AMA-Fragrunden auf Reddit – 06. März: Gewertete Spiele, Spielerzuweisung & Balance

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About the HL/TL merge and other ranked changes:
How they will merge HL and TL mmr to give players the new rank 62

A little bit of ranked history and why they are merging HL + TL 25

About showing mmr

Maybe showing mmr in the replay if they show mmr in ranked

New ranked merge coming in a few weeks with the new season

Preferred roles for draft

Can choose between new roles + flex

New ranked mode will be first come first serve kinda draft

How they want to prevent smurfs in the new ranked mode and how parties will work

A little bit more about parties in the new ranked mode

A little bit about smurfs with the new ranked mode

Queueing as a role probably not happening

Minimum requirements to play the new ranked mode

Early conversations about MM using only mmr or only rank to create matches

A little bit about new ranked rewards in the future

Less placements games

Ranked decay for everyone

Automatically rejoin queue if someone disconnects somewhere in the future

About rank/mmr limits for placements

Talent Tree Design and Talents in General:
Blizzard’s opinion on talent trees and how they approach them

No plans to create talents to ‘soften’ hard counters (like Butcher having a talent to do some damage through blinds)

About block talents and why they work in charges and not for a short period of time

Heroes and Hero Reworks
Kharazim pretty balanced and no plans to change his level 1 that much

Small change to Thrall’s Thunderstorm but nothing major

Valeera changes maaaaybe coming in the future (sorry Hailfall)

Maybe a small change to Malthael’s Tourmented Souls

They are pretty happy about the state of Li Ming

Deckard probably getting more small changes to make him better

Chen will get a rework but no details on it

Tassadar rework in the future (Someone is really happy right now :wink:). Where their inspiration to rework Tass comes from (Seriously, this is epic). Rework coming soonTM (:sob:)

About weird/unique heroes like Chogall, Abathur, Vikings…

Balance Changes in General
About balance changes with no HGC

Focus of the balance team

Large nerfs in a single patch versus small nerfs in several patches

Balance changes now that there’s no HGC

About having too many ranged mages

Buffing weak talents instead of nerfing strong ones and dev’s comment in every change

How the team chooses which talent(s) will get buffed

QM and UR
About forced comps and maybe an option to choose between any comp/forced comps

Maybe make Unranked First Come First Serve like TL

No plans to merge QM and UR

About new players taking too long to find a match in QM

About QM, forced comps and educating the player base

Multiple Subjects
Player impact in the match

Idea of a team gamemode with team mmr

Multiple questions: Show mmr, ARAM maps in custom, Clans, In-game tournament, spectate friends, public API

No avoid teammate option

New role rework coming with the next season

About sub-roles to avoid confusion

About loss forgiveness

And more about loss forgiveness

Party finder system in the future

Maybe an ARAM only mode in the future

What can we (the players) do to help you (Blizzard)?

About supporting the new pro scene from third parties

What are Blizzards priotities now

About the broken AI

About PBMMR

Trying to make the reconnect system better

Maybe a spectate option in the future but hard to implement

Exp changes and Ghostdunk article

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