It goes beyond polish for me at this point.
I did the work and got the strider. Now, as figured, theyre screwing it over for my lowbie characters, the ones I got it for. I hadnt even gotten the strider and used it very long before the mount equipment garbage. Now its apparently unlocked at 40.
I finally decided to start using the Loot-a-Rang. Realized I enjoy using it. Its been Eng 1 to use for how long? Now it looks like Cata Eng 70 is going to be required to use, which again, screws my lowbie characters.
Polish, yeah, great.
Screwing over stuff I like and use in game. Well, there are always other games to play, I suppose.
Oh no, I’m not denying that. There is absolutely a BIS covenant for your class. And it’s not just a 1-2% difference.
I just think it’s going to be an annoyance, but not a game-breaker. I want to go Kyrian but I’m sort of okay with going Venthyr for a bit at the start.
Actually they are Activision-Blizzard and thats not spouting anything. Its legitimately the company.
I’m a casual. Theres varying degrees of casual and im by no means lumping everyone into one however even through rudimentary data we can see a very small percentage of the population even completes content most would think isnt exactly cutting edge. But your right we don’t have specific numbers but most veterans intm this game are aware of the fact therss more who play this game solo then in group content.
Im an old comic collector from way back.
Ive tried collecting these glossy paged abominations they call comics these days, but I just cant do it. I want the old Sea Monkey and X-ray Specs ads on that old dingy off white blue jean material they called pages, lol
Vrak apparently doesn’t since Activision-Blizzard owns Activision publishing, Blizzard Entertainment, King, Major league Gaming, and Activision Blizzard studios.
Argue semantics all you want. Blizzard is owned by Activision-Blizzard.
Ever since ESO got away with getting people to pay subs, then a year later went F2P on counsel, and then said “that was always the plan”, which means they released an unfinished game with a subscription and used that money to finish the game. Ever since then Wow has taken the same path on Xpacs.
I agree the massive outliers can be reigned in… however my concern is how many times will players swap covenants (which they’ve made timegated) before they get tired of being punished for trying to be optimal? Thats a real concern to me.
I kind of hope the “optimal” changes so often that the min max crowd just leaves forever. That FOTM hunting, and all the toxic behavior they comes with it, would be very good to be rid of.
As long as the variance between best and worst is 5% or less, the real impact will be largely player skill/gear. They’ve managed to get all but necrolords within 7% of one another, 2% if venthyr receives a small numbers nerf, in the context of balance druid.
It’s obvious that they sincerely intend to balance stuff, and as long as they continue to try, and don’t just go “well, guess X is the best” for all raid tiers, I won’t care.
Fotm rerolling and optimization of your spec/class are two different things. We’ve been playing this way since BC. Its not changing. Push all of those players away and you will kill every competitive crowd in this game.
I’m sorry but thats truly some ignorance on display. If you think pushing away everyone who cares about their performance will make this game better youre delusional.
Edit: I’m glad balance druid is close for you. Reality is for other specs between ability and soul binds we have up to 20% variance. They won’t get every spec and every option within a marginal amount that is offset by real word variables. It should be obvious by now. They couldnt with azerite,essences, or corruptions. Not magically happening when they then release 3 different variables at once.
You clearly haven’t paid attention to what’s going in blizzard. Actvision has moved in, they are affecting things… and people who work/worked their even reported as much.
Looking at the above statement. I’m really starting not be able to stand this level of duplicity. 16 years now, and its always the same argument from the same group of players. When have they ever been right or told the truth? They are chronic liars and it has cost us about 5 million subs at least.
No smoke? They have built multiple new systems in SL, The conduit system in particular was suppose to be the tuning fork for balance. Only that they made a system where one structure is suppose to balance 32 specs. No smoke? So when you have to nerf a conduit because it has to much synergy with on spec, then it nerfs 4 other specs that didn’t.
Every single new system that has been made in SL has major flaws that have not been fixed. Classes have huge issues not even touched. You think a 4 second CD on pet summon for Hunters is not smoke? Or that Hunters mark gives a 5% damage buff, but has a 20 sec CD? That’s not smoke either? GT_O!
