For Blizz’s sake, I really hope there’s a sizable audience for this for how hard you guys seems to be pushing it this expansion.
Because over here in casual-land I haven’t even bothered logging in for the past 3 weeks because I’m not much for pugging and the rest of my guild has seemingly died out too due to running the same content for the past 6 months.
you presented your opinion as “anything i don’t care about is a waste of resources” by suggesting that “improving the game” means focusing on things you personally think are important
Yeah so am I allowed to have an opinion Your Highness or are you here to say: “How dare you have an opinion which doesn’t match mine I’m going to destroy you”
Casual land is becoming no mans land this expac. There is nothing rewarding for the main char to do after the campaign unless you push mythic plus, and that’s not everyone’s cuppa.
VDH, Hpal, Fire Mage, Boomy, and Outlaw Rogue I’d assume. You can see this exact comp run on the vast majority of the highest keys being pushed right now on rio.
How exactly do you believe money works? You rub a dollar and make a wish and the thing you want comes into existence?
Blizzard is hiring people for Shadowlands. They’re trying to pick up steam with content. But the fastest way for Blizzard to maintain interest in Shadowlands by spending their money is to spend money on advertising, which is essentially what this event is - advertising for the game.
Blizzard can generate Shadowlands hype by setting up an X dollar prize pool and contracting the MDI folks, it’s really that easy. It just makes sense, especially when it is content that fans want (and it is wanted, don’t be mistaken about that).
I’d say they will swap out the rogue for a 2nd mage or boomy depending on the affixes/key they get handed, but I don’t watch the MDI so I don’t know how that whole thing works.
Something to take into consideration is that balance has changed quite a bit but gear is still a relevant factor at the top-end, so even if the meta has shifted players wouldn’t have been able to adapt at the highest levels of play simply because it is harder to pivot quickly to a new clas.
The top tank in the world is #1 DH but also #1 Prot War and his Prot War is the 24th highest tank in the world yet still lagging behind his main in ilvl. It’s very possible when you equalize ilvl that his Prot Warrior could surpass any other tank. We just don’t know because the gear is a barrier.
With this tournament format, you could simply choose to play a Prot Warrior. And yes, you can say “Well if that were the case why would you not play Prot Warrior in MDI” - but the MDI meta is different. Hyper mobility focused, uncapped AE focused, less about having the mitigation to handle extremely deadly specific encounters etc, everything that VDH excels at while the weaknesses of VDH are not present in the MDI format.
All that said, Fire Mage + Boomy seems like a given. Fire Mage is the best lust class, Boomy the best BR class. Until Blizzard unnerfs Drums and make engy brs more usable, that isn’t going to change unless some other class overtakes them in DPS in 9.1. The flex spot will be the last DPS. Windwalker, Rogue, something like that.