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What’s your ideal approach to class design and accessibility look like in a game?
I've been thinking about classes in games.
What takes you right out of a game?
I think that for myself, the quickest way to break any immersion I have in a video game is for the music to make literally no sense for a moment.
How do you feel about staggered content releases?
There's an interesting release schedule for the Sepulcher of the First Ones in patch 9.2.
What are you doing first when patch 9.2 goes live?
Patch 9.2, the ultimate patch for Shadowlands and the one that finishes up the storyline involving the Jailer, is finally here.
How do you deal with an embarrassment of riches in your gaming?
So right now I'm playing Horizon Forbidden West, while also dipping into Cyberpunk 2077's new 1.5 update/soft reboot which makes the game amazing on consoles, while also preparing for World of Warcraft and the upcoming patch 9.2, while also working on my renegade Shepard playthrough in Mass Effect Legendary Edition, while also...
What motivates you to try out a new game?
Horizon: Forbidden West releases today, and I'll be acquiring it to play this weekend -- even though I've never played past the tutorial in Horizon: Zero Dawn.
What two specs in WoW would you combine to make the ultimate class?
Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) added a new feature called Combat Styles in their recently launched expansion, Legacy of the Sith.
What makes you look forward to a game or expansion?
I'm sad to say that, after playing it a lot, I'm fairly "meh" about Assassin's Creed Valhalla's upcoming DLC, Dawn of Ragnarok.
What feature from World of Warcraft are you glad we never got?
For me it was the Dance Studio.
What do you consider to be the most important change in WoW patch 9.2?
I mean, there's no objective winner here -- for some folks, it will be the return of tier sets, while for others, it will be getting to explore the story and lore of Zereth Mortis, and for still others it will be the new legendaries that you can wear alongside an older one, giving you twice the legendaries.
