Patch 4.3 Escapist Interview

[Sabi]

Has heard of the escapist. Greg Tito was qqing Witcher 2 is too hardcore while he couldn't find info in the journal and gave Dragon Age 2 a 10/10. His wiring is wrong so even if the original info is from Bliz there's probably a lot "lost in translation".

I've too heard of escapist, cause of Yatzee, the rest of the site is just...hmmm, how can I put this? Not good, just really not good. I don't doubt the information in the interview, although a bit skewed, is true. It just seemed odd like the wording when compared to other Brack interviews it especially gets kinda weird when talking about the death wing fight and towards the end almost like Tito is filling in gaps with his own shit. I mean look at other interviews with Brack he really doesn't give one sentence answers that make it look like the interviewer is "pulling teeth".

Not saying it's fake, it just seems a bit odd.

[Zanardam]

Not saying it's fake, it just seems a bit odd.

This interview was terrible anyways....i guess it is why Blizz or the head guys of the escapist ((Or both)) ask to retrieve it...

[Auralan]

Glad I'm not playing anymore, the news are getting more ridiculous each week.

I love people like this so much. Why? Because every single time I armory them, they've got stuff going on in their character's newsfeed from like less then a day before.

"Obtained Ruthless Gladiator's Cloak of Prowess. 10 hours ago"

Just makes me smile. If you want to make a point, don't exaggerate all the time, anyone who takes the time to verify what you said will be able to see that you're lying.

Anyway, time to lurk more and see who else out there is speaking without thinking. Good entertainment.

Oh, and this man speaks the truth:

Didn't a long time a go GC reply to a legendary thread and said they would never do a dagger because they want legendary weapons to be visually striking and that's just not possible to do with a dagger? This seems fake

[Andrastine]

Okay, with the new Raid Finder coming out and with some of the info that was provided, here is a look at the overall state and development of how (announced) PvE content and changes were absorbed and commented by the community:

Vanilla: widely regarded to have had the most epic raids, both encounter-wise (i.e. 4HM, Ragnaros and C'Thun) and teamwork wise (40 mans!)
TBC: widely regarded as the best overall raid and (heroic) dungeon designs, both content and mechanic-wise and for the introduction of 25-man raids
WotLK: mostly regarded as too easy by the community (except for Hard Modes and Heroic Difficulties), especially heroic dungeons and 10-man raids
[introduction of LFG Dungeon Finder: generally positive feedback but concerns that it would kill some guilds due to the lack of exclusive guild dungeon runs]
Cata: widely regarded as too difficult for average guilds to progress through raids and even heroic dungeons (especially in LFG groups)
(introduction of Raid Finder: new easy modes are already regarded as being too easy; huge concerns that RFinder might kill guild raid runs and lots of hardcore players would finally quit WoW for good)

Summary: The community opinion is sort of like the chart of a stock price

Up, down, up, down ...
Difficult but nice (V;TBC), too easy (WotLK), difficult (Cata), too easy (RF and next expansion outlook) ...

My suggestion: Just play the game the way you like it and do the things you enjoy. There's much more than just raids or just LFG runs. Level alts, do some old/missed quests, work on professions, make tons of gold, daily quests, old dungeon/raid runs, do random bgs, specific bgs, arenas, world pvp... and just because a part of wow is currently too difficult or too easy, that does not mean the game itself is failing or dying as a whole.

[Pekoe]

Yay, more power to the casuals.

Casuals outnumber hardcore players. That's just a cold hard fact. Catering to the majority player base is intelligent design.

[BM-Hunter]

PANDAS PANDAS PANDAS!

i was planning on quitting after cata...but if they make pandaren playable i will totally stick around.

[pyrostorm9001]

I honestly think this is BS, I could be wrong but it smells of BS

[Rapti]

Well gz rogues, but I really dislike the idea of one legendary for one class and period.
So some old rogues quit, theres a new one recruited or two in the guild and gz you guys get legendary! Yey!
I dont like this idea a all, it should always be few classes at least. Just like they didnt like shield concept themselves in the past.

[Deleted]

It's probaly a spike you pull out of deathwing's ass.

a dagger legendary, how retarded.

[Caiada]

Has heard of the escapist. Greg Tito was qqing Witcher 2 is too hardcore while he couldn't find info in the journal and gave Dragon Age 2 a 10/10. His wiring is wrong so even if the original info is from Bliz there's probably a lot "lost in translation".

So it's not credible because.... you disagree with a couple reviews?

[azrielen]

If this is all true then I am looking forward to it. I do not have the time to be any more than a casual player in my raiding guild anymore, but I would love to see some of the content and storylines they get to experience, even if the rewards would be far less in terms of gear and the like.

[Erudus]

Also, we all know that if MoP were an expansion, the Government of the PRC would totally ban it, and I don't think Blizzard is going to risk all the Chinese market by releasing something like this.

Another person that seems to be in fairyland? Since when have the Chinese banned anything to do with Panda's in a virtual world? It's a load of made up rubbish that seems to be going around the WoW (and fansite) forums these days....

[Deleted]

the only problem with the rogueweapon beeing a dagger ,which i see, is that with the current representation of rogues, its a high possibilty, that the only rogue in a group(if there is any), who is eligible to get this legendary, is combat and so would be forced to play another spec than the one he likes, cause, when you think about it, the legendary dagger will make the difference between the 2 daggerspecs and combat so big that no reasonable raider has a choice

so i think they will go the quel'delar path, so you could get either a dagger or a 1h sword

as for the raidfinder, i wonder if they will make another version of the t-set for the lower raids or dont let token drop there

[George Costanza]

Too late, blizzard, might return at a later date, I am abt disappointed due to real life problems i couldn't pvp or pve this expansion.

[Nathanyel]

Didn't a long time a go GC reply to a legendary thread and said they would never do a dagger because they want legendary weapons to be visually striking and that's just not possible to do with a dagger? This seems fake

Weird indeed.
Since it's going to be a questline anyway, I wonder why they don't just let you choose between a slow sword and a dagger at the end, this would at least cover all rogue specs, including the one that was traditionally the main PvE one. Plus an option to "reforge" the weapon at the questgiver into the other type (losing enchants, of course) should the rogue switch specs.
The dagger will probably have normal sword size, I guess.

[Osmeric]

Casuals outnumber hardcore players. That's just a cold hard fact. Catering to the majority player base is intelligent design.

And yet, they are not doing that. Catering to the casuals would mean a game primarily centered around them, with awkward bolt-ons for the minority of elites. This is not what we're getting. This looks like "what's the smallest change we can make that might help the average player a bit, but doesn't affect the love relationship we have with Paragon".

The game is being driven further onto the rocks, and Blizzard management seems to have no clue.

[Taylen]

MoP was trademarked as a COMPUTER SOFTWARE, not as comic or something...

[Fendris Malarky]

Not going to comment on whether or not the interview is real, frankly don't care, either way the content spoken of in the interview sounds fucking terrible and the person answering the questions sounds positively uninformed and unprofessional.

Yes the idea of giving rogues a legendary of their own is fucking stupid. No matter how you want to try to justify it, the fact of the matter is that rogues have already had more legendaries available to them than any other class, and the idea of making a legendary that will only be used by one class is just terrible, especially worse since rogues are one of the least played classes in the game.

Bottom line: this game just keeps getting shittier and shittier.

[Hanoumatoi]

In combination with the fact that blizzard seems to be trying for more widely attractive legendaries, the thing that strikes me as really strange is that there's got to be a ton of 10 mans without a rogue... That just seems really weird, unless there's ALSO going to be another legendary that this is mutually exclusive with (separate quests, but shared drops, for ferals/shamans perhaps).

[chrisisvacant]

Not going to comment on whether or not the interview is real, frankly don't care, either way the content spoken of in the interview sounds fucking terrible and the person answering the questions sounds positively uninformed and unprofessional.

Yes the idea of giving rogues a legendary of their own is fucking stupid. No matter how you want to try to justify it, the fact of the matter is that rogues have already had more legendaries available to them than any other class, and the idea of making a legendary that will only be used by one class is just terrible, especially worse since rogues are one of the least played classes in the game.

Bottom line: this game just keeps getting shittier and shittier.

I, and many others, flatly disagree with everything you've said. LOL.

Especially since most of it is a lie.