Sometimes, less means more. Aslong as it leads to a more enjoyable experience, i donlt really care.
Though i do think it's time for one more row of talents. Just toss those legendary effects in there and jobs done.
I definitely want more of the cool passives to be baseline come the next expansion, like the rogue fall damage thing you mentioned. I mainly don't want to feel like once I give up my artifact weapon I give up abilities that enhanced the class and made it fun. IE one of my favorite things about my destro lock is how when I unload everything at once using the portals and my abilities it looks like I'm showering my enemies with an elaborate fireworks show. I love that to death, and playing destro won't be the same if that's removed.
Though some seem like they'll be inevitable, like I will sorely miss talking to my shadow priest's knaifu.
Here is what alpha tells us so far:
Stuff is broken
They want to change some specs
Warlocks get shiny new spell animations
Here is what alpha does NOT tell us:
What the game will be like
what specifically we gain with azerite armor
literally anything else
don't worry I hear a few patches down the line Blizzard is going to make every class and race look the same as a cardboard cutout and we will only have one button to push all in the name of making it easier for chimpanzees to play because it's all to push the new free to play smartphone/tablet game were you gotta throw millions of real money into the cash shop if you want to have a different colored class armor. DON'T CHA KNOW!?
I read the whole post, it makes no sense, you can't go on for 14 years with the same game without removing and rebalancing stuff.
But I guess that you aren't playing the game if you think that it can be played with a gamepad, while some specs have up to 8 buttons just for the base rotation.
I was hoping we would loose AP, TF and M+, but no luck.
20+ Passives that changed the way we play the class.
I like how this changes my playstyle "Increases Shadow Damage by 1%". Thats so exciting and just makes my rotation change completely.
This all comes down to wether or not they are anywhere near finished with the heart of Azeroth.
The new system does fix the ancient "what the fuck do all these buttons do?" problem, WoW had for a long time. It gives all classes a basic rotation, that you will be familiar with, no matter when you played last, and then gives you some toys to play with during the current expansion. If you come back in 6 years, you dont need to know anything about the legions spells, the BFA spells or the VODIDOOM spells. You can just log onto your old character and see the 6 or so buttons you know how to use. So classes looking bare bones right now, because they lost all the Legion fluff, isnt really a bad thing.
And since they moved away from giving your all your new buttons during leveling, the heart doesnt even have to be as detailed as fully empored artifacts are right now. We will probably get 2-3 more ranks during the patches. So it would be enough for the Heart to be as interesting as Artifacts were when Legion released. Which they currently arent. So hopefulyl that changes when Beta is out.
As to tier sets and legendaries: I hope there will still be procs and passive effects on other gear, like trinkets and weapons. If there is not, I can see gear becoming just plain more boring during BFA. The removal of "random world drop" awesome effects and "forced to wear 6 of these" tier sets is definetely a good thing, but it if the heart is the only place, where you have to do more than looking at the itemlvl number, I can see that becoming a problem.
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I like this change. And besides we technically won't since the head shoulders and chest pieces will give us new bonuses every tier set, so it's sort of same thing. We'll still have to change the meta every tier set.
This is THE BEST CHANGE in BfA. Legendary system in Legion is by far my least favorite aspect of it. It's waaaaaay too RNG and separated the haves from the have-nots very noticably during the first half of the expansion. It also punished those who were altoholics. It's a shit system and glad it's gone.- We lose legendaries which where a nice way to customize classes. Especially in mythic+ you find yourself often switching between them for different situations. The method of acquiring these obviously sucked, but the idea itself was really really good. They do implement a few as talents, but thats it.
We have a new artifact weapon in the form of the neck piece now. I think it's an improved system because we can finally choose what weapons to equip and have more freedom on transmogging them. Overall, good change.- Artifact weapons are gone, and with them a million passives (remember, WoD had passives as well while you leveled up). This time around, there won't be any passives from leveling, and there wont be any passives from artifact weapons.
Which makes it a lot easier to class balance...- We trade in 20+ passives that completely changed how a class worked or had nice small effects for THREE effects from our Azerite "tierset".
Way too early in Alpha to know for sure. For all we know, those might be returning in azerite necklace form.- We lose effects such as execute for Assa Rogues, Full Moon for owls, fall damage immunity for rogues, purgatory-lite for Fury warriors, sprint on leap for arms warriors, Ebonbolt for mages, the list goes on forever. One wonders how an elemental shaman will ever be able to do DPS without his legendary boots and gloves.
WRONG! If anything we'll have MORE diversity from being able to choose which weap we can use. ALL of our old Legion weaps will still be available via transmog. So if anything we're getting MORE choices.- Visual diversity will be gone. With no more artifact weapons, their transmogs are gone (old ones stay, obviously.) and with the removal of tiersets, i fear that every mail, leather, plate and cloth wearer will look the same, akin to Trial of Crusader tiersets.
Don't need new talents when the neck, head/shoulders/chest will be giving us a bunch of new ones.
- No level 120 talents, no "new" talents, no active effect from the azerite neck itself, no new spells for any class, nothing.
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As long as items will have interesting effects (like Kara/Seat), then this is a huge QoL improvement. Sick of having 4+ slots locked to tier every raid. Was even worse in Legion with Legendaries that took up slots the entire expansion.
If by "customize" you mean "pick the two objectively best legendaries" then sure. Legendaries were awful, even when you had them.
Passives should all be baked into the toolkit, also using the same weapon the entire expansion was annoying. We got SO few weapon mogs (outside of the artifact appearances).
See above. Baked in or made into choices.
Full Moon was shit anyways and stuff like fall damage immunity can still be rolled into the spec. This is a moot point.
Except transmog still exists so that doesn't matter.
Moonkin right now feels extremely incomplete. Mistweaver also feels incomplete. What the fuck is your point here?
Literally half of Moonkin's talents right now are trap/dead talents. They've already stated that they plan to rectify any dead talents (they said this prior to the alpha/beta, sorry don't remember the source), and they also plan to fix the "ST vs AoE" talents so you actually have some level of choice.
Honestly, literally every one of your points have been moot or just seem like whining for the sake of whining.
Still wondering why I play this game.
I'm a Rogue and I also made a spreadsheet for the Order Hall that is updated for BfA.
The most difficult thing to do is accept that there is nothing wrong with things you don't like and accept that people can like things you don't.
A whole expansion of moaning about legos and artifact grinding, now the moaning about them being removed starts. God this fanbase...
Well, I can't disagree with that.
The pros outweigh the cons though; I can run them with a group of close friends rather than guild recruits I don't even know, I'm not stuck in the same instance for hours, more variety, no planning required just pick-up and play, etc.
When mythic raids will disappear and they will, I hope blizzard will pour all their development resources into making mythic raid quality dungeon bosses!
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Set bonus will be part of azerite gear effectively.
Legendaries being gone is something people overwhelmingly wanted, they were complained and bullshited to death. You are the minority.
As for Artifact, it had only several truly game-changing or even visible abilities per spec, you can have the same with azerite gear. Effectively most of the non-gold traits were just simple +%, or -X cd or bland stuff like that will just get rolled into a spec if needed.