Balance Druid Spell Animations, WoW Chronicle Volume 1, Blue Posts, Tweets, Movie

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Legion - Balance Druid Spell Animations
New animations aren't complete, but here is an early preview of the new and modified Balance Druid spell animations.

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Blue Posts

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Mistweaver Monk Feedback -- Build 21249 -- 9-Mar
Essence Font should be getting a maximum of 18 bolts per cast, even if you recast early. When testing it out on a single target, you may be able to see 7 heals instead of 6 when you chain two of them, but I believe in real multi-target use you'd still see 36 bolts in total (let us know if you observe differently on alpha).

There is still no reason to channel it all the way because the waves of bolts aren't evenly spaced over the duration of the channel.
Essence Font should attempt to fire 18 bolts evenly spaced over the course of 1 (non-extended) channel regardless of haste. It's probably hard to test on fewer than 6 targets since you won't see some of the bolts. Please post a bug if you see any different behavior from that on alpha. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets

Classes
Hello! can you tell me if druids' glyphs of Travel and Chamaleon will be avaliable in Legion in some way?
Chameleon will be returning. Glyph of Travel is not currently planned to return, since glyphs are now cosmetic. (WarcraftDevs)

So Judgement can get to 100% uptime with haste, but enrage has to be demolished by haste? I'm a little confused.
The haste breakpoints caused by fitting additional GCDs within that sort of short very powerful buff are (1/2) (WarcraftDevs)
a significant issue. Judgment and Colossus Smash will be adjusted to solve this as well. (2/2) (WarcraftDevs)

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
Hey, is bad luck protection built into Deepening Shadows at all? Wondering if there's a limit to the proc "wait."
It's a simple 5% chance per combo point, nothing further. (Celestalon)

PvE
The raiding scene is collapsing. Warcraft is dying. But don't worry, because we're honing in on pet battles!
I understand the frustration, if you could focus on a few specifics, what do you want to see improved? What's broken? Why, IYO? (Muffinus)
make raiding a reward again for time and effort invested. You were at your peak when this was the case.
This is a VERY good question. Can difficult raids exist in the modern world? Did it work for _____? (Muffinus)
For example, the expansion-ending raids last too long, that's totally true. But I feel that raid fights are solid in WOD (Muffinus)
In before this shows up on MMO-C, ground floor. (Muffinus)
what about not longer but harder lvl, or Video how to fix the early game.
Totally agree that more leveling challenges make for a more textured experience. (Muffinus)
I think the lvling in wow is actually wows biggest Problem (besides 1 year for 1 raid)
Do people level often with their main now that boosts are a thing? I level alts, often in odd ways, eg archi (Muffinus)
well I think alts should be more important for different playstyles and boosts dont feel statisfying (for me)
Personally, I'm an alt-gamer. I like levelling alts in fun ways, did Rogue All PvP, Tank All Dungeon (Muffinus)
Note to self: why isn't there an achievement for this. (Muffinus)
Talking about alts: why is there no achievement for getting ALL classes to max level?
If you could get a toy for this achievement, what would it do? (Muffinus)

Was Timeless Isle too challenging? (Muffinus)

Pets and Pet Battles
That said, I'd love to get some faction pride pets.Just not another scorpion for Horde. Tired of scorpions now.
So like a boar? Or a wolf. Wolf-boar? (Muffinus)

Misc
so you said dungeons, world bossEs and pvp make an mmo. But it's more than that right?
Not to be too undertale about it but people make an MMO. Free hugs. (Muffinus)

The players grew up, and so has the game. is still the 5000 lbs gorilla in the MMO room.
every expac the game feels less like an mmo. What can you do to change this?
What makes an MMO? Good question. What sparks MMO memories for you? Dungeons, World Bosses, PvP? (Muffinus)
random matchmade groups. The one thing I miss from Vanilla and BC wow was my server community
.I don't disagree, I miss the old Tichondrius forums. Is this viable in the current climate? (Muffinus)
what do you mean the old forums? Like the old layout?
.Nah like back in the day when people would post cascade memes during BWL progression @ckaleiki (Muffinus)
did you play any older mmo, like Everquest or Ultima online?
My first MMO was Dragonrealms, the text-based MUD (Muffinus)
I spend 4+ hours leading community raids on normal because that's the only mmo feeling
I remember this feeling from WOTLK Naxx, and then ICC/TOTC farming for solace (Muffinus)

Warcraft Movie Promo Image
The official Warcraft movie Twitter released a nice promo image today.

[TheRevenantHero]

It's been addressed finally. WoW is dying and it's dying fast. I really don't think Legion can save it. I'm expecting Legion to be the last expansion.

[otarma]

It's been addressed finally. WoW is dying and it's dying fast. I really don't think Legion can save it. I'm expecting Legion to be the last expansion.

Whom has it been addressed by?

[Grimalkin of Old]

Fascinating, they still don't view LFR as a problem.

[sociald1077]

It's been addressed finally. WoW is dying and it's dying fast. I really don't think Legion can save it. I'm expecting Legion to be the last expansion.

Why would it be the last x-pac? Even Everquest still gets expansions and the population of that is tiny compared to even NA/EU WoW.

I'm not saying the state of the current game is great, but Legion being the last x-pac is just short sighted.

[Deleted]

Fascinating, they still don't view LFR as a problem.

Because it isn't.

[Deleted]

Fascinating, they still don't view LFR as a problem.

Even more fascinating that they don't own up to 20man Mythic being too high a price to pay for perfect tuning. Honestly though, if they can make the scaling tech for the dungeons work well and robustly; and be far more rewarding than doing LFR, they'll give themselves the doorway to phase LFR out of the game.

[apepi]

War is not the only option

World or WARcraft, hello?

[Ausr]

I like the tweet that somehow the raiding scene is dying on WoW because 2 guilds, one who even shot themselves in the own foot, quit. My favorite part of that tweet is the part where he thinks that there aren't multiple teams that handle different parts of the game. This is after 12 years, folks. People still haven't figured this shit out. WoW devs, don't listen to these dumbfucks who tweet you please.

[Cavox]

Fascinating, they still don't view LFR as a problem.

I'm amazed by it as well.
I guess seeing a pattern isn't Blizzard's strong side.

[Deleted]

The top 0.01% of raiding is dying, which is actually really good news for the rest of us.

[Deleted]

The top 0.01% of raiding is dying, which is actually really good news for the rest of us.

I'm honestly interested in your explanation for that statement.

[kamuimac]

Fascinating, they still don't view LFR as a problem.

thats because it has never been a problem for anyone but few meaningless nolifers on forums which is proven by its 80 % completion ratio.

[Deleted]

It's been addressed finally. WoW is dying and it's dying fast. I really don't think Legion can save it. I'm expecting Legion to be the last expansion.

Dude, go to the highest mountain, take the pistol from your bag and just kill yourself. Does this favor to the world plz.

[elvor0]

thats because it has never been a problem for anyone but few meaningless nolifers on forums which is proven by its 80 % completion ratio.

That proves nothing other than most people follow the path of least resistance to the loot.

[Grimalkin of Old]

thats because it has never been a problem for anyone but few meaningless nolifers on forums which is proven by its 80 % completion ratio.

I'm curious, what do you think causes this 80% completion ratio? Is it because LFR provides great utilization of content and pleasant experience for the participants? Fair rewards compared to efforts and teamwork? Or maybe something else I'm missing?

[Rioo]

Wow, they're really killing the "class fantasy" of the druid lately. Removing the mount speed travel form is such a bad idea. If every druid used the glyph and people didn't complain (except on a pure envy basis) doesn't it make sense to make it baseline?

[Arvandor]

lfr was the first nail and mythic the second..

[Deleted]

DOOOM DOOOOM. End of the world is coming.

Someone had to say it.

[MrExcelion]

@chaud I liked the Warcraft Chronicles amazon/blizzard gear store juxtaposition. Gear store really loves to mark things up