World of Warcraft Patch 8.2: Rise of Azshara Arrives June 25th
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It launches 2 weeks (July 9th) after the patch releases on June 25th.
Time to actually put some effort into this expansion, finally. Also the timing is hilarious because now I won't go play that Final Fantasy expansion like I expected to until this dropped. Bravo Blizzard.
Gotta be honest, this isn't doing anything for me. Also, did they ever address how badly ability pruning has made the gameplay of Warcraft feel?
I am expecting this to be a pretty good patch overall with cool content, but probably not enough to remedy the actual foundational issues of the expansion that have kept me from enjoying playing any character at max level for a meaningful amount of time. I guess we'll see. Pretty excited to check out Mechagon at least.
No, which is one of the main issues that they are not likely to address in any mid-expansion patch.
No, which is one of the main issues that they are not likely to address in any mid-expansion patch.
From what the video said, we aren't necessarily going after Azshara, she led us into a trap and is more on the offensive. That's what I gleaned, anyway.
They have said they will only do major class changes with a new expansion, so your are going to have to wait like 14 months for anything significant
Ah cool, thanks. Had a busy day so probably missed it lol. Will take another look after a nice long sleep :P
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Ion directly addresses class pruning in the second video I posted in the OP. They said the dev team was "too focused on button count as a measure of complexity." He actually brings up "altered time" as an example for Mages.
Even though they recognize the mistakes they made, you're probably not going to see major class changes until the next expansion.
Funny to see things like this now when it used to be my life. Haven't played Wow for over a year now. When will they announce the next expansion?
Nothing about this patches really addresses any of the awful, terrible issues BFA faced. This wouldn't bring me back in at all. Honestly, WoW might be dead to me.
Better be before that as I see this patch content to get boring before September. Hell, 8.1 content got boring real quick.
Will the water elemental lord dude finally stop being AWOL? Or did he come back already? I know he went absent during his dungeon in Cataclysm.
He came back during Shaman quests in Legion.
I suppose it's possible they announce it at Gamescom, but those are the only two events that seem likely.
With that (insert bad word here) Ion in charge of the game, not getting my hopes up. This xpac is a massive disappointment.
Ooof. Yeah, that's going to keep me away for a while, maybe for good.
Yep. They could've done so much in this xpac in terms of horde vs alliance. But they didn't.
I think it's both. But yeah, mainly Activision ripping the soul out of Blizzard.
If they dont right BfA with this patch I'm probably done and will just play ffxiv. BfA has just been fucking miserable all around.
But he's in charge and has done nothing to make the game more interesting and fun. More importantly, he has no idea on how to properly release content throughout the life of an xpac IMO.
You are 100% right. I wouldn't consider this a hot take, not in 2019.
Same. Sub is up on July 11. This patch is do or die for me.
I think you overestimate what he's actually in charge of, or at least what within Blizzard he has direct control over.
That's typically how management works. You take the heat.
I take it people who make posts like this dont play overwatch
Blizzards kinda in free fall right now. WoW is on fire. Public image is trash. HotS got a killed in a shitty way. Diablo 4 is being made but they wont say anything. StarCraft lol. Overwatch and Hearthstone I assume are doing ok but I only see people complaining about those.
Only thing of good will is WC3 Remake. They were in a pretty good place like a year and a half ago.
Only thing of good will is WC3 Remake. They were in a pretty good place like a year and a half ago.
Yeah, this is a big part of what I mean with the cultural/organizational issues. BfA isn't the only misstep blizzard's had recently. The Diablo situation is a total joke, Overwatch still has players but has faded out of the zeitgeist with the rise of Battle Royale games, Starcraft is essentially a dead IP, etc. They really need to figure some shit out. It's not entirely evil Activision ruining everything, either.
I even think a lot of the Diablo Immortal complaining was idiotic because they're going to make a Diablo 4 (3 sold what 30+ million?) But its undeniable that it has their image take a hit and they haven't even tried to recover it
BfA hit like, end of WoD level displeasure almost immediately cuz its straight up BAD.
BfA hit like, end of WoD level displeasure almost immediately cuz its straight up BAD.
Unfortunately I really disliked this expansion which is a huge bummer because I was pretty energized in the lead up to it. The last one I raised like 7 alts to 110 but this one I couldn't even bring myself to level up a second one at all after my main hit the cap. I might give it another shot at some point.. if only they'd drop the membership fee another $5 or so. Meh.
Diablo Immortal situation is largely just absolutely abysmal timing/planning. It was like they wanted a bad reaction to that announcement. If it was not treated as a major keynote item, and a proper Diablo PC game had been announced prior/simultaneously, people would have been much more willing to at least shrug it off instead of like being angry about it.
And yeah, BfA definitely had the worst quality-at-launch of any expansion. I never started drifting away from a new expansion so fast.
