He was the lead class designer for world of warcraft but in the Riot mmorpg interview he admits while he was supposed to be on all Classes he focused on plate Classes.
Now look at wotlk and how strong the plate Classes are
(Satrical)
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Like all those warriors and ret pallies pumpin in naxx? Kek
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Come back during ICC and apologize to the class.
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And should have stayed in marine biology where he belonged. Dude rode Tigole’s coattails and thought he was hot sh*t.
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1 phase class
double kek
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They’ll be good in ulduar too
He was actually the lead systems designer.
“Systems design specifically is everything that is not level, story, quest, PvP or encounter design. My team handles everything from mechanics to items to trade skills to achievements to UI design.”
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With increased item levels coming, plate classes, especially warriors are going to benefit the most.
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In the interview out of the horses mouth he said he was lead class designer and was hired to be a senior developer.
https://youtu.be/EBKrj8bYpUc
Well, he was the one that gave us RDF.
Then turned around and said he regretted giving it to us.
I don’t get the ppl that work on this game.
Pretty sure most of the game will have quit by then… its already a wasteland out there.
Not sure which WotLK you played, but plate rock Ulduar phase, ICC phase and are pretty on-par with the other DPS classes in ToC phase.
Really, plate will be rock solid starting next phase and will remain so throughout most of the rest of WotLK. And it is not only DPS, Paladin Healers will become the single best main tank healers throughout the rest of WotLK in my personal opinion.
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Do you have a timestamp dude? That’s an hour and a half video…
FWIW, the quote above is from Greg Street, describing his role at Blizzard…
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Street
BuT iTs OvEr HaLf oF tHe ExPaNsIoN
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I’m not sure what his title was in Wrath, but before he left the company his title was Lead Systems Designer.
I do know he has mentioned that he and another guy did most of the work on DK’s and basically said the entire class was a new take on how talents could work in the future and it just didn’t really pan out because it had too many variables.
I do know he was involved a ton in classes though as I spent a ton of time back and forth with him and others on healing classes and more specifically Druids going into Cata. He listened on some things, didn’t on others.
He’s stated some things he thinks were mistakes over years, flying is one, LFR was another, or rather he said they should have just waited until the figured out flex mode ( now normal mode).
Honestly I feel like caster cleaves are dominant now, which is bad because usually melee own early xpac, and casters at the end.
Honestly TSG is mediocre into wizard cleaves imo
If my memory serves me well, i recall him playing a mage and despite plate being strong, mage was still one of the most op classes in wow.
People are already running sims with buffed ulduar ilevels and warriors are still bottom tier. Was really hoping that arp fury came online during ulduar, but doesn’t look like it. Maybe ToC?
I really hope that MMO is good I’m so sick of paying for blizzard stuff
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You have to be at least plat in LoL to play the riot MMO.