Live Developer Q&A Thursday, January 24 – Submit Your Questions

Why isnt the 8.2 Azerite Armor not the 8.0 Azerite armour system?
Why wasnt the Season 2 Emissary and Assault loot fix (matching your spec) not just how it was done in 8.0/S1?
Why does it still like this damn game won’t actually launch until 8.2?!?!

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New Seasons in Raiding and PvP come with new cosmetic rewards (mounts, transmogs) with bonus cosmetics for challenging content. Why do Mythic+ Seasons not have any cosmetic rewards attached to it?

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  • When will allied races marketed for BfA become available?
  • Do you realize your time-gating procedures encourage people to unsub?
  • Do you understand the difference between “time-played” and “revenue?”
  • Are you going to put allied races, purchasable flight, etc. on the cash shop?
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Hi Ion, any plans to allow Void Elf players control over whether they can appear like Alleria, maintain their ‘High Elf’ appearance (blue eyes, fair skin tone), and then change in appearance during combat situations to how they look currently?

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Can you please give us an update on marksman hunter? Still very seldom used in rated arenas and still not doing great in raids and m+. We’ve given a lot of feedback but it’s kind of hard to keep going without further direction.

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I echo this a bit, but When is the kill everything as fast as you can race going to stop in Island Expeditions? it feels like that;s the only option if you slow the pace down a bit to do things like the extractor you’re guaranteed to lose the race and lose the scenario.

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As someone who’s been trying to collect the extra-fancy gear from the Arathi Warfront, I find the lack of duplicate protection frustrating given how long we have to wait between Attack phases.

Will you consider making this gear available via Service Medals after it becomes obsolete in 8.2?

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I’d rather you guys focus on quality vs quantity.

I don’t think anyone here enjoys island expeditions, I expected much more. I also expected warfronts to be pvp only from the start.

When you guys announced islands I thought it was going to be 5v5 match where we had to gather resources and establish our base on the island trying to conquer it.

All that being said, with the amount of criticism you have received any future big game changes we can expect?

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There appears to be a new design philosophy. 1. Gate 2. Queue 3. Daily, this new trinity has proven to be lackluster and boring. It feels like conceptually you are worried more about doing everything you can to drag players along, as long as you can, than actually keeping them engaged. Will this ever change, and when can we see more premium and engaging content like we have seen in past expansions? Queuing or doing dailies, for the same content over and over hardly feels heroic.

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What is behind the decision to gate flying? For me it was made this mmo stand out and be different. I understand trying to compromise around pathfinder, but why make us wait to use these mounts we have worked so hard for.

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When will wow be fixed?

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It’s only been about 6 months, but yeah, There are several races that still have too few customization options, and the zandalari an kul’tiran’s have too few customization options on the PTR at the moment, any plans on expanding options for all races not just the allied races?

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In future content to come, can we see an end to the artifact system? It would be nice to no longer have a daily progression system for my character that feels like a chore, versus the class depth that my character had 5 years ago.

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Why is Legacy content from a previous expansion still consisting of hurdles which make what should be a clearly simple experience, more difficult unless you forcefully gear up? Hellfire Assault (on any difficulty) is still a struggle with the Bear Tartare nerf, and Legacy Loot being disabled for Legion content makes even gathering help a complete chore, with no reward or motivation for NEW players wanting to explore the content.

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I fear you are correct. “Strung along” is exactly what has been done - with the mounts and other things. Getting pretty tired of it.

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Professions: will you guys fix them to be profitable again?

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I’ll live with this. But the Transformation sound from the Transformers 80s cartoon has to play every time they switch forms.

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Not just these, it’s everywhere! both BFA faction capitols are bad and anything where there are groups of more then 15 people the lag is horrible.

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You do know that it takes the last weeks number of people in WM for each faction per region and it bases it off of that. So it is working and there are just always too many horde.

The Heart of Azeroth levels required for mythic azerite gear are prohibitively high, and there is a massive gap between unlocking the first ring and the second. Considering you are already going to be removing the requirements in the future, could these be toned down a bit?

It simply isn’t fun to get a piece of gear that isn’t fully usable.

P.S. Artifact power sucks, and has sucked since it was added to the game in Legion.

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