the only good i saw in this:accepting the tank issue and hopfully buffing the prot war. and bears.
The reforging answer is pretty bad. A few percent matters even if all you are doing is trying to progress through heroics. It adds up fast, especially if multiple people are running with their gear not forged properly.
c'mon man it's not that serious. The playerbase did the same thing about Ghostcrawler... When will people realize that this stuff is developed in a team environment? You can't possibly think Ion is sitting in a room coming up with all of these ideas and fleshing them out himself? And this is coming from someone who is openly critically of how much common sense their systems lack. Calling for his resignation because what? you have to change azerite pieces? because you didn't get your BIS trinket in your mythic+ cache? because your current main isn't the FOTM? How about putting together a coherent idea on what you think would make a better system and how it would work and pitching it to them?
Never understood all of the people saying, scratch that, whining about how terrible this game is after (insert xpac of your choice.) Yet still are either subbed and/or flood the forums. WOW isn’t perfect nor has it claimed to be, however it still manages to capture everyone reading this enough to come on various forums and whine. Just stop, go play something else if you hate it that much. There is a difference between whining, and making suggestions. If you want the devs to take us as a community, seriously, learn the difference.Let the hate responses commence
about the azerite pieces and targeting them in mythic+ end loot runs:Ion made a good point about ppl targeting specific items in a raid with only a single chance per week and making azerite pieces drop at the end of a m+ run would be a much quicker way to gear up.but what if blizzard could implement a system that would give every single character a drop chance for azerite pieces at the end of a m+ run?example: its reset day, blizz just implemented the system and ure running a m+ run and someone in your group got an azerite peice at the end of the run. this player would be locked out on a weekly basis for his m+ azerite drop. so youre looking for another run and this time one drops for you.this would dramatically increase the viability of m+ as a way of gearing towards azerite peicesx without overflowing the market.sure, its "just" a 370, but what if blizz would make those azerite pieces and JUST THOSE azerite pieces, able to titanforge up to 385? maybe even with a lower chance of rpoccing than normally?in the end it would be much more viable and about how efficient or not it might end up comes just to blizzards number tuning about drop chance and proc chance.another way would be: make those azerite pieces part of the loot table of bonus rolls, maybe with a chance to select "endboss only" during a m+ run to match the 1/3 chance like a bonus roll in raids with just dropping 3 items for ur spec. in that way ppl who are just doing m+ runs even would have a meaningful way to spend their bonus roll tokens. and players have to do a meaningful choice about using their bonus rolls or not. in my opinion this would actually be the fairest way since raiders to have a meaniongful choice to do during raiding at what boss they use their bonus roll most efficient since they are restricted to 2 per week only.what do you guys think about this? ive already argued about that idea with a lot of ppl and yet noone could came up with a downside of those systems.
I love Squishei and his titles / bingo cards. Can never stop laughing :)
So much doublespeak and non-answers that I facepalmed only 1/3rd of the way into reading the questions. I had hoped with this Q&A we would see some type of acknowledgement of issues and willingness to address them head on. He clearly has no idea on how to listen to the player base and seems to be overly fixed on broken systems.Azerite gear should absolutely change based on spec. The fact he even mentions reforging for it means he has no idea of the need for hybrid players to swap specs on the fly and thus sometimes suffer talent losses by being forced to take generic options.
Its so painfully obvious that the whole azerite respec system is a goldsink to goat players into buying token that hes not even trying to explain the "logic" of that system. If you want us to be stuck playing one spec cos is more "fun" then whats the point of having specs at all? What a clown...
I don't know how you can be "overly fixed" on broken systems. If the systems are broken they should be the first things to be addressed. And can we have an actual discussion instead of just referring to him as a "clown"? Because it doesn't actually help anything. He has his issues, but he also said this would be a conversation on how to fix things for awhile down the line. Hopefully he will improve, but not giving it some more time doesn't tend to help things. If it doesn't work out, then it doesn't and I would acknowledge it. But this kind of talk about a dev doesn't add anything that will actually help.
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Just tuning in. Did we get any bingo's?
Too little too late. They're making a teeny tiny amount of concessions where they should be bending over backward to fix things and improve the gameplay experience. They obviously still don't get it. I really don't think Ion will ever acquiesce to player demands.I've unsubbed and will not re-sub until he is gone.