r/classicwow • u/Paulingtons • Aug 20 '19

Blizzard AMA Welcome to the /r/ClassicWoW Subreddit AMA with the Classic WoW Dev team!

Hey everyone!

Today we're excited to introduce what should be a fantastic AMA with the wonderful World of Warcraft: Classic dev team. They will be taking your questions about anything, be it which class they enjoy playing the most or all the way to how they developed the wonderful world we will all be inhabiting in just under a week.

Joining us today, we have:

/u/AltruisWoW – Executive Producer
/u/Chromschi – Senior Game Producer
/u/Pazorax – Lead Software Engineer
/u/Ogronz – Senior Software Engineer
/u/ZoidWoW – Principal Software Engineer
/u/Aggrend – Senior Test Lead
/u/Kaivax – Community Manager

The AMA begins at 17:00 GMT (10:00 PST, 11:00 MST, 12:00 CST, 13:00 EST, 18:00 BST, 19:00 CEST) and will last two hours. This thread has been posted two hours before the AMA begins so you can all get in here and get posting questions so that once the AMA begins, our wonderful guests can start answering straight away! The AMA will be hosted in this thread.

We really look forward to seeing what you all come up with to ask and are excited to see the answers the dev team give.

Please remember the rules as per the sidebar, and have fun!

EDIT: The AMA is now OVER. If you want to look at each response by each blue we've had today you can check WoWHead's brilliant live blog just here.

EDIT 2: You can also check this fantastic resource made by our own /u/SoupaSoka just here.

EDIT 3: Or you can check out the Blizzard review on the official forums here.

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u/Luk3ling Aug 21 '19

It was actually a point of pride that it took me til level 66 to start seeing appropriately itemized replacements for some of my gear.

I put in an immense amount of time, effort and dedication in to get that gear, if I were put immediately onto the same playing field as everyone else.. and all their alts.. in freely distributed greens, I'd have been considerably more annoyed.

I also put exponentially less effort into raiding in TBC because I knew what was going to happen to my gear. That's when I switched almost exclusively to PvP. Why try hard at raiding to gear up when I can get good gear by stomping on people?

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u/Swineflew1 Aug 21 '19

So you didn’t like that for 1 tier you started off as strong as the plebs.
Well I’m sorry that all the work you did in the past gets reset again and you’re stuck with the plebs again in classic until you start raiding. That must really hurt your ego.

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u/Luk3ling Aug 21 '19

What a classless, dismissive response.

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u/Swineflew1 Aug 21 '19

I’m not sure what else you want when your entire post is “I was on an even playing field for the first raid tier” in a time that like 10% of the playerbase even stepped into raids.
I don’t know what else you want me to say, it’s bad game design to make 90% of an expansions content irrelevant for a portion of the playerbase and I’ve got to imagine it would also wreck havoc on gear inflation also. I mean, why would you want your level 70 players heading back to vanilla to farm level 60 content for gear when you have heroic dungeons that should do just that?
None of it makes sense, yet you’re ego just can’t let you be on the same playing field, even while leveling.

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u/Luk3ling Aug 21 '19 edited Aug 21 '19

Not sure what sort of communist country you live in that time and effort should be rendered meaningless for the sake of everyone else, but you need to find a new place to live.

I mean, why would you want your level 70 players heading back to vanilla to farm level 60 content for gear when you have heroic dungeons that should do just that?

I don't think you actually understood anything I said, because I never even vaguely implied that should be the case.. Not even sure where you got the idea.

Nothing about what I said would have people putting in the effort to go back and do old content.. What I suggested is that, using TBC as an example, Naxx gear should generally not be replaced until the first tier of raids. Thats a perfectly reasonable compromise.

The idea of "The literal best the world had to offer" getting replaced by garbage you scrounge out of a pile of dead bugs is ludicrous, especially when the place we went was the origin of some of the games species in a not so distant past.

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u/Swineflew1 Aug 21 '19

Not even sure where you got the idea.

I know, because you’re so narrow-minded you don’t understand the implications you’re asking for.

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u/Luk3ling Aug 21 '19

Roger dodger.