Idk wth you're wooting about.. WoD was worst xp ever and the same guys just dumped this fiasco on everyone. Testing FAIL. Class balance FAIL. Grinding AK so you can't play alts FAIL. No flying FAIL. FIRE Holinka FIRE CHADD NERDVIG Get a clue.
Thats what ive always enjoyed about him at blizzcon etc Never putting extra uneeded information into the answers to hide what there doing, just says it how it is and explains how hard it is doing "insert subject here" or Oh hey thats a great idea well definitely talk about it :D
when abouts? (< serious question) i remember Tom being a douche from the get go at Wod Blizzcon all the way through. i really couldn't handle his half baked answers.maybe that blinded me to what ion was doing who knows. and sure legion could do with a few improvements but its a big improvement over Wod and Mists with some pretty awesome systems in place.
Oh god. You're basing your comparisons off a WoD maager? Let's talk about him saying that people should be focusing on sim numbers instead of what players are actually seeing.. Wtf? That's never been a Blizz policy. That's like saying, "Well, our super computer says your spec should be doing this DPS. So, if you aren't, you must be bad. Even though, the entire community agrees with you."
Ion really has good knowledge about... like everything regarding wow. He knows about small details that players like me, who's played since vanilla, know about. He's more than deserving of being the Game Director :)
So...All these years later, Blizzard finally just comes out and says it, but still without saying it. STOP BEING A BUNCH OF COPYCATS THAT PLAY THE "TOP DPS SPEC" BECAUSE ITS WHAT JOEBLOWSAUCE-KEL'THUZAD IS DOING, AND HE IS IN MCRAIDSAUCE, THE WORLDS BEST GUILD. Just because somebody else can do it, does not mean you are that good. Jesus Christ, I have been trying to point this out for years. Just because THAT top player is good at Arcane spec, does not mean you will be good as well. Just because THESE guys have been doing well with Prot Pally, does not mean you can faceroll dungeons like them. Think for yourself. Do what YOU can do good. Everybody is playing Fury Warrior. But I am terrible at it. Almost nobody is playing Arms spec, yet its the spec I have always been good at, so I play it. Everybody says Paladin healing is low and weak. Undesireable. Yet I was able to do Emerald Nightmare, and out-healed everybody with minimal effort. Best anecdote I can think of is this: Warlords of Draenor. Demonology Warlocks got a 25% damage nerf. Everybody shat bricks, switched over to Destruction or Affliction. GG Blizzard, ruined the most fun spec, Unsubbing.... But I found a number of Warlocks, one of which was in my previous raid group. He was pulling 185k DPS as Demonology, even though they had the "GG, ruined the class, stupid Blizzard" nerf. Just do what YOU can do. Not everybody can be good at this or that spec. It is nice to see Blizzard finally acknowledge that out in the open, though not directly saying it like that.
The problem with the legendary system IS that it feels like a relief instead of a reward at this point for a lot of people. When you're risking losing a raid spot to people with better luck that isn't fun or interesting gameplay. Even if it is just an arbitrary disadvantage a lot of people don't see it that way and put the requirements in place. Especially if you finally get one and all it does is increase your movement speed. Praying that doesn't happen to me.
Yeah and it's going to only get worse when people start to finish their research and can equip 2 legendaries, and in 7.1 upgrade them to even higher ilvl. Imo there should be some safe system where you can grind for legendary, that you are sure you get it at some point, but you can still get lucky and get one without grind.
I feel like what they should've done instead of being able to research to wear two legendaries, is to research to get one if you don't have one and then afterwards you research it again to be able to wear two. People who already have one before wouldn't get one.
Luck will always be a factor though? Legendaries doesn't impact your item level enough for you to lose your raid spot. Up to EN release you could easily get 850 ilvl. After this, it's all about being lucky, getting titanforged items, doing keystone runs etc. Some people are lucky and get an 880 titanforged item from a mythic dungeon, some people aren't, but that's basically the same ilvl upgrade as the legendary is, so it's not as big of a deal as you make it out to be. If someone loses their raid spot over this, it's because they're too lazy to do content, and getting gear that way, or they're just bad, not because of not having a legendary.
I mean, at the point you posted it, your info is a little outdated, but I agree. Legendaries don't off enough of a buff to exclude people. Not sure why the players are pulling this out of their asses.
It was relatively exciting, I think, to see a friend receive one during the first week and know your time would soon come. As a stark contrast, it's now about a month and a half later and I realized I no longer feel like logging in anymore. I see guildies and acquaintances that log in once or twice a week get two or three, even one guild mate that got two in the time span of an hour. I play on a daily basis for about 6 hours on two characters each... and I still have squat. Exciting RNG is fun when it comes to getting that Fire artifact skin in Suramar without gaining an edge and yet feeling unique and awesome. At this point, the "legendary RNG" has killed the game for me, they're not just "cool items", they legitimately determine who gets put into a raid and who doesn't. Why would I feel motivated to log in each day and invest so much of my time in something that I know I can't attain unless I'm lucky? I may as well log in once a week or less so and hope for the best just the same. Works for other people... Depressing system. Been playing for over a decade, even stayed 100% active through WoD and now I'm feeling done...
Reforging had problems, but I felt they were all fixable. I really don't see why they don't bring it back, they're smart enough to fix some of the problems with it.
Congratulations! I, along with anyone else, am sure that you REALLY, REALLY deserve the position! Honestly, I am glad that you are in the driver-seat (so to speak) for this expansion!... Your interaction with the community is and was an essential means to making this game even better! Be patient with criticism and be daring in lore/novel progression! Wish you all the best!
I really like these talks, getting to hear the reasons behind some of the changes that have been made! I hope you will continue this format for a long time.
"Artifact Research makes it easy to keep two Artifacts leveled at the same time so switching specs shouldn't be an issue." "We don't want to buff Frost because then everybody who plays Fire will feel upset that they invested all this time and effort into their weapon for nothing." You've contradicted yourself Ion, I expected better from a former "lawyer".
Congratulations Ion on your new post! Great news. Just want to say I'm a very casual player and am absolutely loving Legion when I get the time to play. Thank you Blizzard! Looking forward to capping later on so "game on" as "they" say. Great Q&A, I really enjoy watching them (even if I have no idea what is going on most of the time). Cheers. Can't wait for the Arena World Champs in a couple of weeks. Keep up the stellar work. :-)
Actually really happy with this interview. We actually had decent questions (besides Warlock stuff. They really need some help...) and Ion seemed really knowledgeable. Thanks, guys!
After watching this video I am excited to see Ion take the role of Game Developer. He knows what he is talking about and just seems generally excited about it.
What about not making an actual legendary item drop, but an item that works as a currency to choose a legendary you want from the vendor. You still get exited when it drops, and you eliminate rng factor "oh it droped, but that is not what I want"? Feels like it will solve the problem.
As a BM hunter who loves bows, I am grateful in the vendor hidden appearance. The prestige is feel is obtaining the other colorizations of that appearance. Same goes for other specs, the variants of the appearance shows that player's hard work.
Game has been great, no complaints besides making it a little more alt friendly this expansion, and bringing back reforging! Also, I feel very confident with Ion stepping up as Game Director, his answers to most of the questions were very well versed and showed that they really put much thought into their decisions and looked at each issue from every angle.
I don't know what role Lore take in these Q and A other than reading questions for the people who sits on his side. He just agrees to the people that are answering these questions and doesn't provide anything useful. He should be there to represent the player base and go against these directors on their answers and make them provide deeper answers.
I've waited for the day that you took the reigns. I think it's WoW appreciation moment. I'm probably the only person who likes the Skill>Gear change in PvP. I pvp a ton, and it was refreshing for my arena team partners to be able to jump into an Arena and be viable right out of 110. To be clear fighting people that are fully geared is CHALLENGING but now they're BEATABLE! I'm not out-classed right out of the gate! I can ACTUALLY ENJOY MY TIME IN PVP WHILE I ACCUMULATE GEAR!!!! Thank you Legion, and congrats Ion.
you can make each spec scale their low secondary stats that are *significantly* worth less to add a little more to that stat to bring them up a little bit i.e. 1000 versatility goes from 2.89% to 2.92% or something like that.
For the Legendaries I was think everytime you complete a dungeon the chance of you getting a legendary increases by like .1% or .05%. its not a lot but if you do 10 dungeons at .05% that's .5% more which isn't a lot but eventually it will add up. but overall legion is totally saving wow everything you guys have done is amazing in my eyes
59:56 As a lock I can say no, that is not how it works. Raid leaders want dps classes that can pump out chart topping dps, not minor utility. The only decent lock spec for damage is demo, which applies for fights with low mobility, and that will be nerfed soon like it always is. Affliction pve dps is at or near the bottom of every chart, and destro is middling at best. You boned the entire class in pve to balance pvp, which was supposed to be the job of pvp talents.
on the very high end that's not true. any hardcore player will correctly analyze what's best and needed and will take these utilities into consideration. but yes you are right, for 95% of the playerbase, especially in pugs, all that matters is the dps meter. the problem is that this is not necessarily a game problem and more of a community problem. hopefully the community grows out of it a little. i personally like that my class feel unique, but i do admit that in non-cutting edge content the benefits of playing a lock (great survivability and some utility) falls short, if not useless.
If you've ever had faith that PVP talents would fix PVP you're either delusional or have brain damage. What fixes PVP is good design, not some +5% damage tuning. For example: Unholy DK lacks the numbers to dish out great DPS in both PVP and PVE, but because the class is so well designed (Possibly the only well designed class) it's still viable everywhere and has the possibility to combo abilities together to attain the best AoE burst in the game.
Eartheart Baratheon We all know that wow devs play mages and pallys, which is why they historically get to be better then the classes in a similar role: warriors, dks, priests, warlocks. Pally's got the fattest buff of any class via hotfix damage increases a few weeks back, what did warriors get again? Oh yeah a nerf to tactician procs via artifact ability.
***** im not disagreeing with you though. like i said, for 95% of the community the lock toolkit is suboptimal. you said you're in a heroic raiding guild, that makes you part of that 95%. the other 5% are mythic raiding guilds.
@35:40 i dunno, getting gear for some other spec doesn't make me wanna play it, while having to play that spec to get the loot would, inevitably, make me play it. My SV artifact weapon is ilvl 878, but i think i spent like 30 mins in total playing SV.
Spriest Surrender feels so good, when you spike 3 million dps on xavius in the first Dream after pull was so rewarding after finally getting the perfect pull. the sudden jump in dps made the while discord comment on it, was pretty funny! Enjoying that talent soo much
11:37 I know exactly what he means, the Hunter helm has zero dps value but I missed it when I got another legendary and didn't have that survivability that came with it.
Those are some really solid answers, and it really feels like he has a good understanding of what is good for the game. I have yet to get a legendary like many others, but i am sure just like he says, that getting it on RNG will feel much more satisfying rather than if i had to grind it. As of now, i dont feel like grinding too many mythic +'s or even doing the raids too much, but i dont feels like im losing out on too much chance of that legendary anyways. Unlike when its a progression, and it would feel like im holding myself back from not grinding out whatever points to buy a legendary.
He's entirely wrong about the "excitement" of seeing legendaries drop. They feel utterly unrewarding when you recieve them for trivial tasks such as world quests or even a friggin normal raid boss kill.
Ive been playing since launch ....Doing more then 3 mythic + dungeons everyday...doing all my daily world quests...have no legendary ....so...awesome...
RNG is a cruel mistress. I have gotten the hunter's Trueshot legendary boots, which aren't really fitting my playstyle (not using Trueshot a lot), but I am still happy I got something for my max level characters. It'll come. Eventually. You'll see. One day, when you don't think about getting a legendary, you suddenly get one. And it may be exactly the one you want. That's the fickle RNG for you.
For the mythic+ punishment system, would something like giving the keyholder an option to say, enable this punishment, and then give the rest of the party the option to accept/decline the punishment, sort of like a ready check be viable? So say, the punishment is being barred from mythic+ for 24 hours of play time, the keyholder has the option to 'readycheck' this system in place, if all current members accept the penalty then the keystone starts, and if they don't then the key isnt started, and the group can go back to discussing whats going to happen. And maybe to help prevent people who's internet suddenly cuts out is that , when they come back online and are still in the dungeon/group, when its over the keyholder can check off the persons debuff.
well, the thing i liked about gear mattering in pvp, is you had casual pvp, where you geared up, and if you had full set, you could just rek new comers, and just play really casually. and if you wanted the competitive side of pvp, you could just queue up for rated pvp, cause everyone who played rated, and at least had 1250+, had full set of gear...
When you see how people deal with raid boss mechanics, are the strategies used exactly what you had in mind when creating the bosses or does the playerbase surprise you with boss tactics you didn't plan for?
The issue I have with the Beast Master hidden appearance is that the fix to "I'm not comfortable using guns" was something that was pointed out about artifacts from day 1 and was something people were already doing: TRANSMOG. So putting in a hidden appearance just to solve that issue, while a good idea, was very lazily implemented by just throwing it on a vendor. You could have had a hidden quest where you make the bow by hunting for parts from different rares. Really disappointed in that decision given how there already was a fix that was widely used.
I think they have done a great job with Legion. Really enjoying it so far. My two complaints would be that the xpak is not super alt friendly and also I do not like the Diablo loot system. RNGesus is very troubling. However, nothing is ever perfect and so far I am loving the xpak!
I'm so happy for Ion. It's obvious that WoW is a passion for him, he must be so amped to be game director. Hopefully he continues to be open and engaged with the community. I hope whoever is replacing Chris Metzen's position will have a passion similar to him. Many blessings and good luck! Tom never mentioned what the "new adventure within Blizzard" was. Maybe a new IP? :D
For hunter AoE problem, you could make the cone cut off like you suggested, but cut off both top and bottom and adjust the direction based on the targeted mob. If nothing is targeted use the Z axis of mobs that are currently in combat. Just a suggestion.
WAIT.. Lore says he watches towellies stream and that he also has 4 legendary items? I have over 17days played at max level, im up to Mythic Keystone 8+ and an ilvl of 865 and i have yet to see a single Legendary. Talk about Favoritism.
I dont think you understand the point of the conversation, towelliee has legit got 12days played on his toon, he has 4 legendary items. I have done more content and been max level longer and have 0. The "RNG" is eitehr favoring him, or he has some kind of shady back door deal with them
it was because of the bug. if you were lucky enough to get an legendary early, the chances actually increased for you to get another one, and when you got your second one the percentage just increased. when blizzard fixed it, some people actually had 2-3 legandaries during week 3
I feel like Dk tanking is a bit worse than expected in legion. My main I decided was my Blood dk, and I enjoyed him for a while... till raiding. I realized my damage midigation was dreadful when compared to other tanks, and this is with consideration of my self healing. I have learned my spec rather fine so I feel it is a problem caused by just how we were made by bliz for legion. No group looks or asks for dk tanks for a reason it seems. And I know the fights and how to play my spec, so i simply miss out on raids bc I am a dk, and I honestly can see why.
Talking about the Elemental Shamans' viability in mythic+ dungeons topic. It's the same thing with the Warriors, the vast majority of players are using Arms, which is fine considering the dps meters, but that doesn't make fury useless at all. In a lot of situations (and I could even be bold and say "most") fury goes way better than arms in mythic+ scenarios. Long story short - there are probably a lot of specs that the player-base consider bad in mythic+ because they don't peform well in CERTAIN situations in +2+3 runs. People are probably not yet open to inviting specs that weren't played so much before because they didn't have the chance to see them perform properly and that's why they're wrongly considered bad.
I got the absorb neck and I didn't even flinch when it dropped, I think I've played too much D3 to get excited about different colour items. I would be excited about the magic shield cloak as a dk tank. It's perhaps the best out of all of them. Never seen one on a dk tank on the bladefist-frostwhisper-zenedar group.
Congrats on the promotion ion ,i have faith in you because you communicate with community and you know what people want , Good luck
when does he ever talk to the community beside these handpicked questions
BaDMrFr0zty check his twitter 😊
BaDMrFr0zty constantly talking to fans on twitter
lol twitter all he does is link and tell people how to fix connection problems mostly
BaDMrFr0zty you couldnt make it a day in his shoes bro. hes an amazing director, and does things far and beyond idiot.
WOOOOOT a new one! Congrats Ion on the promotion!
True Ion is the dude who keeps WoW going atm.
He does really good for all of us to play WoW :)
Idk wth you're wooting about.. WoD was worst xp ever and the same guys just dumped this fiasco on everyone. Testing FAIL. Class balance FAIL. Grinding AK so you can't play alts FAIL. No flying FAIL.
FIRE Holinka
FIRE CHADD NERDVIG
Get a clue.
Fafa Fooey I like not being able to fly. I like taking my time to get to my destination and viewing the scenery.
please, go outside
Ion is fkkking saving WOW atm. awesome guy 10/10 just genuinly straight up no BS answers. Love it, love legion
Thats what ive always enjoyed about him at blizzcon etc Never putting extra uneeded information into the answers to hide what there doing, just says it how it is and explains how hard it is doing "insert subject here" or Oh hey thats a great idea well definitely talk about it :D
how he is saving wow ? :?
I guess by making my 12 toons ride everywhere they go.
when abouts? (< serious question) i remember Tom being a douche from the get go at Wod Blizzcon all the way through. i really couldn't handle his half baked answers.maybe that blinded me to what ion was doing who knows.
and sure legion could do with a few improvements but its a big improvement over Wod and Mists with some pretty awesome systems in place.
Oh god. You're basing your comparisons off a WoD maager? Let's talk about him saying that people should be focusing on sim numbers instead of what players are actually seeing.. Wtf? That's never been a Blizz policy. That's like saying, "Well, our super computer says your spec should be doing this DPS. So, if you aren't, you must be bad. Even though, the entire community agrees with you."
Honestly think Ion is gonna do an amazing job as the Game Director. He is very straight forward and explains most things very nicely!
Congrats Ion, I know you will do great I notice you have been stepping up alot the past few years
Ion really has good knowledge about... like everything regarding wow. He knows about small details that players like me, who's played since vanilla, know about. He's more than deserving of being the Game Director :)
Such great knowledge huh... Claims hunters have deterrence when we don't...
Mike Ross da gawd
not even American so lol ggwp bro
So...All these years later, Blizzard finally just comes out and says it, but still without saying it.
STOP BEING A BUNCH OF COPYCATS THAT PLAY THE "TOP DPS SPEC" BECAUSE ITS WHAT JOEBLOWSAUCE-KEL'THUZAD IS DOING, AND HE IS IN MCRAIDSAUCE, THE WORLDS BEST GUILD.
Just because somebody else can do it, does not mean you are that good.
Jesus Christ, I have been trying to point this out for years. Just because THAT top player is good at Arcane spec, does not mean you will be good as well.
Just because THESE guys have been doing well with Prot Pally, does not mean you can faceroll dungeons like them.
Think for yourself. Do what YOU can do good.
Everybody is playing Fury Warrior. But I am terrible at it.
Almost nobody is playing Arms spec, yet its the spec I have always been good at, so I play it.
Everybody says Paladin healing is low and weak. Undesireable.
Yet I was able to do Emerald Nightmare, and out-healed everybody with minimal effort.
Best anecdote I can think of is this:
Warlords of Draenor. Demonology Warlocks got a 25% damage nerf.
Everybody shat bricks, switched over to Destruction or Affliction.
GG Blizzard, ruined the most fun spec, Unsubbing....
But I found a number of Warlocks, one of which was in my previous raid group.
He was pulling 185k DPS as Demonology, even though they had the "GG, ruined the class, stupid Blizzard" nerf.
Just do what YOU can do. Not everybody can be good at this or that spec.
It is nice to see Blizzard finally acknowledge that out in the open, though not directly saying it like that.
Yet, they keep designing a game that encourages that. There is nothing that can't be fixed by more dps.
All of these answers were very satisfying. Thanks for the Q&A! You guys are nailing it this xpac.
I reeeeeally want that box of Warcraft Monopoly behind Ion.
Also, grats Ion!
I have two of those... one opened to play and the other still in the shrink wrap.
World of Warcraft Monopoly is still on Amazon.
#MournForMenethil i live in New York and at every Barnes and Noble there are lots of WoW monopoly games still in stock
Grats Ion :) So excited for the future
This game is in the best hands it's been in for years. TeamIon!!!
Chris Stewart lol. Cause world quests aren't dailies. Just an example. Lol
world quests are basicly what D3 bounties are. you go into the world and do stuff and get a reward
Dailies weren't what was wrong with the game.
Well i don't feel obligated to do wq's every day.
WQ is daily basis (some is 2 or 3 days CD) but is much better the old regular dailly.
The problem with the legendary system IS that it feels like a relief instead of a reward at this point for a lot of people. When you're risking losing a raid spot to people with better luck that isn't fun or interesting gameplay. Even if it is just an arbitrary disadvantage a lot of people don't see it that way and put the requirements in place. Especially if you finally get one and all it does is increase your movement speed. Praying that doesn't happen to me.
Yeah and it's going to only get worse when people start to finish their research and can equip 2 legendaries, and in 7.1 upgrade them to even higher ilvl. Imo there should be some safe system where you can grind for legendary, that you are sure you get it at some point, but you can still get lucky and get one without grind.
I feel like what they should've done instead of being able to research to wear two legendaries, is to research to get one if you don't have one and then afterwards you research it again to be able to wear two. People who already have one before wouldn't get one.
Luck will always be a factor though? Legendaries doesn't impact your item level enough for you to lose your raid spot. Up to EN release you could easily get 850 ilvl. After this, it's all about being lucky, getting titanforged items, doing keystone runs etc. Some people are lucky and get an 880 titanforged item from a mythic dungeon, some people aren't, but that's basically the same ilvl upgrade as the legendary is, so it's not as big of a deal as you make it out to be. If someone loses their raid spot over this, it's because they're too lazy to do content, and getting gear that way, or they're just bad, not because of not having a legendary.
I mean, at the point you posted it, your info is a little outdated, but I agree. Legendaries don't off enough of a buff to exclude people. Not sure why the players are pulling this out of their asses.
It was relatively exciting, I think, to see a friend receive one during the first week and know your time would soon come. As a stark contrast, it's now about a month and a half later and I realized I no longer feel like logging in anymore. I see guildies and acquaintances that log in once or twice a week get two or three, even one guild mate that got two in the time span of an hour. I play on a daily basis for about 6 hours on two characters each... and I still have squat. Exciting RNG is fun when it comes to getting that Fire artifact skin in Suramar without gaining an edge and yet feeling unique and awesome. At this point, the "legendary RNG" has killed the game for me, they're not just "cool items", they legitimately determine who gets put into a raid and who doesn't.
Why would I feel motivated to log in each day and invest so much of my time in something that I know I can't attain unless I'm lucky? I may as well log in once a week or less so and hope for the best just the same. Works for other people...
Depressing system. Been playing for over a decade, even stayed 100% active through WoD and now I'm feeling done...
Ion will be a great game director
Zen Rix kappa?
Zen Rix You think you do. But you don't.
Steven Bonnell
LUL.
Who was GD before him?
that's what ghostcrawler said
22:40 Reforging would kinda fix that problem, or at least make it less of an problem.
Our current system would make reforging shine very brightly indeed.
Reforging had problems, but I felt they were all fixable. I really don't see why they don't bring it back, they're smart enough to fix some of the problems with it.
twocows360 Agreed; it would complement the current gearing system so well that those issues would be worth fixing.
But why was it removed earlier back then? Wasn't there a reason behind it?
Barrosy "Not fun game play. It felt required."
I could listen to Ion talk for hours, no homo
Congratulations for your promotion!
Never knew Bob ross played WoW
WoD was just a happy little accident
dude lmao
I'll never un see what you've done.
He just works there.
KappaRoss
So glad to see Ion as Game Director. Good things to come.
agreed
Congrats Ion !! You deserve it man. Thank you for being awesome!!
I can confidently say the game is definitely in good hands.
Congratulations! I, along with anyone else, am sure that you REALLY, REALLY deserve the position! Honestly, I am glad that you are in the driver-seat (so to speak) for this expansion!... Your interaction with the community is and was an essential means to making this game even better! Be patient with criticism and be daring in lore/novel progression! Wish you all the best!
I get the feeling that Ion has his hands fully engaged and wrapped around legion, really looking forward to the next 2 years of this expac
Ion is awesome. The game is in good hands!
Congratulations sir on the promotion. Please remember where you came from and don't forget those who helped along the way.
The one person in Blizzard who actually deserved a promotion, congratulations! :D
Ion have been the true forefront for a long time now :D awesome to see the promotion happen :D
I really like these talks, getting to hear the reasons behind some of the changes that have been made! I hope you will continue this format for a long time.
I love Ion so much,its a joy to listen him talk,he`s so excited about everything
Ion takes answering questions to a whole new level..........explanation mode activated on mythic vocabulary
Awesome that Ian's in charge now! Loving how he's addressing things so far!
I really love these Q&As. Great to hear how the design team is thinking and how they are addressing issues.
Congrats Ion , the right man for the job !
This was a great interview. Hope to listen to more like this each week or 2
Thx guys! I can't wait for Kara. W00T
has there ever been a human being in more need of a haircut than Josh Allen
idk but i know my GF has a bush that she needs to get rid of.. it almost resembles Josh Allens hair, its uncanny.
lmao well maybe he likes it
Tina Turner, Rick James to mention some.
Lore got a haircut once. It didn't go well. Just letting it go wild is probably for the best.
His hair reminds me of Hurley's from Lost.
Congrats to you Ion Hazzikostas, and thank you guys for the Q&A hugs
"Artifact Research makes it easy to keep two Artifacts leveled at the same time so switching specs shouldn't be an issue."
"We don't want to buff Frost because then everybody who plays Fire will feel upset that they invested all this time and effort into their weapon for nothing."
You've contradicted yourself Ion, I expected better from a former "lawyer".
3:30 They exactly did the opposite with nerfing outlaw and ignoring the majority of people who hate the way roll of the bones is right now.
appreciate this dude to connecting to the community
Congratulations Ion on your new post! Great news. Just want to say I'm a very casual player and am absolutely loving Legion when I get the time to play. Thank you Blizzard! Looking forward to capping later on so "game on" as "they" say. Great Q&A, I really enjoy watching them (even if I have no idea what is going on most of the time). Cheers. Can't wait for the Arena World Champs in a couple of weeks. Keep up the stellar work. :-)
Congrats Ion! You deserve it man! Thanks for everything you do for the game. You rock!
im very glad to see ion in a position of power, hes a very clever and intuitive fella and with him at the helm i think the game can only get better!
Congratulations on the promotion Ion. Please, try not to forget the PVP community. It has taken quite a toll since WOD.
Really enjoying these videos would love to see a weekly or bi weekly Q&A with different staff members.
Actually really happy with this interview. We actually had decent questions (besides Warlock stuff. They really need some help...) and Ion seemed really knowledgeable. Thanks, guys!
Congrats Ion! Thanks for doing this Q&A.
After watching this video I am excited to see Ion take the role of Game Developer. He knows what he is talking about and just seems generally excited about it.
What about not making an actual legendary item drop, but an item that works as a currency to choose a legendary you want from the vendor. You still get exited when it drops, and you eliminate rng factor "oh it droped, but that is not what I want"? Feels like it will solve the problem.
Blizzard is so awesome.
Right.
As a BM hunter who loves bows, I am grateful in the vendor hidden appearance. The prestige is feel is obtaining the other colorizations of that appearance. Same goes for other specs, the variants of the appearance shows that player's hard work.
Thank you so much for bringing ActionCam back!!
Congrat Ion, you deserve it. All good stuff I am hearing.
Ion is my favorite dev at Blizzard. I'm happy for him and glad he's our new director.
Congratulations man! Fantastic Ion you deserve it!!!
Nice that 7.1 is released on my birthday :) thanks for the best present this year ^_^
Well done Ion! I regained my interest for WoW in Legion expansion. Keep up the good work!
I got my legendary today! the happiness was real! then a few hours later got Witch mercy in a loot box! its been a good day
Thanks Ion and the team!
gratz man delighted for you :)
I got 2 of my BiS legendaries a day apart, thank you RNGesus! One from opening the Time Warden's cache and one from Natharion's Lair Mythic.
I gotta say I like the way this guy handles himself. Looking forward to the future of WoW.
31:25 "We want the feral druid who can do single target dps like no other." Goddamnit, Blizz.
Could we start getting timestamps with the questions so we can navigate them as we see fit? Thanks.
Game has been great, no complaints besides making it a little more alt friendly this expansion, and bringing back reforging!
Also, I feel very confident with Ion stepping up as Game Director, his answers to most of the questions were very well versed and showed that they really put much thought into their decisions and looked at each issue from every angle.
I don't know what role Lore take in these Q and A other than reading questions for the people who sits on his side. He just agrees to the people that are answering these questions and doesn't provide anything useful. He should be there to represent the player base and go against these directors on their answers and make them provide deeper answers.
I've waited for the day that you took the reigns. I think it's WoW appreciation moment. I'm probably the only person who likes the Skill>Gear change in PvP. I pvp a ton, and it was refreshing for my arena team partners to be able to jump into an Arena and be viable right out of 110. To be clear fighting people that are fully geared is CHALLENGING but now they're BEATABLE! I'm not out-classed right out of the gate! I can ACTUALLY ENJOY MY TIME IN PVP WHILE I ACCUMULATE GEAR!!!! Thank you Legion, and congrats Ion.
Congrats Ion !!! :)
I got my first Legendary few days ago.. its not BiS but I was so excited when it droped!
12:03 I love this point, I don't think I would trade the ww monk legendary cape for anything. The amount of stuff I can cheese is game-breaking.
If mythic+ was an alternative to raids then having good AoE specs vs good single target specs is a great model
Love Ion and this bewf head guy, also love how ion backs up everything if you pay attention to where he's drifting off to
Praise Blizzard for making these videos. Really nice to see them engage us as a community !
you can make each spec scale their low secondary stats that are *significantly* worth less to add a little more to that stat to bring them up a little bit i.e. 1000 versatility goes from 2.89% to 2.92% or something like that.
For the Legendaries I was think everytime you complete a dungeon the chance of you getting a legendary increases by like .1% or .05%. its not a lot but if you do 10 dungeons at .05% that's .5% more which isn't a lot but eventually it will add up. but overall legion is totally saving wow everything you guys have done is amazing in my eyes
59:56 As a lock I can say no, that is not how it works. Raid leaders want dps classes that can pump out chart topping dps, not minor utility. The only decent lock spec for damage is demo, which applies for fights with low mobility, and that will be nerfed soon like it always is. Affliction pve dps is at or near the bottom of every chart, and destro is middling at best. You boned the entire class in pve to balance pvp, which was supposed to be the job of pvp talents.
Yah that is the entire problem with modern wow Raiding, look at it compared to vanilla-wrath. each class had a specific addition to the raid comp.
on the very high end that's not true. any hardcore player will correctly analyze what's best and needed and will take these utilities into consideration.
but yes you are right, for 95% of the playerbase, especially in pugs, all that matters is the dps meter. the problem is that this is not necessarily a game problem and more of a community problem. hopefully the community grows out of it a little. i personally like that my class feel unique, but i do admit that in non-cutting edge content the benefits of playing a lock (great survivability and some utility) falls short, if not useless.
If you've ever had faith that PVP talents would fix PVP you're either delusional or have brain damage.
What fixes PVP is good design, not some +5% damage tuning.
For example: Unholy DK lacks the numbers to dish out great DPS in both PVP and PVE, but because the class is so well designed (Possibly the only well designed class) it's still viable everywhere and has the possibility to combo abilities together to attain the best AoE burst in the game.
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We all know that wow devs play mages and pallys, which is why they historically get to be better then the classes in a similar role: warriors, dks, priests, warlocks. Pally's got the fattest buff of any class via hotfix damage increases a few weeks back, what did warriors get again? Oh yeah a nerf to tactician procs via artifact ability.
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im not disagreeing with you though.
like i said, for 95% of the community the lock toolkit is suboptimal. you said you're in a heroic raiding guild, that makes you part of that 95%. the other 5% are mythic raiding guilds.
@35:40 i dunno, getting gear for some other spec doesn't make me wanna play it, while having to play that spec to get the loot would, inevitably, make me play it. My SV artifact weapon is ilvl 878, but i think i spent like 30 mins in total playing SV.
I can listen to Ion all day long :) Best Game director!
Spriest Surrender feels so good, when you spike 3 million dps on xavius in the first Dream after pull was so rewarding after finally getting the perfect pull. the sudden jump in dps made the while discord comment on it, was pretty funny! Enjoying that talent soo much
11:37 I know exactly what he means, the Hunter helm has zero dps value but I missed it when I got another legendary and didn't have that survivability that came with it.
Those are some really solid answers, and it really feels like he has a good understanding of what is good for the game.
I have yet to get a legendary like many others, but i am sure just like he says, that getting it on RNG will feel much more satisfying rather than if i had to grind it. As of now, i dont feel like grinding too many mythic +'s or even doing the raids too much, but i dont feels like im losing out on too much chance of that legendary anyways. Unlike when its a progression, and it would feel like im holding myself back from not grinding out whatever points to buy a legendary.
This was really good, watched it live
He's entirely wrong about the "excitement" of seeing legendaries drop. They feel utterly unrewarding when you recieve them for trivial tasks such as world quests or even a friggin normal raid boss kill.
I like Ion. He is very "down to Earth" and honest. I feel comfident that WoW will go in good direction.
Ive been playing since launch ....Doing more then 3 mythic + dungeons everyday...doing all my daily world quests...have no legendary ....so...awesome...
Airshot this expansion will implode within 90 days of launch. WoD2
Airshot most people don't have them now. You might not even get it. Get over it. Stop being a baby.
RNG is a cruel mistress. I have gotten the hunter's Trueshot legendary boots, which aren't really fitting my playstyle (not using Trueshot a lot), but I am still happy I got something for my max level characters.
It'll come. Eventually. You'll see. One day, when you don't think about getting a legendary, you suddenly get one. And it may be exactly the one you want.
That's the fickle RNG for you.
+Airshot I gave up on the thought of getting a legendary, if it drops ok if not meh. I suggest you do the same.
For the mythic+ punishment system, would something like giving the keyholder an option to say, enable this punishment, and then give the rest of the party the option to accept/decline the punishment, sort of like a ready check be viable? So say, the punishment is being barred from mythic+ for 24 hours of play time, the keyholder has the option to 'readycheck' this system in place, if all current members accept the penalty then the keystone starts, and if they don't then the key isnt started, and the group can go back to discussing whats going to happen.
And maybe to help prevent people who's internet suddenly cuts out is that , when they come back online and are still in the dungeon/group, when its over the keyholder can check off the persons debuff.
i really miss that geared mattered in pvp :(
Why? I am loving the new system.
yeah nothing better than just dinging max lvl and getting one shot by players who have been farming arena non stop since release /s
well, the thing i liked about gear mattering in pvp, is you had casual pvp, where you geared up, and if you had full set, you could just rek new comers, and just play really casually. and if you wanted the competitive side of pvp, you could just queue up for rated pvp, cause everyone who played rated, and at least had 1250+, had full set of gear...
Yeah, it really sucks how the winner is determined by skill and not gear anymore.
Because he sucks at PVP and was only able to kill people when he severely outgeared them...
When you see how people deal with raid boss mechanics, are the strategies used exactly what you had in mind when creating the bosses or does the playerbase surprise you with boss tactics you didn't plan for?
Congrats to Ion! This is excellent news! :)
The issue I have with the Beast Master hidden appearance is that the fix to "I'm not comfortable using guns" was something that was pointed out about artifacts from day 1 and was something people were already doing: TRANSMOG. So putting in a hidden appearance just to solve that issue, while a good idea, was very lazily implemented by just throwing it on a vendor. You could have had a hidden quest where you make the bow by hunting for parts from different rares. Really disappointed in that decision given how there already was a fix that was widely used.
I think they have done a great job with Legion. Really enjoying it so far. My two complaints would be that the xpak is not super alt friendly and also I do not like the Diablo loot system. RNGesus is very troubling.
However, nothing is ever perfect and so far I am loving the xpak!
I'm so happy for Ion. It's obvious that WoW is a passion for him, he must be so amped to be game director. Hopefully he continues to be open and engaged with the community. I hope whoever is replacing Chris Metzen's position will have a passion similar to him. Many blessings and good luck! Tom never mentioned what the "new adventure within Blizzard" was. Maybe a new IP? :D
For hunter AoE problem, you could make the cone cut off like you suggested, but cut off both top and bottom and adjust the direction based on the targeted mob. If nothing is targeted use the Z axis of mobs that are currently in combat. Just a suggestion.
Man we always love when there is a warlock present.
I mean, who doesnt love that summoning stone?!
keep legendary RNG I don't have one yet but that is what makes it exciting =)
WAIT.. Lore says he watches towellies stream and that he also has 4 legendary items? I have over 17days played at max level, im up to Mythic Keystone 8+ and an ilvl of 865 and i have yet to see a single Legendary. Talk about Favoritism.
Murky IsLife the devs them selves don't have as many legendaries quit whining I don't have one either
I dont think you understand the point of the conversation, towelliee has legit got 12days played on his toon, he has 4 legendary items. I have done more content and been max level longer and have 0. The "RNG" is eitehr favoring him, or he has some kind of shady back door deal with them
17days? and you are only at 865 and +8?!?! what are you doing with your time m8 O.o
it was because of the bug. if you were lucky enough to get an legendary early, the chances actually increased for you to get another one, and when you got your second one the percentage just increased. when blizzard fixed it, some people actually had 2-3 legandaries during week 3
Did he get them from the bug?
I'd keep the questions on the screen somewhere (understandably longer questions would give problems)
was watching this while running some normal mythics, legendary dropped :D
I feel like Dk tanking is a bit worse than expected in legion. My main I decided was my Blood dk, and I enjoyed him for a while... till raiding. I realized my damage midigation was dreadful when compared to other tanks, and this is with consideration of my self healing. I have learned my spec rather fine so I feel it is a problem caused by just how we were made by bliz for legion. No group looks or asks for dk tanks for a reason it seems. And I know the fights and how to play my spec, so i simply miss out on raids bc I am a dk, and I honestly can see why.
So where are the character costumization options we've been asking for years?
Talking about the Elemental Shamans' viability in mythic+ dungeons topic. It's the same thing with the Warriors, the vast majority of players are using Arms, which is fine considering the dps meters, but that doesn't make fury useless at all. In a lot of situations (and I could even be bold and say "most") fury goes way better than arms in mythic+ scenarios.
Long story short - there are probably a lot of specs that the player-base consider bad in mythic+ because they don't peform well in CERTAIN situations in +2+3 runs. People are probably not yet open to inviting specs that weren't played so much before because they didn't have the chance to see them perform properly and that's why they're wrongly considered bad.
I got the absorb neck and I didn't even flinch when it dropped, I think I've played too much D3 to get excited about different colour items. I would be excited about the magic shield cloak as a dk tank. It's perhaps the best out of all of them. Never seen one on a dk tank on the bladefist-frostwhisper-zenedar group.