If we had any other features added in DF we'd probs know them by now. It's more than ready for Beta at this point.
I'm ready for some priest news.
Please.
I don't agree with tour definition of beta testing. But Blizzard's never made it a rule how they conduct their alpha and beta testing.
Anyway in software development, alpha testing is aimed to be a structured testing. Sometimes aimed at specific feature testing and the goal here is to react quickly at what needs improvement. Whereas beta testing is aimed at broad public with freedom to test what they want as they want. The feedback is of course analyzed but you don't commit to improve on any specific for the product release and usually plan to improve for next version.
To be fair, it can't be long until pre patch PTR right? If the leaked schedule is at least... intended to be accurate then PTR needs testing soonish.
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If pre-patch goes live mid November, we still have a month or more left until the PTR would be needed. I doubt they're going to test the pre-patch for several months.
On another note: Did they say anything about the new talents coming with pre-patch or with Dragonflight launch? I don't remember.
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Mistweaver Monk got an update post and I for sure did not expect that to happen, so Priest / Druid news should be imminent.
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E.g. we know from later interviews that Transmog was meant to be a MoP feature. However they felt it was in a great state and released it early in 4.3 for Cata. So they might be planning some evergreen feature for casual players for 11.0 and have it advanced enough to release in 10.2 or 10.3
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They made a post just to say they didn't forget you. I'd be hopeful.
Personally I mostly hope they move more classes to the design of shaman for the class spec; able to hit every throughput talent with 10-15 talent points leaving the rest flex for utility. For my paladin, especially for Prot and Ret, I think I might have 2-3 points in the tree that are flexible? The original design intent when they revealed that they were redesigning talents was like that and not at all like what some classes got.
I'd rather have them follow the design of death knights. Shaman have way too many talents and pathings. Moreover you have in the tree throughput talents for which the placement doesn't feel right or could be weirdly impactful (lightening lasso, nature's swiftness) and some talents that are completely dead if you're not playing enhancement.
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Yeah, the Shaman trees are just messy at this point and there's too much going on. No other class has this clusterf*ck of a talent tree as of now which makes me believe that Shaman has a dedicated class designer (which is not bad). There needs to be a lot of clean up, but then the tree could be great, definitely one of the better classes in that regard.
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I mean, the internal leak puts the prepatch on the 25th of October, which seems reasonable.
The fact that it got the Game Awards date right kinda shows me that it's real anyway.
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