wow Wowhead's Chains of Domination Interview Summary

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Wowhead talked about Patch 9.1 with Frank Kowalkowski and Jeremy Feasel, and here's a round-up of the most important highlights.

• Patch 9.1 will hit PTR shortly after 9.0.5 goes live.
• No plans for Tier Sets to return in 9.1.
• The Chains of Domination sets are already in the game. Blizzard decided they will share models with the Legendary Armor appearances from Torghast that were previously not transmoggable as a whole set. They will create weapons for the sets.
• They want to continue expanding on the Legendary system and have some cool ideas for what they want to do with it, but they have nothing to announce for now. The question was if there were any plans to allow us to wear more than 1 Legendary at once.
• They are actively discussing faction imbalance but have nothing to announce at this time.
• They want every race to have Heritage Armor but have nothing to announce for now.
• Ve'nari will be updated with new content and a new currency, so no, Stygia won't be used in 9.1 to purchase stuff from her.
• The Maw is going to feel less oppressive in 9.1.
• They listen to player feedback when it comes to Covenant swapping restrictions, but they need to be very careful about what they do.
• The new 9.1 Covenant chapters are a sort of "wrap-up" to the Covenant storylines.
• They didn't comment on Arthas in Chains of Domination.
• They want to continue evolving the Mission Table System in 9.1 and beyond.
• The Broker Megadungeon will have hard modes, similar to Operation: Mechagon.
• They've been actively discussing Season rewards beyond Mythic +15 but have nothing to announce at this time.
• Existing Soulbinds will receive new rows in 9.1, and there will be no new Soulbinds.
• No plans for a Soul Ash catch-up for now. Instead, they want to reward Soul Ash even if you fail a run based on a new "Torghast score" system.
• Tower Shadehound is a new secret mount connected to Stygia Crafting in the Maw.
• No plans to change the AoE cap.

You can read the full interview here.

[FireLordJohn 91]

Oh, Arthas'll be back. It's basically a given. I'm sure of it.

[Migol 425]

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but have nothing to announce for now.

Seems to sum up most of it.

[MrSkullcandy 2]

Not implementing a Soul-Ash catchup or make the system accountwide are really *filtered* bad for everyone.
I understand the time-gate at the start of the addon so people cant instantly grind a 235 item, but everyone should be able to someone get every Legendary item by now, even with a new character.
Many would love to play alts but tons of systems are so timegated that you dont even want to pickup a new character anymore.


The current timegate is extremely unreasonable and there are no reasons for it.

[rowaasr13 17]

There are people who still insist calling expansions "addons"? Despite not only WoW, but no other games as well ever calling those "addons"? And despite WoW explicitly using "addon" for something else? Is that some sect thing or something?

Edited February 25, 2021 by rowaasr13