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@AggrendWoW @AggrendWoW @OptimusJones @Zirene @wowclassicdevs Happy 1 year anniversary of Scarlet Enclave guys. Thanks for making such an awesome raid.

@realharmen What realm? EU or US?

Felt like I had to get this guy framed. Went with the burnt wood look because, well, you know 🔥

@AggrendWoW If you want we got a spot for your dwarf paladin, we start 21:00 server time. Which is like 12:00 California time, hop in during lunch.

@AggrendWoW EU living flame :D

@FwoiblesWoW Hope you guys have enough pizza if it will be night work

IT'S FINE, EVERYTHING IS FINE. DAVE WHERE THE **** ARE THE TAPE BACKUPS!

@AggrendWoW I gotta say, everything you worked on was one of the most awesome things i did in wow classic. Ashbringer questline, Shadowy figure, BWL quests. Big W Josh, and cant wait what you are cooking next.

Greetings WoW Classic Friends, I've had people reach out to me over the past several months asking why I've been so quiet on socials recently. As I've said in the past, this mostly means I'm just busy, but I think I'd like to explain a bit about what I've been busy with and how my position on the WoW Classic team has changed. As the team has grown and the complexity and number of projects (from SoD to MoP to Anniversary, etc.) of classic has increased, we've needed to look at how our team is structured. This includes making some moves for certain individuals to help them focus their attention where it is most needed. For my part, I've historically occupied an odd spot on the team, working directly with our dev team and WoW team leadership to help plan the things we want to do, helping steer the design direction of our various seasons and game versions, doing some actual design implementation, while also being responsible for large portions of game production for a variety of classic projects. This includes working with partner teams, removing roadblocks, and generally being a jack of all trades behind the scenes. However, for the past few years I have steadily shifted further and further towards game design and implementation as my primary focus. During Season of Discovery in particular I created a variety of content including a number of class rune discoveries, the Tarnished Undermine Real system, the Shadowy Figure questlines, several of the BWL epic weapon quests, and the Ashbringer legendary questline, to name just a few things I worked on. As a result, last year I officially changed roles from Game Production to Game Design. I've got my whole focus now dedicated to helping lead the long term vision for content and narrative on the classic team, while continuing to implement new content. So that's the biggest reason I've been so silent and will probably continue to be relatively quiet for the time being. It wouldn't be very appropriate for me to comment on projects like Anniversary and MoP Classic or answer questions about them due to my now-reduced involvement there. So that was a lot of words to say "I'm still here, I'm just really busy" but I felt it wouldn't hurt to explain a bit about what I've personally been up to. The team's growth is strictly a good thing, but we have been in an adjustment period. We are still finding our footing with some folks in new roles and new team members getting up to speed, but we are really starting to hit our stride and it's incredibly cool to be a part of. I'm really excited for you to see what other awesome stuff the team is working on in due time, but for now, I'm going to keep my head down and keep chugging along. Always happy to read the comments you leave, even if I don't have a ton to say in reply just this moment, so please don't hesitate to @ me to say hey. Happy New Year Everyone!

@Zirene @HuntardnessTX @wowclassicdevs What are you workin on? <3

@HuntardnessTX I'm not working on TBC Anniversary. Directing things like this to the forums and @wowclassicdevs twitter will be your best avenues.

@Zirene random shot in the dark but is there any way to get, even at worse a paid option, to character copy to era instead of a full move so we could also use them in TBC anniversary?

@Zirene @rose_elliot So no TBC Hardcore? :(

@rose_elliot They said the post has been updated to reflect this

@Zirene all the MoP class balance is for PvE only, right? If yes, this should definitely be in the patch notes. The only time it's mentioned at all is the original 5.5.0 development note post which is not pinned on the forums anymore

@Zirene Are you also working on the titanforge servers? Or is that a different team

Was actually very flattered at this comment I saw under the Thunderforging changes on Reddit. The fact they could tell it was my work and my write up in just that section is kind of cool and kind of scary to me.

@OptimusJones @AggrendWoW @Zirene @wowclassicdevs I loved the Q&A section the retail guys did. They did it so well, i would love and hope to see something like that from the classic team in the future

@AggrendWoW LET HIM COOK @AggrendWoW @OptimusJones

I've risen from my slumber to repost this. It's very important. We've got a lot of really cool things in the works.

@Zirene @zuleCSGO @Zirene as one of the players that really enjoyed SoD. Was very sad to see it end so sudden after the bluepost. I tried MoP for 2 weeks but it just not my thing. Hope to see TBC soon, maybe Terrapin Wow until then. I just wish you guys were more public on what you are cooking.

@zuleCSGO I would send this feedback to the wowclassicdevs twitter and/or the forums. I do not deal in experience tables.

@Zirene @PushnPinkz @Zirene do you know what happend with @AggrendWoW ? he hasnt really been active on twitter etc like he was a year ago

@PushnPinkz If you believe that any class change is made with a dollar sign in the designer's head, that's wild.

@Zirene WHY do you hate hunters so much? PLZZ explain

@Zirene @embosslol Hi Zirene, just wondering if the classic team is paying attention to the classic streamers going to OSRS. What pulls them to that game and what it makes different compared to WoW classic. To me it seems that there is a desire for a more sandboxy game instead of seasonal like wow

@embosslol We'll see. I'm watching and seeing people die constantly. And they aren't even full gear. I'm also hearing multiple people's enjoyment right now, so it seems like it's not 'nobody'. I'm sorry it's unenjoyable for you, we'll keep our eye on it.

Final PvP Update for Mists of Pandaria before the Arena Season starts. TL;DR: Because we have titles in all brackets now, we wanted to make adjustments we felt were appropriate for each of them, and not do a Blanket one size fits all for Base Resilience. - Base Resilience to 63%. - Base Resilience increases to 64% during 3v3 Matches. - Base Resilience increases to 65% during 5v5 Matches. - PvP Weapon Enchants for Bloody Dancing Steel and Spirit of Conquest will be available in the first Arena Season of Mists of Pandaria. The PvP Power enchant will release next season.

@grok what ideas do you have for a future classic+ like gamemodes for world of Warcraft? @zire

@grok what do you think should be included in world of Warcraft classic plus? @agg

@Zirene @capez28 Hi Zirene, is there any non MoP related news we can expect for classic any time soon? :)

Think that's just because when someone was making an internal version of the spell they copied the trigger spell from shield block and didn't change the tooltip, but the spell effect is still the normal Law of Nature. So this is just a tooltip on an internal thing that doesn't matter.

@Zirene hey zirene quick question, does law of nature shield enchant in sod give 2% block as well as damage and healing? keep on seeing conflicting stuff, thought I saw this in a PTR build once a couple phases ago but am not sure if it made it into the game. thanks

@ClaytonStone @ClaytonStone Great work on the raid. Do you see it happen that we can transfer our Era characters to the anniversary servers somewhere in the future (maybe with some limits)? And also our anniversary characters to the era servers?

We hope you're as excited for this all-new raid as we are

@Zirene @ChrisBarry82839 @Zirene Hi Zirene, do you see it happen that we can transfer our Era characters to the anniversary servers somewhere in the future? And also our anniversary characters to the era servers?

This effect stacks to 3 and should be 25% of your attack power every time you crit. It's essentially pseudo-block for Druids but giving you a block chance equal to your crit chance and swing timer, and a block value equal to 25% of your attack power. You can stack it up if attacks don't land, and so it ends up being rather good. It also gives better with the other bonuses like increased attack speed because you increase the number of crits you'll get, as you're attacking faster.

@Zirene so it looks like the 2p tank druid bonus indeed stacks 0 times, and the current shield is overwritten if the AP value is higher than previous shield. Any chance this can be raised to like 2-3x stack? Ends up being like a 1-2% EHPS equivalent in its current form.

@Zirene @ChrisBarry82839 @just_kni @Zirene @AggrendWoW @FwoiblesWoW I might have found a big bug in SoD that could have big impact if i reveal it to the public. Is there any way i can get in contact with you?

@ChrisBarry82839 @just_kni Everything on the PTR shifts. You are essentially seeing how the sausage is made. Things are more likely to be squished downward instead of buffed. Don't let it get to you, though, everything is basically fake numbers until it's live.

@Zirene Infusion of Souls seems pretty underwhelming for any caster that is not mage, since it requires you to have 50% haste to benefit from it. I was exited to use it on my spriest but its probably worthless right now.