i missed the Raid Balancing, such as Mythic Player Scaling, why we nned in 2023 still 20 Players? there should be an 10 / 15 option or made the Raid flexible 10 to 20 man^^ as input for next interview
Well of course he is. He's making a game and the community is liking it and is engaging positively. Of course that's a huge weight off his shoulders. Of course he's happy. And now for a slightly more spicy take... As to the claim that this is before people started quitting - you know, World of Warcraft's problems during Shadowlands were pretty big, and when Blizzard pivoted away from them with Dragonflight there were at least a handful of pretty senior game designers on the WoW team who left, most notably the people who did the burrowed power systems as well as the mission tables, and then a few class designers. I won't say I'm happy they're gone - I'm never going to revel at people losing their income - but I am certainly glad that their ideas no longer assert their malign influence over the game. People leaving isn't always bad...
@@IshayuG People leaving isn't always bad, but when they're leaving in the middle of a development cycle (very high possibility they are developing the next expansion), and you have to train new people on the fly to make sure current content AND the next expansion come out quality and don't end up like SL, it's hard for "this could be a good thing" to be believable.
00:00 - Intro, positive feedback, feelings, smalltalk 02:50 - 3rd spec for evokers or anything new? 04:35 - Account wide rep, rep in general 06:30 - Cross faction guilds and content 11:00 - Guild tabbards 11:55 - Timewalking? 15:35 - Dracthyr transmog 17:00 - Allied races changes 18:30 - Reagent bank, basic gank beyond that is something about soloable BfA content and SoO skip, didnt get around to it
@@KiloCee Been saying it a few times. Especially now that they are calling for "Work from Office" they should be able to have 1-3 rooms at the office with a decent camera, decent microphone and in general a decent setup with Greenscreen/Background and lighting. I realize that for a Streamer it is their whole thing to have good video, good audio and a stable framerate, but for a "small indie company" it should not be a huge financial hit for Blizzard to invest in one or two rigs that they can use for these Community interviews/discussions or even for interviews with larger media outlets. It just feels more.. professional. Even the old streams with Ion and Lore they had a good camera, good microphones and a good setup with a background! Just a small, spare closet somewhere. Late Edit: Checking the interview that Max had with Morgan Day that released a few hours ago, Morgan's setup seems way more professional with better camera placement, better lighting, etc. Could still use a sliiightly better mic but overall a lot better!
I specifically scrolled the comments to see if it bugged anybody else. Sorry to be negative, we appreciate hearing from the devs very much, but it was SO hard to follow what Ion is saying-not least because the way he speaks is a bit unique. If anybody at Blizzard does stumble upon this, please consider upping your mic game or if that's not the root cause, investigate what is causing it!
Like he just needs a cheap usb mic and it would be fine lol. Gets me every time he does an interview. Must just be a comfort thing from being a hardcore raider back in the day.
I think you're going to have a lot of fun. It's been a great expansion and seems like it's on the right path. There's a lot of stuff to do so take it one step at a time. 😂
@@jacksanity7508 trading post can be done within a few days passively anyways, even if you don’t care about it you’ll most likely finish it which is why it’s a great feature
About 14:26. They can make something similar to Classic Wotlk HC+ dungeons where you enter the regular dungeon and everyone click on an orb, then you activate the harder version. In this example only the leader should click on an ingame object and activate TW raid difficulty. It was an elegant way to add an extra difficulty without adding UI elements.
That makes sense, seems like a fairly simple solution. The other way would be to tune TW Raids to LFR levels, instead of Normal, and put them in the Queue. However, that would require splitting some old Raids into Wings. I think the Difficulty Orb is much easier to implement.
I think the most obvious solution is to flip the script. Old dungeons and raids should just have a certain level of difficulty to them and be engaging for casual players, straight up. There's no reason for them to be this trivially easy. If we really want this whole 1-shot malarky - fine. Make _THAT_ the orb. If the orb is for soloing then all the problems of getting people in and out won't matter because it's solo.
@@teej143 They are far from soloable, especially glory achievements. Sure if you are a solo friendly class and a high ilvl you can cheese some stuff but still things like the nyalotha cloak or other outdated mechanics should be adjusted properly. Even shadowlands and stuff like fatescribe. And please dont give me the ''it was never intended to be soloable'' excuse, when content stops being relevant there is 0 excuse for it to not be soloable.
his answers towards for example the cross-faction elements were so pertinents ! 🤔you can tell between someone who is an experienced game developer and a certain content creator who barely play the game but has an opinion about every segments of the game without thinking about the ins and outs 🤭🤭 thanks for the interview ppc
These sorts of answers to these questions would have been unthinkable in Shadowlands. Love this shift in tone and philosophy. For me at least, game feels like it has a legit future. Thanks Ion and thanks Blizz.
I personally like the idea that during a time walking week, whatever raid is chosen, is configured only for the time walking like Ian was saying. I think it would add a feeling of more importance and also make it significantly easier for someone who is not in an active guild or a solo player to still be able to do it if they want.
Great focus topics. Well established back and forth Q. & A. for not just the core before the scene but for everyone in a simplified/easy-to-follow conversation. Thank you. Makes us excited for 10.1 and beyond!
Pleasantly surprised to see that Guild customization is on the radar. Obviously it's a lower priority, but it means they are taking a look at old, forgotten things. Hopefully Guild Achievements also get another look.
It’s a shame wow isn’t bigger than it is I just feel like the game could be massive again if people gave it a chance. But I can totally understand why people wouldn’t even try it out
It can get bigger and it will, just need to keep reinforcing the positive feedback like Ion was mentioning. DF been receiving a lot of great feedback, a lot of the haters and people complaining are still hating on the past, which is fair enough but the game is in a good place at the moment and even the devs are happy
you asked most of the things i wanted to know so thanks for that, about timewalking i'd say if there were more incentives to do it we wouldn't have any issues about finding more people, extra rewards from that expansion could help .
I'm playing WoW from the very first day it started baaaaack in the days. And I still return on every expansion to see what it has to offer. Dragonflight is now my favorite expac. It's also a first time ever for me to buy a 1 year subscription for wow and not regretting a minute I played a game when I had a chance. You guys did something great here. Stay strong!
I would love to say thank you to all the devs im about 2 months into wow coming from eso and this is what a true mmo is supposed to be earn mounts earn everything and it’s actually hard you can push your self with your guild I love it keep up the good work 😊🎉
@Ion A few things. First off, yall have done a phenomenal job on this expansion. there are a few hickups (guardian druid being meh and ret being broken). but other than that it honestly already feels like my favorite expansion of all time, and ive played since vanilla. so well done! secondly, when looking at the next thing to integrate with cross faction queued content. for pvp, consider looking into random bgs. we already have that traitor mode for pvp, but being able to queue for that is one of the main things i would love to do with my friends. its casual etc. Also maybe making a dps solo queue only mode or something like that. Maybe a 5v5 bg of sorts for rated. Use current maps, but limit it down a bit (i.e. only 2 of 3 carts running in the caves, side bases in AB dont work, that kind of thing) third, some sort of overhall for finding groups for M+, raids, and pvp. Not sure what, but it could probably use an over hall of sorts. Everyone spends a lot of time in there so it definitely wouldnt go to waste. Fourth, id recommend looking at the void storage as a way to have that server wide bank. Adding a money option in there much like guild banks would be phenomenal. lastly, Well done to all of yall. You should truly be proud of this expansion. Its the best that i can remember wow being.
@@BatJeff Nah, in 11.0 "Return of the Old Gods" it will be revealed that N'Zoth defeated us, and entire Shadowlands was just a nightmare made to break our will. . . Then what's the deal with DF? Simple. We are playing versions of our characters from a different timeline, and first raid of 11.0 will be us trying to save ourselfe from the og timelane
A question for a future Interview, could we get a frame/window that tells us what Raid-skips our characters have unlocked? So that I know if my Druid or Mage or other alts have unlocked the Antorus skips or the Hellfire Citadel skips without having to fly there or run a script from WoWHead to check if I finished the Skip-Quest?
Update Garrison's for every expansion, allow us to bring our ALT's as NPC's like we did in Warlord's of Draneor for when we need to bring a healer, dps or a tank.
Would have liked to hear them answer the follow up question from "What can we expect from Drathyr transmog?" which is "Why did you design them outside of any current transmog profile?" Like, you made the lock and the key and have to make a workaround to get it to fit together. I can speculate many reasons, but I wonder what theirs was.
Just leaving this comment here for hopefully MrGM or even Ion if he's perusing the comments regarding the timewalking for raids and if having it only be scaled up version for a week would be a solution community is happy with. I can't speak for everyone but I actually do think it's a good idea. Especially if it's hyped up in that way. This week, BC dungeons and the BT raid will be at current power and you are able to try them out, and then go back to farming your stuff the next week if you choose. The disclaimer is I think it has to be "worth it." What I mean by this is to just make timewalking this big deal thing. Expand to more raids if possible in the future. Have old PvP stuff be obtainable/more obtainable for this week. During BC Timewalking have the marks of honor from Hellfire be able to buy something. If you go all out, the people who don't want to be inconvenienced by the raid being timewalking only would not mind as much. But, if it's just inconveniencing 1000 people to help out a different 1000 people that feels bad. Also just like this current timewalking event where you can get heroic raid item from doing the 5 dungeon quest, do not be afraid to give meaningful rewards for doing the time walking. Should it equal a mythic piece, or a +20 piece, or an elite gladiator piece, probably not, but heroic raid -- 1 item, seems quite fine for example for the dungeons. If rewards are good, people will do it! And that will make all the effort put in worth it as well. Good interview by MrGM and DF has been marvelous so far so hopefully Ion and the devs can keep that going!
(Sorry, adding comments as I watch) Ion mentioned concerns about sending players to 2007 graphics for an eighth of their time during a Mythic+ season. Time permitting, then, would it not be a fun idea to "remaster" these older dungeons as they're added? It's more work of course, but over the years we've seen visual overhauls of different mobs as patches roll out. It could be nice to start visually overhauling old dungeons in the same way, and maybe tweaking some mob packs and mechanics to keep it in line with modern Mythic+ game design. We have Classic for the original experience, after all. As for "why not just make a brand new dungeon" with that time, I have an easy answer: The cool factor! Remember that many players who play this game are familiar with the old dungeons and would be delighted to see them overhauled.
@@levilamperouge8917 10.1.5 is my bet, what he said about the 10.1.5 PTR going up shortly after 10.1 release, and May being a big month for world of warcraft. Tells me they are getting that PTR up quick to balance the new spec
First time in a long time where an expansion is released and there were no red flags. It is insane that having no red flag is considered as a positive thing which should just be common sense. I am still amazed at the people who defended convanent, azurite gear, maw and other broken feature on released and the developer who thought they were good ideas. They needed this to happen for them to get humbled. The trust they need to build up again is something I am looking forward to.
Speaking of Trader's Tender, it would be nice if they would increase the amount of Currencies you can get each month, cuz only being able to afford 2 items each month is not fun. I'm not asking to be able to buy everything from the Trade Post, but more then 2 items would be nice.
Time walking raids should be closer to LFR difficulty imo and also use the LFR queue system. The alternative in its current form is just that almost no one does them because they are too much of a pain, or fall apart after however many bosses. Imo
Ion definitely comes off as a person who loves trying to make the game way better with people who really want to make the game better, and hearing ideas from fans that are enthusiastic about cool changes. Rather than saying, this game is dead and worthless and just horrible shit that doesn't help anyone. I'm really intrested in dragonflight, there is so much cool stuff to do that I don't HAVE to do, makes the game feel so much bigger. I feel like there's so much new stuff I'm finding and learning it's almost like I'm asking myself "where do I begin!" In a positive way. Reps feel old school. The game feels just really nice right now. It reminds me of why I love MMOs!
Hearing about the limitations about Dracthyr transmog, makes me think: What if they built the model in such a way that enables better quality transmog (more resolution, non mirrored gear, etc.) and they are changing the other character models and old gear to fit this new system? That's why they didn't bother to make old gear available on Dracthyr model. 🤯
"There's definitely no third spec in 10.1 - I wish we were that good at hiding things" You clever goose. I read that as 10.1.5 with inflection-based deflection
the one thing Im really hoping they address soon is the racial mounts. My poor human horses and Night elf sabers look so polygon compared to the new stuff
No 3rd spec anytime soon, if at all? It'd be neat if we at least got a cosmetic spell effect like warlock's green flames that was reminiscent of the black dragonflight, then. Like molten lava and stone instead of fire, ice, and green.
The Allied Race unlocks were a massive barrier for me coming back to the game. Since I last played WoW, I have made new friends. They prefer the opposite faction from what I typically play, but the only races that seemed interesting to me on that faction required a major unlock quest that would require me to play as a race I have ZERO interest in playing for an extensive period of time just to unlock the ability for me to play as an aesthetic that I like. And the inverse was true - the main race my friend was interested in on my faction was also an allied race. It was a major struggle for us to find a way to play together thanks to the barrier. Glad you asked that question and I hope they consider removing those unlocks - at least for the Legion ones, since they're more than two full expansions old.
Good interview. Question for Ion: As he is "watcherdev", does he have the ability to view anyone's screen whenever he wants? And if so, does he do that often? Many times, I have had the sense that I am being watched.
Idea for cross faction queued content: Make it so it's availble once you got your first character to max lvl, so new players don't get confused, and add maybe an option to enable or disable cross faction grouping when you queue up.
@Ion 1:46 : i’m having a blast but please create single person instances of story raid encounters as evergreen content. It is so difficult to care for the story of Wow when you join in late to the party and miss passed expansions and you never get the payoff. It’s probably been said a lot already. But you’re doing great. Keep it up 💪
Personally, I'm not sure it's worth sacrificing a week of transmog farming just to make queueing into the Timewalking Raid a smoother experience. Granted I'm talking about this from a mog farmer's POV, but that feels like you're introducing a larger problem to deal with a smaller one. I appreciate asking the community about it, though! Also I'd be down for Timewalking LFR Raids jussayin'
What about bfa time walking outdoor content adding Warfronts? I understand they aren't popular but you could have them give some item upgrade currency and a good bit of timewalking tokens as a reward? So 4 or 5 times a year you can queue for them at any level perhaps?
cross faction queuing needs to come sooner rather than later. i hope its actually at the top of their list because cross faction guilds lose a ton of their value especially to casual guilds if you cant do things like timewalk together.
Woah, wait. Timewalking zones? So there is something on the radar, by Blizz to implement TW zones? Does that mean opting to play/quest/level in pre-Cata Darkshore (during perhaps a Classic Timewalking)?? Oh, please Blizz implement this!
Even Ion agrees that Shadowlands sucked 😂 positivity helps a lot! Great to hear we are hearing about upcoming content soon after! Hopefully, they are working on Player housing or at least Guild halls would add a massive opportunity for profs and other content!
I mean, content wise, it wasn't the best yeah. Though I imagine that simply means they'll do the next Cosmic Realms better next time too. Hopefully the Progenitor stuff is also better used in terms of exploration and whatnot across the years to give players a better impression of them, as they are the creators of the Cosmos.
@@preds43 they just need to not be mentally retarded and out of touch with the game. The stuff they were adding to the game made no sense, and people began to question if they were even playing the game. People saw glaring problem before the expansion was released and pointed out 3 times. Yet they did nothing and pushed it out anyways, it is just embarrassing. It is amazing how they went from 3 expansion with glaringly obvious broken mechanic on release to Dragon Flight with non of that. Hopeful for the future but is clear, a lot of trust is lost. The sales and the retention of Dragon Flight is not as high as before.
@@preds43 I strongly hope the progenitors are not used at all. Let's try to bring Shadowlands lore up as little as possible. We already had a full restructuring of the cosmology at the end of legion in order to open up light and void as potencial main antagonists, everything added in Shadowlands was entirely unnecessary and only serves to take the mistery and mistique away from the setting.
@Krayos-13 Shadowlands basically exists to give us an underlying narrative to the Cosmic Powers, and it's something we've been doing for awhile now, especially with our own Factions, and now with the Dragonflights: Unity. The plot point that's being set up is that we have to unite and bring together the 6 Cosmic Powers, and basically have that unity be used to stand against the 7th power. It's quite literally just the same underlying theme, but used in a Cosmic sense. The First Ones, the shit with the Jailer, etc was just a way of introducing that ideal. So the Zereths and whatnot are staying sadly. They have to in order for this story to be told. Besides, Light and Void isn't the biggest conflict anymore. It's big, yeah, but it's not the main ordeal. They are however the most bickering of forces in terms of their duality.
Shadowlands sucked indeed but at least the raids were good and had some good dungeons. CN and most of Sepulcher were good. I feel like DF focused more on translating abilities into talent trees and professions-reps but didn't do much for playstyle and instanced content. The dungeons are not good, especially in M+ and the raid is very weak.
I’ve been cranking as DK but I noticed that my dps is platuing and other specs way out dps me. Now I’m going back and grinding out the renown again because I’m trying a shaman. I’m hoping it’s not a “me” problem. I’ve cranked dps in past expansions. But I feel like this expansion if you don’t have heroic and mythic raid gear your dps is really capped and you can run multiple raids and get 1 piece across multiple raid IF you’re lucky.
why is timewalking raids not just LFR though, they already have a system for this, what technically limitation could there possibly be keeping them from using a system that already ques people for raids
Old school mindsets where stuff like LFR doesn't deserve to have nice things. If you're not doing content in an actual premade, it's not worth their time.
LFR came in during Dragon Soul (pretty sure), so the older raids don't have the tech attached and/or difficulty tuning appropriate for 25 random people to queue.
@@x1plus1x and yet they have the technology to scale up boss health and damage to be relevant to current player level and gear? I think not, they could easily do it. The problem is the same problem that looking for a raid has always had, you might wait in queue for 45 minutes to get into a group that’s falling apart because most people don’t take LFR seriously.
legacy rep grind maybe instead of account wide, they give account wide rep gain token that boosts alt rep gain by massive amounts to fast track it into doing it, but not having to spend much time on it.. the token being boosted rep by association .. faction trusts your alts bc they have that rep token to prove worthiness upfront, but just need to run the paces to vet trustedness. Like a quick 10 mins or so per level of rep tier, guaranty rep drop rate, etc
They had that system in MoP. Whenever a character hit Revered they could buy a token that unlocked +100% Rep bonus for that particular faction, which worked for both that main character and any alts.
Here is a thought that baffles me to this day, the day transmog went live, class identity was thrown in the garbage which is absolutly fine... there is nothing of it left so why are we not able to transmog leather or plate on a mage for example, it makes zero sense to lock as it is in wow's current state ... it would open up a million more combinations and is a no brainer in almost every other game already....
I think that since not all things are doable cross-faction (such as queued instanced content like timewalking) that you should be able to be in a cross-faction guild in addition to a same-faction guild. Because it kinda sucks that you could be in a guild with someone and not be able to play together in a lot of ways. It makes being in a cross-faction guild something of a sacrifice. Related to the guild tabard question: It would be awesome if whenever that feature is look at by blizzard again if we got the ability to make guild armor sets. Think of an armor creation tool where you can choose between all sorts of shoulders, chest, helmet, legs, etc. pieces, then choose a detailed color scheme, and then publish that as your official guild transmog set that all members of your guild have access to. It could even be a guild rewards feature, like doing guild content unlocks further options, so maybe you see someone in a certain color or design of guild armor and you know that they have AotC.
I would like to know why I can only have one skin tone to go with the red eye colors for Elves. I wanted to have an elf with dark skin, red eyes, and white hair.
In Guild Wars 2 you can be in multiple guilds, play with anyone, anywhere, on any server. And the game has no lag with 200+ players/mounts on screen. Pretty incredible. WoW has much better story/lore - mostly thanks to Chronicle. Which is why I keep going back to WoW
What did you think of the interview? twitch.tv/MrGM
Great job as always bud.
GG
i missed the Raid Balancing, such as Mythic Player Scaling, why we nned in 2023 still 20 Players? there should be an 10 / 15 option or made the Raid flexible 10 to 20 man^^ as input for next interview
question timestamps?
@@loen224 just recruit 20. It's not that hard.
Ion really looks far more relaxed and happy in all these interviews now. Hope that continues for him and the game.
Must have been before a bunch of people started quitting en masse 😬
Still hasnt fixed his camera angle though
I think he looks more fat and spheric instead.
Well of course he is. He's making a game and the community is liking it and is engaging positively. Of course that's a huge weight off his shoulders. Of course he's happy.
And now for a slightly more spicy take...
As to the claim that this is before people started quitting - you know, World of Warcraft's problems during Shadowlands were pretty big, and when Blizzard pivoted away from them with Dragonflight there were at least a handful of pretty senior game designers on the WoW team who left, most notably the people who did the burrowed power systems as well as the mission tables, and then a few class designers.
I won't say I'm happy they're gone - I'm never going to revel at people losing their income - but I am certainly glad that their ideas no longer assert their malign influence over the game. People leaving isn't always bad...
@@IshayuG People leaving isn't always bad, but when they're leaving in the middle of a development cycle (very high possibility they are developing the next expansion), and you have to train new people on the fly to make sure current content AND the next expansion come out quality and don't end up like SL, it's hard for "this could be a good thing" to be believable.
Great interview! It was so nice seeing Ion so happy and talking about how much fun the team is having.
00:00 - Intro, positive feedback, feelings, smalltalk
02:50 - 3rd spec for evokers or anything new?
04:35 - Account wide rep, rep in general
06:30 - Cross faction guilds and content
11:00 - Guild tabbards
11:55 - Timewalking?
15:35 - Dracthyr transmog
17:00 - Allied races changes
18:30 - Reagent bank, basic gank
beyond that is something about soloable BfA content and SoO skip, didnt get around to it
need that SoO skip in my life bad
It's great seeing Ion so excited. Keep it up, the game is in a good state and the future looks bright!
Hoping for more class/race combos in 10.1.5!
Night elf paladins incoming maybe
Can someone at blizz PLEASE give ion a decent mic for these interviews lol
great interview dan!
@@KiloCee Been saying it a few times.
Especially now that they are calling for "Work from Office" they should be able to have 1-3 rooms at the office with a decent camera, decent microphone and in general a decent setup with Greenscreen/Background and lighting.
I realize that for a Streamer it is their whole thing to have good video, good audio and a stable framerate, but for a "small indie company" it should not be a huge financial hit for Blizzard to invest in one or two rigs that they can use for these Community interviews/discussions or even for interviews with larger media outlets. It just feels more.. professional.
Even the old streams with Ion and Lore they had a good camera, good microphones and a good setup with a background! Just a small, spare closet somewhere.
Late Edit: Checking the interview that Max had with Morgan Day that released a few hours ago, Morgan's setup seems way more professional with better camera placement, better lighting, etc. Could still use a sliiightly better mic but overall a lot better!
I specifically scrolled the comments to see if it bugged anybody else. Sorry to be negative, we appreciate hearing from the devs very much, but it was SO hard to follow what Ion is saying-not least because the way he speaks is a bit unique. If anybody at Blizzard does stumble upon this, please consider upping your mic game or if that's not the root cause, investigate what is causing it!
Like he just needs a cheap usb mic and it would be fine lol. Gets me every time he does an interview. Must just be a comfort thing from being a hardcore raider back in the day.
Coming back to wow officially tommarow, dragonflight has officially sold me
DF is really good unless you really liked trademill and had to log in every day to do your daily stuff to not miss anything
@@Popikaify that’s why I quit shadowlands ..that and the story sucked donkey balls
I think you're going to have a lot of fun. It's been a great expansion and seems like it's on the right path.
There's a lot of stuff to do so take it one step at a time. 😂
@@Popikaify tbh bro Idgaf about the trading post. I just do whatever i want to do, and i’m sure i’m not the only one
@@jacksanity7508 trading post can be done within a few days passively anyways, even if you don’t care about it you’ll most likely finish it which is why it’s a great feature
About 14:26. They can make something similar to Classic Wotlk HC+ dungeons where you enter the regular dungeon and everyone click on an orb, then you activate the harder version. In this example only the leader should click on an ingame object and activate TW raid difficulty. It was an elegant way to add an extra difficulty without adding UI elements.
That makes sense, seems like a fairly simple solution. The other way would be to tune TW Raids to LFR levels, instead of Normal, and put them in the Queue. However, that would require splitting some old Raids into Wings. I think the Difficulty Orb is much easier to implement.
I think the most obvious solution is to flip the script. Old dungeons and raids should just have a certain level of difficulty to them and be engaging for casual players, straight up. There's no reason for them to be this trivially easy. If we really want this whole 1-shot malarky - fine. Make _THAT_ the orb. If the orb is for soloing then all the problems of getting people in and out won't matter because it's solo.
All the dungeons should be available in a Timewalking week, not just a limited set of that expansion.
Great to hear that they are making BFA raids and dungeons soloable at later point
tbh i am glad they are doing that but man wish they would just do it after the xpac ends going into the new one
They are soloable now, but I guess Im a druid.
@@teej143i wouldn't call it "solo". It takes a while to clear it and you gotta be 410+ ilvl for that.
@@teej143 They are far from soloable, especially glory achievements. Sure if you are a solo friendly class and a high ilvl you can cheese some stuff but still things like the nyalotha cloak or other outdated mechanics should be adjusted properly. Even shadowlands and stuff like fatescribe. And please dont give me the ''it was never intended to be soloable'' excuse, when content stops being relevant there is 0 excuse for it to not be soloable.
I just want to be able to solo, or at least lower the amount of players needed for warfronts. I just want the cool warfront mogs.
I am having fun with Dragonflight. Thanks for what you do Ion!
his answers towards for example the cross-faction elements were so pertinents ! 🤔you can tell between someone who is an experienced game developer and a certain content creator who barely play the game but has an opinion about every segments of the game without thinking about the ins and outs 🤭🤭
thanks for the interview ppc
These sorts of answers to these questions would have been unthinkable in Shadowlands. Love this shift in tone and philosophy. For me at least, game feels like it has a legit future. Thanks Ion and thanks Blizz.
I can't wait for the patch next week so I can start collecting the amazing looking outdoor black dragon armor sets :D
I personally like the idea that during a time walking week, whatever raid is chosen, is configured only for the time walking like Ian was saying. I think it would add a feeling of more importance and also make it significantly easier for someone who is not in an active guild or a solo player to still be able to do it if they want.
Winding Slitherdrake gives me Wurm vibes from The Great Divide in EQ, and I love it.
Great focus topics. Well established back and forth Q. & A. for not just the core before the scene but for everyone in a simplified/easy-to-follow conversation. Thank you. Makes us excited for 10.1 and beyond!
Pleasantly surprised to see that Guild customization is on the radar. Obviously it's a lower priority, but it means they are taking a look at old, forgotten things. Hopefully Guild Achievements also get another look.
Thanks for what you do. Your focus on being informative and objective is very appreciated.
14:40 YES DO THAT! YES PLEASE FOR THE LOVE ALL THAT IS DO EXACTLY THAT PLEASE IT WOULD BE SO GOOD!
Magisters Terrace mythic + would be awesome, that one was good and still is
Love that blizzard is outwardly talking about this expansion !
It’s a shame wow isn’t bigger than it is I just feel like the game could be massive again if people gave it a chance. But I can totally understand why people wouldn’t even try it out
It can get bigger and it will, just need to keep reinforcing the positive feedback like Ion was mentioning.
DF been receiving a lot of great feedback, a lot of the haters and people complaining are still hating on the past, which is fair enough but the game is in a good place at the moment and even the devs are happy
Its still number 1 but yeah its not as big as it used to be it can make a come back if they dont fuck everything up later
you asked most of the things i wanted to know so thanks for that, about timewalking i'd say if there were more incentives to do it we wouldn't have any issues about finding more people, extra rewards from that expansion could help .
Could they at least make Evoker Tier work on the Dragon form? Dont even need to go back and make things work but going forward it would be nice
Agree
I'm playing WoW from the very first day it started baaaaack in the days. And I still return on every expansion to see what it has to offer. Dragonflight is now my favorite expac. It's also a first time ever for me to buy a 1 year subscription for wow and not regretting a minute I played a game when I had a chance. You guys did something great here. Stay strong!
I would love to say thank you to all the devs im about 2 months into wow coming from eso and this is what a true mmo is supposed to be earn mounts earn everything and it’s actually hard you can push your self with your guild I love it keep up the good work 😊🎉
@Ion A few things.
First off, yall have done a phenomenal job on this expansion. there are a few hickups (guardian druid being meh and ret being broken). but other than that it honestly already feels like my favorite expansion of all time, and ive played since vanilla. so well done!
secondly, when looking at the next thing to integrate with cross faction queued content. for pvp, consider looking into random bgs. we already have that traitor mode for pvp, but being able to queue for that is one of the main things i would love to do with my friends. its casual etc. Also maybe making a dps solo queue only mode or something like that. Maybe a 5v5 bg of sorts for rated. Use current maps, but limit it down a bit (i.e. only 2 of 3 carts running in the caves, side bases in AB dont work, that kind of thing)
third, some sort of overhall for finding groups for M+, raids, and pvp. Not sure what, but it could probably use an over hall of sorts. Everyone spends a lot of time in there so it definitely wouldnt go to waste.
Fourth, id recommend looking at the void storage as a way to have that server wide bank. Adding a money option in there much like guild banks would be phenomenal.
lastly, Well done to all of yall. You should truly be proud of this expansion. Its the best that i can remember wow being.
Make a bronze dragonflight raid that pulls from old content that would be amazing 🎉
Then at the end make it wipe everything from Shadowlands out of the timeline entirely
@@BatJeff What’s Shadowlands? Never heard of it
@@BatJeffShadowlands??? What is it? Can we eat it!
@@BatJeff Nah, in 11.0 "Return of the Old Gods" it will be revealed that N'Zoth defeated us, and entire Shadowlands was just a nightmare made to break our will.
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Then what's the deal with DF? Simple. We are playing versions of our characters from a different timeline, and first raid of 11.0 will be us trying to save ourselfe from the og timelane
I really like this idea for a raid concept Like onyixa, rag, neltharion. Like themeatic to this xpac
A question for a future Interview, could we get a frame/window that tells us what Raid-skips our characters have unlocked?
So that I know if my Druid or Mage or other alts have unlocked the Antorus skips or the Hellfire Citadel skips without having to fly there or run a script from WoWHead to check if I finished the Skip-Quest?
Very nice interview!!
Update Garrison's for every expansion, allow us to bring our ALT's as NPC's like we did in Warlord's of Draneor for when we need to bring a healer, dps or a tank.
Loved this!
Finessed. Well played, Mr. Hazzikostas, well played
Would have liked to hear them answer the follow up question from "What can we expect from Drathyr transmog?" which is "Why did you design them outside of any current transmog profile?" Like, you made the lock and the key and have to make a workaround to get it to fit together. I can speculate many reasons, but I wonder what theirs was.
Just leaving this comment here for hopefully MrGM or even Ion if he's perusing the comments regarding the timewalking for raids and if having it only be scaled up version for a week would be a solution community is happy with. I can't speak for everyone but I actually do think it's a good idea. Especially if it's hyped up in that way. This week, BC dungeons and the BT raid will be at current power and you are able to try them out, and then go back to farming your stuff the next week if you choose. The disclaimer is I think it has to be "worth it." What I mean by this is to just make timewalking this big deal thing. Expand to more raids if possible in the future. Have old PvP stuff be obtainable/more obtainable for this week. During BC Timewalking have the marks of honor from Hellfire be able to buy something. If you go all out, the people who don't want to be inconvenienced by the raid being timewalking only would not mind as much. But, if it's just inconveniencing 1000 people to help out a different 1000 people that feels bad. Also just like this current timewalking event where you can get heroic raid item from doing the 5 dungeon quest, do not be afraid to give meaningful rewards for doing the time walking. Should it equal a mythic piece, or a +20 piece, or an elite gladiator piece, probably not, but heroic raid -- 1 item, seems quite fine for example for the dungeons. If rewards are good, people will do it! And that will make all the effort put in worth it as well.
Good interview by MrGM and DF has been marvelous so far so hopefully Ion and the devs can keep that going!
(Sorry, adding comments as I watch)
Ion mentioned concerns about sending players to 2007 graphics for an eighth of their time during a Mythic+ season. Time permitting, then, would it not be a fun idea to "remaster" these older dungeons as they're added? It's more work of course, but over the years we've seen visual overhauls of different mobs as patches roll out. It could be nice to start visually overhauling old dungeons in the same way, and maybe tweaking some mob packs and mechanics to keep it in line with modern Mythic+ game design. We have Classic for the original experience, after all.
As for "why not just make a brand new dungeon" with that time, I have an easy answer: The cool factor! Remember that many players who play this game are familiar with the old dungeons and would be delighted to see them overhauled.
For once, the person interviewing Ion seemed more nervous than him. V cool to see these kind of chill candid interviews.
Great interview!
I love your content and all your videos. Keep up the good work!
That third evoker spec answer at the beginning was so sneaky lol
Yep. Of course it isn’t in 10.1. It will be in the story and the spec will be added in 10.1.7
@@nathanw4897 very likely it will be a major patch change like 10.2
@@hrd1711 They will hardly add a new spec in a .2 patch with a new race for world first coming up, so a .5 or .7 patch seems more likley
@@hrd1711 I think they would want to introduce before a new season though. So people could play it and gear up if they want to switch.
@@levilamperouge8917 10.1.5 is my bet, what he said about the 10.1.5 PTR going up shortly after 10.1 release, and May being a big month for world of warcraft. Tells me they are getting that PTR up quick to balance the new spec
I would love to see the option to add fated to the calendar.
Was a brilliant interview and good to see ion so up beat positive and happy to discuss all these topics and take feedback. Cheers!
Great video! :D
2:32 Gotta get that PTR up quick to test/balance the 3rd evoker spec :)
Thank you for asking about SoO
First time in a long time where an expansion is released and there were no red flags. It is insane that having no red flag is considered as a positive thing which should just be common sense. I am still amazed at the people who defended convanent, azurite gear, maw and other broken feature on released and the developer who thought they were good ideas.
They needed this to happen for them to get humbled. The trust they need to build up again is something I am looking forward to.
I really love Ion. He's just really genuine and the more freedom he gets I think the better the game will get.
lmao 🤣😂🤣 You're funny
Speaking of Trader's Tender, it would be nice if they would increase the amount of Currencies you can get each month, cuz only being able to afford 2 items each month is not fun. I'm not asking to be able to buy everything from the Trade Post, but more then 2 items would be nice.
Time walking raids should be closer to LFR difficulty imo and also use the LFR queue system. The alternative in its current form is just that almost no one does them because they are too much of a pain, or fall apart after however many bosses. Imo
Ion definitely comes off as a person who loves trying to make the game way better with people who really want to make the game better, and hearing ideas from fans that are enthusiastic about cool changes. Rather than saying, this game is dead and worthless and just horrible shit that doesn't help anyone. I'm really intrested in dragonflight, there is so much cool stuff to do that I don't HAVE to do, makes the game feel so much bigger. I feel like there's so much new stuff I'm finding and learning it's almost like I'm asking myself "where do I begin!" In a positive way. Reps feel old school. The game feels just really nice right now. It reminds me of why I love MMOs!
Hearing about the limitations about Dracthyr transmog, makes me think: What if they built the model in such a way that enables better quality transmog (more resolution, non mirrored gear, etc.) and they are changing the other character models and old gear to fit this new system? That's why they didn't bother to make old gear available on Dracthyr model. 🤯
"There's definitely no third spec in 10.1 - I wish we were that good at hiding things"
You clever goose. I read that as 10.1.5 with inflection-based deflection
take what Ion says with a grain of salt. He once said. "There are no Old Gods in BfA." and we all know how that ended.
FUCKIN KNEW IT
Ion seems to be listening to your suggestions😮
the one thing Im really hoping they address soon is the racial mounts. My poor human horses and Night elf sabers look so polygon compared to the new stuff
No 3rd spec anytime soon, if at all? It'd be neat if we at least got a cosmetic spell effect like warlock's green flames that was reminiscent of the black dragonflight, then. Like molten lava and stone instead of fire, ice, and green.
The Allied Race unlocks were a massive barrier for me coming back to the game. Since I last played WoW, I have made new friends. They prefer the opposite faction from what I typically play, but the only races that seemed interesting to me on that faction required a major unlock quest that would require me to play as a race I have ZERO interest in playing for an extensive period of time just to unlock the ability for me to play as an aesthetic that I like. And the inverse was true - the main race my friend was interested in on my faction was also an allied race. It was a major struggle for us to find a way to play together thanks to the barrier.
Glad you asked that question and I hope they consider removing those unlocks - at least for the Legion ones, since they're more than two full expansions old.
Could we get some old questline back like benediction questline. Gone because of cataclysm.
so happy with DF, teh game is going in the right direction .
Good interview.
Question for Ion:
As he is "watcherdev", does he have the ability to view anyone's screen whenever he wants? And if so, does he do that often? Many times, I have had the sense that I am being watched.
What I would love to see is debloat of old currencies to a single currency! As to remove the barrier to collect old tmorg and mounts.
Idea for cross faction queued content: Make it so it's availble once you got your first character to max lvl, so new players don't get confused, and add maybe an option to enable or disable cross faction grouping when you queue up.
Ion seems like a rad dude
@Ion 1:46 : i’m having a blast but please create single person instances of story raid encounters as evergreen content. It is so difficult to care for the story of Wow when you join in late to the party and miss passed expansions and you never get the payoff. It’s probably been said a lot already. But you’re doing great. Keep it up 💪
damn MrGM... i didn't knew you were going to interview him... i would make you ask Ion to let dracthyr dragonride by themselves with soar!
Personally, I'm not sure it's worth sacrificing a week of transmog farming just to make queueing into the Timewalking Raid a smoother experience. Granted I'm talking about this from a mog farmer's POV, but that feels like you're introducing a larger problem to deal with a smaller one. I appreciate asking the community about it, though!
Also I'd be down for Timewalking LFR Raids jussayin'
What about bfa time walking outdoor content adding Warfronts? I understand they aren't popular but you could have them give some item upgrade currency and a good bit of timewalking tokens as a reward? So 4 or 5 times a year you can queue for them at any level perhaps?
cross faction queuing needs to come sooner rather than later. i hope its actually at the top of their list because cross faction guilds lose a ton of their value especially to casual guilds if you cant do things like timewalk together.
weird questions and all over the place but good for ion for sitting thru it
Woah, wait. Timewalking zones? So there is something on the radar, by Blizz to implement TW zones? Does that mean opting to play/quest/level in pre-Cata Darkshore (during perhaps a Classic Timewalking)?? Oh, please Blizz implement this!
Ion is the last man standing in a shinking ship
Even Ion agrees that Shadowlands sucked 😂 positivity helps a lot! Great to hear we are hearing about upcoming content soon after! Hopefully, they are working on Player housing or at least Guild halls would add a massive opportunity for profs and other content!
I mean, content wise, it wasn't the best yeah. Though I imagine that simply means they'll do the next Cosmic Realms better next time too.
Hopefully the Progenitor stuff is also better used in terms of exploration and whatnot across the years to give players a better impression of them, as they are the creators of the Cosmos.
@@preds43 they just need to not be mentally retarded and out of touch with the game. The stuff they were adding to the game made no sense, and people began to question if they were even playing the game. People saw glaring problem before the expansion was released and pointed out 3 times. Yet they did nothing and pushed it out anyways, it is just embarrassing.
It is amazing how they went from 3 expansion with glaringly obvious broken mechanic on release to Dragon Flight with non of that. Hopeful for the future but is clear, a lot of trust is lost. The sales and the retention of Dragon Flight is not as high as before.
@@preds43 I strongly hope the progenitors are not used at all. Let's try to bring Shadowlands lore up as little as possible. We already had a full restructuring of the cosmology at the end of legion in order to open up light and void as potencial main antagonists, everything added in Shadowlands was entirely unnecessary and only serves to take the mistery and mistique away from the setting.
@Krayos-13 Shadowlands basically exists to give us an underlying narrative to the Cosmic Powers, and it's something we've been doing for awhile now, especially with our own Factions, and now with the Dragonflights: Unity.
The plot point that's being set up is that we have to unite and bring together the 6 Cosmic Powers, and basically have that unity be used to stand against the 7th power. It's quite literally just the same underlying theme, but used in a Cosmic sense. The First Ones, the shit with the Jailer, etc was just a way of introducing that ideal. So the Zereths and whatnot are staying sadly. They have to in order for this story to be told.
Besides, Light and Void isn't the biggest conflict anymore. It's big, yeah, but it's not the main ordeal. They are however the most bickering of forces in terms of their duality.
Shadowlands sucked indeed but at least the raids were good and had some good dungeons. CN and most of Sepulcher were good. I feel like DF focused more on translating abilities into talent trees and professions-reps but didn't do much for playstyle and instanced content. The dungeons are not good, especially in M+ and the raid is very weak.
When will PvP Island Expeditions be soloable?
Ion kinda the man I think he's just as hype to play the update
Most of the answers for the questions asked were meh. A lot of maybe or not near the future responses. Kinda bummed.
If you ever get a chance to put another question to Ion maybe ask him about the new players experience in wow and address how bad it is atm.
I’ve been cranking as DK but I noticed that my dps is platuing and other specs way out dps me. Now I’m going back and grinding out the renown again because I’m trying a shaman. I’m hoping it’s not a “me” problem. I’ve cranked dps in past expansions. But I feel like this expansion if you don’t have heroic and mythic raid gear your dps is really capped and you can run multiple raids and get 1 piece across multiple raid IF you’re lucky.
why is timewalking raids not just LFR though, they already have a system for this, what technically limitation could there possibly be keeping them from using a system that already ques people for raids
Old school mindsets where stuff like LFR doesn't deserve to have nice things. If you're not doing content in an actual premade, it's not worth their time.
LFR came in during Dragon Soul (pretty sure), so the older raids don't have the tech attached and/or difficulty tuning appropriate for 25 random people to queue.
@@x1plus1x and yet they have the technology to scale up boss health and damage to be relevant to current player level and gear? I think not, they could easily do it. The problem is the same problem that looking for a raid has always had, you might wait in queue for 45 minutes to get into a group that’s falling apart because most people don’t take LFR seriously.
Where is the Juicy Race/Class combo questions . Or classic + / hardocre stuff? we need the answerssss
Emerald Dream as a mega dungeon could be nice - I don't think it should be a raid, we've had Emerald Nightmare already
instead of timewalking..maybe put actual present date/expac content into an old zone that makes sense.
legacy rep grind maybe instead of account wide, they give account wide rep gain token that boosts alt rep gain by massive amounts to fast track it into doing it, but not having to spend much time on it.. the token being boosted rep by association .. faction trusts your alts bc they have that rep token to prove worthiness upfront, but just need to run the paces to vet trustedness. Like a quick 10 mins or so per level of rep tier, guaranty rep drop rate, etc
They had that system in MoP. Whenever a character hit Revered they could buy a token that unlocked +100% Rep bonus for that particular faction, which worked for both that main character and any alts.
Here is a thought that baffles me to this day, the day transmog went live, class identity was thrown in the garbage which is absolutly fine... there is nothing of it left so why are we not able to transmog leather or plate on a mage for example, it makes zero sense to lock as it is in wow's current state ... it would open up a million more combinations and is a no brainer in almost every other game already....
Respectfully asking for classic era/ som plans Ion. 🙏
Just once I want somebody to ask a question like.. ."Holy Paladins.. what happened?"
Horde guild adds your alliance toon, proceeds to beat the shit out of your endlessly ..this is what they don't want to happen.
I think that since not all things are doable cross-faction (such as queued instanced content like timewalking) that you should be able to be in a cross-faction guild in addition to a same-faction guild. Because it kinda sucks that you could be in a guild with someone and not be able to play together in a lot of ways. It makes being in a cross-faction guild something of a sacrifice.
Related to the guild tabard question: It would be awesome if whenever that feature is look at by blizzard again if we got the ability to make guild armor sets. Think of an armor creation tool where you can choose between all sorts of shoulders, chest, helmet, legs, etc. pieces, then choose a detailed color scheme, and then publish that as your official guild transmog set that all members of your guild have access to. It could even be a guild rewards feature, like doing guild content unlocks further options, so maybe you see someone in a certain color or design of guild armor and you know that they have AotC.
I can't wait for the day of soloing mythic Jaina
Account Wide currency - Did someone say Marks of Honor?
"how is the team" well the ones who did not quit or get fired lol
Ask em again about druid dragon riding forms
Feels like where moving away from Horde vs Alliance
Sounds like Ion calling out Belluar early in the interview. lol
I would like to know why I can only have one skin tone to go with the red eye colors for Elves. I wanted to have an elf with dark skin, red eyes, and white hair.
Because ur an undead elf when u have red eyes. When your undead you cant have color in ur skin.
In Guild Wars 2 you can be in multiple guilds, play with anyone, anywhere, on any server. And the game has no lag with 200+ players/mounts on screen. Pretty incredible. WoW has much better story/lore - mostly thanks to Chronicle. Which is why I keep going back to WoW
It's called community in wow
the game is a lot better now i like it a lot
Murloc azeroth mega dungeon plzzzz. And the skips would be awesome!
I'm sorry but what are these questions?
Reagent bag from ESO please
my patch is in a month in the best possible way
Seriously no time stamps?