Discussion
What were your first impressions of Dragonflight’s new talent system?
Dragonflight is nearly upon us, and World of Warcraft's patch 10.0, which hit the live servers this week, brought many new features and changes — chief among them, the new talent system.
What do you regret missing out on in World of Warcraft?
Shadowlands Season 4 has ended with patch 10.0, and with it the last chance to pick up some desirable PVP and Mythic+ achievements and rewards -- though not the Carcinized Zerethsteed, which is still available for a few more weeks.
What are you gonna do your first day with the Dragonflight pre-patch?
World of Warcraft is bringing the first of two Dragonflight pre-patches this week, and today we get the expansion's various mechanical changes like the new talent system and the loss of the Shadowlands tier set bonuses.
How do you decide what talents to pick in World of Warcraft?
The Dragonflight pre-patch launches tomorrow (at least for some regions), and with it comes yet another overhaul to WoW's talent system.
How often would you like to see content drops in World of Warcraft?
World of Warcraft has a sort of punctuated equilibrium when it comes to content releases -- sometimes more punctuated than equilibrium, if you ask me.
What makes you choose to change mains between expansions?
It's not a secret that I felt pretty disconnected from my main in Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands. Playing a Night Elf felt pretty crummy, at least to me, with the whole storyline hinging around the deaths of thousands of my character's people — including all the vendors and innkeepers and auctioneers and bankers and other NPCs I saw on a fairly frequent basis.
How much time do you need to prepare for the Dragonflight pre-patch?
The World of Warcraft team announced yesterday that the pre-expansion activities for Dragonflight will be broken up into two patches: one arriving next week that’ll bring new talent trees and HUD changes, and one arriving with new activities the week of November 15 -- less than two weeks before the release of the expansion.
What pushes you through difficult achievements?
The Diablo 3 Season's Journey is well-named; it is most certainly a journey.
What cosmetic ability options would you like added in World of Warcraft?
I'm leveling a new Warlock and since he's based on an old character I've been impatiently waiting to get the green fire quest chain done on him.
World of Warcraft doesn’t have enough weird prehistoric animals in it — which ones should be added?
Yes, once again Matt attempts to convince people that World of Warcraft needs more strange prehistoric animals to populate Azeroth.