Civil War Man wrote:That post was beyond baffling. It would have been less insulting if he had just said, "We're not going to buff Frost because I play Fire," because then at least no one could claim he was being dishonest.
Oh shit, I missed your post. I thought WH's kind of came out of nowhere, but I rolled with it.
Yea, this has become old-hat annoyances. Blizzard doesn't give any decent information about their thought process when it comes to handling the game. Which is "fine." But what becomes "less fine" is when they actually break from this, their posts/tweets/QAs tend to be one of the following:
1. Extremely condescending in that they know better than you do, so shut up. They get like this even with the lore, such as Metzen throwing a hissy fit we were all being big meanies to Green Jesus.
2. Act like what is going on is completely the opposite of what's actually been happening: A mountain of evidence pales in comparison to their secret logs they claim to have that no one else is privy to.
3. (the Frost Mage comment goes here): So amateur hour and random to be considered Customer Satisfaction suicide. It's like if you came to the conclusion DKs need to be nerfed because one /spit on you: yea, don't go TELLING people that's why you're doing it. Keep that shit in-house.
4. (semi-related to #2) Lies and half-truths, such as how CRZ kept "accidentally" getting turned on in Legion zones even though it was shown that CRZ was a planned addition to Legion all along.
Another "Greatest Hit" was that they didn't have enough logs to determine that Frost Mages were weak, so they were holding off on buffs/nerfs. That would be because no one was fucking raiding as Frost because it was so bad. This wasn't just limited to Frost Mage, but other classes that saw piss-poor raid representation. EDIT: Obviously all the logs from the year-long beta were missing because the dev team ran out of toilet paper one night.
Honestly, if I had known about this "Bring the Class (no DKs allowed)" and "CRZ in Legion zones" bullshit: I never would have bought the expansion, even though I did enjoy the leveling.
It's right up there with when he said that they basically felt that GC's "Bring the player, not the class" philosophy was a mistake. Because nothing made organizing a raid more fun for a guild than forcing members to reroll or recruiting mediocre players because they needed exactly X Warlocks, Y Shamans, or Z Warriors to clear a specific boss.
"STOP INVITING MELEE" was the favored comment used in the pugs I bothered with.