World of Warcraft Forever

I was unable to jump on yesterday due to volunteering at church so I jump on this morning.... [SERVER SHUTDOWN in 12:00] Whelp, Wheresthat Voidwalker will remain at level 1 until the server comes back up - thankfully, it's only an hour.

/edit Watch the twirly Warlock in the loading screen!
View: https://www.youtube.com/live/EXWurqETmY8?si
 
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zehoo said:
Turn up the gamma?
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No the game is straight up physically darker than every other version

Like literal absence of light, it's not a settings thing

Even random tunnels in stormwind are very dark. There's very little ambient light in some areas.

Apparently the game also supports HDR now? I'll try it after work today.
 
Astral Abyss said:
At least you're not stuck at work like me. :(
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I managed to get out of work early since they didn't need me after I'd finished the main reason I was there.

socK said:
No the game is straight up physically darker than every other version

Like literal absence of light, it's not a settings thing

Even random tunnels in stormwind are very dark. There's very little ambient light in some areas.

Apparently the game also supports HDR now? I'll try it after work today.
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With all the static elements on the screen, I don't fancy turning on HDR as well. It'll speed burn my OLED. :dead:
 
I just created a Warrior in that new elf Race on Alliance side, but haven't had time to play before the maintenance.

Which spec Warrior is most fun to play in Forever?
 
Also I don't think combat is extremely vanilla like so far.

It's definitely not retail where you can literally mash one key and kill 10 things at the same time zero rest.

But it's not 100% vanilla like. But I'm still low level so we'll see if it rounds out a bit.

You do soooo much damage it seems. I was playing with a paladin and Hunter last night. I got both to 10.

I don't remember flatlining mobs like this in classic. Like occasionally I basically just instagib a mob if I crit. Immediately smack something for 90% of its health.
 
I agree, the tuning feels off a bit especially at lower levels. But then my lvl 7 rogue was having trouble in a cave and it felt a lot more like vanilla dying over and over haha
 
chockomonkey said:
I agree, the tuning feels off a bit especially at lower levels. But then my lvl 7 rogue was having trouble in a cave and it felt a lot more like vanilla dying over and over haha
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Some caves are absolutely insane, the spawn rates are so high that it's literally endless combat. And there's a bunch of new like mini boss enemies I've found - and they fucking summon more shit. And they themselves respawn so fast that you kill them and they're back up in probably 5 seconds.

Like there were times where me and my party member probably fought 25+ things back to back to back without ever leaving combat.

I think some layers are trying to crank spawns to cope with the zone being busy, but it could still be like... you in that section of cave alone fighting off an endless onslaught
 
My question is, why did Blizz spend the development resources and money in recreating old school WoW with Forever again with some new graphics and new quests and tweaks, but overall it's pretty similar to the same game I played 22 years ago? I'd much rather they make a WoD ( World of Diablo MMO ) or World of Starcraft MMO.

I will still try Forever tonight and this weekend, and give it a good play-through, as I'm totally burned out on Midnight retail, just feel like there's nothing for me in Midnight at this point. Do what? Run the same M+ dungeons over and over again for the hundredth time? No thanks, boring, zzz. Run the same Raids again? Hard pass. What else? Not much for me in retail anymore, except only when there's a brand new expansion release or a major patch release.

Plus I just reinstalled Crimson Desert again, and giving it a second chance, ( didn't really play it too much in the summer, as I was too confused and hated the wonky keyboard + mouse controls, so I uninstalled it ) But CD has improved since I last played it 4 months ago, the story seems better and questing and stuff just seems less confusing, and the game plays better now. I'm taking my time in Crimson Desert and still low level with maybe 10 - 15 hours played so far, but it is an interesting game, and the graphics @ 5k2k look AMAZING.
 
In a nutshell, because people wanted it and they are finally empowering their developers to cater to their audience. The amount of private server communities that existed was kind of crazy. They've since had them all shut down in order to capitalize on this market themselves. Personally, I've always thought WoW is one of the best games ever made. I've spent more time than I can count in Azeroth and I'm excited to try a new twist on the original game.

I have more faith in their ability to do "Classic+" right since they have a solid template to follow, than I would with them creating a brand-new game in their StarCraft or Diablo universes.
 
chockomonkey said:
In a nutshell, because people wanted it and they are finally empowering their developers to cater to their audience. The amount of private server communities that existed was kind of crazy. They've since had them all shut down in order to capitalize on this market themselves. Personally, I've always thought WoW is one of the best games ever made. I've spent more time than I can count in Azeroth and I'm excited to try a new twist on the original game.

I have more faith in their ability to do "Classic+" right since they have a solid template to follow, than I would with them creating a brand-new game in their StarCraft or Diablo universes.
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I'm pretty sure metzen or whatever his name is has come back to help with Forever.
 
Man I don't know what class to play? Tried Warrior to level 6 BORING.

I want a fast paced fun class, that doesn't need me to stay planted on the ground. What do you recommend?
 
Mage?

I've always done melee as casters have never interested me much, but mages are always bouncing around like crack heads.
 
I'm having as much fun as I did back in 2004. It's brought a bunch of my old friends together that I haven't seen in years. We've already escorted all of our non-Dwarf/Gnome friends from their starting areas over to Ironforge, leveled them up to do HoF and farmed all of the gear in it, built our own guild (that's only friends right now), and then moved everyone over to Stormwind as the home base so we can get to the good PVP areas. It looks awesome too; the fog/lighting system when combined with the new weather effects look so good. And it runs great; not a single crash, disconnect, or graphic abnormality for me on Linux. A+ to Blizz on this one.
 
Zorachus said:
Man I don't know what class to play? Tried Warrior to level 6 BORING.

I want a fast paced fun class, that doesn't need me to stay planted on the ground. What do you recommend?
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Level 6 is still really low so you won't have a lot of options on any class at that point. It depends on how you actually play and what you want to do. If you're just running solo then standing there and mashing buttons is about all there is unless you're trying to take down Elites or big groups; Hunter/Mage are the premier kiting classes in such cases. If you want to run dungeons then something like Rogue/Druid will be more active. PVP is a whole 'nother ballgame; every class has to be on their toes and thinking about positioning and min/maxing ability cooldowns.
 
Zorachus said:
Man I don't know what class to play? Tried Warrior to level 6 BORING.

I want a fast paced fun class, that doesn't need me to stay planted on the ground. What do you recommend?
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I mean you basically have jack shit of your kit at 6

I dunno how fun warriors are in this incarnation, but it's not particularly indictive of what the class will become

Bankie said:
I'm having as much fun as I did back in 2004. It's brought a bunch of my old friends together that I haven't seen in years. We've already escorted all of our non-Dwarf/Gnome friends from their starting areas over to Ironforge, leveled them up to do HoF and farmed all of the gear in it, built our own guild (that's only friends right now), and then moved everyone over to Stormwind as the home base so we can get to the good PVP areas. It looks awesome too; the fog/lighting system when combined with the new weather effects look so good. And it runs great; not a single crash, disconnect, or graphic abnormality for me on Linux. A+ to Blizz on this one.
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Stormwind is like weirdly super dead, zones seem fine. It was a bit better last night but still pretty empty.

Assume laying is still a little weird because there was like 50 people in the tram the second I went in. One time I got layered mid fight. Actually luckily since I pulled like 8 things and just as they started curb stomping my ass they poofed.

The weather is really awesome. As I was flying out of ironforge at night there was a heavy snow storm. You could see the faint hazy light of torches below on the road as the snow rushed by.

Weirdly enough it reminded me of like the heavy foggy snow storms you'd see in The Division.

I think I will do the first dungeon tonight.
 
Zorachus said:
Man I don't know what class to play? Tried Warrior to level 6 BORING.

I want a fast paced fun class, that doesn't need me to stay planted on the ground. What do you recommend?
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Hunter, unless they nerf it.
 
If someone has a "Invite-A-Friend Launch Code" they won't use, i'd appreciate it!

Started playing since the beta, but haven't played in many years.

Edit: got one from socK. Thanks!
 
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DF-1 said:
If someone has a "Invite-A-Friend Launch Code" they won't use, i'd appreciate it!

Started playing since the beta, but haven't played in many years.
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Think I have one, need to see how to retrieve it

I'll DM you in a bit
 
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socK said:
The first 10 levels are absolute aids

Then you get a pet and ascend to godhood
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If you know how to kite the first 10 levels isn’t too bad. But I think they did a slight nerf to hunter kiting in beta. I also had engineering so my gun was always pretty good and a dps buff from making your own ammo. Stuff died quick.

Rolled a warlock for live though.
 
Zorachus said:
Man I don't know what class to play? Tried Warrior to level 6 BORING.

I want a fast paced fun class, that doesn't need me to stay planted on the ground. What do you recommend?
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My two choices are mage and warrior. Best of both worlds. Warlock sits still and their pet tanks while they spam dots.
 
Bah, I updated retail and installed wow forever only to have bnet launcher refuse to locate the folder because the game version is out of date after swapping the install over to a ssd instead of hdd. Should have just done a fresh install from the start. 52gb for forever only, 142gb for retail/forever.

Its been a slow process convincing myself to try it again. I still have to resub. Meh. I logged into bnet to play overwatch the other day and had messages from wow friends, most of my friends list were in wow or forever.
 
Does Forever still have the same crap idea of no mounts till level 40? Ugh 😫

I'm trying out several different classes, but haven't even made it to level 10 on shy, due to the BORING slog of early leveling. Fetch quests repeatedly are so lame and tedious. Plus playing a Night Elf I've played this starter zone tons of times over 22 years.

I don't know, just not feeling it with Forever, yeah the new graphics upgrades are really good, but the rest seems so slow and outdated.

Went back to retail, have a level 85 Demon Hunter to get to 90, played him to 86 and was a blast, and I'm totally burned out on Midnight, I've pretty much stopped playing the new expansion last couple months, but Forever pushed me to retail again LOL.
 
Actually I'm back in Forever LOL having casual fun leveling a Night Elf Hunter, only level 8 right now.

Anyone have an Alliance guild I can join?
 
thoroughly enjoy transmog and the deep metagame of making the flamboyant monster imaginable

this bondage gear is fighting for its life to hold these pecs in place

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Ugh the no transmog is really tough. I have so many cool ass mogs, now my guy looks like some Assmon clown douche
 
Anyone have one of those 7 day trials available to give out? Tempted to get back in the game.
 
Zorachus said:
Actually I'm back in Forever LOL having casual fun leveling a Night Elf Hunter, only level 8 right now.

Anyone have an Alliance guild I can join?
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If you're on the PVP server I can get you into my crew's guild. You'll have to have thick skin if you want to join the Discord server but we're all friends there.
 
Too many people playing Horde on PvP currently. Won't let you create a Horde character right now. Horde in the starting city was annoying, but it didn't bother me. If I ended up being chain ganked I would have quit, but it didn't happen so 🤷‍♂️
 
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