This is when it’s valid to bring up ‘but in FFXIV they devs did…’ and have it make sense rather than senseless hate against one game over the other…
I digress, but the thought simply came to mind.
One thing they do on that game that is highly appreciated is simply put weapons the new jobs can use in ALL past content and gear they can be added to or use from previous content via job flags.
I don’t know why blizzard fails at this and yet here we are in 2022 with a new race/class combo that has nothing they can use/access or work with from past expansions really.
Blizzard, you guys have some of the largest budgets known to man in the gaming industry and simple thoughts like this are never considered.
I mean, many on the forums have given explanations from how to implement housing in stages and keep them LIFE LONG additions to the game that are updated in small amounts over time that would require not as much effort as cramming features into one expac tends to.
I think what the issue truly is, is blizzard has very poor planning and management skills.
In any other game I’ve played, the ‘new class/race’ wouldn’t be just hammfisted into place without going back and making sure they can be inserted into existing content so that content doesn’t break.
A simple solution would’ve been to put evokers into the shaman class hall since it has to do with being near the maelstrom and they are technically neltharion’s science projects re-awakened/freed. The devs could’ve altered the quest text to compensate for the addition of Evoker class and the quests could have an addendum added to factor in Evoker abilities and the problem would’ve been solved.
Yes it’s past content, no it doesn’t ‘technically’ matter or make a whole lot of sense lore wise, but blizzard has claimed before they will tweak and revise lore in the game to suit the game (as well as their whims lol).
I just think it’s crappy having an entire expansion cut off from them as right now during prepatch stuff, many many many people enjoy working on tmog collecting, mounts, pets, shoring up reputations, recipe collecting etc etc…