Read more about Shadowlands ➜ https://worldofwarcraft.mgn.tv
Asmongold goes through the interview World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas had with WoWHead, focusing on Blizzard’s design goals and Class Balance after the Shadowlands Release…
WOWHead FULL ARTICLE: https://www.wowhead.com/news=319241
Class & Covenant Balance 0:00
Covenant Swapping & Renown 12:18
Legendaries 19:12
Conduits 22:34
Raiding 25:10
Mythic Plus 33:14
The Maw (Endgame Zone) 35:54
Shadowlands Delays & Working From Home 41:55
Ion on Engagement Metrics Impact 45:15
► Asmongold’s Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/asmongold
► Asmongold’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/asmongold
► Asmongold’s 2nd YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ZackRawrr
► Asmongold’s Sub-Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/
Thank you all for watching! Stay tuned and subscribe to the official Asmongold YouTube Channel to always be kept up to date about the best Asmongold Highlights, Asmongold Reacts and funniest Asmongold moments from World of Warcraft and other games played on stream!
Channel Editors: CatDany & Daily Dose of Asmongold
► Outro song: CatDany – Get Enough
If you own the copyright of content showed in this video and would like it to be removed or the Ad-Revenue made from it please contact::
► https://twitter.com/DAsmongold
► [email protected]
#Asmongold
Source
I like Ion a lot, and it's good to hear many of the things he says, but Asmongold is right if there is something awful, he can change it. We don't need to spend a ton of effort redoing things.
I agree ML should be put back in for example you could have 2 ppl and 1 came to the raid prepared, has flasks brought food, they read up on the fight learned what to do, know how to play their class and are pulling good numbers and get nothing from the raid the entire night. than you have the second guy, who didnt come prepared, borrowed flasks from the first guy, barely beat the healers in dmg, and stood in every ground dmg effect and died at 50% into the fight and get BiS weapon from personal loot. Thats the reason Master loot should be an option, keep Personal loot in LFR
Sorry, master looter sucked ass, from convoluted systems in how to distribute loot, and how much time was wasted in determining all of this, as well as the loot drama that came out of Master Looter. I have seen far less drama take place, with the pace of raiding taking place quicker, due to personal loot system. All one has to do is listen to a few episodes of Preach's drama time, and a good many are always about loot drama. As far as I'm concerned Personal Loot has ended most of this BS.
still remember the days where as i rogue i used to get invited for raids because of the traits buff to generate extra agro for the tanks, or because I could sap/blind trash mods .. nowadays its all about "lock and load" .. feels like there's no aggroo management anymore, no cc required in trash what so ever.. no need to build a decent class composition depending on the dungeon/raid you were aiming for … I remember siting for hours on the "looking for group" channel just to ensure we could make a decent group. In my opinion the iLvl bullshit ruined this feeling of creating a compositon. Once people were able to see the ilvl of each other all they care about was to have the higher ilvl possible rather than having skilled people and a diversified group. No wonder most of the times i'm out damaging other rogues in raids even though i have a lower item level.. just fucking remove this item level placebo bs from the game and we will be fine.
Another thing i really miss from the old days back in classic and burning crusade is to farm herbalism/ores while waiting for queues to pop up. Professions made much more sense because you felt like you're effort would be rewarded at the end of the day. Playing around with AH is the one of the features I absolutely love but somehow this system is getting worst every expansion… and by the way, one last special request: can we please have our old action house in stormwind? It was so much better .. trying to get on top of that balcony ..oh gosh that was so much fun lool we need these litle nostalgic details to return to the game
Why do people still play this game after getting shafted every expansion? Yikes.
Lol the master loot argument. Asmon is living in a bubble where he's either raiding with guildies or pugging viewers. Many "optional" things become compulsory just because it's accessible.
i think the master loot stuff, is to prevent pugs from getting screwed over, since they can now not join guild runs that need extra members and mabye be rewarded for it. so it makes a weird instance that makes it so that guilds that need pugs will not get pugs since pugs are afraid of just being there for nothing.
reading asmons chat literally makes you lose IQ points, you should take the chat off these videos its so triggering reading how dumb people are.
Honestly there is so many issues with master loot in my opinion, however there is equally as many problems with personal loot. Although with Master loot, there is always that one guy who gets shafted every week by the gm who has a stick up their ass about them so it doesn't feel rewarding for those raiders. But, like you mentioned about personal loot it feels shitty when a trial gets a rare mount everyone else has worked very hard for. Personally I think its better for every player to have an equal opportunity to get loot from the raid each week. Mainly since if you get rng'd one week its more of an "oh well, maybe next week I'll get it," rather than a "God dammit this fucking raid lead is a little bitch handing everything to the brand new girl in the guild."
everytime he talks about masterloot i skip forward in the video because i can't stand listening to him rant about it lol
Why is there so much shit that Ion doesn't know the answer to? It's a few days before launch and he's the lead…
I cant fucking stand the noises he makes with his mouth. mlem~
I disagree that transmogs should be tied to covenant. If I watn the night fae ability but venthyr is how I want to look then I have to have all the rubbish night fae transmogs… This makes me hate my covenant, I'm not having fun with that decision.
It’s funny that they can fix a whole system in less than 24 hours, like Nathano Cuckmaster not dropping items for some players, and removing the world quest.
Yet they keep dumb fucking mechanics in the game that everyone wants changed for two fuckkkkin years.
They have the power to fix this shit in hours, but are too lazy and uncaring to do so.
tad bit too loud music here, had a hard time to focus on what you where saying with skyrim music in the background
I don't understand why Blizzard won't make masterloot a guild feature… they can tell when you're in a guild group for achievements so they could enable the option under the same circumstances.
what about toads?
Anyone know the song at 26:10
What is the alpaca boss? This is the first I am hearing of it
I'd rather be super focused on mechanics and rotation then what item i need to put on
ok on the lag part Asmon you can't compare a new video game engine game to WoW that's been built on top of a VERY old game engines foundation. It'll cost probably a quarter of Disney's themepark or more to remake World of Warcraft in a brand new video game engine. A gamble that could easily fail because of how the playerbase could react to the changes. WoW's lag issue is not on servers, but it's how the game handles the the amount of players on screen at once added with effects. Doesn't matter how many people you have to work on a house if the foundation is fragile and WoW's foundation is very fragile. We're talking about them trying to change the main bag in WoW could fuck up a shit ton of other things in the game. They've done an interview at one blizzcon with the programmers on this. Why do you think the main backpack has gone nearly unchanged all these years?
Blizzards issue with content/gimmicks is they hardwire systems in and don't want to just abandon them during the expansion so they either force them to work or leave them as is until the expansion ends. These systems are and will always be a type of issue because they try to surprise players with fancy new mechanics and themes. One expansion we could see how it would play out if Blizzard chilled the fuck out with the surprises and much of the systems be playable on an early early alpha for players to play BEFORE the shit is well hardwired in to the point if it doesn't work it'll be a balance issue to rewire out.
Just have a CD on server tranfers like other mmo – making it a real money trade is a joke
cool
EVERY GROUP WILL BE MASTER LOOT IF THEY ALLOWED IT SO THEY CAN STEAL THE DROPS YOU PLEB!
Okay lorewise the expansion after shadowlands when we eventually come back from the shadowlands we will have all these crazy artifacts and weapons please explain to me what is more deadly than weapons straight from the land of the dead.
man this game sucks pepelaugh
Kudos for playing my favorite Skyrim track during this video.
A few weeks to be totally caught up if you switch covenants? That’s wild you should be able to switch and it not affect you in high end content. You should be able to choose a covenant because you like that one not because it’s gonna give you a bonus in certain content. Blizzards mindset for new content completely disregards what players want 🙄
Asmon chat is the biggest bunch of casual pussies lmfao! sad! Vulpera and Mount Collectors HAHAHAAHA
Ion hazzikostas is a fucking smegoul from lotr look at his face !
The way I see it there are several things you are guaranteed to have to repeat every patch in shadowlands.
Grind to level up covenant and soulbinds
Grind to level up legendaries
Grind to farm new legendary abilities
Grind to farm new conduits and get higher ilvl conduits of existing BIS
Not to mention the grind to get gear from the new raid.
This expansion should be called World of PowerCraft: Systemgrinds.
It's looking like my participation metric for shadowlands will be zero.
What’s with the skyrim music
I feel like Ian is watching these Asmongold videos and streams too
He's seems like he's leaning much more towards the "not balancing the entire game for the top 1%" idea than in BfA
I’m probably sure ion has a boss he answers too. Sometimes it is that hard to change things, when you have to pass every change by your bosses, and then has to pass it on to executives. I’m very sure this is the case.
Yöócéy còóchëy
05:40 rogue had nothing to add. Which was pretty shit many times back then to find groups.