http://blue.cardplace.com/newcache/en/192589434.htm

While many people may dislike the WoW boards, I thought that atleast passing this topic on for people to perhaps atleast add some medium of realistic responce instead of the typical "zomg ze goggles do nothing" bullshit the normal people will do.

Atleast its a cert that a some Blizz employees will see the responce from the 'upper' guilds who will actually be getting T4/T5, and perhaps they may even talk back about why they are so lack luster and such.

I can try and update with any decent information they pass on about relevent stuff if people wish, else just shit-heap this or something if you feel its not worth much discussion

Nice catch.. not that I figure it will really matter, but posted my 2 cents as I was slightly bored.

Given that I'm not an EU player, and haven't seen a US equivalent, could someone do me the favor of posting something in my place?

Tailoring Specialization needs to be switchable at a moderate cost, just like Leatherworking and Blacksmithing specializations. I shouldn't have to relevel tailoring from scratch just because I'd like to shift to a fire build, but picked frost.

This guy being an MVP makes me more cynical. These guys' only motivation is to maintain the color of their font on those boards.

I'm not sure what is worse though... the fact that the Gnomish Power Goggles pattern is still broken and has no fix in sight, or the fact that by the time it's fix it will have already been easily outpaced by the much superior Spellstrike Hood.

(Even though the Spellstrike Hood really isn't that much more expensive to make. 6 less Spellcloth, 7 more Primals, and 2 Talisite instead of Primal Nether. In my situation where I can run a guild crafter through a Heroic quickly for a Primal, I actually find the Power Goggles more annoying to make.)

Only reason I'm keeping Engineering atm is for the stam trinket for tanking Maulgar... and even that is a bit underwhelming compared to the Figurine - Living Ruby Serpent (not that I will level up JC...) or Argussian Compass.

I posted for you.

Thanks!

For big things like broken engineering, tailoring respec, item iLevel being broken, etc Blizzard is generally aware always of these issues - but what they feel is the priority list will usually differ from yours. I'm sure they have a bug tracker database of 1000+ things that need to be changed, but each patch will only get in a few dozen changes so tough cookies if your #1 issue is #400 to them.

Engineering was clearly just the last profession to be looked at while creating the expansion, and in the final few weeks rush they just abandoned it. They've already promised a professions revamp, although given no real details.

Having worked in the game industry before, generally the producers and project managers simply don't read external input very much or it gets filtered so much it becomes almost meaningless. All the long posts people make about how they think WoW should change is cathartic I'm sure, but usually has very little effect on the game.

What I really would find fascinating is how different areas of the game are handled internally by Blizzard. Is there a "champion" for each profession and class who fleshes out the designs and vets all changes? Or is it all run through a central group of designers? I wonder if politics ever come into play - ie, the druid class designer is the most senior Blizzard employee, so his ideas carry more weight/coding time than the new guy who started last year and is responsible for engineering? That kind of stuff would be interesting to know - whats the process by which Blizzard makes changes to the game and whos involved?

Obviously the Senior Designer is the Warlock one, and the Design Assistant is the Druid one... I kid :P However yeah it would really interesting to actually know the design process for situations like this within the Dev team, but they wont go into that specificly if at all due to how much hate specific ones would get :P

But indeed, its not a cert things will be read or if it will even reach the devs by filtering, but everything is worth a shot and who knows, they may cave in :P

More than once I've gotten the strong feeling that the various departments at Blizzard just plain don't talk to each other, and conflicts are only discovered after all the changes go live. e.g., some of the class changes, that have huge raiding repercussions.

I work in software and computer systems (designed and ran a piece of software that oversaw a very large network, an order of magnitude larger than Blizzard's) and have so much curiousity about how they do things over there.

I like the idea of a community review, but don't see much happening from it, especially that the information is collected at the EU site by a MVP.


When there is a game change, I am sure there is a meeting with some of the devs before it goes live, but sometimes things get missed in meetings and sometimes people's viewpoints are canned by the boss.