lol hes doing a good job, legion has been the best overall expac since Wrath. What was the best part of WoD?? The raids guess who lead the raid team...
He actually lives in his own WoW green-house. His "we believe" based purely on his own thoughts and has nothing in common with real-life WoW. That's why his answers sometimes very weird. When some person uses "we" too often in his speech it means a lot.
You're kinda attacking him as a person, even though what he does is through research. Some people hated hc farming (I didn't). Some hate the water strider (I DO). I would hate having to use it 24/7. No way he'll just do semihuge things like that based on his personal opinion.
Sebastian DeVries Some people do not like wearing tabards for rep gain. It might ruin their transmog. Just having the bonus being a passive / achievement thing might work though.. It would also suck to have to switch for every world quest you're doing.
I love these Q&A's its awesome how he explains his teams thought process so we as the community can understand where they come from. I'm so happy Ion takes the time to do this!
Also wondering why some people want these classes to have not disadvantages like you cant have high single target and area damage plus self healing plus mobility plus wearing plate.
Thankyou for answering the tough questions Ion. Gives me confidence in how much you guys care about the game. Loving the expansion by the way. Keep it up! Best expansion since LIch King
He cares, but the Class Devs are shooting him in the foot, he didn't have any answers to the questions given because Devs responsible for Classes are freaking utterly clueless. I mean one of them always plays on Tablet... wtf.
Your Serenity "bug" has made it an absolute joy to use. Looking at warcraft logs, monks are also very much not overpowered on single target damage at all. Please reconsider the change, and keep it how it is on live servers!
GranthTheGreen Lol fire was Flavor of the month and shadow was close behind same with marksmen hunter. It's not as strong as it use to be and now you're sad. Re rolling to be number 1 DPS is never a good idea, play what you like - not what gives you the biggest epeen. Fire mages and shadow priests will/still pull decent numbers. You just want to be number 1..which never stays the same. It's your own fault you want to re roll into the new Flavor of the month.
Pacs I see, you assume that i'm re-rolling because I want to be "flavor of the month", very presumptuous of you. Unfortunately you are grossly incorrect. I am re-rolling away from Fire and Shadow because they're not fun anymore, everything that was fun about Shadow (staying in Void Form as long as I can to maximize my Lingering Insanity, keeping up my DoTs on adds with the odd Void Bolt here and there, figuring out the best time to activate my literal limit breaker and turn into an all powerful god) has been squashed, cut, and tamed into a dull experience where I frantically refresh DoTs and long for my ability to Rogue check with Mind Sear (also gone). As for Fire? Fire was a spec that required skill and timing in an expansion where skill was shunned in favour of an 'everyone's a winner' mindset, balancing Phoenix's and Fire Blast charges so that when Combustion rocks around I can start hurling boulder after boulder after flaming boulder into things felt *good* and immensely rewarding. Now it's being simplified immensely and no longer feels good to play. Seeing big numbers is always nice to see not going to lie, it definitely adds to the fun of a spec and when combined with fun mechanics it makes a class more entertaining to play. When a class begins to lack both of these things it's no longer fun to play. And besides, having a "flavor of the month" class is *not* a good way to handle class balancing, it's lazy and is indicative of poor management on Ion's part.
Brian Kraus thats what i had to do, but i dont like messing with the volume mixer because then i forget to switch it back and the next video makes my ears implode
thank you once again for doing these q and A's it is great to see you guys communicating with the community even if it's just a short hour long video once every month or two thank you
The word viable needs to stop being thrown around as synonymous with optimal/competitive... Take Arms for example; the optimal way to play it is with Dauntless, Focused Rage, Avatar, etc, the 'advanced build' so to speak, but using Overpower and In for the Kill is still viable way to play it. Along with this, every single spec is perfectly viable, even at a Mythic raiding level - the issue lies in how many people have blinkers on towards what is numerically highest, dismissing everything else, even though it doesn't actually matter until you're playing within a top 50th guild.
I still haven't got a single legendary while my 3 friends have 4, 3 and 9 respectively I'm running the same content as them and I haven't seen 1 let alone a 'good' one
Just play the game, a lot of mythic+ and heroic+mythic raiding gives you a lot of chances for legendaries. You can't just flail about hoping for them to appear.
What about there not being any PvP rewards at all except randomly given elite gear, the honor talents ain't rewards, it's a chore to get to the same power level as other players. Is it really that much of a hassle to make some particles as en enchant or a tabard for a rating mark?
huh? There's mounts for prestige, mount for glad title, tabard, artifact appearance etc. I mean yeah, I would not mind them adding some more, but to claim there is none is just not true.
yaaaaaaaaaaaay finally discussed warlock! im glad they are aware at least of how depressed warlocks are in this time. 880 warlock is doing as much dmg as an 865 hunter.. comon. I really hope these changes come sooner rather than later. Thank you so much for these Q&A's! :)
Demo is fine and seems to be more or less untuched in 7.1.5. and destro is good if you got bis legendarys else youre fckd. If you dont enyoy demo u should reroll or quit :D
Why are locks always complaining, maybe they should add a new dot to your rotation called "NAGGING- damage overtime spell that does 1 million nagging damage over 5 seconds about how bad the spec is" ;)
eric STOLEMEBIKE Sorry but Demo isn't fine ^^ The class fantasy was a complete failure. So our whole class design was summoning an army of imps that last a few sec?
Lamar A I guess "fine" is a subjectial term. For me it means staying competetive in dps rankings and not getting benched cause you cant reach 400k dps on guarm. PS i play destro
I have two, not so I can boast but because I wanted for to stay in pristine condition and the other because I desperately wanted to open the box and look at the content! :)
great question asking about surrender to madness as if we all already didn't know their response, i would have preferred a question as to why they decided to nerf Void bolt and turn shadow in a clunky ineffective multi-doting class.
As the question stated, its not the DPS that's the problem, its the fact that they are very clunky to play across all 3 specs. Their mechanics make you hate playing the spec regardless of how the numbers look.
imo the problem on the "roll the bones" ability is that when you reroll, you can get the exact same buff and when you reroll again, same thing happens.. i don't mind if it's only 1 buff, but it sure sucks to get same 1 poitless buff 3 times in a row.
27:05 I hopped onto the ptr and saw that they gave the helm slot Mastery/Haste and I really hop they change it seeing fury's BiS Legendary is the helm with the exact same stats, and if you have the helm you'll eventually get to 100% rampage/enrage uptime by just stacking haste and and ignoring the 4 set, which is the only useful one out of the two.
I love these videos. So awesome of you to take the time to do this and putting up with some of these stupid questions. "Why is artifact research not acount wide" -_- Alot of good questions too ofc :) keep it up
If tanks don't really have much tied to primary stats have you ever considered doing a tie in of defensive abilities to primary stats? Str based tanks could have their armor boosted by str. Agi based tanks could have avoidance or dodge boosted by agi. Might be too simple to help or something you've already tried, but I thought why not throw it out there.
Great idea, because SnD in itself, as we usually know it, would make Outlaw just plain boring to play. Roll the Bones is exciting because of the mix of things you can get from the buffs. SnD needs the same thing, to keep the brain occupied just a little bit, instead of "here, have 100% haste for 40+ seconds".
Yeah, SnD is really lacking that sense of engagement with the rotation. Even roll the bones is to some extent, I love the buffs and the synergy they have together but it really is just getting to that point where you have them and then you do a basic rotation for 40+ seconds. I main sub, there is so much to keep track of that I only ever get brief windows where I'm getting everything exactly right. And it just feels so satisfying when I do. I try going back to combat because I miss the cleave but roll 5 1's in a row and go straight back to sub.
random thought: the artifact knowledge "catch up" should of been in from the start, once your main got to AP 15 it should have become available to your alts for a resources cost
AMAZING Q/A!! None of it currently relevant towards my game play but the Topics we're great!! my comment to say is Please bring more questions towards other game players rather than the Top end progresion PTR players and top leaderboard guilds, Such as, Mount hunter, Completionist's and so forth.
anyone else noticing left click targeting has some issues? its so hard to click on a mob thats behind another, even tho its separate by huge distance lateral and depth. its like the clossest mob has a big pillar of hitbox that its hard to click past to get to other mobs.
I love the answer about making pallys aoe healers, i play a holy pally and we're meant to be single target, you're not supposed to be good at everything. it's part of the beauty of the class
here's a question, how do you get the patches or updates to work when they try to launch more then one at a time? all I get is a battle.net launcher that does nothing until the comp is restarted....if you check forums its not just me this is happening too, is it possible in the future to not let 4 updates out on all 4 games at the exact same time?
Ion Hazzikostas!!! I LOVE YOUR BRAIN!!!! This is the right way for World of Warcraft and everything you said at Blizzcon "What`s next Panel" was amazing... about the patches about giving us a stedy content flow, givving us a Livving "WORLD" of warcraft ^^ Bless you and bless your New position in Blizzard!!! wish you the very BEST!!! because you give us THE VERY BEST!!!! ^^
Understandable for sure! I mean most the time these days I log on for suramar quest weekly than bothering with raiding. Pvp isn't so bad though or at least thats what i'm doing this xpansion
Badger McWaffles ah okay I see what you mean actually. Lately I've been preferring to play Prot over ret just because it feels more rewarding as you say. My main is a Enh shammy and by god is that a fun DPS class to play! I'd argue its the best the class has ever felt. Very reminiscent of the Pre-Legion ret paly with all the procs and fast hard hitting abilities. Not to mention all of the enh shammy abilities look phenomenal now!
Stephen Vowels Enh sham is by far one of the strongest, if not strongest currently, dps classes. i just could never get into shams (though i love them in my party/raid!!). I play holy surprisingly, despite it all I still love my pally.
Guys this is so ridiculous - you're just not hearing the Outlaw community at ALLLL and you're finding solutions for non-issues!! Do you realise how ludicrous it is to say 'if you don't like RNG, play SnD' the issue isn't with the gamble, it's how it's favoured to keep us at a disadvantage. You have a 1% chance to get a 6 buff and 100% chance to get 1 buff, while 2 buffs barely keeps us competitive. You need to find a way of lowering the DPS variance so that we can at least be reliable in our damage. Stop copping out, if even we were to choose SnD, we lose Marked for Death in the process - it's just not worth it.
You gave me an idea, what if they increased the the chance at getting the 6 buffs but they lowered the duration, or they can let you decide how many buffs you want by the amount of cb you spend but again the more buffs the lower the duration. I loved the way combat played in BC. I loved SnD as part of the rotation but now it is a joke.
what i dont understand is if you guys want all secondary stats to be equal in value, then why have different types of secondary stats then? sorta defeats the point of them dont you think?
To the accountwide rep. How about making the rep accountwide once the addon cycle ends/ after 2 addons are released. ( e.g. MoP rep is accountwide as soon as Legion is released, WoD rep as soon as the expansion after legion is released.) Just an idea ^^
I would like you to talk about fury warrior some more. It seems like you want us to use Bladestorm (I really do) but it just doesn't have any synergy with the rest of the spec. The duration is longer than enrage's so you lose 30%+ of its damage part of the way though channeling. That sucks, make it unaffected by enrage so we have the freedom to use it when we want and bake the extra damage in please. Either that or just half the duration, why should a fury warrior with 2 swords spin for the same duration as an arms warrior? By that logic fury's bladestorm should do twice the damage which is just silly (but I would be ok with it)
Talent diversity just doesn't seem to be there for ferals, partly due to the strength of snapshotted bleeds pushing bloodtalons into 100% mustpick and savage roar close behind, and jagged wounds as well. MIght need to look into the alternative talents in a new light or merge stuff into the spec.
Skin color change option in barbershop in 7.1.5 please. Come on blizz it's perfectly reasonable. We've waited long enough. $15 for a skin color change is insane!
Is it so hard to write timemarker for each question? Not eveyone has the time for watching every Question or search for the question which are intresting for me...
For Guardian Druid, agility is basically our worst stat....how is that going to make me use a higher Ilvl item with crit and haste for example, if my focus is Vers/Mastery and agility is so bad?
Hello everyone, I want to thank Ion for his response about the Unholy RNG at 29:28 and since he mentioned he would love to hear if there are any more concerns I would love to share mine here or the Forums. So first of all, the problem with RNG in Unholy is not so much about DPS because we are consistent, it equals out, my personal problem is that it results in a total lack of skill required to play the Spec. I will not bring up spells which were a part of Unholy for years such as Fallen Crusader Proc,Sudden Doom, Runic Corruption. But let's take a look at some Talents in Legion and the Artifact, we have Talents such as ''Infected Claws'' Tier 90 which is RNG 35%, why not make it like ''Pestilent Pustules'' at Tier 57 which is a reliable source, why not every 3rd Cleaver from your pet applies a Rune? Why should it be 35% and not that? Moving on we have Castigator at tier 58 which is currently the dominant Build for Unholy, it's bad enough already that our wounds can range from 4 to 2 but Castigator adds another variable which just complicates it even further. Now I realize that if Wounds are a set amount, that would make the main rotation boring, as it will be a X Amount of Festering Strikes and Y amount of Scourge Strikes, but why not make Castigator baseline and make the Wounds to a set of 3, that way if you crit you get 4 Wounds, if you don't you get 3, and Scourge Strike will not pop a set amount either, because Critical Strike is one of the few RNGs that are fun, it's fun to get the big flashy number and deal a huge amount of damage. Moving on to the Artifact Weapon, we have soo much RNG there and that just feels so bad, we have ''The Shambler'' total RNG, just 0 Control over him, he doesn't even matter at all, which is a shame as it is a cool spell. Then we have ''Scourge of Worlds'' another completely RNG Trait which is out of our control and plays no part in our Rotation, and lastly we have ''Scourge the Unbeliever'' again, we have such excellent examples of reliable sources of Runes such as ''Pestilent Pustules'' something I can't play Unholy without, why must all those Traits be completely RNG?
Been Raiding Since week one on two toons STILL no legendary on either. Feels Bad Blizz. I do like this forum where the Devs tell us what the Team is thinking.
But if you guys want it to be randomness why did you guys say that in legion you guys wanted to get rid of rng from specs and or classes yet you say that you don't want the wounds to be mechanical and you want it to be random . Which is it?
On legendary items: I would like to see class specific lg's moved to a vendor so they can be targeted rewards and removed from the RNG pool, while the chests in dungeons/raids/emissaries still reward the multi-class lg's. (IMHO)
love how their saying here that theyr happy with how MM hunters are with low mobility and high cleave as an offset but are still gutting the cleave next spec.
Why don't they just make Grand Commendations for Legion rep like in Mists of Pandaria that you can buy when you are exalted that allow alts to get 50% more rep or at least a small increase.
so the only thing that i can think of for roll the bones that ""may"" help the sadly you got unlucky and rolled 6, 1 buffs in a row is a stacking buff (lets call it unlucky) is consumed on getting lucky, that ups the chance that you will roll 2 or more dice. now this is comeing from someone that only plays outlaw as an alt (main been a pally) and personally i didnt find there to be much of a problem when playing but i haven't put too much time into playing it.
How can you balance classes when they are designed to fill a niche? I mean, if they are filling different niches, then they are by definition going to be unbalanced. If they are balanced, then they are not niche. If they are niche, then they are not balanced. You can't have it both ways.
As a druid who only has Emerald Dreamcatcher for legendaries, what are they doing to it?!!?!?!? These vids are the only source of patch notes I ever see until they're live
Thinking out loud... Future changes to outlaw should give it some of the gameplay style of combat that made combat interesting, especially if slice and dice is getting buffed. I think a lot of rogues will say they really liked the WoD style of rogue. If we could move a little bit more back to that while keeping the flavor of the different specs, rogues as a whole would be very happy.
The legendaries don't seem very legendary any more if everyone has multiple. They were always something to work for. You felt a sense of achievement once obtained. Please reconsider this whole legendary system before the next xpac.
+Legazzy Xcluzive Thats so boring. But Ion had no real answer to STM but the class stacking is not a to big problem atm but with better gear later in the x pack it migth.
Any chance for another Azeroth Reforge (renewed quests and zones) like the one we saw in Cataclysm? The world of WORLD of Warcraft feels abandoned; Coming months/years later and being greeted by the same-old-same-old. Come on!
Ion and Lore, sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes loves, then comes marriage. Then comes an abrupt, tragic miscarriage. Then comes blame, then comes despair. Two hearts broken beyond repair. Ion leaves Lore, and takes the tree. D-I-V-O-R-C-E.
37:34 - That's not good enough for Shadow Priest. I know you guys are still working on it and don't have a solid answer yet but the ONLY issue is that S2M has no competition in the Level 100 Talent tier, even in its nerfed form. JUST REDESIGN THE ENTIRE TIER. Beyond that, although I like the Mind Flay change, I still don't understand the reasoning behind the LI removal and Void Bolt nerf. It's going to make the spec much, much clunkier, which is a shame since I was drawn to the spec because I really love the feel of the rotation. Although I don't agree with all the changes (who does though), you can't deny Ion's vision and sharpness. I really appreciate his openess and honesty, and love these Q&A updates. Legion has been my favorite expansion and I've been enjoying every aspect of it.
You spent for ever talking about class specific changes, Prot Warriors are very broken on the PTR (read the volumes of consistent feedback on the forums) yet you don't cover what is going for Prot Warr. Please!
PATCH 7.1.5 RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED! he said 7.1.5 and 7.2.5 would be roughly 10 weeks after the "big" patches - which MEANS 7.1.5 is gonna be released on the 4th of january for us an 5th of january for eu respectivly which also fits perfectly in with then normal reset days (so release date basically confirmed)
Thats a realy big problem for Sub rogues they gotta stack mastery/versatility on every piece of gear,I am currently 860 equipped ilvl with all my gear vers and mastery,but I could have 877 ilvl with all my useless high ilvl bad secondary stats gear,so its a 17 Ilvl overall upgrade.The ther problem is that gear with Versatility/Mastery is extremely hard to find,no boss or raid boss currently drops a chest-piece with Versatility/Mastery. It might even take me more then 1-1 1/2 weeks to get an upgrade constantly playing wow.
"Live Damage Control with Ion Hazzikostas"
lolol too good.
Ion Hazzikostas needs to quit his job before he ruins this game
lol hes doing a good job, legion has been the best overall expac since Wrath. What was the best part of WoD?? The raids guess who lead the raid team...
You mean the 3 raids we got where the only hard boss was Blackhand Mythic?
Yeah.. that isnt a good thing
MarkOfTzeentch Nice Troll. Archimonde and Imperator are easy? LFR raider?
You actually already had a solution for "reputation issue" in Pandaria - just give +100% account-wide after reaching "exalted" on one toon.
That doesn't solve the issues though...
He actually lives in his own WoW green-house. His "we believe" based purely on his own thoughts and has nothing in common with real-life WoW. That's why his answers sometimes very weird. When some person uses "we" too often in his speech it means a lot.
You're kinda attacking him as a person, even though what he does is through research. Some people hated hc farming (I didn't). Some hate the water strider (I DO). I would hate having to use it 24/7. No way he'll just do semihuge things like that based on his personal opinion.
Sebastian DeVries
Some people do not like wearing tabards for rep gain. It might ruin their transmog. Just having the bonus being a passive / achievement thing might work though.. It would also suck to have to switch for every world quest you're doing.
@MegaMoth Then they can just transmog the tabard to the one they want or hide it.
Its nice that you guys do this regularly nowadays if ppl like the answers or not
You clearly are a faker. I am the Only Space cat.
I second this message.
this is my discord pic...
hes more of a dev than you'll ever be
I like Lore. And Ion too, he might seem to go a little too far into details sometimes, but to me, that's just awesome
I love these Q&A's its awesome how he explains his teams thought process so we as the community can understand where they come from. I'm so happy Ion takes the time to do this!
Also wondering why some people want these classes to have not disadvantages like you cant have high single target and area damage plus self healing plus mobility plus wearing plate.
Thankyou for answering the tough questions Ion. Gives me confidence in how much you guys care about the game. Loving the expansion by the way. Keep it up! Best expansion since LIch King
He cares, but the Class Devs are shooting him in the foot, he didn't have any answers to the questions given because Devs responsible for Classes are freaking utterly clueless. I mean one of them always plays on Tablet... wtf.
Clouds23x source/reference?
I like the idea of frequent Q&As. Keep them coming!
Your Serenity "bug" has made it an absolute joy to use. Looking at warcraft logs, monks are also very much not overpowered on single target damage at all. Please reconsider the change, and keep it how it is on live servers!
Ion you are doing an amazing job
I agree, He's great
Tell that to my Shadow Priest and my Fire mage.
Time to re-roll again.
That's your own fault for going with the OP class at the start of the xpac. Spriest and fire mage were far from balanced you big crybaby.
GranthTheGreen Lol fire was Flavor of the month and shadow was close behind same with marksmen hunter. It's not as strong as it use to be and now you're sad. Re rolling to be number 1 DPS is never a good idea, play what you like - not what gives you the biggest epeen. Fire mages and shadow priests will/still pull decent numbers. You just want to be number 1..which never stays the same. It's your own fault you want to re roll into the new Flavor of the month.
Pacs I see, you assume that i'm re-rolling because I want to be "flavor of the month", very presumptuous of you. Unfortunately you are grossly incorrect.
I am re-rolling away from Fire and Shadow because they're not fun anymore, everything that was fun about Shadow (staying in Void Form as long as I can to maximize my Lingering Insanity, keeping up my DoTs on adds with the odd Void Bolt here and there, figuring out the best time to activate my literal limit breaker and turn into an all powerful god) has been squashed, cut, and tamed into a dull experience where I frantically refresh DoTs and long for my ability to Rogue check with Mind Sear (also gone).
As for Fire? Fire was a spec that required skill and timing in an expansion where skill was shunned in favour of an 'everyone's a winner' mindset, balancing Phoenix's and Fire Blast charges so that when Combustion rocks around I can start hurling boulder after boulder after flaming boulder into things felt *good* and immensely rewarding.
Now it's being simplified immensely and no longer feels good to play.
Seeing big numbers is always nice to see not going to lie, it definitely adds to the fun of a spec and when combined with fun mechanics it makes a class more entertaining to play.
When a class begins to lack both of these things it's no longer fun to play.
And besides, having a "flavor of the month" class is *not* a good way to handle class balancing, it's lazy and is indicative of poor management on Ion's part.
Thanks, guys. I'm just happy you guys are even doing these videos! I appreciate it!
Question, if you are going to make soul shards behave more like embers; why not just bring back the embers?
idk, i wish there were embers again, it made each spec different and more realistic to their spec
I know right, Embers are so much cooler and the graphic on the character was great when you build up more of them.
No graphics please. We're not shitard mages.
We had the graphics before mages, they should have it ripped away from them while we get it back.
technically mages had them before locks. They were inspired from Kael'thas
could you guys raise the volume on these? i was playing wow on the lowest possible volume and still couldnt hear what was being said
had to mute mine.
impossible to have ear related issue, i have the sound up high and the ingame sounds low but youtube is maxed out
volume mix dude
Brian Kraus thats what i had to do, but i dont like messing with the volume mixer because then i forget to switch it back and the next video makes my ears implode
***** i can guarantee to you i dont have a hearing issue and the master volume is at 40%
RE: Destro Warlocks - Can we just go back to how it was in WotLK?
TimmyTechTV yessss please
Always enjoy listening to Ion.
They should add each question answered to the info with time stamps.
When are they going to fix the loading issue?
thank you once again for doing these q and A's it is great to see you guys communicating with the community even if it's just a short hour long video once every month or two thank you
Kudos to Ion. A really great game director who's always making an effort to communicate.
The word viable needs to stop being thrown around as synonymous with optimal/competitive...
Take Arms for example; the optimal way to play it is with Dauntless, Focused Rage, Avatar, etc, the 'advanced build' so to speak, but using Overpower and In for the Kill is still viable way to play it.
Along with this, every single spec is perfectly viable, even at a Mythic raiding level - the issue lies in how many people have blinkers on towards what is numerically highest, dismissing everything else, even though it doesn't actually matter until you're playing within a top 50th guild.
25:40 unholy dks have felt like this since release, the difference between a competent player with the bracers vs without the bracers is massive
Why were effigies from other warlocks targetable in the first place?..
Thanks for stepping up and putting yourself out there. Keep it up!
I love that Ion has the confidence to say no (regarding the holy paladin change), it's so important.
Watching Ion talk about the game reinvigorates my love for WoW every time. We are lucky to have him as director.
New 7.1.5 patch notes: warlocks have been removed.
New 7.1.5 patch notes: Elemental shaman Lightning bolt, Chain Lightning and Lava Burst damage is now reduced with 50%
shamans are literally getting fantastic changes
Is it just me or is the audio really quiet?
its quite low for me too, i had to turn down my wow sound from 70% to 25% to hear them clearly :c
It is fine for me I even have my sound turned down and it it s fine.
Yeah, Blizz devs nerfed the audio too.
I still haven't got a single legendary while my 3 friends have 4, 3 and 9 respectively
I'm running the same content as them and I haven't seen 1 let alone a 'good' one
papabeanguy she has 9 across 3 characters not on a single toon
Chiyori Nakanishi
Full clear mythic EN, Its easy.
just play more! lol
Just play the game, a lot of mythic+ and heroic+mythic raiding gives you a lot of chances for legendaries. You can't just flail about hoping for them to appear.
Ty Ian and Lore, always nice to get some updates this way, I can do the dishes why I listen ;)
What about there not being any PvP rewards at all except randomly given elite gear, the honor talents ain't rewards, it's a chore to get to the same power level as other players. Is it really that much of a hassle to make some particles as en enchant or a tabard for a rating mark?
huh? There's mounts for prestige, mount for glad title, tabard, artifact appearance etc. I mean yeah, I would not mind them adding some more, but to claim there is none is just not true.
really love that they are putting forth the effort and time to do q&a's. thanks guys keep it up
You guys are killing it with Legion. Keep up the work, issues with standing. Great job
yaaaaaaaaaaaay finally discussed warlock! im glad they are aware at least of how depressed warlocks are in this time. 880 warlock is doing as much dmg as an 865 hunter.. comon. I really hope these changes come sooner rather than later. Thank you so much for these Q&A's! :)
when are you gonna fix warlocks?
Demo is fine and seems to be more or less untuched in 7.1.5. and destro is good if you got bis legendarys else youre fckd. If you dont enyoy demo u should reroll or quit :D
Why are locks always complaining, maybe they should add a new dot to your rotation called "NAGGING- damage overtime spell that does 1 million nagging damage over 5 seconds about how bad the spec is" ;)
eric STOLEMEBIKE Sorry but Demo isn't fine ^^ The class fantasy was a complete failure. So our whole class design was summoning an army of imps that last a few sec?
Lamar A I guess "fine" is a subjectial term. For me it means staying competetive in dps rankings and not getting benched cause you cant reach 400k dps on guarm. PS i play destro
***** idiot
I have that Warcraft monopoly game in the background
I have two, not so I can boast but because I wanted for to stay in pristine condition and the other because I desperately wanted to open the box and look at the content! :)
ziiiiiiiiiing
Banhammer72 nerd
gotta love how Ion isnt too scared of just giving straight answers and admitting bad designs.
great question asking about surrender to madness as if we all already didn't know their response, i would have preferred a question as to why they decided to nerf Void bolt and turn shadow in a clunky ineffective multi-doting class.
What is still wrong with warlocks they look to be doing fine damage?
As the question stated, its not the DPS that's the problem, its the fact that they are very clunky to play across all 3 specs. Their mechanics make you hate playing the spec regardless of how the numbers look.
as a demo lock, I cry anytime I have to move. moving is a huge dps loss for me. maybe not so much if DE left but
I have 500 hours on destro warlock since june. and have also played a lot off affliction and im loving both...
Vladimir Olegovich I slaughter trash hard af on afflock, just keep stacking dots and use seeds
*****
What if trash dying faster than dots do full damage?
Is there an audio only version of these on SoundCloud or something?
imo the problem on the "roll the bones" ability is that when you reroll, you can get the exact same buff and when you reroll again, same thing happens.. i don't mind if it's only 1 buff, but it sure sucks to get same 1 poitless buff 3 times in a row.
27:05 I hopped onto the ptr and saw that they gave the helm slot Mastery/Haste and I really hop they change it seeing fury's BiS Legendary is the helm with the exact same stats, and if you have the helm you'll eventually get to 100% rampage/enrage uptime by just stacking haste and and ignoring the 4 set, which is the only useful one out of the two.
2:05 "Secondary scat" ... nice way to start, lol
I love these videos. So awesome of you to take the time to do this and putting up with some of these stupid questions. "Why is artifact research not acount wide" -_-
Alot of good questions too ofc :) keep it up
If tanks don't really have much tied to primary stats have you ever considered doing a tie in of defensive abilities to primary stats? Str based tanks could have their armor boosted by str. Agi based tanks could have avoidance or dodge boosted by agi. Might be too simple to help or something you've already tried, but I thought why not throw it out there.
what about attaching the bandits guile mechanic to the slice and dice talent.
Great idea, because SnD in itself, as we usually know it, would make Outlaw just plain boring to play.
Roll the Bones is exciting because of the mix of things you can get from the buffs. SnD needs the same thing, to keep the brain occupied just a little bit, instead of "here, have 100% haste for 40+ seconds".
Yeah, SnD is really lacking that sense of engagement with the rotation.
Even roll the bones is to some extent, I love the buffs and the synergy they have together but it really is just getting to that point where you have them and then you do a basic rotation for 40+ seconds.
I main sub, there is so much to keep track of that I only ever get brief windows where I'm getting everything exactly right. And it just feels so satisfying when I do. I try going back to combat because I miss the cleave but roll 5 1's in a row and go straight back to sub.
I am not sure why they are not talking about PVP. It was the 3rd or 4th Q&A without PVP questions. It would be great to have a Q&A with Holinka.
random thought: the artifact knowledge "catch up" should of been in from the start, once your main got to AP 15 it should have become available to your alts for a resources cost
you think token price will go up with all those services it will offer?
AMAZING Q/A!! None of it currently relevant towards my game play but the Topics we're great!!
my comment to say is Please bring more questions towards other game players rather than the Top end progresion PTR players and top leaderboard guilds, Such as, Mount hunter, Completionist's and so forth.
Where did Deamon Hunter third spec go, and why does it have only 2 specs ?
anyone else noticing left click targeting has some issues?
its so hard to click on a mob thats behind another, even tho its separate by huge distance lateral and depth.
its like the clossest mob has a big pillar of hitbox that its hard to click past to get to other mobs.
I love the answer about making pallys aoe healers, i play a holy pally and we're meant to be single target, you're not supposed to be good at everything. it's part of the beauty of the class
here's a question, how do you get the patches or updates to work when they try to launch more then one at a time? all I get is a battle.net launcher that does nothing until the comp is restarted....if you check forums its not just me this is happening too, is it possible in the future to not let 4 updates out on all 4 games at the exact same time?
Ion Hazzikostas!!! I LOVE YOUR BRAIN!!!!
This is the right way for World of Warcraft and everything you said at Blizzcon "What`s next Panel" was amazing... about the patches about giving us a stedy content flow, givving us a Livving "WORLD" of warcraft ^^
Bless you and bless your New position in Blizzard!!! wish you the very BEST!!! because you give us THE VERY BEST!!!! ^^
Would be nice to see Roll the bones change the rotation depending on the buffs you get.
Any chance to fix the Fel Rush --> DC bug?
Hello, my warlock has well over 140% Mastery is there soft cap for this? or should i focus on haste spec is affliction.
Thanks for the videos, please keep them coming!
Glad warlocks and ret pallies were talked about. Seeing as how I stupidly chose those two this xpansion... lol
Understandable for sure! I mean most the time these days I log on for suramar quest weekly than bothering with raiding. Pvp isn't so bad though or at least thats what i'm doing this xpansion
Ret is really good?????
Badger McWaffles ah okay I see what you mean actually. Lately I've been preferring to play Prot over ret just because it feels more rewarding as you say. My main is a Enh shammy and by god is that a fun DPS class to play! I'd argue its the best the class has ever felt. Very reminiscent of the Pre-Legion ret paly with all the procs and fast hard hitting abilities. Not to mention all of the enh shammy abilities look phenomenal now!
Stephen Vowels Enh sham is by far one of the strongest, if not strongest currently, dps classes. i just could never get into shams (though i love them in my party/raid!!). I play holy surprisingly, despite it all I still love my pally.
Guys this is so ridiculous - you're just not hearing the Outlaw community at ALLLL and you're finding solutions for non-issues!! Do you realise how ludicrous it is to say 'if you don't like RNG, play SnD' the issue isn't with the gamble, it's how it's favoured to keep us at a disadvantage. You have a 1% chance to get a 6 buff and 100% chance to get 1 buff, while 2 buffs barely keeps us competitive. You need to find a way of lowering the DPS variance so that we can at least be reliable in our damage. Stop copping out, if even we were to choose SnD, we lose Marked for Death in the process - it's just not worth it.
Peter Mazloumian completely agree. I'm a 881 outlaw rogue doing M EN and I feel the same way.
You gave me an idea, what if they increased the the chance at getting the 6 buffs but they lowered the duration, or they can let you decide how many buffs you want by the amount of cb you spend but again the more buffs the lower the duration. I loved the way combat played in BC. I loved SnD as part of the rotation but now it is a joke.
all i got from this: if they're happy with something, all the feedback in the world won't matter if something needs to change.
32:00 It really sucks when you roll 1 buff 5 times in a row whilst BL is beign popped. And that happens a lot.
what i dont understand is if you guys want all secondary stats to be equal in value, then why have different types of secondary stats then? sorta defeats the point of them dont you think?
To the accountwide rep. How about making the rep accountwide once the addon cycle ends/ after 2 addons are released. ( e.g. MoP rep is accountwide as soon as Legion is released, WoD rep as soon as the expansion after legion is released.) Just an idea ^^
I would like you to talk about fury warrior some more. It seems like you want us to use Bladestorm (I really do) but it just doesn't have any synergy with the rest of the spec. The duration is longer than enrage's so you lose 30%+ of its damage part of the way though channeling. That sucks, make it unaffected by enrage so we have the freedom to use it when we want and bake the extra damage in please. Either that or just half the duration, why should a fury warrior with 2 swords spin for the same duration as an arms warrior? By that logic fury's bladestorm should do twice the damage which is just silly (but I would be ok with it)
Talent diversity just doesn't seem to be there for ferals, partly due to the strength of snapshotted bleeds pushing bloodtalons into 100% mustpick and savage roar close behind, and jagged wounds as well. MIght need to look into the alternative talents in a new light or merge stuff into the spec.
Why don't they make tabards BOA? that way when I hit exalted and buy the tabard I can send it to an alt to earn bonus rep for completing quests
Skin color change option in barbershop in 7.1.5 please. Come on blizz it's perfectly reasonable. We've waited long enough. $15 for a skin color change is insane!
did they mention anything about warriors at all?
as a pvp only player this was still a decent Q&A. I like that they arent ducking and dodging like politicians this time.
Is it so hard to write timemarker for each question? Not eveyone has the time for watching every Question or search for the question which are intresting for me...
PogChamp Monks not ignored!
Nexius Yiss!
soo plz tell me when u make a luncher for linux os?
I loved the greater blessings!
The problem with Might is that its effect didn't make sense at all.
For Guardian Druid, agility is basically our worst stat....how is that going to make me use a higher Ilvl item with crit and haste for example, if my focus is Vers/Mastery and agility is so bad?
Hello everyone, I want to thank Ion for his response about the Unholy RNG at 29:28 and since he mentioned he would love to hear if there are any more concerns I would love to share mine here or the Forums.
So first of all, the problem with RNG in Unholy is not so much about DPS because we are consistent, it equals out, my personal problem is that it results in a total lack of skill required to play the Spec.
I will not bring up spells which were a part of Unholy for years such as Fallen Crusader Proc,Sudden Doom, Runic Corruption. But let's take a look at some Talents in Legion and the Artifact, we have Talents such as ''Infected Claws'' Tier 90 which is RNG 35%, why not make it like ''Pestilent Pustules'' at Tier 57 which is a reliable source, why not every 3rd Cleaver from your pet applies a Rune? Why should it be 35% and not that? Moving on we have Castigator at tier 58 which is currently the dominant Build for Unholy, it's bad enough already that our wounds can range from 4 to 2 but Castigator adds another variable which just complicates it even further. Now I realize that if Wounds are a set amount, that would make the main rotation boring, as it will be a X Amount of Festering Strikes and Y amount of Scourge Strikes, but why not make Castigator baseline and make the Wounds to a set of 3, that way if you crit you get 4 Wounds, if you don't you get 3, and Scourge Strike will not pop a set amount either, because Critical Strike is one of the few RNGs that are fun, it's fun to get the big flashy number and deal a huge amount of damage. Moving on to the Artifact Weapon, we have soo much RNG there and that just feels so bad, we have ''The Shambler'' total RNG, just 0 Control over him, he doesn't even matter at all, which is a shame as it is a cool spell. Then we have ''Scourge of Worlds'' another completely RNG Trait which is out of our control and plays no part in our Rotation, and lastly we have ''Scourge the Unbeliever'' again, we have such excellent examples of reliable sources of Runes such as ''Pestilent Pustules'' something I can't play Unholy without, why must all those Traits be completely RNG?
Been Raiding Since week one on two toons STILL no legendary on either. Feels Bad Blizz. I do like this forum where the Devs tell us what the Team is thinking.
But if you guys want it to be randomness why did you guys say that in legion you guys wanted to get rid of rng from specs and or classes yet you say that you don't want the wounds to be mechanical and you want it to be random . Which is it?
you guys will merge more realms in the future?
my realm is kinda dead
how do i ask questions that have a chance to appear on here?
On legendary items: I would like to see class specific lg's moved to a vendor so they can be targeted rewards and removed from the RNG pool, while the chests in dungeons/raids/emissaries still reward the multi-class lg's. (IMHO)
love how their saying here that theyr happy with how MM hunters are with low mobility and high cleave as an offset but are still gutting the cleave next spec.
Why don't they just make Grand Commendations for Legion rep like in Mists of Pandaria that you can buy when you are exalted that allow alts to get 50% more rep or at least a small increase.
There is a stat change in 7.1.5?
so the only thing that i can think of for roll the bones that ""may"" help the sadly you got unlucky and rolled 6, 1 buffs in a row is a stacking buff (lets call it unlucky) is consumed on getting lucky, that ups the chance that you will roll 2 or more dice.
now this is comeing from someone that only plays outlaw as an alt (main been a pally) and personally i didnt find there to be much of a problem when playing but i haven't put too much time into playing it.
Will demon hunters in the future get a 3rd DPS spec?
no...wtf
a ranged spec like diablo
Well, I also asked if Hunters Survival would become melee again, look what happend...
How can you balance classes when they are designed to fill a niche? I mean, if they are filling different niches, then they are by definition going to be unbalanced. If they are balanced, then they are not niche. If they are niche, then they are not balanced. You can't have it both ways.
As a druid who only has Emerald Dreamcatcher for legendaries, what are they doing to it?!!?!?!? These vids are the only source of patch notes I ever see until they're live
Bysentenial check mmo champion or wowhead or any other fan site.
guys what you need to fix is the feel and fun of classes not the damage sure there is buffs and nerfs needed but what we want is more fun gameplay
Thinking out loud...
Future changes to outlaw should give it some of the gameplay style of combat that made combat interesting, especially if slice and dice is getting buffed. I think a lot of rogues will say they really liked the WoD style of rogue. If we could move a little bit more back to that while keeping the flavor of the different specs, rogues as a whole would be very happy.
The legendaries don't seem very legendary any more if everyone has multiple. They were always something to work for. You felt a sense of achievement once obtained. Please reconsider this whole legendary system before the next xpac.
They don't want spec qustions to avoid shadow priest qustions and the AP problem when swaping main spec...
as they nerf them yet again, and refuse to fix the major problem with it
Shenan Beaghan they got a flat 25% increased damage to all their. Abilities... Look at the forums, was post 6 hours ago ( shadow priest)
+Legazzy Xcluzive Thats so boring. But Ion had no real answer to STM but the class stacking is not a to big problem atm but with better gear later in the x pack it migth.
Legazzy Xcluzive
oh nice. i havent been keeping up for a little bit. i actually stopped playing a while ago
instant like, im soooo ready for this, perfect daily entertainment! :D (y)
Any chance for another Azeroth Reforge (renewed quests and zones) like the one we saw in Cataclysm? The world of WORLD of Warcraft feels abandoned; Coming months/years later and being greeted by the same-old-same-old. Come on!
Ion and Lore, sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
First comes loves, then comes marriage.
Then comes an abrupt, tragic miscarriage.
Then comes blame, then comes despair. Two hearts broken beyond repair.
Ion leaves Lore, and takes the tree.
D-I-V-O-R-C-E.
live q and a about legendaries basically what all the q and a's should be called.
i really like Ion, he knows what he is doing with the game :D
37:34 - That's not good enough for Shadow Priest. I know you guys are still working on it and don't have a solid answer yet but the ONLY issue is that S2M has no competition in the Level 100 Talent tier, even in its nerfed form. JUST REDESIGN THE ENTIRE TIER. Beyond that, although I like the Mind Flay change, I still don't understand the reasoning behind the LI removal and Void Bolt nerf. It's going to make the spec much, much clunkier, which is a shame since I was drawn to the spec because I really love the feel of the rotation.
Although I don't agree with all the changes (who does though), you can't deny Ion's vision and sharpness. I really appreciate his openess and honesty, and love these Q&A updates. Legion has been my favorite expansion and I've been enjoying every aspect of it.
As an ele shaman, Sephuz's secret gets me very excited.
You spent for ever talking about class specific changes, Prot Warriors are very broken on the PTR (read the volumes of consistent feedback on the forums) yet you don't cover what is going for Prot Warr. Please!
PATCH 7.1.5 RELEASE DATE CONFIRMED!
he said 7.1.5 and 7.2.5 would be roughly 10 weeks after the "big" patches - which MEANS 7.1.5 is gonna be released on the 4th of january for us an 5th of january for eu respectivly which also fits perfectly in with then normal reset days (so release date basically confirmed)
Thats a realy big problem for Sub rogues they gotta stack mastery/versatility on every piece of gear,I am currently 860 equipped ilvl with all my gear vers and mastery,but I could have 877 ilvl with all my useless high ilvl bad secondary stats gear,so its a 17 Ilvl overall upgrade.The ther problem is that gear with Versatility/Mastery is extremely hard to find,no boss or raid boss currently drops a chest-piece with Versatility/Mastery.
It might even take me more then 1-1 1/2 weeks to get an upgrade constantly playing wow.