Some of the biggest things that they’ve learned is “no borrowed power”. Players were looking at all the toys they were going to get and were looking at those abilities as things that they would have to give back at the end of an expansion.
Ion this is the third exapnsion in a row you have presented this lesson learned to the class. I’m starting to think, maybe, possibly the lesson was not learned the first few times. What makes today different?
I’m not sure the Blizz team has said that before about borrowed power, but I could be wrong.
Maybe that that other side of his mouth isn’t detailing the new system?
I’m happy about it, better late than never imo. When your legendaries are literally disabled and your necklace is “cut off from Azeroth” even though it worked perfectly fine in Draenor, it feels way worse than a natural replacement of power through leveling.
Have they really said that about borrowed power three expansions in a row? I don’t recall that.
It has been brought up in multiple interviews just like this one. Heck there is one of google from right before shadowlands launch (vg347). It is brought up nearly everytime there is an expansions start or end.
Just like the “We’ve learned we need to do a better job of listening to and communicating with our players.” How many years in a row are you going to say that with a straight face?
Blizzard is just going to put “borrowed power” into the right side of the talent tree, and nerf those abilities during new expansions. Not really too different from WoD pruning I imagine - Blizzard will just do revamps / “balancing” to remove certain abilities they don’t like from the meta while “technically” leaving them in the game.
Stuff like Rage of the Sleeper “technically” back in Shadowlands but nobody used it for most of the life of the expansion because it was too weak compared to UFR.
Also, Blizzard will add tier set synergies that make certain skills relevant and then when the tier is over those skills will become irrelevant again.
Anyone who think borrowed power is gone is a fool. Infinite AP grinds may be gone but borrowed power will always be part of the game. Blizzard is going to beat us to death with these overpowered tier sets that are basically quasi-Artifacts that you replace every patch. And you know, you just %%%%ing know, Blizzard is going to nerf tier sets from previous raids when players use them over current-tier sets.
dragonflying sounds like borrowed power to me.
he learned it, he just doesn’t want to change it.
take the hint: it’s working as intended.