Doesn't this go against the core pillar of "Protect and nurture social experiences"?

Cities are way more immersive and look busy without loads of yaks and dinosaurs

Openmap: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/openmap

Hey everyone - been working on this throughout the Beta and figured I'd finally release it. There have been a lot of map addons posted here as of late, many of which forego blizzards classic maps for a stitched minimap. I've always wanted a massive seamless world map that is fully zoomable/pannable in the original art, so that's what this is. Along with some cool QoL things like resizable map / removing the annoying black bars in full screen etc.

Openmap is an open source, seamless world map addon for Forever that prioritizes the original Vanilla map art style. I've gone through the painstaking process of aligning and blending all of the maps to create as seamless of a map as possible with Blizzards original art files. You can adjust your settings to tastefully bring in minimap data on close zoom levels (or disable it) as well as hide unexplored areas.

As with most coding projects as of late Claude helped me write the code for this and is assisting with open source management since that is a lot of work. The repo is fully open sourced on git so feel free to pull it down and help me develop it if you're interested - would love to see more addons take this approach so things don't die in the hands of a developer that loses interest.

Anywho, I'm here if anyone has any questions/bugs/feature requests. Thanks! -Ji

Ever since they removed /spit the game has been soft can we all agree that it needs to be added back into the game with forever to keep its integrity?

A few more days until a million or two characters are deleted forever, hopefully everyone farmed their best loot before being sent off into oblivion.

Confirmed on Dev podcast! Big W.

What do you think of this answer? I am a bit disheartened that they seem to only be talking about layering in a PVP sense when it is a constant immersion breaking thing happening everywhere.

Context: Coordinates in the newest Podcasts lead to the outhouse in northern barrens.

One is free the other one costs 50 bucks. You decide which one fits in the “classic spirit”.

You will follow my curated experience I deemed suitable for you and you will like it - Aggrend

edit: the amount of people telling me rxp is free or there are other free alternatives are hilarious. like they are quite skilled at missing the point.

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Aggrend just stated there will be NO SERVER TRANSFERS between rules etc (PvP to PvE, etc). Choose wisely. Don't roll PvP and then beg for War Mode when you get ganked. See the rest of you in Ratchet.

Devs basically affirmed in the new podcast that Grob was a unicorn, and they don't want to bifurcate that already marginal RP community.

While it'll be fun to try to roll around PVP flagged; without a faction balance akin to the PVP server it'll probably be +75% Ally...

Unfortunately the RP flag will probably just be the less-busy PvE "server" without all the Dirk Diggler's running around.

Thoughts?

I've greatly enjoyed all the previous episodes, but this one was an airball.

I largely feel it was rushed out for the dueling tournament. As the guy who had answers to important questions like does WSG have timers, Chris, is out of town in Germany per Aggrend. That sounds like a guy that should be on the PvP episode..

They didn't clarify any of the questions we got from the article that "explained" PvP progression at all.
• How long are seasons? How tight will the ranking window be?
• What are seasons? Why should someone re-rank?
• Are rewards largely going to be cosmetic? (New Mounts/Armor Transmog/Weapon Transmog/New Titles - Bloody High Warlord, Glorious Grand Marshal - similar to Arena Season Gladiator Titles) Will these be attainable later or are they going to be FOMO?
•Is the gear going to be more powerful? Have different resists (nature/frost/fire), or damage types (+beasts/elementals/undead)? How much more powerful?
etc

They didn't really speak about Racials at all. Which is another topic that's been addressed in many other threads, with some people feeling they need balance tweaking, to needing entire reworks.
My personal take is they should've removed Racial Specializations entirely, and made them arduous immersive roleplay quests that unlocked Character Specializations; take all of the min/maxing out of race selection, let us choose entirely based on looks and aesthetics, then we can min/max in game, like every other aspect of min/maxing.

Instead we just heard, basically; World PvP Cool, fight over materials, AV nerfed, Dueling Tournament special zone

They look pretty Classic to me? What do you guys think.

I know, I know, "times change". But it sucks that one of the flagship features of vanilla WoW apparently can't be implemented anymore. It's so jarring watching everyone around you disappear and a whole new set of players and mobs load in when you change zones.

Launching Forever with just WoTLK hairstyles as extra customizations is the bare minimum.

I don't want this to feel like a complaint, I just feel like it matters to a lot of people and Seeing different customized characters running around playing looking different makes the game more immersive and their personal character feels unique.

The Night Elves most Iconic character is Malfurion / Illidan but they have no big beard / black hair option.

Dwarf shamans launching with no Wild hammer cosmetic skin tattoo options.

Undead with no "hide bone" options.

Paying for Skyborne but Leaving out the Sephiroth Hairstyle for the Males but added everything else, yet the rogue trainer has it on his model?

The pictures in the Gallery:

• First Image People have been wanting a "Thinner" Male model in WoW literally "Forever" for a more athletic Warrior/ Rogue / wizard caster look.
• The "Big" human male looks really good too! I don't know if they would implement this if they add Kul'Tirans as a Subrace for Humans.
• The second Image screams Warlock / Caster that Manson vibe.
• The third / fourth image I don't want to say the name but I have to Turtle WoW had that Skin option inside their Donation shop so it is in the game files.
• Fifth image that hair style was also in Turtle WoW.