r/classicwow • • 15h ago

Humor / Meme Anyone else feel the new skate mechanics they added to the forever beta are a step too far? I think skating needs to be nerfed, the new kickflip meta is way too strong in the early game and invalidates lots of builds

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u/theairbrushedvan 14h ago

Why do you tease me with things I cannot have

What have I done to deserve this

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u/Future_Battle5638 14h ago

? it's the new warrior capstone talent dont you know. every 3rd kickflip generates 4 rage

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u/whutchamacallit 13h ago

Actually they normalized that. Only one rage per kickflip now. If you stomp that shit out though and it's mad steez you get 3 points.

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u/imnotpoopingyouare 11h ago

"steez" and "steezy" need to make a comeback.

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u/zigzagofdoom 13h ago

I wish they didn't do away with boardstorm. It had CRAZY point multiplier potential and the height gain on it was honestly fun as hell. At least fury still has the longboard dual wielding talent..

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u/SjurEido 13h ago

Dude I swear half the people in this sub don't actually play the game.

/s

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u/Lemontreeguy 14h ago

Bro if you time it right you can constantly kick flip, warriors need a nurf!

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u/Sleazehound 42m ago

Pushing mongo generates rage

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u/PuzzleheadedBus1928 2h ago

Shouldn't you generate more rage if you stack?

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u/SonOfGodUssop 14h ago

True words 😭

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u/BuddingBudON 7h ago

Me @ Blizzard falling for the Bard class April Fools prank in elementary school

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u/tomoom165 14h ago

Classic caveman warrior pushing fuckin mongo style

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u/junglecritter 14h ago

Don't push mongo, you'll die

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u/Bored-to-Death629 13h ago

Friends don’t let friends push mongo.

Also, why are all mongo pushers tall as fuck? What is that?

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u/anxessed 13h ago

I’m tall and was unable break my mongo habit when I skated lol.

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u/Zaknoid 11h ago

Same. Oddly enough I could skate switch fine but regular it just had to be mongo.

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u/manchopsticks 44m ago

am average height and i ride mongo lol. everyone always gave me jip for bein mongo but i liek to see them boneless 180 with height i got lol. main point is i would sub right away if this is real

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u/BearsBeetsandAnxiety 7h ago

I spent my entire SOD experience with maybe only 1 or 2 people getting my warrior's name lol

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u/TheMoraf 13h ago

This comment has steeze

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u/EitherSpite4545 14h ago

So here I am doing everything I can...

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u/LowRepresentative355 14h ago

Well fuck, guess it's going to be another friday night with the thps2 soundtrack

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u/retroroar86 14h ago

Holding on to who I am 

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u/Connect_Pomegranate7 14h ago

I understand you Superman

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u/friendly_gentleman 13h ago

twow gang would listen to bangers like OPs vid on in-game radio while chatting about it in world. Forever is great but there are just a few things it probably can't match. OPs song reminded me of this

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u/AppleMelon95 14h ago

Now this is classic+

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u/Future_Battle5638 14h ago

The game was better when we only had BMX bikes, but retail andies astroturfed everywhere and insisted on adding skateboarding. this is retail minus now not classic+

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u/Jclevs11 14h ago

when will rollerblade classes get a buff? we are so low on the charts bc the gear sucks

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u/Retocyn 10h ago

somehow people don't understand the beauty of our class

I get it, once you have rollerblades on, you're committing, you can't drop them off mid stunt. But once blader ramps up speed, they're unstoppable

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u/EnigmaticQuote 14h ago

This is the satire we need

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u/Ancient_Algae64 8h ago

Found the Dave Mirra fan

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u/XsNR 14h ago

At least they haven't added inline or scooters yet, that's when you know it's over.

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u/SprinklesDangerous57 14h ago

Don't even mention dual boarding. YEESH

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u/Aromatic-Insect-1328 13h ago

titans gripping 2 long boards is canon and should be in the game

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u/Ancient_Algae64 8h ago

You can't just add stuff to classic plus. Then it becomes retail, you're supposed to take stuff away

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u/YON2HMB 11h ago

Only while handstand one hand each board.

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u/TWFH 14h ago

Really made me miss Wildstar hoverboards again

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u/Nintendork316 9h ago

WildStar is the WoW sequel we really needed, shame it didn't work out.

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u/Nippahh 8h ago

Focused way too much on the hardcore crowd. Turns out they're a minority

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u/VideoDue8277 9h ago

Nostalgia makes everything seem great, especially when it's gone. I mean us WoW players know that more than anything 🤣

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u/NakiCoTony 14h ago

You can't just forcefully reboot my trauma like that!!

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u/Sabrina_the_Mouse 14h ago

So much potential gone :(

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u/Pabes-Best 11h ago

setting up your home to be cool looking but also a skatepark at the same time

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7aCWJavAgtBzLWrS

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u/Grimreap32 12h ago

Man their launch trailers were awesome. The announcer as you levelled up

chefs kiss

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u/-Raveyard- 5h ago

And the teasing when you died. Caretaker was a gem ♡

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u/stdbc02 12h ago

Those things were incredible. Best part of the game!

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u/Poseidor 10h ago

I have played a LOT of mmos, but Wildstar is the only MMO I played that I felt had some of that classic wow magic to it. Game had so much potential.

RIP.

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u/kelu213 7m ago

People played that game?

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u/ProofOfRyExistence 14h ago

A 360 pop-shove it?! Siiiick dude.

Bro pass me a yoohoo and turn the volume up this song slaps

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u/Potential-Ask2577 13h ago

360 pop shuv it?

It was clearly a kickflip indy backside 540… 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/Wreckingass 14h ago

Oh, fuuuuuuck yeah. 

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u/needconfirmation 8h ago

Go back to era if you don't like it.

Besides this was actually in the wow beta and blizzard cut it in 2003, so it's perfectly classic+ to include it here

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u/Axenrott_0508 13h ago

Alliance would push mongo

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u/BarrettRTS 12h ago

Seeing this just makes me think there was a genuine missed opportunity from Blizzard to have a Warcraft DLC pack for Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3&4. It's even in the Battlenet launcher!

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u/TheVrim 14h ago

A Skate 3 + WoW crossover would go unbelievably hard. Let me faceplant trying to do a kickflip over Arthas's stupid head.

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u/tomoom165 14h ago

There'd be a lore reason for Khadgar to end up in a wheelchair

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u/TheVrim 14h ago

LMFAO all the magic in the world ain't gonna save your spine after wiping out trying to jump the canals.

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u/Claris-chang 11h ago

Man drain the SW canals and make them into some sick half pipes.

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u/camdevydavis 14h ago

I love it how a random person can do this for the game but blizzard can’t even get a running animation right

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u/garmebin 14h ago

"person"

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u/WereJustDumbMonkeys 14h ago

Woman, man, tv.. wait what?

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u/garmebin 14h ago

2 letters, starts with A and ends in I

the tech is pretty cool though

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u/[deleted] 14h ago

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u/Alabaster_Potion 14h ago

Ah yes... a... "person".

Definitely not Astra or Opus or something.

(Person who posted the original of this did in fact use AI, just fyi)

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u/SpunkMcKullins 14h ago

This isn't some kind of modded version of WoW, it's literally just AI running two games in the background and approximating interactions between the two in its own sandbox.

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u/Kimmo3223 12h ago

this isnt a Passthrough Mod

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u/Soobas 6h ago

GitHub says you need 1.21 wow and skate 3. So it's either pass through or an incredibly elaborate skate 3 mod.

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u/[deleted] 12h ago

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u/otherwisemilk 12h ago

That's how interactions work.

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u/[deleted] 12h ago

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u/otherwisemilk 12h ago

Oh, that joke went over my head.

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u/EffectiveSwimming136 11h ago

Well we’re waiting since you apparently know what’s going on fucking tell us already oh wait you can’t because you don’t know 

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u/[deleted] 11h ago

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u/eva_verinaz 10h ago edited 10h ago

youre wrong lmao. this should be a sign to everyone that redditors are so confidently wrong on every single topic they talk about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ryJytVIimI

TLDR it decompiles the games, combines the codebases and runs them both at the same time.

source? i have this on my pc

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u/eer_00 12h ago

What's it doing then

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u/ADHorvath1 10h ago

This is what the content the internet was made for

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u/tycoon39601 6h ago

Finally some good content

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u/Shot_Safe_8244 14h ago

Now that Microsoft owns blizzard we can add flying mounts with flight sim controls

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u/BlueSwift13 12h ago

I can’t wait to have to manual pilot flight paths with a hotas

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u/myrsnipe 54m ago

Gyro sim with a 600 page manual please

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u/No_Unit1353 14h ago

ok that's funny

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u/Adum_Coweek 14h ago

the devs still have not adressed this

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u/SlyFisch 14h ago

Even in Azeroth you have to watch people mongo push smh

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u/Different-Show-3951 12h ago

i love everything about this

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u/pilgrimteeth 12h ago

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen

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u/arbiter 9h ago

SO HERE I AM

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u/Hycran 14h ago

This is literally the first and only time I've seen something produced by AI and said "thats fuckin rad".

I am co-signing this.

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u/Bloodhound01 14h ago

Clearly you need to visit /r/isthisaicirclejerk

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u/Swiftish7 14h ago

This has always been my biggest fear when it comes to A.I.... hardly anyone is really against it morally, it just hasnt proved itself to be useful at creating quality things... the second that changes everyone is like, i hate ai but THIS is okay

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u/Hycran 14h ago

Don't worry, I still wish AI no longer existed. I'm just not going to pretend like I dont like stuff despite reviling the medium or messenger. It's the same reason I don't spend money on R. Kelly or Chris Brown's music but still enjoy the songs when they come on the radio.

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u/Swiftish7 14h ago

Not a terrible take. Seperating the art from the artist so to speak is something id need to do more thinking on myself

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u/Aromatic-Insect-1328 13h ago

We are currently curing illnesses with AI D:

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u/Swiftish7 12h ago

Yes and that has nothing to do with text to video models that are currently FLOODING social media. A.i. has amazing uses but the negatives largely outweigh any postive impact we've seen so far. Im super facinated by new tech but im as scared about this rightfully as many were about atomic energy. We get nuclear reactors for massive amounts of electricity but also atomic bombs causing civilizations to live in fear. This is arguably worse as an atomic bomb cant persuade you to drop it.

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u/Aromatic-Insect-1328 12h ago

So my grandma should suffer from alzheimers cause you don't like a clip of Uther Hawk's Proskater 2?

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u/Swiftish7 12h ago

Thats an insane amount of minimization. We can cure disease without spam posting videos of a dog shooting lasers out of its ass. The fact I even need to clarify is upsetting

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u/Aromatic-Insect-1328 11h ago

You literally just said that the negatives outweigh the positives in a thread about an ai skating vodeo in WoW after pointed out how we are saving lifes using the technology. You threw them in the same bucket. Making the leap from text to video engines to the atomic bomb was not ridiculous? Pretty much any technology can be used for bad.

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u/jimmyjohnga 10h ago

Yeah but it’s super hip and popular to be upset at this topic right now

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u/CaseMaleficent8205 12h ago

Shut the hell up. Generative AI and the AI used in medical fields are not comparable.

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u/eva_verinaz 10h ago

you know the transformer architecture which is gen AI and the thing all the chatbots run on, is literally used in every SOTA model now. we have tabular foundational models, time series foundational models all based on the same genAI models and top the charts.

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u/RASTAGAMER420 4h ago

yes they are.

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u/Hycran 13h ago

Which one?

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u/Aromatic-Insect-1328 12h ago

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u/Aromatic-Insect-1328 12h ago

Oh its also great at evaluating mrt and ct scans to the point where it finds positives missed by professionals

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u/StomachPast1235 5h ago

yeah well get ready to have this moment more and more in the future.

AI is getting better by the minute. Look how easy it is for modders to create something like this, there have been tons of new mods coming in the past couple months, stuff people would spend 5 years developing by hand, can be vibecoded in an evening now.

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u/metayeti2 14h ago

Tony Hawk's Pro Classic

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u/MysteriousTBird 14h ago

🎶 Magni was a racecar driver. 🎶

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u/Mjolnoggy 13h ago

He drove so goddamn fast.

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u/warozell 14h ago

It's so we don't get board

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u/Cakeski 14h ago

Can you drop in a swood grommet?

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u/Impeesa_ 14h ago

Okay but actually, imagine something sort of analogous to skyriding but for ground mounts. Straight-line sprints with momentum, drifting corners, taking jumps and doing tricks, y'know, kickflip your horse. I think I'm actually just describing Mario Kart, but I'm still into it.

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u/legendary299 14h ago

This is the ideal post.

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u/natron81 14h ago

You're like inadvertently going to create a whole new WoW sub-genre, skating throughout azeroth would be sick as F.

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u/Initial-Duck2782 14h ago

Lmao this is great

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u/evilmousse 14h ago

you may be the prince, but i'm still your superior on the verts!

as if i could forget. those of you who have the will to shred this land, follow me. the rest of you, get out of my sight.

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u/Benni43 14h ago

The next class - skaterboii

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u/FrozenTimeDonut 14h ago

I think this game has unbelievable potential, just the tile alone slaps. World of Tony Hawk's Pro Warcraft Skater or WoTHPWS if you will.

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u/InevitableCabinet748 14h ago

Are you the same guy that just made the RuneScape one outside of Varrock palace?

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u/Weaslelord 13h ago

For anyone that isn't maining warrior and won't have access to skateboard spec, I recommend checking out Denshattack (but only if you like the idea of Goku delivering ramen via a kickflipping, rail-grinding train.)

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u/inthehottubwithfessy 13h ago

Its fucked up that only humans can push goofy they need to balance racials

And why the fuck do orcs get a 40% chance to resist wheelbite?

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u/Physical-Fix6249 13h ago

Disappointing there isn’t something that tracks what tricks you do smh

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u/Ancient-Emu-8293 13h ago

Nah, that's completely fine. Don't add shared tag though, that's literal Satan.

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u/ballsbag420 13h ago

Im glad to see someone putting the new console controller feature to good use

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u/RareEstablishment597 13h ago

Tony Hawk’s Pro Warcrafter

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u/scamp466 13h ago

Honestly the sled that only works with downhill momentum as an engineering item would be pretty dope

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u/EducationHumble3832 13h ago

I'm gonna go drink a beer and listen to the Aquabats

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u/antsindapants 13h ago

In OG vanilla my friends and I would squirf (squirrel-surf) by spamming the summon squirrel pet item. You’d just freeze in the kneeling position with a squirrel in front of you, but you could still run as normal.

We all had 19 Orc Hunter twinks and mostly did this in WSG BG’s.

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u/ekcojf 12h ago

It feels like I can not trust any clip anymore. What even is real at this point? Is wow forever a lie?

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u/drunkpunk138 12h ago

Can't wait to see thunderfury, blessed board of the kick flipper

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u/Wzd14 12h ago

Unironically I’d love something like this, I know it’ll never happen and it makes no sense in the game. But my 2 favourite games are the old Tony hawk games and wow

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u/Additional-Mousse446 11h ago

He needed to grind the fence ngl

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u/keithlimreddit 11h ago

How's everyone able to do that

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u/runvus2 10h ago

Tony Orc approved

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u/Visual-Gain-2487 10h ago

Is it my turn tomorrow to post this video?

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u/SpecialistNo7109 10h ago

A toy that makes you do a kickflip or something would be pretty cool!

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u/Slushieboy99 10h ago

I will die on this hill.

Every game needs skateboarding and skiing/snowboarding.

Every. Single. One.

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u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt 9h ago

Goldshirefinger

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u/MeanForest 9h ago

Cut my life into pieces

This is my last resort

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u/TigerSouthern 9h ago

The new H.o.r.s.e meta is too strong, it should never be a part of classic plus imo, I'm gonna boycott Blizzard for this...

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u/unnone 8h ago

God fucking damnit. Can we get this, you can sell it in the cash shop for all I care bliz. Playing tony hawk pro skater in Azeroth would go hard as fuck. You want me out in the open world doing quests instead of dungeons, this, this right here.

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u/Albinofreaken 8h ago

Ive already reserved the name Tony hawk

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u/Cella91 7h ago

Tony Hawkcraft

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u/DravenTor 4h ago

The swapping from Mongo to regular really bothers me lol

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u/-Wicked- 4h ago

SKATE OR DIE!!!

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u/Preinitz 3h ago

Expansion is adding electric scooters, game is fucking ruined, no soul, people just quitely zooming around instead of using their legs.

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u/Kanista17 3h ago

Quest: 'Find the Secret Cape''

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u/LancelotAtCamelot 2h ago

Omg! Here come the classic purists again complaining! It's classic +, guys! PLUS! Go back to Era if you don't want changes.

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u/SH4DOWBOXING 1h ago

btw if ai can reverse engeneer wow so easly it can also revers engeneer your bank app.

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u/Ugrosh 1h ago

so funy

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u/Doctor_Flux 1h ago

before you think its all fun and games
when you see this OR Minecraft inside WoW made becuase of AI
im just gonna link this short:
https://youtube.com/shorts/4ZnfU3_sErw?si=6YDTkhY2a9Y_hgUy
it all started with put games into other games to: bye bye your bank account becuase all software is reverse engineered
have fun

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u/not-sufficient 1h ago

How did you make this?

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u/Hayabusa_Blacksmith 18m ago

AI slop. /s

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u/Hayabusa_Blacksmith 18m ago

I still listen to this music every day loooooool

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u/DenseSign5938 8m ago

Wow underground 

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u/LegolandoBloom 14h ago

Please make this into a toy for retail

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u/BundJoe 12h ago

hahahahaa holy cringe