I saw Wowhead’s showcase of it and it is now an actual button to press. Before, it wasn’t even really worth it with how slow it moved.
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Not touched upon the latter much as I skipped to Dragon Isles for my own personal RP reasons, but I can confirm that Nightborne Warlocks are shunned. They’ve ‘severed ties’ with Warlocks as the book puts it.
I can also confirm Thalyssra also hopes that the Night Elves and Nightborne can make ‘amends’ at some point.
I’ll be finishing the Dragon Isles soon so I’ll be able to confirm the thing said about Iridikron.
Edit: I’ll add here that there’s some interesting stuff regarding the Dracthyr (surprisingly) which I do not think has been mentioned elsewhere? (Not even in the US forums).
Lor’themar and Thalyssra believe the Healing Wings’ creche getting poisoned may have been an experiment/test from Neltharion.
It’s also noted that Dragonskull Island on the Forbidden Reach was a place where the Dracthyr got ‘tortured’ in experiments/tests.
The broken Oathbinder in Nal K’skol in Zaralek now has a plaque in front of it stating ‘A Reminder That We Will Never Kneel Again’.
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That original promo image that was sent to every conceivable gaming outlet before WoW launched still haunts me whenever glaives come up.
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Thats a demon hunter…
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That riflemen outfit that only came with… WoD I think it was!
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this image to me has always been quintesential to the essence of what wow was tbh. an adventure with friends killing monsters.
now by todays standards shooting a red dragon and villainising one would be seen as a “no no neighbourino.”
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It’s, ahh, simple.
We just write a lore tidbit that the red dragons just so happened to come across copious amounts of oil.
Then you can kill them without any qualms.
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Simpler. It turns out that red dragon blood is the best quality oil/fuel you can find on Azeroth.
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DK wiping out the Ruby Sanctum: 
Then there was dragon-hunter and hoard-stealer Thrall in WC3:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/7a19526cfaf2b751fbc48404caf0db14/3e110a481afb980d-34/s500x750/cde36de2a9a3e2d9d201d4658df42a82815fa4f1.png
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I mean in Twilight Highland, their blood is used as some kind of boost for bandages soaked in them. Might as well be panacea if you discover some other utilities to them, Nefarian like.
Looks like the “Stromgarde has lost all its identity” crowd might get thrown a bone in the new novellas.
Or it’s a dream/hallucination/timetravel etc.
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https://www.wowhead.com/blue-tracker/news/us/delve-into-the-war-within-with-the-audio-novella-heartlands-24158486
Looks as though there might be some skirmishing of the Red Vs Blue that’s happened in the short novella
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On the bright side Undermine looks amazing and I hope both the raid and the dungeon will be good, even if the open world stuff might not be.
But hot damn I do not have high hopes for player housing in any capacity, bar the tiny chance it might help cleanse Goldshire once and for all.
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Wrapping up the Khaz Algar storyline in a single patch and then “suddenly, goblins!” is… certainly one of the narrative decisions ever made.
On the bright side, it seems more likely to be Metzen’s brainchild than Danuser’s. Undermine was, after all, on the very first world maps that Metzen drew for WC3 and vanilla WoW. He has long wanted to go there.
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I said it in peeves, I’m repeating it here
Give me more customisation for Kul Tirans, Zanadalari, vulpera, void elves, dark irons and Maghar!
(and more tauren faces…)
Customisation is still lacking for em.
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Player housing is going to be an expansion feature in the same vein as Garrison, alot… And I mean alot of empty promises.
Remeber when we could put the Garrison anywhere we would like? Racial Garrisons?
No we got a Harbor instead and the very Orc and Human themed everything.
Rather they skip out on player housing all together. World of Warcraft needs no player housing. It has survived this long without it.
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I don’t necessarily look at it from an angle of Blizzard messing it up. It’s been done to death in other MMOs and they can probably iterate a version of it that isn’t low effort or boring.
I just don’t see it being good for role-play in particular.
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Some better hairstyles for Void Elves would certainly be appreciated.
It depends on what they base it off. Something similar to TESO where there’s a lot of focus on racial aesthetics for furniture and the like would be cool, especially if we’re able to alter the interior/exterior to reflect a specific playable - or even non-playable - race.
I’d disagree there. It’s a twenty year old game and player housing is pretty standard as a core feature of most rival MMO’s so it’s a smart business move to implement it. Any given individual is free to ignore it but those of us who like such features will make it work.
I don’t even play TESO actively any longer but keep a subscription going simply to funnel it into housing.
It depends on how much freedom to decorate there is. It’d be nice to have somewhere for my characters to call home that I can have them retire to after an adventure with friends to unwind and plan the next step in their journey.
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It will be mostly gooner and clique hovels where people will AFK instead of rooftops. I also have a feeling this means we won’t have a new hub in Midnight and instead we have housing as the social hub for the expansion.
I’ve also gone through the new short story and… Blizzard still can’t write a decent faction conflict. Making an orange man coded Trollbane the main motivation for why both sides amassed an army is just disappointing now.