[WoW] Battle for Azeroth - Page 531

On April 28 2019 08:43 Emnjay808 wrote:
Any ETA when Classic WoW will launch? Or should I just play on a private server till then. Really jonsesing rn.

On July 03 2019 22:38 Cyro wrote:
A lot of the content is surprisingly hidden!

E.g. in Mechagon there are 10 fish that you can catch in specific parts of the zone which give a daily quest for 25 rep each when handed in. In the alternate timeline there are 300 rep of dailies if you got in there and got the blueprint for the transporter at the weekend, that's 550 rep/day that most people don't do.

In Nazjatar there are four giant tree dudes which unlock when you do certain things near them and have a chance to drop an extremely valuable reputation / follower exp item (worth 600 rep ea.). You have a chance at that item once per ancient per day.

You just had to be willing to read wowhead and reddit.

On July 04 2019 02:51 Cyro wrote:


I read both but you wouldn't know almost everything about the zones unless you did a lot of digging. Most of it is not explained in-game! Much of it is common knowledge now but wasn't well known only days ago since the patch is a week old.

On July 05 2019 03:20 Cyro wrote:
I actually liked Vash'jir, especially 'cause you had such high movement speed there although the slow introduction is problematic for powerleveling. The music in both new zones is awesome at places.

I'd give Nazjatar like 5/10 to 7.5/10 without and with flying

Biggest problems being:

Gamebreaking phasing stuff ruining the events, my first three events were basically cancelled somewhere along the line without giving me any of the event rewards (even for losing or barely taking part) and it ruined my hype for the zone. Has gotten less bad since but still has its issues.

layout/size that makes travel and finding things really awkward, especially without flying
mob density too high / stuck in combat bugs, especially without flying
slow/inconsistent rare spawns (much less fun than Argus design)

More subjective, i also don't like the theme. The night elven bits are cool but it's quite jarring that they copy/pasted basically the whole city in the middle of Aszuna for it rather than building new assets - the whole multi-floored area that you run through with Farondis and the school. It's the same night elven ruins that we've seen a bunch of times before not just thematically but literally.

Mechagon probably 8.5/10 making it one of the best max level zones released as of yet, there's clearly a handful of things that can be improved and it doesn't play as well without flying but antigrav packs help out with that a lot. Many things are done well/right!


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It also helps that classes with way higher secondary stats, far more powerful azerite powers, essences and also basic tweaks like making mastery not a dead stat are actually reasonably fun to play now.

E.g. on Havoc before Uldir, dedicating half of your azerite powers to Furious Gaze would give you *1.154x haste for 12 seconds after eye beaming. Significant, but not enormous on a low APM spec and coming at a huge cost as there's only 1.5 slots left over for other traits which impact gameplay. An absolute joke in the context of replacing artifacts, dual legendaries, 2p and 4p tier sets.

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In T2 high end raid gear with the azerite changes, doing the same thing gives you *1.467x haste for 12 seconds after eye beaming. It's more than three times as impactful!

There are additionally 3 traits left over for unique gameplay-altering mechanics, some of which act synergistically. That's possible because there are twice as many azerite traits and because each trait gives over 1.5x the stats that it used to. That haste is not additive so it's not diminishing in power as we gear, it's a hard multiplier.

Between a bit of (both no longer weak/bad) mastery and some Longstriders i'm running around w/ 132% movespeed instead of 110% again. In Legion i often sat around 140-150% but what can you do eh That increase makes melee somewhat playable as it feels awfully impractical anywhere near base run speed IMO!