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goodness you click on it and at first it appears to do nothing until you hover over the joyous journeys buff ah better you can go back and talk to the innkeeper again and re enable the buff and there it is i can also inform people that wow does in fact remember to keep the buff set to 0 if you logout and log back in again so you don t have to disable it every single time you relog not because of hardmode but because of the potential for outleveling zones areas so quickly i never get the chance to properly finish an area before i shoot past the recommended level range well there might be a bit of hardmode to it as well and more than a bit of stubbornness involved posted by redbeard at 3 30 pm 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels buffs tbc classic wednesday july 27 2022 third party ponderables just how important are achievements to the retail community it may not seem like big deal but i wondered about it today because i was thinking about the arms race that blizz found itself engaged with addons such as deadly boss mods according to far too many videos and blog posts i ve come across over the past couple of years the complexity of raids has amped up by blizz in an attempt to counter dbm and other third party addons providing a counter to the already existing boss mechanics dbm provides alerts on certain mechanics so blizz makes them more complex so dbm adjusts to compensate for the complex mechanics and so on and so forth but i wondered about achievements for a pretty simple reason blizz has the ability to sense third party addons and if it detects them blizz has the ability to encode a change to wow to block achievements based on the presence of said third party addons think of it this way you push hard for a world first kill and you finally get it but blizz denies you the achievement because you were using addons or certain types of addons that wait for certain flags and act on those flags such as dbm i d presume that the wow community would be a wee bit upset about that but just how upset is something i have no insight on if wow wanted to kill off addons that s one way of achieving that goal without resorting to an official ban on addons that s for sure of course blizz would have to dial back the boss mechanics if they wanted to give raids a fighting chance against them but still yeah i think the popping of the dbm bubble like the fed raising interest rates is probably an extreme solution to the problem but i have no idea just how raids would function in a no addons allowed wow environment it obviously works in other mmos such as ff xiv and swtor but wow is an mmo built upon third party addons like dbm and elvui discuss eta changed some grammar posted by redbeard at 6 36 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels addons mmos musings retail monday july 25 2022 a necessary distinction okay let s be real for a minute here it s easy to look at my excitement at my last couple of posts and think that ol red here is all in on wrath classic after all i positively geeked out over the initial landing in northrend from the horde and alliance side at borean tundra and there s these that i did last night nice to see we re both on the same page sir quintalan who the hell stuffed a ship up there linna and like an idiot i didn t realize there was a pets tab in the character window which is where the mounts live and i ended up submitting a ticket for my charger isn t in the spell window oops this is all well and good and yes i was excited for a return to northrend that hasn t changed but what also hasn t changed is my sense of dread about how wrath classic will end up in implementation despite everything tbc classic had one thing going for it i really liked the story okay i also liked the setting and the class changes and even the grind itself i m not going to dissemble here the story in tbc classic much like vanilla s decentralized stories had so many enjoyable parts that you can tell there was a lot of thought that went into how to make two erstwhile allies hate each other and how to bring them together and no i m not talking about the queldorei and sindorei either i wouldn t have written those letters from posts if i hated the content what i hated about tbc classic had nothing to do with the game itself but rather how people decided the game should be played that s a huge distinction but the most important one if we re to understand what happened to tbc classic and my own enjoyment of it remember this video it showed up on my recommended video list again for some reason and i thought i might as well listen once more while i was leveling weapon skills for cardwyn 1 0 you d think that i wouldn t necessarily want to revisit this because it would remind me of the past year or so but i also think that it s important to understand why things became the way they did in tbc classic just saying people brought a retail mentality to classic isn t enough because there s plenty of room for misinterpretation the crux of the video for me anyway was when all trades jack presented a flowchart on what it took to raid in shadowlands and how if he wanted to raid with his guild when the raids opened three weeks after the expac launched he had to follow an insane timeline expressed in the flowchart in order to raid with my guild i first had to get to level cap in about five days this was necessary so i could do end game dungeons and start grinding renown i had to look up a class guide so i could pick out the best talents the best covenant and find the best gear i had to look up a legendary guide to help me identify the best legendary for fire mages and which dungeon or wing of torghast i had to grind in order to obtain it i had to look up a guide to tell me what my weekly checklist should be in order to make gold stockpile anima get soul ash and farm consumables for myself and my guild i had to look up guides to the castle nathria boss mechanics and make sure i was aware of what my role would be to counter them i had to look up guides on my ability rotation as a fire mage and how to maximize dps as a caster while constantly on the move in the raid i had to download a list of add ons that gave me a number of advantages that are necessary to perform at a raiding level all of this just to join my guild in our attempt to complete the entry level difficulty for castle nathria just this preparation was a commitment and you know what even after doing all of this i was still third from the bottom on the dps meter my guildies were much more dedicated and skilled than i was all trades jack this game wasn t meant for you world of warcraft vs casual players does that sound familiar it tracks very closely with all of the attunements and gearing that everybody was blitzing through in tbc classic just to get to raid karazhan and gruul mags okay maybe not everybody but it was the meta and a lot of people were following it religiously even when i was about in outland on briganaa and i d run into someone needing help with a group quest conversation inevitably turned to the pace of getting through everything in time to raid some guilds used the buddy system where guildies were in groups of five so they could run instances and level together other guilds used what valhalla did and said just group up and ask for help and we ll get you help narrator for the leveling shamans they became familiar with the term new phone who dis but far and away the meta was what people followed and they did so with a goal oriented mentality more typically of what you d find out of recent college grads gunning for an office cubicle at a fortune 500 company i was no different and as i alluded to with my snarky comment above being a leveling shaman paladin meant you had a longer road to travel than anybody else let s not make any bones about it was it fun and yeah players will still complain about anything that slows them down because players want to consume as quickly as possible but complaining is just what mmo players do really modern mmo players are so goal oriented that they never seem to consider what s actually fun players just chase their goals and hope fun will follow as a consequence neverknowsbest from how to save the mmo genre once and for all for some people yes or at least they put on a happy face about it for others including me no it was a grind that once you got to the end of leveling you began grinding again so you could get the attunements and then the gear necessary to raid once you began raiding there was pressure to keep up with the joneses and raid as much as you could to clear all the content so you could do it all over again on the next phase of raiding the feeling of doing something greater than yourself of being a part of something big and truly accomplishing something was lost in the constant race to get ready for the next raid as i ve alluded to in the past the classic wow team did nobody any favors by accelerating the timetable for tbc classic and effectively forcing progression oriented guilds into a more pressure packed environment than they signed up for sure a lot of progression teams wanted this or they said they did but quite a few imploded under the pressure and even more had to constantly plug holes in their raid team as people burned out and left to use a sports analogy there were those raiding teams that were like the university of alabama s football team who have their pick of the best players and there s everybody else who have to work hard to just stay afloat one of my fellow leveling shamans that dropped out last november told me recently that tbc classic was not what they envisioned it would be she felt too much pressure to level and get things done than what she wanted and she was enjoying life in final fantasy xiv far more than she did in tbc classic it was only when i began leveling linna and neve in outland that i truly began to enjoy the expac itself but it was far too late to prevent the entirety of tbc classic from being tainted in my memory it just goes to show that it wasn t the content itself that i disliked it was how i was pressured into approaching the content i wanted to raid and i was given the opportunity to raid lead as well and i wanted to make the most of this opportunity was the price worth it from where i stand now no i have derived more enjoyment from exploring outland and leveling alts than i did on my main withdrawal pangs aside i have gotten more enjoyment out of not raiding than raiding this includes the friday karazhan runs which would frequently give me heartburn while i made sure we had enough tanks and healers before raid time itself it was a very rare occasion indeed where i didn t have to get on the guild s lfg channel and ask for people to join the raid this brings me to wrath classic i have enjoyed the beta so far for two reasons i am under absolutely no pressure to level quickly and there aren t that many people out in the beta either my questing buddy mentioned the lack of raiding when she told me how much she was enjoying the beta because for her she d been in raid mode for over a year when you take that burden away you can simply start to breathe again and enjoy things that you used to just rush through because it was a roadblock to the next item on the checklist among the many topics my questing buddy and i chatted about the last time the two of us were out in the beta together we discussed the choke points for leveling having had her second toon out there leveling in borean tundra she pointed out the various areas where there were going to be choke points such as killing those mini bosses scattered throughout the zone typically those are at the end of a three or four quest cycle and if there isn t a crowd it s no big deal but imagining what it is going to be like on release day on these megaservers it s going to be an absolute nuthouse there s going to be a lot of frustration trying to down these mini bosses and keep pace with leveling or as i suggested people are just going to make a beeline straight into utgarde keep and just level exclusively through instances up to l80 and then quest for gold making purposes because a critical mass of players consume content like locusts for me however if i keep my mains on myzrael i ll be able to avoid the crush of people trying to get to l80 my questing buddy will be able to farm for herbs without dealing with the constant camping and bot activity on the megaservers additionally not being in the franken guild that is the merged guild means i won t have to read about how fast people are blitzing through content seeing the cliques ignoring each other and remaining in their own silos and people pushing hard to be raiding as quickly as possible i will be attempting to hold onto that sense of wonder that i had when i first took the time to look around in northrend without rushing from quest to quest and simply say wow this is amazing and atheren if and when myz is shuttered or maybe even before then i might move some of my toons your way bloodsail buccaneers is the only rp pve server in north america and since it serves such a niche role it s not likely to go away except the nesingwary quests i hate those despite that they re great if you re a skinner and need leather for leveling leatherworking or the og cardwyn not sure which one i prefer or leveling a new toon with a different class entirely eta fixed some grammar posted by redbeard at 3 49 pm 18 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels tbc classic wrath classic sunday july 24 2022 and on the other side it s a safe bet to claim that cardwyn is the toon i love the most and doubtless due in no small part to my attempts at writing fiction but of my old toons it s pretty much a tie between neve and quintalan since that s the case i created neve on the wrath classic beta because i m more familiar with a mage than a paladin at the moment i accidentally selected a more auburn hair color for neve than brown but i ll handwave it off to being out in that outland sun all the time of course you can t tell what her hair color is with that helm on sigh since i knew the drill on creating a beta version of cardwyn i opened up talent trees and filled in all the frost tree that i could then i set about filling in my bar and where are my portals teleports i blurted out loud blizz kind of missed them when they created a beta l70 for neve card may have only been missing the ports for the exodar but neve was missing all of them so my first hour in wrath classic beta on the horde side was spent shuttling back and forth to the various capital cities plus stonard and shattrath and collecting the port teleport spells then it was back to orgrimmar and onto a zeppelin bound for northrend my first trip to northrend back in original wrath was not to borean tundra but rather to vengeance 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