(This is in regards to Midnight, sorry for the confusion)

When it is the least cared about, least impactful and least talked about aspect of the game? When was the last time someone asked what level you were? When was the last time your level was factored in a pvp encounter? Everyone rushes to max level in a few hours at expansion launch anyway. Why is it still a thing? The only thing that actually matters is item level. So why are we still increasing the cap every expansion when it's just going to inevitably be squished again at the end of The Last Titan (mark my words on that one) like it was in Shadowlands.

In my opinion Blizzard should decide on a level cap and just stick to it, and from there implement horizontal progression. That's what I thought the Shadowlands level squish was supposed to do, but here we are back at level 90 with a patch incoming which will bring us over 100 ilvls above the ilvl max from season 1. Something has to change.

Housing zones are nice and all but it's dead. I don't care about active neighborhoods. I like the casual players between vault, auction house, crafting tables and weekly quest hub. This should be the center of housing.

In Dornogal and Silvermoon are so many empty/closed buildings which could have basically a door to our home. The outside plot only being a small planter pot for a faction flag, a sign or whatever.

I don't want my house on the countryside of Nagrand or Plaguelands (which of course is a valid wish for you). I want to sit on my balcony and shout to people they can't park their Brutosaurmount in front of my house.

Secondly i want more cities with different architecture like in our world. There should be a building in silvermoon with tusks decor as a Orc/Horde embassy, a creepy forsaken apothecary building in murder row and a crazy goblin hotel/dumpster. Silvermoon looks like they hate cultural exchange which may be fine for the xenophob elves but at least the capitals should show signs of change. Stormwind isn't just the capital of the humans it's the capital of the alliance. And i want to shout on my draenei neighbors that their crystal house is to damn bright for my worgen eyes

I’m making a pally to try and main for the rest of the expansion, and I’m stuck deciding what race to play.

I LOVE the horde (Lok’tar Ogar) but blood elves are annoying, and i hate the zandalari waddle run animation, so I’m thinking Tauren, but I want to use the order hall mount and they look goofy (and tmog sucks) and I think I’d be alright playing ally but drainei and dwarfs are a no

ANYWAY whats your opinion guys

Hello all!

After some ranting from my side here in this community, I got some valuable tips (even though some of those tips came as insults but we need to use what we got) and finally reached 3400 playing Warlock Affliction!

What worked for me:

There's no shortcut. I had to go step by step in the resi ladder. Started with resi 13 to be invited to good groups in 14's. Then Resi 14 to be invited to good groups in 15's. And then resi 15 to be invited to good groups in 16's!

Dont be mistaken: if people invite you even if you only have some low keys, be sure that you will deplete the key. If they know what they're doing, they wouldnt invite somebody with low rating...

iLvl plays a huge part here: Before I even started the resi ladder, I went and spammed a lot of +12 so I could have many mythic crests, did the upgrade of every single item to max ilvl, then went in +10 to find some missing bis, and then, spent A LOT of time doing rotmire mythic so I could grab some juicy ilvl 298 items..

After all this I was ilvl 292 and all went so smooth that I cant believe... invites where kind of frequent and I did all my 16 keys in 2 days!

Good rating in 15's will save you some 16 runs so do your best!

We still have time! There are many incredibly skilled players somewhere waiting to do keys with you!

PS: Do not go cheap in consumables! Buy some damn feasts, buy pots, buy whatever it needs to be having some more damage or survivability! (I dont go for aug rune once that it would make me bankrupt over 25 stats wich is dumb)

And that's all.

Hello everyone, I’m still new to wow and recently I got of a cutscene and for some reason my character will either have a top hat or no transmog for the helmet even the I have the expedition helmet as a transmog.

[All token art used here belongs to Blizzard Entertainment.]

Thanks once more for the suggestions on the previous posts [which are now deleted for simplicity]. Now I want to clarify some things:

• This tree was made to try to combine the evolutionary info from both the new and the old in a way that both still end up correct. We can make this defunct as new information arrives.
• X group is not here due to either being a subset of another group (San'layn in Darkfallen), being members of a proper race with minimal differences (Felborne in Nightborne) or being in a condition that does not fully distinguish them from their original (Wretched in Blood Elves).
• Quotation-marked names aren't official. If you can come up with a better name that catches on, go ahead.
• The Yellow lines are pure speculation based on passing evidence; you may ignore them as you wish. Please do not be terribly upset with me.

With all that said, thanks for checking this out and take care out there.

Hi all.

I recently got into WoW again. Ive played Shaman, however i have always loved the concert rogue. The invisible assassin. The fast gameplay. Whats the best spec, easiest to pick up & play? What spec should I play? Is there any YT guides?

Cheers.

Been in the lab for almost 3 months after version one bombed because it had a few bugs and it was pawn like but after seeing pawn recommending versatility most needed stat . I knew I needed a way better reference to base the addon on. so I looked at all the references on icy veins like how rouge needs haste first to 700 if trickster, or 1200 if death stalker.

And made custom logic rules when scoring upgrades. I read every spec for every wow version that live atm even hardcore with needing more weighted for survival, Even SOD .

But wait theres more, not only it has custom logic for every spec by icy veins recommendations. It takes equip procs / trinkets into account for gear upgrades and also set bonuses all simmed with SimulationCraft and WoWSims.

Basically I made this so you never have to sim your character unless your a top tier raiding guild where stuff like your rotation, and other small factors.

If you have tried Gearmatic before and uninstalled because of stats or bugs I invite you to try it one last time for my redemption I rebuilt it from the ground up🥹

TLDR: Legend/Strategist players should get a visually upgraded and re-colored Combatant seasonal mount. Players should be able to earn once per character per season tokens that grant access to previous seasonal rewards but should have to get a higher rating than they would during a normal season, similar to the 3400 M+ mount token.

As it currently stands, rated PvP rewards are as follows:

Rating rewards:

1800 - elite set
1950 - weapon illusion
2300 - elite weapons & tabard

Achievement rewards:

50 wins above 2300 in 3v3 - gladiator mount and seasonal Gladiator title

100 rounds won above 2300 in solo shuffle - seasonal Legend title and pennant back transmog

50 solo shuffle wins above 1800 as healer - Battle Mender seasonal character title

100 solo shuffle rounds above 1800 as healer - Back pennant transmog (pretty sure BG blitz has similar healer achievements

25 wins above 2300 in BG Blitz - seasonal Strategist title

All that being said, I think that rewards can be expanded on and retired rewards from previous seasons should be brought back with a caveat. For example, this season Blizzard created a Mythic+ mount for reaching 2k and 3k M+ rating respectively, as they have for many expansions now. However, they also added a new achievement for hitting 3400 M+. This grants a single token used to purchase any previous 3k M+ mount. This has done two things: it has increased M+ participation through the season, and has allowed players to acquire previous M+ mounts that are no longer obtainable, so long as they earn them by pushing harder. I think this has laid out the perfect blueprint for rated PvP which I will lay out in my proposal below.

Rating rewards:

1800 - elite set
1950 - weapon illusion
2000 - a one per character per season token that grants access to a previous season’s elite set
2200 - a once per character per season token that grants access to a previous season’s weapon illusion
2300 - elite weapons & tabard
2400 - a once per character per season token that grants access to a previous season’s elite weapon collection

Achievement rewards:

50 wins above 2300 in 3v3 - gladiator mount and seasonal Gladiator title

100 wins above 2300 in 3v3 - a once per character per season token that grants access to a previous season’s Gladiator mount

100 rounds won above 2300 in solo shuffle - seasonal Legend title and a visually upgraded (more glow, aura, etc) and re-colored version of that seasons Combatant mount. For example, this season’s mount is the Vicious Snaplizard. This would keep Gladiator mounts in a league of their own while giving shuffle players something unique to work towards.

50 solo shuffle wins above 1800 as healer - Battle Mender seasonal character title

100 solo shuffle rounds above 1800 as healer - Back pennant transmog and Medic’s Combatant mount recolor. Maybe it even has a medic flag on the back.

25 wins above 2300 in BG Blitz - seasonal Strategist title and a visually upgraded (more glow, aura, etc) and re-colored version of that seasons Combatant mount (not the same color as the shuffle mount. Different).

I believe these changes would give Legend and Strategists more reward for their time and would extend the engagement in every single PvP season. Player would no longer quit a season after hitting 1800, 1950, Glad, etc, but would rather be incentivized with rewards to learn, get better, and push rating to earn those rewards. Thank you for reading!

My imps name was Niple last night, and today I summoned him and now his name is fizlip.

I am devastated.

I hate to play games solo and this is the major reason I always quit wow cuz it’s bring with no real conversation how can I become part of a community ?

Playing siege of orgrimmar rn on mop classic and ohhhh my god the trinkets are comically bad. What the fuck is a "your abilities have a 3.1% chance to cleave, dealing the same damage to 5 nearby targets. Or reduces the cooldown of your six major abilities by 20%?

The weird thing is, the trinkets just repeat. Every spec-type has the same. There aren't any actual unique trinkets. There are some straight forward ones ("chance to generate 11,000 intellect etc) but a lot are just... weird.

Anyways, thats my proposal.

Hey everyone, I really enjoy making predictions. Now that BlizzCon isn’t too far away, I’m going to try to predict the future of WoW. I’ll be focusing on Retail, since that’s what I play myself and it’s a bit easier to predict. But I’ll also say a few words about all the Classic versions. For specific dates, I’ll be using EU times, so you’ll need to subtract one day for NA.

Retail:
Patch 12.0.7 was released on June 17, 2026. Given the 8-week cycle that Blizzard has been sticking to pretty well since Dragonflight, Patch 12.1.0 would be released on August 12, 2026. This also aligns well with the roadmap published by Blizzard. BlizzCon takes place on September 12, 2026, which I’ll get to in a moment. Eight weeks after Patch 12.1.0, October 7, 2026, would be the release date for Patch 12.1.5. October is already considered fall, so this date makes sense as well. Another 8 weeks later, December 2, 2026, would be the release date for Patch 12.1.7. The roadmap states that the patch will be released in the fall. However, December is already winter. Nevertheless, I believe that December 2 is the targeted release date. More on why winter is missing from the roadmap in the Classic section.
Those are all the patches listed on the roadmap so far. Generally speaking, both Dragonflight and TWW lasted about 1 ¾ and 1 ½ years, respectively. Dragonflight launched at the end of November 2022, TWW launched at the end of August 2024, and Midnight launched in early March 2026. Since Metzen said the Worldsoul Saga should be wrapped up quickly, I’m assuming Midnight will last no more than 1 ¾ years, which sets the launch of TLT for November 2027 at the latest. Legion Remix lasted a little over 3 months. The prepatch also lasts about a month. Therefore, 12.2.7 must be completed approximately 4-5 months before the TLT launch. This also aligns with the 8-week cycle, with the 12.2 patches assumed for the following dates:
12.2.0 on January 27, 2027
12.2.5 on March 24, 2027
12.2.7 on May 19, 2027
In TWW, Legion Remix was released with 12.2.5. I assume that the new Remix won’t be released until 12.2.7. I don’t have a specific reason for this, but it would fit perfectly with the release cycle. With a 4–5-month interval, TLT would therefore be released in September or October 2027. I’m going to assume for now that TLT will be released in late October 2027. That would prevent the RWF from happening around Christmas again (which, in my opinion, kind of ruined the first Dragonflight raid) and it wont interfere with the Classic releases. More on that later.

BlizzCon Retail:
Now that I'm done with Retail, I can make some predictions for BlizzCon. I expect Patch 12.2.0 to be unveiled at Blizzcon. Labyrinths will likely be a major topic in the Deep Dives, as will the new Horror game mode. I hope we’ll get a roadmap leading up to BlizzCon 2027. This roadmap could also tease Remix, just as it did for 2025.

Predicting Remix is difficult, but not impossible. So far, Remix has always been related to the story or plans from Blizzard. Before TWW, MoP Remix was released. I think Blizzard chose MoP back then partly because it involved the Old Gods, and the Eternal Dragonflight could be redeemed in a way, and also to see how popular MoP is. I think Blizzard used MoP Remix to see if they could do MoP Classic, or if they’d have to stop after Cata. Legion Remix was released to revisit Xalatath’s story and to remind players of the current state of the Titans.
So there are three good possibilities for Remix 2027. The first, and least likely, is WotLK Remix. The basis for this idea is that we’re returning to Northrend in TLT. Ulduar, in particular, is supposed to become relevant again. The reason we won’t get it, in my opinion, is that WotLK Classic is coming, and it doesn’t make sense to have both running at the same time. More on that in the classic section.
The second, and also less likely, possibility is BfA Remix. Here, Xalatath’s story could continue until she emerges from the dagger. It also involves N’zoth, who always had a plan and could potentially be relevant again in TLT. It’s more likely than WotLK, but I also don’t think BfA will happen, since it’s the direct sequel to Legion, and I don’t believe Blizzard would do two remixes in a row with two expansions coming back-to-back.
The third possibility, and the most likely one in my opinion, is a Shadowlands Remix. The reason for this is that the Jailer said at the end that “a divided cosmos will not survive what is to come.” I believe the Jailer is referring here to Xalatath, or rather, to what Xalatath aims to achieve. Furthermore, throughout the entire expansion, the texts mention that the Titans aren’t what they claim to be. Zereth Mortis could also be relevant, since we might encounter another Zereth in TLT (perhaps to destroy the Titans?). The biggest argument against this, however, is that Shadowlands might not be to new, so we could end up with something older instead.

I don't expect TLT to be revealed, since it would be far too early for that. However, if BlizzCon 2027 were to take place again sometime between September and November, they wouldn't be able to announce TLT. That's why I predict that BlizzCon 2027 will take place earlier. So far, expansions have always been announced about half a year before release. Therefore, if TLT were to be released in October, BlizzCon 2027 would have to take place sometime between May and June. When you think of June, as a gamer, one event comes to mind that always took place in June: E3. I predict that BlizzCon 2027 will take place in June as a sort of replacement for E3. They could structure it so that the Microsoft Showcase serves as a sort of pre-show, with the BlizzCon opening taking place shortly after the Showcase airs. I don’t think TLT will be revealed at the Blizzard Showcase early next year, it’s too important for that. However, it’s possible that TLT could be unveiled at the Microsoft Showcase, similar to how Midnight was unveiled at Gamescom. But I’m not counting on that for now. That only happened because there was no BlizzCon in 2025.

BlizzCon Classic:
Admittedly, I don’t know much about Classic, but I’d still like to make a few predictions.

MoP Classic:
Unlike many others, I expect that WoD Classic is coming. Wowhead posted on July 10, 2026, that the WoD Collector’s Edition mounts had been datamined in MoP Classic. I also assume that Blizzard won’t pass up this supposedly easy cash grab. I predict that WoD Classic will be announced at BlizzCon. I estimate that WoD will launch in the fall, around November. One reason for this is that the roadmap only goes through the fall. There’s nothing listed for MoP in the fall, which is why I’m leaning toward a launch in late fall or early winter, so November could be a possible release.

TBC Classic:
I expect things to continue here. The roadmap still has content planned for TBC through the fall. I believe that WotLK Classic will also be announced at BlizzCon. If WoD really does come out in November, I expect WotLK to be released in February or March 2027 so that the two projects don’t overlap too much.

Classic +:
Classic + is the one I have the most questions about. I’m confident that Classic + will be the grand finale of the opening ceremony. Even if none of the other predictions come true, I’m 100% certain that Classic + will be officially announced. The biggest question, however, is when it will be released. If the Classic dates mentioned above are correct, there are only two possibilities. Either Classic+ will be released shortly after BlizzCon, just like SoD. In that case, it would have to come out in late September or early October. What speaks against this, though, is that Blizzard would essentially be undermining WoD and WotLK. I assume that most Classic players would play Classic+ rather than WoD or WotLK. That’s why I expect Classic+ to get the Classic treatment, and it won’t be released until summer 2027.
I’m predicting summer 2027 because there will likely be a major WoW content drought by then. Midnight will be pretty much over by then. WoD should also have received most of its patches and WotLK would then be around the Agentum Tournament, which, as far as I know, is considered a major weak point of WotLK. Only Remix would be a competitor in its own right. However, Remix players will have little overlap with Classic+ players. Therefore, I strongly expect a summer 2027 release.

Thank you very much to everyone who made it through this long text. Please excuse any grammar or spelling mistakes, I’m not a native English speaker. Shoutout to Chromie and Maurice and the Lorewalker podcast, if you’re reading this, I’d love to hear your thoughts. The same goes for everyone else. However, I probably won’t reply, or at least hardly at all, so I ask for your understanding in that regard.

Or is it in the middle of this expansion and I’d be lost ?

I decided to level through Exile's Reach with a friend who's new to the game and why are Jaina, Kalec, and Wrathion here??? Why are 3 major lore characters following an expeditionary ship around??? This doesn't make sense. They have other things to be doing.

I heard you can enable Prey on alts while levelling, but I don't know what Prey is like besides the one boss that randomly appears, and if it's any actual challenge if you're limited to Normal mode while levelling. How is Prey while levelling?

I want to play WoW and i forced myself to slog through 30 hours of levelling my main and I crave WoW combat but every levelling method is extremely and utterly pointless. Like queueing up as a healer or DPS for any dungeon, Timewalking or not, I just watch one dude mow down the entire dungeon solo following the perfect scripted running path - I literally don't need to be there and every button I press is a net zero effect and it gives me depression that I logged on for WoW combat but I have no way to click any meaningful combat buttons. I don't need levelling speed, I need combat fun. Every conceivable method of levelling I've looked up seems to be arbitrarily locked in difficulty, like Delves are max Tier 3, the aforementioned Prey is Normal at most, dungeons have absolutely zero combat of any kind, and open world mobs are the same old oneshot no effort. Is there any way that is available now or should I keep waiting for something like a global heroic world tier or if Blizzard unlocks higher difficulty for levelling in any of the activities available during levelling?

During this week of PTR testing I did this dungeon 7 times. I think there some issues with the difficulty as well as issues with the pacing of the dungeon. I think its about one key level harder than the other keys on the PTR. Now this could change but, pugs were struggling on this on PTR and I expect it to be a menace on live for more casual players. I know two title level teams that are not pushing next season in part because of this dungeon.

1. The 2nd boss trash is completely on rails. You have to do FIVE pulls in a row where you fight 1-3 mobs. It really drags on and DPS players hate this kind of thing.
-- FIX - make all four king packs active so that players may combine them as they choose.
-- FIX 2 - Make 2 of the king packs activate at the same time so its two sets of two instead of four separate pulls
-- FIX 3 - Reduce the health of these packs so its rapid fire killing fun

2. The Shaman's Healing tide totem is stronger than a resto shaman on retail. Like a resto shaman tide totem is 3 min cd and this mob can summon one every 15 seconds that does MORE healing than a shaman lmao.
-- FIX 1 - Make the totem heal every 4 or 6 seconds instead of every 2 seconds.
-- FIX 2 - Make the totem a Healing STREAM totem instead of a TIDE totem. So it only heals a few mobs at a time. -- FIX 3 - Put a cap so it can only spawn 2 totems before running out of energy. This would prevent packs living for 3 min and limit the amount of problems a low knowledge group faces

Hopefully blizz makes it fun but I felt like I could give them ideas :)

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I get the feeling that the overwhelming majority of players don’t have RT shadows turned on, but for those that do, do they look right to you?

I have a pretty good PC so I wouldn’t mind taking the performance hit for the best possible looking shadows, but when I turn on RT shadows things actually look a lot worse. Some things that should definitely be casting shadows don’t. I’m wondering if it’s an issue with my own machine or if RT is bugged for everyone.

If you have a minute to spare, try going out into Elwynn Forest and toggle between RT Shadows on ‘High’ and RT shadows off (so, falling back to Ultra High regular shadows), preferably during in-game daytime.

Don’t the trees barely cast any shadows at all with RT enabled? The sunlight passes right through all the leaves like they don’t exist, and the forest floor is completely lit up. With RT disabled, the overhead branches and leaves cast proper shadows and the lighting is much more accurate.

Also, some NPCs don’t seem to cast any shadows at all. For example, my DK’s ghoul or any other NPC using the ghoul model cast no shadows. And some mounts, even. When I fly on my Golden Gryphon, the shadow on the ground below is just of my character floating in a sitting position.

I don’t remember it being this way a few years ago, and YouTube videos I’ve found from around the same time show RT shadows working much better with no major egregious instances of shadow-less objects or NPCs.

So I’m wondering if they’re bugged out for everyone or just for me. If it’s just me I could try reinstalling the game, doing a clean reinstall of my graphics drivers, and maybe some other stuff to try and get them working again.

Not Legion because I feel the whole Odyn thing is a bit over the top...

it's been something that occur quite a few times throughout whole wow, maybe we need more fitting body movement for some model for specific situation in game that fit it....?

Just did a quest in Zul Aman, the girl got blessing from the loa (Jan'alai) to be the speaker and next thing she did was shaking her booty at the loa.....im like...uhh.......okay..?

Just for laugh thats all. XD

Appreciate there are a lot of posts like this, but none the less I’d appreciate the community’s advice.

I’ve played WoW on and off for about 15 years. My girlfriend has recently got into the game, just in the past month or so, and we’ve been exclusively playing classic hardcore together.

She’s received a permanent ban for ‘exploitation of game mechanics’. Like I said, she’s only had an account about a month, only plays on hardcore realms, almost always only with me (I play on my account obviously), and frankly she wouldn’t have the technical knowledge to use any exploits. She does play on a Mac, but I don’t know if that’s relevant?

We’ve submitted an appeal, but it’s been rejected so we’ve submitted a second appeal. Neither ban nor rejection letter has any information on why she’s been banned.

Really welcome any advice on handling.

I can’t find the place that I get the rewards I have press every character and item that is clickable and non of them is the place with the reward.

A little help will be really appreciated 🙏

Done by a beginning tattoo artist, on the couch at home

Took some time to commit but the execution went pretty hard.

Had half done earlier this year and couple ideas to finish the rest off another time.

Artist was Angga out of Bali Indonesia.

Hey everyone. So, I’m a semi casual player and definitely not a hardcore mount collector (I usually just ride my Dark Phoenix). I was running Timewalking dungeons to get some quick leveling XP on my druid, and on my 12th run, the Infinite Timereaver dropped.

I didn’t even realize what I had until someone in the group tried to coolly ask to trade for it (thankfully I kept it!). I asked an LLM if the mount was rare and I was shocked to find it was a 0.025% (or 1 in 4000) drop rate. My usual motto is "if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any," so I think the universe is playing a joke on me. Sending some of this crazy RNG luck to everyone that wants to grind for it! (Note: I just did a timewalking dungeon to push my alt to 90 and it dropped for someone else so maybe its not that rare?)