Pings are Coming to World of Warcraft in Patch 10.1.7

Posted 2023/07/07 at 3:45 PM by Squishei

full interviewbrief summaryDisclaimer: Thumbnail is not a real image and the Question Mark Ping is from League of Legends photoshopped on a WoW image.Pings Coming in Patch 10.1.7

Morgan Day

In 10.1.7, we're actually adding a ping system. So something that you're familiar with from DOTA, League of Legends, Apex, stuff like that, where there's a ping system that has contextual pings where you can really quickly on the fly kind of communicate.

It will show a "thing" in game and it'll have different options and you'll be able to put it in the world or on a player or an enemy. Giving players that tool to more quickly communicate and if we give you great affordance, this is not only something that could be great for guilds but we also thing it's also an important accessibility option. We love watching guilds who are participating in the raid content who might have some accessibility concerns. So that's something that we're adding that we think is important for people to be able to solve these problems that we're creating for them. Lost ArkLeague of Legends

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Comment by Eralynepog can't wait to see pugs get 10x more toxicComment by Skyreiisnt this just basically raid markers anywhere?Comment by no19lololol... inb4 ping spams on someone's corpse as soon as they dieComment by Ebonyohno. And you thought League pings were toxic just wait until WoW gets pingsComment by FerLuque1696PLEASE NOComment by SilverhustleYes please! I would like to see those four pings from Lost Ark introduced in WoW.

It's going to be much easier for Deaf and Hard of Hearing players since we don't rely on sounds but rather on visual! It would be a major improvement overall.Comment by AsaeliaI can't see this ending well. Don't we already have minimap pings and world markers?Comment by VSozonovThis will be a good addition, especially for pugs.Comment by KerathrasOh this is gonna be great… NOT! 🤣🤣🤣Comment by LinaoriThis will be fun in LFR and EBGComment by Mickh73Surely there's no toxicity that will come from this system.
Surely Leagues pinging system is used for communication.
Surely League players do not constantly flame each other with their ping system. Clueless.
Still waiting for the day WoW Devs start playing their own game instead of boosting a character to 70 and posting a screenshot on twitter pretending like they do. Maybe if this happens we'll actually get meaningful changes.Comment by MarkElfThis sounds like world markers with extra steps (meanings).Comment by Cheeselord1011Please tell me this is an out of season April fools jokeComment by moridin27What makes this different from the raid markers we already have? I don't play any other multiplayer games and so have no idea what "pings" even are, but from the description it seems we already have them?Comment by nerzhul629let's see people spamming points on MM+ then leaving keys lol (i see you mages)Comment by Makz42Probably one of the greatest feature to be implemented to pug groups.Comment by Swalshy4We already have this with raid markers and overhead symbols. Just add more of both.Comment by BenThrewquestion marks after you died incomingComment by ReverenceBecause WoW is full of saints and absolutely zero toxicity and is revered as having the nicest and most loving community in the world, I can see this going well 🙂Comment by TaniverPeople are gonna cry about lfr spamming but If this is done correctly and made so only lead and assists can use it this will be amazing, even if its just 4 simple pings like, move here, stack, soak, hide. the game has needed this for years, map pings have always been useless while markers only do half the job, the only issue is that it needs to be locked to players only being able to do it with out addons otherwise things will become extremely easy unless people are trying to wipe on purpose

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