https ://youtu.be/FCtelYZs4N8?t=925
Found this interview uploaded today with Kris, basically he said that they don’t plan on implementing RDF at launch because, at least for the first few weeks, it would make gearing for dungeons too easy and change the endgame experience.
Then he said new information which will be that they’ll add bonuses to tanks and healers doing dungeons to make more people want to roll those roles for the dungeon. He states this at about 19 minutes in.
Thoughts?
I feel like, they could just as easily exclude Wrath dungeons from the RDF and avoid the issue he mentions and appeal to both sides, but incentives seem good – although tanks and healers already would have an extremely easy time leveling up.
Edit: So people don’t say I’m misinterpreting this (all I did was paraphrase him) here is the exact quote from this interview:
“We have to look into what it is that we value about classic. Our most important values about the classic experience is the social experience of meeting new people, building parties, building raids, building guilds, building social networks between guilds and all these people, you know, on your server, the people that you, you contact with on social media and communicate with and organize raids with, we want to keep that as strong as we can make it, thats our core value. If our core value is we want people want people to get into dungeons and through content and be able to play as much as they want then we would say okay we do want LFD, but if our core value is that we want to keep the social experience as strong as we can possibly make it then the LFD is something that feels risky to us for Classic. It’s a fantastic tool for the modern game which has taken many more steps in the direction of letting people play across server but where classic is it would change things in a way we don’t think would be healthy for the Classic community.”
“There are other reasons for for not doing it. If we put in the LFD tool right at the beginning of Classic, it would fundamentally change how you would gear up your character. It would fundamentally change the feel of those first few weeks on Classic Lich King because you can do more dungeons, you can do them faster, and you can do the same dungeon multiple times per day if you just keep on chaining through heroics. People would gear up much faster they would exhaust the content much faster, they would exhaust the content much faster they’d get bored with it much faster, so we think there’s risks when recreating the experience of Wrath of the Lich King as it was. Looking for Dungeon at launch would change that. It would be a different experience.”
And then he goes into the tank/healer bonuses
