After taking a few more days to digest my thoughts on the announcement and the interviews & content that has followed, there are a few thoughts I’d like to convey.
We have threads for the new major systems coming in, so I’ll try to let my thoughts on those stay there.
- The PvP gearing changes discussed in the Bajheera interview with Brian Holinka are awesome. I think as long as acquisition is handled well, the system of a set PvP ilvl and upgradeable PvE ilvl is fantastic and I’m excited to play around with that.
- The new talent system provides a chance for frequent balance tuning of over/under used slots and I hope that is taken advantage of both for PvE and PvP.
- The idea of World PvP on the boats is really fun. Obviously purely opt in with war mode, I think this is a fantastic organic opportunity and I hope it ends up well.
- I think that flying being limited to Dragon Training in the beginning of the expansion is good. Depending on how the system works, I hope that eventually our normal flying mounts will be able to take to the skies in Dragonflight, but if that is saved for a .1 or .2 patch, as long as we can fly normally with Dragon riding, I’m ok with that.
- I urge the developers to listen to the feedback regarding M+ affixes both on the Council Forums and in other places. Some of these affixes have been around for 3 full expansions now, and Fortified/Tyrannical aren’t enjoyable anymore. I saw it suggested elsewhere and I would like to see the seasonal affix become the new +2 affix, and redesign an affix rotation for +10s and higher.
- There has also been talk about loot changes, and while I believe someone said no Master Loot, but they’re looking into changing personal loot, I would urge any developer working on this to look at my thoughts here: Looking ahead to 10.0 - #13 by Letholas-veknilash
- I hope there is a deterministic way to target M+ loot. I think the creation catalyst is a great way to finish tier sets, and I hope to see a similar system return in 10.0 (maybe available a few weeks earlier?
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That’s all for now, thanks for your time!