Biggest WoW streamer on the latest change Dragonflight: “Look how stupid Blizzard is”
A nerf in World of Warcraft Dragonflight makes streamer Asmongold lose all hope. He asks “how stupid Blizzard is” – and gets a lot of encouragement.
Streamer Asmongold has an ambivalent relationship with MMORPG World of Warcraft. On the one hand he loves the game and has dedicated many years to it, but on the other hand he is also one of the biggest critics.
However, one of the latest changes to the alpha of the upcoming Dragonflight expansion leaves him stunned: “Look how stupid Blizzard is.”
What did Asmongold comment on? In one of his recent streams, Asmongold looked at the changes to the Dragonflight Alpha. There have been some adjustments made to the Dracthyr in particular, such as the flight speed of their racial ability. Asmongold criticizes this sharply when considering the “before/after” comparison:
Look how stupid Blizzard is. (…) This is so boring. Like cringe. Like I said, the change makes me lose more hope for Blizzard with Dragonflight than anything else. If they don’t [wieder] change, then I assume Dragonflight gets really fucked up.
What is the change about? The Dracthyr in Dragonflight Alpha possess the “Soar” ability. So you can basically use the dragon riding feature anywhere in the world, albeit in a scaled-down version. This meant a maximum movement speed of up to 930% – more than twice as fast as any flying mount. Blizzard then throttled that ability’s speed from 930% to roughly 640%.
Soar is still significantly faster than an epic flying mount, but the difference is much smaller.
The actual “dragon riding” is not affected by this, it’s just about the racial ability of the Dracthyr.
The community agrees with Asmongold: Whether it’s under Asmongold’s video or the World of Warcraft subreddit, the consensus seems to be largely unanimous that Blizzard is wrong here. The “fun detected” meme, which is used over and over again when Blizzard nerfs a fun mechanic, is used a lot. Some of the comments are:
- “I’m now convinced that Blizzard hates good feedback and is purposely making it so [das Feedback] will never be implemented.”
- “The same thing happened to Torghast. People loved it in the beta, it was fast and fun. Then they nerfed it, it got slow and boring.”
- “Player: The mechanics are so much fun!
Blizzard: That’s a problem.” - “Imagine ruining a key feature of an expansion because it would allow a small fraction of players to navigate to old content faster, lmao. Blizzard has lost touch with the community like that, I don’t think they’ll recover from that.”
Why did Blizzard do this? The Dracthyr’s “Soar” ability was weakened for a very clear reason, which Blizzard had previously explained: Dracthyr shouldn’t have too serious an advantage in the open world.
A racial ability that’s too powerful just doesn’t fit in there. At times, Dracthyr could traverse entire continents at almost three times the speed, while players on epic flying mounts take much longer.
That would make Dracthyr the only sensible people to do content in the old world – such as pet battles or farming old raids. No other class could travel the world as quickly, and any other race would feel significantly weaker.
Even if Blizzard justified the change, Asmongold probably doesn’t get much out of this adjustment. His hopes in Dragonflight seem to be greatly diminished when Blizzard drastically nerfs such fun mechanics.
What is your opinion about this? Do you understand the nerf? Or do you agree with Asmongold that such a fun ability should remain?
Asmongold also criticizes other things – for example he explained what is wrong with the raids in WoW.
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