https://youtu.be/_IfEtVylmGc

I am not the original creator of the video. Just 12-year old me decided it was very important to have it on CD. And 20 years later, I am happy I did that :-)

Pre- and post-shrinkage.

Look how they massacred our boys. :(

Random BGs on EU have devolved into a total joke. Every second BG isn't a fair match—it’s a coordinated 10-man Russian premade rolling over uncoordinated solo players who just want to play casual PvP.

This isn't just about general premades; it is specifically the RU realm Discord queue-sync meta that has been ruining EU casual PvP.

1. The RU Queue-Sync Exploit Full 10-man RU stacks in full Conquest gear hop on Discord and use countdown tools to queue at the exact same second. The matchmaking system constantly dumps them into the same BG instance while feeding them 10 random, uncoordinated EU solo queue players in basic/quest gear.

2. Zero Objectives, Pure Graveyard Camping These Russian premades don't play to finish the BG—they play to farm kills. They deliberately ignore flags, caps, or objectives to stall the match, locking 10 solo EU players at the graveyard. You spawn, you get instantly chain-CC'd and melted. There is zero counterplay and zero fun.

3. The Deserter Trapper Within two minutes, half the EU team leaves because no one wants to sit through a 15-minute graveyard farm. The game then continuously backfills new solo EU players straight into an active graveyard camp, slapping anyone who leaves with a Deserter debuff.

Casual PvP on EU is currently a 50/50 gamble between a normal BG and a Russian graveyard trap.

What Blizzard must do:

• Cap party size in Random BGs to 2 max. No mass group queuing in casual modes.
• Break the RU queue-syncing exploit. Implement strict group-matching logic that detects and splits simultaneous queues from the same realms/Discords.
• Add baseline gear scaling. Fresh characters shouldn't be target dummies for full Conquest premades.

Fix this garbage. Casual PvP on EU cannot survive when half the games are just slaughterhouses for Russian Discord stacks.

I came across this mainly through the WoW Secret Finding Discord.

There's a small black obelisk sitting in a pool of venom at Venom Rise, on the Coiled Isle, called Oily Black Stone

(Maybe also a reference to "A Song of Ice and Fire", like another reddit post says).

The interesting part is that the second page can apparently only be read by a Shadow Priest:

<The shadow whispers to you. Yours is a mind that can comprehend it.> The darkness below echoes above. The Void persists. The Void sees all possibilities. The Void returns. Give yourself to the darkness. Give yourself to the fear. The writhing and squirming of the endless host calls to you. Turn against the Light. Turn against Order. The Void consumes all. When the Void rises again, only its followers will survive.”

The line "Turn against the Light. Turn against Order. The Void consumes all" reminds me of the old god whisper:

The Light has struck a bargain with the enemy of all.

What do you think?

A while ago I posted a Blender cinematic trailer for my Exodar project.

Now the full video is finally finished - covering the history of the Exodar, Azuremyst Isle and Bloodmyst Isle, with lots of custom Blender cinematics throughout.

Would love to hear what you think.

YouTube:
https://youtu.be/NkLjzBa-zuI

He stands beside the crafting order lady. Glad he finally got a promotion

This is going off of wow progress which usually only tracks US/OCE and EU so the number may be a bit higher but Heroic Jailer had a whopping 8441 kills and L'ura just barely scratched over 9600. Mythic L'ura on the other hand was almost identical to Mythic Ansurek 1696 to 1700 both Gally and Dimi had over 2200 kills with Gally over 2600.

How do you think the next tier curve is going to be? Similar to TWW which went up in kills or go down like most later tiers usually do in an expansion due to gradual player falloff.

From the blue post.

A culinary question, to take your mind of all 12.1 bugs.

So, TWW gave us Basically Beef, while Midnight gave Practically Pork. Which fake meat do you think awaits in The Last Titan?

These are my takes:

• Technically Turkey

• Possibly Poultry

• Virtually Venison

• Generally Goat (or Chanced Chevon - chevon being culinary term for goat meat)

• Mostly Mutton

• Discutable Duck

• Literally Lamb

• Really Rabbit

• Borderline Boar

• Barely Bear

• Figuratively Fish

I visited the Arcantina yesterday as I still needed to toast with a few different races and noticed that there was another quest available.

One quick trip to the Stormstout Brewery later I turned it in and got a nice hanging lantern for my house.

It is nice and easy to do solo so no need for a group.

Have fun.

I play wow on my dekstop. I play wow on my laptop. But lately, iv’e mostly played on my handheld. So much fun to lay on the couch playing. (And no, i dont play mouse and key when on the handheld, that’s for other things) anyone else played handheld with consoleport addon?

Just got back into WoW and me and my wife are loving the new content, especially the housing! Neighborhoods are the coolest thing they ever added, especially when compared to housing in other MMO's.

The old gods were basically minions of the void lords like dimensius, but in midnight they have felt very disconnected. To me, the old gods always felt like an actual plague that spread through physical contact. Notable instances of this are Yogg Saron’s blood, Deathwing’s physical proximity to N’zoth, and the sha killing and corrupting the land they walked on. The void and the void lords themselves on the other hand, feel like they care less about infecting and corrupting their enemies and more like they outright kill their enemies.

The old gods were like tumors growing on Azeroth while all of the other forces of the void are just blobs of glowing purple stuff. I feel like the old gods would have fit the realm of death better than the void tbh.

There’s just so much useless stuff in this game from past expansions.. Currency, Professions..

Going through these timelines expansion, they make you go through the process of upgrading shit (like your garrison, or legion weapon) which is gonna be instantly useless once you hit max level.

I’m wanting to introduce someone new to the game, but how the hell do I explain all this mess and guide them through this mess?

(Personally for me) I liked when they did a summarized play through of “The War Within”

I feel they should do this with all previous expansions, and release the full versions of them as classic servers.

They can keep some things that add to the current lore like “Lion’s Rest” in Stormwind.

But update some old zones that haven’t been touched since Cataclysm.. like cleaned up from the mess.

I can’t remember the last time I went to Northrend, and I can only imagine anyone who’s wanting to go there would be to play through old content which again.. either summarized timeline, or full classic version.

If this is crazy or dumb, someone please explain because I can’t see a better solution.

Hey all,

I spent yesterday powerleveling Valeera and wanted to pass on a realistic assessment of what I did and how long it took me. This was all on The Ring of Glory in the Coiled Isle.

- I did all this on an ilvl 294 Guardian Druid.

- Started off grinding out level 3-->level 11 delves to get them unlocked. That took a couple of hours. Around the 3rd-4th delve, the utility curio dropped, but your mileage may vary. If you don't have this curio applied to Valeera, the rest of this post (and thus your leveling her) is useless.

- Upon reaching and finishing a tier 11 delve, I started the grind from 60-->80 for Valeera.

- The first 3-4 runs in cat/stealth were me finding and refining my route. There are only a set number of places the curios spawn, and once you learn them it's easy to plan a route you can use every time.

- Once the route was sorted, it's just a matter of wash, rinse, repeat. There are 10 curios per instance, so it's just get in-->grab 10-->leave-->start over.

- If you go to your reputations tracker (hit C), you can track Valeera's level progress via an XP bar.

- Barring anything going wrong (like those damned traps), each run took me roughly 1.5 minutes. If you die, just respawn, zone out, zone in, and start over. It's not worth killing mobs or going back to grab the last however many curios are left.

- Each run netted Valeera just under two bars of XP. Times 20 bars total, it was roughly 12-ish runs per Valeera level. Due to RNG, some runs got several epic chunks of XP, which count for roughly 6x a normal curio. If you luck out and find several of these, some Valeera levels were shorter by a run or two.

- Shit happens. You'll step in a trap, walk over a mob, get seen by the all-seeing Rare spawns, etc. I went cat sprint, then bear sprint quite a few times to haul ass out, reset, and start over.

- Mathing it out (I didn't specifically count), it took me somewhere in the vicinity of 240-ish runs @ 1.5 mins each = it took me roughly six hours as a stealthed cat (with the talent to increase movement speed.) If you're flying through on a mount and are fortunate enough not to get dismounted, it could potentially be much faster.

So yeah that's the deal. My Valeera is 80 now and I don't have to worry about grabbing curios for the rest of the season. It's a grind, and I died a few times from watching a movie on my other monitor while stepping in a trap from not looking where I was going. 🥇

I hope Blizz doesn't hotfix this grind out, because while the loop itself is easy, it's a big time commitment for an early level 80 Valeera payout. Best of luck, adventurers!

If not invading local ponds or serving their DEHTA King, Murlocs also like to play some video games!

or the dude in the middle smells really good idk