The heavy-handed nerf to druids, pushing them to fast the 3.5 second starfire has or will lead balance and resto druids to disappear completely.
STV event is an open beta mass experiment as it was designed to be. The problem is, it ha influenced and led to class changes that bleed into your high-retention PVE and PVP offerings, and exhaust players. Keyword: exhaust.
The one-class change per week rule you have is too slow; Blizzard, look to your heroes - the original vanilla wow dev team and their time-to-update, super speedy fixes to see what works-class (and necessary for player retention) development looks like. You’re really a startup, even in the fancy corporate offices in Irvine, CA - so get responsible and grab some coffee and roll up the sleeves.
Blizzard, just one simple message with hopes you don’t drop the ball in P2: I would revisit your approaches to experiments and implementing changes that lead to wild tests that could cause your D30 retention to drop this dramatically. Perhaps a staging environment is neccesary, a smaller beta crowd is necessary, or do what Google does: massive a/b testing micro experiments all the time.
In simple: WoW like any other MMO is wholly based on social networks and retention, and the value of the network will go down and have an avalanche effect, due to the wild testing going on and the loss of player retention. Please revisit your approach.
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Players will stop playing the game as players stop playing the game. Trust me I’m an expert.
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In other news…water is wet.
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Bet. Grass must be green then
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Enough of the crying from boomkins. Starsurge still crits almost every single time with eclipse, for 700 INSTANT damage, wrath is pumping 250-300 per cast and 600-700 crits, starfire is critting for 1600-1800. Boomkins are COMPLETLY fine, if you dont beleive me go watch moonfirebeams stream, hes still dumpstering kids in STV, 2 shotting people. Just because your ONE button doesnt completly ERASE someone instantly does not mean druids are going to dissapear from the game. WOE IS ME, DOOM IS GLOOM. Stop it. Crying is not a good look for a grown man
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I’ve already quit my Balance Druid.
Rogue better hold up.
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Pathetic, balance druid is still strong. read my above comment.
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Fix PvP.
It is the worst it has ever been in the history of WoW.
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3.5 sec starfire? Do you think you are supposed to be rawcasting it? Read your talents, runes, and abilities. Sorry your class requires 10% of a brain now.
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lol hunters got nerfed so many times for stuff that was broken and the game didn’t die. I’m sure it will survive this.
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Bro didn’t play TBC where like 3 classes were good.
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You’re spot on.
Most of the doom and gloom posters no matter the spec look like the type of players that only wants to run OP, brain dead easy specs or they consider them “ruined”.
BTW as far as PVP viability I’d also include…
Survival of the Fittest + Moonkin Form.
Eclipse
Nature’s Grasp.
Boomies are solid. They just aren’t a mindless, “one shot” spec anymore. That doesn’t mean PVP overall is fine. Health pools need to be addressed in some way.
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If Blizz drops the Ball, the Golden Goose will perish. It needs proper care or SoD will bleed out players.
bro you might of even had a good point here but your title is too funny
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“Player Retention will massively decrease as players stop playing the game”
And I’ll stop drinking water when I’m no longer thirsty. This is how life works.
But you always get thirsty again. And they’ll be back for more water too.
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I honestly think players should just do less damage to players. This way there is 0 interaction with anything pve related.
another balance druid thread zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Doubt. Those kinds of players have every class ready to go if fotm changes.
I have played every WoW xpac. This is the worst PvP has ever been.
There is almost zero counterplay at all.
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I already unsubbed. OP isnt wrong. Druid vibe was completely smashed, it was already rough healing dungeons to 40 with no mana and non functional runes. Only to be able to play your class for a day or two before having it nuked because of pvp andys crying on reddit over a temporary event.
We waited 20 years and got 3 days. The devs should be absolutely ashamed.
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