wow Patch 10.0.7 Q&A with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas

[Staff 870]

Game Director Ion Hazzikostas today answered some interesting questions abut Patch 10.0.7 and beyond.

• The team wants to do as many Holiday updates as they can throughout the year.
• .7 patches allow them to set up what comes next and introduce catch-up mechanics. 
• It hasn't been 100% confirmed, but they are looking into adding Conquest boxes to PvP vendors.
• They don't want you to use the Onyx Annulet over Mythic Aberrus rings.
• When it comes to class balancing, they want to be more proactive in the first half of the season reigning in high-end outliers.
• With Monks being expanded to more races, they might add other race/class combinations where they make sense. They want to be as permissive as possible, but there are certain limiting factors and mechanical restrictions. Gnomes for instance can't breathe fire, so it doesn't make any sense for them to be Evokers. Dracthyr, on the other hand, can learn to wield axes and cast Frostbolt. They want race/class combinations to make sense narratively; lay some groundwork and provide context for how they come to exist. Goblin Druids could theoretically exist, but would need a narrative setup. 
• Dragonflight contains unsolved secrets.
• The current cross-faction focus is "opt-in" -- give players the choice but keep the default where possible.
• In Patch 10.1, they are removing and adding new affixes. The ultimate goal is to deliver challenge, but a fun/fair one.
• There are no plans to entice Rated Solo Shuffle to other brackets, but the team is discussing how the feature would affect PvP in the future.
• They wanted to have Trading Post available at Dragonflight launch, but it wasn't ready.
• There are no plans to merge Alliance / Horde guilds, the goal is to bring the ability to join a guild regardless of faction.
• They will keep applying class tuning at a slower pace via hotfixes.
• When it comes to PTR testing, faster cadence means fewer people on the PTR. For some content, they will need to organize "Play with the Blues" events for appropriate feedback gathering.

A huge thanks to @Sinzhufor the transcript!

[Prophet001 387]

38 minutes ago, Staff said:

Goblin Druids would make sense

bro what lol

You done lost your dang mind blizzurd.

[Lunestro 23]

27 minutes ago, Prophet001 said:

bro what lol

You done lost your dang mind blizzurd.

It's like you decided to only comprehend the words that you wanted to, leaving out the context.

[Prophet001 387]

4 minutes ago, Lunestro said:

It's like you decided to only comprehend the words that you wanted to, leaving out the context.

Goblins are de-facto enemies of the environment. Like that makes no sense.

The only "story" you could come up with would be some hack that would be nowhere near the spirit of the race or the world thus far.

[Lunestro 23]

4 minutes ago, Prophet001 said:

Goblins are de-facto enemies of the environment. Like that makes no sense.

The only "story" you could come up with would be some hack that would be nowhere near the spirit of the race or the world thus far.

Here, I'll help you out a bit.

1 hour ago, Staff said:

They want race/class combinations to make sense narratively; lay some groundwork and provide context for how they come to exist. Goblin Druids could theoretically exist, but would need a narrative setup. 

I added the context you conveniently left out so you could, for whatever reason, have something to complain about.

[Grumar 140]

46 minutes ago, Prophet001 said:

bro what lol

You done lost your dang mind blizzurd.

he means there is nothing physically stopping a goblin from being a druid. unlike like he said gnomes can't breath fires so they can't be evokers, nothing in druid lore would contradict goblins being able to learn it.

Edited March 14 by Grumar

[Prophet001 387]

13 minutes ago, Lunestro said:

Here, I'll help you out a bit.

I added the context you conveniently left out so you could, for whatever reason, have something to complain about.

Maybe they could channel the earth mother through strip mining and oil well drilling.

You have a good point.

Edited March 14 by Prophet001

[Dahaka99 19]

2 hours ago, Prophet001 said:

bro what lol

You done lost your dang mind blizzurd.

i mean why not? leet us decide wich class/race combo want to do, this lock in this game means nothing. im hoping for my fav race  Draenei Demon Hunter will become in the future.

[Teta 8]

2 hours ago, Prophet001 said:

Maybe they could channel the earth mother through strip mining and oil well drilling.

You have a good point.

you seem to simply dont get it bro, he said, they would have to come up with a narrative to make sense goblin druids, that doesnt mean its not uncanny to happen, gnomes cant do what evokers do because to be an evoker you need to be a literal dragonoid thing, but druids doesnt have this requirement to be one,  could be personality, culture whatever, which goblins are almost impossible to have the mind of a druid, that loves nature.  isnt hard to understand.

[Arcling 732]

If there are no plans to merge guilds, then raiding will stay dead on Alliance side.

Edited March 15 by Arcling

[Nicolae 4]

I have been asking for a while and I will continue doing it.

Human shamans, it makes sense, it is possible and not that hard.

Other race/class combinations does not make sense compared to this one.

[Cham79 30]

who caaaaaaaares there's cow rogues so the floodgates have opened and the immersion is gone

[calledyouout 14]

 

On 3/14/2023 at 8:50 PM, Prophet001 said:

Maybe they could channel the earth mother through strip mining and oil well drilling.

You have a good point.

I'm sure you care loads of about lore. I'm not sure Goblin Druid is the most unreal thing #Zandalar Pally

Edited March 16 by calledyouout

[Ragingwolf 248]

If there are going to be Goblin Druids might as well let Undead have Paladins and Drust Version Druids as well.