I'm not a mythic raider, I don't care about bleeding this system for small percentiles of efficiency, I don't want them to scrap it. Just make it fair enough, make it cool, make it fun, listen to the feedback that isn't doomsaying.Not to say we still shouldn't be vigilant and provide sensible criticisms.
I will keep repeating this until it gets through everyone's skulls.Blizzard isn't forcing you to choose a high damage build, they keep saying and again... It's all player-choice, BUT THE PLAYERS ONLY CHOOSE THE HIGH DAMAGE BUILD BECAUSE THEY THINK THIS IS BFA WHEN THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY'RE GETTING THEMSELVES INTO.You don't know, you can't know, don't give me that whole, "Well it's improperly balanced-" unless you're in a progression guild for Mythic means nothing. You're a gamer... use the tools you have to your advantage and make something work. The fact you're trying to compare this to BfA or other previous expansions only makes things worse and harder for Blizzard to actually "balance" something when really it shouldn't even be balanced unless it was overtuned/undertuned by accident.
Oh boy, I forgot about this weird system no one asked for
The trick is to add so much additional layering of choice, all of the computing power in the world won't be able to sim it before the expansion after Shadowlands comes out. Also add variance according to day of the week, day of the month, the checksum of the last message you typed, etc., so there can't possibly be a "best" consistent from one moment to the next. Play what you like, not what makes the biggest numbers.The only way to escape the Wheel of Sim is to break the wheel. Blizz employees should scrape published results from all the popular simming sites and purposefully throw in monkeywrenches to make them devastatingly wrong. Pimp slap the meta.
Blizzard redesigned the talent tree back in cataclysm because the old one was too stiff, not enough individuality... only to bring the same concept back instantly and now does the same with SL. They just dont learn. How can they be so uncreative when it comes to the talent system? Is it that hard to make much more options and give people an incentive to use their brains when it comes to talents instead of just go to hundreds of guides that chew the food for them? Unless blizzard is so interested in boring customers who cant tie their own shoes without a guide...
I will start my comment out by saying that I don't really know if Shadowlands will be a great xpac or a bad one or even just 'meh', BUT what I will say is that I hope to god, please Blizzard, Do Not Create an expansion around the idea that the 1% must be satisfied that 'they' the 1% will not have the 'Agency' to switch around every skill, talent and 'choice' in the game...I don't care what the content is... Your choices should matter. We shouldn't get to change everything everytime something doesn't 'Sim' to be the best for exactly what we are doing at the moment. Why should we get to change all of our past choices all the time?Why should you get to change every choice you ever made to tackle boss 1, then change everything about your choices to 'Sim' the best to fight boss 2, then change everything to fight boss 3, or trash-pack 7?Why should you get to change your all your choices for a Mythic+7 and then change everything again to do a Mythic+12?If you get to just change every choice in the game you made, on the fly, to fit the 'exact' content you are doing, down to the exact boss, trash-fight, outside content, instance, dual, I mean, I don't even know? The possibilities are endless in the game, If you get to change everything, will basically no effort on your part, how is that even a challenge?Yes. Someone will 'Sim' everything. Some computer will tell you what is absolutely the best exact configuration to have in exactly every situation and "YOU" will "FEEL" required to do exactly what that Sim tells you to do, even if "YOU DO NOT FEEL LIKE PLAYING THAT WAY" That, is your fault, not Blizzards! That is you being a Snowflake, because you feel like you deserve to change any choice you have made because you now want to! This is a game that must be able to be enjoyed by everyone, not just people who play at the 'highest' level. That is bulls!@#, you know it and I know it, and if you don't know it, than you have bigger problems than just this game, you have problems in life... because that is not how things work.Choices Matter! Choices matter everywhere!I think some of you are seeing the world through your narrow viewpoint of what is best for me! or.. what is best for the high-end community! or... what is best because you think you know what is best!
There's always going to be a best choice for that extra 1% power no matter what Blizzard do. They have to introduce end-game power progress. Do you want to hit max level and then just go for increase in ilevel and nothing else? No new abilities ever? You want to inflict that on the huge majority of people who aren't interested in min-maxing just so you can chase some mythical level playing field where it's all about player skill? They have esports for that. Live with it.
People are ridiculous when it comes to this whole Covenant and Soulbind system. Like on one hand, they want more choices that would impact their gameplay, but on the other they DON'T want said choice to impact the gameplay in the long run.It makes me wonder if the people complaining about certain Covenants MAYBE being better in certain situations realize that certain classes also have their own unique strengths and weaknesses. It's not like an arcane mage can doe AOE better than a Frost mage, right? If everyone was obsessed about "M+" and "Raiding" as people say they are NOW then they would have trouble even choosing what race to play, let alone what class, spec and talents to go along with it. They also act like alts aren't even a thing, especially when leveling alts is supposed to be a lot more friendly this time around, especially with the leveling squish to get them to max level. Wouldn't it be more fitting to look at the Covenant abilities with certain classes in mind? It's not like a warrior picking Bastion will be useless with the spear ability if they do raiding over Mythics.
Yeah, and I mean, it's an RPG at its core. They've all stated that themselves in interviews of the past and blizzcons. This game is a RPG. In most RPGs there are no do-overs. There are choices and then if you make a bad decision you either keep playing with it and advance on/learn how to play around it or you start a new character. You don't keep that character and take an entirely new path. A mage doesn't simply become a warrior because melee is better. A ranger doesn't become a mage because casters are better. A warrior doesn't become a healer(in most cases) without being a hybrid of some sort right off the bat.Choose the content you want to main. Either pick your covenant based from that, or do what I and some others are gonna do. Pick the covenant that seems coolest and then if you want to still be min/max then do so within that covenant tree. I just like to pick talents and things I find to be really cool.Learn to play for fun instead of all about the RNJesus and you will enjoy the game more, hopefully. This is a game, it's meant to be fun.
I will hold off on a definite opinion on the new system, but after the three terrible systems back to back during BfA I wont hold my breath. It appears to be more of a variation of the talent system broken into multiple groups/people, which has good potential. Not sure I like the premise after hearing that selecting a group is supposed to be a major and long lasting decision. If, by some chance, we can grind all the factions to easily switch between them as we see fit then there may be more hope for it, in my view.
Omg something more to level can we have just our main talent tree only and level our gear for everything else again I'm not a mathematically educated hayesims I just want to play the game...is that too much to ask? And they have not mentioned anything about professions ?
Borrowed power for the third time in a row... sigh.. I guess my expectation of covenants just bringing only cosmetic options was too much to hope from current Blizzard, hell I would prefer if they even were garrisons 2.0 instead of something that breaks class balance or stuff that will be removed from your character next expansion because it was never part of your character.If we keep borrowing power then why bother leveling? just keep the level from the last expansion and add the terrible system
LOL are people seriously crying because we got more customization? This is awesome! If the min/maxer crowd cries then that's on them, if you feel the need to chase being 1% better, that's now no ones fault but yourself. I love it and i'm totally ok with a system like this because i love customization. I can still run mythic and play the way i want too, i may not kill bosses in the first 3 months on Mythic but there are plenty of guilds that'll run with whatever covenants you choose, they're already out here now doing it with people running whatever azerite traits they want.Do you guys just want 8 abilities and a talent tree with 1 choice? It's like any new thing that'll offer up multiple customization choices the min/max crowd freaks out.. its like they want the most vanilla plain experience ever.... news flash there's NEVER been balance in MMORPG's and never will be. Jesus christ..the amount of CRYING every damn expansion. Isn't it exhausting? Just stop playing the game then man, it's that easy. There's a million opinions and a million ways people wanna do things differently.. Blizz is gonna do what they wanna do with some feedback this time around, they sure as hell didn't do all this work to scrap it and so you're either gonna get on or hop off the train.Azerite armor sucked, guess what i did? I didn't play BFA.. i didn't sit and whine about it.