Hello,
So in the past 8 years I have found little to be excited or positive about with retail wow but it has finally happened. I didn’t know the day would come, but for the first time in over 8 years I’m positive and see a bright future for retail if Blizz continues in the direction seen in midnight alpha.
First off button bloat:
I’d rather have 3-5 buttons that hit like a truck than 3 hotbars full of trash like currently is the case with retail wow. All you do is baby sit buffs and debuffs etc, you need addons for that because it’s to much. I don’t use addons so I can’t play half the classes atm. Also I have 24 keybinds and its still not enough. I’ve asked for years to go more simple and make the actual encounters more interesting and unique.
Addon ban:
Addons are psuedo cheats. In any other game, a 3rd party applet running / calculating game logic are called cheats. That’s what they are. They are required because of bad game design. They never were required in classic era. Now we don’t need to go back to the slog slowness of classic and braindead encounters there but without addons blizz could actually taylor content to people like me, who don’t use addons. I’ve been asking for years and years to ban addons as a whole. Combat addons is a good first step and prolly the most impactful. The reason I would like a total ban is to force blizzard to make the game more accessible for people with handicaps natively, instead of them relying on buggy badly written 3rd party applets.
Example of addons cheating outside of combat:
Back when Mists of Tirna Sicthe was new, there was a weak aura that solved the maze was everywhere. If one person had it, then everyone lost the experience of solving the maze. Heroic, low keys, high keys. Didn’t matter. You couldn’t opt out if someone had it.
Think about it:
No popular game requires you to download a 3rd party app for your game so you can download more 3rd party apps that some again can install more 3rd party mini applets inside (WA) to play the game normally. Imagine Fortnite, LOL, Dota etc. AND btw LOL has 4 buttons but the gameplay is VERY complex and hard. I know some retail andies think babysitting 5 buffs and 3 hotbars of trash is skill but it’s really not, it’s a tedious job.
Why this is needed:
I’ve seen a lot of debate online but from someone who quit in bfa and came back it’s obvious. Not to troll but the game is dead, on it’s last legs. It’s so bad that somewhere they allowed guilds to be cross realm AND cross faction, what?? Why even have factions but oke I can see why it was needed, I remember M+ taking FOREVER in BFA as alliance. Alliance was especially dead back then. Now M+ goes a tad faster which is great, untill you realize that is also cross faction, so this is it, this is all they can do to smooth things out.
The game needs more new players:
And you don’t attract new players with a wall of addons and 3 hotbars full of garbage. Just not happening. The game needs to be simplified as they do in Midnight and should get a console release ideally post last titan xpac. So there’s time to fix some other smaller issues and iron it all out.
Housing:
It is shaping to be everything I’ve wanted for the past 8 years and then some. It’s really good stuff. From all i’ve seen they understand what housing is and needs. Impressive.
“Dead” open world:
Seems to be experimented with / addressed with prey, I think it’s a great feature, optional, brings back the challenge for those that want it and a reason to into the overworld. Also housing materials ofc. I like that they retroactively made old profs important with that, really good stuff!
Only thing I hope they solve is item lvl bloat, because of that I thought tww was more dead than it actually is. You see, the regular world bosses are just there, nobody kills them. And now I know why, they give ilvl 603 gear, which over 100 ilvl lower than what you’d want now. It means that from TWW start till now y’all gained over 100ilvl which is just to much imo. Minor issue for me personally. But I believe for the health of the game people should be able to play the XPAC, not just a patch.
Conclusion:
Overal I am VERY happy and positive with the new direction Blizz is taking retail in, clearly they have learned from the Classic saga. I haven’t been happy or positive in forever but here we are. It can happen, I’ve said that it can, but retail needed a nuclear change which seems to be happening.
Stick to your guns with the button purge and addon ban, god speed. Remember;
“I’d rather have 3-5 buttons that hit like a truck than 3 hotbars full of trash”
