From Forum site today, we can see that tank threat in Wrath of the Lich King, there's a very interesting thread going in our Tanks forum related to tank threat in Wrath of the Lich King. What do you think? Is tanking way too easy at the moment? Do you think it'll become more challenging as the expansion progresses? Join in the discussion!
Character Transfers: Ineligible Realms
There were quite a few US realms added to the ineligible list for the Paid Character Transfer service, mostly due to recent population increases and queue times for those realms. Check out the Character Transfer Realms list for info on which US realms are open for transfer at the moment. And of course, a Blue response on the subject:
Quote from: Zarhym (Source: Several servers closed to transfer today!!)
The primary goal right now is to reduce the most severe queues on our realms. At its peak concurrency Dalaran saw over a 400 person queue last night. This isn't the highest queue across all US realms by any means. With that said, allowing transfers to the realm would have a greater negative impact on all players of Dalaran, than allowing Horde to transfer to Dalaran would have a positive impact.
At the largest gap last night between the Horde and Alliance populations of Dalaran, the Horde made up for roughly 40% of the total realm population to the Alliance's 60%. While faction balance is a concern for all realms, overall population and realm queues have the better part of our attention at the moment, particularly as is the case for Dalaran.
Transfers may be reopened to Dalaran if and when the realm is no longer experiencing exceptional wait times at peak hours every day.
Ghostcrawler Doesn't Make Design Decisions Alone
The designers come to a consensus on any change that would be remotely controversial. We also get a lot of input from the rest of the team and the community so we can make informed decisions. If I come up with a stupid idea, someone will call me on it, and they would expect me to do the same. If we come up with a crazy idea, we might talk about it for a little then shake our heads and realize it's crazy. I have never overruled anyone nor have I been overruled. That's just not the way Blizzard works. It's a pretty happy place. People feel empowered to do their jobs.
I have no problem with you blaming me for anything you don't like in the game, but I also want to give credit to the literally hundreds of people that work together to make WoW happen.
Player Contribution to Balancing
We pay attention to player-generated numbers, but you must admit that if we took all player-generated numbers as gospel that the game would end up in a pretty funky state.
Your build will nearly always be behind ours, even in beta and on the PTR. We get the benefit of seeing the combined effects of many changes at once, including bug fixes. To estimate the effect that changes will have, you have to do just that -- estimate. Some players can still generate excellent numbers, and others, whether through mailicious intent or just because they forgot to consider something, do not.
But if we are wrong, I have no problem admitting we're wrong. We were wrong about Elemental shamans -- they are lower than what we thought they would be. We were wrong about warlocks -- they are probably too fragile in PvP. If we nerf hunters too much, we will fix them in later patches. But we can't be so terrified of making mistakes that we don't make changes when we think they are warranted.
Merrymaker Workaround for Bloodsail-Friendly Players?
There was no way around this during this past Winter Veil. We may have a workaround available in 11.5 months, but there are no guarantees.
Happy reading!
