I am sorry, I know its only been a few days but…
There is a tiny tiny piece of land added to the maw, its really tiny
A Torghast rework.
Some story content.
And a few new dailies?
( ooh mega dungeon and raid)
That took 8 months?
I am soryr, THIS took 8 months?
Where is the rest?
Rest is in 9.2 XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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Hope someone knows.
I believe (maybe hope is a better word?) a lot of work likely went into designing, testing and balancing the new soulbind extension and upgrades.
Whether that’s a good, a bad or an ugly thing is for everybody themselves to decide.
The rest will come after replace Ian with someone who got a clue.
And ofc when they join Activision its all downhill from there.
Pls Dreamhaven give us something fast.
It’s pretty sad tbh.
Will they abandon this expansion like they did with WoD?
That wouldn’t be a bad idea, they’ve pretty much closed themselves in a corner where they have to spend a lot of time balancing and adjusting systems that weren’t really necessary to begin with. They could wrap up the story in a concentrated 9.2 patch and call it a day I guess.
I feel like they struggle to find a balance between overcomplicated system and overly simple ones.
I’d actually prefer they can Shadowlands now, at this point its an exercise in trying to pretty up a pig with some lipstick…
Could happen, if they put their mind to it.
Might be for the best in the end. SL failed on so many levels that one may ask “could do they any worse?”
I’m not positive about the next expansion. For me, everything from Legion onwards was just a massive down spiral.
If it makes you feel any better we’ve paid 8x monthly subs for this as well lol.
I’m no stranger to voicing my opinion on blizzards antics…but I genuinely, cannot believe, that ‘this’ is all we get after 8/9 months…lol
It’s absolutely ducking pathetic.
There is no excuses anymore, they don’t give a flying chit about this game or it’s playerbase.
It feels like Blizzard is focusing on the wrong things.
The majority of new Legendaries will be ignored. A few will be interesting but overall it looks like wasted time.
The new Tohrgast system looks okay, but what’s the point of those affixes when you can disable 2 in the second week?
Why a new (small) zone instead of putting more new things in existing ones. Especially the maw, a good amount of people didn’t explore some areas because of the eye and no mounts (not like they’ve missed much).
Adding new rows to the soulbind trees was also not really necessary and will probably just lead to new balancing problems.
At this point I’m not even sure, what’s the best way for Blizzard to handle it.
Going on with SL for at least 2 more big patches doesn’t seem like the best idea. But a ‘second WoD’ will probably also hurt WoW a lot.
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Totally appreciate that content was staggered with expansion launch and the prolonged 9.0 but most people have adapted to working from home now (to the point that some businesses are considering permanent transition to that work model), the lack of effort from Blizzard at this stage is disappointing. They could really have clawed back the frustration with SL by releasing something more substantial than rehashed content and bugs galore. 
That is what happens to people who think they’re smart, they think their selves into a corner / contradiction. I really would like Shadowlands to be the last expansion with a borrowed power system.
It looks like Blizzard themselves don’t even know what the hell they’re doing with those systems. It is obvious that covenants rework took HR away from other things.
This is why I’d like to read Blizzard’s svn repo, that’d be interesting.
I’ve been called pretentious for saying that actually, working remotely is not that bad for developers, ie there is no difference in between writing code and commit from home and from the office. As a developer, I’m glad I’m dodging 3 hours commute time on a daily basis. I’m pretty sure that Blizzard devs are happy to dodge LA’s insane road traffic.
California has been on fire every summer for a decade…who ever comes up with such excuse :x.
SL Must be the last expansion featuring borrowed power or else wow will keep going downhill.
Since you obviousely don’t know how this works let me enlighten you: You pay a monthly fee for devs to develop the next expantion. The current expantion is in maintenance mode. They gave out a new mount to lock down the weak minded 6-month consoomers and till next xpac you’ll get the bare minimum content that a 2 man team can create. You will then buy the next xpac and the cycle continues.
I don’t understand the covid excuse when companies have been releasing full blown games in that peroid. How did they manage it? How come Blizzard managed to release TBC and Diablo if covid affected them so bad? It doesn’t add up to me.
What’s scary is really big Blizzard fans are even disappointed and fed up with this. This is honestly the worst state I’ve ever seen Wow in. I thought Wod was bad, honestly. My friend who has played Wow since beta has just unsubbed, He even got the Blizzard statue a few years ago for being subbed since the start.
Half the content is waiting for a rare with 12h respawn time.
That doesn’t add to me neither.
I’m not sure aboot that, I still think BFA is still the worst expansion. But I do foresee SL’s issues and it looks like 9.2 (If IT exists) will also release in 6 months. Looks like releasing a raid tier during summer helps them to increase that patch longevity, ie most of guilds won’t be able to properly progress during summer, which is 2 months.
I just moved back to Alliance. I hope my guild won’t die from lack of players.