June 4th - PvP Q&A

[Seyòn-tichondrius (Seyòn)]

bold of you to assume i wont waste the 30 min anyway

[Abombination-kurinnaxx]

@Gotheelsx-darkspear

If games were designed to last 5-6 minutes, it’d be pretty boring only being able to use 2/3 min cds once or twice a game

Ehhhhh what?! Arena matches are supposed to be fast paced they aren’t BGs with objectives

Healers should be OOM 3 mins in, the match should be 5 mins tops. The fact there still is dampening is an indicator that PvP design is messed up.

[Abombination-kurinnaxx]

I don’t think Arena works for this game which is why I prefer the old expansions. We are supposed to be balanced around large battles of 10 vs 10 or 40 vs 40. I much rather see another competitive format introduced like Brawls with objective based PvP for Esports as that would be far more watchable and entertaining content.

They honestly could do so much more with PvP in this game that would be awesome! Arena just will always be pretty boring compared to the rest of PvP.

[Sollaira-stormrage]

Really excited about this happy these two found the time to do this.

[Stustustudio-proudmoore]

Mr. Ion

1. Looking back to the beginning of Shadowlands, would you still consider locking the best gear behind a players rating, to be a good idea ?

2. Have you ever been starsurged by a druid for 21k and then 11k back to back ?

[Tuckbudford-yojamba]

There is so much negative stuff I’d love to throw at them but I will give them one final chance to try and stop me checking out of shadowlands. Although I’m not optimistic at this point.

[Tuckbudford-yojamba]

@Stustustudio-proudmoore

Mr. Ion

The interview is with Holinka I think.

[Gotheelsx-darkspear]

@Seyòn-tichondrius

so we just pulling random % and made up stats out of thin air now huh ? ah ok got it

Do you think more or less than 95% of games are going 15+ mins and into high damp?

@Trash-tichondrius-811605

ya bfa destro/sp/rdruid/dh/dk requiring dampening just to start making progress in the game was absolutely bad gameplay

I don’t think there are any comps you see this season that can compare to BFA destro when it comes to needing damp to kill something

@Nasrajin-spirestone

Stuff like auto frenzy or necrolord conduits making it so a class cant die before damp with 0 active thought is awful for the game always

You’re right, Druid’s should get some better offensive abilities. People complain that they can live against a dps or two for 30 seconds or so, but at the same time, they have no impact on getting kills outside of clones and stuns for cc

@Abombination-kurinnaxx

Ehhhhh what?! Arena matches are supposed to be fast paced they aren’t BGs with objectives

They are extremely fast paced for a very large amount of players already

[Jdpp-zuljin (Jdpp)]

I feel like this is a waste. I hope I’m wrong. They’ve chosen to let pvp continue to be complete crap and we either get a sorry we’re trying response or they double down on one of their changes thinking its the same as what we use to have when pvp was better. Either way it’s a waste of time.

hopefully I’m wrong.

[Abombination-kurinnaxx]

@Jdpp-zuljin

I feel like this is a waste.

Omg we agree. Retail is beyond saving but maybe…it will open up dialog to start fixing the long list of what is wrong in the game in the next expansion. Lets be serious it would take years to fix PvP in Retail. The list is long and distinguished.

[Jdpp-zuljin (Jdpp)]

please don’t @ me

[Dillon-sargeras (Dillon)]

@Gotheelsx-darkspear

I don’t think there are any comps you see this season that can compare to BFA destro when it comes to needing damp to kill something

You ever see a resto druid and a hybrid on the same team? Or even just a resto druid

[Gotheelsx-darkspear]

@Dillon-sargeras

You ever see a resto druid and a hybrid on the same team? Or even just a resto druid

Necro druids that spec into bear aff are definitely a little more “tanky” than some other classes. But, you don’t get mind games, or any of the other very strong defensive/offensive cds you’d get from hpal/rsham/disc/hpriest. So there’s definitely a trade off for taking a Druid in your comp, more defense less offense

[Vindi-korgath (Vindi)]

I’d avoid asking questions related to class balance completely. Too much room for bias here.

1.) Shorter seasons, could easily of cut slands s1 in half and just not changed the ilvl gear we received.

2.) Some form of a reward between current(24+50) glad and r1.

3.) talk about the mmr nerf and how the April change did nothing. Ask about potential cr decay or a simple mmr inflation.

[Margraive-garrosh]

my concern with this Q&A with venruki is a weird one, its that venruki is too nice…i dont think he has the personality to push subjects, ask the grittier questions and argue points against the devs, especially as venruki also works for blizzard for AWC…, like sloot as an example did in his interview, he pushed, kept pressure up on subjects and argued points rather than just “hmm ok” responces to the devs answers.

[Tuckbudford-yojamba]

@Vindi-korgath

I’d avoid asking questions related to class balance completely. Too much room for bias here.

They should do the total opposite. I don’t want to here about what their next “system” is going to be or what new battleground they are brewing up is going to be.

I want to hear them say they plan on nerfing condem and intervene.

[Dillon-sargeras (Dillon)]

@Gotheelsx-darkspear

a little more

Oh wow

@Gotheelsx-darkspear

So there’s definitely a trade off for taking a Druid in your comp, more defense less offense

It’s a shame druids don’t have enough control to be offensive

[Trash-tichondrius-811605]

@Dillon-sargeras

It’s a shame druids don’t have enough control to be offensive

[Gotheelsx-darkspear]

@Dillon-sargeras

It’s a shame druids don’t have enough control to be offensive

It’s a shame priests get dark arc, mindgames, tons of damage and you choose to complain about druids defense when they literally have no offensive abilities to help close out a game. The healer meta wouldn’t be balanced if rdruids didn’t have survivability

Healer representation is also way more balanced now than it was at the beginning of the season

[Jdpp-zuljin (Jdpp)]

@Vindi-korgath

1.) Shorter seasons, could easily of cut slands s1 in half and just not changed the ilvl gear we received.

2.) Some form of a reward between current(24+50) glad and r1.

3.) talk about the mmr nerf and how the April change did nothing. Ask about potential cr decay or a simple mmr inflation.

I can go ahead and give you the answers…

1. We like the pvp season running in parallel with the m+ seasons.

2. This is something we haven’t discussed. We will look into it.

3. Something something complexity. Something something we will consider for future seasons.

I’d love real answers as much as anyone but these generic responses is all we are going to get besides a crappy explanation on thinking the wod gearing will fix everything.