Blizzard on Class Design Progress on Dragonflight Beta - Design Iteration Phase Over, Moving to Tuning and Bug Fixes

Posted 2022/09/23 at 5:59 PM by Squishei

We feel it would be useful to let everyone know where we are in the development of Dragonflight classes and talent design. With the next Beta/PTR build, we’re transitioning away from spending the majority of our time on the design iteration of the new talent trees, and we’re now primarily focused on fixing bugs and tuning the game. This includes balancing talent choices against each other and tuning the throughput of each class. We want to ensure that we release an expansion of the highest quality for this incredible community.That being said, the new talent systems constitute a tremendous change to the game and represent a fundamental overhaul to how classes and specializations are customized by players. It is our expectation that we will be making adjustments based on your feedback throughout the expansion’s lifetime. We greatly appreciate all of your testing and feedback thus far, and we’re looking forward to delivering improvements to all of the talent trees in content updates throughout Dragonflight.

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Comment by NameRedactedput Leader of the Pack in the Feral tree and we're square. still dont have a reason to be brought to raid over a boomkin or mythic plus for that matter. give us a party or raid buff thats benficial and we gucciComment by liviuirimiaGrabbing popcorn and waiting for the doomers to doom and gloom. This is gonna be funComment by Pyrrhafeels real bad a ret paladin who got one post saying we shouldn't be fast as our sole bit of design philosophyComment by PyrrhaGrabbing popcorn and waiting for the doomers to doom and gloom. This is gonna be funComment by RodriguezzzWell, see you in 2025 fellow Ret Paladins and Feral Druids.
But who am I kidding, I'm sure Spellwarding and a bit of Consecration interaction was all Rets needed to guarantee a raid spot. Meanwhile all Feral needed certainly was... nothing apparently.Comment by AesyricA bit disappointed we didn't get more attention for Retribution, or at least a more dedicated look at paladins in general. I would have liked to at least get one dedicated blue post going over philosophy and such.

Here's hoping it turns out alright.Comment by FluffyMastrI want this expansion to be amazing, but they are going against the clock. It is basically October and we do not even have a release date yet.Comment by discanonAh so priest tree is going to stay terrible, got it.Comment by RyrybabyNot trying to be the downer, but as they were still announcing MAJOR changes to the priest class... I'm gonna go with it's not in tuning phase yet considering they drove a forum post last week with 200 comments over 6 months to over 900 comments in the period of 1 week.

Until Holy/Disc are not the only 2 specs in the game without an interrupt that tree isn't done.Comment by ShadowstepsLol bears? Literally a spec in the first class released and hasn't gotten a peep.Comment by ExaltysWe want to ensure that we release an expansion of the highest quality for this incredible community.Comment by WheelieWattfeels real bad a ret paladin who got one post saying we shouldn't be fast as our sole bit of design philosophyComment by Alkell35Fire the dev for paladins. All the feedback has been ignored for months at this point.Comment by SteveFromFloridaI'm loving the G Druid changes, and developer communication has been first class.

Great job, Blizz!Comment by PeckishThis is awful. So many trees still need design reworks and they're just not gonna bother with any more iteration... Giving the greenlight to a half finished system just so you can release the expansion this year, why not delay it and give talent trees the time they need?

Literally the same issue we had borrowed power systems in the past, except it's talent trees now. Ship a unfinished product and then maybe fix it years later? Why? Just so you can feed us another rushed expansion when players have been asking for a delay this entire time?

I'm more hyped for Wrath re-release than Dragonflight because of this awful management. Way to go.Comment by KulianiNot trying to be the downer, but as they were still announcing MAJOR changes to the priest class... I'm gonna go with it's not in tuning phase yet considering they drove a forum post last week with 200 comments over 6 months to over 900 comments in the period of 1 week.

Until Holy/Disc are not the only 2 specs in the game without an interrupt that tree isn't done.Comment by Leftkeywestfeels real bad a ret paladin who got one post saying we shouldn't be fast as our sole bit of design philosophyComment by SergiurapFire the dev for paladins. All the feedback has been ignored for months at this point.Comment by LightGoatHoly Power generation on Avenger's Shield, please. The removal makes absolutely no sense.

At this point it feels like Holy and Ret got nothing new with the entire revamp, while Prot got shot in the knee. Kinda hard to be satisfied with that when we log onto wowhead to find dev comments on Hunters thrice a week.Comment by TysightNow for the real challenge. I hope they can balance better than what we got for all of shadowlands. I hope for a good balance spread for both classes and content.

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