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    World of Warcraft AWC 2020 BFA Circuit - Week 1 - Discussion Thread

    World of Warcraft AWC 2020 BFA Circuit - Week 1 - Discussion Thread


    AWC 2020 BFA Circuit - Week 1 - Discussion Thread

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 05:53 PM PDT

    Arena World Championship | Battle for Azeroth 2020 Circuit | Week 1

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    Sixteen of the best Arena World Championship (AWC) teams from North America and Europe will compete in the very last stage of the AWC Battle for Azeroth season. Watch the AWC Battle for Azeroth Circuit live every weekend for four weeks beginning August 22 at 10 a.m. PDT only on YouTube Gaming to see who will compete at the AWC Regional Finals.

    • All matches for AWC BFA Cup #3 will be played on 8.3.

    To catch all the action live, Subscribe to Youtube.com/Warcraft

    📚 Arena World Championship Circuit Viewer's Guide


    ⚔️ The 2020 Arena World Championship is Changed ⚔️

    To help protect the health and safety of players, staff, and partners, the 2020 Arena World Championship Battle for Azeroth season will be held entirely online. We have also made some necessary and innovative new changes to the format of AWC outlined here.


    🗨 Follow @WoWEsports on Twitter!

    • Exclusive behind the scenes content
    • Competition updates
    • Contests
    • and much, much more 👀

    🎞️ AWC 2020 BFA Circuit - Official Trailer

    Player Profiles

    ▶️ Change - Pikaboo | AWC 2020

    ▶️ Validation - Whaazz | AWC 2020


    🗓️ Schedule

    Note: click the links below and set a reminder on youtube to be notified when the events begin!

    Day PDT CEST EST
    AWC BFA Circuit - Week 1 - Day 1 - Aug 22 10:00AM 18:00 1:00PM
    AWC BFA Circuit - Week 1 - Day 2 - Aug 23 10:00AM 18:00 1:00PM
    DAY 1 SATURDAY
    MATCH 1 F2K MYWAY vs COFFIN DANCE
    MATCH 2 NLITE vs DIABOLUS
    MATCH 3 ABC vs BERGEN BOYS
    MATCH 4 WILDCARD GAMING vs XSET
    MATCH 5 GOLDEN GUARDIANS vs ????
    MATCH 6 CLOUD9 vs TURTLE
    MATCH 7 M2KC vs UNITAS​
    DAY 2 SUNDAY
    MATCH 1 WILDCARD GAMING vs BERGEN BOYS
    MATCH 2 XSET vs ABC
    MATCH 3 NLITE vs F2K MYWAY
    MATCH 4 CLOUD9 vs M2KC
    MATCH 5 SPACESTATION GAMING vs GOLDEN GUARDIANS
    MATCH 6 ???? vs TURTLE
    MATCH 7 CHARLOTTE PHOENIX vs UNITAS​

    🎤 Hosts and Casters

    • 👉👈 Gillian "Eiya" Long
    • 🧊 Elliott "Venruki" Venzcel
    • 🦉 Sid "Supatease" Compston
    • 🧙‍♂️ Mohammed "Ziqo" Beshir

    🔎 🚀Starship's Inspection Tool - Now updated!

    For those of you who have been following the AWC, you're likely familiar with the Inspect Extension. We'll be partnering with GCDTV yet again for tournament administration, however, they will also be providing a portal to the builds and gear all top 8 Arena competitors will be running in real-time, just like you would in-game and see the gear; talents, Azerite Traits, Corruption, and Essences.

    So, if you're spending time in the Arena you now have more reasons than ever to tune in and find out just how the pros dominate their foes. Click here to see an example of the tool. Note: This tool will likely not be live until closer to Friday.


    🔗 Resources


    📜 Format & Structure

    • AWC Circuit consists of a 4 week Round Robin
    • All series but the Finals will be Best of 5
    • Team roster shall be a minimum of 3 players up to a maximum of 4 players
    • Team compositions cannot consist of greater than one "Healer" specialization or greater than one "Tank" specialization.
    • The first game of every series will take place on Nagrand Arena and compositions will be chosen blind to each team.
    • All subsequent games, the losing team of the previous game will select the next map, followed by the winning team publicly locking in their composition before the losing team locks in their own composition.
    • Maps cannot be played twice in any given series.

    Circut Teams

    EU Teams


    🕉️ F2K MyWay

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Tonycatmeow (Feral Druid) tonyferalmovies
    Kasuxoxo (Survival Hunter) Kasuxoxo
    Hydra (Discipline Priest) Hydramist

    ⚰️ Coffin Dance

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Trenacetate (Demon Hunter) Trenacetate
    Lontar (Restoration Shaman) Lonartv
    Joefernandes (Arms Warrior) Joefernandes123
    Rezuz (Windwalker Monk) Razuzww

    🚮 nLite

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Zunniyaki (Discipline Priest) Zunniyaki
    Cassidy (Feral Druid) Cassidy38_
    Facile (Survival Hunter) Facilez1337
    Cara (Retribution Paladin) Caara

    😈 Diabolus

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Gelu (Fire Mage) Gelubabatv
    Clyde (Holy Paladin) Clydeytv_
    Merce (Destruction Warlock) Mercedesa
    Jaime Elemental Shaman Jaime

    🔤 ABC

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Alec (Fire Mage) WoWAlec
    Asgarath (Holy Paladin) AsgarathPvP
    Niksi (Assasination Rogue) Niksi
    Wallirikz (Destruction Warlock) Wallirik

    🏔️ Bergen Boys

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Berly (Restoration Shaman) Berlyirltv
    Joel (Unholy Death Knight) Joelxuh
    Infernion (Destruction Warlock) Infernion
    Monkarn (Windwalker Monk) Monkarn

    🃏 Wildcard Gaming

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Maro (Fire Mage) Maro
    Loony (Mistweaver Monk) Loonart
    Blizo (Arms Warrior) Blizotv
    Zeepeye (Elemental Shaman) Zeepeye

    XSET

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Raiku (Mage) Raikubest
    Chas (Mistweaver Monk) ChasTV
    Whaazz (Rogue) Whaazz
    Swapxy (Destruction Warlock) Swapxy

    NA Teams


    🤴 Golden Guardians

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Absterge (Restoration Shaman) thesterge
    Wizk (Shadow Priest) Wizkx
    Pikaboo (Assassination Rogue) Pikabooirl
    Jellybeans (Survival Hunter) Jellybeans

    🧐 Mystery Team ????

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Mes (Unholy Death Knight) Notmes
    Cdew (Restoration Shaman) Cdewx
    Samiyam (Frost Mage) Samiyam
    Trill (Windwalker Monk) Trilltko

    ☁️ Cloud9

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Chanimal (Destruction Warlock) Chanimaly
    Wealthyman (Frost Mage) Wealthymanx
    Kubzy (Mistweaver Monk) Kubzy
    Snutz (Assassination Rogue) Snutzy

    🐢 Turtle

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Dilly (Survival Hunter) Dilly_WoW
    Gekz (Discipline Priest) Gekz
    Syfoxy (Feral Druid) Syfoxe
    Smoove (Mistweaver Monk) Smoove3

    🐈 M2KC

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Ceral (Frost Mage)
    Brain (Holy Paladin) Kappathebrain
    Drake (Windwalker Monk)
    Roastyz (Assassination Rogue) Roastyz

    🔵 Unitas

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Cmd (Fire Mage) Cmdxyz
    Oxygen (Discipline Priest) Oxygen_au
    Aiden (Rogue) Aidenzx
    Yoske (Arms Warrior) Yoskexz

    🐥 Charlotte Phoenix

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Korlic (Holy Paladin) Korlicx
    Nick (Subtlety Rogue) Nicktherogue1
    Burn (Destruction Warlock) Burnx_23
    Jahmilli (Fire Mage)

    👨‍🚀 Spacestation Gaming

    Twitter Armory Twitch
    Gorecki (Holy Paladin) Goreckitv
    Thugonomicz (Destruction Warlock)
    Smexxin (Arms Warrior) smexxin
    Chunli (Windwalker Monk) Chunliww
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    Official Guild Recruitment Thread

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 02:37 AM PDT

    Are you looking for more people for your guild? Are you looking for a guild? Put your recruitment posts here! Don't forget about /r/wowguilds in the meanwhile; sometimes you can't wait a couple of weeks to find a guild.

    Please respond to the top level comment that matches the Region and Faction of your guild. If you're neither NA, Oceanic or EU then post under Other.


    Other Guild Recruitment Resources: Here

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    [Cosplay] My Lilian Voss cosplay. A few people in here said they didn't like the makeup last time (teeth prosthetics) so hopefully this is a bit better.

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 11:33 AM PDT

    /r/wow front page 1 year from now

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 01:48 AM PDT

    They dont make title screens like they used to anymore

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 04:03 AM PDT

    I made a thing!

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 12:31 AM PDT

    Shadowlands Desktop Background [5760 x 3240]

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 01:31 PM PDT

    [OC] I drew fanart of my close friends getting the Hivemind a couple months back because I thought the whole scenario was really neat. Went for a comic-book-ish style approach with the layout. I had a blast making this :D

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 06:18 PM PDT

    Lord of the Reins: A Mount Collecting Community!

    Posted: 22 Aug 2020 12:33 AM PDT

    Hello! My name is Roguinaa and I'm the owner of the Lord of the Reins Discord.

    Lord of the Reins is -the- discord if you're after rare mounts like the Silent Glider, GMOD, BFA Dungeon mounts and more. We are active on BOTH regions and provide alerts, highlights and more so you'll be notified whenever someone found a rare or is doing a run that can award a mount. Some more examples: ●Gul'dan Infernals ●Glacial Tidestorm ●Fabious ●Elusive Quickhoof ●Shackled Urzul & Antoran Charhound ●And a lot more!

    We will also notify you whenever a time limited mount is up, like Mollie or Spirit of Eche'ro.

    In Shadowlands we will continue to expand with new alerts, roles and more! More info on that will be released once the Beta starts adding the mount sources. Expect the Shadowlands roles to be up and running before the xpac even launches!

    Our community consists of hardcore and casual mount enthusiasts from all ages, some that are new to wow and some more veteran players. There's always someone to help you with questions/advice!

    All mounts we provide are ☆-free-☆! All the support we need is in spreading the word of the server so we can grow and eventually get everyone the mounts they need!

    Our community even gives away mounts like Long Forgotten Hippogryph, Aeonaxx and even the Time Lost Proto Drake on the rare occasion, aswell as regular giveaways for store mounts, bfa zone mounts and more! (We have an EU Goldenmane's Reins giveaway active atm if you still need that one!)

    If you're interested in obtaining mounts, or just curious, give Lord of the Reins a chance, and you might just find a new place to call home.

    Join the Discord here: https://discord.gg/RNGZnkf

    ♡♧ Happy mount hunting and see you there! ♧♡

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    I had a dumb idea and don't regret anything.

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:06 PM PDT

    Replacement Server Blade Cover Has Bad Misprint After Waiting 11 Months

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 09:45 AM PDT

    My Night Elf Druid bust I resculpted and painted. Hope you like her!

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 06:47 AM PDT

    Witch hunter Winter Sherow - my RP character. [by me]

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 05:20 PM PDT

    2 weeks ago I tentatively resubbed to WoW to prepare the for SL prepatch. Since, i've leveled up to 120, cleared each BFA zone, done the quests for Horde allied races, got the cloak and some half decent gear, made new friends and had a blast. I only experienced the end of BFA, but I sure enjoyed it.

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 08:35 PM PDT

    Blizzard is seeking feedback on your experience with Classes and Covenant choice on the official forums

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 11:18 AM PDT

    Good thread with a lot of useful responses. Maybe something good will come of it.

    https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/covenants-and-your-spec-a-survey/616438

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    Reaching 50 in Chromie Time boots you back to SW/Org immediately

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 03:49 PM PDT

    Fishing by me

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 12:51 PM PDT

    Changes/Fixes discussion for WW monks in Shadowlands

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 01:00 PM PDT

    This is a follow up post to my previous post addressing the current issues of WWs https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/idjsaa/ww_in_sl_beta_deletesef/

    TL;DR: remove SEF. make ring of piece baseline and make talent row 35 a dps row with the talents WDP, SoTW, and CJL AoE talent. remove hit combo and alter and move RJW to replace EE in row 30, and bring in Fury of Xuen and RSK Artifact trait. Row 50 new Xuen based talents, cleave, general play and burst AoE. Fix Bugs and Scaling. Kyrian ability should increase the damage of the next RSK rather than resetting the cooldown, and remove the damage component of ToK and make it a pvp talent

    So now that we've covered whats wrong with WWs currently. We can start to find ways to fix it. Im not going to go into the nitty gritty of fixing scaling and bugs. ill mention them briefly, but those are a known issue, and scaling isnt a huge problem if we get aura buffs to keep up like we did in legion. What I'm going to be talking about is what the community of WWs in the discord have been advocating for for awhile now. Whether they actually fix the spec or not is up in the air, but these are just some ideas in the event blizzard does hear our outcry.

    So I'm going to begin with talents, since legion our talent tree has been cookie cutter for the most part. some of our talents rows are situational and give us meaning, like row 15, 25, and 40. For the most part our talent tree is fine. we just suffer from a major tuning problem, in row 45 and 50 especially. in row 45 hit combo is too strong and in row 50 Spiritual focus and serenity are way too weak. row 15, is the only DPS row that we can fully use all 3 talents however they give little in terms of performance. Our energy row, row 30, we default to FotWT for the most part, but we can use ascension when we are getting procs and resources thrown our way, which looks to be the case in SL with nightfae, that talent is there to help with that and isnt a problem. energizing elixir is a talent from a past time and hasnt been used at all during BFA. in legion EE was busted but it allowed us to spend get all of our resources up front and have a really strong burst, especially during the ToS 6p days. but its current BFA state its out of place and actually overflows us with resources that go wasted. Row 35 is our utility row, Tiger tail sweep is a nice talent but it goes unused for the most part because Ring of piece is a much better CC utility, however both go unused in raids for the most part because many encounters dont allow knockback or a stun. Good karma is a nice utility and adds to the defensiveness of Touch of Karma, which ill get into later.

    So thats the summary of the current talent situation, now for fixes.

    Row 15 just needs buffing and, thats not a problem and row 25 is also fine.

    Row 30 is good for the most part but i would remove EE and replace it with an altered RJW. this RJW would be a toggle, your RJW would do X amount of damage (keeping in line with the AoE cap) on 6 targets but your energy regeneration will be reduced by X amount per second.

    Row 35 is in a weird spot as its really strong in Open world and PVP but not so hot in raids. im inclined to let this row be but ive seen mention of making Ring of Piece baseline, moving good karma to replace inner strength and making the row another DPS row. if that were to happen and change row 35 into another dps row i would move WDP into this row and add in SotW back in as well, leaving us with one more spot, i would take a talent that alters CJL. give us the legendary in this spot or make CJL be a chain lightning and do X amount more damage per target hit.

    Row 40 is fine as it is currently, ive seen some people wanting to bring back healing elixirs in place of inner strength. with the row 35 dps row change good karma could easily fit in, it might need a buff but that just tuning.

    Now for everyones favorite rows 45 and 50, ill start with 45, first, remove hit combo its too similar to the mastery and its too punishing. Fury of Xuen is a much better combo strikes builder and it could replace it easily. Weve already got an azerite trait as a talent with Dance of ChiJi so making this row the azerite row wouldnt be a big deal either. going off my RJW change, i would throw in the Double RSK artifact trait to replace it. weve had this in the game since WoD with the archimonde trinket, just make it a talent at this point.

    Row 50, this one is a mess. it feels like the cooldown changing Row but WDP is here and out performs the other two talents by far. This row is going to probably change the most here. i would hard redo this row. First we need to remove SEF, blizzard seems die hard to keep this in the game but its been a mess since its inception and it just needs to go, i think most of us can agree that the class fantasy can just step aside on this one, no one is going to cry or be hurt that SEF is gone. but now with SEF gone we are missing a cooldown, and easy solution would just make serenity baseline which could be the case, however. Serenity doesnt help with our resource management problem and only furthers it in shadowlands as we are getting so many extra resources and procs. Serenity needs to be altered for it to be an effective cooldown. some have said make it give it a second charge or rework it and make it similar to TEB or even bring back TEB as the main cooldown. but as for going back to the talent row, this should be a Xuen row, and going off of babylonius' xuen ideas, this row should allow the player to call xuen and use his powers. his idea is to have one talent as an evoke that gives addition effects to our spells, but lets take it further and make it a whole row, i see this row as being AoE, cleave and then general gameplay, Babylonius' idea is good and should be the general gameplay and call it something along the lines of Celestial gift. for Cleave, Lightning Claws, for 30 seconds Xuen infuses you with his power and your chi casters cause lightning to shoot out of your body to hit up to 3 targets for X amount of damage. this next talent i could see going two ways, Twin Tigers, summon banlu along with Xuen allowing for additional AoE, or flashing Storms, Xuen's Tiger lightning now hits additional targets.

    These talent changes arent the end all be all of what could happen, WWs talents for the most part are in a good place but a lot of tuning needs to happen. These are just an idea and i would love to see everyones thoughts on them or what else we could add to make the tree better.

    Covenants are currently still buggy and we cant properly test them but from what we gathered, with the venthyr ability WW feels like a summoner class which its not and goes against the general class fantasy that WW has. and the nightfae fills us with extra resources that WW cant use effectively. WWs mastery doesnt really allow for extra procs. but this is more of a lack of focus gripe and i know a couple of other specs with bad covenant abilites. kyrian is alright it could be altered, resetting our RSK doesnt work with our mastery and we have to wait a global to actually use it. maybe buff the damage of our next RSK instead?

    Touch of karma needs the damage reflect to be removed and made into a PVP talent called bad karma, blizzard has actively called using defensives as offensives degenerate play but they leave it in the game and have given us a buff for it in fortifying brew which was made into a pvp talent in legion. theyre targeting the wrong defensive, karma is the problem not fortifying brew.

    Xuen currently is weak and we have a datamined rank 2 with the gale burst ToD mechanic baked in, sadly we dont have that currently. but with that Change xuen might be able to become a more effective cooldown, and it needs to be because its now baseline. Xuen also has some scaling issues which doesnt help out its overall damage.

    Storm earth and fire, its needs to go. if they really really really want to keep it then they should revert it back to the old WoD version where we had some use out of it as a ranged cleave, but even then the spell itself is still buggy and scaling on external systems predictably doesnt work and is changed. its been years and they still cant get it right so its time for them to cut their loses and just remove it.

    Besides scaling issues, WW doesnt have a go to stat. which blizzard also said that if a spec stacks verse over anything else then something is wrong. which weve been doing for hte past two years. a good change to make Crit more important is to bring back the pinnacle of WW design, the legion 6p, and make it baseline, that would give us WWs what weve been asking for for years now and give crit a bigger weight.

    a fan favorite change is making WDP baseline and bring back SotW as a talent or make it baseline as well. granted both of these changes would be positive and having another chi spender would be nice. and weve been using WDP for so long it would just be weird to be without it.

    and lastly here, bug fixes. WDP still bugs out at high haste percentages which doesnt feel good when youre stuck waiting for something to happen because you cant cast a spell that youd normally cast. and the interaction with the 300% WDP cast at the end of SEF is still in the game, removing the ability to cancelaura didnt fix the interaction and it just made SEF worse in pvp because you can just CC the clone and now youve lost out on 45% of damage. the clones could just just disappear rather than fly back or cancel any animation or effects after the timer is up. the FoF channeling bug keeping you in combat has been in the game for awhile now and its just annoying. and not being able to use 2handers as intended since alpha.

    these are just general issues that need to be fixed and have been stated before in everyone elses post and post of my own that address them. im just making this follow up post to help provide fixes and make them known to the rest in this community. and i hope to see some discussion about other potential fixes or changes everyone would like to see in WW.

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    Please give Survival Hunter a 'Shadowpriest' level rework

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:39 AM PDT

    This spec really needs some love.

    BFA SV Hunter is dead and on Beta it's a confused mess imo.

    Arcane shot, raptor strike, steady shot, Hunter's Mark, and tranq shot?
    You are wielding a melee weapon and most of your abilities either, don't use it, or have 40 yd range.

    You pull out a side arm crossbow more often than swing your weapon (especially with flayed shot)

    Whether you on team 'keep it melee' or team 'go back to ranged SV' it really doesn't matter it just really needs some love.

    Please help it out it's massively underplayed especially in PvE

    we love SV hunter but it needs help

    you can't cast Tranq shot holding a pole-arm (bottom image)

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    Anyone else wish the faction capitals shifted away from Stormwind and Org?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 01:33 PM PDT

    I think it'd be so cool if we saw Ironforge, Thunder Bluff, or [revamped] Silvermoon City become the "main" faction capitals in a future expansion. These places deserve some love too.

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    Undead FuryWarrior drawing I made over breaktimes at school.

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 06:43 AM PDT

    Coin of Many Faces gave me this really cool Transmog, but I now realize no class can actually look like this all the time. Makes me wish we had a Spellsword sort of class

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 05:23 AM PDT

    Well, I should have chosen Northrend I guess..

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 08:19 AM PDT

    Is it weird that I like doing LFR N'zoth?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 09:35 PM PDT

    I'm in a guild and we will probably start raiding in Shadowlands but in the meantime I've been enjoying doing Lfr N'zoth.

    I don't know what it is but its a fairly fun thing to do. It can take a while and often stacks of determination are high (lowest is 2)

    But I love the feeling of watching a group get better and better through the attempts. I'm not an expert raider by any means but I know the fight fairly well after doing it so many times. I'm quite happy to explain tactics as best I can but watching a group who wiped in the first three minutes of the first attempt finally get him down is incredibly satisfying.

    Then there are my guild mates who won't touch lfr N'zoth with a ten foot barge pole. Maybe I am just weird.

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    Thought I'd share my commission of these two custom night-elves I did recently!

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 04:58 PM PDT

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