Midnight is shaping up to be Legion 2.0

Which, obviously, is a bad thing.

Removing the interrupts of every healer specialization was a move we first saw in Legion, as well as the general dumbing down of every class and playstyle.

I expect Midnight to be a very divisive expansion:

  • People who suck at the game will love it: their classes are easier now, there are fewer things to manage and keep track of, and they will have the illusion of perfoming better than they used to because of it.
  • People who are good at the game will miss the depth of previous class design, as well as the many tools they used to have to deal with various situations in which they will now find themselves powerless.

Oh, well. At least this will give me plenty of material for new threads, I guess. Glass half full?

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Wait a second — are you from another universe? Another timeline? Legion was the most successful modern WoW expansion! So I’m glad you believe in Midnight too. See you there :grin:

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Oh, you’re so silly.

Interesting bait.
We’ll see how many you’ll hook. :blush:

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Indeed.

That is because the number of players who suck at the game exceeds the number of players who are good at the game.

You of all people should know I mean every word here.

Oh no, Blizzard is catering to the majority of the playerbase. Quick, do something.

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So enha finally be a melee spec again?

Artifact weapons return?

Sign me up!

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That is indeed a problem.
No company should send the message that pleasing their most dedicated players is not a priority.

But… If you do: It’s likely to be wrong.
I’m good at the game. Incredible, one might even say.
But I have not been worried about anything you’ve listed as being an issue.

I will admit, I haven’t tried it yet for myself. So who knows what might happen.
You haven’t tried it yet either, have you? :upside_down_face:

Have you tried consuming human feces, Tah? Do you need to go through that experience first before you’re able to tell it’s not something you’re going to enjoy?

I was already complaining about Legion pruning during Warlords of Draenor, back when people were all saying: “it’s just the alpha”, then “it’s just the beta”, and finally “it’s just the pre-patch”.
As it turns out, it was still garbage after the full release. Who could have seen that coming?

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I am getting real SL vibes from Midnight.

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But for me, Legion was where it all began — good players became even better. People started forming parties for high Mythic+ keys, RaiderIO showed up so we could compare our e-peens, and the wild PuG scene (yeah, it existed before) truly evolved with M+. So in my dimension, Legion was a success even from the perspective of skilled players. So what about Midnight — will it be Legion 2.0? We’ll see :joy:

Sure, but that experience is quite different than some changes to classes.
Also: Taste changes over time. I wasn’t always into casual content, for instance.

I had an absolute awesome time.
So, no it wasn’t garbage at all as far as I am concerned.

Shadowlands reduced the reliance on burrowed power systems and added new abilities back into the game after 3 expansions worth of pruning.

While still heavily flawed (Torghast, annoying legendary acquisition), Shadowlands was a step in the right direction - unlike Midnight.

Meanwhile…legendaries, covenant abilities, conduits.

It’s not that different, no.
Any person with a brain can read a list of changes and have enough processing power to understand how that’ll change their experience as a player.
I absolutely do not need to “wait and see”, reading is plenty enough.

Yes. Why did you cut that part of my message from your quote? This one:

I already said it wasn’t perfect. However, it was much easier to play alts during SL than it was during Legion and BFA.

So again: while still flawed, a step in the right direction.

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‘okay’ Mr Big Brain.

I don’t think it’ll be you actually being right; I think it’ll be you being too stubborn to ever admit you were actually wrong, so you’ll keep up some charade that you hate it.
Much like you have been with Legion. We all know you really loved it.

It’s okay Slapster. Embrace it.
You’ll feel so much better.

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Because you conveniently skipped 2/3 of the borrowed power to make your point, so I added the all of them to make mine.

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Finally!

After a decade of begging Blizzard to grant us priests an interrupt (no, shadow doesn’t count) they take away all yours.

Welcome to the dark side. :face_blowing_a_kiss:

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But restro shaman got to keep theirs, which last time I checked is Ions main. xD

Wut? Covenants, conduits, soulbinds, legendaries - which Blizzard said were a huge clump of borrowed power fronloaded at the start so they didnt have to introduce more in later patches, meanwhile in the next paytch domination shards XD.

Yeah man I was so happy I could use Bash on my furry warrior or SotR pn my ret paladin…