We now know the following about this GM deathtouching mobs in the +23 NPX:

1) This GM was a personal friend of the people in the run and was using their GM account and abilities to watch the run (just them using it to watch their friends is kinda problematic in and of itself to be honest!) and was in a discord call with them.

2) This was only caught because a pug tank uploaded the log publicly, and would otherwise never have been caught.

The thing is, the only people saying that this was a one off thing are the people who cheated. People who we already know are dishonest. They went on a stream and practically boasted about it. We have no idea whatsoever if this was a one off, if this is commonplace, or anything in between, but just on probability it seems extremely unlikely that the first time a GM does this it just so happens to be caught in a public log. There are thousands of high end runs every week that go completely unlogged and unstreamed and the only evidence we have that they even happened is raider.io capturing it on the Blizzard API, which doesn't give you any information about what went on in that run.

We know there are very close relationships between Blizzard employees, content creators and other high end players. On NA, pretty much everyone who raids or does M+ high end at least knows someone who knows someone who works at Blizzard. It's very possible - and there is even some anecdotal evidence that implies this - that this has been going on considerably longer than just this one run, and it could well be the case that GMs have been similarly interfering with higher raiding too. We just don't know, and can't trust anything not openly logged or streamed anymore. This GM and these people have completely fucked the competitive integrity of the game for good.

Been replaying Legion lately and I can't stop thinking about how that expansion just got what makes an MMO feel like an MMO.

Class Halls, your own questline, artifact weapons, hidden appearances, Balance of Power, class mounts... none of it was perfect, but it all added up to something modern WoW just doesn't have anymore: actual class fantasy and long-term prestige. Playing a Warlock wasn't just "another class" it was your own storyline, your own base, your own followers. It felt like an identity, not a spec.

The part I miss most though is how the prestige stuff was earned. It wasn't RNG, it wasn't tied to the weekly vault. You got it by actually playing the game. Raids, dungeons, world quests, rep grinds, old zones, professions, all of it fed into something bigger. If you saw someone rocking a Balance of Power appearance or a class mount, you knew they put in real time for it. Not luck, not a lucky drop. Actual progress.

That's the thing MMOs are supposed to be good at, giving you a big goal that makes you touch every part of the game over months. That's what makes the reward feel like something, because the grind to get there actually mattered.

I'm not saying bring back every system 1:1, but man, just take the philosophy: make classes actually feel different from each other, give them identity and their own progression, and make prestige stuff something you earn instead of roll for.

Legion had its issues for sure, but for class fantasy, long term progression, and rewards that actually mean something, it's still the blueprint imo.

Maybe it's just me, but I have absolutely zero hype for the upcoming WoW season, and it makes me a bit sad, because I do want to play the game.

Every new season feels like a copy-paste of the previous one. We get a new raid, a different Mythic+ dungeon pool, a gear reset, and then it's the exact same gameplay loop all over again, the same formula.

I'm not saying the content is bad. The raids are usually well made, and some of the dungeons are fun. But after so many seasons, the formula feels incredibly predictable. It feels less like a new season and more like swapping out a few assets while keeping everything else the same.

Maybe I've simply been playing for too long and this is just burnout. Or maybe the seasonal model has become a little too formulaic.

Im a tank main. Im playing all tanks every season. Right now most of them are 3.5k, with my druid on 3.9k.

That as context, I personally dont like the small error margin i have in high keys (21-22 right now).

If I die, the group mostly dies aswell, full wipe, abandon.

That is a lot pressure on me, which is fine per se, if i atleast get the chance to recover myself.

Like if i get a combat rez, I need something to get the aggro of all enemies again and save the pull.

It is so frustrating and nerve wracking that every death of my can brick a key, when it is ok for a dps to dies twice in a keys and we still manage to time.

*EDIT* Apparently I have to specify I just found it funny that was the first bit of advice that came up.

No, I'm not using google AI to decide how to play.

Yes, I'm aware it's inferior but it's more enjoyable to me.

To preface this; I have no idea idea if the title is accurate about the favorite streamer but I did check vods and she was in fact not streaming when this run happened. Also I'm pretty sure that GM was in the dungeon the entire time just watching and waiting.

So I was perusing some m+ logs today while I was at work and stumbled upon this curious one. A miraculous key! No right to be timed, so far behind and yet they pulled it out of nowhere for the win!

Guess my surprise when I couldn't figure out how something died so quick and I dug a bit deeper and a GM death touched the mob... I waited all day to post this hoping blizzard would come out in front of it. But here we are. Another M+ season tainted by cheating or incorrect title recipients. Can't say I'm surprised but this one is a bit more egregious than forgetting to shut off title at the end of a season.

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/JcfwTd4L19Agx3NX?fight=4&type=resources&hostility=1&source=100.4&eventstart=4705300

Correct me if I'm wrong but raider.io get their data from blizzard API directly, which means this banishment is blizzard's doing. Therefore basically confirming all of the speculation?

I swear I have done a couple of Incursions (the bigger assault that needs to be at 100% to trigger) since this feature launched and they *still* do not count towards the achievement. Like dang girl did you really just forget to change that?

Not sure of the method but multiple games in a row where a person has been here and can't be flagged or tagged. You can see their body spawn in at the spot at end of round as well as see them continuously picking up the speed buff but they are completely untouchable.

I'll go first, the [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker] chat chain reaction is one of my favorites among the top same 3 that the community's been laughing at for 20 years

Coming from someone who bounced off of it immediately on launch (the flies were especially stupid): now that there is SOME semblance of balance I'm surprised at how I'm having a decent time. The currency grind isn't awful now and while it is repetitive, with some skillful play as a hider it feels pretty good to be the last one or two left at the end of the round. The threat of FOMO has also made queue times extremely quick which is great as well.

In its current state I still don't think it has the legs to be a permanent fixture of the game, but there is no reason to completely remove it and have the work put into it go to waste. If Blizzard is concerned about engagement, make it a small holiday like Trial of Style so the rewards are still obtainable and leave the door open for a refresh in the future.

I personally found the Winter Queen from Sl the more interesting part of the expansion and honestly after getting Tazavesh I would probably ask for more Winter Queen screen time.

Vyanoth is also interesting because she has goals, determinated to achieve them and wants to protect dragonkin. + She oneshotted Odyn.

Over the last few months I've been working on a personal project called WoWidget, and I finally was able to release it yesterday!

Earlier this year Discord released an experimental Widget feature called WidgetV2 similar to the officially endorsed widgets from Marvel Rivals and WuWa. I wanted to create a version of that for WoW, but didn't love the idea of needing to manually update it every time I killed another Raid boss, or timed a higher key.

WoWidget connects to Blizzard's official API, periodically checks your selected character, and updates your Discord profile widget automatically with things like:

• Character portrait
• Class / specialization
• Mythic+ rating
• PvP rating
• Raid progression
• Achievement points
• Mounts, pets, titles, feats of strength
• and more...

It also has a built in portrait editor so you can position your character exactly how you want before publishing it to Discord.

The project is completely free and open source, and I would genuinely appreciate any feedback, feature ideas, or bug reports from fellow WoW players.

Documentation:

[https://solxvt.github.io/WoWidget/](https://)

GitHub:

https://github.com/solxvt/WoWidget

Hi, I'm facing some issues with WowHead since a while. I don't know what I did wrong or if it's related to the website itself, but text is half outside of the screen for no reason. It's the same issue on every page, despite the menu categories being in center as usually.

Does someone know how to fix it please ?

Thanks ! :D

Frostmourne is mine!!!

But seriously...how many unreleased colorvariants exists in the gamefiles for dev knows how many sets?

I took three different fresh 90s into delves: BDK, Arms Warrior, Demonology Warlock. She died on my warrior and BDK, meanwhile my toons aren't struggling at all. I took the BDK into a 4 because his ilvl was 171. He didn't struggle at all. Valeera set to DPS dropped dead twice lol
Arms Warrior, tier 1 (because I don't like warrior gameplay) same ilvl, valeera set as healer she drops dead twice while my warrior was fine even without her lol

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