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i have no idea what any of the new silvermoon and eversong music sounds like. (cuz i use echoes of azeroth to turn on the og music). you can't really capture the orignal essence of wow's atmosphere wothout the people who defined that very atmosphere forevers music is better than retail but still

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

curseforge and nexusmods both have this issue it's terrible. the every day i have to block like 5 people on nexusmods just to keep the slop off the front page

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i miss the classic launcher to be honest it was so much nicer when every game had their own launcher. I kinda hate this launcherism that steam introduced to our world.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm completely fine with single race classes to be honest.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

despite all the (fair) criticism that cataclysm recieves I think it had the best dedicated starting experience alongside mists and cataclysm added some amazing iconic music to the game.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

not entirely related but I like how different people adress you differently as if it wasn't really clear what you were to them she calls you a highborne but in stormwind you are told that "it's been a while since a high elf set foot in stormwind"

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

well you'd probably do it through the entrance the person uses who opens the door in the first place.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

at least an undead is just the actual person they may lack a soul or body but it's still the same person. AI versions of dead people are more like strange cosmic horror abominations trying to convince people they are real like that anime "the summer hikaru died"

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

now we just need the original high elf models for their SD version

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

seeing these classic style models make me both happy and sad, this is what we wanted to see for forever.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

isn't that the bug this post referencing?

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can appreciate the burton/caligari-esque design they gave the forsaken in wrath but... I do not like it in the context of wow really, because it's too whimsical ? light-hearted ? I really loved the in classic the forsaken lived in their own deteriorating houses, it was solemn and serious.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

presumably originally it was just warcrafty way of spelling valkyrie and maybe later it was conflated by the devs with the greco-roman word kyrie

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i would have to assume that becoming a mage as a dwarf would in some way involve the dark irons

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sami is such a fascinating language family even amongst uralic languages that are notoriously less well understood than IE. languages whenever I look up sami stuff I see far less words I recognise compared to finnish (as a hungarian person) but finnic and ugric are by far the most well understood

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

will mapquest ever expand and or be available in europe ?

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

sometimes people in a game shouldn't be able to do whatever they want because it may break the integrity of the world I hate that d&d introduced this stupid be whatever you want to be even if it completely ruins the immersion and rules of the game world thing.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

as someone who needs glasses I hate fantasy games that have glasses, goggles fine glasses no they just feel too modern. and i also hate people who need their character to be in some way similar to them to be able to immerse themselves in the game...

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The SD models just have a more serious tone less disney esque. I do think they should add HD stuff for people who prefer that but there should be at least an equal effort put into both arguably more to the SD ones since that's what classic had and you can't have classic+ without the original art

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

retail wow is really turning into something that I despise about DnD aswell. it's this kind of everything soup.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

certainly I think, the skyborne starting zone feels more cataclysm / mop like and those expansions did an amazing job at creating immersive self contained starting experiences for the new races they added.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

at first I thought this was a world soul saga thing, but that no longer appears to be the case unfortunately. the old logo shape was iconic and recognisable, the new is a ... circle.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

one of the few sins of wrath was what it did to forsaken architecture

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the right one looks a million times better what a downgrade forever is graphically

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

also we need more stuff in actual art style of classic wow not just low-poly/low-res version of the HD/retail art style models.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've been using vivaldi for a while now for this exact reason (I personally don't really care whether something is open source or proprietary) and they have gutted all the google and AI stuff out of chromium. waterfox is also relatively anti-AI yeah. and tuta for my mail they are also anti-AI

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the whole artstyle of forever appears quite terrible at the moment. idk what was blizzard thinking especially after what was said on stage. hopefully they will listen to feedback but sometimes I think that blizzard doesn't know* how to recreate the art style of vanilla wow.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

that's really cool, it really captures that classic feeling, I wish blizzard made models like that for forever. even the weapons we got in SOD look more like retail weapons just low res.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

that's a good point, they could be setting up things for a world revamp.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

so when are we getting SD models for them ?

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i do hope that it is going to be togglable, I vastly prefer vanilla lighting compared to modern especially in the context of the vanilla art style. this gives me the same feeling as playing minecraft with shaders it just feels like the art style of the lightning and the graphics is mismatched

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

what if he wasn't aiming at her but the cage? what if what he tried to do was to destroy her prison ?

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

unless the race/class would be spoilery, but that only way that would be the case if it was something we really don't expect or have the knowledge to be able to predict.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

what I wonder is whether they will be togglable or not. You can't be saying that we think the classic art style is worth preserving putting and then also have hd models for new creatures and armours and weapons but not options for classic like ones.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

that is the reason why I just cannot play final fantasy games, or from soft games re setting and restarting every time you make a game is insane you lose all the lore and history that could be accumulating I just cannot comprehend it.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I don't have much problem with age verification as a concept because you need to show your id if you are entering a pub or some other adult establishment too. but it shouldn't be handled by them it should be done through the government like when you verify a bank purchase.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

neither.. Linus has some questionable opinions as well.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I do hope however that that does not mean that we won't get shoveltusks, they were really iconic.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm 100% sure that what blizzard is going to do is to reuse the amani models for the drakkari and give us the amani as an allied race with drakkari customisation options.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

pretty tragic considering 33% of the atmosphere of that zone is the rain

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

but that doesn't really make you feel any way. the fact that he was FORCED to be a snake is in a lot of ways why this is so good because he deserved better that is why it's so good. I would argue that this feels a lot more like how wow stories used to be written.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

because that's another redemption story I want it to be tragic and grim that is something missing from wow. it would be such a powerful story element for zul'jarra to have to deal with his brother who got corrupted and twisted just as he realised what he has done.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Btw this is Bethesda softworks not Bethesda game studios (aka the team behind morrowind oblivion Skyrim etc) As far as new logos go this is a good one, I hope we will see a trend of new logos that aren't just super simplified versions of their old logos.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I think I gave it an 8/10 on IMDb, my main problem was that it felt a bit spectacly and shouneny compared to what the original was aside from that I have some minor nit picks with the voice cast but it is otherwise phenomenal.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I was struggling with this exact problem in my world building project but my solution was entirely a different approach where I ignored and twisted all the typical fantasy tropes of evil and good factions or races. I based a race of half-orcs on Hungarians because I'm Hungarian.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I just cannot like dragonflight because I find it so artistically offensive lol It was such an unsavoury departure from the artstyle especially regarding the dragons Same with tww I but to a lesser degree I really I don't like what they did with the dwarven architecture in khaz algar

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Also if you are wearing the magisters regalia it looks kinda awful, I prefer the fel orbs that mog gives me.

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Is ⟨φ⟩ supposed to represent the actual [ɸ] phone here or are you just going off of the greek alphabet and using ⟨φ⟩ to transcribe [f]

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Eltrew @eltrew.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I swear if those glaives don't have sword options...

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