Got out during BfA, but been feeling nostalgic... Bell and asmon talking about lockouts, sparks, weekly timers, drop chances, fragrant coins and crests whatever that is immediately killed my nostalgia. Thanks ❤😊

Remornia as a drop would have been sick. Imagine if you had it equipped it floated behind you. Following like a pet.

The problem with using FF as a comparison is the subs get most of the items on the store first via in game events, they go on the store later for people who missed the events, not on the store first and on the trading post later. which btw trading post is still a gated currency you have to pick and choose, EVERY subbed FF player gets the event items during the event no picking and choosing.

"good boy points" instead of "great british pounds" is one of the funniest things I've ever heard and I can't thank you enough

For post launch zones they should do things similar to meta events in GW2 that are essentially outdoor raid/scenario hybrids, where zones have smaller events that contribute to completing a larger event with bigger rewards. Example, if we did this in broken shore, Instead of running around doing WQs, rares, etc. You have a tiered objective to build up for and launch an assault on the tomb of sargeras with some big bad demon general world boss at the end in the big battlefield where guldan was during the first scenario

Asmon and bellular. Like a warm blanket.

One good thing to note is the FFXIV cash shop isn't in the game. You'll never see it if you don't go to the specific website where you can buy items. Unlike WoW that forces that shit in game and in your face constantly.

I absolutely agree with making Classic WoW free to play. I am amazed they haven’t done it by now. I mean, this is part of why Final Fantasy XIV is doing so well, they have a really good trial to hook people in with.

The zones full of rares at least midway playerbase fault. We threw Blizzard a curveball into thinking the timeless isle formula is the way forward. They interpreted it as "hmm so they are really interested in just killing rares with low spawn times and drop chances till their noses bleed!"

Ya know what captured my imagination with wow back in the day? Classic rpg adventure stereotypes. The story is too convoluted and complicated. Give me a picturesque forest with a haunted castle in the backdrop that houses the evil wizard summoning zombies and skeletons.

The Dragon Racing locations also only appear if you are nearby,.. it's ridiculous

25:40 Not going to lie, one of the worst things about WoW is how you feel much much weaker as you level and it's incredibly noticeable. I wish I had the option to keep my end of expansion gear and store exp to skip right to 70. They really need to fix that feeling of leveling up but getting weaker and weaker. I meet people who xp lock at 10 in dungeon finder running through one-shotting everything while the rest of us shmucks who are 50-60 are chasing them around.

With the map idea and issue of (needing to be right next to the event to spot it). It's always a coinflip. It's alright if there are enough events going around and they all give what you need, but it's an issue if you'd have to wait 30 minutes to miss them all and wait another 30 minutes to possibly miss them all again.

if a game requires an monthly sub fee, there shold be ZERO paid costemtics. all that shit should be included... early access for cosmetics ffs

In some countries, $8's will feed a family of four for the DAY...

Man I would like to play vanilla classic, but I am so sick of paying anything to blizzard now...

This is a roundabout way of selling ingame currency. By spending $8, you effectively avoid spending the trader tenders that would have been required to purchase the set during the month it becomes free, thus you’d have traders tenders to spare for extra items..

Alt-oholic (but for Everquest) here. In Everquest I constantly suffered from "the grass is greener over there". I started a warrior, but early game, warriors were in a bad place to solo. So after a few weeks, of not being able to do a damn thing if none of my friends were on, I switched to a magician. But as I mained that mage, for years, and gear started getting better, I got hit with the melee envy. Mages were all front loaded power, mostly in their pet. So getting new gear for me, was like "oh yay, 100 more mana, yippee... (-_-)". But when a Ranger or a shadowknight got a new weapon or something, that was a massive deal... but alas, that game made alts damn near impossible. I had to take over a friends account and run two toons to fill that hunger. EQ2 made me into an altoholic, because of the mechanics of the game. Daily dungeon runs. Every day you could get the "daily double" quest which would pay double the 'currency' that that expansion required, which bought you augments and gear upgrades. So you could run the daily double zone(s) and then chose to try and get groups together for all the other 'normal' zones, which was like pulling teeth, or simply load up an alt and run the daily double again, instantly. Obviously, people didnt want to wait around for half the currency. So they ran alts, and did the DD again, for as many alts as they had. This made it faster to gear up multiple toons, than you could a single toon normally, since everything was tradeable on the same account (heirloom). It also made filling groups, or raids, a breeze. Since people knew I had a million alts, they would invite me, the player, to a group or guild. Not because they needed a warrior, or another dps, because they knew I could fill any role they may need. Asked the guild I wanted to join what they needed, and they said "a swashbuckler". I said "sure, gimme a week to get mine ready." The guy was like "wut?". Had a low level one I had to level up to max, then deck him out in a set of decent (but not spectacular) group gear. For the first few raids, I really wasnt doing all that hot, just middle of the pack DPS wise. But I got a full set of raid armor in that time, and after a double xp event (i was waiting for) happened, I finished my AAs. The very next raid and I was topping the dps Parse, much to the surprise of the entire guild... Everyone had a theory of what I had done, but I didnt want to tell them I never finished "leveling" my toon, I just wanted to raid. Eventually I fell in love with that class, and really started doing things nobody else had thought of. Since a Swashies forte was hate production and transfer, I was always number two on the hate list. Main tank dies, that means I was next. So I specced and geared to make use of that. Highest HP in the guild... when main tanks had 70,000 hps, I was creeping up on 90k. A chain Tank. Good times. Especially when I played that toon in a pick-up group. It would blow the casual's minds how many hitpoints this little halfling had. All because, of my addiction to alts. Next guild had me swap classes multiple times, because they had roles needed filling. My main (Droll) was a tank, I played as a ranger for a while, until they needed a coercer. I was the guy that did whatever the guild needed. And I had a blast doing it. So ever since, if a game isnt alt friendly, I look elsewhere.

Question for asmongold if you buy it on the trading post and enter your transmog comp is it ok or are they kicked?

Simple fix to this problem. Store item blue Dropped item red Just have 2 colors to differentiate the store to the earned item. The prestige will hold in the color, even though everyone will be able to get the item.

I sat in Looam for an hour chilling because nothing was happening. Little did I know

Still waiting to see if they will change Shaman's Lava Burst animation over to the new 'lava bolt' animation that has been in use since pre-patch. Almost every instance of an NPC using Lava Burst now uses the new lava particle effect but Shamans are still using the one we've had for years now (one example is do the Horde Exile's Reach zone, Shuja (the Warlord's daughter) uses Lava Burst but it has that new effect).

This is the same guy that drops $1k+ on gacha pixels btw

YES! Classic being Free To Play would bring me back INSTANTLY.

You're right, I play my druid to just have fun on it. And do dungeons or raids differently. It's like.. if I did the story chapter already, I'd like to just continue it on her because my account is aware anyway. So why do I have to do all of it all over again forcefully?

I’ve been trying this trial, it’s a little misleading even though it’s not technically wrong, the inability to level past 60 means the quests quickly out level you, until you aren’t high enough level to pick up more quests. It’s basically just waking shore quests plus flying around the whole map and doing the races and traveler’s log.

Yep, i would play wow if it was either free to play or one-time purchase, but not a subscription

Hate to say it, but it's pretty clear the wow development team is low level. I can't imagine any developer who is worth anything says they want to work for blizzard let alone on a 20 year old game. What you're left with are the minimum wage fast food workers of the game design world. And then the few leaders they have leave a lot to be desired. So there's no wonder that the game is underwhelming.

Dragonflight aesthetic and story are very reminiscent of YA fantasy novels. This is a symptom of hiring writers and designers who only consume low-brow YA novels almost exclusively.

Asmon misses the days of big buff sweaty men brawl it out.

Bellular "Pause" face on min 2:51 is hilarious!!

I would back today if they had classic wow with balanced (where ret can do comparable damage) characters. They also need to charge like $5 /month for classic or 6 /12 month sub plan.

Feels like forever since he last watched a Bellular video

The deal with cosmetics, for me, is "do I like the way it looks?". I don't care what someone else thinks. I am not trying to impress anyone other than myself.

The fact Store items are now quite regularly put in the Trading Post has pretty much removed all my gripes about them. Wanna spend some extra cash to get mog or a specific mount early? Cool. I can just earn it in less than 6h of gametime in a month or so. Win-win-minorwin.

It's so hard to get my friends to play the game because of the sub fee, when WoW wants $15 a month it directly competes with their other hobbies, making it a value judgement that WoW loses every time, if they could buy the expansion and play they would.

Love that they went back to 1 spark every 2 weeks again, because everyone loved that in 10.0

All they need to do is if you buy dragon flight you get vanilla included. This way you still pay $15 a month but can play all the games available vanilla and retail

Not gonna lie if they had cheaper mounts etc I would of swiped 100% but mounts 30 to 35 AUD is just insane..

the new zones with rares formula is lacking mini dungeons and events that link up together.

I think the Legion vibe was hype. Dragonflight feels... Cozy. So yeah, it makes sense to me that it has Hella retention.

Given Blizzard lately, fast turn arounds on fixes are making me wonder what they're trying to cover up.

Its funny how asmon wants them to reset the game but he still wont play the game even if they would do that, he is just burned out of the game lets be honest Ps im not an asmongold hater i love him, but when it comes to retail content he's downgrading dragonflight, even though the game is fun and a lot better then what it used to be (bfa, shadowlands)

Can we really blame Activision and Blizzard for expanding the in-game shop more and more? It keeps bringing in the money because players keep buying those items willingly. Nobody is forcing or tricking them. Activision and Blizzard are giving the players what they want. It hurts to witness this, but it's true nonetheless.

6:45 THANK YOU!

If you want to get the game during the sale but don't want to play now you can always gift the game to yourself from another account. Speaking specifically about the highest version. So your 30 days game time doesn't start until exactly when you redeem the gift.

maybe classic era can be f2p, current classic (or a future classic+) can be fully paid

I think the biggest problem with subscriptions is that it doesn't ever provide enough value in my mind. I could buy one game and be able to play it for life, or buy this game and be able to play it for a month. Especially with how many options we have, and how many different types of games I personally play. Just recently I played Skyrim, Barotrauma, Satisfactory, Crusader Kings 2/3, and a few more I'm not remembering. With all these options, why would I spend 15 a month on a single game?

35:56 GOOD BOY POINTS im dead

It's not the Argus formula. It's been that way since MoP.

2-3 years clean of any Blizzard product. When ever all the SA shit and breast milk stuff happened i dipped.

Regardles of expansion blizzard does same thing, overwhelming content adding in grinding. So eventually you will be like in BFA: Oh do dailies, do mythics weekly, do weekly quests, do world quests. Fill your bags with tons of collectable items which you will need to exchange somewhere in China!

Been playing since BC. I can't keep track anymore of all the damn currency and side shit you're supposed to do now for gear or items. I miss just killing shit and getting rewards. The most complicated thing was reputation previously. Don't anyone dare say "well at least you don't have to craft things yourself now" ignoring the special requirements of material.

I honestly CANT watch Bellular without Asmonds commentary lol

Along time ago when you could talk to GMs directly through tickets I was having trouble making payments for my monthly sub... dude literally looked at my payment history and gave me a free trial. Wish I could remember howlong it was or the gms name. What a guy.

are chapters like gw2's living world seasons? haven't played wow since bfa lol.

All purchasable items should be obtainable in game via time invested. Let people pay to save time. Let the others purchase with their time.

i tried playing on my account that has no sub and says i need sub so how is it free trial ?

35:57 From now on, ill call them Good Boy Points.

Man I just started playing WoW I’m only level 20 and this is a crazy game lol

I do dislike how the 10.1 made the max gear lvl from 424 to 450 so now I’m gonna farm to get back to an equal lvl as other players especially when I had my full 424 pvp gear. I would’ve preferred if they give me another reason to farm for instance this item can make you shoot lightning from the sky or this one can summon an explosive snail minion kinda as the gear does in Diablo, where it has a different function tempenting your gameplay style, like imagine if there was an item that makes me able to shoot lightning bolt from the sky similair like the thunder totems do in Ohn’ ahran or an item that makes me shoot an arm cannon made by engineers or something so I can work on an specific gameplay, that’s why I love the new skill tree for it change your character pretty decently to experiment in it.

Did someone say [Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?

New mount looks cool

27:12 EXACTLY

I haven't spent a single tendy on anything in the trading post...

Sup, my boi salutes from Spain as always. Cheers to this new video mates!

I'm worried about the visibility of the Evoker legendary. Fist weapons are notoriously unnoticeable on anything outside of a melee attacker or an Elem shaman using the Legion artifact. Evoker's are gonna have their wings in the way as well, so even if Blizz does let them use it in casting animations we're barely gonna see it if the camera is in the default location behind the Evoker.

hey look! it's slowly devolving into an modern day battlepass! yeah, you can earn those items later down the line (3 months) by just playing and grinding tendies or you could get it way quicker by just swiping!

30:40 800% value!!!

is that animation on alexstraza real at 1:30 ?? she doesnt move her hips or legs at all while emoting. jank looking as hell

Not entirely true asmon people do make ults to replay the story.

They need to make dragon and drake mounts dragon rideable

running around in the zones and kill rare spawns is good!

Bellulars light skin stare around 31.45 aaaugh gachiGASM

Every time Blizz tries to climb a bit further towards redemption, Bobby's blobby ass weighs it back down.

do what lord of the rings online did for free to play for classic wow plus :)

My problem with game store cosmetics/mounts is they get more attention than actual shit you grind for

Loved the old artwork from wc2... 😍

i haven't played in years and i don't really wanna spend money to see if it still sucks as bad as when i left

I use Paypal for the game stores. Every time I want to purchase something I have to transfer money to that. I have time to reflect if it’s a good idea or not. Most of the time I don’t bother anymore.

More mounts....wow...

this and another new gearing system to learn and grind lol - blizz continues to kill itself

they GBP good boy points got me crying man lmao

I will not lie. A dragonriding Netherwing drake would get me to put $15 into Blizz's pocket. IF! If the way to get it is not some convoluted bullshit.

You know you need to take a break from the internet for a bit when your first thought when seeing GBP is "Good Boy Points".

I'd rather have a designed experience, than them iterate formulas until one sticks until it gets exhausting. Failures be damned, why learn from those? Just shovel more failures until one works for a while. Design to invoke interesting experiences in your players, that doesn't always precipitate systemic iteration.

damn, Adventure Quest 3D did it first 😂

0:51 you can incinarate penguins, goty

The problem is that blizzard is hearing that the players don't want the game monetized. If they get rid of the sub, anything that they implement to recoup the earnings is going to be considered monetization and further angering the playerbase. it's a no-win situation for them even if the things they implement provide more benefits then what players were getting with the monthly sub. That's why they need to end current wow and launch wow 2.0.

I see drathyrs as a mistake it should be draconoid race far much better race not only big muscleed dude but can be paladin warrior druids mages hunters shamans DKs and rogues and ofc evocyers

4:13 literally why I play alts lmao

Very smart of blizzard, future players shouldn't feel like they missed out on rare mounts.

I never feel like actually buying this extra crap. It's almost like a tip for the dev team but not with my money.

Now that you can earn store items ingame, it's harder to see who is a loser. Before you could immediately spot the losers because they had store items, but now you don't know if they swiped or actually farmed for it.

Run around in a group and kill rares? you mean a hunt train? Also i'd say if they want to get into putting a bunch of cosmetics on the store they should ditch the subscription like how GW2 does it but i dont think it would work as well in WoW with the lack of dyes and such

Many people lost faith in blizzard they lost me at corrupt gear in bfa when you have 1 item doing 40% of dmg was one the biggest spit in the face and after all that was just sad...

I feel like even Dragonflight should be free to play to be honest. And not gonna lie, if it was, I would be more inclined to buy cool store cosmetics. I spent a lot of money in LoL for example just because of that. But now that the trading post is a thing, I don't see the point of the store, at least for me

Asmons ted talk at the end was spot on - having found myself in a bit of a financial situation as of late, i've been looking at many F2P games that are either straight up F2P or Buy Once, Play for Free ala New World etc Currently playing Star Trek: Online because its free to play; i've even spent a few spare bob on some tidbits on there too, but the longevity of my playtime goes much further than if i was to Sub to WoW for example because i can log in to STO, and not have to worry if im getting my moneys worth where as with WoW, if i sub and i'm not 'feeling it' for a few days, thats money going down the drain and with time-gated content it makes it sort of worse too since youre there twiddling your thumbs trying to make the most of the money you spent on the sub as opposed to switching to another F2P game to pass the time etc - F2P will generally have you logging in as much as poss to knock down that 'grind wall' in order to progress (as pure F2P) but its better than being 'forced' to log in, in order to avoid wasting money imo

I usually see Asmongold videos in silence and enjoy his commentaries... but I just had to leave a comment say that when he said: "What is GBP, is it Good Boy Points?" I literally lost it and could not stop laughing! Tears were falling out of my eyes how much I laugh! My gosh, so funny I can never forget this now every time I see GBP it will always bring a smile to my face! Thanks for the content Asmon! xD

legion was peak wow imo