Ellie - might post spoilers-ish 💙

discord is having an aneurysm atm i think, rest in piss discord

well eversong in TBC would have been old world copper/tin and such which was tigerseye/malachite, and the TBC gems were also a bit different, *some* of them overlap like blood garnet/shadowsong amethyst, the rest really don't match up to original TBC so i don't think that tracks

wait are all the gem colors this expansion steven universe references? like i know yes they're gems but i mean, these ones are like, the specific character gem names, lapis, peridot, amethyst, garnet. we've had them in the past in different expansions but idk if they've ever been the same expansion

like the only questline i really remember disliking / not caring for was the "train some fungarians in a fight pit" one in harandar. i'm sorry i just can't care much for the funni little shroom guys. zul'aman has been an especially high highlight, voidstorm surprised me in being decent

i haven't really spoken my mind much but i've really enjoyed so much of everything - i love arator's questline especially, i find the Light's "motives" / influence fascinating, i've liked all the zones so far. Harandar was the weakest for me, but that doesn't mean it's bad, i've found them all great

bsky is deciding to suddenly feed me a ton of peoples' really weird (and frankly dogshit) reasons for disliking midnight's characters/zones. guess i'll just add more people to mute lists because it's coming off as real annoying and weird lol. like you can have your opinions and all but whatever

haranir body 1 model with loincloth and the text "hidden pants"

haranir body 1 model without any loincloth and the text "unequipped pants"

it's the same thing demon hunters have atm, transmog hidden pants and it'll be there. unequip and they won't have it

A Mage Tower just isn't complete without a mini-scale of Dalaran

a blurred image of a shark in the water Alt: a blurred image of a orangutan in the water

i just wanna be this

where abyss anglers

where diving feesh event

Player models not the NPCs

I think the loincloth thing was fixed a day or do ago?

this whole project has come a long way from my original tweaks addon. slowly i've been phasing out all the modules of the old project and making them more publicly available. usually when i migrate them over i make them a fair bit more customizable and not hardcoded, which takes a fair bit of work

Next Artificer update adds an option for Profession level up notifications 👀

Like somehow we decided that instead of just adding a couple radio towers for rural locations to get better cell / internet coverage we decided to launch a swarm of fucking space routers instead. Like really? That was the solution? Not better long-lasting infrastructure? It's so wildly unserious

The more practical and cheaper solutions are things like building infrastructure. It costs so much to launch anything in to space, on top of causing debris

The new Groveglider mounts are out in
@worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com !
I was point animator on them- making a good chunk of the animations such as Summon, Run, Steady & Skyriding flying, and more!

Heres a quick capture zipping around Eversong,
Hope yall enjoyed how fun this mount turned out 💙

tree back?

Oh yeah I guess it never got used for players. Wonder if it got overlooked or something

There is literally zero reason to ever duplicate art assets in every submodule addon. Just put it in a dummy folder and make each module dependent on the dummy.

christ vibecode streamers are confidently incorrect. This guy has literally no idea what he's talking about and getting mad about it

tree gone

i tend to dislike the shop in general but like, usually at least the wow token is there as an alternative so i can brush it aside. this one is just so egregiously bad. i don't tend to like complaining about it because people act very... "normal" about any shop stuff on social media tho

Developer Insight: Hearthsteel Virtual Currency and Housing in Midnight Hearthsteel should not exist as this middle-man currency. This is a deeply flawed approach to what could have been an immensely more-successful system. To be clear, I always expected there to be shop items, it’s already in the Midnight preorder, etc. This is not the issue I have remotely. But some of the issues I do have: The items you buy are finite. I don’t care how cheap a chair is, you should just get an unlimited amount on your first and only purchase. Being “small items” doesn’t really matter either. It’s that you have to repeatedly buy items in general, and that you have a limited supply for it. The currency is just weirdly implemented as a middle-man thing. Yes, by proxy of battlenet cash, you can buy it with gold, but just use battlenet cash directly. This is an anti-consumerist approach. In addition to this, “clearly defined costs” is another major anti-consumerist ideology.

This could have had such potential to be a currency similar to the Trader’s Tender, where you complete monthly tasks via endeavors to earn the currency to then use at a housing version of the trading post. This could have resolved issues where people feel they have to stock up on trader’s tender to decide between transmog and housing items, and give people an equal footing to buy select items from a “trading post month” / endeavor. It could even have been included in store bundles / preorders, like Trader’s Tender sometimes is (even though I don’t tend to like that approach as it’s a somewhat roundabout way of having tender be purchasable on the store). You will get so much more value of players actually playing your game. This is an extremely predatory system and should be heavily re-examined. It feels designed to normalize microtransactions rather than enrich gameplay. It’s discouraging to see from Blizzard to take this approach that players have hated from other games such as Guild Wars 2 with such a mobile game-style monetization structure. Introducing Hearthsteel in its current version is a step in the wrong direction. Please do not go forward with it being like this.

my post about it on the beta forums from November 6 2025

not only is it mega expensive but is also limited time FOMO stuff

like this is so catastrophically bad lol and it's exactly what i expected would happen and spoke out about
"but just give it a chance" NO I KNOW WHAT CAPITALISM IS LIKE MAN IT KEEPS HAPPENING STOP LETTING THE SUITS DO THIS SHIT

hearthsteal

not that i saw on the website, there's probably some key art that's expanded/larger but i don't think blizz tends to release their china key art

hilariously it advertises itself as "Performance Optimized"

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i'm dying at the latest streamer UI
it's 88MB. they repeatedly package the assets for the ui in every single addon module, and it consists of like 8 modules

just like oh my fucking god how why do people feel the need to push their own slop UIs out to everyone and detriment peoples' performance