Mourning Class Design Changes

Pull the ripcord on the class design changes.

For a development team that so often produces consistent, quality class design, the changes have devolved from a sound philosophy into making specs feel incomplete. The class design aspect of Midnight has left me profoundly demotivated, and unsubscribed. I don’t intend to speak for the community, but I sense that others - especially long term players - are also feeling disengaged.

Midnight was an inevitable success - player housing, new dungeons, new raid tier, new and exciting spec (DDH), new race, redesign of a favorite location in the game… but the class design changes have me - and seemingly others, from streamers to casual players - very alarmed with the transition to only numbers tuning so early in development (I predicted in a post in November '25… sure enough)

I genuinely thought we’d see iteration with feedback, but it feels like most concerns pertaining to class design have been ignored, most from invested long-term players who spend their free time considering how this game might return from excellent to prolific. Wasn’t it just two years ago that the dogma preached going into Dragonflight was that listening to the players made all of the difference? What happened? What changed this?

I implore, pull the ripcord on the class design in Midnight. Personally, the class redesigns leave me reluctant to log in to the beta and now live/retail/pre-patch, reluctant to renew a subscription, and planning not to engage in the new expansion at the present time. I’ll make this commitment: Pull the ripcord on class design, I (and I suspect others) will re-subscribe. Until then, goodbye. I sincerely hope this is not goodbye forever.

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Unfortunately there is no ripcord when it comes to class changes my guy. We’re stuck with this garbage for an expansion at least.

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BlizZard gambles with prunes because they think it makes their job easier.

The truth is they make class balance more intense. Legion featured many in expansion reworks of classes and specs and not until the third patch did things settle down class design wise. Pruning also makes it more punishing for new and returning players when they make mistakes. They do not have an extra heal or defensive to fall back on as we saw in Legion and we will see in Midnight.

:+1:

:surfing_man: :surfing_woman:

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There is no backup. They dug this hole and are sinking in it.

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they didnt even prune the crap I wanted them to prune they just removed keybinds for xbox it looks like

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