"I can't wait to play my mage after I'm done with chores!" *logs on* "Oh."

At this point... I’m pretty sure it’s just the art team that has any passion for Blizzard and WoW

"You don't need daily busywork to keep people playing. You need a well designed and rewarding MMO to keep people playing" THIS. RIGHT. HERE. Someone please make modern game developers understand this. I'm tired of the mobile-game-like treadmill every major online game has turned into lately.

LFR: Jim Arm Thing of Smell Bad Normal: Jimmy's Bracers of Potent Farts Heroic: Sir Jimmothy's Wristguards of Intolerable Gassery Mythic: Lord Jimmington III's Wrist Barriers of Utterly Insufferable Flatulence

"Make loot interesting again" Actiblizzard: So you mean add 10 more layers of EXCITING RNG and unessecary complexity, right?!!!

"Jimmy's Bracers of Potent Farts" Love it.

Powerball: Madseason you just won 100 million. How do you feel? Madseason: I'm alright

When Blizzard is ready to revamp retail, I hope the main raid will consist of finally killing Sylvanas as a Raid boss. That would be a strait up spiritual experience for most players.

To hell with Dailys. My gaming time shouldn't feel like a second job.

"Every. Single. Piece."

when you reach a point where the players take it into their own hands to make detailed videos on how to fix the game, u know something is up

beautiful, madeseason *sobs* thank you. Also bring back pvp vendors and pvp gear

This started off as a wishlist for Shadowlands(alpha soon it seems?). I think that these changes would be good in general though, regardless of the expansion! As always, my $0.02.

i never realised how bland the itemisation was untill now lol every single piece literally the same

"No bro i will never work in company im not some stupid wagie bruh" *Proceeds to do 9hrs of dailys*

Just bring back the Pvp system from MoP or WoD, where honor was a currency That you get simply From playing bgs (you didnt have to win to get Honor). So if you are pvp player you just had to Play bgs, get honor and Buy all blue items you could get, and when u are full equiped with honor equip you start to do Arenas or RBGs for conquest points to buy the epic sets and weapons. Its all i want for shadowlands. So you dont have to do endless pve content to get an alt equipped.

I hope the Devs see this video! i have played for 12-14 years now but haven't had a solid sub for years now, just a few months here and there. looking forward to new content tho.

One of the things I remember best from classic is how travelling, while long, slow and tedious -was the thing that gave me the best memories. You would have to be alert so that you didn't die from high lvl mobs, cause the graveyard could set you back 10 minutes easily. That part sucked, but it's a sacrifice I was willing to pay. Since everyone was travelling on ground you had an increased odds of meeting friendly players. And when you're walking for maybe 30 minutes to the next zone, meeting someone and talking to them, having fun with them really lessened the torment of the journey. Those interactions made the game feel alive. And then you also had an increased chance of meeting bad guys, especially in places like STV, or places for popular dungeons/raids. This gave the game a feeling of being populated, interactive and dangerous. Some people complain that "these high levels are ganking me and its ruining the game". But really, those were the fun parts. The parts where you ran for your life to escape death.. or where you banded together with other people to return the favor. Like travelling to a dungeon for 30 minutes with your party gave you a chance to make friends. Sure, the bad parts happened where the tank DC'd or quit the group, and then the party disbanded because it would take an hour to get back there. But rewards dont come without sacrifice. Friends, community, interactions with other people. That's what made this game so great for me. That, and the feeling of getting the loot I wanted, after farming a boss for like a week.

I miss logging on any character I feel like playing, and then pvp cause it's what I enjoy, gaining new pvp gear from the rewards of pvp. Now I can't just do that, instead I have to grind AP and then reps to unlock essences and then again I should probably try to get good corruption gear plus level my cloak. But by the time I'm done doing that, on one character, I just couldn't be bothered, let alone the thought of doing it on another character.

Man, you're my favorite WoW youtuber. You're so genuine and honest and you somehow make a monotone voice sound fun and interesting to listen to. Keep this going, man. Power to you!

Thanks, MadSeason. You give a voice to those of us who've loved this game since the old days and have sadly had to watch it fall to such a low point. I sincerely hope Blizzard is listening because every point you've raised is solid and agreed upon by the silent majority of past WoW players. If anyone disagrees, let me just point out that there is a reason millions of players came back to play classic whereas current WoW has under a million players rn (according to third parties).

I miss the magic Blizzard Entertainment games originally had.

I never thought there would come a day where i would leave my 12+ level 110 characters, vast amount of mounts, toys and transmog behind when we were in Legion, but god damn. Here we are. What i miss the most are the class orderhalls and the generally good questlines they came with

Sometimes i wanna wake up in the 2008 again, dying to log in and level up my warrior in the new northrend zone. So pumped to reach 80 and start to gear up for naxxramas, that's a feeling this game's never gonna give me again. You really nailed the points about gear, gear in todays wow feels completely dull and has been for a couple of expansions now. I remember a time when i got so pissed cus i lost a 2H, or a trinket from the new raid. If i'd lose something today, i wouldn't even care because it's just a bunch of 1's and 0's. It's really sad when blizzard let go of what little that was left of it (tier sets) in BFA.

"Every single piece" Thats the most emotion i get from this guy.

I would add make professions interesting and worth investing time in again.

As a new player this is what i have to say about wow Classic: - leveling is way to slow but fun(most of the time) - nice community aspect - items feel impactful Bfa/Retail: - leveling shouldnt be called leveling but the longest and most boring tutorial in gaming - way to much wierd shit you have to do like wtf is even going on - gear feels like upgrading from a q-tip to a tooth brush - collecting aspect is cool such as mounts and stuff - really like transmog - pretty much everything that doesnt evolve playing the game is cool

I can sleep a little easier after listening to this, as if I was just told some great story by an amazing narrator

Now i want a "Jimmy's Bracers of Potent Farts" as a joke item made! XD

The only thing I enjoy about BFA is its gorgeous zones and beautiful music.

I really hope Blizzard watches this video. These are literally THE REASONS why I am no longer playing the game. Fix them and I'll sub to modern WoW again.

I was exhausted from BFA and therefore switched to Classic. Now four weeks have passed and I'm level 54. I enjoyed every minute. I was finally happy to log in again. Day after day.

All is now ruled by the almighty "engagement". Mom I miss fun. Shut up billy Engagement is what you get now sit down and play!

Hay Madseasonshow I just wanted to say thank you for bringing entertainment because it really helped me through a tough time and I just wanted to say thank you.

You know a small, small, small part of me was like: "man, what if I did go back to Retail?" But instead of working on my warrior, work on my rogue - since I'm enjoying it on Classic. But as soon as I saw the daily list, and all the things that I would have to do to catch up, I literally said: "Fuck that." I would rather make a new character from scratch on Classic (which I have, AND I'm enjoying it) than to come back to BFA on my already-existing 120 to try and catch up to be PvP/PvE ready. There's so many things too do, in fact - TOO many things to do - in Retail. The sheer amount of stretched content is overwhelming. Classic has a set amount of content that I am more than comfortable with repeating over and over again. Because as simple or reduced as Classic content is, it's actually fun to do. I enjoy running Scholomance / Stratholome / BRD / Dire Maul (Less so, because I don't like the aesthetic but that's a personal gripe) multiple times. But, when I last played a dungeon in BFA, I was exhausted and bored before I even finished it.

Preach the truth! I've been so overwhelmed trying to get back into current, I have signed on 5-6 diffrent times as of late, only to sign out 5-10min later, overwhelmed with the chores I would need to do, to get flying, better gear, allied races, even just to catch up with current content, I really hope this video catches blizzards eye, thank you for making this!

I have one, “Enough pathfinder achievements”.

Can't watch the video, gotta do my 16 dailies (doesn't include old content farm)

It's really sad going from "Oh boy, can't wait to see how awesome this expansion is going to be!" to "I just hope they don't fuck all the way up, 'cus I'm done". Last coin for Shadowlands.

18:33 - aged like fine milk

The "stat overhaul" system in general was a big mistake. Sure there were some streamlining problems with the old stat system, but what they did wasn't to fix it, but to throw all of the really cool concepts out with the faults, and replace it all with an incredibly dull and uninteresting stat system.

Bonus Idea: Make Sylvannas an interesting anti-hero again who lives to save her people instead of a villain who wants a lot of deaths to be super powerful.

"It's like 300 slot machine handles that reset daily" Perfect analogy lol

I know absolutely nothing about WOW but this was in my recommended

the thought of picking up retail again just exhausts me

I don't even mess with the dailies in Uldum or the Vale. I just do the objective and gtfo. I don't raid or do mythic dungeons at all, as I'm a solo player. I do enjoy the timewalking dungeons though.

Aw man I never write comments on youtube videos but as a longtime player who tried to get back into the game in late bfa, you just said everything I was feeling. I felt like a filthy casual scrub for complaining about the giant pile of bs they're making me slog through to be viable in the content I actually want to play so it's comforting to hear someone who clearly knows a lot about the game and puts a lot of time into it voicing the same concerns I had. You're really articulate and get your points across in a concise way and still manage to be entertaining without any added fluff. I don't sub to many wow channels but you've earned it :)

I'm glad we have a level-headed and logical voice like you out there, blizzard doesn't listen to their player base but they have been known to listen to content creators, hopefully some devs watch this video and learn from it! Thanks for making it!

My favourite expansion is MoP. Ye there were tons of daily quests, but the thing is, it wasnt necessery to do it. Most of them was just for customization aspect as mounts, toys, transmog. So for me as a pvp player it was perfect design, because i havent been forced to do them to be able to play and enjoy the game. Just make shadowlands the same way, please.

When it comes to gear out of all the gear in BFA The Mechagon bracers (Hyperthread Wristwraps), is by far the most interesting item. While you do get higher ilevel versions at higher levels it's primary point of value is the non-scalable activation ability. The best part is that it's good for some classes and broken op for others, well just for Fire mage, which is why all workshop runs get swarmed by mages. That's the kind of gear I like to see more of, I want more people to be walking around with a single item that is 20+ ilevel lower than the rest of their gear but makes their class really work.

Spot on, on every single suggestion. The sad part is that this will fall to deaf ears for once more. I have zero faith in this company anymore.

On uninteresting loot: I have been playing a new character, as in im "starting over" after not playing for years. While i was exploring, i noticed mobs, quests and gear scales with your level( to a limit), and at some poiny i stoped going out of my main big city because, why should i? I can get gear AND exp on dungeons. Maybe i could level my professions, or hunt some very specific armor for my planned trasmog, but thats about it.l

It sounds impossible to remove all this stuff given how its been ingrained into the game for almost a decade.

Spot on as usual. The current daily grind is so overwhelming. I WOULD rather sleep and sometimes do, and dream about simpler times.

Daily content should be reserved for professions and rep grinds where the rewards are generally cosmetic or at least inconsequential to overall gearing. The netherwing grind was long and arduous, but if I didn't log in for a day I knew I would simply finish a day later than expected, with all of the RNG involved and less finite goals, missing a daily or a world quest means I might miss out on an amazing gear drop. I guess that is what they are going for but it feels bad, especially when I do all of my chores but don't really get rewarded for them. Situationally useful gear and specs is also a better route than trying to achieve hyper-balance and could reduce the need to grind for marginally better versions of the same item, imo. Requiring resistance based gear for some fights or areas feels more natural, and will give you something to work towards. It feels better to say "I'm getting wrecked in the poison swamp area better get some nature resistance gear", than "I got my bracer drop but there's no socket, guess I wasted an hour". Having fights that require different gear sets due to their damage type, or enemies that are resistant to damage types, requiring you to play more of your class or enlist help from someone who is more suited just feels more natural. For mages maybe it's as simple as throwing some frost bolts instead of fireballs at the fire elemental where for melee it can be the difference between weapon types, heavy armour guy is weak to blunt attacks, switch from your sword to your mace. Why have damage and weapon types and enemy varieties if you're not going to take full advantage of them? This could also reinvigorate some of the gear crafting professions, maybe you just need any level appropriate mace for this heavy armour based enemy not the Hammer of Justice reforged in the blood of Illidan, aged in the anal cavity of C'Thun, and blessed by RNGesus 4 times over.

At a glance I thought the Sylvanas in the thumbnail was Nixxiom's death knight so color me confused when your intro music plays when I thought I clicked on a Nixxiom vid.

One unique way to make stuff somewhat interesting again, even old content could be relevant to an extent is by; allow a certain sandbox element to the game. Where you can get a house & decorate it with your feats of strength / armour racks showing gear or weapons etc, Highly customisable nothing like the Baracks they forced on everyone .. give some control back to the ‘players’ not just a script of what is to be done. My opinion is minimal, I gave up on retail after sticking it out far to long hoping..

Disagree on dungeons. M+ ruined dungeons for some people, myself included. They've turned them into an esport and I hate it. BC and early Cata heroics are a much better system imo, but it looks like we're stuck with M+ forever.

I disagree with you on mythic plus dungeons. I hate timers so freaking much. Why does challenging dungeon content have to be a race?

When i started my adventure with wow game (the very start of the legion), i basically felt in love with the game. Was so hyped about getting artifact and unlocking all the traits. Decided to have all classes in game so either bought or leveled em up just to play the game with every single variety i was able to achieve. I did not even bother making all the same content all over and over - still up to this day i remember sytuations, when i died from skmebody exping and i knew what quests will he do and where will he go. And now i want to play current game but i can not find myself, im getting bored with only one or two of my characters - not to mention i spent all my legions experience alting all chars i was able to. Do not really understand the problem of this game - as u said, id rather go and sleep than play. Lost so many people so i do not have anybody to go for mythic + or raids, that is kinda sad, failed my guils multiply times when i wqs about to do raid with em, but i did not have good gear enough to join them. Bought every book from warcraft universe, have so many ambient music videos to sleep to. I just hope time will bring better changes to the game.

Jimmy's Bracers of Potent Farts is my new favorite thing.

The best thing with WoW are you tube channels like yours that shows how good this WAS and how good CAN BE 👍

I just love love love love your intro. It's so charming and soothing. It feels like you're welcoming me to your home that's right next to a soft flowing river. And it complements your voice well. Cheers :)

Felt like I had to write something after what you said about daily activities. I tried playing BfA, in fact I tried it twice with a gap in between and it turned out exactly as you said. I leveled along fine, reached max level, suddenly I was bombarded by half a billion suggestions to go everywhere, my quest log, which I hardly noticed existed before was suddenly too full to even take all these suggestions. I searched for a guide online on what the hell I was supposed to do, found a good five different ones all talking about completely different content, so I rushed into a flurry, unlocking mechagon, unlocking that underwater place, unlocking some other type of worldquests that I never really gathered what they were for, did the emissaries, slogged my way through what quests were available in mechagon and the waterzone, tried to progress the whole amulet storyline with Magni, on the way there noticing some sort of shit going on in uldun that I made a note of and then left alone. The next few days I did the same with slightly less vigor every day, on the 4th day, I logged in took a flight to Mechagon, went to read a book instead, found myself logged out due to inactivity, and the next day I just didn't log in again. I barely did anything in the game, got nowhere, understood nothing and I got too burned out to even want to log in again. A game have never ever made me feel this depressed, alone, isolated and apathetic ever before, so I guess if that was the goal of BFA, then they succeeded with it.

As for "making loot interesting again", at least in legion they had those legendaries....

One year later he quits WoW. Wow

Bro I’ve been watching you for years, and never noticed how chill and soothing the background music is. Well done

Blizzard shareholder and employee should be force to to the daily quest each days after works.

We should get all WoW streamers and WoW personalities to stand up and start a partition to quit for a month all at the same time! To quit "pay to win" in Classic and also take away some features from TBC like flying just to keep the ground interaction alive and in the fly zones we can see special flight master for certain zones that require fly only or you have to do a internment to get a whistle for that zone or special zones like Kaazak zone in BC maybe even keep the level cap at 60 and make every Dungon and Raid viable in BC! So as every expansion you get new raids and dungeons but still have the choice to run old ones as for gear that would still be viable! Given players and guilds more choices to pick and choose from every week to do a different 40/25 man raid every week!

For me personally, I would also love to see slower paced fights again. Nowadays in retail the pace of the fights and the animations are identical to MOBA-like games (LoL, DotA etc). Oh, and please make it so we don't need 10 people to kill a single healer in BGs..

I'm looking at getting back into playing Warcraft because of Classic. I played current Warcraft a year ago and found it way too easy for me. When I first started playing, i remember it taking me almost three months to reach level 35-40. At the end of January of last year, I had gone from level 1 to level 70 in that time frame. Once again, I found it easy too easy for someone that loves to play video games and MMOs.

- Remove flying in Kalimdor and eastern kingdoms - Put in PVP and PVE Vendors - Put in rating req on PVP gear from Arena - Nerf Guards - Bring back /pvp on and off, fuck warmode. - Bring back progression through raids. - Remove catch ups. - Bring back normal 10/25 and heroic 10/25 and just have a mythic for very hard. - Bring back no cd dispell, having it on CD is just awful. AWFUL. - Bring back old talent trees (wotlk or cata) both worked great - Stop with AP bring necklace shit - Legendary only from insane PVE or PVP grind - Bring back Arena teams. - Make classes unique like in Wotlk with dispell/decurse for healers - Remove titan forge and all that RNG bonus crap.

What I hope will happen after classic: TBC comes out, WOTLK comes out. THEN, blizzard develops a new expansion in the spirit of those three xpacs and starts a alternate, better timeline for wow. This would fix the problem of stagnation that will eventually happen with classic. That is if blizzard can still be trusted with developing a new xpac that is as good or better as the first three. Retail as it stands right now is too fucked to fix imho.

I feel sick just becuse of the list of the daily/weekly. Overall it was fun when I was new player. But now it´s just busy work. I really doubt they will change that :/

Something about a MadSeasonShow video just makes me feel like I just went back to my childhood home, walked into my room, and climbed into bed. Just makes me happy. As for this video, I completely agree with all your points. I want to play retail, I want to play it more than people can imagine, but I work 8 hours a day, the last thing I want to do is work another 4 in Azeroth.

i totally agree with your loot critic. every piece feels like the same with the missing uniqueness. in current if you wanna look for gear, you just scroll the dungeon jornal and look for trinkets + the 2 side attributes, cause you know main anttribute + stamnia is allways on it. there is no depth behind it. if you loot your weekly chest, you only look if there is the right 2nd attributes on it/ with corruption if it has the right kind + the right tier. why should there be main attribute AND stam on every piece? let there be glass cannons who sacrifice raw power over durability. let there be bruiser like items, that will never reach top DPS, but can endure 1 or 2 hits more. let there be items, that sacrifice power for more supporting effects. why should gear allways have only positive stats on them? why should gear allways have 2 2ndary stats? why do rings only have stam + 2 2ndary stats? let the gear be gear again and not some arrangement of: the best 2 2ndary attributes. let it be unique again. the best thing in bfa was CoS, where there were items, that had a unique effects on them. the only rememberable gear there was in whole BFA. it was so cool, cause you got an effect, but at a cost. Or the 2h sword from Kingsrest, which sacrificed 2nd attris for a good effect. and the daily/weekly things, i play in a progress guild currently at M n´zoth but all these artificial grind azerite grinds are the reason most people say its enough. and all this RNG factors, i clearly remember when a shadow priest somewhere in the middle of the meters laughed after he got loot: infinite stars t3.... was the next top dps and it was true. more than 33% of his overall dmg from a freaking random proc? the next thing eternal palace: why was this even a thing? if you wanted to progress you needed the pearl gear from the vendors and upgrade it, with random created bonus effects? are you serious? the worst thing: there was not even a real reward from the mythic raid, cause you couldnt replace your 425 pearl gear with mythic raid gear, cause the pearl gear was still better? about proc effects with attacks, im playing arms: a mortal strike should be a mortal strike and not procking like 20 diffrent effects. and from legion i know how it felt to be reduced to procks. but there can be a good middle ground.

Big truths coming out of ur mouth my friend, hopfully the bring back tier sets, and most of ur dmg actually comes from ur class abilties and not from random procs.

If they fixed these things, Id play retail again. I miss it.

"And if we don't speak up about BFA, we'll just get another BFA instead of Shadowlands." Oh. Ohhhhh. That didn't age well.

At least FFXIV also has the different sub stats on either Savage or tomestone gear to differentiate them and give different BiSs for the different jobs

we are to deep into the gearing system. i lost hope for change

Im tired of endless farming for nothing. Every patch makes everything trash except the new content. New wow feels like a waste of time

Don`t touch: Raids+Mythic+ 1.Tier Sets 2.Classes great again 3.Loot more interesting 4.Less daily+weekly 5.Get back in touch with audience

Without dailies you have farming water elementals in felwood for hours... Or farming swirly thingies in Silithus for hours... With a completely brand new character you can probably get your neck to 75 in like 5 days of normal play + the weekly rewards. You can outgear warfront rewards in the same time with either wq's, weeklies, m+, raids etc. You have soooo many ways to gear up, there is no need to do something you don't want to unless you dislike every single gameplay element of retail wow. Essences can be quite a pain for new characters I admit. I did play since the release of BFA but I just rerolled to a brand new server and it really didn't take long to get to 450ish ilvl once I capped. The 2 main zones of 8.3 don't even need bfa pathfinder.

This is a beautiful, well-made video coming from a place of love.

I really hope Shadowlands turns out well...

Things I would change or remove if I were in charge of World of Warcraft development: 1: World Quests. I loved the idea of world quests when they were first announced because I liked the idea of going back to earlier zones to do adventure. The problem is that Blizzard made them mandatory in order to increase faction reputation and didn't give any other effective way. This forces players to log in to get their emissary quest. I would make world quests in every zone and give reputation based on a faction present in the zone. World quest in the Wetlands as Alliance? Here's some Ironforge reputation. World quest in Winterspring as Horde? Here's some Everlook reputation. 2: Gearing. Bringing back tier sets is a must. Make gear interesting without doing complete RNG. I want more weapons with procs. I want Mastery renamed and made available at level 10 (even if that would require altering a specialization or making the mastery useless until a little later). Bring back item enhancements (enchants, leatherworking/tailoring leg enhancers, etc.). Put more items in the game with sockets so that people can customize gear. 3: Classes. Stop taking away abilities. Make more abilities baseline to the class instead of the spec. 4: Mission tables: Scrap them. They're artificial resource spenders that don't need to exist in every single expansion. They are not fun. Back in WoD, everybody used an add-on to select the best party for missions anyway.

I disagree with the "raids should be the end all". As you can see, when raids no longer give the best rewards people lose interest in them. People don't have time for 20 person schedules in 2020 and only put up with it because we HAD to for the best gear. When alternatives exist that require no scheduling and less people to do, people stop raiding. Raiding needs to be put on the back burner for smaller lowman content like dungeons and hard solo challenges. It's the future of MMO's.

PvP venders!!! im sick of doing PvE just so i can PvP!!! i understand some people love PvE but for me once i've done it 4 or 5 times im kinda done with it.

It's partnered with Activision. I recommend deleting system32

You speak with my heart. BFA was the point where I stop caring. I stop caring about raiding, stop caring about PVP, stop caring about anything. It was such so annoying in every way. And everything was so pointless. The only reason I keep playing bfa is my personal lack of alternative games and RP. Without RP I would cancelled my sub long ago. I love this game, I really do. BC/Wotlk was the best time in my life when it comes to wow. I enjoyed every single thing about it. After my return (pre patch legion) I was Stunned how much the game has changed and how pointless a lot of things are. But I least I was busy with Legion, Legion Raids and old content that I missed. Now in BFA I see a lot of flaws. It feels like a complete different game, it isn’t the game that I once loved and that is what make me very, very sad. I stay for RP and the world but I wish the game would be a BC/Wotlk mix again. I even miss the annoying parts like arrows, keys, rouge skills etc. I fucking miss the RP in my MMO. Please bring it back Blizzard.

Point I agree with most is to make loot interesting. There's something fun about customizing a character to your specifications. Finding a sword with lower overall DPS but slower speed means, despite the DPS, it will hit harder on active abilities. An upgrade that increases the damage of heavy attacks versus a same-slot upgrade that improves light attacks might have you considering whether you're after a bruiser style that trades blows or whether you try and avoid every hit. A non-stacking poison makes sense for someone who only hits once in awhile, whereas a lifesteal effect makes sense for someone always in the fray. These are fun and interesting decisions that change how a person plays their character. Even if a 'best' setup exists, it may not necessarily overshadow other styles if it has unique weaknesses it has to overcome, or second-best styles have cool mechanics that excel where the best setup doesn't.

his voice literally almost made me fall asleep in home office

The difference today is that they make WoW content designed for eastern markets. Over there its nonstop grind and cash shop stuff. Its not that they can't make good stuff for us, its that they choose not to for the sake of an easier and exploitable market

Some great suggestions. Only thing I kinda disagree with is "make gear interesting again".... atleast now any gear that drops has secondary stats that will always be useful, in classic vanilla or even some of the earlier xpacs gear was poorly itemized/designed and you could get gear where half the secondary stats were useless to your spec.... like hit/expertise, dodge, defense, spirit, ect. I don't want to see any regression in the gear design in that way. I think having some gear with cool and interesting procs is a good idea, that thematically fit the name or design look of the gear/weapon that drops, but I feel like they still do this to a degree, esp for weapons, trinkets, and some accessories, so its not really an issue. It seems like the corruption and azeurite stuff was meant to try and add those interesting procs to a variety of gear types but maybe the design philosophy on that needs some tweaking and adjustments. I love rng procs and stuff but they def took it too far in BFA. I do agree that stuff like titanforging/corruption or whatever that can make your "BiS" seem less complete is not a really good thing and could use some work, they said it was designed to give people who farm raids, esp of a lower difficulty to help gear their raid, to have something to look forward to when bosses drop gear that might still be useful for them instead of just vendor trash.... but perhaps some version of badge gear or being able to shard older gear or lower ilvl drops to collect shards and convert into a more useful item would work out better. The whole dailies issue is another issue that seems to be a common complaint in the community. I agree that it is annoying and can feel tedious or "required" despite it not being so and make players feel burnt out. I don't have a good suggestion other then to tone it back some, but they wanted to give players many options to get gear/gold/rep or alternate paths to experience content and get some good gear without mythic raiding so not sure what all they can do there. I think part of this issue is just with the playerbase playing the game too much.... as many of these are more like "catch up" mechanics or for people who can only play a few hours a day while some people just play all day but still do all the side content that they could technically skip since they can get gear thru mythic dungeons/raids anyways.

You have my vote on having devs do the amulet grind without the azerite knowledge just like Method did to det max lvl first week and lets see how much they love the design of Island Expeditions...

"You don't need daily busywork to keep people playing. You need a well designed and rewarding MMO to keep people playing" We all have a life, a job and other daily commitments. We CAN'T play 8 hours a day and not even 3 hours every damn night. Expecting us to is insane and it's not even a matter of "dude, play another game, then". That kind of commitment is unhealthy. I'd choose playing an MMORPG over watching TV any given moment but, still, it must be MY choice when and for how long. Raiding 3/4 nights a weeks is a huge commitment already, a game can't ALSO expect me to grind materials, reagents, artifact power, extra gear and what-have-you in order to be able to raid. That's crazy. Optional content? Yes. Grinding for cosmetic/vanity items? Fine. But that's about it. The very first thing Blizzard needs to do is SEGREGATING HIGH-END GEAR once again, making it only usable in the content it came from, which means (currently) Rated PVP, HC/M Raids, M+ dungeons. Then: A) make gear up to the level of HC dungeons or LFR/Norm Raid usable in any content B) scale down any higher gear when used in content different from the item's original source C) add a paced progression system to open world content where players can increase their power and/or gear ilvl (which again will only work in non-instanced content)

Blizzard really needs to listen to this man... he knows what he's talking about

It's no coincidence Blizzard has lost some of it's best game designers, developers, storyline creators, etc. Look at the big names who have left over the past few years. Sure, people get burnt out, but when you have someone like Chris Metzen, so deeply ingrained in the game's design and lore, get up and leave, it speaks volumes.

I don't think the problem is dailies. At least they got you out doing world content for something you wanted, like mounts or something good for your spec. The problem is having these universal power gains like azerite or valor points as rewards, so the player's choice of what to work on for the day no longer exists, you just have to do all of it.