The future of WoW PvP is, now more than ever, uncertain.
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I’m bad person if I feel happy for this?
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Thank God. Incompetent, stubborn, victim card playing failure. Good riddance.
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Their way of balancing PVP was so bad that was impossible not to believe Chat GPT was the entity behind it. I am glad he quit and I hope someone competent will finally manage to balance the classes so people won’t reroll every time they force a new flavor of the month.
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who was he pvp programmer?
thankfully this is a good thing, and hopefully pvp as a whole is changed
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" Brian Holinka is Lead Combat Designer on World of Warcraft at Blizzard Entertainment. He is involved in all combat related systems including class design and PvP content."
With other words, hes the main guy they go through before they implement anything PvP related.
Wonder if he’s reading these posts about himself. Hi Brian!
If he implemented dampening = he not deserve severance pay
If he proposed concept of S-tier, god tier and other circus which makes WoW joke as E-sport = he dont deserve severance pay
If not, my apologies.
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ION still left…
its very bad news that now he joins riot mmo team, the guy has no business design anything
“Thank you to everyone who has ever played World of Warcraft. Your patronage has provided for my family over the last decade and I do not take that for granted.”
biggest slap on the face btw the guy thanking for the money his took from you for years for the job the fool goes to admit on interviews he has no clue what he is doing half of the time nor understand the aspects of the game that he is being paid to work on
guy is literally responcible of all pvp related designs and says on an interview that “heh i have no clue how casters work or what they do”
and now he goes do it on riot as he says his joining new adventure with greg street, cant say this is good news 
would been better honestly if he stayed in wow and didnt go ruin any more games that had potential to become good pvp mmo again, it will be afk que simulator in town to play minigame matches with people you dont want to play with and a horrible design on everything again
mmorpgs are not supposed to evolve around 2v2 or 3v3 format only, its an mmo not an stand afk in town wait in que to somewhere simulator with horrible designs, all of this you can thank holinka and you can wonder if he did a good job designing and balancing pvp around it too through the years
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Greg street left riot like 2 months ago though no? According to his twitter hes starting up his own studio or something xd
if this is true then there still is hope
I say good riddance for them both from riot, both ghostcrawler and holinka together would mean the game is trash
well atleast they will be in same place, and people can stay away from products they work on
Good riddance. I don’t trust someone who deletes all their Tweets after 7 days, sign of a coward.
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Good riddance, in 11 years He never did anything good for pvp. If anything he caused nothing but detriment to this game and its dwindling player base.
Hopefully they get someone more competent, someone who can comminicate properly. A person who actually cares about the product and its player base.
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You play enhancer and deny that it’s completely broken. Nothing else to be expected.
can’t wait to know who’s gonna be the next scapegoat for people unhappiness
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i mean his not a “scapegoat” as you put it, he literally is the sole reason why wow has been bad pvp wise for years
his responcible on destroying classes design wise and doing horrible choises pvp wise on the game and then admitting on interviews he has no clue of half of it what he is designing even
there is a reason why there were address to get him fired already years ago, he is not liked in the community and I for one did not understand why in earth were he hired in df the first place after people got rid of him
you can put him on same category than the designers who designed combat and tweeted to be playing wow mostly with a tablet, how do you even do anything in a game other than collect pets and do pet battles by clicking on a tablets screen with index finger. the gameplay must be something extremely chill and slow that you can afk mostly
there is reason why these people are seen as incompetent for their jobs by the playerbase, they are not innocent or “scapegoat”
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most people don’t know what they want from the game or their class either, they stick to generic like “i want my class to be fun”
the majority of mages felt like mage being the only class without a stun was bad, and wanted deep back, xaryu himself made a video that i could easily see as a meme about it
personally i have the opposite idea, i feel like stuns are very lazy design and only a few of them should exist, specially ranged stuns like dh eruption should just not exist in the game, they don’t impact dh gameplay that much, but they impact people being affected by stun alot
stun have 0 downside to it and almost no counterplay and its frustrating as hell, specially thse kidney into multiple cheapshot spams while dpsing u and you are unable to do anything
stuns are bad for the game, but most mages would want a stun, personally i wish we don’t go back to mop deep > spam icelance/pyro into it for shatter nonstop, feels lazy and boring to me
now if u can list all the abd and “good” things holinka did that would be great, like, is he responsible for the current state of DF ? i feel like df is not as bad as people call it, not after we went through azerite
gear, essences, corruptions, and … w/e you wanna call shadowlands.
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Greatest day in wow history
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