11.1 patch is the worst patch

11.1 patch is the worst patch in a long time. Blizzard is gutting specs like proc warriors rage, MM hunters, Disc priests and refuses to fix broken specs. The set bonuses are the laziest design ever. Mythic+ hasnt even been tried to be fix. If this is blizzard under Microsoft then i dont see WoW surviving anymore if they refuse to actually make their game better

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Are you sure their ideas are bad or that we’re not smart enough to understand their genius?

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WoW’s worst patch is 9.0

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Nope Disc Priest is being gutted every major player in the spec says so. Rage for warriors are being gutted. MM hunter is losing their abilities cause of reasons. The tier set is lazy design

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Its the era of toxic positivity, objective criticism isnt allowed! You arent supposed to point out the flaws in their ideas.

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The patch notes clue you in to their focus:
Patch 11.1 takes us to the Goblin capital, Undermine. It also brings us a new travel system and begins Season 2.

  • New Zone: Undermine
  • New Raid: Liberation of Undermine
  • New Dungeon: Operation: Floodgate
  • D.R.I.V.E.
  • New Delves
  • Cartel Renown
  • Warband UI Updates: Warband Camp Collections

The assessment is that while there is endgame content, the focus is to bring casual players back into WoW with a unique/fun experience. Delves and D.R.I.V.E. are the general focus. They are trying to put the fun back in WoW for the masses while still working to tweak the end game experience for the min-maxers. Something’s gotta give initially

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Player base : we want boring tier bonuses

Blizzard : um ok

gives boring tier bonuses

Player base : well now we are just mad

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Yep. This is why I could never be a developer.

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They can make boring tier sets without all of them just being copy and paste with each other. And if you read a little bit of research you are seeing that the tier sets abilities are being canceled by just doing normal spell rotation.

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Won’t be the last time someone says an upcoming patch is the worst.

I think it’ll be fun for raid and absolutely bleh for M+.

Thats what you get when you want all the tier bonuses to have no effect on rotation and talents picked.

Thats a different issue.

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No my issue is showing how bad blizzard is making 11.1. So yes having abilities cancel the tier set is also showing how bad they are making it. We can have different tier sets that dont change up the rotation. It seems like these were made in an afternoon

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Having played it on the PTR, 11.1 left me pleasantly surprised.

Love the Undermine zone.

Class changes suck, sure, but more often that not, they usually do suck than not-suck.

I’d just play another class if I was so annoyed.

The Hunter changes for Pack Leader, I don’t like so I’ve swapped over to Sentinel.

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For Guardian druids at least this is the first time senpai has noticed them this entire expansion. So, that is good at least.

The zone is not my cup of tea Aesthetics wise, but you can feel the amount of love the team has put into making Undermine the wonderful slice of urban hellscape it is meant to be.

The dynamic ground system feels like it needs some more time in the oven, but perhaps a few weeks of feedback will be enough to tweak it.

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You can tell they took the focus off endgame content because there’s exactly the same amount and type of endgame content as in every other middle tier… wait. :dracthyr_sweat:

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Nothing says content like a background for character selection.

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Bill Gates is ruining another World?

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Wait, what?

What’s happening to them?

It’s technically not yet, for perspective, Microsoft bought and finalized a merger with Activision Blizzard last year, they haven’t produced even HALF an expansion yet because they’ve admitted since WoD they’ve been working 2 expansions ahead usually. So this is still the Legion-SL crew’s work.

Having said that, the most Microsoft can do at this late stage is pour resources heavily into making Midnight and Last Titan a back to back success.

the one that isn’t out yet? the one that just entered testing this week?

tell us more

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