Jon Leung

@FwoiblesWoW @StyxWoW @AggrendWoW I don't think anyone is gonna pretend that we have crusader strike numbers, but oce has plenty of people online and engaging with the gameplay, certainly enough to warrant a separate server IMO.

@FwoiblesWoW @StyxWoW @AggrendWoW As someone in a shadowstrike guild that frequently has 70+ people across multiple raid teams online on weekday nights, I really hope you guys consider keeping the oce servers up. It's really such a massive difference in ping that a lot of people will straight up just quit.

Aight, sorry for the delay there, a teeny tiny expansion got in the way. US SoD News -us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/realm… EU SoD News - eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/realm…

@RedBeardFlynn I think this is more of a linguistic shift than a mechanical one - it used to be that endgame was a small portion of mmos but nowadays endgame is like 80% of released content and it only takes a few days to reach it. It's really not an endgame, we just call it that out of habit.

My MMO hot take: Focusing only on "End Game" being where the fun is in an MMO is the most ridiculous thing to come out of the last 20 years of MMOs. If the majority of your game is boring and supposed to be skipped so I can get to the "end game" you just made a mostly bad game.

@Zirene @SageStein555 I realize you had nothing to do with the tier sets, but I hope that the team takes this kind of feedback to heart and considers power progression curves more carefully because people's minds don't change so easily, and early performance can definiteley affect later metas. 7/7

@Zirene @SageStein555 The past 3 weeks rogues have been destroying MC as tanks by all metrics and across all heats, but are still the lowest played by a longshot. The meta has clearly been affected by the dismal early performance during the pre-raid grind, and it's very clear to see in the data. 6/X

@Zirene Hey, quick heads up. So far, rogue tanking threat is pretty rough. AoE threat is extremely hard right now. Even single target threat is pretty tight. Thinking maybe JafW may need a threat adjustment? Rogue discord seems pretty unanimous about this. 1/2

@Zirene Is Blunderbuss supposed to be categorized as a spell for the sake of being unusable when silenced? It feels odd to be unable to shoot a gun when you're silenced, but maybe there's a balance reason for this?

@Zirene Heya, this probably isn't something you're in charge of, but maybe you can get some eyes on it. Is there any chance we can get a way to recover/rebuy the Sending Stone from Rogue's Blunderbuss rune quest? Lotsa people threw it out but it's quite useful for getting around.

@SageStein555 @Zirene @Sknilegap @Matthew89944696 @jorgito_de_38 I agree with this completely. I'm very happy to be given a more difficult and challenging gameplay loop if i also feel like I'll be rewarded for the extra work. ATM it feels like I'm pulling out all the stops just to get 70% the results of other tanks spamming 2 buttons.

@Zirene @Sknilegap @Matthew89944696 @jorgito_de_38 I see both sides of this debate. But I think you just hit the nail on the head. We are fine with challenge, but we don’t want the short straw. But also, total homogenized classes can be boring too. Personally, there has to be a middle ground. That’s just me

@Zirene @SageStein555 Most of them throughout SoD I feel like? People build their raid teams based on what's good during their prebis grind, and then largely don't change them unless the previous MT leaves or steps down. Something crazy OP like sham P2 might shake things up but in most cases it's set.

@Zirene @SageStein555 My worry about this philosophy is that groups and raids are currently being built based on dungeon performance (because that's all we have), so if classes like rogue tank are showing noticeably poor performances itll radically affect their prominance in raids when they do release

@SageStein555 they aren't competing. So right now we're letting the 'dungeon meta' settle, and not tuning around that as much as we'll tune around the 'raid meta' with potentially factoring in some dungeon elements. Typically when raids are out players don't care about dungeon performance 4/4

@ScourgeHH You only see posts from people from either extreme cause they're the ones who care enough one way or the other to pause the game and talk about it online. The people in the middle too busy playing the game to yap about it.

Why does it seem like the gaming community is so negative these days? Every game that gets released gets torn to shreds if there is a single minor issue even if it makes sense that the issue exists for later implementation. People want it to be a 10/10 now or it's trash it seems

@AggrendWoW @tlew360 I get the hesitance, but scaling in SoD has been radically changed with runes giving way more weap scaling, so weap speed has become extremely important. TF's 1.9 is just so awkward that it makes it meh in both MH and OH now. I think minor tweaks could improve usability a lot.

@tlew360 No plans to change it. This is one of those items that it sort of feels wrong to change. It's too iconic.

@AggrendWoW any updates to Thunderfury sword? Is it going to be same stats and just buff it or we changing stats like hand of rag? Hoping to know soon so guilds can start planning who gets bindings in MC.

@Zirene Is there a particular reason you guys are so insistent on keeping MG at 20s cd? The current iteration doesn't rly work as an active mit skill because you have to hit it off cd to maintain uptime on the SS buff so the parry change only concentrates it with no added control

@Zirene @bababooeyreal Would definitely appreciate if we could at least get infinite charges for the new poisons, cause for example in ST I ran the double DP build and ended up using a full stack of DP every raid JUST on bosses. If a fight lasts longer than 3m I'll run out before the boss even dies.

@bababooeyreal to the new poisons, but max rank Instant and Deadly may be very hard to change without causing an issue in era. I know, I know, "era won't mind" but we TRY not to make changes to era. Not always how it goes, but yeah. 2/2

@Zirene I assume this is still in discussions/not final but I just want to say I am 100% in support of the JAFW threat mod nerf on PTR. Resolves a lot of the issues rogue is suffering on multi-tank fights and also gives more room to balance individual skills separately.