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I’d even venture to say that EVEN IF they had planned – like nearly any pen and paper RPG had since the 1970s – planned for long-duration scaling and character growth, by 2020 even such a system probably would have needed revamping. Nobody’s saying they should have known exactly. It’s an obvious strawman for you to assert he/she meant “they should have known exactly how they would want the game to work in 2020”. They did it at least once (twice?) already, and we’re still at stupid huge numbers, and a power-scaling curve that is practically asymptotic within an expansion….hell, even BLIZZARD doesn’t understand their own math ( ) Let’s remember this isn’t the first stat squish, either.

And THAT EXPANSIONS WERE A THING was absolutely clear.īlizzard’s colossally short-sighted inability to ever future-proof ANY expansion subsequently is frankly and repeatedly idiotic. (I say maybe, because WoW was very MUCH not the first RPG, nor even MMO…that these things could last a decade or more, have expansions, and be prepared for things like item/power scaling and character growth beyond the current iteration was NOT something that should have surprised anyone…)īut by TBC, the expansion track was already being laid out for at least one, if not 2 more after. Granted, nobody knew in vanilla what a monster WoW was going to become, so they can (maybe) given a pass at not ‘future proofing’ their product. According to this piece, Shadow Priests, Enhancement Shamans, Balance Druids, and Unholy Death Knights are due to receive the most attention, with Frost Mages and Survival Hunters at the bottom of the chart. Speaking of the pre-patch, fan site Icy Veins did some fun nerdy analysis of the recent patch notes to see which class is getting the most attention in terms of patch word count. This means that those accounts will get access to more content and character progression than before, as this would be roughly equal to level 45 right now. As we noted yesterday, Blizzard running a sale on certain character services right now and rolling Battle for Azeroth into the base subscription (meaning that you don’t have to buy it if you have already).īut there’s more good news: If you haven’t paid for the game at all, the whole game will be level squishing itself down and the free starter edition accounts can still level up to 20. With next week’s World of Warcraft: Shadowlands pre-patch, the overall value of the game is about to take a jump up.