Suggestion for an "apology hotfix"

[Xorzor]

Since their reputation is spiraling down the proverbial and literal toilet lately, Blizz might as well put out a hotfix to make the game more fun.

I'm not saying that they should, nor suggesting they would, and definitely not implying that such a thing would erase the scandal, but it might placate the playerbase for a short time.

So here goes:

[Combat]

• All skills previously put on the GCD in Battle for Azeroth have now been removed from it.
• The AoE target cap has been removed.

[Covenants]

• Conduits will now drop at the highest possible level.
• Conduit Energy has been removed.
• The Anima Reservoir cap has been removed.
• All missions from the mission table and their Anima costs have been halved.
• Followers will now earn double the rate of EXP. In addition, the cost to heal and revive them has been halved.

[Currencies]

• All expansion-relevant currencies have had their sources doubled. a single Ardendew Pearl now awards 70 Anima(1)
• All expansion-relevant currencies have had their prices halved. a Tier 3 Anima Conductor now costs 5000 Anima and 11 Redeemed Souls(1)
• Item upgrades have had their prices halved. In addition, the higher ranks no longer have any requirements.

[Flying]

• Flying is now possible in The Maw and Korthia.
• Battle for Azeroth Pathfinder is now automatically unlocked.(2)

[Heirlooms]

• All heirlooms now work up to the current level cap (Level 60 in Shadowlands), therefore upgrades are no longer required.
• Wearing a full set of heirlooms will double the player’s experience point gains from all sources.

[Instances and Loot]

• The drop rate of all bosses in every dungeon and raid instance has been doubled. from Vanilla to Shadowlands and all in-between
• A new debuff called "End of the Legion" reduces the health and damage done by bosses from Legion-expansion raids by 35%.(3)
• A new debuff called "Out with the Old" reduces the maximum health and damage done by bosses from BfA-expansion raids by 35%.(4)
• A new debuff called "Death Defiance" reduces the maximum health and damage done by bosses from Shadowlands-expansion raids by 35%.(5)
• Sylvanas' legendary bow will now drop from LFR.

[Mounts]

• The Chauffeured Chopper no longer requires the Heirloom Hoarder achievement, and can be purchased from Heirloom vendors for a low-low price of 10 gold.
• Mounts which previously had a profession requirement no longer do. a non-Tailor can use the Flying Carpet
• All mounts earned on an account contribute towards mount-related achievements. even ones from the opposite faction or a different class

[Pet Battles]

• Battle Pet experience gains have been doubled.

[Reputation]

• All reputation gains have been doubled. this includes buffs; WHEE! now increases gains by 20%
• All reputation requirements have been halved. it now takes 10500 rep to reach Exalted

[The Great Vault]

• All items available from the Great Vault will be obtainable - you no longer have to choose. In addition, you will receive 3x Attendant's Token of Merit by default.
• Legendary Powers and Sylvanas' legendary bow are now on the list of items obtainable from the vault.

[The Runecarver]

• Legendary Recipes now drop even if the Runecarver has not yet been unlocked. In addition, their drop rate has been doubled.
• The cost of crafting and upgrading legendary items has been halved.

[Torghast]

• Tower Knowledge gains have been doubled, and their costs for perks in The Box of Many Things has been halved.
• Phantasma gains have been doubled, and their costs for purchases via the Broker NPC have been halved.
• The debuff "The Jailer's Chains" has been removed.

(1) This includes all currencies from every expansion; past, present, and future.
(2) Both parts will unlock automatically.
(3) This includes Emerald Nightmare, Trial of Valor, The Nighthold, Tomb of Sargeras, and Antorus the Burning Throne.
(4) This includes Uldir, Battle of Dazaralor, Crucible of Storms, The Eternal Palace, and Ny'alotha.
(5) This includes Castle Nathria, Sanctum of Domination, and all future raids in Shadowlands.

[Mrbleedinggums]

Don't forget everyone gets a $1,000 Blizzard gift card for any Blizzard gear or services, 50 Activision stocks, and gets every single game/expansion released for free with no cost on subscription.

[The One Percent]

Ion shows up to each individual players home and lets you beat him with a stick for three minutes.

[exsanguinate]

This is non sense in my eyes

[muto]

Don't forget everyone gets a $1,000 Blizzard gift card for any Blizzard gear or services, 50 Activision stocks, and gets every single game/expansion released for free with no cost on subscription.

And you personally get to dunk your least favorite developer in the dunking tank.

[Skirdus]

Honestly just give my character the option to punch Sylvanas in the gut as many times as I want while she's awaiting interrogation and I'll be satisfied

[Jonnusthegreat]

Don't forget everyone gets a $1,000 Blizzard gift card for any Blizzard gear or services, 50 Activision stocks, and gets every single game/expansion released for free with no cost on subscription.

They would never do this. This would mean the 5 million player subs on retail and the 15 million player subs on classic would cost almost 20 TRILLION dollars. That would be almost half their budget.

[Siraeyou]

I think lessening the pain on old content grinds specifically wouldn't be a terrible idea in general, but I think people need to step back an realize that too many people on the WoWDev team are too many degrees separated from the playerbase to even contemplate the idea of doing anything that makes the game easier by any time invested metric.

[makls]

So basicly you want all the restriction that all ppl time invested in removed, drops doubled, reps halved and gains buffed, sylvanas bow added to every loot table possible and even in lfr?So a player like you with a skill and time lvl only for lfr and petbattles would gut this game so much just to get a 10min dopamine effect and call it ?How about blizz just wraps everything up for you and you open boxes and get everythig then?You seem reasonable with this clean post, can you not see where the game went with catering to ppl even worse then yourself?

[Big Thanks]

This is a very out of the ordinary thread, and i appreciate it is different and just the right amount of funny

It also makes you wonder questions like "When was the last time you felt Blizzard cared about you with a caring action?"

I sure as hell dont remember...at least not an action that wouldnt end with me opening up my wallet...

[Mrbleedinggums]

They would never do this. This would mean the 5 million player subs on retail and the 15 million player subs on classic would cost almost 20 TRILLION dollars. That would be almost half their budget.

Congrats on finding the joke. Did i need to rename myself to Jonathan Swift and say that we should sell poor peoples' babies to the rich to supplement a famine to make it more obvious?

[chorx]

Trying to ease a scandal like this with in game perks would be one of the most egregiously insensitive things an entertainment company has ever done. At least in recent memory.

[Mrbleedinggums]

This thread is in horrendously poor taste. Responding to credible allegations that women were sexually harassed and mistreated with "Hey maybe this is a good excuse to get more things I want in a game" is borderline sociopathic.

That's.... that's not what sociopathic is. Or is making a comment like that edging on borderline schizophrenic?

[oldgeezer]

Bring Detect Magic back. That's all I ask. I miss those little swirly balls.

[rogoth]

Someone obviously doesn't understand sarcasm

or maths either, there's not much more than a couple million subs on 'retail' worldwide (not counting china) and maybe at a stretch half that amount in 'classic'.

[Th3Scourge]

Since their reputation is spiraling down the proverbial and literal toilet lately, Blizz might as well put out a hotfix to make the game more fun.

I'm not saying that they should, nor suggesting they would, and definitely not implying that such a thing would erase the scandal, but it might placate the playerbase for a short time.

So here goes:

[Combat]

• All skills previously put on the GCD in Battle for Azeroth have now been removed from it.
• The AoE target cap has been removed.

[Covenants]

• Conduits will now drop at the highest possible level.
• Conduit Energy has been removed.
• The Anima Reservoir cap has been removed.
• All missions from the mission table and their Anima costs have been halved.
• Followers will now earn double the rate of EXP. In addition, the cost to heal and revive them has been halved.

[Currencies]

• All expansion-relevant currencies have had their sources doubled. a single Ardendew Pearl now awards 70 Anima(1)
• All expansion-relevant currencies have had their prices halved. a Tier 3 Anima Conductor now costs 5000 Anima and 11 Redeemed Souls(1)
• Item upgrades have had their prices halved. In addition, the higher ranks no longer have any requirements.

[Flying]

• Flying is now possible in The Maw and Korthia.
• Battle for Azeroth Pathfinder is now automatically unlocked.(2)

[Heirlooms]

• All heirlooms now work up to the current level cap (Level 60 in Shadowlands), therefore upgrades are no longer required.
• Wearing a full set of heirlooms will double the player’s experience point gains from all sources.

[Instances and Loot]

• The drop rate of all bosses in every dungeon and raid instance has been doubled. from Vanilla to Shadowlands and all in-between
• A new debuff called "End of the Legion" reduces the health and damage done by bosses from Legion-expansion raids by 35%.(3)
• A new debuff called "Out with the Old" reduces the maximum health and damage done by bosses from BfA-expansion raids by 35%.(4)
• A new debuff called "Death Defiance" reduces the maximum health and damage done by bosses from Shadowlands-expansion raids by 35%.(5)
• Sylvanas' legendary bow will now drop from LFR.

[Mounts]

• The Chauffeured Chopper no longer requires the Heirloom Hoarder achievement, and can be purchased from Heirloom vendors for a low-low price of 10 gold.
• Mounts which previously had a profession requirement no longer do. a non-Tailor can use the Flying Carpet
• All mounts earned on an account contribute towards mount-related achievements. even ones from the opposite faction or a different class

[Pet Battles]

• Battle Pet experience gains have been doubled.

[Reputation]

• All reputation gains have been doubled. this includes buffs; WHEE! now increases gains by 20%
• All reputation requirements have been halved. it now takes 10500 rep to reach Exalted

[The Great Vault]

• All items available from the Great Vault will be obtainable - you no longer have to choose. In addition, you will receive 3x Attendant's Token of Merit by default.
• Legendary Powers and Sylvanas' legendary bow are now on the list of items obtainable from the vault.

[The Runecarver]

• Legendary Recipes now drop even if the Runecarver has not yet been unlocked. In addition, their drop rate has been doubled.
• The cost of crafting and upgrading legendary items has been halved.

[Torghast]

• Tower Knowledge gains have been doubled, and their costs for perks in The Box of Many Things has been halved.
• Phantasma gains have been doubled, and their costs for purchases via the Broker NPC have been halved.
• The debuff "The Jailer's Chains" has been removed.

(1) This includes all currencies from every expansion; past, present, and future.
(2) Both parts will unlock automatically.
(3) This includes Emerald Nightmare, Trial of Valor, The Nighthold, Tomb of Sargeras, and Antorus the Burning Throne.
(4) This includes Uldir, Battle of Dazaralor, Crucible of Storms, The Eternal Palace, and Ny'alotha.
(5) This includes Castle Nathria, Sanctum of Domination, and all future raids in Shadowlands.

Since we know that 90% of these changes are going to be made in the final patch of the expansion.... JUST DO IT ALREADY

[deenman]

Why do all this when the obvious would work better?

>Reverted all expansions after Wrath of the Lich King

Retail is now Wrath Classic

that would literaly kill the game lol,wrath was basicaly wod but worse

[Sastank]

that would literaly kill the game lol,wrath was basicaly wod but worse

Well that's like, your opinion dude.

[Indigenously Abled]

that would literaly kill the game lol,wrath was basicaly wod but worse

Live is basically classic but worse. Classic is basically live but worse.

[Steelangel]

Since their reputation is spiraling down the proverbial and literal toilet lately, Blizz might as well put out a hotfix to make the game more fun.

• A new debuff called "End of the Legion" reduces the health and damage done by bosses from Legion-expansion raids by 35%.(3)

Actually, this is the only one that I could get behind. The rest are "gimme free stuff lol".