Garrisons - Inn and Tavern, Dev Interview, Launcher Upgrade, Blue Tweets, Fan Art

Garrison looks good and first oO

I don't like the idea of Outland and Northrend sharing the leveling experience from 60-80 unless they're revamped.

Sounds like a big waste of time.

The Alliance garrisons look so cozy! I might just have to spend more time on my worgen when the expansion comes.

They should make it so you can skip pandaland while leveling.

PLEASE!

The team hoped to have Warlords of Draenor released a few months ago, but scaling up the team by almost 50% slowed things down.

rofl, give me a break!

"If more people start doing challenge mode dungeons then challenge mode raids would be something to consider. The team has to be careful not to spend too much time on content that isn't ever seen by most players."

Then make the rewards better? Strange thing to say tbh. If LFR only rewarded cosmetic items it wouldn't be as popular as it is now either. If challenge modes would reward heroic raid loot we would see twice as many players or even more participating.
Same with world bosses really. Ridiculous rewards make people kill them, not because it is fun to do.


"Would it be better if the Dungeon Journal was more for Dungeons, Normal & LFR Raids. But Heroic & Mythic Raids don't use it."
"The number of "the DJ wasn't clear about ____" posts I see from Mythic raiders in our feedback threads would suggest otherwise."

Is he serious with that answer? Ofcourse... if your information in the DJ is wrong they will tell you about it but that doesn't mean it is a good thing the DJ is available for them... >.<

Adding more team members delays project for like half of a year, only at Blizztards.

Would Bigby Wolf come to Alliance inn and Huff and puff and blow away, randomly?

Interesting 60-80 idea but as Tom says.. a lot of work.

I think the general issue of levelling will need addressing in the next expansion. Getting alts to 100 is going to be a major pita and I don't think they can rely on people paying to boost characters.

IF they are making Garrisons after WoD too, then I hope, it is not Orgimmar and Stormwind style again..

Originally Posted by Collected

Interesting 60-80 idea but as Tom says.. a lot of work.

I think the general issue of levelling will need addressing in the next expansion. Getting alts to 100 is going to be a major pita and I don't think they can rely on people paying to boost characters.

I don't get this at all. Why is this a major pita? The experience requirements have been nerfed over and over and over again. It most likely took longer to level to 60 in Vanilla, 70 in TBC and 80 in WotLK than it is to level to 100 in WoD.

And if you want you can just finish Outland/Northrend.

Seeing all the dungeon quests tied to the Garrison Inn makes me want to make that building on my tank rather than my main. Want those fast dungeon queues so I can get those minipets and stuff from the visiting NPC quests.

One idea that came up was to make both Northrend and Outland a level 60 to 80 zones at half of their current speed and then allowing players to pick one to level through. Making this change would be fairly time consuming, so it is just an idea for now.

I really, really like this idea. I would love to spend more time in either place while leveling; just got my goblin DK to Northrend (god knows how many DKs I've rolled, this is the first I've ever played long enough to get past Outland), and it felt like I only scratched the surface of Outland while playing through with her. I'll spend a bit more time in Northrend, as I have to hit 80 to move on to Cata. The amount of retuning necessary would be a huge amount of work, so I can see why they wouldn't follow through on it. How would they handle dungeons? Would there now be two sets of dungeons from 60-80? Would Hellfire Ramparts and Utgarde Keep be the same level? If I choose to level through BC, would I be queuing up for any of these dungeons, or would I stick with just BC ones? It'd be too much work to iron all these issues out, but I frankly would love to see how they could tackle them.

Originally Posted by Hextor

rofl, give me a break!

Actually it would, having to train or retrain people takes time, throwing more people into development does not always equate to speeding things up especially if they have no idea how things are done or work..

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Originally Posted by naturetauren

Adding more team members delays project for like half of a year, only at Blizztards.

Are you in software development? If so then you would know that adding in more people especially if they are new to the company does take time they have to be trained in how things work and what they have to do..

I'm not sure if anyone already suggested this. But wouldn't it be great if you could recruit your own alts for your garrison?

I would level my alts more just for this alone

Originally Posted by naturetauren

Adding more team members delays project for like half of a year, only at Blizztards.

It's not because 1 woman can birth a child after 9 months, that 2 women can birth it after 4.5 months...
New team members have to be trained and worked in. It takes time.

Originally Posted by ForEachD2M

It's not because 1 woman can birth a child after 9 months, that 2 women can birth it after 4.5 months...
New team members have to be trained and worked in. It takes time.

Some sensible people in this thread.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law

Brooks adds that "Nine women can't make a baby in one month."

And yeah, training does take time and does delay absolutely insanely huge projects like wow.

Originally Posted by grexly75

Actually it would, having to train or retrain people takes time, throwing more people into development does not always equate to speeding things up especially if they have no idea how things are done or work..

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Are you in software development? If so then you would know that adding in more people especially if they are new to the company does take time they have to be trained in how things work and what they have to do..

Yup, it's extremely well known, so much so that is has a name - Brook's law. It seems counter-intuitive at first, but it's very much true.

Nice Gaben on that Dark Portal Fan Video. Half Life 3 confirmed!

Originally Posted by Posix

Yup, it's extremely well known, so much so that is has a name - Brook's law. It seems counter-intuitive at first, but it's very much true.

Well, it's true for any qualified job, especially when teamwork is involved, it does seem rather intuitive, I never quite understood how some people could think a workload can be scaled linearly.

Software development (like, actual engineering, not automata-level-CMS-stuff) on very large projects satisfies both very specific training requirements (need to understand the home-made framework, their context, the culture behind it) and team synergy. If the new people don't blend in organically, that's not just bad at first, it can get pretty terrible down the road.

I'm just hoping it means this expansion goes well, all patches are good and seamless, and hopefully when we've hit the last patch there isn't a 15month wait. Though I am hoping that the last big patch last maybe 6months or more. Would hate for it to come and and not be caught up and be unable to really experience it as next expansion comes out.