Why I am proud to play World of Warcraft

Happy Vault Day readers,

Hope the RNG gods treat you well.

In this week’s issue, we have:

• The Darkmoon Faire returns

• How to level up fast guide with boosts up to 85% increased level speed.

• Weekly economy roundup, including the drama of the new brutosaur mount and its effects.

• And more….

News

• Darkmoon Faire returns (Wowhead)

• Mountain promotion now live (Wowhead)

• Trading post rewards data mined for early 2025 (Wowhead)

Guides

• Level up fast this week guide (Icy-veins)

• Fastest Bronze celebration token strategy (Icy-veins)

Economy

• The wow-head economy weekly round-up (Wowhead)

This week's animal winner (zoo edition) is….

Layla, Unlike the photo the actual lion is very sweet and likes to smile for the camera.

Why I am proud to play World of Warcraft

It may be because I’m feeling more emotional about Wow this week due to the excellent Netflix documentary: The Remarkable Life of Ibilin (If you haven’t watched it yet I highly recommend it), but I have been thinking a lot about community and Wow.

There is a strange position that we sit in as MMO players who choose to play solo, I have written in previous editions about how playing solo does not mean playing alone.

But I also wanted to talk about community.

World of Warcraft is a great game in its own right, if you took the MMO out of the game it would still stand up as an RPG.

But by being an MMO it has tapped into a deeper feeling among players that has allowed it to keep going for 20 years (and hopefully many more).

While all games have a community, MMOs actively encourage this community and make it one of the pillars of the game.

There have been two events recently that I think show two sides of how this community make the game better.

The first is the controversy over the new Brutosaur shop mount.

If you have been hiding under a Deepholm rock and haven’t heard of this I will quickly sum it up.

Blizzard unveiled a new game shop mount for the 20th-anniversary event, which is a Brustosaur mount that uses the same model as the previously available Brustosaur mount but updated with more black and gold elements. The mount’s costs vary on where you play from but is around $90.

Already controversial by charging more than the cost of the new expansion for one mount, however, it gets worse as this mount also has the unique features of coming with an auction house and mailbox attached to it.

This causes the mount to be very valuable (beyond its price tag), as for many removing the need to travel to a main city to post or purchase from the auction house is a massive quality of life update, that is only available if you are willing to part with $90.

The reason why I believe this has shown the benefits of community is because there have been many players for and against this mount. Whether you think this mount is good or not, the ability and passion of the player base in speaking out about how the mount is a sign of corporate greed or supporting players who are happy to spend money for benefits is the reason why MMOs are unique and why we all love them.

The controversy of this mount banded players together in camps that were for and against, it caused a lot of discussion (not all of it positive I agree) that keeps the game alive. The ability to form bonds over values that we believe in is where community is at its strongest.

Another more positive event in the community recently was the aforementioned Netflix documentary.

Again if you have been living under an even deeper rock in Azh’kahet, then the documentary tells the story of a Wow player who suffered with Duchenne’s (a form of muscular dystrophy). This disease caused his muscles to get progressively weaker throughout his life, but he found that his weakening muscles didn’t matter in Azeroth. His family had no idea but Mats Steen was living a virtual life inside Wow, where he not only formed many relationships that he believed would not be possible for him in real life but he also provided advice and support for people in their real lives.

This is where the magic of Wow lies.

Mats joined a community of players who cared for each other and formed real relationships, this is what we are all doing by playing this game. Even if we play solo and don’t have the time to commit to larger group activities in the game, we are still all part of this community.

A community that I am proud to be a part of.

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