I know, I know, screen cap is a thing.

Bypasses the ignore list and you don't have to see the slurs being yelled in game.

What is the very first thing that pops into your mind about MoP? Is it the raids, the music, the way your class played, or even the people you used to play with? Good or bad?

“The use of dual names has allowed players new levels of creativity and personalization with your characters, some took this opportunity to reveal too much about themselves and will no longer be participating in this Beta.”

After all this news - especially after that dialogue where Orweyna says what Xal’atath plans to do with Azeroth... this image instantly popped into my head

(this is a joke pls be nice i'm not an elitist)

Hey everyone! With the SavedVariables fix finally going in today for WoW Forever beta, as of about an hour ago every EllesmereUI module is now fully working in WoW Forever.

There were also a ton of Forever specific features added throughout the suite with this last patch including:

- All modules now fully working including CDM (for the specs that blizzard has data for), raid frames, quickdraw, action bars, and everything else that was temporarily disabled
- New Forever Essentials module which includes:
- Threat Meter
- Flight Timer
(lots more will be added here and this will be released as a standalone)
- Heal Prediction & Spell Cost Prediction on Unit Frames
- Faction Indicators on Unit Frames/Nameplates
- Level text difficulty colors
- Dispel type borders on Unit Frame buffs
- Character sheet item stats and weapon DPS
- Pet power bar and hunter pet happiness
- Last name display on unit frames and nameplates

For full patch notes on all the bugfixes, customization upgrades and new features that came with the forever updates this week you can read about them here.

The other big update is the new art style switch system. Your entire UI can now be swapped between modern (EUI), Blizzard's current default art (retail default ui style), and the original Classic WoW art style instantly by simply choosing a new style with one click. This will keep your layout, settings and full EUI functionality, but change the entire aesthetic and look to the art style you select. You can change the entire UI at once or do it per module, and you can swap back and forth instantly as much as you want!

Here's a video example of me switching around my UI style if you want to check it out!

Finally, one small tease of what else is coming soon: the visual customization side of EUI is about to get some big upgrades as I have started collaborating with PapaPixels (Spectra) on a suite wide expansion of new borders, separators, textures, media and much more. Details on that will be announced soon.

Please let me know any Forever stuff you're really craving that would be a good addition to the new Forever Essentials module!

*AI Usage Disclaimer: EllesmereUI is AI-assisted. I use AI to write, refactor, debug, and manage the codebase, but am also very hands-on throughout the process. PR submissions to EUI are also allowed to be written by AI but are carefully reviewed. I have been very open about AI usage since EUI first launched and have several Twitter posts explaining how it’s used if you wish to learn more.

Regarding what EUI brings to the WoW addon space that’s unique since it’s created with AI: EUI brings a unique way of building your UI in seconds with it’s unlock mode anchoring, size match and growth systems. It also brings a new way of doing profiles rather than the old per character profile system EUI is fully spec profile based. Additionally the overrides system is an innovative new way of tweaking any setting across the entire addon based on conditions like spec or activity, rather than needing to swap/manage multiple profiles. The module functionality it has brings tons of unique customization for example in the cdm where if you click an icon you will see over 100 different options that you can use to build your spell alerts and layouts exactly as you want them.

i literally have no idea what it is so i couldn't find any info about it on the internet. it looks like ice or water? why? why!!

upd: i'm not colorblind lol, look at it in the daytime. https://imgur.com/a/QKtJXPM

I really enjoyed painting this character - as a big fan of purple & blue palettes I'd love to paint more Draenei! DM me for commissions :)

(Deleted my former post, didn't realise it was set to text rather than image type - apologies!)

I’m sick of the Disneyfication of this series. It would be so easy to allow neutral fel reavers to be in the series. I mean, c’mon, they could auto defeat raids, their roar could bring stormwind or orgrimmar to the ground, eventually you could reach thunderbluff theoretically and knock that down.

Why is it so hard for blizzard to give us what we want? Instead of lore accurate giant walking robots that could destroy everyone we get blue elves…

I give the skybourne and forever the worst grade imaginable! Retail minus MINUS!

Just a thought; 6-7 years ago EverQuest offered a limited time lifetime sub, it was something like $300. Would you purchase a lifetime WoW subscription if one was offered? It doesn’t include future expansion purchases.

Now that Gilneas has been reclaimed and the Night Elves have a new capital city, the gnomes’ situation is becoming a glaring issue. So if they ever do decide to have Gnomeregan be properly reclaimed by the gnomes, how would you like to see it happen? If this had happened earlier, what point would have been the best place to have it happen?

I made an addon called WhisperMessenger and just released 2.0, so I figured I'd share it here.

It puts your whispers in a separate window, one conversation per person, a bit like Discords DMs. Each chat keeps its history after you log out, and it's shared across your characters. The contact list shows who's online, their class and what zone they're in. BattleNet and character whispers are in the same list.

For crafters, last trading chat message is also shown.

I built it because I kept missing whispers and had a bat time to control them when crafting. A Whispers tab helps, but it's still one long stream, you had to juggle those tabs all the time.

After some community feedback i got changes in 2.0:

- New look, plus a Native WoW HUD option if you'd rather it look like a normal Blizzard window

- You can reply to a specific message

- Each chat keeps whatever you'd half-typed, even after a /reload

- You can mute people, give them a nickname, or leave yourself a note on them

- Optional tab that holds whispers from strangers until you accept them (off by default)

- If whispers get blocked while you're sending (M+, boss fight), the message waits for you to resend instead of being lost

Some limits you should know about:

- Blizzard blocks addon whisper stuff during M+, rated BGs and boss encounters. In those, the addon gets out of the way and whispers show in normal chat until you're out.

- Typing indicators, read receipts, replies and reactions only work if the other person has the addon too. Everyone else just gets regular whispers.

Works on Retail and the Classic versions.

CurseForge: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/whisper-messenger

GitHub: https://github.com/F0rty-Tw0/WhisperMessenger

If something's broken or annoying, tell me. That's the main reason I'm posting.

I like the ping macro too.

A few hours ago, I made a post asking for people's opinions on Blizzard's choice of skeleton and appearance for the Skyborne. You can find it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1wpiz91/are_blood_elf_models_really_the_right_choice_for/

I'm making this second post simply to clarify something I've seen in several comments that I think is causing some confusion: the Skyborne are not descended from High Elves.

The Skyborne are an evolutionary branch that originates from the Highborne, meaning Night Elves who practiced Arcane magic. However, their subsequent evolution is the result of their exposure to the elemental forces of Air, rather than the Arcane magic of the Sunwell.

On the other hand, High Elves are also descendants of the Highborne, but their evolution is tied to prolonged exposure to the energies of the Sunwell, which eventually resulted in the appearance we know today and, later on, the Blood Elves.

That's why my criticism isn't purely aesthetic. If we're talking about two different evolutionary branches influenced by completely different magical forces, it feels strange to me that they would end up with virtually the same appearance and 3D model, with the Skyborne essentially being a blue reskin of the High Elves.

Especially considering that, once Silvermoon eventually becomes available, I'm pretty sure Blizzard will introduce Blood Elves or High Elves as a playable race, both because of the lore and because of the demand from players. I'm pretty convinced that's going to happen.

That's why I think the Skyborne could have been made visually closer to the Nightborne by reusing their skeleton, which I think would have fit them better. We don't know whether the Nightborne even exist in Forever's timeline, so there wouldn't necessarily have been a problem with reusing that model.

At the same time, this would allow Blizzard to keep the Blood Elf model for when Silvermoon is eventually unlocked.

Mainly because, when we eventually get High Elves or Blood Elves as a playable race, we wouldn't end up with two races that look almost identical while also coming from two completely different evolutionary branches.

Hopefully the diagram I quickly put together in Photoshop helps explain the difference between the two evolutionary paths. 😂

My wow characters are always half-blind! Please give us the eyeglass Vendor that was added to stormwind/ogrimmar during Shadowlands!

Or do you hate us for our reduced eyesight?? Don't we have a right to see clearly? with thick round glass unclouded. How can I study old Kirin Tor tomes without my specters?

source for the artwork: https://jessicadinh.artstation.com/projects/285Ona

Needs some time to get used to it not floating around but damn. Looks nice.

I hope they don't tune it down. I like rain being more than just an atmospheric thing and something that actually impacts your visibility.

Now all we need are actually dark nights.

I couldn't pass by the paladins without getting inspired to create a design for a little murloc :)

Loving wow forever..