World of WarCraft Foreverrrr

 

            Hello! Well Blizzard had their convention and they announced the thing, Classic Plus, or World of WarCraft Forever as it is now known. People have questions, concerns, hope and distain. I don’t understand how people can complain, at length, about something they don’t like or won’t play. I complain about crap I like and wish it were better. Some people are like “This isn’t Classic Plus, it’s Retail Minus” and it’s like yeah sure, it sounds like what you want is right over there. I guess to an extent that could be considered the same as what I do, I don’t know. You tell me. Mostly if I don’t like something I just say “Yeah I don’t really care for Monster Hunter Wilds or Ascendance and I think I’ll just wait for the next one.” I don’t go in depth about how it should be changed to fit me specifically. I understand it’s not my thing and kind of move on.

            So anyway. The cinematic for Forever was pretty cool. The Forsaken Paladin, Archimonde’s corpse… right? That was him… yes, it was. Archimonde’s corpse at Mount Hyjal, everything was pretty cool. The thing with WoW’s cinematics though is that they look really cool and epic and yet when you go into the game you just kind of wave your arms around. You kind of have to pretend. You still kind of have to fill in the gaps yourself to make it cooler than it is. It’s like with the Edgerunners anime, it makes Cyberpunk 2077 look really awesome and I was like “Oh man, I’m gonna go do a sandevistan run in Cyberpunk” but then I do and it’s not that cool.

            They showed off some new blue elves that tons of people hate but I’m rather indifferent to. I saw one guy saying “Yeah I see them but I bought the most expensive bundle because I love WoW Forever and Blizzard needs to see that it’s getting support otherwise they’ll run out of money” basically, and I’m thinking brother, they’ve made so much money on brontosaurus’ alone, they don’t need another cent. (If I was more motivated I would make a Dark Knight meme out of that but I don’t want to.) But people are still bitching that they don’t have High Elves and Ogres and I don’t understand why people want Ogres, I’ve always seen them as the enemy. You could argue in WC3 Rexxar became chieftain of an Ogre clan or whatever but at that point I’d rather of the Mok’nathal as a race.

BUT, it would be neat if this version of WoW was like a “What if” timeline. I don’t know what the future holds, how they can keep making content for just Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms, or maybe they’ll expand to just all of Azeroth or what they’ll do, but since Quel’thalas is part of the Eastern Kingdoms they could have us go up there and maybe this time the Elves would join the Alliance. If that were to happen, well, Zul’jin is still alive baby. Maybe, just maybe, we could get our Amani Trolls. I don’t know if we’ll ever see the Blood Elves or High Elves, maybe that’s why they made these sky Elves, but it’s a possibility for a big twist. I think though that the sky Elves were a chance for them to make a truly neutral race. A group that could literally go to any zone, any town and do the quest. I think that’d be the best for someone who wants to experience both sides. Maybe they’d have to lock it to PvE only but. Like why are they picking a side? Do they have a reason to kill each other? Is that why we don’t see them in retail is because they had a civil war? Is all this explained in their new zone? Probably not, but maybe! Another thing too is that all these characters that were killed off are still around and that’s exciting. Like I don’t know what they did in retail but I just find the main cast to be so insufferable. I used to be excited to see Thrall but when he shows up in retail it’s like “Oh great, THIS guy again.” I dunno. I think it’s because at this point I just view myself as being more powerful than the WoW cast. I don’t know what their future plans are but if for some reason Deathwing comes back I hope he doesn’t have a humanoid persona. It just didn’t make sense to me or rather it just made the whole, hammering metal plates to his dragon body meaningless. It should’ve been like a prison or something to keep him in his dragon form because he views it as stronger or something. Oh, I’m starting to ramble again. I didn’t plan on this being too long but now I’ve got all sorts of thoughts, I’ll try not to linger on them too long.

            Okay um, I’m excited for rare elites to be rare again. I’m guessing people will be able to have level 19, 39, ect twinks again. Thought it was a douchey move to force you to level out of battlegrounds if that’s what you liked doing. I’m hoping, eventually, we get something akin to the old glyph system. Dungeons taking time. I don’t really get dungeons in retail when everyone just pulls the biggest groups they can and try to get things done as fast as humanly possible. That’s not fun, that’s stressful. I haven’t been able to get a clear answer about the talents. People want it like Vanilla where you have your one set and if you want to change then you need to pay gold. But there’s obviously talents that are better suited for PvP then dungeons and if they decide to put tank shaman in Forever I might want to try that. I’m indecisive about these sorts of things. I’d like to have choices and be able to try different things without being penalized. I’ve had a dumb ass thought of not going hard on one talent tree but doing more or less half and half into elemental and restoration that way I do okay damage and okay healing, a bit of both. Kind of fits shaman, being okay at everything but not great at anything in particular. In my time doing PvP as an elemental shaman I don’t recall it ever going very well on my own. Maybe I’m just bad or maybe that’s just the way it is for shaman.

            I still wish the Alliance and Horde had a few of their own classes, having fundamental differences. I understand Dwarf shaman coming in and the only race that truly makes sense to get paladins on Horde are the Forsaken but like warlocks have always surprised me, on both sides. Orcs have a deep, awful history with the demons and so do the Night Elves. I can’t imagine the NEs being too excited seeing Human warlocks. I remember when I first played WoW and getting to the outside of RFC and an Orc warlock is giving you a quest inside. I remember seeing him be a warlock and not trusting him and then he goes and double crosses us (pretty sure). It would be cool if we got real death knights in the future and not Arthas’ pseudo death knights. But, to me, they should obviously only be for the Forsaken. IF the Alliance were to get them too then the only race that should get them is Humans, maybe Dwarfs too since they can be paladins but THAT should go against the Alliances, tenants? Them being dead, it would be a contradiction since they won’t accept the Forsaken. Ahh too many things, getting off track again. If Horde got death knights then the Alliance could get Night Elf wardens. I really love wardens from WC3, they were my favorite. If they came to the Horde as well I think Trolls would fit the bill. Demon hunters probably won’t be around, at least for a while, but even for retail I think Orcs and Draenei would be good demon hunters.

            I might get the sky Elves and try druid again. My very first character was a Night Elf druid, I’ve made Zandalari and Kul Tiran druids because their animal forms are cool but I always drop them. I don’t think Zandalari should be an allied race in Forever but I’d like a Kul Tiran plot some how. Anyway, I don’t quite know how they can make progress “horizontal” as they say; I don’t know what that means. I don’t know how they can keep making dungeons and raids pop up here and there and us just keeping the same skills and talents. Seems like it would get stale but I don’t know, trust the process. I’d still would like to see some of TBC and Wrath stories but maybe slightly different. As a shaman player I’ve also been wondering if they’ve combined some totems, we used to have a ton of totems for a variety of things, so much so that I couldn’t have all of them on my action bars. I’ll have to just keep a few that are most important for the given situations.

            That’s that I guess. Again, I wasn’t planning for all that so I could’ve explained some of my thoughts more but. Now I’ve got the itch to play but I don’t want to get burnt out before Forever comes. I should just play Forsaken Kingdom for now to hold me over. Witcher 3 is supposed to get some kind of remaster update at the end of the month also, maybe I’ll try that and last more than thirty minutes this time. Anyways what are your thoughts on Forever? What do you hope to see in the future? Let me know below and I’ll get back to you. Bye-bye.

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