Shadowlands will be a Success

[Mellin-bleeding-hollow]

@Epoch-azjolnerub

Its going to change before launch .

[x] doubt.

[Forums-moon-guard]

@Ràlph-barthilas

M+ design is going back to a more casual side

This I’m not so sure of.

[Thèón-emerald-dream (Thèón)]

@Purplelime-frostmourne

I wonder what happened to him between then and now

As others have said… he WANTED to be an elitist, but he sucks at the game and couldn’t make the cut.

[Ddzz-illidan]

Ralph once said he’d quit Shadowlands if it had more borrowed power

@Rålph-barthilas

Especially ones that instead of being the final 10% of your character’s power end up being 50% making them mandatory for all serious content.

-First it was azerite, then essences, now rng corrupted gear. AND NONE OF THEM WERE EASY TO AQUIRE.
Azerite gear were either RNG or grinded through timegated weekly m+ caches reward
-Essences were extremely grindy, forcing people to do content they hated and many times were also timegated for almost a month or more.
-Corrupted gear with no vendor are completely RNG YET CAN GIVE YOU UP TO 20K dps boost and more for some classes. They are locked behind a huge rng aka keep grinding until you get them lol.

Our characters main source of power is no longer gear and abilities, it locked behind rental systems that are forcing ridiculous grinds while many of the timegated to desperately keep players playing.

Meanwhile in Swtor you get your set pieces and most gear early on within a week, that is 90% of your character’s power, then the last 10% comes fro, bis gear parts and amplifiers which take some time to grind but not having them isn’t a big deal, and when you get them you get a great sense of accomplishment since they last for mot of the expansion and also you can gear a ton of fun alts.

And let’s check the math based on blood mallet for those that care about numbers, my dps when I was playing via sim was somewhere above 30k but that included 1 major essence and 3 minors(1 being from the major) and now there’s a 4th minor from the new slot.

So for frost dk we check the best for 8.3 and they are
8k from world vein major
4K from world vein minor
4K from memory of lucid dreams minor
4K from breath of the dying minor
3k fro, blood of the enemy minor

Then let’s check corrupted gear
30k from infinite stars, with 25% nerf it ll be 22k
14k from echoing void

So overall through the external sources(I am not even gonna bother with azerite) the total dps is 59k, .(with 2 corrupted items, hell even one leads to 45k dps boost. At the end of the expac it ll be more)
Obviously this is sim dps under best conditions but the fact that a character’s performance is MOSTLY locked behind external systems that are both time gates and extremely grindy and also often grindy from content you don’t enjoy

If these systems design continue to shadowlands then I am not even gonna bother, Swtor ftw where I can play alts and have fun in any content without being forced into ridiculous timegated grinds, I can just have fun.

When do you guys think he goes back to SWTOR?

[Waidmann-gilneas (Waidmann)]

Not to make light of it and people who suffer from it but Ralph seems to suffer from multiple alt personality disorder.

[Natalya-thorium-brotherhood]

@Ràlph-barthilas

mongo classes

Please don’t use “mongo” as a descriptor of something negative. My heritage is not a short-form adjective for you to troll on forums.

[Ivalesse-moon-guard (Ivalesse)]

SL will succeed because the people who have threatened to not buy the next expac out of disgust/anger/disappointment, are weak-willed and will continue to eat up the garbage Blizzard churns out. Only to get angry at something else in the future and have the process repeat all over again.

[Apologize-saurfang]

This.

Personally I’m looking forward to forming a new Venthyr only guild called The Volkihar (Skyrim reference for you vampire lovers out there). This will be a world PVP focused guild designed to hunt down the Nightfae and Kyrian, whose vibes we abhor.

[Faelimere-frostmourne]

@Ràlph-barthilas

Because money comes from most players, not a minority of tryhards who are mad at covenants forcing them to learn to play without stacking meta/fotm and roflstomping through content.

Those high end guilds blow through huge amounts of Real money on tokens and boost , race changes, its insane how much they spend and Microtransactions are Blizzard Ace atm with WoW and Classic i guess.

Covenants are a great idea cosmetically and story wise but tying player power, unbalanced power at that will annoy all types of players, its a guarantee.

@Ràlph-barthilas

During all expansions of any Mmorpg there’s a huge number of players joining but the majority leave after a month, that is a fact of mmorpgs, your goal as a dev is to keep as big of a part of those returning/new players and shadowlands will absolutely achieve this.

History says you are wrong. The stats dont lie , WoW has been in decline for more than half its life, SL will sell copies like every expansion does but it wont hold peoples interests for long.

@Ràlph-barthilas

-Covenants are a return to serious RPG design, real meaningful choices, you get to be part of a special group, slowly unlock stuff including , know allies and progress a story. Not only is this core system that will keep going throughout the expansion but it provides a certain flavor we didnt have before as they are seen as a sub class society of sorts which is a strong rpg element.

They are a great RPG element and everything you say can be achieved by removing the player power aspect from them and making them cosmetic only.

@Ràlph-barthilas

-Torghast, this will be a huge success because unlike what many wannabe elitists want to believe, there’s a huge group of players who enjoy solo activities and playing by themselves, Torghast not only provides a great challenge for fun but a great repeatable activity for everyone that loves solo content.

You love the elitist line dont you Ralph, for someone who spews equality constantly you have alot of anger in you. I cant see Torghast doing well past 9.1 it will have the play time metric but players will most likely call it what it looks like and that is a chore.

@Ràlph-barthilas

M+ design is going back to a more casual side, nothing like bfa’s tryhard MDI made dungeons and trash of bfa, back to healthy dungeon design with all covenants giving dungeons different buffs so all covenants get some form of boost so tryhards cant stack 5x

This is good design

@Ràlph-barthilas

In other words, yes, many tryhards wiil ragequit because they arent allowed to stack OP classes and be optimal by changing their build for every single boss, but there will be a far larger wave of casuals that are gonna love shadowlands and will easily replenish the losses.

Again History and the stats are against you.

Blizzard made the hardcore players of WoW , they wanted a hardcore playerbase ot they wouldnt have added things like Arena World Championships , MDI Tournaments , Mythic raiding.

There is a reason they dont have World Pet battle tournaments.

[Ifelixl-quelthalas (Ifelixl)]

Aren’t you just saying it for new LGBT characters?

because I do not believe anything of what you say, but if I accept to give you one more hope that this expansion saves WoW.

[Taellon-thrall]

I love Ralph. He is fighting elitism by being an elitist himself.

He is a perfect example of human contradiction.

[Faelimere-frostmourne]

Its tragic

[Nerinth-moon-guard]

@Ràlph-barthilas

-Torghast, this will be a huge success because unlike what many wannabe elitists want to believe, there’s a huge group of players who enjoy solo activities and playing by themselves,

I know I will probably be quite fond of this. Not only can I solo it, but I prefer playing with a smaller number of players when I do play group content. So the fact that not only can I play solo, but I can also chose to play with a few friends if I want to, makes me happy.

[Dexterworgen-nordrassil]

Ralph do you ever make a topic without using the try-hard at least one time in it? It’s starting to come off a little too aggro.

[Taellon-thrall]

I feel he had a really bad experience with certain section of people that caused him to be so much aggressive towards them.

[Ràlph-barthilas]

I mean that’s the point, let me explain with an analogy.

You know when someone makes a generalization like “white people are racist”, which is obviously false because there’s white people who are not racist.

But when you take such an aggressive stance you reveal people’s beliefs pretty fast, a person who is ignorant of systematic racism, the existence of a huge amount of white people who support racists, 3k, orange one etc is gonna go “Omg you cant call all ppl racist” and other bs responses that reveal their ignorance or willing support of racist policies therefore you know that person is hopeless (Unless you are willing to spend days and months trying to fix them)
Meanwhile a person who understands the problems of systematic racism as well as how many white people have been seen to support racist policies outright and is white will often agree with that statement, not because it is true, but because they understand what you are saying, therefore they are people who are worth your time.

The people that dont understand what I am saying and instead get defensive reveal themselves instantly with that and shows their ignorance or willing ignorance of problems.

[Faelimere-frostmourne]

@Ràlph-barthilas

I mean that’s the point, let me explain with an analogy.

You mean this dont you

@Taellon-thrall

I love Ralph. He is fighting elitism by being an elitist himself.

Wont even have discussion on the responses about the game just spewing his normal crap.

[Phatfarm-shattered-hand]

TLDR: From the same company that provided you with dead classes and specs we now bring you Covenants and Soulbinds for every class/spec combo you want. Good luck balancing Blizzard.

[Ifelixl-quelthalas (Ifelixl)]

@Ràlph-barthilas

false because there’s white people who are not racist.

Bender Laughing

pretending not to be does not mean that they are, and these political agendas confirms this.

[Soulprison-wyrmrest-accord]

Would you please speak on the posts above about your blatant hypocrisy or are you just going to continue to be an insufferable clown?