Torghast and Legendaries
Lack of Rewards in Torghast
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There’s still more stuff they want to roll out to Torghast.
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There’s 12 new achievements, new mounts and pets, new cosmetics.
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They’re talking about what they can add to the Adamant Vaults.
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A big focus is on the replayability of Torghast. Adding the meta progression, a new scoring system should be coming in Patch 9.1 to help.
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The score system was lacking elements, and they’re gotten a lot of feedback on it.
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No plans to update Twisting Corridors
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No plans to allowing leveling in Torghast for 9.1. Maybe for a .5 patch in the future, sounds cool.
Speed in Torghast
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Speed is one aspect of mastery. It should not be the only element of Mastery.
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Speed is one of their goals when redesigning Torghast, so it’s baked into things like the Streak Bar.
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Torghast Knowledge is a rolling Season cap, similar to Valor and Conquest.
Torments
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The torment that reduces your % Max Health over time is removed internally.
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There’s no plans to have the ability to remove Torments. They don’t turn on until some of the later layers.
Legendaries
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Costs are not reduced for Rank 1 through 4.
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They’re increasing the amount of Soul Ash earned from doing layers by 50% instead.
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You can also get smaller amounts on repeat wins.
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There’s also transferring Soul Ash to alts.
Class Balance
Class Philosophy
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They want to do more hands-on tuning.
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They want to avoid nerfs outside of the first couple weeks, and buff the more underperforming specs. This is especialy important when you spend currency for your legendaries.
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There’s substantial stuff coming to Death Knight PvP talents
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There’s some Mistweaver numerical stuff happening too.
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Holy Paladin damage tuning coming soon…
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Other changes coming soon as well.
Encounter Design
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Class Design discusses often with Encounter Design and Combat Design.
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Encounter Design has a huge effect on Class Balance.
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There could be add fights, or lack of add fights or what happens if there’s no Sludgefist this tier.
Specific Class Tuning
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There’s multiple types of problems: There’s a tuning problem and a design problem.
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Holy Priest could be tuned up, but they redesigned one of their buttons instead and maybe give them a new niche.
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Mistweaver has some numerical changes coming.
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Holy Paladin damage is getting some adjustments. There is some venthyr changes to Ashen Hallow. There’s also some changes to Holy Power generation and how you’re healing.
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AMZ is something that they’re looking at. Something like a cap that the amount of damage it can absorb.
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Some of the DoT classes were doing the best on single target fights, which is weird, so they’re shifting their damage profile.
Raid Utility
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Raid CDs like AMZ and Rally are good as unique utility. They want every class to have a reason that they’re in the raid. More work has to be done on their part.
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They want to live in a world where everyone brings their own thing, rather than a world where everything in homogenized.
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Rogues used to be brought a lot to end bosses. But on the encounter side, they tried to shore up weaknesses in being able to Immunity and delete a mechanic which may have caused Rogues to lose their niche.
Conduits
- Conduits will go up with item level.
Raid
BoEs
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They missed the mark in Nathria" resulting in too much power inflation coming from BoEs in the 9.0 raid
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They’re looking at reducing the number of slots that are covered by BoEs: 2 or 3 slots.
Weapon Tokens
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Weapon Tokens were made to provide Covenant-transmog weapons off of Denathrius.
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In Sanctum of Domination, you will take her bow off her corpse.
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The loot layout is intentional and mostly finished. No plans to provide more weapons off the final two bosses, to shore up the specs that don’t have a weapon off the final two bosses.
Loot
- Pretty happy with 4 pieces of loot per boss. Might have gone a bit too far.
Shards of Domination
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There’s 5 Domination Sockets that you can get across your gear.
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There’s 3 types of gem types: Blood, Frost and Unholy.
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The individual bonus of each gem will work anywhere.
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When you equip 3 of the same type, you’ll get a “set bonus” that will only work in the Maw.
Miscellaneous Questions
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No plans to change 20 man Mythic raid.
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No mini-raids this expansion, but they’re open to doing it in the future.
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Is the Jailer the final boss of the expansion. “Who else will it be? I wanna punch the Jailer”
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No Mythic-only phase in Sylvanas. The big story elements for an expansion should be played out in the raid.
Mythic+
Keystones and Affixes
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They agree with the feedback that they’ve got with Keystones and getting the dungeons they want. Nothing to announce.
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Blizzard is starting explore affixes with kiss/curse with the Seasonal affixes.
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Maybe they want to completely revisit one of the buckets if things play out well.
Mythic+ Rating
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If someone’s Mythic+ rating increases in a Mythic+ you complete, you will receive bonus Valor in the chest at the end.
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Nothing to announce for the high-end rewards, but with the Rating system in place, they are able to look at who has the highest score in a season.
Quick Fire
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Increased Catch-up system for 40 Renown
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Release Date for 9.1: Soon
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500 Mount Achievement: Unknown
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Planned changes to Great Vault, minor e.g. changes to jewellery for PvP.
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Heirlooms not for 9.1
Feedback
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They want to walk the fine line of catch-up and participate in activities but also undermine the time that people have put into the game.
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Interviews are a good line of communication and they think they can do this earlier in the patch as well.
Morgan is most excited to just get this content into player’s hands.
