At bfa launch I farmed herbs, on my route there was a herb spawn on the coast of drustvar, that was inside a rock and unusable. I reported many times , had friends report it , I even reported it once in SL, to this day, years later it is still spawning inside that rock.

The biggest problem is no earthwarder tank spec for Evoker

Ret is actually strong damage wise. Only thing is that actually you have no other option than to play through consecration periodical damage which makes it imobile even more than it was. I mean at least make it that consecration follows you or a target.

McConnell: "(Ret Paladins) don't have any utility." Meanwhile Paladin: *has one of the largest utility pools next to Warlock and Shaman from just the base class alone.*

I personally think it's a good thing that professions aren't a thing new players have to worry about until they get to high levels, new characters can just focus on playing and leveling

8:22 100% agree, I wish they got rid of mining, herb and skinning and integrated them on the crafting professions.

I dont think there is any scaling involved, i think that its actually the gear difference that is smaller than before, back in bfa and shadowlands you would just jump from 10 to 50 in a week, now everyone is pretty much progressing in a rate of 10 to 13 cuz the ilvl is not jumping that much anymore which i think is good, and i do feel my character getting stronger in the open world, and im using honor gear most of the time jnstead of my pve gear cuz im in warmode

The early game needs a lore unification. You can't have exile's reach, normal start in cataclysm age at best, dh starting in mardum then get streamlined towards legion while BFA questing starts to push you away from legion mid leveling and the dk starting from shadowlands prepatch all while the quest board in the capitals give out taanan jungle/legion quests and Chromie timelines. The world MUST be chronologically updated to the active expansion, everywhere, in exilre reach, in normal zones, during dk/dh starting campaign. You finish exile reach or start in the normal area and you should immediatelly get information about dragonflight now and have no quests or lore events from before. No more quillboars eupting from the cataclysm in mulgore, no more leper gnomes eccetera eccetera. No more teldrassil, deathknell, undercity and Sylvanas for NE and Forsaken (Seriously, deathknell starting cinematics and forsaken background are still based on WRATH OF THE LICH KING events!!!! they are pre-cata!). This is a problem. The plot of the game is not understandable.

There is a broken treasure chest that has been spawning in the air in shadowmoon Valley since the EXPAC CAME OUT 😂 it still happens. Always makes me giggle tho

i've never seen a floating ore and i've mined with about 10 alts in DF plus been around leveling to 70 on 2 chars

I would of liked to see more profession plans be unlocked through drops or by specing. I really hate farming rep, and I don't know anyone who likes it. My gear was insanely impactful i skipped two expansions

I WHOLLY agree with the thing you said about mining and blacksmithing/skinning and leatherworking. I've actually wondered many times why it isn't like that already.

I think the new starting area and the chromie time improved leveling immensely. New players can't start on the old starting zones and they can only do BFA, so they get a streamlined, kinda modern leveling experience. They even tried to make professions work with the scaling gear stuff, but you level so fast that there is no point in doing anything with professions. I think however that after level 10 you should be able to start the new expansion. If you can get used to your evoker during 60-70, then you can do that with other classes as well.

Oh wow I had no idea there was some content that was locked. Glad I've been doing every single quest before I even bother with gearing heroic dungeons then.

I think they should utilize the existing assets of Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms for a 10-60 MSQ for each race. Going through zones that pertain to them.

biggest fail - Renown not being account wide, locking all profession recipes behind a huge grind wall for alts - professions hit a wall around 50/60 skill offering little to none recipes to level up without grinding renown healing went from quite relaxing to OMFG I get an heart attack, pop all CDs to heal through DOTs which are crazy then break your keyboard to save someone who went from 100% to 5% in one hit... its ok for some time, but some of the changes are being overly punishing to the players and being a healer now is masochism

The biggest thing for me is the lack of transmog for the Dracthyr. Won't level one because of that.

The tank part! Omg my stomach hurts so much from laughing. 🤣🤣

Gary in the background at the start, love it

Biggest issue is really that the dragons call every player MORTAL despite a chunk of the races being immortal.

i have an addon for finding nodes, . The addon tracks nodes based on where a node "may" spawn, showing community tracked spots. Thus random node generation.

There's a lot of stuff that you can do again, that gives renown or transmog, but which isn't required to do again... And it's not obvious it's not required. There's also randomly a few things you need to do again, but these things aren't really random, they're related to professions and maybe zone events.

A a sub rogue I agree with the “tanks are totally find” cause I always destroy them 😂

question how does he get so many damage numbers while blocking i barly get any damage numbers just wondering what im doing wrong

I think those nodes + the windswept and inferno nodes are made to repel bots:P

The floating ore nodes mess with bot pathing bc bots get stuck trying to get to them so it helps ppl identify them and report them more accurately.

Lmao what is that music from I forget

looks at my 278 gear as i enter dragon isles. look at pitiful 228 quest rewards. man these mobs go down so fast it's almost like they are scaled to someone 50 ilvl weaker then me. later when leveling. omg i am finally getting item upgrades wait why isn't every fight me just stomping mobs faces in? it's almost like their tooned to the item lvl the quests rewards are giving me.

i agree with is the ore node problem Z coordinate mishaps with ore nodes has been a thing since the start of the game and in every expansion and the azure span lag that stopped me in my tracks and delayed me completing leveling/ questing by best part of a week. having to complete the story ONCE is perfectly acceptable to get end game gear tbh Mists required you to at least do 3 of the zones to get into vale and more to unlock your dailies, every expansion since has had this system becuase it is the only way to make sure that people dont complain about there being no reason for X (WOD required you to complete all the zones once, legion required a certain amount of rep which was jsut over that which doing all the quests in all the zones gave you, BFA required all the zone stories to be completed for the war campaign stuff and shadowlands required it and used it as a hears what abilities you can have choose ONE its a mmo RPG and they have actually written a great story OFC you feel weaker as you go through to the stronger zones tanks where always gonna get slapped and rebalancing is still happening crafting for old expansions is just that ITS FOR OLD EXPANSIONS early game does suck and thats why they put new players through exiles reach and then the most streamlined leveling possible for 1-60 i.e. BFA

I think one of the worst thing they did is low level scaling... I came back at the end of Shadowlands, and leveling was just so bad, when you're level 10 or 15 you just one shot everything in a dungeon, level 30+ as a heal you can't heal anymore, and now in Dragonflight level 60+ is where you oneshot everything and 65 is where you drop.

showing an 8 as tanks being busted lol I had a bear tank in a 13 pull whole room while i'm healing, and it was way cleaner then that we +2'd the chest.

Easily the worst new thing has unfortunately been the crafting order system for professions. There are consistently zero orders on most servers for most professions. Turns out, when crafting something costs resources that only that profession can get, nobody can get the required material to submit a crafting order without being that profession, and at that point, why not just make it yourself?! You can get the materials on the auction house, sure, but then why not just buy the item on the auction house and cut out the middle man? Really unfortunate, because it looked like a cool idea at first, and I would love to be a crafter participating in fulfilling orders for players.

Tanks definetly feels stronger but i think thats the point, tank is supposed to be strong and survive a lot. I've been playing prot warr since TBC and have to say it once again it feels good to play tank and worth it. If anyone wonders how he does do much dmg, there is a tons of targets which means a lot of dmg out and ton of rage in which in turn means infinite ignore pain, shield slam resets and shield block on almost all the time plus there are other defensives.. Other classes will have it similar. Where i as warrior was dying guardian druid didnt even got hit once.

if you like the level scailing, then do Razorfen Kraul on a lvl 50 character with the dungeon finder tool

best group 4 warr tanks and a dps heals.

So no one farmed rep for sons of hordir or didn’t complete the quests in storm peaks or ice crown?

I don´t know I did not feel a moment of getting weaker. My talen build was getting better and anything did die all quicker even more so when i was getting better gear from a dungeon.

i don't have a problem with the main story questline if you only do the main story quest line you only hit lvl 68 so i don't see the problem here also the lvl is really fast, really we can't complain and you only have to do it once on a char to unlock it for the rest so ...

they fixed the innovation quest locked behind the main campaign right?

One of the reasons why I remain burned on this game to this very day was the crafting system of BFA asking me to scrap everything useful I found for the _chance_ to get a crafting reagent that I would need to craft gear that wasn't even competitive while ignoring the fact that I could just skip the grind, go work for money in real life, convert that money to gold, then spend it on carry runs for a fraction of the time and better rewards. The whole game has been a sham for so long that I struggle to even imagine a version of it that isn't. To the point where I unironically have no faith in DF. I'm not going to say that WoW is dead to me, but like Asmongold said there's no way they can turn the game around in 1 expac.

Lag is definitely an issue in certain zones on Area 52.

I still wish the Expand the Exiles Reach Story narrativ lvling for the Chromie Zones as Example you Pick Legion you start at lvl 10 get your artifact and quest the main story (shorten version) of every area from 10-40 then you get the endgame campain (shortent) as 40-60 so you play throu the Raids in a story based version (like the last dungeon of Exiles Reach) and unluck everything in that expansion and get a feel for what players had back then. sure it would have to be a rly compact way but could be done by kind of Storytelling mode so only the relavant stuff would be there This for Each expansion would be damn nice early game. plus as a little ease for the speedrunners or the "I just want it to be quick cuz its my 20th char" there would be a time Estemate per Expansion (eg Legion Full story 10-60 in around 8H or so) this could help alot also making questing feel right maybe given a small Group of like 4-5 players at any given time (ether other player or NPC´s) so you can also lvl as fast as a tank or dps when you play healer If you find any Spelling/gramma Mistakes you can keep them

0 rogue changes or fixes for 10.1 either, so I feel ya, McConnel. grappling hook is broke as hell right now. biggest fail to me is regarding alts. they should make all of the renown either account-wide - or your alts will share your main's renown or something. also dragonriding perks and upgrades - should be account-wide.

I don't think there is scaling after lvl 70. At launch I couldn't kill the elites for Wrathion rep but now I'm 380+ I can pull a whole group of the elites with ease.

What astounds me about a lot of critiques around these kinds of games is how far we've come and how little we appreciate it? I have been playing WOW for 17 years now and play to relax and enjoy my friends company and have enjoyed the evolution of the game. There have been a lot of periods where the game has really sucked and felt more like a job, and at this moment the game feels really fun for people who are not hard-core raiders. That being said, I am old, lol and I remember the first video game I played was PONG, which was three pieces of light on a black screen playing ping-pong. And then the next game that was somewhat interactive was Zork. After that Asteroids and Pac man. How far we've come is pretty mind-boggling. The idea that a software company can develop a game that can be literally played by millions of people around the world, and each and every person is doing something completely independent and unique is astounding. The narrative of the game and the functionality of the game have had difficulties over the years but let's try and remember, it's still a game! The fact that I can go online anywhere in the world and connect to my server and play with my friends and ride a dragon and do quests and dungeons and raids is extraordinary. There seems to be, at least for me I'm missing element of gratitude for the complexity of this technology and game play. I am incredibly grateful for all of the hard work that's gone in over the years by coders and graphic artists and designers and gameplay developers to provide something for me that allows me to relax after working or to hang out with my friends internationally. I'm not saying the game is perfect, but so what? I have enjoyed playing this game for the last 17 years and plan to continue enjoy playing it. I think this expansion is one of the best expansions I've ever played because it has a lot more options and opportunities for people who are not hard core Raiders and want to interact in the game and play at various levels of interaction. Yes, I acknowledge there are problems and issues, but that's the nature of development. I am incredibly grateful to all the people who work really long hours to create the artwork and the design and the storytelling and the game components that allow me to relax after a long day at work and hang out with my friends. It seems to me that should be a component of the discussion as well because otherwise it just feels really entitled and somewhat spoiled. I really like Asmongold and I like how he plays the game and the way he approaches it, but sometimes it feels a little one sided in the dialogue as it's always feeling a bit critical. I think it's important to remember how far gameplay has come for the community of people who enjoy this kind of thing and also appreciation for the people who worked so hard to create it. PS I am not talking about blizzard management and all the debacles that occurred with them, I'm talking about the working guys who busted their asses to make this game play viable for all of us to enjoy playing. It's not perfect but take a moment to appreciate the fact that it exists.

You cant unlock the stuff at dragonbane keep if u dont do the questline there.

I think that NOT locking things behind story requirements creates a separate issue. With Legion, coming to that expansion late, the second I hit max level I suddenly had the game throwing all the endgame and patch content at me and I had to frantically Google what order any of it went in. I wouldn't mind an option to skip the story lock requirements, but the way it is now should stay the default.

I am enjoying Warrior Fury at the moment. Being able to solo bosses is fun, I am trying Demon Hunter out

different classes have different quest lines, so I do see the reason they want alts to go through as well.

i think that its fine for the most part. its really doesnt take long and tbh feels more free then previous expansions

The guy complaining about tanks is exactly what I do with my BM hunter with a spirit pet. Only thing I can't kill myself are events that are effected by primal storms. I'm not even geared for heroic dungeons. Edit: this doesn't apply to instanced content.

I don’t know how OGs who have been playing WoW since forever feel about the main story of Dragonflight but from someone who doesn’t play a lot of MMOs and mainly sticks to single player experiences, im not done with it yet but it has been an absolute blast leveling through this expansion so far, like REALLY fun, I played shadowlands back when it first came out and I can safely say DF’s main story just blows sit out of the water. I love basically all of the characters, the dragonflying is REALLY fun, and the dragon isles are just so god damn beautiful. The dwarf quest where you sit with him at the top of the ruby life pools and listen to his story while looking out at the landscape literally had me tearing up. It’s one of the best MMO experiences I’ve ever had

The the lag has gotten better like way better

Yeah I just felt like the crafting system fell a little short. No previous expansion content in it, no way of ordering a good chunk of the stuff you might want, and you have to have mats from the profession you're ordering from to order it which means it just got exponentially more expensive.

This is the first xpac I’ve willingly tried to do anything to the end. Can’t remember when last I leveled a prof, willingly increased my ilvl and stepped into mythics for the first time. I didn’t get to max level and say to myself “well, this is shit”.

Wow. I didn't realize devastation evoker were so low. Great succes for the first new caster spec ever

the only time I expected lag in Dragonflight is on a World Boss in Ohn Plains

I'm having so much fun with dragonflidght. Best expansion ever (after legion :D )

for the lag mentioned on world PvP... would not happen on a good PC... i never had issues with such things and have always been on med to max settings.

the game tho as a someone who a returning and casual player is kinda hard to understand in terms of consequences for what content I pursue. For instance, I like pvp but i also want to explore all the end game content in dragonflight and get gear by doing world quests etc,. but the gear competes with each other or disadvantages me if i dont farm all my gear from one type of endgame.

the quests are locked behind renown just say it right?

people are complaining about tanks not taking much damage, but now that higher keys are being done the healers are noticing how much damage the other members are taking in the DF dungeons and how there are just not enough kicks and stops to prevent it all.

Only thing that annoys me as a player that came back is that the Ret Paladin is no longer the Fantasy of a Ret Paladin. Rogues heal more than i do. Rogues have more def cd's than i do. If it were up to me the maximum a Rogue would have as healing is spit on his wound and pour a bottle of whiskey over it. My Damage is fine compared to other classes i guess, my cc is not the greatest, the Hammer is useful but compared to others, eh. I'd not have an issue with that if i'd be able to heal myself properly to stay alive, but no, those cute 30k heals won't matter too much in terms of survivability. Bubble is gone and it is pretty much over.

the "stuff locked behind msq" stuff is a misdirection. if you do only msq quests, you will finish around 67, not 70, so if you hit 70 in say azure span you've had to have done a lot of side content. quests, dungeons, etc. and as for the unlocking, it's literally only for the first character, once you have adventure mode unlocked you can literally do the engine of innovation questline at lvl 60.

The lag is brutal. Game says I'm sitting at 40ms but interacting with objects/npcs takes at least a second.

I mean, what if it's an "Ore tree" in the Dragon Isle, there's lot of undiscover species of tree you know.

any ret pally who says they have no utility needs to open their spell book and put all those highlighted buttons on their bar

23:17 glad to see I’m not the knot one that hasn’t unlocked Mechagnomes. It’s literally the only race I have yet to unlock. I think overall so far it’s a great expansion. My only complaint is the World Quests kind of suck. Their rewards suck and there aren’t a lot of them. Now I don’t know if I need more Renown with the different factions or what, but that is really the only part that I feel could be better…..

since when isn't hunter somewhere up near the top since they remove the need for us to have arrows and bullets?

Doing the MQ on your main unlocks everything on your Alts. I have 3 alts and i did not do any MQ or questing just dungeons and im able to do all the things my main can.

no utility? Blessing of freedom, blessing of sacrifice, blessing of protection, Auras/ Aura mastery and a battle rez how is that not utility

For me with many alts the only downside so far is that renown is not accountwide.. dont know why this is that way but yeah a small issue compared to the last few expansions.

Nodes have been spawning in terrain since at least cata

BfA at launch was trash, you get an azerite item from normal dungeon and you have all rings unlocked then u get the upgrade of the same item from heroic or mythic and you barely unlock the first ring cuz it requires a much higher neck ilvl that you have to choose between losing the perks for the stats or grinding the shit out of islands to level up the neck so you can barely unlock the second ring

One thing that attributes to the "feeling weaker" as you level is because you are playing characters that you got at end game in SL. They need to make that content for people with ilvl like... 200. Fresh, new people. So your gear was making an impact to start and then starts to be in-line with where it should be.

No you can´t stomp gwyn in dark souls when you get to him, I still remember watching his letsplay of it and he grinded a lot and his viewers dropped infinite amounts of items for him because he was so bad.

Am I the only one getting the "it's corn" add with the sus corn girl at the end

I get a lot of lag on the AH.

My biggest issue is that they don't give you a single chance to respec professions if you make a mistake... You either have to change profession or make a new character.

what more do u want for early game? they teach u how to play the game in the starting isle and then every expasion pre df is opened for u to try.

From what I've seen, wow scaling is directly related to your level. Issue is that your gear doesn't level with you. (Which is a good issue in principle) The stat value to stat % ratio requires more stats for same % at higher levels. Meaning : gear that gives 200 haste gives 5% at lvl 60 but only 2% at lvl 70, so even if players are geared out to the max they can't compete against 30% vers and 25% haste lvl 60 builds.

So I have to ask, what is the point of playing a rogue if you turn down the damage?

i was lvl 67 after finishing campaign, and gotta to WQ and sidequests to hit cap

My buddy is a war tank, DPS and heals died on +13 Ruby life pools with boss at 15%. He soloed it for the win and we beat the timer 😂.

It's not the lag for me, it's that the game frequently disconnects me when I land my dragonriding mount. Not sure which objects cause it, or if it's NPC's or something else, but it gets pretty annoying.

I know it's popular to hate on Taliesin here, but I actually really like his idea to revamp the old content. Make the main story line of every expansion use that special exclamation mark icon like it does for all campaign quests now. Make an alternative for the raids like you have on Exile's Reach to be able to experience that story as well. This way there is an option to experience the full story of each expansion. Not like it is now that you kinda have to guess where the main story goes for the older expansions and you will not really experience the story of the follow up patches or the raids etc.

My guild (also on Moonguard) has been calling it Laggingflight.

"rEt dOeSn'T HaVe uTiLitY" Paladin: *has BoF, Auras, BoP, BoS (Sanctuary and Sacrifice), battle res, LoH, off-heals, incap/disorient

(Sorry for the bad english btw) The only thing i can complain its about the nerf of raw gold, i love farming in this games.

Just level through the story the first time, I completed it before i even got 68, and you dont have to do it on alts.

Having longer lasting leveling pieces you can craft would be amazing

I do agree with the professions thing. Why not make it a one type of thing like for example Runescape. You have that level and you can level it anytime you want. That way when you get to max level you can start gathering/crafting relevant things, then it wouldn't be a waste of time to grab that copper ore while you are leveling a fresh character. Just integrate it all in one. Just an opinion but imo it's also not a huge deal. Meh, enjoying the expansion so far so no complaints.

Every previous expansion needs to be retuned as to experience the whole expansion… trim the fat, 10-60 shouldn’t take any longer but I want to say, hit the broken shore at 10 and ding 60 just as Argus dies and Sargeras gets vacuumed backed to the Seat. Update one storyline at a time if needed but it would make for a far superior experience IMO

Lag is an issue for me in the big events obviously, but not a huge deal tbh. But where it really bugs me is in the dragon races. I mean i can’t do any better than Bronze on most advanced eleaces, not because i would lag the skill to do it, but because lag makes it impossible to fly precisely when you get that sucker up to ludicrous speed. It’s also not a franerate or PC issue, i checked!

"its ret bad?... garbage" is pretty much the only constant i ever heard on wow... along side "ret gagn". the duality of man.

02:27 .... dude what? Blessing of sac, freedom, protection, you can cleans toxins and wog. What is he talking, ret has a big pool of utility for the team, not so much for raid, but in pvp and m+ its good.

Warzone lag hit different

I played a level 60 alt that had all bfa gear … that was so weak I could barely kill 1 mob like 54 ilvl gear compared to 200 or w/e greens

Agree. Exile's Reach is a big plus for new players. It is a more comprehensive primer to the game mechanics than the racial start zones. I've leveled lots of toons, at least one of every race and was much impressed with how well Exile's Reach covered the basics. The zone reflects what Blizzard has learned over the years about what new players need to know and provides the information in a varied and entertaining quest chain. It is even generous with bags. I would still recommend that a dedicated player do each of the racial start zones at least once. Those zones provide introduction to the lore of a race and their unique characteristics. That information proves useful even if your focus remains on only one toon.

ESO CASTLE SIEGES HAVE WORSE LAG THAN WOW...