Live Developer Q&A Friday, December 14 – Submit Your Questions

Is the Cenarion Circle still a thing?
Because I just watched the CCs leader killing my people.
Our next meeting’s going to be a bit…awkward.

My shaman has the same question concerning the Earthen Ring.

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It seems like the number of users is tanking. Several of my friends haven’t been on in months, Battlenet token costs are down, and people just aren’t playing BfA. They’re playing final fantasy, swtor, eso, and even second life.

It will probably take something substantial, perhaps previously refused, to bring them back.

What do the devs plan to do to bring people back? Guild halls? Player housing? Modern customization options? Faction defection?

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Why is voidform a main ability when most priests I meet dislike it?

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Glaives have iconically been used by more than Demon Hunters throughout WoW, especially kaldoeri sentinels and troll shadow hunters. Since you’re fine with Demon Hunters using non-glaives, when can non-Demon Hunters use glaives?

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Lifetap was horrible. Removing it was the best change to warlocks.

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For more information and community opinions, see this thread: Patch 8.1 and Cross-Faction Roleplay

For the “other addons,” it’s basically anything that interacts with guild chat (because guild chat got folded into the community system.) It’s partially broken die rolling addons (for emulating tabletop-style RPG gameplay,) transmog linkers, RP profile sharing options. I wouldn’t be surprised if it killed the ability to print DPS meters to guild chat.

But Cross RP is, for the time being, 100% broken, which is making a lot of people who enjoyed being able to actually roleplay the Alliance/Horde conflict very unhappy.

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Are there any plans to introduce more glyphs? Glyphs are fun, and with a lot of old models removed some players would really enjoy having them. Making the Claws of Shirvallah model a glyph comes to mind.

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We’ve made real in roads with the races and cultures of Kul Tiras and Zandalar. It’s a no brainer (and old news!) that we’ll be getting new troll and human allied races but the real question is: What comes next!? Maybe some friends from Vol’dun (pretty please)?

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Are there any plans to update vanilla and old expansion zones in a similar way to Arathi and Darkshore? Say perhaps a slow roll-out long term project.

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A while ago Blizzard updated the World of Warcraft forums to a piece of software where the original developer believed that the ability to block others was always “dangerous,” even in situations like universities where student assault survivors are required to use the forums without the ability to block their assaulters.

Why did Blizzard choose to use incomplete software from such an awful human being?

Why hasn’t a fix been implimented yet? When can we expect a block feature on the forums or an upgrade to full featured forum software that has this basic feature?

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Blizzard has differentiated WOW apart from its other games as being in a ‘living world’, and has incorporated systems like world treasures and micro-holidays to make it feel like the world still exists when we log out. Legion invasions and the new Assaults in 8.2 really help the world feel alive.

Sandbox games typically feel dynamic and alive because they’re open-ending and you can encounter randomly generated events. Has there been any thought of incorporating some of those elements into WoW?

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When will Kul’Tiran and Zandalari be playable and can you announce the next allied races to follow?

What is the deal with toys and cooldowns? Is there some formula you all abide by or just gut feeling and why toys that only impact the owner have such ridiculous cooldowns?

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  1. When will you give players the ability to queue for Island Expeditions from the LFG tool? Blizzard seems to have recognized that Dazar’alor is a pain to navigate for Horde and moved the mission table and other items to the great seal, but Islands (which are supposed to be repeatable and fast) are still on the other end and can’t be done while questing or doing other activity.

  2. Are there any concerns or thoughts on tank quality variance? Specifically, Prot Warriors and Vengeance Demon Hunters do fine in certain situations (blockable attacks or sustained melee), but fall far behind other specs on magic damage or burst damage. They are noticeably harder to heal and weaker as a tank in those situations (which are a vast majority of BFA raid bosses and Dungeon bosses, so far).

Thanks!

How come the Alliance hasn’t been working on a cure or inoculation against forsaken blight?

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Feral druid has objectively less desired dungeon and raid utility than its leather dps competition in rogues, DH’s, and monks, the latter 2 were even given raid buffs to ensure they get a spot on every team. Given this, why does the balance team consistently tune feral dps to the bottom of the pile? What is the team’s vision that feral druid does better than its competition?

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What was the motivation behind the removal of deleting M+ keys?

Both 8.0 and 8.1 releases had several key items that either did not make it to the final build, or had changes that were un-announced. What can the community do to help you improve the release notes?

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Will you ever please remove Titan and warforging? There is never a sense of accomplisment any longer of getting a mythic item because you can always get something better.

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8.1.5 was announced for this on Blizzcon