War Within’s Alpha is here! Today we roundup everything we got to check out during the first week such as Delves, Warbands, the Isle of Dorn and of course the Hero Talents. If you want a more in-depth look at these features, check out our videos covering them on The Daily Preach channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGJy1bD18HRzz_aNn84QzPHquhgk6etPJ
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00:00 – Warbands
01:58 – Delves
06:48 – Hero Talents
11:24 – Isle of Dorn
Look man, I agree with 99% of your criticism, but calling these zones bland (fair statement, no issue here) but then naming Hellfire Peninsula as an interesting zone made me almost spew my coffee at my monitor lol. I love TBC, then and now, but that zone is one of the most dull in the entire game.
the natural source for the chest keys would be harder encounters in the delve. Would be interesting to see if Blizzard agrees with me 😛
Until wow goes back to original art style i cant come back, i thought we would be getting like ubrs and all that when they said we would be going underground. Everything is just colorforful disney bs it seems.
Seems cool, but I think my WoW days are firmly behind me. I came back to it about 4 or 5 times now, but no more…
i liked warframes war within better 😛
People will always buy runs, happens in WoW, happens in FFXIV, happens in Lost Ark. So long as people can pay for runs people will.
Can somebody please answer because I am extremely confused. I stopped playing wow a year after Legion maybe. Now I'm thinking about getting back into wow and it's extremely confusing. Seems to be a ton of different versions and I have no idea what is actually happening. If I start playing again will I continue where I left off or is every character level 70 now or something???
When is this expansion coming out and what's the level cap and is it after Legion or is there something between??
I'm so confused..
You have more faith in Blizzard than I do, I truly believe they will de-evolve into Delveghast+, and all the sweats will just suck all the fun out of it. Ive already been burned twice with the prospect of fun solo content with Island Farming and Choreghast.
the show char is more like d2 char selection 😀
Correction: Dragonflight forced you to play spells nobody liked with tier sets. At least destruction warlocks. My theory is that Season 2 (CDF) and Season 3 (Rifts) were designed to punish people complaining about those two spells by forcing them upon warlocks with tier bonuses.
It seems like for some Hero Talents/Classes, they were super inspired… and for others, they just clearly didn't seem to have any good ideas on what to do. Good example is Rider of the Apocalypse, being mounted in combat as a Death Knight? Amazing. Then, look at Priest… IMHO, they couldn't put together one single interesting idea across all three paths. Probably maining DK next expansion. lol
The monk talent around the heal works, if they do it like the talent feral druids had in the past, that the heal would increase your damage abilities
I loved the mage tower, because it was something I could do alone, I didn’t have to rely on waiting for guildies or for randoms that have zero patience
Chromie time, tiered dungeons like Diablo and stat scaling are why I quit after 10 years +
Tiered dungeons are for gatekeepers and make the game stressful – I've got enough stress with work as it is.
Geez this game needs a new engine
How the story and side quests tho? Sweet Baby Inc-ed to the whazooo?
I used to play the f out of every new expansion zone, fully completing all exploration and side quests because i'd get so immersed and focused and i loved the world even in expansions considered bad (like WoD or BfA) DF was first where i was completely yanked out of that experience with obvious in your face 2020s USA/California identity politics, I've played WoW since release, I quit few days into DF, was cosidering quitting already in SL tbf, but the woke shit in DF was the straw that broke the camel's back, WoW obviously isn't for me anymore.
Metzen announcing new expansions was kinda cool, gave me hope, but then you realize he's only one dude, Blizzard is infected top to bottom with gender studies majors, and has been for a while, so there's probably no way to steer that ship back to cool medieval fantasy theme.
I really hope delves will not become the second M+ (NO MORE TIMERS!).
I would love to be able to play at my own pace (especially solo) and just cassualy run through while also getting a nice reward at the end.
You could, however have timers just for the leaderboards.
didnt they say 1-5 players? for delves. so, im pretty sure you can do all rewards in a group, too. like Thorghast was. Yeh, that WILL lead for boosting nonsense once again, and people rather but tokens for gold and but their rewards instead of having to do something that requires some sort of skill, like mage towers did. if this is the case, I will not even bother with these delves dungeons. no reason if the rewards can just be bought with tokens/gold anyway. (IN GAME) only incentive dead on arrival
Meeeh, I am even less excited now.
I actually prefer NOT having more buttons with hero talent, some spec already have about 15 ability in a rotation. I wish to focus more on the game rather than my spell bar
I hope they add more options for visual control. I can't be bothered seeing huge wings on demon hunters or all the horses from the death knights. There should be a transparency alpha that the player can adjust. Same as corpses that block the spells on the ground you have to avoid. You literally can't see them in dragonflight when a big dragon dies and pools spawn beneath them. Terrible game design and should have been fixed years ago.
WoW sucks, and has sucked for over a decade now. Let the game die already sheesh.
I'm still seeing nothing that really amazes me with these wow expansions. It's still the same stuff, a new zone, a new level cap and a new crisis. When are they going to learn that not every expansion has to introduce some big bad villain or a bunch of leveling zones that will be outdated in the near future, like the many many many leveling zones from previous expansions that are gathering dust. How about updating those Northrend leveling zones now that the Lich King has been gone for over a decade, what has happened to the Outlands since our crusade against the Legion? Why is Theramore still a ruin? Why are there still trees burning with the fires of Deathwing!? FFS stop adding new zones and work with what you have, I mean just look at how terrible the new player experience is. This game died because it isn't about the WORLD in Warcraft anymore, whereas in classic it's all about that.
I haven’t watched the video yet but the biggest “feature” warbands isn’t even that glamorous.
Its more like a quality of life thing and it legit doesn’t effect any gameplay outside of making grinding abit easier. Like wheres the meat and potatoes.
People keep talking about warbands like its this new way to play when its just a new login and transmog / achievements are all cross race and such.
Like what this is it?
Delves sound interesting. Had nothing but bad experiences with Mythic+ so would love something similar that I can do solo.
To be fair my biggest problem with retail Wow is the extremely Disney cartoon looking like animation that puts me off.