Things I’d like to see at least acknowledged by the dev team before P2

Order will be somewhat random but I’ll try to keep these things grouped somewhat:

-The SoD development team genuinely doesn’t seem big enough to handle bug fixes/issues in the current phase while making content for the future phases. Balance wise all we’ve primarily had is numbers tuning, primarily for hunters. The usual underperforming specs did receive some buffs (shadow, boomy) but they are still below mid. Frost mage does less dam than a tank. A lot of rune interactions with talents or spells are broken/missing. Ashenvale is still very buggy and seems too complicated to fix before we just move on to p2. Some iconic runes are completely useless (lifebloom as an example) when the data is obviously there that nobody is using it. This is not a jab at the devs, it just seems like the SoD team should get more resources considering how well SoD is doing.

-Any plans to address GDKPs? Really would like to stop the GDKP whiner threads and the people making false reports. Just looking for acknowledgement really as the community is fiercely against each other over this topic and one side seriously believes that every GDKP involves RMT.

-What is the plan with the classic era world buffs? We’re starting to see a huge power creep already and assuming they add more, there are simply too many world buffs to realistically manage. Also, the reason melee scale so well in era is due to the later world buffs benefitting melee way too much. It seems that a good compromise is to disable era world buffs but continue to develop and add new ones that benefit everyone like the BFD one.

-Whatever layering system is present in SoD is really bad. Often times players don’t join your layer when you join a group with them, this makes questing and providing profession services frustrating. Ashenvale still has problems where you can be with your raid in a winning layer and then somehow get phased to a losing one for seemingly no reason. Any plans to fix this?

-Separate queues aren’t a solution to Premades vs. Pugs in BGs, but please look at updating the queue system so that it will try to match premades into other premades first. If this isn’t possible in a reasonable time, then allow the premade to match with a pug. This will still reward those who do premades with occasional premades vs. pugs, but not make a solo queuer have a sub 10% win rate, which is absurdly low compared to all other versions of the game.

-BFD loot tables don’t seem well thought out. Guild Groups have been clearing 7/7 since week 1 and many haven’t seen certain items at all (the epic staff is one big example). The loot tables are too large and have a lot of useless loot. Tier not being a token shared with a set of classes leads to a lot of frustration and wasted loot, along with tier being a shared drop for some bosses. If loot tables are going to be this big going forward, bosses should be dropping 3 items each. Loot shouldn’t be frustrating in a seasonal game mode meant to be fun.

-SoD was about making everyone OP, not just warriors, but warriors continue to infinitely scale and at this rate will still be #1 (especially with the era world buffs, which is why these should probably be disabled or nerfed). 90 of the top 100 on Warcraft logs are warriors. Is this on your radar? Just feels like era again where I should’ve just picked a rogue, warrior, or healing priest,

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A Blue did address it in the CS forum…

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Great post!

Id love to see blue respond to this. And not on twitter.

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Amazing, now let’s ban people who abuse the report system and falsely report

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p sure there’s only like 8 of them? is that right?

The only ones getting automated bans are the gdkp scrubs :+1:

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yet ANOTHER thinly veiled “nerf warriors” thread
how many more of these do you people need to make before you realize that the top dog isn’t going anywhere, and you either play one or you HEAL. it’s just that simple.

lamest response ever lol

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don the dress

great post
BGs 10 mans should have no precedent or at least be seperate but I dont like how you worded it with

Again with the Warriors are “OP” when it only comes to PvE :rofl: come on man at least level a warrior and try to understand how that talk does NOTHING constructive when so many other classes are eating good (Better leveling/ Better PvP) but cause they cant parse 99 its they arent viable PLEASE :rofl:
Also Loot tables are fine but I would argue the useless items like the hunter signet ring and weird small off’s like the kelris satchel should definitely not count towards loot drops in that they could drop like an extra piece of loot ontop of whats actually being wanted, We dont need everyone walking around with the kelris staff a one of those turns a druid in a walking nuke

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One thing I really want to see known by the player base is we need to look at damage provided and not damage done.

Warriors obviously are just straight up the best dps but it’s slightly more complicated than that.

They are currently benefiting from buffs that they normally only see at high levels of game play at a lower level (windfury is obviously the biggest one here, followed by kings)

Long story shot warriors look way more OP than they are, it’s the classes enabling them to go hard that are really inflating the damage.

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Wish they’d admit they messed up with loot tables. I could’ve sworn Agg mentioned something on Twitter that they totally dropped the ball with holy paladin gear in BFD. So they are clearly aware of what’s on those tables.

Loot tables were simply too big, hoping gnomer has more bosses with smaller tables. 3 drops each boss would be nice too, but don’t need that if they fix the tables.

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This is what I mean, false reporters don’t care

dont you see how problematic that is tho? unless they disperse the gear that could be in gnomer in other dungeons imagine if they shortened the loot tables now? Yall want that epic I get it but if you keep playing it “might” drop for you. I got the hydra and xbow so far and Ive seen the murloc 14 slot drop like 5 times now

You had me at banning GDKPs.

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The community should love gdkp. If gold buying is a massive issue like these people think it is than they should love gdkp as a way to keep all the gold buyers in one place together, no?

The biggest issues with WSG are:

  1. the boon not being disabled, which just destroys certain class advantages by giving something like movement speed to everyone. This also compounds as one team dies off, now the other team has an insanely massive advantage. They seriously need to disable boon in bgs.

  2. people give up the second they see premades, when the majority of premades aren’t people who play together a lot and are essentially just a pug that was gathered together before queue instead of during queue. Get a discord, post it for people to join as WSG is starting and there you go, you’re essentially the same thing. Obviously the main issue with this is they can decide to bring healers.

  3. random queue is maybe too random. I recently ran into a pug that got zero healers in their random queue team. It was so easy to annihilate them you’d think our group was the best premade in the history of the game going up against first time players. The queue should definitely try to be a bit more intelligent with role selection.

The drop rate of mail is seriously unhinged. More than half the gear our group has seen in all of our raids put together has been mail. Idk what smooth brain decided on drop rates but they need to be demoted to something less important.

We full bis’d or one warrior on the first bfd we ran, sans epic. Second bfd fully bis’d a different warrior who joined our guild. Every single raid is over half mail. It’s infuriating. Tokens are not the answer though. Never want to see tokens.

Also why is it that they decided to add an epic that is useful for only warriors? (/Paladins for alliance, but they honestly don’t count this phase).

Why do warriors get to stack movement speed and every other class you just get the highest value? Idk wtf is going on with warrior favouritism but seriously…

for the love of God fix this, so terrible providing summon services and having to have people mail you…

We can never have enough Nerf warrior threads. Whose smart idea was it to give them ignite stacking deep wounds.

Oh yeah bro its so great being the only way to pug raid with people that swipe their credit card and receive botted gold. Definitely healthy for the game and wont kill SoD like it did era.

Cant wait to spend 30k on MC items

There is no circumstance where matching a premade with a randomly put together team is ok. It should never happen. Premades won’t queue if there aren’t pugs to steamroll, so there’s no real point in worry about the queue times of a ghost town. Just make a solo pug queue. It’s all people will want to use anyway.