As an enhancement Shaman that has enough gear to do Heroics but still almost die 3-4 normal world mobs swarming me at once, no I do not think it is currently worth the sacrifice. Going from 119 to 120 was like someone just set me back to the pain that was level 60 - 80 pre- the universal health reduction kicked in.Also I am very suspect of "they are still committed" to redoing Worgan and goblin models. It's getting on 2 1/2 years and 2 expansions worth of content have been produced but somehow the remaining two player races that didn't get redone still havn't. Been able to make 8 new races but havn't had the time to fix two that have had issues since they came out in 2010
What did this guy have on his resume that convinced the company to give him a job?
People complaining about world mob difficulty at 120 less than two weeks into two years worth of item level progression just make me sigh. Nevermind it takes you 1-3 days (depending on level of casualness) to start scaling above them, as it is. I could never be a MMO dev (or, at least a WoW dev). I'm pretty sure I'd have a stroke trying to process community "feedback". lolNow, putting that aside, I despise Ion's obvious belief that he and his team need to cater to the lowest common denominator. This is seen everywhere in their approach to design. They think we had too many buttons to press. Let's prune everyone down to 3-4. People are too dumb to pick the "right" pvp armor. Let's not even give them a chance to make the wrong choice. Some people are Luddites who think addons are the work of Satan, so let's remove auto accept because WQs are 90% travel time (news flash, they're STILL 90% travel time). It's clear he's got a bit of pseudo passive aggressive nature to his approach to game design, and while I sort of get it (again, I'd probably have a stroke if it was my job having to listen to player "feedback"), you'd think the job and its perks would be enough to find that rare individual capable of doing it who isn't going to succumb to their worst tendencies. I know, I know. Be careful what you wish for, but I'm low-key looking forward to whenever it is Ion chooses to move on to something else.
Tbh all you people complaining about scaling is hilarious. Everytime the game goes to requiring you to press more than 1 button you start complaining, you did when cata made dungeons harder and you do now when BFA makes the world content harder. But at the same time you complain the game isn’t challenging enough. Decide instead of whining like a bunch of kids. For me personally I don’t care, you just have to git gud if you cant survive more than 1 mob because you can’t actually play your spec.
Man theres too much scaling going on to make everyone exactly the same. "Oh so we dont want you as a level 110 be steamrolled by a level 120 with mythic gear".. wait, okay, I get its frustrating but why level? Why get gear? Ofcourse the 120 should easily win that fight! If everything just stays on equal power because otherwise it's "not fair", that would make the game incredibly boring. Whats the point in grinding PVP gear if Blizzard is gonna scale up that newly dinged 120 with greens to match your power of epics?What's next? Give a single player raid boss powers the moment he is solo vs 5 people who try to gank him, in order to make things fair? Of course its not fair, 5vs1, but then get friends to make the fight 5v5. Ofcourse it's not fair that a level 120 dominates a 110, but then go level to 120 and gear up!Otherwise we might as well all just sit down, not level up, not gear up and say "well blizzard will scale me up to make things fair, why bother doing stuff myself". Really really bad.
Why have my last 3 emissary quests rewarded War Supplies? This seems very messed up when I talk to guildies and their last 3 have been AP. This "balance" seems very out of whack.
"Do you feel that the removal of auto-accept and searching for groups by addons was worthwhile?There is value in a button. The problem they had was it created a huge gap between people who used the addon and who didn't. When they're giving rewards such as Artifact Power, they're comparing it to other systems that award it, like Skirmishes, Island Expeditions, or Dungeons. In a world where a World Quest can take between 2 minutes to 15-20 seconds depending on whether or not you're using an addon, that's impossible to balance.If you're using an addon doing World Quests, you're basically just running around the world, rather than spending time completing the objective. World Quests shouldn't be 90% travel time, 10% questing."THIS IS NOT AN ANSWER to the reason Auto Accept was taken out of YOUR OWN ADDON you freaking nit witt! Auto Accept for YOUR LFG tool and an addon are two different things. WE DO NOT CARE IF YOU BROKE THE ADDON! We care about our ability to actually complete grouped content. Making a group for world bosses, raids, and other content without being able to set a ilvl and then having a check box to AUTO ACCEPT those players is idiotic. A group, or Raid leader should not be expected to sit with a window open and having to click accept for every single applicant if they already filled out the required information in the fields such as what kind of group it is, what it is for, and then set or do not set a min ilvl and then on the next window they should be able to check the Auto accept box so THEY TO CAN PLAY< it might be a raid group where you have players dropping all the time like they do in LFR, or fishing groups, or for things like keeping a rolling group going for a World Boss. The person making the group should be able to play the game, not sit and manage a built in blizz addon and accept every single applicant while trying to also raid/group lead. People drop out left and right in these groups and making a player/leader sit there and keep a window open, WHILE TRYING TO LEAD AND PLAY ALSO is not a good idea. its not fair to take such a useful feature out when it was so very needed in the first place. Thats why it was added! We did not care about the 1 or 2 idiots that sat on a flying mount, or came in at the last second of a fight, if there was a free space, then so what. We could AND WE DID kick AFK mounters in groups. No one asked for the removal of such a useful tool.Do something to keep it from not being used in addons by 3rd parties, keep breaking addons that abuse it, or do something else with code that will break the offending addon instead of taking it out of your own feature set in your own tool!So whats with not answering the question Ion? There is NO GOOD REASON this feature was removed, and it should be returned to the game via YOUR OWN ADDON in the game. PERIOD!
Can someone teach Ion how to hold a mic? I can barely hear half the stuff he says because he pulls his head away from the mic so frequently.