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Are there plans to change the holy paladin mastery? This has been a hot topic since beta. Can you please address it?

Guild Permissions are (still) broken:

Are you going to answer the many concerned Guild Leaders still posting feedback as you asked, or continue to waste their time?

The feedback you requested is now nearly 3000 (That’s Three Thousand) pages long and growing daily.

Please see: The new Guild UI and Permissions...yikes - #2993 by Andalya-ghostlands

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at what time do they plan to fix or at least make all the classes competent for raid or PvP, fix them at the root and not give buff and then nerfs and leave them on the floor as it happens with the subtlety rogue?

I can’t answer for them, but on my Darkspear druid it has always been that way, one moonkin color only and one for travel form. You Anklylosaurus color will change if you change your hair color.

Since the change to Bear Tartare at the beginning of BfA, do you have any plans to implement a new recipe? Some classes are hindered by lack of movement ability which makes legacy content extremely time consuming. Would it be possible to change Bear Tartare to work only on legacy content (lvl 110 mobs and below)?

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Right. It’s that way for HMT, NE, and Tauren as well. However, the kultiran has four travel form and four moonkin form colors, so I’m just hopeful that the zandalari will get them too!

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When is the next major balance for PVP? A lot of people were expecting big meta changes with patch 8.1.5 but it more or less stayed the same. Can we expect big changes after the first LAN tournament or do we have to wait until patch 8.2?

Any plans to increase the maximum number of characters across all realms? The total cross-server cap has stayed the same since 2004. Forcing some of us to delete high level toons (level 90+) in order to play an allied race and/or experience low level content again…

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Can we get more cosmetic customization for spell effects and abilities?

For example, can Mages get a Frostfire Bolt glyph to change Frostbolt to the Frostfire bolt animation?

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Can you please really do something about the faction imbalance ? is not fun at all to see the leader of pve and only horde appears . . . is the free transfer a really bad idea ?

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Any chance we see some adjustments to Vengeance Demon Hunters? They simply lack the survivability of other tanks even with their variety of movement options. And it’s even worse on fights that employ more stationary strategies.

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Is the development team happy with the way classes play right now? Is there any feeling that individual specs don’t have enough buttons to make rotations interesting, such as Arcane, Enhancement, or Havoc?

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Love m+! Some specs (like rdruid) mesh really well with the m+ style of play. Some specs (like havoc DH) excel at every aspect of it with their output and utility. Some specs (like dps warriors) don’t get much chance to shine. All classes look viable in 10s, and I know yuge key pushers will always play the meta (lol), but are there any plans to give more specs the ability to do noteworthy cool things in m+? Any long term plans to address the way specs feel in m+?


I’ve played most every class in M+ now, on decent size keys (10-14 on alts with a few 18s/19s on the main). It makes me wonder if we could use some sort of pvp-tuning style modifiers to m+. Some thoughts behind my question:

  • Shadow Priest getting good use out of Dark Void + Thought Harvester on a Reaping pack is a great time but hard to repeat with the way Reaping straggles in sometimes. Frost Mage simply dropping Frozen Orb gets insane value every time. Hard to say which is more fun and rewarding…but that end of dungeon damage meter leaves a lasting impression. There are other examples of easy button presses being too rewarding and rare awesome setups not being common enough.
  • Resto Druid healing toolkit can handle so much between tank healing, group healing, healing on the move, and contributing dps with ease. Meanwhile, I play my Holy Paladin 10 times as hard and still have moments where I can’t keep up. Wings feels insanely strong (more strong than needed usually) and outside of wings feels quite weak. Tweaking wings for m+ would impact other parts of the game, hence the thought about m±only tuning modifiers a la PVP.
  • Havoc DH brings insane group survivability with darkness, mechanic eating with blade dance dodge, optional immunity or optional ridiculous self-healing, decent self healing during meta, AoE stun, optional single stun, sap cc (doesn’t pull combat), taunt, great mobility, purge, short cd defensive, and their damage output is great on single target and AoE with no much trait/talent tweaking needed. That is insane value in 1 package. I’m surprised they are allowed a kick ability (looking out for you, demo locks). Actually I’m surprised they don’t have an AoE slow, an AoE root, and a knockback as well!
  • I don’t tank often enough in S2, but clappyboi-ing output is insane and having rage spent reduce your defensive cooldowns is so powerful. More tank specs should feel that powerful in m+.
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Are there going to be more allied races in BFA?

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Hey, how’s it going?

The problem is that for some classes, and with people who raid, that the traits they want are only found on Residuum pieces and not in raid.

Take me for example, as a Fury warrior, 2/3 of the pieces I want are from dungeons and not the raid. The problem with Residuum being supplemental, is that you would have to actually have good enough trait balance not only in terms of tuning, but also availability.

Has any thought been given to having the Infinite Dragonflight as the final villains of BfA and revealing that this has all been a failed timeline? That really seems like the best note this expansion’s story can end on.

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can we get an update on class balance. there are a ton of classes now that need to be fixed. like affliction warlocks aoe is gone. shadow priest re-work was just a damage buff. etc…

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Is there any chance we’ll be seeing the new promised Worgen and Goblin models in 8.2? If not, when can we expect that?

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Why did disenchanting get an increase in materials returned in 8.1.5 without the new tool of the trade quest being completed, and why was that not included on the patch notes? Or was this a bug that has still not been fixed?