Was SL rushed?

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Too many bugs. Broken legendaries. Broken pvp talents. Broken conduits.

Was this rushed? Maybe it needed a few more months to polish?

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When you say “broken” do you mean they don’t work, or they’re just stupidly OP ?

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They don’t work.

Collective anguish legendary - fel devastation no longer heals

Detainment pvp talent - is now bugged to allow heals to hit target of imprison

Dh jumps - may erratically prevent you from jumping or not cause you to jump.

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I’ve experienced this on and off since Legion. They need to fix. :X

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Blizzard just isn’t investing the kind of money into the game that they used to. So, yes it was rushed but only because they didn’t put enough effort into developing it.

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It also looks like the pvp talent to increase the dodge % for darkness is also not working. Read that on the dh forums.

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Sounds like any typical World Of Warcraft experience.

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I’m guessing you mean as Havoc, you’re not getting the healing from Fel Dev? That sucks.

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It used to heal prior to tuesday so maybe an unintentional bug?

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factually, yes.

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They’re not staffed or managed to put out a finished product on a reasonable schedule.

8.2 was the last finished product they shipped and I think they had to seriously borrow from the future to do it. So 8.3 was an unfinished and buggy mess and a year later SL is an unfinished and buggy mess.

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I think it’s just bugs layered on previous bugs. They never fix any of them so they just keep adding up.

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They must’ve heard you, because this was hotfixed today.

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Considering every expansion has had a litany of bugs, game breaking issues, unbalanced classes and specs, etc, I wouldn’t say its rushed. WOD having cut content is rushed, BFA having a woefully designed Azerite system that was only tested in the final week of beta is rushed.

I don’t feel Shadowlands is rushed, its just a collection of pretty poor ideas and concepts that don’t really translate well to player enjoyment. I’d maybe say Torghast ‘was’ a bit rushed but I’d say thats down to Twisted Corridors and the issues in that development (which I guess is better than releasing it broken and unplayable).

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No, if it was rushed it would be broken. It’s not broken, it’s just unfinished.

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you should see all the mobs that clip into the ground or are just stuck in midair in previous expansions.

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It’s definitely a lazy slapdash effort, they tried to maximize profits by putting in the least amount of content possible while forcing time gating & grinding and then reduced costs by laying off a huge chunk of their workforce. This expansion has zero polish and that’s what Blizzard was known for, polished streamlined gameplay. If they start skipping polish then there is no reason to buy Blizzard games, I guess WC3 is a huge red flag.

Every single aspect of the game is rife with unbalance. Torghast you have some classes pulling rooms without batting an eye and others that have to plan every single pull. PvP is a “burst” meta simply because blizzard did no PvP balancing. PvE had upwards of 30% gap in DPS specs, that is absolutely embarrassing /kicktrashcan. The time gating progression just made everything disjointed, doing a dungeon you haven’t seen the story for? WQ’s based off quests you hadn’t done yet and potentially spoiling things. The worst part of all this is they aren’t fixing things with any sort of urgency, nope just let people get more and more frustrated with the game.

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It’s hard to believe it’s rushed with as low effort as most of BFA seemed to be.

Maybe this remote working or whatever arrangement they have going these days isn’t quite up to par though?

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I assume people just forget that Blizzard was working during a pandemic of a virus that’s killing thousands - but yeah.

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Time had nothing to do with it. No amount of time would have changed the fact that they are not interested in making a game for their customers. They’re making the game how they think it should be played. This is what they wanted.

As far as bugs, I literally haven’t encountered a single bug. I just know that I am personally really not enjoying the game because they went the exact opposite direction I was hoping they would. For whatever reason, I not only hoped but really was thinking it would go a different direction, but I was way off