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

This is gonna be fun to watch

What concrete steps are you taking to improve communications? You consistently tell us you want to get better, yet players see you as consistently getting worse.

Hey, we already resolved and I apologized. So, yeah.

What are your thoughts on how class development has been progressing in BFA? There seems to be a continued disconnect between the feedback players have been providing and the direction of class development. Many players continue to feel like their feedback is being ignored and are at a loss of what to do.

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Well. 8.1 removed the feast part…

Why should we trust that you have the best interest of the game in mind? I’m serious and sincere here, why should we believe what you tell us about any topic when you obfuscate or leave out important changes in patches and appear to deliberately avoid making certain widely disliked changes until the day of a patch?

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Do you have plans on making class mounts more easily accessible?

This is why I hate the new forums.

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Are there any plans in the immediate future to address dungeon-related Mythic+ balance? (for example shrine of the storm being one culprit). As of right now there are a couple specific dungeons that are extremely punishing & undesirable to run that feature mechanics that are widely regarded even among top-end M+ players as being overtuned. Is mythic+ Dungeon-specific balancing on the radar?

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Hi, with the release of 8.1, why was there so many undocumented changes throughout the game that people are still finding out about. And is there a plan to release the full patch notes?

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Are there plans to implement a PvP/Conquest gear vendor?

As it stands now, the current RNG system combined with the Conquest weekly bar puts those of us who chose PvP as our end game at a disadvantage when more lucrative gear sinks (Warfronts) are available for less effort. It feels like player progression via PvP is an afterthought when compared to previous expansions.

I really enjoyed the class-specific progression that occurred in Legion, do you ever plan on implementing a feature like class halls again?

Hey, big fan of the Q and A’s. Any communication between the game developers and the community is warmly welcomed. /moo

What are the chances of WOW/BFA seeing a loot system that resembles the upgrade system (believe it was from WOD)? Each item would be able to be upgrade 2 times - Warforged items would come with 1 upgrade and Titanforged with 2. The upgrades could be purchased via currency collected while playing the game and from a vendor, such as one from the ethereal camp. I feel this is an idea that the game developers would take into consideration seeing as we had a similar system not long ago. Thanks for your time and effort - the communication is very appreciated.

Are there going to be any tuning passes prior to the new raid in January?

Do you guys actually listen to your community? By that I mean the forums, reddit, and iconic players. You guys have said for YEARS that you will improve communications with the player base, but yet we ask the same questions every year and ask for the same things and you either ignore us or just give a roundabout response with no definite answer. Are we wasting our time posting and talking about the game where you can listen to us?

Is there ever going to be a time where abilities / azerite traits / class changes are not stealth nerfed and are in the patch notes without the community actively having to find the changes themselves. Feels like it causes more harm in not telling us some of these huge azerite nerfs to some abilities such as Reckless flurry, Echoing Blades, Profs etc.

Can shaman please get Gust of Wind back? It had a huge fun factor, quality of life value, and utility. The mage class fantasy argument doesn’t cut it. You gave mages timewarp and didn’t worry about shaman class fantasy. Other classes have abilities to fly forward or back in their toolkit. If it’s too OP in PVP, remove it from the pvp template. Please consider this, you would some shaman street-credit.

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Hello, thank you for reading this.

It doesn’t seem like holy paladin healing was adjusted appropriately when BFA came out in that holy paladin healing for targets 40 yards away went down by 30-40% due to removing Beacon of the Lightbringer.

Beacon of the Lightbringer should return being built into mastery in that mastery now increases the healing done to the target based on their proximity to you or to your beacon target. Or just make the beacon target receive the mastery bonus.

Thank you.

P.S., the honor talent Divine Vision and Cleanse of the Weak together does not work currently?

He is hawking his wares beside the Flight Master in the Grand Bazaar. Apparently he stole Voljin’s invulnerability totem and is making it available for a small fee.

Why are you acting like you are going to answer real questions? Seriously, Ion is going to just tell everyone how great the new changes are and how awesome the new war front is. Why dont you give us a patch that doesnt have 90% of the “content” gated behind a wall of time? Remember those patches you guys used to make for like a decade, packed with content that would take about 6 weeks to churn through, but then turned into lazy asses and started time gating content to make up for your lack of care? It is truly sad to see Blizzard fall so far from grace. This will be the last time I cancel my account. I wont be coming back. GG Blizz, it was true all along. . . “Only Blizzard can kill WoW”.

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