No Summoning Stones & Mount Cost Changes - Kotaku Interview

Posted 3 hr 6 min ago by Squishei

Tim Jones (Lead Classic Designer)

Mike Nuthals (Lead Encounter Designer)

KotakuInterview SummarySoD

There's a lot of crazy stuff from SoD, such as Shaman Tanks, but it doesn't make sense in terms of simplicity or the identity of classes of Forever.

They're starting with the simplicity that's closer to the Classic game than SoD.

Raids

There is no flex raiding in Forever.

Every single tier will have at least one 10-player option and one 20-player option.

Some tiers will have a 40-player raid.

If your group is too small for the larger raids, you can still do the smaller raid(s).

They always want to make sure there is challenge and rewards in the 10-player content, and there will always be a 10-player raid.

Mounts

Effort will still be required to obtain things like your mount.

They've adjusted the gold cost to be on the training, instead of the mount.

If you see someone on a mount, it represents the amount of time and effort they have put into the game.

No Summoning Stones

Meeting Stones will not let you summon other players.

Instead, they'll open a new LFG feature which allows you to list and discover groups

You'll need to make your way across to each other if you don't have a Warlock.

They believe that downtime is important for social opportunities.

Addon Restrictions

Computational addons will be restricted.

PvP

Battlegrounds and PvP content will progress you through an Honor ranking system.

The Honor track has 14 ranks for that patch cycle, and players will get rewards and PvP armor.

There's a new Darkspear Islands battleground.

Forever

Comment by MightylinkThe mount costs make sense, back in the original classic you where likely to only get your racial mount, but in this version they probably have a lot more mounts planned so the costs should be moved over to the skill.Comment by merex760Sounding incredible. Vanilla with incredibly conservative QoL updates.Comment by DrBwoAs someone in a guild that routinely has 15 players, I just LOVE the prospect of having to force 5 people to sit out! What fun! 🤡Comment by mcfailureswagI hope they bring housing in a future patchComment by Colthas10-man raids <3Comment by draconicmanMeeting Stones will not let you summon other players.
Instead, they'll open a new LFG feature which allows you to list and discover groupsComment by Grizzlemaw1993Well then why make spirit claws increase threat even more. That was a deliberate changeComment by p00pyjoelShaman tanks, yes. Summon stones outside dungeons that you can’t use to summon? Super dumb.