Mythic+ Changes Coming in Rise of Azshara - Highlights from Sloot Stream

PTR Posted 2019/04/11 at 3:56 PM by Anshlun

Sloot is sharing details about his visit to Blizzard's HQ in his streamAll Info comes from Sloot stream. Check out the full VoD below

This Article is part of our Patch 8.2 Announcement Coverage

Liveblog of the 8.2 Content Preview Stream
Heart of Azeroth:
Heart of Azeroth System in Rise of Azshara
Heart of Azeroth Essences - All Revealed Major and Minor Powers
Theorycrafting Details about the Heart of Azeroth in Rise of Azshara from Sloot

Dungeons and Raids:

Mechagon Zone - Secrets and Exploration

Mounts - New Mounts, Mount Equipments, and Water Walking
Customizable Trinkets - Pocket-Sized Computational Device

Pathfinder Part 2 - Flying Unlock Requirements and Rewards

Rise of Azshara Community Interview Spotlight
Taliesin & Evitel Information - Nazjatar, Mechagon, and Mounts

Mythic+ Information

Blizzard feels that you don't kill enough trash on most dungeons. There will be a fairly large trash % rebalance coming in 8.2 to address this.
Possibly giving mini-bosses give a lot of %, because now they are mostly skipped because they are not efficient to kill.

Blizzard's plan about a scoring system is to fix some issues from community-driven ones, like having affixes matter and other contextual information added to it.

General Information

Outlaw Rogue and Protection Warriors will be nerfed for Season 3. Numerically only.

Blizzard believes there are too many loot sources in the game and likely change that for 9.0.

Blizzard doesn't want to homogenize classes to fix the ranged x melee imbalance.

Guardian Buffs, Vengeance Buffs. They are aware vengeance is useless outside demon spikes. They are aware bears don't have control on their life. Buffs are in the lines of incoming rage and cost reduction to Iron Fur.

Blizzard is aware of the problem of having only DH give magic damage and Monks give physical damage . They want to fix it by giving other classes other interesting buffs, but not the same for multiple classes.

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Comment by TOMRUSBlizzard feels that you don't kill enough trash on most dungeons.Blizzard biggest regret with Reaping is that it is too easy.Blizzard doesn't want to homogenize classes to fix the ranged x melee imbalance.Comment by sycrogVery interestingComment by MobiluncusA lot of these sound like a continuation of April fools patch notes.Comment by HipzOutlaw Rogue and Protection Warriors will be nerfed for Season 3.Comment by DorfA lot of these sound like a continuation of April fools patch notes.Comment by ChilelaOutlaw Rogue and Protection Warriors will be nerfed for Season 3.Comment by Skyrei"Snapping isn't something that should happen. Hard to fix in the near future, but they may fix it still during BFA."

I think the next avengers movie will take care of this issueComment by HipzOutlaw Rogue and Protection Warriors will be nerfed for Season 3.Comment by angeleyedI just want to run some dungeons and get rewards while I chill. I love watching the MDI, but I have no aspirations of doing esports or tryharding +20s. Can we relax a bit on the difficulty of dungeons? My interrupt is on Cooldown all the time and I am constantly running to avoid void zones on the ground.Comment by Arumataso lemme get this straight gonna lower the weekly loot from 410 to 405 to make a very small percentage of the player base feel better? even the few who do mythic raid like that 410 piece its something to work towards each week for the small hop of getting an upgrade. great job blizz on alienating even more of your casual base arent your sub numbers bad enough already?Comment by Hipzso lemme get this straight gonna lower the weekly loot from 410 to 405 to make a very small percentage of the player base feel better? even the few who do mythic raid like that 410 piece its something to work towards each week for the small hop of getting an upgrade. great job blizz on alienating even more of your casual base arent your sub numbers bad enough already?Comment by FreerunzBlizzard biggest regret with Reaping is that it is too easy.Comment by OggokogokNo they're saying the cache caps at 410, which is 5 lower than mythic raid drops, because raid loot should feel betterComment by OggokogokBlizzard biggest regret with Reaping is that it is too easy.Comment by GrundzWow, still no changes to feral druid? How about fixing getting the same item at the same ilvl in your chest 3 weeks in a row?Comment by HipzBlizzard biggest regret with Reaping is that it is too easy.funComment by KaffeeclusterAre you #$%^ing kidding me? No new m+ dungeons until 8.3?

There goes my hype for 8.2,...Comment by axhawkso lemme get this straight gonna lower the weekly loot from 410 to 405 to make a very small percentage of the player base feel better? even the few who do mythic raid like that 410 piece its something to work towards each week for the small hop of getting an upgrade. great job blizz on alienating even more of your casual base arent your sub numbers bad enough already?alreadywhyComment by FnordColaOn the one hand, I think reaping is a ton of fun. On the other hand, I do get where they're coming from with the difficulty. It feels like the only time reaping is significant (assuming a group that doesn't just stand in everything, and a healer who knows how to dispel) is when you get a big fat caster wave that collectively decides to target one person and melt them in a second or two. Lost souls especially feel surprisingly easy for something that's supposed to be a lieutenant/mini-boss mob, they're kinda just big blocks of health outside of areas (*cough*TD stairways*endcough*) where the smash blends into the floor.

All in all, I hope they don't regret reaping too much. I feel like if they just tuned it up a bit it would be fine, and I really hope they don't decide "no wait, infested was what we wanted out of a +10 affix all along."Comment by jimmymmmso lemme get this straight gonna lower the weekly loot from 410 to 405 to make a very small percentage of the player base feel better? even the few who do mythic raid like that 410 piece its something to work towards each week for the small hop of getting an upgrade. great job blizz on alienating even more of your casual base arent your sub numbers bad enough already?

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