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

When can we expect to see NPC ability graphics receive some sort of standardization. I.E. Get out of swirls, stand in circles, stack lots in circles that are empty, only 1 in circle that are filled in. We need a “Standard Visual Language” for encounters.

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Why do azerite traits not change with spec?

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Because they don’t need to

Are there any further plans for Hunter Stables, i.e. change it to a collection interface like battle pets? With so many families to choose from, many collectors are simply out of room, even with the extra tab added for BFA.

Also, are there any plans to correct the colors on some of the updated beast models? The 2 main ones I can think of immediately are the white Wind Serpent (was updated to a drab brown) and the white Buzzard (missing the black elements on its wings and the red eyes).

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When will the RNG stop?

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Warfronts are a great way to gear up an alt and farm transmog in their current iteration. However, it can get frustrating when you’re after a particular item and it just will not drop at the end, such as a weapon. Are there any plans to add in some kind of targeted loot option? This isn’t too bad for Arathi, but Darkshore feels much slower, especially when you need to run it multiple times attempting to get what you’re after.

Furthermore, there are items that share the appearance of the Warfront gear but they do not count towards the set in the Appearance tab. Are there plans to correct this as well?

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Many players miss the ‘fluidity’ of gameplay toward the end of legion and in past iterations of the game. Many attribute gcd changes to rotations feeling less smooth, though i suspect haste levels are also a major contributing factor.
Do you have any plans to either slightly increase haste levels across the board (end game gear-wise) or to give players a method by which they have the option to do this themselves?
Secondary stat stacking seems to be theoretically an option but in actual experience i just end up equipping the highest ilvl titanforge rather than making a particular fun build. (eg stacking crit or haste). Was it intentional to have these options removed?

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Can Druid’s travel form be separated into different buttons again? combining all three has led to some pretty buggy animations and interactions with water.

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Will the AV Epic 40 player BG receive lowered resource requirements in order to summon NPCs?

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Guardian Druid: Mythic+ content; stuck choosing between Frenzied Regeneration and IronFur when it matters most. Why?

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What are the dev team’s views on fun versus balance? Obviously the game needs both at the same time, but it seems like they’re on opposite sides of a spectrum. When something is really fun it seems hard to balance; however, when something is extremely balanced the fun factor feels like it takes a back seat. It feels like this is a huge issue currently when looking at multiple parts of the game, whether that be gear, class design, PvP and Mythic+, or even smaller things like professions.

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As it stands, selective gear is only available at its highest Item Level.

Could we see a chance to have selective gear for heroic and normal?

And will Azerite gear still be useful in 8.2?

Why are the LFR wing releases still staggered at this point? At best it feels like it’s punishment for not raiding in an organized fashion, at worst it feels like a shameless money grab to keep LFR players subbed for more than a month after the raid comes out.

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Will Feral/Guardian ever be useful this xpac?
I’ve only just re-subbed and last I played was in WotLK. It seems that instead of being a jack of all trades/master of none, we’ve gone to just master of none.

Can we at least get LotP or MotW back to bring us some utility as Ferals? As a Kitty/Bear, I find myself never playing in dungeons/raids because it’s depressing.

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What Raicolette said.

If the guild permissions can’t be “reverted”, can there at least be an “advanced” tab where the permissions are separated out so Guild Manager’s can assign them as they wish?

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Can we see a return of MoP CM style of Dungeons, meaning where we can do Mythic Plus dungeons but the reward is a cool set of Class Specific transmog/mount/title. Personally, I don’t really care about Mythic + loot but I would love to see a return of CM’s again for with other rewards similar to MoP.

Considering the work they are doing with Mecha-Gnomes along with the new Mythic only dungeon they are planning to release on 8.2(?) called Mechagon. I wouldn’t be surprise if sub-race Gnomes are next.

Why do you feel a need to change classes ever expansion? You may take a class someone has played for years and turn it into something they no longer recognize. Between class changes and GCD changes characters feel about the worse they ever have.

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Demonology is very fun to play in dungeons but I always feel like I hold my team back when I play because I lack an interrupt and it feels pretty bad. Are there any plans to give Demo an interrupt like the rest of the caster specs?

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Will we be getting more warfronts? (ex: Gilneas,Silvermoon, and Barrens) Also I very much enjoy the race theme armor and weapon sets are we going to get more soon?

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