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

  1. In Legion Blizzcon Q&Q for 7.2 blizzcon, devs had said the next xpac will be heavy in dragons and dragonflights( refering to bfa), what happened with that?

(so far the story is horde vs alliancewhile they ignore the big problem, that the planet is dying, once again. and 8.1 is alliance raid the zandalar troll capital and theres a battle in darkshore. 8.2 is nazjatar and hinted at N’zoth ( i doubt we fight him but next xpac leads to him)

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How do you plan to address the growing outcry over pruning? With few exceptions, many specs feel like a downgrade over Legion. Can we expect abilities like deep freeze, scare beast and BASELINE shadow word: Death to return?

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Can we please have the “set sail” world quest bumped up from a weekly to a daily? It’s a nice little alt-friendly efficiency perk, but weekly seems a steep timeframe.

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In legion we got a chromie scenario were we were lvl 120 and SOMETHING OR SOMEONE wants chromie dead, will this pick up in BFA?

(theory is so she cant help us time travel which leads to caverns of time or bronze dragonflight possibly infinate dragonflight being a big part of bfa yet we get no story on it even up to 8.2 unless bfa will go up to 8.8 or something which is unlikely since BFA patches are alot slower than Legion, Legion had big story arcs nearly every 77 days aka 2 months n 17-18 days while bfa is close to 5months with a tiny story arc in the first major patch.)

  1. So do you estimate that BFA is a 3-6 year xpac? If not, did you forget about Chromie and did you scrap the big caverns of time and dragonflights content of bfa?

(Theory, what if chromie sends us back in time via caverns of time to fight the black empire while it was in power of azeroth, or even to go in time and prevent the old gods from ever infecting Azeroth which would introduce new future lore on Azeroth when we get back from time traveling since all the changes tht would occur if old gods never infected, what would illidan be, arthas, deathwing…)

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When will ret paladins be looked at? Our aoe is poor, our cleave is non existent and our single target is average at best and our utility is bad compared to a lot of the other classes.

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Inscription hardly has any glyphs in BFA, why is this?

An suggestion is to bring back all old spell animations as glyphs for instance classic WoW druid hurricane Glyphs for starfall and arcane storm ect and other Glyphs.

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ive seen ret pally outdps quite alot in aoe for zul

Come on, really…

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Any plans to make some more cosmetic sets available?
I would like to be able to collect the blood trolls armor sets for my blood DK.
Dusk watch sets from suramar? Spell enforcers? Felborne energist maruaders…
What about timewalking classic? Getting some of the mog looks that are no longer attainable would be nice. Not to mention it would be fun to play scarlet halls as they used to be razorfen crawls, and of course the old upper black rock spire.

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1.Does 8.1 have any story leading up to a 3rd playable faction, Necromancers, Shadow Hunters, Tinkerers?

(8.2 may continue with tinkers.)

2.Pre-BFA comics gave hints at this and so did 8.0 content but does 8.1 continue?

  1. Any words on Prestige classes/specs to counter Allied races? Unlockable specs or racial classes Tinkerers for crafty races such as gnome/goblins shadow hunters for trolls, 4th spec for warlocks to be necromancers or revamp affliction locks into full on spirit/necromancers to combat with their other specs themes and spell animations.

It would be nice to address concerns with realm population. It was nice to see some form of acknowledgement with the world PVP flagging, but that doesn’t fix the nearly toxic levels of low population on realms like Ravenholdt. Guilds are struggling, impromptu world content groups without the group finder are just about impossible, and Auction House prices are out of control.

This is a social game, yet there are realms where you could go and level from 1 to 120 without seeing a single other person. Not exactly the feeling you want in your MMO, guys.

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Can we make Archeology worth having before it gets removed like First Aid? a good way to make Archeology Viable again is if we add xmog Ensambles as Archeology rewards like.

(Examples are xmog that players cant obtain but npcs wears such as the variety of surumar nightbourne armor or weapons, coats and beanies that kultirans wears.)

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How do you feel about the like to dislike ratio on the 8.1 Survival Guide video? Clearly people are still not happy with the state of the game even with the addition of 8.1 it is still more of the same. If you don’t like Warfronts, don’t like Islands, don’t Like Azerite, don’t like the GCD and class changes you are still sitting here wishing it Legion or 9.0, That being said can you tell us anything that we should be looking forward to If we don’t like those systems currently in place because the only thing that comes to mind for me is the next expansion.

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How is admitting a system isn’t working out but you have no plans to change or fix it a reasonable response given that your metrics show a large drop in playtime and your company’s stock value is half of what it was since just October?

Are there any plans to return to producing quality expansions or is BFA being released unfinished the new normal?

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careful with your wording “This is a social game, yet there are realms where you could go and level from 1 to 120 without seeing a single other person. Not exactly the feeling you want in your MMO, guys.”
dont want blizz to change lvling and make it even worse getting from lvl 1-120 will take 1-2 years so blizzard ensures u see other players while lvling…" but honestly turn off WM and u will see hundred of other players, most just dont want to get ganked while questing and because lvling is slow most just hide and que dungeon finder till 120.

Roughly a year or so ago, it was mentioned in a Q&A that you were looking into doing more realm connections. Since that time, we have heard nothing about them. While dynamic CRZ makes the world frequently appear full, it does nothing to address the actual realities of being on a lower population server. The auction house is practically empty on my realm, with only a page worth of consumables available per stat category, even on Tuesday or Wednesday, the most popular raid nights. What is there is incredibly priced, with flasks frequently averaging 4,000 gold plus each. Compare that to a high population realm like Wyrmrest Accord, where flasks are frequently 400 to 500 gold each.

The economies on these realms are also incredibly small, meaning that it becomes nearly impossible to sustain one’s self, even with concentrated farming efforts. The AH changes have also compounded this because due to the high selling price and low volume moving through the economy, herbs and other materials are frequently not being posted because of the high risk of gold loss from increased deposits.

So, with that in mind, my question is: Lower pop realms are really hurting in terms of economy and active players. What are your plans for server connections going forward?

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Can the Darkspear have an official chieftain plz ?

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Any plans for servers located on Brazil or Latin America?

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Will Zandalari paladins have a unique class mount like the Dark Iron Dwarves got for their paladins.

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When will playable Vulpera be announced?

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