Hello,
Last tuning was 1 month ago, and the one before that 2 months ago. There used to be a tuning pass every week or two. So what happened?
Is the whole team working on the “secret” 10.2.6 patch?
Please don’t ignore the “live” game too. Ensuring good content for the future is great, but we live in the present 
It would be great to have a new class tuning soon!
Thank you
Probably the guy doing hotfixes was let go.
the company
From what I read, my understanding is that no engineers were let go, but only administrative/customer support staff.
Also, in some interview they said that there are different people working on the current expansion vs the next expansion (and yet another set of people working on classic).
This begs the question: what are the live game team doing?
budget cuts
They’re firing 136 staff out of the 200 they have in Cork, so remember that the EU forums will no longer be supported very soon and we’ll all have to migrate over to the US forums :o
That’s not true. For example the battle net team is half gone. Not sure about the WoW team but I think there were a few people let go. WoW team wasn’t hit that hard though.
I’ve wanted us migrated for ages. I even said that to Vaneras and he agreed 
I don’t think that should mean less support staff though. Moderating these forums are a tiny part of the responsibilities of a 200 person office, obviously.
I know that we can post on there with a trial account. Do we need to download the entire US client to level a trial character to level 10? Or can the EU client be used/copied?
I also wonder why they stopped the patch cadence. The meta is getting stale at the moment, and we still have 3 months to go for S4…
So I hope they shake things up a bit.
Some tuning here and there every week is really nice to have. Whatever spec you play.
Tin foil hat conspiracy theory here:
Last balance tuning patch:
February 6, 2024
MDI starts: Feb 16, 2024
Coincidence? I think not…
They dont want to affect their precious e-sports division… which is lame…
or… the patch notes are extensive and they decided to take the time to fix the problems rather than "BAND AID " them quickly
think about it as positive vibe
No clue, I was just joking about what they’ll do with the EU forums. But soon we’ll have no actual EU Blizzard employees, as everything will be handled by the US team they’ll outsource the European support to countries like India for example.
Very likely true. Don’t think they ever patch during events.
Wish they would stop running them tbh.
they need to run them more …
they advertise WoW to a larger audience, its basically printing new players…
and we NEED new players
Yeah I think wow team was mostly untouched with few people let go off .the fire hammer largely seems to have fallen on ow2 team aka “team 4” but that is understandable as that game hasn’t been doing well .
I think that what they do is a really bad idea. Simply put: MDI runs in their own separate servers.
Servers where people make chars from scratch with BiS gear… Where they can log in to practice… ect…
And also for practical reasons: They are special servers with super low latency. For obvious reasons ! 
So why cant they just freeze the balance tuning as it was when it began? I dont get it. Seriously.
Do they though? Or do they just go out to the little echochamber of WoW players and maybe 20% of people in there give enough of a toot to watch?
This would be fine and sensible.
Because mdi is ongoing and you can’t balance game during tournaments. Unless you have separate client which isn’t possible knowing nature of WoW being MMORPG.
MDI isn’t long enough to make it’s own separate servers compared to something like league of legends Worlds.
I don’t think they deem it worthwhile to make another structure.
Also MDI is advertised as grounded tournament “for people” where every person can compete, so it makes sense to use your already existing servers for it.
they wont patch for the next 2 weeks because of mdi esports garbage. maybe we see something after that.
The start of the patch has the majority of tuning because that is the time there is the largest delta between specs.
As time goes on, spec performance draws closer to blizzard’s target and they slow down tuning abit (apart from throwing like 3-5% to underperformers).
Now we are in the middle of mdi so there is 0% chance any tuning happens before it is over. They do not want to invalidate all the research and practice top teams did, cause their “e-sport” would flop.
Its very unlikely there will be any more spec tuning though . With how easy this season is if you cant progress then its not your Class fault.
Personally I hope with whatever tuning we see, that in season 4, more classes will get that much needed bump to allow people to do higher keys and to balance out the meta.
Even though I have a ret paladin alt, I’m still kind of annoyed at how OP they’ve made them. Before you mostly saw the odd ret running around in the sea of Prot Paladins, now all I see are rets all over the place.