Dragonflight Group Interview with Ion Hazzikostas - Design Goals & Lessons Learned, Player Housing, Dracthyr

Live Geposted 21.04.2022 um 18:35 von Squishei

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Blizzard has learned that barriers that try to dissuade activity essentially just become annoying hurdles that players have to overcome in 2022 that players just overcome. This has influenced the design of Dragonflight as players now play video games differently in 2022.

Talent Trees will include Covenant abilities and even Shadowlands Legendaries. What will show up there will be influenced from the community as we continue to Alpha.

They're looking to convert Solo Shuffle into a Rated Solo Queue with rating and rewards.

It may be possible for Dracthyr to become other classes in the future, but that's not where the story is starting in Dragonflight.

Player Housing is discussed a lot, and there's interest in it. They're excited about it and hope to deliver it at some point but it's not part of Dragonflight.

Design Goals & Lessons LearnedYou mentioned previously how players have changed the way they play games, how has this directly affected Dragonflight and alt-catch up in Dragonflight?What ended up being known as “borrowed power” tended to be additional endgame leveling mechanics. If you’re moving away from that, what do you have planned for endgame this time around?How much of the success of WoW Classic has influenced Dragonflight?The progression of some story elements was locked behind Renown in Shadowlands. Has this idea been abandoned?Strong socialization requires a bit of friction, and that’s clear win in Classic. How do you take those learnings and bring them to modern WoW, without losing the player that only has an hour a night?Talent Tree ReworkHow much will players be able to fill out the talent tree? Will it be eventually be full like Artifacts?Is the goal of the new Talent Trees to bring back abilities that have been removed in the past?When do you get a Talent Point for a specific tree?Has the team started thinking about ways to repurpose Covenant abilities?LevelingHow will Dragonflight handle Chromie Time?Are there any plans for when there are inevitably too many levels once again?PvPAre there any new PvP features in Dragonflight?Dracthyr EvokerIt was mentioned that Dracthyr's Bronze magic could have a Hastening Effect. What does this mean?Many players have commented that there has been a stale healer Meta for multiple raid tiers until this tier. With the addition of Evoker, what steps are you planning to take to ensure that all healers are unique and are valued in groups and high end content?Will the Dracthyr be able to use black magic?Will Empower spells make it to other classes?Will the Dracthyr be able to become other classes in the future?ProfessionsAre the profession changes robust enough to be a complete alternative to the normal PvP/PvE content?How are the Gathering Professions impacted by all the changes including the new Quality system?Player HousingPlayer housing is something that many players in the community have asked for. Has there been any consideration of this?Which old, fan-favorite systems do you see coming back? As an example, there’s the Garrisons.Dragon RidingAre the Dragon mounts just used as a mode of transportation or do they have gameplay attached to them?AccessibilityIn addition to the UI updates, are there any other accessibility updates?Mythic+Has there been any further thought to Mythic+ queueing?Old Raid ContentWill people be able to solo Mythic raids in Dragonflight?CommunityWhat are some examples of the Community Council's influence on Dragonflight?TransmogAny changes to the Transmog system?Statue BoyWhat is the name of the Statue boy?

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Kommentar von Weryx"Old Raid Content
Will people be able to solo Mythic raids in Dragonflight?
Yeah probably. Not trivially, but yes. The way this generally works and I know we've kind of confused it a bit with squishes and offsetting multipliers to counteract those squishes, it's ultimately the product of your power growth as a player, through gear, through levels, through other things. Over the course of a given expansion from start to finish, as you get 10 levels and you get 150+ item levels of gear, you probably get at least 4 times as powerful, in terms of total stats, hit points, DPS and so forth. If you compare the numbers players are putting out in Sepulcher today to what they were doing in the 9.0 Pre-Patch at level 50, you'll probably find that it's about quadruple. Two expansions later, you're like 4 times 4, 16 to 20 times more powerful and that means that you can now go and solo stuff that required 20 players 2 expansions ago. One more expansion and now you're like 80 times more powerful and that's the part where you can go in and destroy stuff, but there's that middle ground where it's like mechanics don't kind of matter, the raid wasn't trivial for 20 people back then, you might have the power of 20 people but that doesn't mean you're going to walk in and one shot Mythic bosses or anything and as players reach that point, we definitely go back in and make adjustments to old encounters where there are mechanics that forcibly required multiple people or that will frustrate if you go there solo and this is around the time when we'd start taking a look at 2 expansion ago to smooth out some of those rough edges."

Cool, full of $%^&. Like you did by far less dmg after 9.0 arrived, same gear, same character, raids weren't soloable anymore. Seems like he has no clue (as so often)

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