Season of Discovery Developer Update - 17 May

Should have had a PTR for phase 2 and 3 and a lot of the problems we’ve dealt with and are still dealing with would never have been an issue. It’s better late than never I suppose but the game experience of phase 2 and 3 have been outright tainted for a lot of players because of your inability to recognize how problematic doing “surprise game design” was going to be, even after your playerbase repeatedly demanded for PTR’s to make sure the mistakes weren’t repeated.

As to the change in classes, doing a massive overhaul to them is just going to bring new problems. You, Blizz, though that a rune like Serpent Spread was good, so good that you despite constant criticism of it never updated it in a meaningful way. So let’s say that with the “massive overhaul” it gets altered and it is still weak and a dead weight rune, how long are we going to have to wait for it to be overhauled again? What if it gets overtuned and becomes THE new rune to use and another rune like Sniper Training becomes the new dead weight?

A massive overhaul at this point is needed but you fix one leak another one could pop up. We should never have had to wait until phase 4 for these issues to be dealt with in the first place.

Basically what I’m saying is this, Blizz, whatever you’ve changed it is probably not going to be enough and you are going to have to be way more hands on with altering runes based on feedback like you always should have been from the get go. Don’t think that “we got this all figured out” because you didn’t for phase 1 2 or 3 so why would you think that one massive overhaul will be enough?

And for the playerbase… Just temper your expectations, all right? They’re gonna screw something up, they always do. Don’t fool yourselves into thinking that somehow THIS time around they got it right.

I haven’t updated my thread in a while but I doubt much of my criticism has been addressed so it still stands: Hunters need entire Rune Rework, not just buffs

I wonder who will be given access to the PTR, those actually critical or the hypebeasts.

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Why is this thread pinned on the US forums but not pinned in the EU forums? :thinking:

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Wait, so are raids gonna be a mix of 20 and 40 man or is it only 20 man? Are there any 10 man?

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