Liveblog of the August 23rd Battle for Azeroth Q&A with Ion Hazzikostas

Posted 2018/08/23 at 12:45 PM by Squishei

Watch WoW Live Developer Q&A w/ Ion Hazzikostas from Warcraft on www.twitch.tvHighlights

Azerite Armor will be tradeable starting with the next Weekly Reset.

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LiveblogAny plans on curbing back the PvE world mob scaling?What are your thoughts on Leveling? I feel weaker while leveling.Level scaling has odd consequences, such as 110s dominating 120s in WPvP and players more powerful at 110 rather than 120. Thoughts?What is the design philosophy behind item level increasing so rapidly from the start of an expansion? Should we expect a squish every or every other expansion?Do you feel that the removal of auto-accept and searching for groups by addons was worthwhile?Are there plans to fix the AH and Guild Bank features for high pop realms?Are you going to put guild permissions back to how they were pre-communities?Are there plans to expand on the Communites feature to make them usable for larger communities?Island Expeditions seem to be very unrewarding. Any chance of having their rewards improved?Will there be any change to Azerite gear and it being untradeable?Explain the catch-up mechanic with Artifact Power.Heart of AzerothAny plans to increase the rewards for Warmode?War Mode on RP Realms. Are you phased with other servers?When deciding on the gearing system for PvP, why did you choose a fixed rewards schedule?Are there plans to allow targeting of specific high item level Azerite pieces?Some dungeons feel like they have too many trash mobs. Are there plans to reduce them?How do you plan on keeping World Quests relevant once reputations have capped?Update on new Worgen and Goblin models?Horde aren't getting Honorbound for the Wanted quest in Kul Tiras. Is this intended?Emissary Rewards are different between factions, why?Is there a reason for the overwhelming amount of quests in the latest zones?Will we see the social impact of the faction war on other races of Azeroth? e.g. Pandaren deal with the conflict.

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Comments

Comment by Legends34

Man do people just hate blizzard I see on wowhead and mmo champion everyday.

Comment by OridanIX

I love that you followed Ion's pro-tip in regards to the bingo card. :D

Comment by perculia

I love that you followed Ion's pro-tip in regards to the bingo card. :D

Thanks :)

Comment by 1809537

This post was from a user who has deleted their account.

Comment by Willblade

So even on these funny bingo cards topics that are "Alliance related or concerend" are so far from actually being possibly discussed or focused on that they are not even shown on mocking bingo cards.
Speaks a blot about the community and their pereception of Blizzard and how they handle stuff.

Great...

Isn't alliance doing great with an actually good and compelling plot to follow or is this about the 0.0001% "game changing" racials?

Comment by 1486962

And as per usual about half of these ( if not all ) are going to be half assed responses or avoidance of the topic entirely. Or blizzard new favorite tactic of blaming it all on someone else.

Comment by Ternel

People didn't like world scaling in 7.2 and don't like it now. They scaled it back after the outcry but it's come back and feels bigger in BFA because of the stat squish.

Also I don't buy Ion's justification of needing this system. Adding HP to mobs does not make it challenging but just makes it more tedious.

Comment by 1809537

This post was from a user who has deleted their account.

Comment by Zyrinx

They're looking for the silver bullet in future expansions.

2 weeks into this expansion........ we'll fix this next expansion. Maybe.

Comment by Uregale

"From when you hit max level and start getting into Mythics"

Not everybody is going to get into Mythics. Some people don't play mythic content and should be able to quest normally in this expansion, without having to pull their CDs all the time. It's mindblowing one has to explain that to him.

Comment by StoneLegion

I love blizzard I love this expansion. That being said I disliked the scaling once I hit 120. I get called a little girl, and worse. Honestly I like to feel slightly more powerful as I level. But instead once I hit 120 I felt like crap I did not enjoy my character and in the end I actually stopped playing and finish questing. When 2-3 mobs gank my arse it's not fun at all. Yes I consider myself a casual yes i'm not the best player in the world but I kept seeing this over and over in general chat too I would watch people just hit 120 and do just as bad as I was.

Clearly there is an issue we are talking about it here and now. I'm not saying you should make everyone gods at 120 but you should of not rewarded them at 120 with a punch in the face either.

Comment by Uregale

"They're aware of it but once you start gearing up again, they think it's worth the sacrifice."

Because they're incabable of listening. Over and over and over again.

Comment by Ternel

That is leveling. At max level having HP scaling at max level means mobs that cannot hurt you just take longer.

Should mention I am a tank. I don't take damage from world mobs. Literally almost none.

Comment by WonderEscemo

Also I don't buy Ion's justification of needing this system. Adding HP to mobs does not make it challenging but just makes it more tedious.

I disagree that more health only makes it more tedious - a big part of leveling is how many mobs you can pull and kill at a time to make it faster, which is more difficult with higher health as they will take longer to aoe down. This is why people find leveling harder - because if you pull more than maybe 4 mobs at a time they will all be hitting you for much longer and eventually kill you when they have higher health.
Personally I have enjoyed leveling more since it has become more difficult - on my ele shaman I actually have to regularly use cooldowns (Liquid Magma Totem, Capacitor totem, earth elemental, etc.) to kill groups of mobs rather than just, for example, spamming chain lighting and earth shock. It feels like I know my spec a lot better and am more used to using important cooldowns, and am therefore more ready for M+ and raiding. But I understand why people disagree and why people dislike the new leveling.

Comment by StoneLegion

Since a lot of people went insane on discord I want to say it simple.

I want to do all 3 zones and their normal quest progression. I should be able to continue that at 120 without being hit with bricks and have to be told by people to go gear up to continue to finish the normal zone quests. I think if Blizzard can fix that sort of gaping issues then it would not be as bad.

Comment by ZerOrbit

Agh please give info about the worgen/goblin update! Fingers crossed!

Comment by 1644641

I have to disagree with his comments on world scaling because most people are never going to farm mythics. Even those who do farm mythics or heroic raids probably won't do so on their alts, so that just makes things more tedious for lesser-geared alts too.

Developers choose very tedious hills to die on sometimes.

Comment by Arraya

Whoever made the Bingo Cards needs everything. I laugh at the possibilities every time.

"Morally Gray"

Comment by Wereknives

Any word on a release for Zandalari Trolls as an allied race? Hugely excited for those and I’m afraid I’m a bit slow on the uptake if it was announced elsewhere!

Comment by darquis

"impossible to balance" - cmon, everyone had equal opportunity to use group finder stuff, now it's just coming in with a group in advance or not instead (or getting addons that work around the blocks) - there's still a disparity, it's just more inconvenient for players.

But it goes hand in hand with health only scaling on mobs, and then saying players should grind mythics. That's Blizzard's preferred player playstyle - you spend time grinding all the time, because somehow in their head, that's engagement with the content.

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