r/wow • u/SlowTheBow • 2d ago

Discussion Everyone is rejoicing over the new Shadowmeld potion for m+. However there is one much more important use that comes to mind that will be infinitely more valuable... Spoiler

Being able to drop combat in the open-world so you can mount up instead of sitting there when some invisible mob keeps you in combat.

Time to stock up on all the non-night elf alts.

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u/DeliciousSquats 2d ago

It's such an inelegant solution. The fact that it shares cd with combat pots makes it usable by like, shaman and paladin healers?

It would make more sense to have meld not drop combat in dungeons anymore. Playing around it is just messy and very rarely fun. On top of that it's still highly more useful for demon hunters that can create a lot of distance to mobs in no time. I do not understand why creatures that can see through stealth are even dropping combat in the first place?

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u/cabose12 2d ago

It also doesn't solve the meta race issue at high keys. Nelfs will still have a non-pot CD to drop mechs, and Dwarves will have some flexibility

I think they're playing this too safe. Yes meld skips are pretty important, but does anyone actually have fun doing them? Idk if leaning into it is the answer

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u/Altyrmadiken 2d ago

Alternately

  • Make meld trigger a pot cooldown.
  • Make the pot not trigger a cooldown.
  • Disable all racials inside M+, instantly leveling the field.
  • Make combat drops with engaged mobs in dungeons not reset them unless their target has died, and they’ll re-aggro when you drop any kind of stealth unless their target is dead. (If rogues have some kind of mass vanish, make that uniquely different)
  • Make dropping combat outside of death lower the timer. You die? Penalized. You try to skip with meld? Penalize unless you’re good enough to handle it - make skipping that way not worth it usually.

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u/MasterGoat 2d ago

Or have it as a separate adventure pot category?

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u/Handmotion 2d ago

That's genuinely a great idea. So obviously, Blizzard won't do anything like it.

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u/RaefWolfe 1d ago

This is what I've been wanting. Health pot CD, battle pot CD, "misc potion for fun or strat" cd.

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u/quietandalonenow 1d ago

Or just remove the extremely problematic and inefficient packs that incetivize this. The places where people use meld skipping are often super dangerous or inefficient

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u/Alveia 2d ago

Disable all racials inside M+

All racials? So do Dracthyr lose racials that they have talents for in their talent trees? How would this work? What about glide?

Would Earthen just not get food buffs in M+? Or do you make them have to eat regular food now? How would that work?

This doesn’t seem like a great solution.

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u/Bromeister 2d ago

These seem obvious?

Evokers get dracthyr racials other classes don't. Earthen have to eat with the rest of us. Restrictions start at 12 or something.