is it just me, or does Dragonflight have a different art style in the models and environment design? Everything seems a lot rounder and simplified compared to Shadowlands.

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100% agreed. Her chilling delivery of “Drenden’s been dead for YEARS!” is so good, but imagine how much better and much harder that line would have hit if it was another member of the council. One who we didn’t already know had been dead for years.

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I've mentioned this before to friends, but honestly the Xal'atath Drenden "twist" would've been so much better if she had disposed of and disguised herself as a member of the existing Council of Six. It would certainly make the cast look less stupid.

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Why are Nomi and Wrathion allowed to have grown up but Li Li hasn't?

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They probably should outline exactly what Metzen meant about the next three expansions coming out much quicker than usual sooner than later.

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I will say, if we're getting faster expansions with less content, this box price increase just isn't gonna fly. Dragonflight being shorter is fine, but charging *more* for less overall content feels super cheap for a game that has a consistent subscription and cash shop flow.

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Look Ma, I'm an eredar!

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That might be the coolest, most intimidating the Jailer has ever looked.

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Love or hate him you can not deny the @Warcraft art team does not slay every time !!!!

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MINOR SPOILERS FOR SYLVANAS: In WotLK "Darkfallen" was just an alternate name for the san'layn. The novel explains that Darkfallen are actually an entire "race" of undead. Sylvanas is a darkfallen. All dark rangers are darkfallen. All san'layn are darkfallen. That sounds like...

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That they keep specifying the Warcraft universe as opposed to WoW in these Metzen announcements makes me wonder if have games planned outside of WoW that will be canon/major parts of the story unlike Hearthstone or Rumble.

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WARNING Do not leave the Obsidian Citadel if you have a greater obsidian key, it will be deleted from your inventory and you will have to farm materials for another one from scratch. =(

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Everything wrong with Sylvanas, the Forsaken, and the Horde at large in BfA was already a problem in Cata. That few people noticed this, and that Cata’s Syvlvanas/Forsaken/Horde was positively received at the time likely helped encourage the attitudes in the devs that led to BfA.

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Reporting the important bugs:

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Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I can't agree with people saying the new drakonid model is what dracthyr should have been, they're a little too buff like dracthyr are a little too skinny. I think a physique more akin to Revendreth's gargoyles would be the happy medium.

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New desktop background!

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2 years

THE RETURN!

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That's all well and good, Pelagos, but why are the souls still going into the Maw, even during Sylvanas' Judgment cutscene?! =P

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I loved the Horde Tol Dagor one where Nathanos sends you to recover what he thinks is a super powerful Kul Tiran warship and then it turns out to be a ship in a bottle and he is just like "we will never speak of this again."

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Also while talking about representation stuff, I'm not 100% sure what happened but I've seen a lot of talk about transphobia on WoW twitter and that's not good either. Being phobic (in the bigoted sense of the word) of anyone is bad. Trans rights are human rights.

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Interesting thought. Ysera is said to be one of the last spirits to enter Ardenweald before death broke/the anima drought. So that narrows the timeline down to sometime after Val'sharah but still during Legion. You know what would fit with that? Stormheim... 😮

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I found him… Big Chungus.

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"The Earthen Dwarves can be all classes except for Druid, Demon Hunter, and Evoker." Huh. Would have given them druid and not Dk instead. Stone animal druid forms would be super cool, while death knights will make a bit of a continuity snarl unless they do something like worgen.

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I try not to talk about politics on this account (politics meaning elections and stuff) but in this case, with everything bad going on with Russia invading Ukraine and that Texas bill stuff, I hope everyone stays safe and this invasion/war ends ASAP. These are scary times.

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Wildhammer!

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Oh my gosh, did they just make an in-game cutscene with full, regular cinematic quality lip-syncing?! This has super good implications for the future!

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War of the Scaleborn devoted a lot of time to describing Iridikron's home Harrowsdeep, a labyrinthine fortress that might be located beneath Icecrown. Iridikron's goal is to have the titans arrive on Azeroth so he can fight them. The Last Titan is a Northrend revamp...

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Honestly not sure if I’m going this year. All the stories from the lawsuit about what went on behind the scenes during Blizzcon has soured it for me somewhat, and I’m a little nervous about going to such a crowded indoor area with COVID still technically a thing.

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#BlizzCon comes to Anaheim November 3-4, 2023 Details:

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Ah yes, everyone remembers the day Stromgarde was reclaimed by a small tree frog.

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Most of WoWhead’s analysis articles saying one of your spec’s hero talents is objectively worse is not a good sign for the future. I get the feeling that despite the insistence hero talents are an evergreen feature, they might not last beyond TWW, at least in their current form.

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Hero Talents really should have just been Hero Aesthetics...

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"I don't want to spoil everything, and I'm confident that there are at least a couple of surprises coming along the way that no one is expecting." My guess: Return to the Forbidden Reach unlocks other classes for dracthyr. Seems like they've been setting that up if you (cont)

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They really should have just called Hero Talents "subclasses" because the trailer didn't make it clear what they are at all, and what they are (subclasses) are super hype.

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I hope we get an explanation on why they seemingly did a complete one eighty on customization compared to their comments about it in Shadowlands post-launch back in 2019 and early 2020.

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4 years

On the BlizzConline 2021 World of Warcraft Q&A Panel, it has been confirmed that there are currently no plans to add more customization options for Shadowlands. #Shadowlands #Warcraft

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I won’t say too much as it’s technically still speculation at this point but looking all but confirmed now, the night elves leaving Kalimdor to make a new home on the opposite side of the world is one of the worst possible resolutions to this storyline, which is already…

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Interesting little map change in 10.2, despite being in a different phase, the new landmass for the Emerald Dream shows on the *open world* Ohn'ahran Plains map. Could just be for gameplay clarity, but that feels a bit misleading, so it could potentially be for future story.

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@Warcraft @WarcraftDevs Something that might help with the Dracthyr looking at times more lizard than dragonlike could be the option to let their teeth protrude out of their mouths, either as a toggle like the arm and chest spike options, or as a snout type if that's untenable.

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So allegedly, from the MMO-Champion 9.0. discussion thread, there are a bunch of textures files suggesting that Stormwind is getting a massive graphical overhaul. Could my dream of them updating SW and Org and maybe giving undead and NE more permanent homes come true?

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According to the mmo-c thread, an interview said Plunderstorm will last six weeks. Considering you get 500 renown per game, it takes 2,500 renown to go up a tier, and there are 40 tiers, that doesn't sound good.

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Look at her clasping her little T. rex arms together it’s so precious!

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11 months

Oh that's so cute, Vyranoth got a new custom sit animation in 10.2.5, likely for sitting up at the Seat of the Aspects.

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As I've said before, I use this account to interact with the world as The Red Shirt Guy, i.e. talking about silly stuff like WoW and sometimes whatever games/movies/books I'm currently playing/watching/reading, not to discuss world politics unrelated to those topics, but (1)

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