Gotta go fast? Speed fiends might be interested to discover that there's a new bag in The War Within Alpha that increases movement speed in outdoor areas of Khaz Algar! While increasing outdoor movement speed in a specific area of the expansion isn't a particularly important bonus, Arathor Courier's Satchel stands out as the first of its kind — no other bag in WoW has had this kind of statistical effect, and it could be a test case for more varied bag bonuses going forward. Although it is unlikely that we'll see universal combat enhancements like increased strength, critical strike chance, or damage procs, there are a number of other minor supplementary effects or effects that only work in specific areas of the game, like an excavators satchel increasing capabilities in Delves.
Towelliee Interview on the War Within - Mythic+ Affixes, Augmentation, Raid Buffs
17.04.2024 - 23:25 / wowhead.com
Towelliee has released a fantastic interview with George Velev and Andrew Desousa on the War Within discussing many popular topics including Mythic+ Affixes, Augmentation Evoker, Raid Buffs, difficult Mythic bosses and more!
Full Interview
Here is the full interview between Towelliee and George Velev and Andrew Desousa.
We've highlighted some of the important discussions below but please watch the full interview for more context and additional topics:
- Tank Threat and Design
- Hero Talent Design
- Heroic Week
- Blizzard's Thoughts on Fated
- More Mythic-only phases?
Mythic+ Affixes
How can affixes be something that is more fun?
Andrew DeSousa
The conversation around affixes, there's always going to be some tension there due to the nature of them — they create friction, they pose new challenges as you go up the key levels and its something they talk a lot about on the team on how to address that going forward. I don't have anything concrete to share with you today, that said, we're always experimenting. We made big changes in Dragonflight Season 2 and in Season 4, we've pushed the last bucket of affixes deeper into the pool, so we're looking to put the right place to put that kind of challenge and the right ways to challenge players as a whole as we go forward — the main goals being the ability to present extra challenge as you go up in the key levels, and places for week over week change and lastly a goal that we're always striving towards is an opportunity for your class to shine on some weeks and you have a really cool part of your kit.
Are there are new Mythic+ affixes and are there any remaining Seasonal affixes?
Andrew DeSousa
We don't have plans for Seasonal Affixes in the War Within currently. That said, that doesn't mean they're gone for good. Like I mentioned earlier, affixes are going to continue to evolve and we're going to iterate on them and we'll going to take community sentiment and feedback in when we make those decisions. As far as new features that I'm excited about, this is a little in line with what we're doing in Season 4 — there's the difficulty recalibration on what a Mythic 0 is for people that really like a Megadungeon. What we're going to try going forward is any dungeon that's part of the Mythic+ rotation will be a part of Mythic 0 as well, so you'll have rotating Mythic 0s as well and even if you don't do Mythic+, you'll get a new set of content every season.Grim Batol
Andrew DeSousa
Grim Batol's coming back, we thought that was a pretty cool setting for us and us going and visiting some dwarves, taking all the lessons that we've learned from Dragonflight too from these revamps. We want to keep the spirit of it — there will be a bombing run still — we'll make sure that we touch
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