Have you ever seen the rain?

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Does it ever rain in WoW? I remember seeing rain for first time in BFA few days back, but when I walked a few seconds forward, it stopped, like I just phased out of rain. What was wrong with old weather? I don’t understand, there used to be rain everywhere throughout the day, but now it’s always sunny, no weather effects of any sort.

I think game is old enough, and if new engine is any better than old, shouldn’t be too hard to make rain, sandstorms, snow, any kind of weather effects that make environment more interesting.

Is it the phasing that makes this a problem?

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I have seen the rain in Stranglethorn Vale and in Un’goro crater just recently (last weekend). But I agree, we should have more weather effects and day/night shifts

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I have no idea.

My assumption would be that phasing and sharding causes too many issues with this, though if they were to just create a static day/night pattern and a weather system, then apply that to all servers, shards, phases etc - based on the server time (so for EU would be CEST [GMT +1]) - it would work regardless of what shard you were in, or what activity you were doing.
I wouldn’t even care about weather affecting the world too much (rain making things slippery, sandstorms causing LoS issues etc) - it would just be an awesome addition to the game’s atmosphere.

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Actually I would really love an option to see more “violent” climate changes.

There’s this quest of the war campaign, Horde side, where you have to swim into deep ocean and use a lantern to actually see anything. I loved that, made me think about Frictional Games. That’s something I would really love to see, even with just a toggle modality. More violent storms, heavy rain, proper night…

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I actually like that we have daytime/night time set by the real day and night. I hate games that cycle through night and day speeded up unrealistically.

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I’ve seen rain a few times in Zuldazar.

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In Zuldazar rains are weird. In seal you see it raining outside but when you get outside it stops. Or it’s duration is pretty short unlike in pandaria.

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Go to Halfhill and the heartlands in Pandaria. After 2 days of farming dark soil, I was convinced the rain would never stop!

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I’m mostly a late evening player, so I see night time a lot, and very little sunshine, which makes me a bit sad.

I’d quite like a 19 hour game day. It’d be slow enough to not feel like Minecraft (feels like it’s always night in Minecraft), but over time you would see different times of day even if you only get an hour or two to login.

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In Zuldazar it rains all the time.

I prefer when it doesn’t rain. :neutral_face:

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I disliked the timeless isle because it was so bright all the time. I guess that’s the same kind of thing in reverse.

I do sympathise.

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I don’t like the rain - it poured yesterday during the Alliance Battle for Stromgarde

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i Always loved the old weather effects the rain back in the days felt nice and had just the right sound as well.

I have seen it rain in zulduzar but it wasnt the good rain effect it used to be

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Yeah, aside from the weekends, I only see WoW at night, but I think it looks better during the day :<

I mean, it’s not as bad as night used to be, mostly just a colour shift rather than actual brightness x)

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I saw rain in dazaralor yesterday, when I was in the docks it was raining, when you walked half the stairs to the flight master it stopped, you could basically perform rain dance by moving up and down the stairs by few steps …

Now when I think of it, this was actually one of the most entertaining things in BFA so far …

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Maybe they should introduce day potions to match the inky dark nights one.

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I guess you had a “so it begins” moment right there :stuck_out_tongue:

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I hardly notice the difference between day and night tbh.

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Me too. I would love to be able to play the game more in the day time. :anguished:

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It depends where you are I find, although tbh I don’t know why they can’t give us more settings to decide how light or dark we want night time.

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