Ion Hazzikostas on Renown 2.0 in Dragonflight, from an interview with Hazelnutty, via summary by Wowhead: “…if you’re that outdoor world player who doesn’t do Mythic+, who doesn’t do progression raiding, all those players still want, deserve, and need gear progression of their own, and I think this is a more streamlined and elegant way to have those goals that you can work towards on your own pace…”
That player is me, and I am glad to be acknowledged and validated!
Having been so far behind the curve in Shadowlands that I was always riding the catch-up mechanics for Renown, I haven’t had the frustrations with it that others have expressed. If anything, I felt like it was a bit clumsy having both Covenant-agnostic zone faction Reputation and Covenant-specific Renown that both had to be ratcheted up. It was good that, in catch-up mode, Callings could contribute to both. From what little I’ve read, it seems like maybe the Renown iteration in Dragonflight is an iteration of both Renown and Reputation and might serve both purposes?
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Which iteration of Talents are we on by now?
Let’s see, there was the Classic/BC version, and then I think there were some modifications to the tree for the Wrath/Cata version, and then we got the Mists rows which have persisted until now; and then there have been the Talent-like systems of Artifacts, Azerite Armor, and Soulbinds+Conduits.
From the information shared in this post and this post and this post, I am feeling cautiously optimistic about the new Talent system. It’ll be good to not have to choose anymore between a utility option and a throughput option in the same Talent row.
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After we just had Venthyr, really Blizzard really Dracthyr???
I’m bound to roll a Dracthyr Evoker eventually to play with how the Class plays and to play with the racial customization options. She’s going to be named Kamalisaura and she’ll probably end up having a “phase” of her Draconic and Visage forms for each of the five Classic Dragonflight colors. I think I’ll probably look for versions of the scales (I keep wanting to call it “carapace” a la the Singers in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive…) that look less tiger-stripey and more lizardy.
Renown 2.0 and Talents 4.0 (?) in Dragonflight
April 21, 2022 by kamaliaetalia
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To be fair, if I ended up playing in Retail for Dragonflight, that’d be me as well. So this is interesting, but I’d bet in-game gold some of the raiding crowd is likely unhappy with it.
Probably. Can’t please everyone, but at least they’re paying at least some attention to the non-raiding crowd.
by the way, good news:
Ongoing expansion and customization of it is something we are looking to do certainly by Dragonflight, possibly before then is rolling a lot of the white and grey quality items into the transmog system so that you can choose from a lot of simpler, humbler civilian attire-type looks. We want to keep adding in more options for customization and self-expression.
Ion Hazzikostas, Game Director
I saw that! It’ll be interesting to see which of the currently non-Moggable-quality items make the list.
Kamalisaura is a great name. I’m going with a “strazsa” name with mine. My main is Aestalas pronounced ace-ta-las (like the Las in Las Vegas) and I was hoping for Aestalastrazsa, but it’s two characters too long, so I’ve reserved Aestastrazsa.
Great name!
I’ve reserved names for previous expansions, but I think “Kamalisaura” is probably unique enough that I don’t need to. Probably. If I get to rolling up my Evoker and discover that it is already taken, I’ll just have to figure out how to modify it a bit.
I thought about “strazsa”, too, but decided I didn’t want a dragonfligh-specific sufficx, so I went for the more generic dinosaur š
Red is my favorite color, but not necessarily my favorite flight. So, it’s almost a sure thing that I’ll be a red lizard.
Finally, I always thought the bulk of their non-cancelling customers were the transmog, pet and mount people who spend a lot of time sightseeing, yeah, okay me! Yes, I do want to get Cat at least moderately good gear to, you know, fight pets. Really glad to hear that.
Yike! So much to do, still haven’t leveled my Vulpera Rogue!
Heh, yeah, the people who stay subscribed because we’re poking along doing just the parts of the game we like at our own pace, that’s us š
Go go go Vulpera Rogue!