Season of Discovery Developer Update - May 17

Point blank could give a crap less about Cata. I’m not here and paying for Cata. I’m here to play SoD…

Extending this phase is likely to result in fewer people in SoD by the time you get around to phase 4. Despite all these people saying people will be back and ignoring the fact that hasn’t been how it works with SoD… this is just stupid.

Then again if you actually release phase 4 in a better state cool. Just don’t cut it short because of your delay.

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All about the slow rollout. Take your time, test things, get it right. Ain’t in no hurry over here.

That being said, I really hope we don’t have another incursion style event. I don’t have my incursion runes because I refuse to play that kind of content, which is fine with me but does sting a bit.

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Microsoft won’t let you all hire more devs huh. That sucks.
Well at least some of the QA testing can be covered by an actual PTR this time.

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Phase 3 is already burning people out at an alarming rate with how lackluster ST is, and your response is to make it last even longer?

lmao

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Long P3 sucks, but I guess I’d rather P4 launch in a better state than Cata prepatch over getting it earlier.

I even spread things to do in P3 over time instead of rushing it and I’ll be done the final grind after 25 more BM silver and getting exalted with AB. :confused:

I guess I’ll do more gold farming? I hope you guys release teases of P4 each week until it launches, so there’s at least some excitement and hype for it.

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Are you going to address how overpowered shamans are?

How about how players can que against a full 10 or 15 man premade?

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I understand and hope the Classic team isn’t being worked TOO hard.

I’ve not been the biggest fan of SOD outside of Phase 1, but I love the experiment and hope ActiBlizz let’s it pan out until the end. Anything we can do to see what works and what doesn’t in Classic+ is a big win for me

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Obviously they fell behind in development. It’s better to take longer to make it as good as possible than push out rushed content.

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Lmao and you people argued with me. Kekw. No actual new 60 content done or they would have given us a preview, no “reworks” done or we would have been given a preview.

Pushed back ever farther than I imagined

Oh dear god you’re going to keep MC 20 man and then start dropping 40 man content a few weeks later.

I can’t wait to see how this goes.

Blizzard is an expert at beating a dead horse but I never imagined to turn a corner and see them unloading a mag into the corpse.

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What “rushed content” ? It’s MC and Ony. They’re already developed. There’s no more development to do.

Prolonging a phase where people are already burnt out and raid logging is just going to lead to even more sub losses.

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You don’t remember Deathwing randomly torching and killing entire villages/roads/area all over Kalimdor and Azeroth?

I very vividly remember that in the pre patch event

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It is so sodover !

unfortunately this just killed sod.
there wasn’t enough hype for cata so this is the way of pushing people into it.
also no new raid at 60 feels bad

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It’s because they had to take unplanned time to fix Cata’s comical launch. – No really. They hadn’t planned to need to spend an entire week making it ‘launch ready’…after it had launched.

Except…we won’t be. Because you’re just going to tell us what they are.

Are there going to be replacement Runes?

Calling it like I did before late June early July for phase 4.

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Disappointing but if it’s not ready it is what it is.

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Could it be possibly that after phase 4 near years end with the end game content patch they could add a new raid before the SOD ends since it’s seasonal in early 2025.

Y’all remember when a blue post like this would get hundreds of replies?

Over four hours after posting during prime time hours and we’re at 57 replies.

Even the forum people are checked out.

What changes could they make in p4 that would get people back?

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I don’t think buffing ST gear will do any good. If they needed to buy some time to finish phase 4 stuff I’d personally say better off unrestricting BRD or lbrs or something and adjust some levels of enemies and gear.
If this is their way of forcing WoW addicts to try the new stuff like MoP SoD or cata this aint it lol my guild and classic friends are mostly people who quit when cata come out and are not interested in those at all. Also - the roster boss is least fun of all WoW bosses.

I just hope the game bounces back though for real, and blizz needs to hire some more devs, if you ask me id say sell the TCG tabards in SoD store if you gotta lol somethin lmao.

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They arent going to pick you.

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