Former challenge runner (snagged 3rd in the Sekiro no-hit run) now grinding hard in WoW. I’m flipping between DPS and healer roles as I chase new challenges
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A devious trick in WoW Forever has some players furious, but veteran players have seen it all before
Blizzard intentionally put quests into the new dungeons that cannot be completed in a single run, leaving one singular mob off of the new Dalaran Sewers dungeon, so you have to run it again
With Dungeon Mob XP being nerfed, some players are annoyed at this design decision ..
..though, veterans will note that Wailing Caverns has been doing this longer than some current players were even born
The fastest levelers in World of Warcraft Forever are all doing something that Sweats said wasn't worth it. Even if you just want to enjoy the game and aren't feeling an ounce of fear of missing out, myself included, we can still learn from this new tech.
1 - The top 10 fastest levelers in WoW Forever are all religiously using the cozy sleeping bag for 3% extra experience.
2 - They're always well fed (food buff) for 5% extra mob kills
3 - They always, always, always using their campfire buffs like the leatherworking tent for dditional 5% rested XP every single hour and the 8% stats from the fishbowl.
TLDR: get yourself that cozy sleeping bag starting level 14 in Westfall for Alliance and Barrens for Horde.
If you want to be extra pro, combine it with your campfire at the same time and you will be getting an insane stack of buffs. Throw the Twitch drop on top. It gives you two hour duration on your campfire information and you are going to be leveling with style.
A controversial Twitch drop for WoW Forever speeds up your leveling. One class was nerfed so hard on November Blank that it actually sucks now. And blizzard announces major changes to leveling.
1: The Violet dust toy doubles Campfire buff duration, meaning that buffs like 8% stats from fishing last two hours instead of one. It is only available until the 12th at 430 PST. Players like GreenEyedRascal say they don't like the FOMO nature, but most people are just happy they haven't missed it yet.
2: Meanwhile, Warlocks were nerfed so hard with their pet scaling on November Blank that they can't tank mobs anymore with their pet.
3: Blizzard says that if you enjoyed the ghost town nature of the launch day, that is coming to an end. They're about to merge the layers back, and you're going to see a much more populating starting zones.
Blizzard announced changes to leveling in WoW Forever, just for the launch window
1 - killing mobs is the way to go early on, because Blizzard says they've drastically increased spawn rates in those early zones.
skip Sarkoth, and just get to a corner and farm.
2 - every zone now has a profession quest to learn mining skinning or herbalism
if the quest is crowded or annoying skip it and pick up the professions the old fashioned way
3 - every single zone also has a six-slot bag to knock out And, importantly, starting vendor will have a 4-slot reagent bag of your choosing for just 25 copper.
though none of this matters if we are waiting in a 6 hour queue xD
3 BIGGEST changes in the November 2nd Wow Forever Balance patch
3 - No more Salvation, replaced with higher threat on all the tanks. sorry shaman tanks. maybe next year..
2 - rogues get a new shank ability that is amped up by all three different rogue talent trees. it generates energy and making the class able to press more buttons
1 -, Blizzard announced that there won't be any more class tuning until December 9th. As a result, shamans (who in fairness did get some buffs like increased stormstrike damage) are unhappy to the point where they've shut their Discord down.
Are you happy with your class changes until December 9th? Or do you want your class discord to shut down too?
This profession might be changing forever in.. WoW Forever.
On the public test realm, players have found that enchanting vellums are available, which would allow players to buy and sell specific enchants and put them on their armor.
Players note that this would be a good change because currently you cannot enchant your alts gear, and WoW Forever is very designed around having alts.
Also, it completely solves an enchanting bot situation where people are doing automated enchants.
However, it's notable that many legitimate players were doing enchanting, and profit margins would go down significantly. Nobody's tipping you if you're selling vellums on the auction house.
It's possible that this Vellum change won't end up coming to the live game.
if it did though, would you be happy about it?
The Most POPULATED Ruleset is causing some problems in WoW Forever.
In a poll of 15,000 WoW Forever players, we now know the four most popular rule sets.
#4 - RP PVE - 4% of polled players
#3 - RP PVP - 7% of polled players (but gaining in hype/popularity according to comments
#2 - PvE - 37% of players
#1 - 52% of the population, with Horde players are reporting issues with being able to create characters
If the queues are atrocious on launch, might be worth leveling that alt on RP PVP, or RP PVE for a bit..
(plus you can pick the opposite faction you play on PvP if you want)
Blizzard has revealed the ultimate strategy for launch night:
youtu.be/DDXvRRZ4TzA
Blizzards secret new change from the wow forever beta suddenly puts a spotlight on good tanking and DPS threat management
Salvation is no longer taught by trainers. Barring a change, that means there is no Salvation buff in WoW Forever, which means that that 30% threat reduction for your party members is just completely gone
For Horde players, this will be nothing new. We never had Salvation in Classic.
But now a spotlight has been put on tanks to deal more threat, and DPS will need to be smart and throttle at times to stay alive.
Do you think this is the right call for WoW Forever, or would you prefer if threat wasn't a big focus?
The easiest class in WoW Forever is also going to among the highest damage
A controversial ranking of the highest to lowest action per minute classes in WoW Forever has classes like Ret Paladins and Survival Hunters near the top, alongside Fury Warriors.
But at the very bottom, you have old reliable, the Assassination and Combat Rogues, press between 22 and 23 actions per minute
Some rogues arent happy with the rotation, but blizzard promises itll pay off either way with high single target damage
New details about the viral Hardcore WoW raid wipe yesterday:
- the guild was Ascended on Soulseeker, one of the 7 best guilds in the world (they had the fastest Horde Naxxramas clear time)
- Ascended had cleared AQ40 previous in FIFTY ONE minutes
- Why the muted reaction? Ascended says it's not staged, they just have have probably died at 60 on each player "5+ times" and accept the risk
- They put up a poll after the wipe on whether they should go again, and the poll was overwhelmingly "go again"
would you go again if you wiped this way in HC?
Blizzard has revealed a surprising reason why they added the Skyborne Elf race to World of Warcraft forever
Principal designer Kris Zierhut said that "there's a lot of players who don't want to play a monster." He was referring to Orcs, Trolls, Tauren, and Undead.
He says "some players want something that looks pretty."
Makes sense..though I don't know how you would consider Taurens to be monsters. Kind of messed up
name reservation is a hell i cannot escape from
Some big last minute racial changes in WoW Forever
Big takeaways:
- They removed weapon skill and replaced it with..nothing? (it was clunky but they kinda just scrapped a pretty unique aspect of the game)
- Taurens plainsrunning seems silly now (60% movement speed)
- Dwarf got 1% hit
- Undead have been forgotten about
What's your take on the changes? I'm getting change fatigue here
These are the sweatiest and most insane accomplishments in the WoW Forever Beta
1 - the player SpyGuy clocked 541 hours played over 14.5 hours per day since September 17th (hope he gets outside before launch..)
2 - Zowned prepped for the PvP Dueling Tournament, looting 690 different chests. Though, didn't help him beat any Warlocks xd
3 Remy reported 61 separate bugs. dont think i remembered to report any at all..rip
4 catchfree. 318k+ jumps. his knees were undoubtedly destroyed in the process.
Check out your timewalking sometime and let me know where you stand out
Blizzard REMOVED Their Oneshots (WoW Forever)
Epic oneshot moment are why many players love Ele Shamans in WoW Classic.
But Blizzard has nerfed Ele Shaman burst damage in PvP in order to make them a more viable and engaging PvE spec.
But is that even the right approach?
Should Blizzard really be focused on PvE balance when the most fun part of ele shamans is being able to one shot people?