wow Ion Hazzikostas on Legion Content Difficulty Post-level squish

[Starym 3,800]

 

Many players have noticed that certain content on the beta and PTR has become a lot more difficult post-level squish, with Legion in particular standing out. A lot of the squish tuning seems to be off, but as the same thing happened the last time there was a squish, it seemed likely this was only a tuning issue that they hadn't come to just yet on the PTR/beta. Now Game Director Ion Hazzikostas has confirmed as much, noting that the lack of Corruption gear will make the players feel a little weaker, but the rest should be equal, and you should be able to solo the same content you did after the squish as before:

That work is still ongoing. When it's done, you'll likely feel a bit weaker due to Corruption's removal (8.3 content tuned around Corruption will be rebalanced, but the rest of the game wasn't built with that in mind) but otherwise you should be able to solo what you could at 120

— Ion Hazzikostas (@WatcherDev) August 25, 2020

Here are some of the reddit threads on the matter, with the first one actually pointing out something that might not actually be fixed, as it's a logical consequence of the squish itself, as gold sell prices will be going down:

And then there's a plethora of posts about the actual difficulty, as well as the legacy modifier not being enabled for Legion, and a lot of discussion on the effects of no Azerite traits and so on:

 

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[Lithari 194]

Lets hope they do sort this out, cause this is why i always go back to older content to solo the dungeons because waiting 30mins or so for a group, only for it to disband after the tank or healer has a childish hissy fit..

[Starym 3,800]

4 minutes ago, Lithari said:

Lets hope they do sort this out, cause this is why i always go back to older content to solo the dungeons because waiting 30mins or so for a group, only for it to disband after the tank or healer has a childish hissy fit..

Just as a heads up, I edited your comment since you quoted the entire article ?

[durdyenglish 298]

The problem with reading news about beta is most people don't know how to properly digest it. People will get up in arms about this without even realizing or acknowledging that this is already on their punch-list.

I accepted a long time that the level squish was going to have some scaling issues to sort out. It happened with previous item level squishes and was fixed reasonably quick.

Everyone just needs to relax a little bit, I think. I don't mind highlighting issues that need to be addressed, but when the position is always one of volatile panic... let's just say it is difficult to take some streamers/testers seriously anymore with everything being a five-alarm fire. 

[Ragingwolf 310]

Note to self don't go xmog/mount running after level squish at the start of prepatch/launch.

[Whisla 76]

I feel like people really need to stop raging over beta threads. Like report the issue and move on.

[Bobbis 208]

11 hours ago, durdyenglish said:

The problem with reading news about beta is most people don't know how to properly digest it. People will get up in arms about this without even realizing or acknowledging that this is already on their punch-list.

I accepted a long time that the level squish was going to have some scaling issues to sort out. It happened with previous item level squishes and was fixed reasonably quick.

Everyone just needs to relax a little bit, I think. I don't mind highlighting issues that need to be addressed, but when the position is always one of volatile panic... let's just say it is difficult to take some streamers/testers seriously anymore with everything being a five-alarm fire. 

Generally I agree, most people get pissy because it happened vefore, and tooks a week or two to sort even though it was heavily reported during beta/ptr.

[Brutalis 165]

Do people not remember the last squish they did, and the scaling issues it caused? Horridon in ToT had an insane healthpool and took forever to kill, but they ironed out the issues soon enough. The same thing will happen here, I'm sure. A few, awkward bosses that Blizz will fix and ensure we can still blitz through old raids for mounts and mogs.

The panic and outcry is rather uncalled for.

[Yojiro 30]

I wonder what will happen to all the mobs that they failed to properly squish/adjust last time, will they get fixed or double messed up.

A funny example are the lion packs in Northern Barrens where the little cubs have 5x more health than their mother that they are leashed to.

[durdyenglish 298]

On 8/26/2020 at 5:35 AM, Brutalis said:

Do people not remember the last squish they did, and the scaling issues it caused? Horridon in ToT had an insane healthpool and took forever to kill, but they ironed out the issues soon enough. The same thing will happen here, I'm sure. A few, awkward bosses that Blizz will fix and ensure we can still blitz through old raids for mounts and mogs.

The panic and outcry is rather uncalled for.

I think YouTube algorithms really damaged the community beyond repair. Steamers/YouTubers don't get clicks without incendiary titles/captions/thumbnails and riling people up is a good way to get engagement.