If you haven’t finished the quests in The Dragonblight there may be some spoilers in this post, so get questing!
I finished the aforementioned zone last night and got to enjoy one of the coolest events I’ve seen in the game, but what was even better was the battle in Undercity that followed. I love that Blizzard has come up with a way for your actions to change the world permanantly. Now the Wrath gate, instead of being a battlefield with a constant wave of undead pouring out into The Dragonblight, is a fiery wreck with some weird flowers growing everywhere, and a bunch of people running around screaming like little girls. But if you haven’t finished the quests, it’s still a battlefield for you.
I’m hoping that Blizzard takes full advantage of this new feature. In fact, they should use it everywhere! Maybe by the 20th time you show up to spank that hell out of some raid boss he just starts crying and surrenders.
“What did I ever do to you? Every week you come in here and kill all my minions. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find good minions? And those damn epics don’t just grow on a tree. I’m trying to stay on a budget here. I can’t even wear any of this stuff. I’m a freakin giant, but the rules say I have to have three fucking epics on me at all times. God I hate my life. Just kill me and get it over with.”
Or imagine the possibilities for eliminate annoying spammers or retards who think everything they say on the trade channel is worth hearing. Wouldn’t it be great if you reported a spammer and *POP*, they just disappeared. They’d still be there, but you wouldn’t be able to see them! Extend that to the ignore list and it would be like having the power to boot people out of the game!
Of course if I had that power bad things would happen. I’d start disappearing raiders who pissed me off.
“Where’s the damn hunters?”
“They’re here. Remember, last week, you banished them all because every time you looked at them you felt like punching someone and your roommate said if you keep hiting him for no reason he’d move out.”
“Oh yeah. I know you’re there bitches! Don’t screw up this pull!”
13 responses so far ↓
1 Stepford Mom // Nov 21, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I’m waiting for the post where you get to poke baby monkeys with a stick and blow up a mammoth with a bomb.
I made the mistake of starting the Wrathgate chain at about 1am, and of course once you start that, you have to keep going. By far the best night I have had playing in a long time.
2 Flour // Nov 23, 2008 at 4:46 pm
great, now i have to go finish dragonblight, as if I didn’t have enough to do. I’m too busy using my new grappling hook to boot people off dragons to quest much. Best. Quest. Ever.
3 cent // Nov 24, 2008 at 7:55 am
why all the hunter bashing? NERD RAGE?!&%!?
Think someone got pretty badly owned way back when the game started
4 Capt.Pantsless // Nov 24, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Yep, the new ‘Phasing’ system is pretty awesome, and can actually make for a dynamic world.
Did anyone else find it funny that while all the other NPC’s at the Wrathgate were feeling in terror, the dude running the flight-point is hanging-out like nothing happened?
5 Teleros // Nov 25, 2008 at 6:43 am
Pantsless - well, it’s not as if he doesn’t have a quick get-away with the mounts right besides him
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6 Tolondra // Nov 26, 2008 at 4:43 am
I love the phasing, though it has caused some interesting situations when hunting for mine nodes. Because you can’t see people who are in a different phase of the story then you, a mine you have been clearing to can vanish in front of you and you have no idea which SoB took it from you
7 Sorina // Nov 29, 2008 at 11:46 pm
I hear that a good deal of the Icecrown area is phased as well. So have fun with that!
As you complete quests, you enter new phased areas that ‘isolate’ you from other people completely unless your friends have done the same quests as you. You can’t even see party members if they’re in a different phase than you are.
8 Glitherus // Dec 2, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Are you done posting or is this just a dry time for news?
9 Flour // Dec 4, 2008 at 11:53 am
… meaningful comment: /fidget
10 Grim // Dec 5, 2008 at 7:43 am
The phasing technology they use now is awesome. I think the quest in dragonblight is probebly the best thing i’ve actully seen in WoW.
The possibilities that phasing opens up for the game world are immence. No longer is one area exactly that, one area. Each area could basically have its own timeline, which is awesome.
The only other major phasing thing i’ve come across is the Violet Keep in Icecrown
11 Breakcoke // Dec 6, 2008 at 2:25 am
I didn’t get far enough into the Dragonblight quests to experience the Wrathgate. I’ll likely head back there later to check it out.
Without personal experience in Wrathgate, I’d say the best phasing is the DK starting area. It shows the decline of the towns surrounding The Ebon Hold, and your break from the Lich King at the end.
12 Wen // Dec 16, 2008 at 7:20 am
Well… I did finish all the quests like 3 weeks ago! :p
The feature is great, but it is also kinda pita if you have to do icecrown quests, since a lot are group quests, and if you are not in the same “stage” in the quest as other ppl, you can’t help or be helped with your group quest, that isn’t funny.
Is simple, if you need to kill X guy with 4 more ppl, no one can see you but you if the other 4 are not in your same “line of the quest”, even worst, they won’t see you, even if they are standing by your side! Because you are in a progression of quests they are not, so, for you the world has changed, but not for them!
13 manguy // Dec 17, 2008 at 11:00 am
Xal!
Vegas is doing horrible things to your brain and liver! Come back to the light and play more!
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