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Asmongold Dragonflight Interview with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas

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Asmongold had the chance to interview Ion Hazzikostas and here is a recap of their Dragonflight interview!

Interview Highlights

  • The team's really happy with Covenants panned out in Shadowlands.
  • Access to content utility will be account-wide in Patch 10.0.
  • There are currently no plans to incorporate Dragonriding in boss encounters. At this time, we won't see Malygos-style fights, where the whole group had to ride dragons to defeat the boss.
  • They would love to add new battlegrounds, but they would have to revamp the whole battleground queuing system. They're currently focusing on Ranked Solo Queue for Dragonflight and WoD-style gearing.
  • The Season 4 experiment might return later in Dragonflight to avoid content drought at the end of an expansion.
  • Clarity around what's tradeable is bad with the current loot system. They would like to bring back Master Loot but it's not easy. They've built a new system for 6 years and they can't simply flip the switch and make it work just like it did in the past.
  • The problem with addons nowadays is that they're more computational than informational, the team has no solution for the issue. Back in the day, you would call out who you need to bite during the Blood-Queen Lana'thel encounter in Wrath, but in Wrath Classic, we're likely going to see an addon that solves bites for you without the need of calling people out.
  • They are happy with how Sepulcher turned out even without PTR testing.
  • The sense of discovery and exploration is important to the team and they're working on encryption technology to make datamining harder.
  • The team's looking for feedback for what should be next after Wrath Classic.

Here's the full interview:

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2 hours ago, Staff said:

The team's looking for feedback for what should be next after Wrath Classic.

hint: a big evil black dragon causes it, in classic fashion.

 

Also, I would love more solo options for players. I get it's an MMO, but people shouldn't be disqualified from large content in MMOs just because they either don't have friends that play, or prefer playing at their own schedules.

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I'm deeply worried what their plan is if they think covenants panned out well...

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6 hours ago, Q said:

I'm deeply worried what their plan is if they think covenants panned out well...

Could be just me but i got the feeling they're aware endless power grind with no goals and power locked behind them aren't the best. It seems to me they mentioned this won't be the case, with dragonflight reps simply being there as regular reputations

 

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A bit disappointing that a 'mount collection achievements' increase question or further allied race question, such as if they will keep them 'allied' and not 'neutral' despite cross faction, wasn't asked but overall a very good Q&A, probably the best so far.

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7 hours ago, Q said:

I'm deeply worried what their plan is if they think covenants panned out well...

I liked covenants. Added a neat dynamic to what would've just been wq, dungeon, raid.

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20 hours ago, Dejo93 said:

Really wish they talked about future Allied Races. Maybe at the end of the expansion, like with Legion

They already said no new allied races in 10.0. Maybe later in the expansion, but definitely not right away.

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16 hours ago, Q said:

I'm deeply worried what their plan is if they think covenants panned out well...

I'm pretty sure that was a "tongue in cheek" response. The way covenents EVENTUALLY turned out hasn't been the worst. The implementation and systems around them however took a while to fix. The look in Ion's eyes made me think he was saying it that way to troll a little bit.

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2 hours ago, Brightamethyst said:

They already said no new allied races in 10.0. Maybe later in the expansion, but definitely not right away.

exactly

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On 4/29/2022 at 5:44 AM, Q said:

I'm deeply worried what their plan is if they think covenants panned out well...

I loved covs, it's just that you couldnt swap em freely that was an issue. The consept is very good.

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