At this point I’m worried that the sloppiness of Midnight will kill what’s left of RP.
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Yes, the expansion that´s adding in player housing (that, based on what I tested, is absolutely amazing) and has already caused increased interest in blood elf RP, will absolutely kill RP as an activity. People will look at game bugs, in-game shop housing items and go: No, actually, this makes my RP untenable, I am going to stop with this activity that requires none of these things.
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I actually think the opposite. The Haranir stuff sucks and is stupid (but I expect most people will play them as anything but Haranir) but the elf stuff looks mostly good, the troll stuff is so far acceptable, and a lack of content to play hasn’t really harmed RPers. WoD 2.0 here we come?
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I think it will likely be a WoD or SL style thing - “I’m not picking up what you’re putting down, I’ll be over here with the other people who DO care about the lore and characters” lol
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Silvermoon has practically risen from the grave. I don’t think Midnight is going to be the one that kills roleplay in the slightest.
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RP survived Shadowlands, which basically served as ‘the great filter’ for the hobby as far as I’m concerned. We’ll be fine throughout Midnight.
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I don´t think we´ve ever been in an era of WoW where we have as much content as we do now. Not only in the main game, but stuff like multiple versions of Classic, Legion Remix, and we´ll be getting completely new cosmetics mode (housing).
The idea that there outright isn´t any content drought would be foreign to someone playing in Wrath - Slands era, where even the expansion that cannibalized the one before and after it (Legion) had 12 months between final world patch and next expansion, and 9 months between final raid and next expansion.
People can criticize quality of content, absolutely, but the idea that somehow, a WoW player has nothing to do (in the multiple versions of the game) is absurd.
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I think it’s more accurate to say that Midnight is going to kill interest in the overarching narrative and the story that Blizzard wants to tell. I foresee the roleplaying community being extremely selective with what aspects of the expansion that they want to use.
Of course Quel’thalas is going to be showered with attention, along with Zul’Aman by those interested in the trolls. However, people are likely going to stay far away from Harandar, the Voidstorm and the Arcantina and refuse to acknowledge any of those exist unless pushed.
Dragonflight and the War Within saw people opening up to WoW’s narrative again, complete with campaigns attended by hundreds of players to investigate Khaz Algar and play along with the story that the War Within was telling. With Midnight, I don’t see that happening, outside of maybe the blood elf community playing along with the events of the campaign.
The plunge in writing quality is likely going to lead to another Warlords of Draenor and Shadowlands situation, where most roleplayers are going to be interested in doing their own thing, maybe visiting Quel’thalas at most. I predict as much RP interest in Harandar and the Voidstorm as there has been in K’aresh - very little, close to none.
Roleplayers are going to still be around, it’s just a shame that the story that WoW is telling isn’t going to be of much interest to them. Even for the elf community, I suspect it’s just happiness at getting a revamped Quel’thalas rather than any intrigue concerning the Sunwell narrative.
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Personally I have had this since Dragonflight, so if I am still here, I can’t be hurt anymore by Blizzard’s crappy writing.
By the author’s own admission, the Wraeththu is what humanity would be if she could design it herself.
https://nerinedorman.blogspot.com/2016/12/q-with-storm-constantine-on-release-of.html?m=1
This speaks volumes about her.
And here I’d just give humans greater redundant organs and snake eyes.
Wild what some people want to do.
https://www.wowhead.com/news/transmog-uthers-hammer-of-the-lightbringer-potential-shadowlands-timewalking-378751
The Runeblade of Maldraxxus is nice (1h only version though, 
) and some nice stuff for Forsaken thanks to Maldraxxus.
I guess they gotta save Remornia+Kingsmourne for Shadowlands remix.
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Uther’s hammer could be fun to have for non-Paladin characters, aswell!
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I require the steward toy.
I hope to see some reclusive haranir RPers. And fortunately the average schmuck shouldn’t know how much the races has pretty much gone “not our problem. We’ll just keep sitting in these here roots”… but some inevitably will.
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The walking wikipedias will LOVE lecturing every haranir RPer. And half will probably be Dracthyr to make it extra dumb.
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Some decent weapons and armour. Don’t mind a new chance to get one of those plague-machine backpacks. The post robot pet looks neat as well.
I also don’t mind SL dungeons much. It was by far not the worst aspect of the expansion.
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Literally nothing Orweyna does couldn’t have been done by any Druid, be they Malfurion, Cairne or Broll, or even any Ranger. And instead of going to Harander, you could then go to the worldtree’s or whatever, to create a link or connection to give the Night Elves a stake in all of this, to..
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Guess the Hallowfall Arathi now follow the orders of Turalyon too?
Also, I wished Alliance leaders would push back as hard on Horde leaders visiting their cities as Lor’themar does to Turalyon…
I do enjoy that Lor’themar does not consider the Sunwell and the Light to be the same, which makes sense!
To make it necessary to update Hyjal, Val’sharah or even Moonglade. We can’t have this much of good stuff at once, can we?
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Gods, I wish they would. They could’ve then also explain as to why Xal’atath is not interested in the biggest font of Arcane powers upon Azeroth… 
But yes, I dream about an updated Mt. Hyjal and its Moonglade… 
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