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

Assuming we’re playing “normal” or “looking for group” War fronts now - will there be Heroic, Mythic, and PvP-only versions in the future?

This really feels like you’re setting up the tutorials so that you can… hopefully… blow us away with a full up experience once everyone has gone through all the general mechanics and been introduced to all the races’ war front buildings.

I dunno I’m just being a jerk for no reason. Sorry about that

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Can you please address the Balance Druid more? The damage output is abysmal even with the buffs in 8.1. With gear pushing so much versatility rather than our main stats, it seems that this may be the problem.

I wouldn’t actually mind more allied races. I’m more just tired of our abilities being turned to talents, abilities being removed, dead talents on every class… I apologize again tho. I get more irritated with Ion spending too much time addressing cosmetic things and not enough time on everything else. That’s not the fault of the one asking, more the fault of the one cherry picking (Lore or Ion… whoever picks them). You’re right tho. Jumping your sh*t was uncalled for.

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It’s all good. Sorry if I was getting a bit heated and sassy lol.

I agree with you though - lots of classes are in a terrible spot right now and I hope they start answering those questions. Ion usually dodges a lot of questions though so we’ll see what happens.

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Hey I started it and I deserved it. We’re all paying customers and should be able to voice our opinions and requests. More options are always better :grin:

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Dear Blizzard

I would just like to know if we will ever see a return to stronger RP elements like we saw in the past under Vanilla. For example class specific quest chains that unlock lore and maybe an ability or items. It feels like the RP elements in WoW have been toned down quite a bit.

Also, when will we retire the current talent system, I think it’s overly simplified and doesn’t actually give the player agency over their talent choices. I think a lot of people wouldn’t mind a return to the old systems but we’ve done that so what’s in the future for talent trees?

With the warmest regards Kittredge

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Could there be any chance of warfront cycles being sped up?

Two weeks is far too long for the cycle, perhaps cut it to a week instead?

Casual weekend players still would have pleanty of time to hit rares and do a warfront on that cycle, and more than likely have the time to do so on an alt or two even if they only play once or twice a week, and it would hopefully get more people out there more often with things refreshing a bit more often.

With all the changes we expected better communication. And with the recent patch there are more updates that were not present in the ptr and/or never mentioned. Such as Artifact Knowledge stopping. Why are you not communicating how this game is going to progress or update when it always backfires in anger like these situations?

Are there plans to allow us to dye our armor? Something that an inscription profession can do? Speaking of that, are we going to get the option to mass craft the new dyes? Because there is a LOT to do if you’re mass milling.

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Why can’t you sell crafted raid gear to other players? Without being able to do so, those professions are an almost complete waste of time and effort. If crafted raid gear were to be made BoE, it would provide crafters with a decent source of gold and, because there are only 2 slots it can fill, it wouldn’t negatively impact the gear progression curve in any significant way.

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Hello! My question is about lore! Just how many Val’kyr does Sylvanas have left? I count 1 but i might be off (talking about the main 5 that talked to her as she jumped off ICC).

Can you please bring back 2 handed weapons for Frost DK it was changed in Legion for the artifact weapon which made since but now in BFA there is no real reason they shouldn’t be able to use them again.

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Hi Warcraft Devs, a few questions

  1. With the introduction of warmode, do the devs intent to still allow pvp-flagging near towns? With the new ‘assault’ introduced, players who don’t want pvp are getting into pvp. Is this working as intended?

  2. With regards to QA and testing, does Blizzard have a dedicated team to do testing? With so many ongoing ‘hotfixes’ after each patch is released, are there any process to streamline releases with as little bugs as possible? “Beta for Azeroth” is quickly becoming a meme here…

  3. “I was playing on my shaman the other day…” …and I noticed they have not been really addressed in 8.1 - especially enhancement which players have been patiently waiting since the launch of BFA. I know class balance is a delicate and difficult thing - but is there a team looking into this particular class spec?

  4. Why does only tauren death knight has white mane color options but not others… any more new appearances for every class/race feature on the horizon?

Thank you!

When will Furor, aka Alex, get to take the wheel? 14 days?

What is the rationale behind allowing Kul Tirans and Zandalaris to be monks, but not Worgen/Goblins? A number of class choice options are questionable, such as mag’har priests, yet for some reason we can’t get Zandalari warlocks which would also balance the race/class combos for each side?

Have any considerations to new classes been made? I’m aware that current classes need to be looked at and I advocate that first, but I’m curious if it’s ever on the table.

Why all the undocumented changes in 8.1? like changes to crafting (requiring profession to use gear), AP knowledge being stalled or freehold pig changes. Players are finding these things out on reddit, not from the devs making the game.

[ I preface: Can please use the Jade’s question? Not me please. This is me in a post that i’m in support of this amongst other things they propose. ]

As a bit of a foreigner and someone who has trouble with communication and understanding (due to mental issues and such) …

Please answer this jade’s (and a ton of everyone) else’s question with Cross RP.

And can you please listen to us and give us some consideration?

I started roleplay recently and it took months to find what community i could feel accepted in.

I felt accepted when it came to those who did CrossRP based roleplay.

It took finding such a cross-faction community to finally feel accepted.

Taking it away felt very hurtful to me.

Can we have compromise and get consideration for roleplayers for CrossRP?

I’ve never posted in forums in the years I have played WoW (I started at BC) but this breaking was enough for me to speak up in support of it.

It helped me alot. And this recent development hurt more than you think.

I would like this resolved.

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Is the design team satisfied with the state of tanking in BFA? Do you feel that your goal of making the healer more responsible for healing the tank is working the way you intended?