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

Any thoughts for there to be a significant catch-up mechanic for our coming races considering we shouldn’t expect them to be released until 5-6 months from now and thats being generous. How can I raid with my chosen new race if I have to farm over a years worth of Artifact power upon their release as well as level them from 20-120? Was there no thought in increasing the Kul’Tiran human and Zandalari trolls starting levels to compensate with the amount of time it would take ot get them raid ready upon release? Or should I be expected to buy a race change to remain relevant in my guild?

Are there any plans to further curb Titan Residuum funneling? It’s still fairly easy for organized guilds to run single armor type raids and stockpile tons of Residuum for next season.

The problem is the narrative team seems to keep writing figures to be killed off. Instead they could ompt to have them step down. Kinda like how Thrall did. Changing leaders doesn’t always have to involve killing them off. But right now with future expansions in the works. They have time to work in details of having other ways of switching leaders around.

I am too late to the party to get this answered but I will put it in anyway since it will be an issue of importance to a fair number of people.

Why did you dead end the game for people doing world content ? My characters are all around the ilvl 370 level and what they are behind on is rings and trinkets. Very few of them have any slots below ilvl 370 (other than those) yet that is all I get from emissaries and incursions. So what point is there to do this content at all until I get enough gear from warfronts to bump my ilvl up enough to move me into the next bracket. Having rewarding content for a few hours every few weeks isn’t going to motivate many people to keep paying.

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Will we be learning anything more about the origins or history of the Vulpera in tides of vengeance?

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Why did Blizzard think giving one faction free heroic raiding gear would fix things and not just make people mad, instead of doing something like free faction swaps from horde to alliance only?

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Considering the 50% honor buff the alliance has had since Legion and with the new 30% and heroic raiding gear every week for very little work at the start of a new raid tier, will this be a regular thing every expansion?

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Esports question: BGs are a lot easier to follow than arenas. Everyone understands capture the flag. Why not hold RBG tournaments?

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I feel ya my brother in arms, we have the dps yet no seat available when it comes to mythics. I can totally understand your pain…

With the cleansing of the Sunwell, the addition of gold eye option for Blood Elves would it be possible for Blood Elves to have a blue eye option, please?

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Do you think it’s a good idea to give Alliance a free piece of 400 ilvl loot the first week of new Tier Raiding for standing around a flight path and killing Horde as they land? Maybe it’s time to stop the free heroic piece of loot as part of the reward? That only encourages players to turn on WM for a small amount of time. Oversight on your part perhaps?

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Would it be possible to get PVP target dummies for various iLevels (for dps and healing), so we can get a sense on how the multitude of variables that affect PVP damage and healing (normal scaling, pvp-specific scaling, your iLevel, opponent iLevel, artifact skills and artifact scaling, etc.) modify our damage or healing output?

I’m sorry but you aren’t going to convince me that playing an mmorpg less is good for the game. I don’t think you will convince ion of it either. You, of course, are welcome to try though!

Either way, making things take less time doesn’t make them more fun. We should be talking about ways to make leveling alts more engaging, not take less time.

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Will we discover the original home of the Vulpera? And possibly get to visit where they come from and learn more about their ancestry and heritage? Thanks!

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We will discuss what WE deem important and NOT what someone else demands!
honestly, haven’t you gotten it through your head yet: you are just an MVP and only one of many, NOT our parent!

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Hi Ion,

Can you explain the rationale behind Alliance given the opportunity for ilvl 400 gear this week and likely every week for engaging in World PvP?

Thank you,
Colin

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Huh? What is this in reference to?
The flying thing?

My response to the individual was that they are effectively saying they don’t like playing the game, they want to be able to play it less but still get the same progression out of it.
I suggested instead of playing it less, how about just making the game more fun!

As I also said, you are welcome to suggest whatever you like, but be reasonable.
That comment is just a total contradiction, and I think that’s very obvious.

Blizzard isn’t interested in helping you play the game less. I’m sure you can see why that would be the case, right?

when will developers begin to accept feedback from beta and ptr and communicate in the forums with their customers?

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How long more is it going to take for you to address the WM imbalance issues on Oceanic servers. The alliance out number the horde in WM greatly for several weeks now and you are still awarding them a 30% buff.

Incursions are unplayable and we are forced to turn WM off just to clear the WQs. and YET the alliance are still geting a 30% bonus buff for several weeks now. Clearly favourism here.

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Will the alliance get anything but recolored horses in the next xpac?