Those dudes love tentacles

(but please do not harass the housing team, or the artists who made these assets. They're not responsible for things going on the store.)

And by GOLLY, you are allowed to criticise it. Especially when these kinda sneaky technicalities (which aren't even technicalities. That is a kul tiran house. Just slightly spookier than average) are going to persist. If we get a "Belowtunnel" pack with goblin aesthetic, I'm gonna mention it.

It's a kul tiran house on the real world money shop. I am not mad about it, but let's not try to pretend the promise wasn't broken through technicalities like "It's got tentacles" it's "glowing" You can want and enjoy something without living in denial.

I'm not mad about the KUL TIRAN house on the store, but I really need people to stop trying to use the tentacles to justify why that house ISN'T Kul tiran. This is just from the main courtyard in Boralus. Literally the inn's doorway has them. Let's not try to beat around the bush here.

Like imagine if they'd had world events where the Lightbloom would spread and you had to beat it back, like the king-of-the-hill stuff in Hallowfall. That's what I thought they were setting up with those safety stone things holding back the LB in Eversong but then they just never did anything w/'em

When I was first playing through the MSQ I thought that the Lightbloom was some of the coolest cosmic horror Blizz had yet done — the eerie music, the visual FX, etc. — but by the time I made it through the end of the story it felt like they really wasted it

DEVILSAUR AAAAAHH

Final update: I finally got in and all names are secured! Keep going everyone, you can do it too!

Ian Bates@theredshirtguy.bsky.social · 13h ago

Update: I managed to get in once, only to be told there are "no available realms" and now I'm back in the disconnect loop. =(

i really like these pieces from the new dnd warcraft crossover book floating around, not much of a dnd player myself but i appreciate these depictions of horde peoples' living their best life

Update: I managed to get in once, only to be told there are "no available realms" and now I'm back in the disconnect loop. =(

Ian Bates@theredshirtguy.bsky.social · 13h ago

Is anyone else getting this issue with the Forever name reservation where you're stuck on an endless loop of "retrieving server information" -> "you have been disconnected" when attempting to log in?

They took the whole “WoW needs more characters with aura” comments a bit too literally, but it is appreciated nonetheless.

Grox: Australian orc/troll guy@groxi.bsky.social · 14h ago

Wtf this was so random and cool

The Kul’Tiran decor costing real money is shameful. They made promises about decor tied closely to racial identity, and this pretty directly breaks those promises. It feels like 12.1 has been a concerted effort to burn through good will.

Meanwhile, my velf in her fantasy land because they introduced midnight season 1's outdoors sets with a purple/gold palette she just can't have decor/citzen mogs with those colors. And Murder Row, the faction you'd think would offer the original belf palette, has the blue/silver mogs

The blue gem decision in midnight gets more strange every time they introduce a belf into a new video or image and they have a choker embedded with a green gem, a belf spellbreaker with green gems, belf customziations with green gems, belf heritage armor with green gems, belf prop kits 2 expacs ago.

hey blizzard what did you mean by this

Is anyone else getting this issue with the Forever name reservation where you're stuck on an endless loop of "retrieving server information" -> "you have been disconnected" when attempting to log in?

Whoa, calm down! This is not a "dwarf house" for sale on the cash shop, this is a completely standalone aesthetic. After all, if it was a dwarf house, would the windows be blue? Anyways please pay up

Feels like the moral of the story is just, "It is bad to believe in anything, and the more you believe in something, the more evil you are. The road to hell is paved with having any intentions whatsoever."

Try my delicious fruit punch in a complimentary tusk shaped cup! It's got the Gul'dan seal of approval!

I've been overhauling my Horde house today. Here's a blood knight holy... alcove... thing.

Reminds me of how way back when, when they explained Forsaken couldn't be paladins because so few would have the willpower to handle wielding the Light while it burns them alive, only for people go "but that sounds METAL AS HECK, I want them even more now." Glad Blizzard has finally agreed.

Vaknosh@vaknosh.bsky.social · 2d ago

Forsaken Paladins perfectly fulfill the ever important "actually their eternal torture and torment is a vital, loadbearing component" aspect of OC development

@darkleafcoven.bsky.social had a post on twitter that reminded me of Q'onzu and how it was a huge missed opportunity to not tie Q'onzu in with the haranir to explain the plot point from 10.2 that trolls had never heard of them, yet Q'onzu says they got their loa title from their "first followers."

Huh, a bunch of Kul Tiran themed decor has appeared on the live server decor catalog and it's all labeled as coming from the shop. "No shop items based on racial themes" was one of the big rules Blizzard established when they first described how shop housing items would work. 😡

This idea for why channeling the Light hurts Forsaken, that it doesn't just hurt because it burns them, but because it heals them and thus makes them feel the pain a living person would feel from the decayed state of their bodies, is so cool and creative. bnetcmsus-a.akamaihd.net/cms/template...

So here you go ... Thank you again to my friends at both BioWare and EA. To even dream in your sandbox was a privilege. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBO8...

My Mass Effect 5 Early Musical Drafts

YouTube video by Austin Wintory

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Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

agreed. i had a completely different understanding of the whole narrative after reading the full story

The description of the effect the Light has on undead when it "heals" them is SO gnarly in the short story version of this, I absolutely love getting to see this.

World of Warcraft@worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com · 2d ago

Follow Cormack, a Forsaken ex-Scarlet Crusade paladin, as he learns what it means to wield the Light in undeath 🧟 📺 blizz.ly/4BytFqe