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No Seasonal Affix in Dragonflight Mythic+ Season 2 - Level 7 Affixes Getting "Affix Refresh"
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In a recent 10.1 group interview, Morgan Day announced that no Seasonal affix will be present in Dragonflight Season 2, and the level 7 bucket of affixes is getting an "affix refresh".
Seasonal Affix in Dragonflight Season 2
Seasonal affixes were added in Battle for Azeroth to change up gameplay from season to season, as the dungeons didn't change from season to season. From
Befallen
to
Donnernd
, Seasonal affixes have been loved and hated while adding varying levels of complexity.
Donnernd
in particular has added quite a bit of complexity to the dungeons, having to weave in clears between mechanics which force you to spread, with a severe punishment of (essentially) death for failure.
However, with Dragonflight adding a dungeon rotation, Blizzard have felt that they might not need a Seasonal affix at all to change dungeons from season to season and so in an answer to Jez from Windows Central, Morgan Day announced that
no affix (Seasonal or otherwise)
will be added at keystone level 10:
Morgan: In terms of the philosophy of affixes in particular for Season 2, we've definitely taken a big step back there and are looking at it holistically. One major change we're making is we're actually just not going to have a level 10, that is to say the "seasonal affix" like Thundering. There won't be a replacement for Thundering and Thundering is being retired. So at level 10, the scaling will continue to kick in but there's no new affix there. Seasonal affixes were created as an idea, I want to say, back in Battle for Azeroth, where we had the same dungeon pool. We would add one or two dungeons here and there but you could be playing the same dungeons for many many seasons, and really we added those Seasonal affixes to try to solve the problem of it feeling like Dungeons were solved, like there was a specific route, there was a specific way everyone approached the dungeon. Seasonal affixes were there to mix that up and change the way you approached the dungeon. Going into Dragonflight, we were like "well we don't need to solve that problem anymore, but maybe there's a way to add some amount of gameplay that feels like more like a persistent element of the dungeon but ultimately we've heard a lot of feedback around complexity, like how much stuff do I have to know, to do and what's going on and how many wrenches are you going to throw at me, not even just dodgeballs but wrenches we're throwing at you that you have to dodge. Definitely taking a really close look at that with Season 2, so not doing the level 10 affix.
Level 7 Bucket "Affix Refresh"
Affixes have always been a popular community topic but especially recently, with many players feeling frustrated at some of the weekly Mythic+ affixes such as
Schrecklich
and
Bebend
. With the difficulty and complexity of the dungeons in Dragonflight going up, having to also deal with these affixes has been even more troublesome.
In a follow up to Jez from Window Central, Morgan Day addressed some of these concerns, announcing they are looking at the level 7 affix bucket (
Bebend
,
Schrecklich
,
Vulkanisch
,
Stürmisch
,
Explosiv
) in Patch 10.1, in addition to no seasonal affix.
Morgan: Then, we're really taking a closer look at the level 7 bucket and how much opportunity is there for counterplay. How much of that is making your healer's life harder versus how much of that is there an opportunity where if I play really well, I can negate this affix and use my utility really well or whatever it may be. So we're definitely taking a look at the whole level 7 bucket, so really more along the lines of an affix refresh for that bucket, as well no level 10 affix.
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