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ced kind of ironic that phasing turned into yet another method of fomo and player annoyance in implementation particularly in wrath classic fun with phasing my first exposure to phasing in wrath classic wasn t the wrathgate although that was a close second the wrathgate is easier to explain however a dungeon group of my raid team was heading out from dalaran to wherever and we passed by the wrathgate area i took note that everybody except me was marked as in a different phase and i quipped well it s easy to see who did the wrathgate and who didn t oh the tank asked everybody else is listed as in a different phase ah but people and i expected that my first encounter with phasing in wrath classic was in nearby wintergarde keep where my questing buddy needed a hand in killing a mini boss i rode up to her and promptly was attacked by a steady stream of respawning ghouls i didn t worry since she was on her priest and she could heal me without batting an eyelash the only thing was she wasn t healing uh i said to myself after the third wave of ghouls respawning so rapidly i couldn t stop to eat and drink and recover are you being attacked she asked in chat uh yeah i replied i can t see any of that shit none of it nope i eventually managed to break away from the onslaught long enough for me to get my health and mana back we then acquired a couple of other people nearby who were on the same quest as she was and we engaged the boss are you on the quest she asked me no here let me share it says you re not eligible i guess i m not far enough along the chain to get it okies the boss was successfully downed but waves of ghouls came at me again in the middle of the fight and i think i died once along the way no worries i thought i ll just rez and go back to the inn at wintergarde keep and find a vendor to repair at i arrived at the keep but something was missing lots of somethings hey i typed out where is everybody am i missing the innkeeper or something oh my questing buddy replied you have to do the first couple of quests here to unlock all of those people you have got to be kidding me nope phasing yeah it sucks do you need a hand in doing those first quests by then my stubborn streak reasserted itself and i was determined to give the game the middle finger no i ll get to it when i get to it i replied angry that the game was not so subtly trying to force me into doing quests i didn t want to do right then i came over to help someone not be helped when i didn t need it okies after that sequence of events i learned fairly quickly that wrath classic made far more extensive use of phasing than i remembered such as in zul drak with the zandalari quests or the storm peaks with the hyldnir thorim sons of hodir questline but phasing is most egregiously used in icecrown glacier where in scourgeholme that first screenshot in this post was taken just the other day my questing buddy needed a hand with some bosses and i hopped on deuce to help out i flew over and where are you i asked i m phased i thought this might happen shit i dropped into the area where the boss was and not only could i not see her but i couldn t even see any enemies at all let me send you a screenshot so you can see what i m seeing i told her and sent the pic above the unadulterated version to her via discord i was able to find a small portion of icecrown where we weren t phased so i could buff her and give her some food but after that i was reduced to being a cheerleader for a fight i couldn t even see all i could do was watch her mana go slowly down down down and then the questie alert popped up hey gratz i typed out thanks i followed her blip on the minimap until she headed south into crystalsong forest and then i was able to assist on killing some mobs but with phasing keeping us separated in icecrown and my ire at being not so subtly pressured by the game into catching up with her i told her that i was just a spectator and i logged for the night i get it i understand the why of phasing it exists so that more detailed stories can be told in the game world it s just that unless you re completely on the same phase with another person grouping up to quest together is a pretty useless endeavor which sucks layers which is wow classic s bastard cousin of phasing has similar problems such as last night when my questing buddy was going to go on a naxxramas 25 person pug after she unsuccessfully tried roping me in she asked me if i could get her some mage food sure i replied parked linna and hopped on deuce i hopped on a flight over to wintergarde keep along the way answering multiple whispers who wanted me to join the naxx raid with a no thanks and landed where are you i asked at the flightpoint i tried targeting her but no dice uh what layer are you on i don t know well crap that s probably why i can t see you you ll have to drop from the raid and invite me so i can then see you a few moments later i received an invite which i accepted and she reappeared next to me i handed over the mage pastries gave her a wave and swapped back over to linna that entire sequence was far more complicated than it needed to be mainly due to the presence of layers you should be able to go right up to someone hand over what s needed and then leave but now with layers you have to group up so you can actually find each other which is a royal pain if one of you is already in a group and if you re phased well sucks to be us i guess i already know the answer to the problems phasing creates just consume the content yeah but here s the thing not everybody wants to or is able to go at the same pace as everybody else and by creating that artificial barrier blizzard is inserting fomo into something it was never meant for i realize that i m likely the only person who gets annoyed at phasing in this way but i don t like to be pressured and told what to do whether it be directly or indirectly and wow has enough peer pressure already present in game without any more being added thankyouverymuch or a tabletop game you were expecting me to say more no way i m pretty sure nobody wants to read about that while eating a meal and perusing their blog readers and if you do what the hell is wrong with you kind of interesting how blizz has pretty much ranked what is important using the three tiered system normal quests phased quests quest chains instanced content different players might have different opinions on what they perceive to be most important but blizz put the unofficial imprimatur on their design based on which content goes into which bucket several mmos in a post wrath world that use multiple servers do have layering in place they just call it something different i think swtor calls them game worlds for example but more and more mmos are migrating toward a singular megaserver with multiple layers to accommodate the sheer population size yet also adjust the game to make the game not seem overwhelmingly populated she did give it a good attempt but i wasn t interested there was more drama in the franken guild that day that i heard about secondhand but it was sufficient enough to not make me want to go into any 25 person raids put on by the guild it s jes raid my questing buddy replied trying to lure me in and pointing out to me that it s not an official alt pug raid put on by the guild i know i replied i like jes a lot and she does a great job at raid leading but the most recent official response to an incident concerning the guild banks is to restrict the guild bank usage to the 25 person real raids only this is not what i d consider a correct response punish the offender and change operation of the bank so that withdrawals need to be handled via a banking toon identified by the guild so the capricious nature of the response just stuck in my craw we already knew that 10 person raids were considered casual by the guild s leadership but lumping our raid team in with the person who caused the problem and implying it s a casual vs hardcore issue rather than someone who abused the guild banks infuriated me from my perspective it certainly seems like they re pissing away all of the goodwill they d earned over on myzrael us and they re going to acquire a poor reputation on atiesh us if they keep this up and why would i want to be associated with that there were enough whispers that i wondered briefly if i was conned into swapping over so i could be recruited but i knew better i was just being paranoid unlike say apple stubbornly refusing to change their imessage app to utilize the rcs standard which is quite deliberate apple is in a passive aggressive way utilizing peer pressure and bullying by iphone users to force people into swapping from android phones to apple s iphones it s mainly a us based thing since most of the rest of the world uses whatsapp or signal or other messaging applications but it is quite effective especially among tweens teens and 20 somethings to pressure their peers into buying iphones so they can stay with their friends group chats you d think that apple ceo tim cook who as an lgbtq person was likely bullied would step in and try to change this marketing tactic but i guess profits are more important than integrity posted by redbeard at 4 23 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings wrath classic friday november 11 2022 the magical world of whatever when i last encountered the mage ocracy of dalaran in the world of warcraft it was 2010 sure i d parked the original neve there retired from adventuring and permanently having a drink at the legerdemain lounge but there s a big difference between hanging around at a tavern and actively using a place as your home base back then i had little idea as to what dalaran really was i knew where it should have been you can t miss the dalaran crater if you quest through alterac and hillsbrad foothills and i was so confused when i d see souldat s location as dalaran when i checked out the social tab that when i hit l70 i went back to the crater to see if something had changed narrator it hadn t you bet your ass i m bringing this screencap back out it was only when i began playing through northrend that i began to realize that dalaran was actually up in northrend itself hence the crater in fact reaching dalaran was also my first exposure to phasing in world of warcraft soul was escorting me on quintalan my paladin on the way from sunreaver s command in the dragonblight and when we drew close to the kor koron vanguard he vanished uh i said in vent you disappeared i did he replied yeah you just faded away let me backtrack a few moments later he reappeared that s weird i said doing my best captain obvious impression oh i know why he realized after a very long pause you haven t done the wrathgate yet the what don t worry you ll get there for now just go up to the flight point at the vanguard grab it and then head east i should reappear shortly sure enough souldat reappeared once we got far enough away from the kor kron vanguard and we continued up into the crystalsong forest for some reason i was ignorant of the quest at l74 to enter dalaran because when we got to the teleportation crystal on ground level beneath the city i couldn t use it there was a long pause while soul checked something out oh he said finally you can t get there until you re l74 well that sucks my memory is hazy after that so i don t know if i either waited until l74 to get the quest or we got soul s wife who played a mage to port me to dalaran it s probably the latter because i don t recall the quest until my next series of toons tomakan and neve made it to northrend after cataclysm was released upon my arrival i looked at dalaran as simply another home base in much the same fashion as shattrath was before it a place for the horde and alliance to congregate before heading out to do stuff in northrend it was a safe hub in a pvp world on a pvp server and this was where you could get access to some of the daily quests such as the cooking and fishing dailies i was ignorant of anything resembling dailies for instances i believe the heroic ones were replaced with the automated lfd dailies that didn t require an official daily quest raid gear or even that this was where you could purchase heirloom gear i m sure that today in wrath classic that s what dalaran is to most people just a place to hang out and crafting stuff done but to me i ve found myself reluctant to be inside dalaran in wrath classic as i told my questing buddy a couple of weeks ago she s probably seen all the times i ve been in dalaran because it s a place to open a portal to after an instance or a raid the city is centrally located so if you re trying to get somewhere after having run an instance on the edge of the map such as gundrak or halls of lightning it s easier to have your friendly neighborhood mage tm open a portal to get to dalaran first the few times i ve been in there the place hasn t changed the streets the lights the sounds the npcs everything is still as it was back in the day then why don t i like hanging around dalaran much i changed or rather my circumstances changed back in the day i hadn t any concerns about things such as guilds raiding or endgame in general the servers i was on first stormscale us and then area 52 us were huge servers with a good sized horde population a 52 was approximately 10 1 horde back then the ratio is much worse now and more importantly there was no such thing as layers so a crowded dalaran was just that a huge mess of a crowd normally i d avoid crowds anyway because i dislike them but i quickly discovered that crowds as found on a 52 brought anonymity with them nobody knew me and using the automated lfd tool meant most people i found via the tool didn t know me either since i didn t raid i had no titles next to my name no gearscore to worry about either since that was only utilized in reference to pugging raids i mean if you had people looking for gearscores of 5000 to run heroic halls of lightning they likely wanted to be carried even the non friends and family guild i eventually joined with soul and his wife the grey death legion was small potatoes compared to the rest of a 52 now in classic the script has been flipped atiesh us is a much larger server than a 52 us ever was but due to layering there aren t many crowds in dalaran you d think that was a good thing for an introvert who doesn t like crowds much but because so many people from myzrael us migrated to atiesh us i always see people i know the few times i enter into dalaran especially ex guildies it s a constant reminder to me that i left valhalla by remaining behind while everyone else migrated to atiesh us and i fully intended to remain mostly on myzrael us until i was recruited into the 10s raid that i m presently in so here i am mostly on atiesh us these days despite my original intentions and while i ve made it plain that deuce is not og 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