For those of you who are crying on here on a daily basis about DPS balancing and spec x being too strong/spec x too weak I thought you’d like to know that Aggrend tweeted out last night apologising for being quiet on Twitter and that the Development team have been very busy with P3 and Cataclysm Classic recently.
What this probably means is the Development team (which is apparently on the smaller side) will have absolutely no capacity to buff or nerf any Classes in P2 currently. The current state is likely how it’s going to be for the remainder of P2.
So you can either quit, wait for P3 or re-roll but you are wasting your time with your constant crying.
Edit: To add, the game is not and should not be ‘balanced’ around a single phase.
Edit 2: For any Shaman fotm re-rollers, your class can Abolish Poison btw, sick of seeing you all in BG’s without having the faintest clue your class can dispel Poison.
Thanks
5 Likes
Soon there will be nothing to q vs the way its going 
my sub ends in 12 days so enjoy 
Been raid logging for 2 weeks already, havn’t really though much about wow, sod or any of it all really.
I just don’t care about phase 2 at this point, a massive L of a content phase.
There’s no chance in hell im logging on my warrior and going to stv or going to a bg, id rather watch people pick glitter out a carpet for 3 hours than play sod atm.
2 Likes
I just don’t understand why they keep making the same mistake. If they want Dads to have time to catch up, they can apply exp bonus on 3d week. Tryhards lvl up in 3 days since launch anyways. But low lvl phases should not last long. Looks like they make runes/raids/events on the way.
Amazing. The guy who is overwhelmed by tweeting, whos organisation skills cap at “Add 5minutes to your shedule to reply to some tweets.” is in charge of an entire game.
No wonder SOD has been a joke until now. The dudes behind it are the definition of useless and incompetent.
10 Likes
The absolute state of this incompetency.
Why the hell launch things in such a way that you have split development between two projects?
And why when owned by Microsoft of all things don’t you, after SoD is shown to be successful with sustaining player numbers, DEMAND more resources to allow for proper development ala tuning, class fixing and fleshing out content?
“oh we’re too busy bla bla bla”
Yeah I’ve been asking for Lion to be removed as a rune because it invalidates all other runes since week 3 of SoD, busy? Absolute bull. You know the damn critique people have and refuse to do anything about it.
And again, the social media addict uses twitter out of all things to communicate classic news rather than THE OFFICIAL FORUMS.
Complete and utter incompetence all around.
3 Likes
Phase 2 is definitely a crash dive for SoD.
After phase 1 was shown to be a massive success and actually bringing in the biggest numbers for WoW the dev team should have immediately asked for more manpower to handle future phases in SoD to keep up the quality.
These excuses they give about low manpower to handle tuning etc during phases is just plain stupid.
They lost an opportunity.
8 Likes
Look Microsoft bought Blizzard not for Overwatch 2, otherwise they wouldn’t be scrapping art department for PvE missions (because they probably saw how insufficient work progress there was so many moths in development), they didn’t bought Blizzard for Odyssey survival game project, that they cancelled, because they have Palworld now. No Mikes did it just as side purchase for Activision’s CoD and CoD only (well, probably for King mobile games as well). So no, we will not have special treatment and Blizzard won’t have extra recources as it will surely go into maintenence mode over a decade as a studio being unable to please Microsoft’s investors.
Well atleast you got 10 % and you can Even Get 10 % ap with talents. There is that
Should Get you A spot in A 20 man!
Its pretty obvious that the developers simply ignore all the posts by players and will do whatever they feel like.
Don’t like shamans being overtuned? Sorry the devs like playing shaman and you just need to learn to like it.
3 Likes
Yeah I completely agree with this.
I feel they actually managed to catch lightning in a bottle in P1 and instead of hold onto that they’ve sort-of let it go.
1 Like
I’m not even remotely surprised at this information. Super obvious when you listen to streams of people in the cata beta that it’s in am exceptionally buggy way currently so I imagine a vast % of development time is there.
It is such a shame because they hit a decent home run in P1. Granted there was a severe balance issue and oversights with hunter pets and ability scaling but at least it felt pretty good for everyone excited shadow priest (who could respec into the best healer at least). But P2 has felt pretty damn poor and I went into it expecting it to be one of the most fun phases. So wrong.
They should prioritize properly.
Screw Cata. :v
[edit]
Also, WOTLK/Cata and SoD should not have been the same team. Again, it’s just incompetence. Let’s give a small dev team two projects that are going to stretch them extremely thin, what could possibly go wrong!?
1 Like
I guess the only way for better quality and more Devs in SOD and ERA servers and possible future sod/era servers is to divide subscriptions. 1 for retail and 1 for SOD , Era classic realms. Yes it will be bad for players that play both for the same money, but that’s the only way to see which version deserves more man power. You can’t judge this from temporary spikes, but if it was different subs and turns out classic have like 40 % of players… things might be different. For now it seems they think it’s all about retail and all the rest is non profit side jobs for the same sub and if someone stops playing sod will still pay the sub for some of the other versions.
Well, no. If 40% of people are playing classic whatever and are paying the same sub then that shows that 40% of people are paying the sub specifically for classic.
Blizzard definitely knows how many people are playing both as well, there’s no way they wouldn’t keep track of those numbers.
The reason for why I don’t think they care about classic whatever as much is because that’s not where all the ingame store crap, expansion packs and tokens primarily are.
It was the 20% AP buff to Alpha Wolf that pushed shamans to the top in PVE. The week before that it was middle of the pack. You know what the reaction in the shaman discord to the AP buff was? Why are we getting this? It’s stupid, it’s not what we need, they know nothing about the class.
To be fair, youre posting from a druid. Everyone likes to whine about shamans, and they are overtuned vs most classes, but moonkins are still the most broken class. They beat everyone 1v1. Theyre AMAZING in group PvP.
And moonkins destroy enhance 1v1 unless you swiftness potion+grenade/flash bomb and he has no trinket. Literally 0 ways to beat a moonkin as enhance, it is a really broken class design.
P1 was promising. P2 is a shame. I already know quite a few players who have quit. Others are staying on SOD until Cataclysm Classic is released.
1 Like
