Disappointed to hear this because it was a great call back but, secretly relieved to hear.
Hmm. That's a shame. Definitely would have been a flavourful addition to that boss fight. But considering how gameplay-optimization-focused players are nowadays, sadly not a surprise that they would cancel that idea. Oh well !
Kind of amazed that they got all the way to recording voice lines without realising that forcing druids into forms at random form is less "an interesting problem" and more "most specs are randomly silenced. Guardians randomly die."
Glad Max called up Blizz and put a stop to this one, this was NOT the kind of mechanic we want to see during the world first race.
During the first test the rogue callout did more than just make you stab someone, it made you fan of knives and apply your poisons to the whole raid giving the healers a heart attack as their UI blew up with debuffs on everyone. I'm really going to miss that.
Honestly it's probably for the best. As the article mentions people would have just developed optimal group comps that excluded the terrible class calls and they'd forever be rebalancing the encounter to deal with people being benched.
Would be a shame that this mechanic is going to be straight up scrapped, at least rework it to be less painful while keeping the flavor. But I can't deny the reasons for this decision.
yeah idk how I feel about this, it played just fine on PTR. I get that they want to avoid a class stacking situation but this seems a lazy way to go about it to just avoid balancing it. I really don't care how something affects some streamers racing to world first, I care if the game is fun, and it was a fun fight, even tho it was bugged to hell. But without that mechanic the fight is kinda.. nothing.. so I wonder what they're going to do?
Cowards
These mechanics sound fun when you read them but I can only imagine how crazy the fight would be. If they would of made the dmg be a bit less then it wouldn't be so bad.
Is this possibly because the lfr quality of players etc would be unable, or the fact that the person in charge of writing these put in misspelled words. You claim mastery of the wilds, Hunter? Let us see how well your beats obey!I do enjoy playing a beatsmastery hunter.
Looked fun, sad they're removing it.
oh holy hecc. these are SO GOOD. the delivery of these voice lines are top tier. WOW. god these were PERFECT voice lines. i hope they do return the mechanic somehow, but at least we do have this gift in a way, if it doesn't make it live. appreciate them getting the talented Michael McConnohie back in for this!
Bit... disappointed. I know a lot of people are tired of Old Gods and Cosmic stuff but as for me, I would like to hear hints already, was hoping for at least for priests it was something sus but nope, still nothing.
They should drop it in as a mythic only secret phase.
Shame I was looking forward to this set of mechanics.
While as a Vanilla player, these were fun mechanics to deal with. I am just really happy that Michael McConnohie is still voice acting Neltharion. It's nice to hear him as Neltharion and then when you really listen, you can hear like Deathwings enhanced voice.