Unrelated but the new white thumbnail style works really well with your channel. Even though I know it's trendy the way you're doing it really feels like you can focus on the topic of the video as well as get that emotional response that makes me want to click. 😎
I really hope the D.R.I.V.E. system is just the precursor to revamping ground mount movement into a skyriding type of system. Ground mounts feel so irrelevant after skyriding was added and zones started getting bigger.
Man ground mounts have felt irrelevant since TBC. Flight was the genie, can't shove it back into the bottle. Whenever they've tried, the whining is justified.
@@Kurotaisa Justified.. no not at all. It did intensify though which really blizzard should've just given the finger to the people who cried about wanting their oompa loompas now. Flying doesn't need to always be accessible and players need to stop being in a hurry to blow through content.
@@serryx1944 "waaaah why cant I gank people anymore blizz waaaah" - this how you sound little boi, here, take this *WoD sub numbers when blizz went full on ground mode* and go to your corner and cry more about it :))))))
@@yavvivvay I think its more about management and people to people. Not all addons fits people's tastes, maybe because their UX is not quite good or bug, maintenance (which is very important). When the base game provides a default base UX and you choose to change with Add-ons its great! The idea of "killing" add-ons is not an attack in my opinion but a shift in philosophy of UX that I've been loving in WoW, Raids are glaring issue (in the past) because there were shit happening that without add-on would be fucking hard to do (archmonde fight comes to mind). Look at FFXIV Raid UX and how they show what shit will happen, its great, you don't need addons there to complete the fight, while in WoW (new content is getting much better) we used to fuck ourselves figuring out where some shit would shoot in straight line and get someone on other side of room. I prefer the direction they are taking but I also want addons not to die, just be less REQUIRED, they should be an option.
@@YumYum820 the base ui is so extremely crap. Never seen any UI in an mmo that comes even close to the ui in wow that you can do with addons. Game doesn't NEED modification - you CAN play with basic ui if you want ffs. Game should allow for modification so you can get the amazing UI well configured wow has. Weakauras so you can see stuff in a way thats comfortable for you personally not "what the dev though was a good telegraph". Every single game ever made is better with optional mods. And no, the "addons that play the game for you" aren't a problem because some people want to play like that.
The swirly changes is an absolutely HUGE win for Blizzard, 100% posative. How does it look on ramps though? Is it still a 2D texture that clips though the floor and disappears?
Unfortunately it's only half of the problem solved, the information displayed to the player. The other half is them actually making the hitboxes match the artwork, it's all well and good to give the player some information to act on, but if it's misleading anyway we haven't gained anything.
Untill I can remove the attack and afk animations from Campsites, I'll never use it. I love seeing my transmog collections, which I can't see when I'm sitting down.
Player housing is nice but Blizzard will likely make home decor items purchasable in the in-game shop and jack up the price on top of being only available for a limited time.
Blizzard really nailed all the specifics: Game lags like crazy during boosting, and car gets stuck on any small obstacle and can even log you out cause of that
Yeah that thing where you get logged out cuz you AREN'T attempting any type of movement hack but instead are just using the systems Blizz installed? Such total BS man. I haven't tried the new car thing but it does happen a lot with skyriding. It always feels like I am being punished for their mistakes when that happens. Seems totally unfair and that actually bothers me for a game where I pay a subscription to play. I think I would rather them let hackers go inside the terrain with no-clip or fly-hack or whatever, rather than DC me every 15 mins when I am NOT cheating at all. Maybe I'm wrong but I fail to see how those other people using those movement hacks are affecting me as much as this is. Cheaters are doing wrong and I get punished? Blizz's systems are faulty and I get punished? I love this company really but come on already! Please fix this situation!
Not to mention all of the UI bugs and quest bugs . Have my UI shifted around every time I log on with my Druid and spells moved around from dragon flight . So annoying
As of today? Yea very low. Most people stop playing at this point in the seasonal cycle and then wait till next season. BUT also: modern WoW doesn’t give a lot of reason for people to be out in the world, it’s a very themepark mmorpg.
I am an old player. No, I won't be getting weak auras to handle event management. I am actually glad that they're adding features that remove the amount of addons that people "need".
DRIVE doesn't seem like a lot of fun. Looks like just smashing into walls because the car accelerates too fast. I think I will just use regular ground mounts instead.
This 100% i was on the ptr and its so hard to control. And when you inevitability crash into a wall you lose control of your camera. This system needs a Ton of work before release. Also if a mob hits you its like old WoW and you get dazed and immediately dismounted. It was fun for all of an hour now I and most everybody I've seen on PTR use ground mounts its easier and undermine isnt big enough to warrent using DRIVE over a normal mount.
But is it just a new animation though? Cuz my impression was that they changed the functionality of it to make it have a travel time rather than striking instantly when the cast was finished like before. I'm not sure how much that may matter for pve but for pvp I imagine its huge. I doubt it would be as slow as a chaos bolt but still, the difference between missile-weapon speeds that have a hang time in the air and lightning bolt speeds which are 300,000 km/s is ginormous. I have popped divine shield or aspect of the turtle or dispersion, etc. while frostbolts or fireballs were en route to me and mitigated or avoided them completely. So to me this looks like ele is getting a pvp nerf possibly.
No, if they even "asked" for our opinion before changing key things or gave the option to keep the original it would be immensely better. I still can't get over Incinerate new animation that is absolutely lackluster.
It's not better, Bellular is completely on the money here. Graphical fidelity aside, a thunderbolt is not supposed to be a projectile, that's why they changed it from how it originally was in vanilla
@Voffsing1 it wasn't "supposed" to be one thing or another lmfao. They're simply bringing back the original idea for lightning bolt and made it better. The new animation looks cleaner and is more exciting to press than the one we have now that literally looks like a sticker lmfao. Blizzard nailed it on the head with this change.
exactly! it makes absolutely no sense.. electricity has a source and an impact point and is connected at the point of impact. it also makes no sense that we gather the lightning from the ground? why not hold your hands up high and hurl it forward? the only saving grace for the new animation for me is the fact that we get this lightning strike from above.. but afaik, casting lightning bolt is a rarity itself anyway.. you mostly either cast chainlightning in aoe or throw instant lava bursts
@@MrJeremydb91 the world feels MUCH more empty when you can fly. less interaction with people and less chances to come across collectibles and rares. Also drives down the price of mats because gatherers can bounce from node to node without interference and then bots go crazy with easy routes. I could go on and on for reasons why flying suffocates the game. Its good in old zones but new zones need some time without flying.
@ well that is fine for people that like that…but people like me who would rather just fly are forced to be in the ground after I’ve been flying in this game for 15+ years feels awful to me.
Dunno why they couldn't have left the swirlie graphic inside the hard outline to keep a little more of the immersion. Oh well, at least they're more readable.
I’m glad somebody else thought this I hope they make that a feature you can toggle in the future so everybody gets what they want. But I was sad about the immersion break. If you’re not sure where it ends just go further
I was worried that the new driving mechanics would be somewhat ruined by the promise that it would be even faster than flying mounts. I get why they said that, to head off any bitching by people losing flying, but it really doesn't make sense to go that fast on the ground. You're largely unobstructed in the sky, so if you arrive somewhere before everything has loaded in it's not really a problem. But ground terrain changes too quickly and is full of clutter. So even if you CAN reach higher top speeds, it's going to FEEL slower because you have to keep stopping and restarting your momentum. From the captured footage it seems like those fears were justified. I think it was a mistake to try and compete with flying on speed, they should have just focused on fun.
This looks so bad man. I cant believe bellular is glazing it. Yeah its cool they worked on physics and all that but thats some crash bandicoot racing looking shit and nah. im good
I 100% disagree! I guess maybe some folks never played GTA: SA? If anyone remembers the FCR-900 and NRG-500 motorcycles and how much fun it was to tear thru city streets (and sidewalks xD), running from the cops or just trying to do insane stunts, or just trying to see how much air you could get... Now take that experience but instead of a city you are tearing across the Barrens or Desolace or Silithus or The Badlands. I wanna go to Un Goro and see if there's any way I can jump a devilsaur. I wanna see if I can jump that huge canyon between Northern and Southern Barrens! There may even be a spot where I can jump completely across Thousand Needles!!! Blizz could even install courses and put some ramps up so we can blast around like crazy! Put in some hazards maybe? That seems like it would be a great way to blow off steam after I get my HC toon killed again xD. Man I am just super excited about this and I know for sure I will be able to squeeze tons of fun out of this new thing Blizz has made!
@@kozmosis3486 In games with actually good driving mechanics, you can crash and hurt yourself, damage or destroy the vehicle or even kill yourself. But then those games have much more developed and better mechanics so if you drive good and watch out, you won't kill yourself. So that makes it all fun in the end, you need not only good driving mechanics and physics but also implemented collision so that hitting stuff and interacting with the terrain makes sense. :] What I saw in this video was just not smooth at all.
On the new swirlies: Blizzard severely underestimates average DPS players if they think they wont run IMMEDIATELY into the center of a blue circle instead of out of it. (Myself included.) Did Blizzard run out of red ink? Or what's the logic behind them being blue?
Most of the videos I've seen showcasing DRIVE have a single car driving around on the narrow roads of Undermine. What kind of traffic jam is going to happen with all the players driving around at the same time? Even if there is no collision between players, it's going to be pretty chaotic.
@@WeAreMovieMakers Some people don't play this class for the max dps. Some people have worked very hard to get the pets they have. Kinda of a shit move on Blizz to just toss that work out the window.
That’s why you have two of three specs that focus massively on your pets. Now there’s one for the people who like the archer fantasy. I think it’s a decent middle way
@@exileh it's not really about the archer fantasy though is it? It's about the eagle fantasy. Really all they had to do was use a pet or your choice as a striker instead of the eagle.
Looking forward to your Camp being your player house with your chars chilling in the yard or even inside! In Game tool allows you to take a photograph of a room in your house to use as the camp scene would be sick!
the addon performance tracking is really good, i know there are a couple of ways to identify the problem currently but i like it's coming in the base UI W
HOLD up, the new lightning bolt animation is perfect it feels like Thor throwing lightning, the "instant" animation was always off putting coming from what was the Cataclysm version (which was better than the instant version). This is WoW we have wizards, gnomes, Orcs, people who shift into Moonkins, if I wanna throw my bolt of lightning then I will. There is also the fact that with that change it far more closely resembles the lava burst animation which brings your casted spells into alignment.
Cant wait for this patch to release, I think I’m finally gonna get back into raiding cause I like the changes they made with the whole dinars and the renown track plus I’ve always wanted to kill Gallywix.
I don't really care for driving in the game. I'd rather use my ground mounts instead. Sure they're slow but the time I would need after drifting and crashing into a wall I could easily catch up with ground mounts. But I don't mind it existing. I just won't use it.
I think there are not much people who thinks this drive will be fun. I dont even like dragonriding. I would rather delete flying so it feels like a big world again. I dont even understand for what drive is, theres an portal for everything, if i want to go fast somewhere i use portals or flying
I think it's finally the last straw. They insist on making enhancement shaman cater to idiots and people that don't play it. More VFX, less impact and now a lightning bolt that doesn't look like lightning. Crash lightning just had to get a Death Strike animation from DK. Making it look cringe af. And the ice strike.. you really didn't like it being hammered off like a bullet? Nah cause it being compact and having impact is not neon enough for you it has to have a big floaty VFX cloud or you can't relate. Goddamn f zoomers. You killed my spec. Thanks for that.
Honestly only thing I am bummed about with the release of undermine is no isle of kezan, it’s supposed to be based below the isle but still the only goblin presence we see to date there is the motherload dungeon, I would’ve loved to see another drill that led to the surface, maybe to bilgewater harbor rebuilt & resettled, and have it incorporated as a mini zone, and then could make the motherload area a non instanced one right next to it for another mini zone, and maybe one more featuring the actual mount kajaro, a jungle maybe, and pygmies to give homage to the lost isle, all in all they should’ve brought back kezan if they were also gonna introduce undermine
I will skip this patch. Honestely the current state of m+ has lost its pull for me and the changes are just not enough. (Usually I am 2.5k+) They also need to remove unnecessary hoops and timesinks if you want to equip a twink.
they need to make a Tinker class if they are going to make Hunters nature focused, because you were able to skin your hunter for tinker with no non mechanical pets but now you have to commit to summoning genetic animals as BM
Im orig from new York born and raised..my accent came completely back with the goblins it's so much fun there crazy I absolutely love it..❤❤❤.and drive is so much fun the.tjose options are fantastic 🎉🎉🎉
So, not only did Blizz take away the pets of MM hunters that liked to use them in open world settings & delves, they also destroyed the great lightning bolt animation from Shamans, & made a gimmicky driving game that is so fast that people end up DC'ing as they frequently slam into walls as the system cannot keep up with popping in the map at those speeds. Seriously, Blizz devs don't have a clue.
Each to their own. I hated pets as hunter and just wanted the archer theme (Lone Wolf FTW). The shaman lightning bolt is a modern/OG lightning bolt, and the DRIVE system looks FUN!
@@julio4494 We already have Lone Wolf MM for "lone archer theme", so forcing MM players to lose their pet is just an excuse to force a playstyle onto others that hate it, which also shows how toxic the M+ community has become. They better glyph the Shaman's Lightning Bolt or there will be a lot of angry players then. Finally, you like constantly slamming into walls or getting stuck on objects due to going so fast that the system cannot pop in objects fast enough?
@@echolocationn Your argument on toxic M+ players has nothing to do with your response, or mine for that matter. The OG lightning bolt was very much like how it is being redone, many players have already commented on their satisfaction, but I do think a glyph would work for those who like how it is now. You control the speed of the car, if you don’t like to go fast, then don’t go fast? You don’t have to use the boost.
@@daztora no, sorry, that is incorrect. "couldn't care less" means you could NOT care less, i.e. you care the minimum possible amount. "could care less" means there is a possibility for you to care less, i.e. you do care a certain amount. think about it. it's not complicated. just another American corruption of English language.
What drive and skyriding needs is a bump/crash animation that bumps you/back out of whatever pixel stopped you cause feels pretty bad to go so fast and getting stuck on something without even an animation or sound
As much as I'm cool with them introducing new features, I feel like the amount of time and resources that they put on this race car functions and UI could have been invested in improving classes/specs and combat mechanics. This seems more like an expensive vanity project.
Hmmm. Bliz implements a feature, Drive, that pushes their engine to it's limits. Right before it launches they start pestering people that their BIOS is out of date and give no option to override the nagging. I wonder if this new feature is causing machines that have had the Intel flaw for years, but never crashed, to now crash? If you blame the hardware ahead of time it may provide a scapegoat to their antiquated engine?
DRIVE is underdeveloped and not a good look for the patch. Sure, it's an interesting concept/experiment but i don't see it becoming evergreen or updated in the future (or atleast shouldn't be). Nothing in WoW (not even Undermine) is built for that speed. It's far from consistent and the bumps kill the whole point of it. What the actually need to do if they want this to work as they intend is to re-mesh and Nav-mesh the whole zone (or basically the entire game if they want this to actually work) with "safe guards" near road/structure edges so you basically bump off them. The moment you stop instantly and lose momentum without any feedback because of a small rock on the ground, just kills the mechanic entirely. It's technically way off where it needs to be.
I disagree. I think drive (ground mounts) should have faster movement speed. It would encourage players to not just fly over everything and completely miss out on the world. Flying gives you the convenience of going straight to your destination without the terrain or enemies slowing you down.
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Unrelated but the new white thumbnail style works really well with your channel. Even though I know it's trendy the way you're doing it really feels like you can focus on the topic of the video as well as get that emotional response that makes me want to click. 😎
Holy shit, well-defined edges on ground effects!? What is this, the future?
I really hope the D.R.I.V.E. system is just the precursor to revamping ground mount movement into a skyriding type of system. Ground mounts feel so irrelevant after skyriding was added and zones started getting bigger.
Man ground mounts have felt irrelevant since TBC. Flight was the genie, can't shove it back into the bottle. Whenever they've tried, the whining is justified.
@@Kurotaisa Justified.. no not at all. It did intensify though which really blizzard should've just given the finger to the people who cried about wanting their oompa loompas now. Flying doesn't need to always be accessible and players need to stop being in a hurry to blow through content.
@@serryx1944 "waaaah why cant I gank people anymore blizz waaaah" - this how you sound little boi, here, take this *WoD sub numbers when blizz went full on ground mode* and go to your corner and cry more about it :))))))
@@MonsieurDeVeteran You sound like you're annoying irl too.
@@Mandrarine I agree, he sounds like a 13 year old calling people “little boy”
The event tracker is actually a very nice addition. I've been playing wow for a long time, and I am so over installing add-ons for every bloody thing.
The more we get away from add-ons the better the game will be for me
@@YumYum820 one-size-fits-all built-in crap is supposedly better than a fully customisable option. I'll never understand people.
@@yavvivvay I think its more about management and people to people. Not all addons fits people's tastes, maybe because their UX is not quite good or bug, maintenance (which is very important). When the base game provides a default base UX and you choose to change with Add-ons its great!
The idea of "killing" add-ons is not an attack in my opinion but a shift in philosophy of UX that I've been loving in WoW, Raids are glaring issue (in the past) because there were shit happening that without add-on would be fucking hard to do (archmonde fight comes to mind). Look at FFXIV Raid UX and how they show what shit will happen, its great, you don't need addons there to complete the fight, while in WoW (new content is getting much better) we used to fuck ourselves figuring out where some shit would shoot in straight line and get someone on other side of room.
I prefer the direction they are taking but I also want addons not to die, just be less REQUIRED, they should be an option.
@yavvivvay shouldn't need modification to play a game. Dont need any of the dungeon/raid mods. Get rid of it all.
@@YumYum820 the base ui is so extremely crap. Never seen any UI in an mmo that comes even close to the ui in wow that you can do with addons.
Game doesn't NEED modification - you CAN play with basic ui if you want ffs. Game should allow for modification so you can get the amazing UI well configured wow has. Weakauras so you can see stuff in a way thats comfortable for you personally not "what the dev though was a good telegraph".
Every single game ever made is better with optional mods.
And no, the "addons that play the game for you" aren't a problem because some people want to play like that.
The swirly changes is an absolutely HUGE win for Blizzard, 100% posative. How does it look on ramps though? Is it still a 2D texture that clips though the floor and disappears?
Dorki tested live on stream, he stod on edge of a ramp/stair and like 80% of circle was visible
@@johannilsson6395 That's really great news!
those secret swirlies are the worst
they are copying from ff
Unfortunately it's only half of the problem solved, the information displayed to the player.
The other half is them actually making the hitboxes match the artwork, it's all well and good to give the player some information to act on, but if it's misleading anyway we haven't gained anything.
The swirls is a great change for me. Campsites do nothing for me until they add like 4-5 more of my toons in the background of the campsite.
Untill I can remove the attack and afk animations from Campsites, I'll never use it. I love seeing my transmog collections, which I can't see when I'm sitting down.
They should have the cities and when you select a character they walk into frame.
Would rather have seen improved current mounts, maybe wagons, not a fan of more ugly ‘tech’ Fighting mounts that don’t vanish when you engage.
felcycle part II electric boogaloo is about to kick off.
Imagine when player housing comes out, if you could have your other characters inside your house like NPCs...
You mean exactly like SWTOR. Only took WoW over a decade to copy it.
Exactly. Blizz is way behind hehe@@MrZenmancer
I try not to imagine anything as it will just give me unrealistic expectations
I'd imagine they will definitely do this. Otherwise the house would feel empty you know?
Player housing is nice but Blizzard will likely make home decor items purchasable in the in-game shop and jack up the price on top of being only available for a limited time.
Blizzard really nailed all the specifics: Game lags like crazy during boosting, and car gets stuck on any small obstacle and can even log you out cause of that
Yeah that thing where you get logged out cuz you AREN'T attempting any type of movement hack but instead are just using the systems Blizz installed? Such total BS man. I haven't tried the new car thing but it does happen a lot with skyriding. It always feels like I am being punished for their mistakes when that happens. Seems totally unfair and that actually bothers me for a game where I pay a subscription to play. I think I would rather them let hackers go inside the terrain with no-clip or fly-hack or whatever, rather than DC me every 15 mins when I am NOT cheating at all. Maybe I'm wrong but I fail to see how those other people using those movement hacks are affecting me as much as this is. Cheaters are doing wrong and I get punished? Blizz's systems are faulty and I get punished? I love this company really but come on already! Please fix this situation!
There's a reason it's a 6 week test (COPIUM that it'll be fixed on launch)
@@moodmusic4life be careful with dosage
Dragon riding does the same sometimes, they supposedly fixed it but I still sometimes get booted from the game for going fast
Not to mention all of the UI bugs and quest bugs . Have my UI shifted around every time I log on with my Druid and spells moved around from dragon flight . So annoying
I honestly wonder how many people are playing this expansion. Everywhere I go is always empty lol
As of today? Yea very low. Most people stop playing at this point in the seasonal cycle and then wait till next season. BUT also: modern WoW doesn’t give a lot of reason for people to be out in the world, it’s a very themepark mmorpg.
Khaz Algar and Hallowfall has 500 bots flying and farming nonstop, so technically its not that empty
I am an old player. No, I won't be getting weak auras to handle event management. I am actually glad that they're adding features that remove the amount of addons that people "need".
DRIVE doesn't seem like a lot of fun. Looks like just smashing into walls because the car accelerates too fast. I think I will just use regular ground mounts instead.
It looks like a ton of fun. You're just old. 😅
Dude just dont mash the turbo thing
Use the high acceleration, low top speed build with mini booster. Good for crash recovery.
It totally looks like fun.
This 100% i was on the ptr and its so hard to control. And when you inevitability crash into a wall you lose control of your camera. This system needs a Ton of work before release. Also if a mob hits you its like old WoW and you get dazed and immediately dismounted. It was fun for all of an hour now I and most everybody I've seen on PTR use ground mounts its easier and undermine isnt big enough to warrent using DRIVE over a normal mount.
the fact people are upset about the new thunderbolt animation jsut shows how impossible the devs jobs are. Its way better than before.
But is it just a new animation though? Cuz my impression was that they changed the functionality of it to make it have a travel time rather than striking instantly when the cast was finished like before. I'm not sure how much that may matter for pve but for pvp I imagine its huge. I doubt it would be as slow as a chaos bolt but still, the difference between missile-weapon speeds that have a hang time in the air and lightning bolt speeds which are 300,000 km/s is ginormous. I have popped divine shield or aspect of the turtle or dispersion, etc. while frostbolts or fireballs were en route to me and mitigated or avoided them completely. So to me this looks like ele is getting a pvp nerf possibly.
No, if they even "asked" for our opinion before changing key things or gave the option to keep the original it would be immensely better. I still can't get over Incinerate new animation that is absolutely lackluster.
It's not better, Bellular is completely on the money here. Graphical fidelity aside, a thunderbolt is not supposed to be a projectile, that's why they changed it from how it originally was in vanilla
@Voffsing1 it wasn't "supposed" to be one thing or another lmfao. They're simply bringing back the original idea for lightning bolt and made it better. The new animation looks cleaner and is more exciting to press than the one we have now that literally looks like a sticker lmfao. Blizzard nailed it on the head with this change.
Tell us that you are not a shaman main without telling us that you are not a shaman main
I feel like I need a new PC for these travel speeds
lol felt
My favorite thing about shaman was always the beam of lightning you would shoot out. Now that its gone. Sadge
It's damn hard to screw up the shape of a lightning bolt, but Blizz devs took it as a challenge and succeeded in that screw up.
exactly! it makes absolutely no sense.. electricity has a source and an impact point and is connected at the point of impact. it also makes no sense that we gather the lightning from the ground? why not hold your hands up high and hurl it forward? the only saving grace for the new animation for me is the fact that we get this lightning strike from above.. but afaik, casting lightning bolt is a rarity itself anyway.. you mostly either cast chainlightning in aoe or throw instant lava bursts
so this is how all ground mounts will become useful again in future. excellent. good thing I never stopped collecting ground mounts.
image drifting a kodo ^^
I’d rather just fly myself…not sure why they are so obsessed with people not flying.
@@MrJeremydb91 the world feels MUCH more empty when you can fly. less interaction with people and less chances to come across collectibles and rares. Also drives down the price of mats because gatherers can bounce from node to node without interference and then bots go crazy with easy routes. I could go on and on for reasons why flying suffocates the game. Its good in old zones but new zones need some time without flying.
@ well that is fine for people that like that…but people like me who would rather just fly are forced to be in the ground after I’ve been flying in this game for 15+ years feels awful to me.
Michael: DRIVE is super fun!
also Michael: crashes into everything he sees
7:58 man i'm so glad the devs all started playing ff14 during shadowlands, we're finally seeing the benefits
100% agreed. My biggest single complain with WoW is the readability of boss fights and their associated VFX. This is a HUGE win.
Dunno why they couldn't have left the swirlie graphic inside the hard outline to keep a little more of the immersion. Oh well, at least they're more readable.
I’m glad somebody else thought this I hope they make that a feature you can toggle in the future so everybody gets what they want. But I was sad about the immersion break. If you’re not sure where it ends just go further
Damm that event tracker is a huge W
I was worried that the new driving mechanics would be somewhat ruined by the promise that it would be even faster than flying mounts. I get why they said that, to head off any bitching by people losing flying, but it really doesn't make sense to go that fast on the ground. You're largely unobstructed in the sky, so if you arrive somewhere before everything has loaded in it's not really a problem. But ground terrain changes too quickly and is full of clutter. So even if you CAN reach higher top speeds, it's going to FEEL slower because you have to keep stopping and restarting your momentum. From the captured footage it seems like those fears were justified. I think it was a mistake to try and compete with flying on speed, they should have just focused on fun.
This looks so bad man. I cant believe bellular is glazing it. Yeah its cool they worked on physics and all that but thats some crash bandicoot racing looking shit and nah. im good
I 100% disagree! I guess maybe some folks never played GTA: SA? If anyone remembers the FCR-900 and NRG-500 motorcycles and how much fun it was to tear thru city streets (and sidewalks xD), running from the cops or just trying to do insane stunts, or just trying to see how much air you could get... Now take that experience but instead of a city you are tearing across the Barrens or Desolace or Silithus or The Badlands. I wanna go to Un Goro and see if there's any way I can jump a devilsaur. I wanna see if I can jump that huge canyon between Northern and Southern Barrens! There may even be a spot where I can jump completely across Thousand Needles!!! Blizz could even install courses and put some ramps up so we can blast around like crazy! Put in some hazards maybe? That seems like it would be a great way to blow off steam after I get my HC toon killed again xD. Man I am just super excited about this and I know for sure I will be able to squeeze tons of fun out of this new thing Blizz has made!
@@kozmosis3486 In games with actually good driving mechanics, you can crash and hurt yourself, damage or destroy the vehicle or even kill yourself.
But then those games have much more developed and better mechanics so if you drive good and watch out, you won't kill yourself. So that makes it all fun in the end, you need not only good driving mechanics and physics but also implemented collision so that hitting stuff and interacting with the terrain makes sense. :]
What I saw in this video was just not smooth at all.
They did just release this on ptr so the feedback on it should hopefully give the cars better handling (unless that's what the upgrade could be)
@@kozmosis3486 waste fo dev time and money
On the new swirlies: Blizzard severely underestimates average DPS players if they think they wont run IMMEDIATELY into the center of a blue circle instead of out of it. (Myself included.)
Did Blizzard run out of red ink? Or what's the logic behind them being blue?
I’m so well trained I run away from EVERYTHING. Including the stuff you’re SUPPOSED to stand in.
Be nice if you could change the colour of it
blizz gave the speed clearers a toy to keep their adhd minds occupied. just watching that gameplay gives me anxiety
Imagine if that much effort had been put into making Azj’kahet a Suramar-like story arc and experience… ;)
Thank you for saying that!
Most of the videos I've seen showcasing DRIVE have a single car driving around on the narrow roads of Undermine. What kind of traffic jam is going to happen with all the players driving around at the same time? Even if there is no collision between players, it's going to be pretty chaotic.
Blizzard then: Hunters are a ranged pet class.
Blizzard now: fuck your pets, here’s a random ass eagle that helps, sometimes, when it feels like it.
MM was only good with Lone Wolf anyways.
@@WeAreMovieMakers M+ & Raids aren't the only thing that Hunters do, so you are wrong.
@@WeAreMovieMakers Some people don't play this class for the max dps. Some people have worked very hard to get the pets they have. Kinda of a shit move on Blizz to just toss that work out the window.
That’s why you have two of three specs that focus massively on your pets. Now there’s one for the people who like the archer fantasy. I think it’s a decent middle way
@@exileh it's not really about the archer fantasy though is it? It's about the eagle fantasy.
Really all they had to do was use a pet or your choice as a striker instead of the eagle.
Glad these videos are here to help me keep up with the game as I wait for the PTR for player housing in Midnight.
I would like to see a "no addon server" to test out how it would go over.
+ no microtransactions, but that will never happen.
What a good idea actually
Is it just me or is Bel talking a million miles an hour here?
Wild how such small changes like swirlies has me more excited than bigger changes
I'm really worried about this patch, hope there's enough to keep me occupied this time!
I'm getting close to swapping to POE2 at this point.
Yeah, Blizzard talking about the „Fantasy“ aspects behind the MM Hunter rework and implementing DRIVE at the same time … doesn’t work for me
Why?
9:46 my brother in Christ. A feature where you can get different looks for you eagle. Just like taming a pet, what a great idea.
genuinely love the qol updates theyre adding.
Looking forward to your Camp being your player house with your chars chilling in the yard or even inside! In Game tool allows you to take a photograph of a room in your house to use as the camp scene would be sick!
the addon performance tracking is really good, i know there are a couple of ways to identify the problem currently but i like it's coming in the base UI
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HOLD up, the new lightning bolt animation is perfect it feels like Thor throwing lightning, the "instant" animation was always off putting coming from what was the Cataclysm version (which was better than the instant version). This is WoW we have wizards, gnomes, Orcs, people who shift into Moonkins, if I wanna throw my bolt of lightning then I will. There is also the fact that with that change it far more closely resembles the lava burst animation which brings your casted spells into alignment.
Flying - Dynamic flying
Ground mounts - DRIVE
Underwater mounts - submarines? boats?
Regular walking - ????
Looks exciting! Can't wait to collect all the mogs.
I am a long time Shaman player. LB used to be a blue orb and then it became that electric line. I like the new LB animation.
I remember having problems with swearlies in 2009, so I'm sure there's even people who had complaints even before that. 15+ years.
I know it's actually quite bad for a game that has sucked so much money from customers, but it's better late than never imo
„Racing is in my blood“ so I am looking forward for this 😊
Cant wait for this patch to release, I think I’m finally gonna get back into raiding cause I like the changes they made with the whole dinars and the renown track plus I’ve always wanted to kill Gallywix.
The raid looks super fun and crazy! Im excited! Especially with the renown like you said. Gives even more reason to do it
Raiding the where it’s at. Raiders are the only truly content WoW players.
No more red boss + red spell effects + red floor? Damn!
This actually gives me a Batman Arkham Knight feel.
what??!?!?!?!???
it looks kinda... too fast? 😂
I don't really care for driving in the game. I'd rather use my ground mounts instead. Sure they're slow but the time I would need after drifting and crashing into a wall I could easily catch up with ground mounts. But I don't mind it existing. I just won't use it.
I think there are not much people who thinks this drive will be fun. I dont even like dragonriding. I would rather delete flying so it feels like a big world again. I dont even understand for what drive is, theres an portal for everything, if i want to go fast somewhere i use portals or flying
I don't mind dragonriding that much. Sometimes it takes you somewhere really fast but I agree. I usually just use ground mounts or original flying.
I'm pretty sure that drive is only a prototype for dynamic ground mounts in the future.
Time and place for each mount/style of riding (casual vs sky for instance) as dragon riding had taught us
Skill issue sounds like it
Tinker class tinker class tinker class tinker class
Picking up ladies like it's GTA in those vehicles
The number of times I saw you crash into the wall was not selling it for me haha.
The constant crashes with drive is a massive turn off.
We all know drive is gonna crash servers
Clip a rock and your position moves to something the server doesn't recognise?
DC from server!
This next season has to be better than decent. I'm worried, no anniversary event to keep us around and grinding content this time....
Bet they going to come out with a battle pass for wow on top of the monthly fee….
As a shaman, I just want totem skin updates for the classic classes. Very outdated and could look so beautiful
So what we are saying is the shimmering flats are eventually going to be off the hook
Rock and Roll Racing is back boys!
I think it's finally the last straw. They insist on making enhancement shaman cater to idiots and people that don't play it. More VFX, less impact and now a lightning bolt that doesn't look like lightning. Crash lightning just had to get a Death Strike animation from DK. Making it look cringe af.
And the ice strike.. you really didn't like it being hammered off like a bullet? Nah cause it being compact and having impact is not neon enough for you it has to have a big floaty VFX cloud or you can't relate.
Goddamn f zoomers.
You killed my spec. Thanks for that.
Okay. That event schedule is dope.
It would be so cool if player housing had a racetrack you could customize.
Love the new thunderbolt animation! People are just impossible to please
Honestly only thing I am bummed about with the release of undermine is no isle of kezan, it’s supposed to be based below the isle but still the only goblin presence we see to date there is the motherload dungeon, I would’ve loved to see another drill that led to the surface, maybe to bilgewater harbor rebuilt & resettled, and have it incorporated as a mini zone, and then could make the motherload area a non instanced one right next to it for another mini zone, and maybe one more featuring the actual mount kajaro, a jungle maybe, and pygmies to give homage to the lost isle, all in all they should’ve brought back kezan if they were also gonna introduce undermine
Wow has been making tiny sacrifices for over a decade.
What's your quest log addon?
Blizzard needs to add more Alliance Shaman races, human, night elf, etc.
Why has no one covered the monthly price increase?
I wasn't aware of one. It's still $14.99 when I look at the launcher - same as it's been for years.
@@jacquelinesimon7653 Australia and New Zealand will have price hikes.
holy fuck they added mario kart to wow
I'm looking forward for this patch it looks so good
13:49 ,does anyone know what this loot window is? Is this a new look for the default or possibly a weak aura?
Plumber addon
I will skip this patch.
Honestely the current state of m+ has lost its pull for me and the changes are just not enough. (Usually I am 2.5k+)
They also need to remove unnecessary hoops and timesinks if you want to equip a twink.
Anone knows what is the setting for the camera to bop around like at 9:54?
If a MM goes Dark Ranger the eagles should become a raven, crow, or something not so goody-goody.
they need to make a Tinker class if they are going to make Hunters nature focused, because you were able to skin your hunter for tinker with no non mechanical pets but now you have to commit to summoning genetic animals as BM
I’m getting that itch again man, a few months away maybe it’s time to check back in
so preaty much Roller Beetle form Gw2:D
I hate pretty much all the hunter changes. Mostly MM.
Nerds trying to race is going to be so much content
the new delve npc is "The Kingpin" it's in the game data.
We got GTA in WoW before GTA6
Im orig from new York born and raised..my accent came completely back with the goblins it's so much fun there crazy I absolutely love it..❤❤❤.and drive is so much fun the.tjose options are fantastic 🎉🎉🎉
What's the addon you use for NPC names (not HP bar nameplates, idle/friendly ones)?
So, not only did Blizz take away the pets of MM hunters that liked to use them in open world settings & delves, they also destroyed the great lightning bolt animation from Shamans, & made a gimmicky driving game that is so fast that people end up DC'ing as they frequently slam into walls as the system cannot keep up with popping in the map at those speeds. Seriously, Blizz devs don't have a clue.
Each to their own. I hated pets as hunter and just wanted the archer theme (Lone Wolf FTW). The shaman lightning bolt is a modern/OG lightning bolt, and the DRIVE system looks FUN!
@@julio4494 We already have Lone Wolf MM for "lone archer theme", so forcing MM players to lose their pet is just an excuse to force a playstyle onto others that hate it, which also shows how toxic the M+ community has become. They better glyph the Shaman's Lightning Bolt or there will be a lot of angry players then. Finally, you like constantly slamming into walls or getting stuck on objects due to going so fast that the system cannot pop in objects fast enough?
@@echolocationn Your argument on toxic M+ players has nothing to do with your response, or mine for that matter. The OG lightning bolt was very much like how it is being redone, many players have already commented on their satisfaction, but I do think a glyph would work for those who like how it is now. You control the speed of the car, if you don’t like to go fast, then don’t go fast? You don’t have to use the boost.
swirlies should be a setting to toggle immersive effect or simplified mechanic
I would love it if warbands were expanded to 5-6 characters.
I'm guessing they brought in features from Rock n Roll Racing, one of their early games. The upgrade system sounds like features from that game.
I go to organize my camps as anime guild ranking system the S class, A, B C etc. is gonna be sick
Everything new is good, game changer, and Blizzard can do no wrong...ok got it Bellular.
i absolutely hate goblin "gobby"theme/lore, but i can't dispute that this patch looks insanely fun and game changing
Yeah could care less about Goblin stuff, but the other changes might have me dip my toes back in
@@daztora *couldn't care less
@@Prawnsly Either works, read a book
@@daztora no, sorry, that is incorrect. "couldn't care less" means you could NOT care less, i.e. you care the minimum possible amount. "could care less" means there is a possibility for you to care less, i.e. you do care a certain amount. think about it.
it's not complicated. just another American corruption of English language.
It's a RUclips comment section. Pick another struggle dude
What drive and skyriding needs is a bump/crash animation that bumps you/back out of whatever pixel stopped you cause feels pretty bad to go so fast and getting stuck on something without even an animation or sound
As much as I'm cool with them introducing new features, I feel like the amount of time and resources that they put on this race car functions and UI could have been invested in improving classes/specs and combat mechanics. This seems more like an expensive vanity project.
Wanted to know, are there any news about more reputations for the warbands?
i really hope they keep the swirly a swirly like good visual change, but the inside of the circle should stay as a swirly
Aw, I was hoping we'd be able to assign one alt to multiple camps
Hmmm. Bliz implements a feature, Drive, that pushes their engine to it's limits. Right before it launches they start pestering people that their BIOS is out of date and give no option to override the nagging. I wonder if this new feature is causing machines that have had the Intel flaw for years, but never crashed, to now crash? If you blame the hardware ahead of time it may provide a scapegoat to their antiquated engine?
Inc Mario xmogs ☠️
DRIVE is underdeveloped and not a good look for the patch. Sure, it's an interesting concept/experiment but i don't see it becoming evergreen or updated in the future (or atleast shouldn't be). Nothing in WoW (not even Undermine) is built for that speed. It's far from consistent and the bumps kill the whole point of it. What the actually need to do if they want this to work as they intend is to re-mesh and Nav-mesh the whole zone (or basically the entire game if they want this to actually work) with "safe guards" near road/structure edges so you basically bump off them. The moment you stop instantly and lose momentum without any feedback because of a small rock on the ground, just kills the mechanic entirely. It's technically way off where it needs to be.
I will be back when it's a beloved system. Trust.
The new shaman lightning bolt reminds me of the Old lightning bolt we had that was also a projectile but way slower
"Plays different"? This is cope. Core gameplay largely unchanged
drive shouldn't be faster than flight
Why not?
I disagree. I think drive (ground mounts) should have faster movement speed. It would encourage players to not just fly over everything and completely miss out on the world. Flying gives you the convenience of going straight to your destination without the terrain or enemies slowing you down.
Really feels like blizz is cooking here
Imagine the boss is a broker he hung out with in tazavesh. He's like I paid big money take care of this guy