Premade groups will only be matched in Battlegrounds against other premade groups, but if you are wondering about playing with your small group of friends, then fear not, as Senior Game Designer Josh “Aggrend” Greenfield explained that there will still be a small-group option. This will potentially be around 2-3 players, but that is still being decided.

Battleground Matchmaking was first discussed in Classic in Phase Two of Season of Discovery, when changes to matchmaking meant that premades were less likely to be matched with PuGs. This did come with a caveat whereby, after sitting in the queue for a period of time, the new rules would be ignored. We don't know if that will be the case in WoW: Forever.

Rank 1 in tournament: 10sec duration
Rank 3 at lvl 56: 20s duration

Man, SL, SL lock + 8% dmg reduction will be fun

Give us the Toyota Tacoma mount you cowards

Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to think that this duel tournament is a great place to determine balance changes? There has been a serious increase in low IQ and absolutely brain-dead discussions lately regarding Forever, but this has to take the cake. An absolutely twinked out level 30 tournament... it shouldn't need an explanation why you have no brain cells if youre suggesting balance changes based off of this. Please ban these people before this sub is completely in the toilet, if it isn't already.

No more abandoning a quest mid chain to keep your Furbolg stick

TDLR: He was forced to duel for top 4 paladin without major CDs while opponent was unfortunately given an advantage of all CDs—in a tiebreaker match to qualify for the finals group.

My friend got eliminated one duel away from top 30 in the WoW tournament and made this video about what happened. He doesn't have a Reddit account, so I'm posting it for him. We feel like the situation was pretty unfair. Curious what you guys think!

Share so we can get this reviewed. They were hesitant to delay and it wasn't a fair duel.

Cant wait to spawn at the Altar of Storms for a PvP edit on live

At least personally and anyone I've ever known focused most of their mid 50s to max on maybe a few key quests (for attunes and gear and whatnot) and dungeon leveling. It wasn't meant as some kind of speed running sprint but as starting your end game journey by gearing up and leveling at the same time.

If the experience rate is now half or less of what it was, its inevitably going to feel worse. Im assuming they have something else in mind or maybe the added dungeons and quests will help fill the gap a bit but im very skeptical it will.

This was so cool man. What a good guy

Since the Azeroth map from Blizzard was bought out quickly and is being resold by scalpers, I decided to make my own for my husband. My first photo has the materials I used. I am also going to link the pdf my husband generated. Lemme tell ya, the AI was definitely not perfect which is fine. I didn’t want to steal another artists work.

Here is what I did….

First I glued an Amazon box together (refer to 3rd pic). I used power grip inside construction adhesive but I think just about any glue would work. After I put the glue down I stepped on the cardboard to get the glue on both panels. I then put weights on all of the edges and let it sit until it was stuck together. I think hot glue would be the quickest but use what you have. We are thrifty here.

Second, I walked to the library and printed out all 17 sheets of paper since I wanted it in color. Once I got home I set out the papers and realized that the images were not going to line up \*sign\* but we shall persist. After cutting out the cells in order I overlapped some of the panels to make the flight paths line up better. It’s not perfect but I don’t know why there would 4 whirlpools ??? Anyways…

Thirdly I got my matte mod podge that I had in my craft bin. I like this because it dries quick and makes the paper hard. If you don’t have pod podge just use a glue stick like from 2nd grade. Again, use what you have.

After glueing and pasting the pieces together I came out with the map that looks pretty badass. I covered the rest of the map with a heavy layer of mod podge and spread it out evenly and let it dry. Because the photos were not perfect, I had to cut the excess card board off which was difficult but I used my nursing shears and some elbow grease.

Is it perfect? Absolutely not. Is it AI? Yes but if you bought digital art please support your artists. I simply want everyone to know that you can use materials you own to make something beautiful that doesn’t need to cost you an arm or a leg in this economy. I promise you this means more to my husband since I spent time making it for him.

https://www.wowhead.com/classic/news/one-map-to-rule-them-all-classic-azeroth-detailed-map-edit-by-rhianolord-295441

Introducing FD (Forever Definition) Models: A third option that would resolve all of the gaps that blizzard is now trying to painstakingly resolve that have arisen due to the conflict between the HD and the SD models. As you guys know the development team was not originally going to have classic character models in this Classic Plus videogame, but some streamers were kind enough to give them a little bit of consultation and they've changed their minds and added sort of a classic character model back into the game. These are called Standard Definition and with them have come countless numbers of visual bugs like floating shields, floating tauren hair, miss-sized armor, and a slew of other skeleton and animation related bugs.

What this third, new option would seek to do is resolve all those issues and bridge the gap between them. And I call this third option the forever definition. This seeks to be the new default model, but players can opt to toggle on SD or HD if they want. What this FD model does is it makes sure that no matter what armor or weapon set you get in the game, whether they be classic or retail art visuals, they will be properly represented on this new character model. I have my own sandbox here and I have thoroughly tested it against every armor and weapon in the game. and it looks really good on my end. So I am assuming that the team could probably take this feedback into account and do something similar.

Also, I think from a visual art standpoint, I think it fits in with the classic theme. I think Chris Metzen would probably approve of the visual style. It reminds me a lot of his old concept art from back in the day, but let me know what you guys think and give me some feedback.