Covenant Abilities had a short-lived restriction outside of the Shadowlands, and there’s been a lot of conversation around borrowed power systems in WoW. Also, happy last week before prepatch! This show includes discussion of the WoW news of the week and answering questions. If you have any questions that you’d like answered on a vlog, include the word ‘question’ and leave them as comments!
Official Prepatch Notes: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/23529209/shadowlands-pre-expansion-patch-notes
Timestamps
0:00 – Covenant Abilities Outside the Shadowlands
2:24 – The Borrowed Power Debate
5:47 – Surprises in the Patch Notes
6:57 – Tattoo Update and What I’ve Been Up To
7:58 – When is BfA Purchase No Longer Needed
8:19 – Addon Updaters Post-Twitch App
9:20 – BfA Raid Mounts Drop Rate in Prepatch
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oh god. overwolf is a steaming pile of crap. argh. 🙁
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Borrowed is pronounced bowered as in take a bow. Not burrowed power like burr it’s cold. But yeah great video as always .
Question. So I am in the secret finding discord and awhile back they said that the solar spire hawk was 100% drop rate in PTR is that still true? I doubt it but would like to know
Yeah I use the Heart of Flame (or whatever it's called) power on my warrior and even though it can do a LOT of damage and gives me an additional ranged tool, it can sometimes make my character feel like a delivery mechanism for azerite xD
I feel they shouldn’t have done that.. they should’ve added at the very least a penalty system for using shadowlands abilities outside the shadowlands
I can understand blizz thinking seeing covenant abilities on azeroth might be strange but what about when Sylvanas dead ass used her covenant ability to kill Saurfang?
Question! In your recent video of the stream VOD opening up the collector's edition of SL, you open up your appearance collections, which shows several tabs unfamiliar to me. What addon makes those exist? I'm always looking for better ways to view things like my appearance sets!
it amazes me sometimes the mental gymnastics some people will go through to justify some of the bullshit blizzard actually does.
Question do you know when emissary chests will stop giving $ and when / if they will be nerfing gold from old raids?
Thank you for all your videos they are a big help your videos are hands down the easiest to understand for me
So in my opinion, the borrowed power thing was fun for the first like two times they did it. Now it just feels like we almost can't exist without our hands being held by more powerful beings or items. I thought we were supposed to be powerful heros? It really makes the whole strong character idea stale because I can't stand on my own unless I get all of this extensive buffing. They should consider the way it used to be with tier gear. That used to be your little buff. We don't need covenant buffs and abilities, corruption, etc. Make our professions more useful like they once were.
I just think the game would be really dry and boring without some borrowed power.
I've used Overwolf for video recording for years and it's been pretty solid.
Your cat is sooo cute!!!!
Do you put vegemite or something on your hand? Your cat loves giving it a licking
Hey Hazel, could you please readjust you MOP Poster it's slightly off.
Question: How will the free trial work after prepatch/launch? I know now it goes until level 20, but there's no way that will still be how it's done.
idk the borrowed power thing has never bothered me? Excalibur returns to the lake, the one ring returns to mount doom. If the power is connected to the journey of the story, it makes sense that it'd go with the story? The problem i always have is that they've been hollowing out characters to make room for the new items, which….makes your character at the START of an expac feel kinda lackluster.
I got my "Lightbringer" too….felt really good. 🙂 Grats!
Borrowed power from an added skill (not gear) should never be DPS, only utility
Good luck with the rest of your tattoo, that next part (elbow crook, or whatever its called) is the worst imo ;(
QUESTION well more of a notice for you. It seems there have been some changes to the Lockouts for Raids and you cannot change raid settings from inside them anymore, which means Lockouts Shares have to be on the difficulty you need to run them on, and could potentially ruin mount farming.
burrowed power
I have a question about gearing for SL – will we have to go through BFA quests at level 50 to get the Heart of Azeroth and azerite gear, or will we be able to gear fully in our chosen leveling zone and be fine without the heart?
Borrowed power is fine, but instead of the shit they have been doing they could try having some special trainer who over the course of leveling in Shadowlands trains us in the ways of ________. No annoying farming, and a justifiable reason for things to be over once they are over. They could even add a small cutscene where you say goodbye to your teacher and thank them or something for the hardcore RP folks.
Hazel thank you ! You are my WoW Guru!
another vote for WowUp
just throwing this out there, barrowed power is going to blow up in their face
I'm a huge Asmongold fan and hav been watching all the reaction videos about balance and pvp balance and borrowed power. I have to say, after going away and thinking about this myself, I completely agree that borrowed power serves to not make characters to bloated and adding way to much to your base class. Great to hear someone saying this as I get the frustrations with borrowed power but do think it is necassary also.
The game seems different than how you are playing the game.
I wish they would get rid of the borrowed power systems… and focus on the classes…. That's what i remember being so great about Wotlk. You could lvl a guy and all you needed to do was grind some battlegrounds and in a week or 2 you'd have a full pvp set. There was no grinding for borrowed power, just gems and enchants. You could grind rep for better ones but wasn't necessary to compete. Who wants to grind for countless hours on each character just to get these borrowed power so they can compete…It takes enough time just to get the gear. The more alt friendly the better imo… I feel that the decline of WoW is due to these borrowed power systems and that these systems will inevitably kill WoW….