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

Hi Ion,
Are there plans to implement PVP vendors?

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I’m tired of hearing about racial imbalance. I for one would like them removed because they are not being balanced. Any plans to remove them, balance them with the same racial but different name for each faction, or allow players to choose from a pool of racials at character creation?

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The general consensus is that the main issues with shadow priest are; mind blast and void bolt clipping, SWD being relegated to a talent, aoe being counter intuitive(wanting to drop voidform quickly as possible to void erupt again) and a lack of any meaningful, non-redundant utility. The 8.1 changes address 0 of these issues and actually make our already pitiful movement even worse. What we get is what amounts to a 2-3% dps increase under ideal circumstances, but realisitically doesn’t change anything. Is the Dev team REALLY happy with the state of Shadow to the point where this hotfix level adjustment is all they believe is needed?

With 8.1, the shaman class as a whole looses 6 PVP talents and gains 3 for a net loss of 3. Are there any plans to introduce new PVP talents soon?

Are there any plans going forward concerning the new dark rangers being raised or are they just an 8.1 plot point?

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WoW loot has turned into an ARPG style over the last 2 expansions, but in legion there were “chase items” (legendaries) to act as motivators.

BFA has no chase items or unique gear rolls (Such as interesting weapon procs), leading to all drops feeling “meh”. Loot now feels like diablo if legendaries didn’t exist at all. The motivation to gear simply isn’t present in the current system.

Are there plans to change to the older more traditional loot style again, or add more diversity to loot drops (or re-add chase items (legiondaries), as hated as they were)?

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‪Do you plan on increasing gear reward item levels of war fronts and world quests as time goes on? A little disappointed that the new warfront still rewards 840 with the new raid coming out, decreases incentive to do them, shouldn’t the gear scale up with new content? #WarcraftQA

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Can you please add boots, bracers, and wrist and a caster sword BoA Heirloom? The boots should have +run speed, the belt fits a belt buckle, and let the wrists have a cool chance on crit effect.

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With the addition of new heritage armors and dropping the character specific reputation lock on transmogs, will we see the Legion artifact transmog spec lock removed in the future?

What is the reason or motivation for trying to force players into a single role or spec? I think most players want to play their CLASS and not just one aspect of it. Freeing up azerite armor restrictions and allowing more fluid re-speccing would completely alleviate the friction that players feel.

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Why can we no longer delete our Mythic Keystone with 8.1? Not every dungeon is equally as difficult, given the various affixes. Why remove player agency in deciding which keys players want to do?

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What balance of ranged vs melee do you design for in mythic raids? It feels like there’s always at least one fight where bringing more than ~5 melee makes the fight significantly harder (ex: Fetid, Mythrax pre-nerf). Will we see more fights in the future that favor a ratio closer to 50/50 ranged and melee?

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Does Battle of Dazar’alor have a skip quest similar to what we saw in all the large raids in Legion? Uldir did not have one and I am sure guilds are not looking forward to full clearing Battle of Dazar’alor a year from now in order to get everyone in their raid team the Mythic Jaina mount.

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When will we see calendar invites fixed? With communities being introduced in 8.0, we can no longer send out calendar invites for everyone at (or above) a certain rank. Instead, the entire community is invited.

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Kara from US illidan. I have a big question that has been bothering me for sometime… Reading the Classic and Live wow wont be linked so far i understand what i don’t understand is why do we get to Buy T3 with gold that you do not earn with skill but when we have a shot to do naxx 40 again we can’t get it that way? Old players will be mad?? WHY we can buy T3 with gold already…

Greetings,

Will you add PvP Vendors for PVP gear. Many pvp players want vendors will we see a vendors any time soon?

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What was the reasoning behind leaving Divine Steed for paladins on the GCD? Why not make Cavalier allow for it to be off the GCD and give two charges as a base talent?

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Since the flurry of engagement in the weeks before Blizzcon, there have been no game design discussions involving Devs on the forums and virtually none from the Community Managers. Shouldn’t this sort of engagement be a priority?

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You targeted a big MM change with this patch and its still the worst of the 3 specs by far… in ST and aoe… any intention to take away the max of 5 target aoe? and add
an actual damage cool down.

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Is Jaina going to use the remnants of Lei Shen’s power in the future from the quest “Securing A Future”?