Pet Peeve: The Undying

Do you really want undead gnomes?

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I shall like this tomorrow.

Edit: I live up to what I said.

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Forum level 3 is a pathway to many abilities some consider… unnatural.

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Is it possible to learn such power?

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Not from a :poop:poster.

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Have a tomorrow like.

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Forsaken can remove their eyes to replicate this look. They can also be entirely blind.

Even better, I’ll go rip out the eyes out of one of the nelves with ‘‘Night Warrior eyes’’ and use 'em myself!

GENIUS!

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Remember you still need to remove your own before putting someone else’s in.

Normally that’d be difficult, but I know a guy.

I’m pretty sure the Goblin barber can help you remove (or add) eyes.

That said, the barber can do a lot of alterations to someone, from changing skin colour, to correcting posture to re-sculpting faces and horns.

BfA suffers from total lack of direction. It was billed as the faction pride expansion, but faction pride is at an all-time low because of the way both factions are portrayed. It was supposed to be morally grey, but instead it’s completely black and white to the point that “morally grey” has turned into a meme. It seems there’s miscommunication between different writers, and some story elements are known to have been thrown in at the last minute (Brennadam, Mag’har). The Magni subplot is just bolted on with practically no connection to the main storyline; in fact its goal (collect as much azerite as possible for yourself because… it lets you heal Azeroth better?) is contrary to the goals of the factions, which are gathering azerite for themselves, and this discrepancy and any potential for moral choices aren’t adequately explored. Then there’s the upcoming Azshara storyline, which seems completely out of the blue — there’s no reason to include Azshara in BfA other than “well, it’s a sea expansion, might as well throw in the naga”.

Overall, it’s a thematically incoherent kitchen sink of ideas recycled from earlier, better expansions (mostly MoP) and random stuff they threw in at the last minute to give some excuse for the AP grind.

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it’s a pretty cool helm

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That is such a power move.

Because it’s very obvious there’s three different writing groups headed by the three lead writers (Afrasiabi, Danuser and Golden) It’s pretty easy to tell where the lack of coherent writing comes from, where the blatant self-insert OC characters come from and where the lionised, can-do-no-wrong-although-not-badly-written writing comes from.

It seems neither writer seems to have cross-referenced with the other to check if the other are not contradicting them. The writing that is at its best is the stuff that has -no- faction conflict in at all, i.e the main storylines of the zones.

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Whilst I agree with pretty much all of this, I wouldn’t say azshara is a complete void elf. Alliance exploration in stormsong pretty much references the idea she’s on her way when you conclude at the dungeon (not massively, but it’s there).

This coupled with naga being prominent in legion in azsuna and I think it’s fair to say that Azshara has been mobilising but it was a case of when she’ll show her face.

Problem is these big plots are woven poorly dye to emphasis on the faction war. So horde will be like “OMG Azshara is coming, lets raid her my boiz” similar to how horde had a good build up to uldir, and alliance just had the brann says so thing.

If it was only just the poor lore… We’d be able to forgive it.

However BfA regarding PvE (from a casual standpoint) is just such a bore and inconsequential grind. I had a lot of beef with Legion regarding lore and the sheer scale they were taking but they at least aced the PvE aspect. Casual like me actually had a goal to achieve, other forms of content to go for and have fun with… Legion was stellar regarding fun PvE stuff.

BfA is just the mentally impaired brother of Legion regarding PvE (again still from a casual standpoint). World quests without addons like WQ group finder are unfun and boring, they’re just more awful dailies (at least dailies had a sense of progression, the more you did the more story opened).
You lose power as you level and meaningful abilities. Azerite necklace is useless… Mythic dungeons is a huge slog of adds that will pawn you if you dare pull more than three… We lost raid tiers and class sets and nothing really replaced them regarding skins…

BfA is the edpension where we lost… Not gained a thing.

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What is new fails to be new if that makes sense. Or loses value quickly.

Incursions - helpful for rep catchup/gear, but they’re just world quests in dresses, much like legion invasions.

Island expos - execution here has turned them into a mindless grind. If they were more like scenarios, that’d be interesting (see below).

Warfronts - fine in principle but each should differ. Darkshore ends up being the same as Arathi essentially. Mixing them up a bit would be cool (so some are resource gathering and building, others are sabotage, others are more like a killfest)

With island expos I feel they could have made them more rewarding (materially speaking too) if they were scenarios where your gear scales flat like time walking and they involve tests of your classes. Similar to mage tower except you have allies so sometimes you’ll need to combine your abilities for maximum impact. It’d be a nightmare to code (to have the island contents render based upon classes and specs in party on sign-ups) but at least it’s have replay value this way.

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applied for over 2 dozen jobs; half don’t get back to me at all, other half reject my application. ok then, guess no job for me this year.

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