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Skating through Ironforge would be so dope.
I stopped playing the Beta which I initially really enjoyed when the Nerfing/Unnerfing/Renerfing stuff happened. It was based on maxed out Level 20 Chars with Bugged abilitys. Insteat of just fixing it they started tinkering with the entire Game. With Talent trees, Racials, XP and what Not. So I pulled the ripcord to prevent myself to getting burned Out even before the Launch. Also the RMT on the Beta allmost killed me.
Funny thing is, I did have a tough if I could get some one to walk my dog during leveling spree 😀
The wow devs might have made a new wow game, but it is still the same wow devs that made the other games shit. Be careful of spending another precious 2000 hours of your precious life in this game. You already did that, maybe more than once or twice. You are older now, use your remaining time for something meaningful. Please make yourself grow, don't go back to what held you back for so long.
its not balance thats bad. it's midwits with internet access.
What in the slippery slope fallacy is this? (RIP your pants MadSeason!)
Blizzard will ruin Forever just like they ruined retail over time. Blizzard has already dropped the ball on multiple fronts, clearly not actually punishing gold buyers seriously as claimed, horizontal progression actually being vertical, selling name reservations for preorders but good luck with the RNG of connecting and getting the name you wanted on the day it dropped.
Slippery. Slope. Fallacy. 💩👖
what is this crap? gimme a new osrs episode
The 8 bit music sounds like Pink Horses. Nice.
That starting music gave me heavy yogscast nostalgia holy shit
I would love if WOW had horizontal progression since the beginning. I was a casual player, only did half of the endgame raid in max difficulty and it was in Cataclysm. I only raided the end content in Cata and MOP, but I've had great gear, completed the Conquest gear for RBG and arena during Cata (the normal one, not the one that unlocked with high rating) and in MOP I've spent a freaking lot of time to get my legendary cloak. I could enjoy my legendary cloak until the last lvl of leveling through WOD, but then a simple blue lvl 99 cloak replaced it. The feeling was terrible and every year I feel less invested in returning to retail because all my character experience and gear means nothing because it's outdated… So many gold and hours playing to get gems, enchantments, glyphs, reforging. It's sad. I love to lvl up, discover new zones, new quests and NPCs, but that feeling always felt terrible. I remember the jump it was to her Cata gear when you were lvl 78-80, I was doing heroic dungeons in WOTLK with my hunter and my pet could main tank bosses and had more hp than WOTLK tanks with epic gear
I’m off Wednesday. Can’t wait. Haven’t played wow in awhile.
I will be using Slow Quest Text.
I will be fishing.
I will be roleplaying.
Min max can SUCK IT
a point I would like to make is, vanilla already had vertical progression with raid tiers. keeping progression minimal in a similar vein seems like the way it was always going to be. as long as they don't do the whole, new patch? all your gear is shit now, like they do in retail is all you can really hope for in a game that at it's base, already has vertical progression. I just think people heard a term, felt a thing, and ran with it. just my 2 cents.
Good that it will be free to play (subscription not included)
Specifically selecting roleplay for forever in hopes that the people that want to have fun and interact with like minded people and give it a fair shake. I want the roleplaying game that can tell a fun story with a vibrant world, not a second job
omfg the BCS
YOURE SLIPPIN BLIZZY
i don't get it. staying on the same ilevel is the perfect solution to making gearing horizontal. everyone gets to look how they want without transmog and you can have cool flavors on equip. like a sword thats better at killing elementals that you can pull out whenever you fight a elemental boss and so on.
How sunlight starved do you have to be for that math xD
At most vertical progression should be like 1 to 2 percent a year. At most so much cool content that can be done without doing verticals. If it goes down that path I will quit so fast.
The wannabe tryhard pvp audience is kind of crazy. The game is not even out yet and some brainwashed "min-max-maniacs", are already argueing about efficiency, as if their lifes depend on it. And they simply can't stop crying about every potential "unfairness" in their bubble. But in the real world, most of them simply accept to be governed by inefficient and unfair systems and hardly ever complain about it. A complete psychosis.
Yea but the racials now are better and more lore accurate? Maybe if you keep looking for negativity or “agendas” that’s all you will find anymore. Holy shit.
lol the jumping in the water to swim to the lighthouse and freaking out over sharks reminded me of when i was a newbie and did a similar thing to just see if i could swim out in to the world and how far i could get/ what would happen. these days people think of it as a waste of time but back then it was fun times. similarly trying to go from my nightelf starting zone all the way to human areas to play with a friend and running through tons of higher level zones trying to use my pet as bait or feign deathing and sticking to main path and doing repeated corpse runs and then the week after to horde lands to try to find a pet called "the rake" because i heard rumors of his sweet attack speed. didnt have any youtube to look at things back then
The retail hamster wheel is actual abuse. We should stake some of the blizzard/activision/microsoft leaders.
Literally the best video you've ever released.
Sad but true, too. I'm super excited for Forever, and will stay excited until the exact moment they ruin it by turning it into retail five minutes after release.
Blizzard can fool me once or even twice but not thrice I'll stick to OSRS. But I am here for all of the drama that is to come.
Retail really needs a thorough house cleaning. I don't know how exactly it should be done, but it needs to be done asap.
If you listen to him very carefully he says "horizontally expanding". Expanding in this context most likely meant geographically the whole time and many people just got carried away.
The king has returned. Everyone better hide from the MONOMADNESS!
I was fine with vanilla racials and was fine with them making them more balance but it has turned a bit into ashit show.
It's pronounced "wowf"
They finally managed to make a version of Vanilla entirely meant to appeal to retail players. Wow!
You know, just skipping all this shit and only seeing the aftermath really is the best option.
SEE YOU AGAIN MY LITTLE FRIEND
Brother, I gotta drop out of this video. I was excited to watch you play but you spent the first 15 minutes complaining about retail and the community. Like, you opened with this cool moment where the new graphics led to a discovery and used it as a launchpad to rant for so long that I forgot what video I was watching.
I was hoping to see a video of someone playing the game not a video of someone talking about other people that play the game.
I personally want them to massively buff racials. Make them more impactful than ever.
The first few days are going to suck so much ass.
Gamers are ruining gaming just as much as the corpos.
Bad Apple always a jam 💪🤝
Don’t be a goof. You don’t need a guide to get to level 20. Just do Elwynn and Westfall. You’re there
Day 1 am I bolting from Northshire the second I get mining and then going for every node to the Westfall flight path, then the Redridge flight path and really save myself some headache when I get leveling
That way I can avoid the shmoz and get nodes uncontested
The horizontal progression comment kept me from trying the game for real.
Just really spooks me as that's some bullshit misdirection and not the right way to take a forever game 🙁
the sleeping bag is a huge item for all my stoners and snackers out there
Collecting stuff on an MMO is so boring man. I want things I do to MATTER!! People who have too much time in their hands end up spoiling the game for the rest of us
why the fuck were you swimming to your own docks, human
Why even bother Madseason? Just play OSRS, this obviously isn’t for you. You’re predetermined to be disappointed, so save yourself the disappointment. Sad was looking forward to the series but for some reason you feel like you’re obligated to play instead of wanting to play.