BLIZZARD SAVES M+ (AGAIN) - The PoddyC Ep. 57

[@jacksoncredible]

"Transparency is super overrated" but other episodes you talk about how much better it is when Blizzard explains their design goals

[@D2Mephisto]

they will never reply to this comment. i will bet my entire $287,000 house on it.

[@Kmaitland89]

@@D2Mephisto you bought a house for 287K? My friend, where in the USA does that happen anymore.

[@ZKrinny]

@@Kmaitland89 basically everywhere outside of major cities.

[@erica2980]

It's really not that complicated a take. Making the game good is much more important than being transparent. If you could choose you'd always pick the good game rather than devs being very open about why it isn't good.

[@kenlonwells2219]

Yeah I hate the oh but they were transparent line, if you think that absolves them they got you, they won. They tricked you. Transparency is good for intentions and future design goals, but a failure of a company is a failure. When blizzard says they understand the issues and gave steps to resolving that in the recent blue post is objectively a good thing they said that, but I agree with max that they still f’d up. And being transparent does absolutely nothing to remedy the mistakes.

[@yogrt]

Wait lol did Max just "you think you do but you don't" corporate transparency?

[@jackmango5603]

I dont like the in-between where tanks can usually self sustain but the healer is also expected to help. Im newer to healing and its hard to tell when the tank needs a heal or is perfectly fine with their own self sustain. Trying to figure out that balance is not fun to me.

[@kukitanuki4037]

this is the “everyone cuts off dorki every other sentence” episode

[@makea8641]

I feel like this happens every episode. And sometimes Dorki seems to just shut off and stop trying to get a word in.

[@highfiveguy]

Definitely felt that. Part of it is him not having a web cam so it’s hard to tell if his pauses are the end of a thought, but holy hell Max really wanted to talk over him.

[@Kmaitland89]

It's also because he rambles and doesn't make any sense some times. He will start a sentence and then bolt in a different direction that has nothing to do with what he was talking about. He'll do a "actually, I disagree, so um, you know, tanks just aren't good... I dunno, I dunno, it's hard to explain but yeah... tanks... they just aren't good."

[@SolMrBadGuy]

Because I feel like Dorki likes mythic + being hard, and it makes mdi better. I mean Dratnos

[@ByoUng-g4c]

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[@theunwow]

Healers don't care about healing tanks, they could be invulnerable for all I care. Give us *a bit* more agency over healing the dps like it used to be and it's fine

[@takeetos1]

yes let us move the Damm health bars up! it's that simple to satisfy us!

[@myersmayhem2023]

As a healer I disagree what is even the point of healing if the main person taking damage doesn't even need to be healed It's just silly to me the idea of a tank being self sustaining My healer should do DPS DMG at that point

[@ddddd74527]

The issue is just that healing is trash in general, bring the extremely slow paced early bfa peak healing experience. Nobody want to heal anyone that jump up and down by 80% every global, no matter if its a tank or dps. Pulsing damage events with nearly zero tank damage, during which dps are 1 gcd away from dying aren't particularly fun either. If healing was slow paced and gave you enough time to react to damage i wouldn't mind healing the tank. And remove all the millions of defensive that will actually give agency to healers not relying on peanut dps brain to know how to use defensives as healing checks are balanced around them.

[@Aggrofool]

Invulnerable tank is also bad for pugs, you get these W BDK's that chain-pull leaving teammates to corpse-run.

[@theunwow]

@@myersmayhem2023 it was fine for 8 years, nobody wants to sit there and tunnel into the tank, and no healer is well-equipped to do that anymore anyway

[@bambuco2]

"No, M+ didn't always need saving, remember 10 years ago?" LOL

[@kryptisgg]

Stay Hard Dorki.

[@ByoUng-g4c]

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[@mico6155]

Max had some absolutely shit takes in this one. Claiming Blizzard isn't cutting edge in the game dev world just because riot happens to be bigger??? Like there can only be one company?

[@Wzded]

@@mico6155 it’s Max, pretty common occurrence for the man. But neither riot or blizz are, competitive replayable games are so 2000s lol. riots two biggest games are reskins of existing games. Doesnt matter the size of the company if they are not innovating and pushing the gaming industry further. That is what bleeding edge means. The correct answer for bleeding edge game designers is epic games or valve, but mostly just valve.

[@effIron]

@@ssv-y2qthough cs wasn’t made by valve, it was made as a mod based on a valve created game, so that’s disingenuous to claim. Mod came out in like ‘99, and Valve employed the creators of the mod in 2000 officially launching cs 1.0…

[@utah123ify]

@@Wzded How do those two fulfill the criterias you listed? The only innovative game Valve has released in the past decade is Half-Life: Alyx. The "innovation" was just them treating VR as a serious platform and it didn't push the gaming industry much further at all. VR is still seen as a gimmick & joke by most developers and gamers. Epic Games hasn't innovated much since Fortnite either, which wasn't that crazy innovative to begin with, it was just the first BR that was polished and didn't have a lot of the jank PUBG/H1Z1 had. Both of which were just copies of the innovation created with a DayZ mod.

[@darklurkerirl6101]

He is a pro gamer that earns his money and fame with Blizzards content. Did you really think he can have radical views about the company that his livelihood depends on ?

[@Eulrich]

also just ridiculous, riot belongs to tencent and blizz to microsoft, those two are as big as it gets.

[@KillchainTV]

oooft L take from max today, transparency and communication is like fundamental human necessity, its always better to communicate to learn you learn why decisions were made armed with more accurate and informed knowledge to better articulate your responses....repeat this process lots and it ends up making a way better game. Also devils advocate imagine they did all this shit and DIDNT say anything lol if you spend even 5 minutes running this through it seems to me at least all arrows point to transparency and communication is better in long run than not.

[@TylerJBrown192]

Man, low key, I'm getting really fucking tired of Blizzard having to save M+ so many times

[@sackless1]

Let's not forget that Gingi also got banned at the beginning of TWW for exploiting as well. So there are 3 examples of "cheating" in recent memory for 1 person.

[@Joker_wild]

An hour and a half with Max dropping L takes one after another.

[@ssv-y2q]

Max wen't from young player to old rich out of touch billionaire

[@dharris4mvp34]

Honestly used to look forward to these podcast... at this point I just use the time stamps to jump around to the parts I know Max will have the least input and I might be able to listen to Dorki and Drat provide some decent commentary. Max's ego has just inflated to the point where he has become insufferable.

[@ssv-y2q]

@ 100% Agree

[@Krustikus]

Downplaying GGG player communication is so petty.

[@ssv-y2q]

Saying people only play classic for nostalgia is wild, no bro its just a good game. Some people like RPG games within their mmo

[@waffilios439]

Max dropped some GIGA L takes this Poddy C. SHEESHHHHHHHH

[@adamgarrow1]

Any time poe1 gets mentioned Max just sees red and starts projecting omega hard lmao

[@Bloodnickel1]

found the poe redditor

[@ericp.7238]

"Most players that raid nowadays, probably watch a video or read a guide" Oh, dorki, you sweet summer child.

[@notchivas5662]

let dorki finish a SINGLE fucking line of thought jfc it was brutal to watch this. now its max AND dragons cutting dorki off to yap for minutes

[@greysonshade1489]

I would love if there was a regular healer view point. I know Meg makes it on occasion, but it feels like there is this massive gap in knowledge and opinion.

[@Aggrofool]

Do we want a regular healer or do we want JdotB?

[@Wzded]

@@greysonshade1489 wat Happened to their other cat avatar guy he was a healer?

[@MrFiggenbaum]

@@Wzded He's in another podcast "The Bench", not a joke that's the name lol

[@somebodyelse9696]

poor Dorki, couldn't get a word in edge wise in this one

[@yogrt]

51:00 to 55:00 was rough... Dorki saying Blizzard (Microsoft) should pay more for better talent countered by Max saying why would anyone stay when Riot (Tencent) is paying 30-40% more was wild..

[@Aggrofool]

TBF Riot is feeling the pain and is trimming headcount.

[@ssv-y2q]

Max is an infamous blizzard shill since they started being friendly with him and giving him behind the scenes info and talking to them

[@kylebb96]

I love how Max is just staring at his phone or something lol

[@martinmp19]

Lmao just texting his girl the whole time

[@Swoots275]

Only reason he's in a podcast is because he's popular. I preferred Titanforged with Dratnos, Trell and Tettles

[@Bibleybob]

@@Swoots275 I miss Titanforged so much

[@kylebb96]

Holy shit he's still on his phone.

[@Frawt]

​@@BibleybobMeh, I mean, to be honest, I don't really miss Trell that much. Nothing against the guy, but he always felt like the most neutral and most "in the background" participant. I would not mind Dratnos and Tettles being on a podcast together again, and I think Dratnos, Tettles and Growl would be a funny-ass trio. I don't mind Dorki or Max even, but something about Dratnos and Tettles together used to hit diff, and Growl (albeit occasionally a liiiittle bit annoying with how long-winded his yapping gets) is a funny presence to have on a podcast. I enjoy having two podcasts now though, both with different parts I enjoy for different reasons. I'd rather have that than mix and match and potentially only have one good podcast left.

[@Taedas123]

The ice boss in halls of infusion was a super fun boss to heal.

[@crittykat]

Dratnos hasn't dusted the top of his microphone since episode 1 of Poddy C lmao

[@CalibrateProductionsMusic]

Poor dorki. Max and dratnos cutting him off in every take. Let the man speak!

[@anthonysmith9475]

God damn, first poddyC I cant even watch the whole thing Max is that insufferable this time a family member in the other room went "God that guy is fucking annoying turn that off"

[@TheGraveyarder]

WoW in 2050 shadowlands classic just came out blizzard has saved delves+(again)

[@kirax7293]

2050？shadowlands classic is on schedule to be out in 2030

[@Ghust19]

Can’t wait to sit at Korthia and not get BiS shard ever

[@Soulessdeeds]

The tank nerfs at the beginning of the season really only served to show which tanks had the best self sustain during pulls. Which is why you rarely see Warriors and Monks in keys anymore. They are heavily dependent upon healers. And the kicks change at the beginning basically sealed the deal for Prot Paly to be the king this season.

[@Aggrofool]

when Yoda called Brew a shittier DK with extra steps, you know it's rough for them

[@supra4622]

To be clear...Prot Warrior was the meta tank before they buffed the shit out of prot paladin in 11.0.5. Prot is still the 2nd best tank in M+, and is the best tank in Grim Batol specifically. The counterpoint is....they saw prot warrior was decent so they buffed another tank and then nerfed warrior for next season.

[@Philippi8]

@@supra4622 To be clear they buffed prot paladin because death statistics even in raid were 3X as bad than any other tank. I mained it from season start because it was obvious they need a significant buff and they will overdo it

[@Eulrich]

@@Aggrofool i mean you can right now double all the selfhealing and shielding brew does and it´d still be a worse BDK, that´s how bad it is. and Blizzard does not give a ***

[@strifer81]

Try being a tank this season where you make one error and get removed from the key but dps won’t kick or move out of mechanics even in 12s and still blame the tank.

[@ddca5280]

This feels so much like shadowlands covenants like… we made these changes and we want to hold onto them as a good idea so we’ll just keep slowly walking it back until we have to admit we were wrong. So stupid.

[@baseboned]

it's very little like that

[@JDP2393]

It isn’t like that at all. The covenant situation was the exact same as the legion legendary and azerite armor situation. The tank change situation was them attempting to address a major issue, they just went about it the wrong way and are now trying to correct it in a way that would not affect the rest of the game. With covenants they were just being ego freaks telling the beta testers to stfu because they know better, that is not the case here though.

[@Eulrich]

@@JDP2393 the major issue was tanks having fun and people actually getting into keys?

[@JDP2393]

@@Eulrich no the major issue was healers ignoring 1/4 group members, but it’s up to you if you think that was an issue they needed to solve or not. Some people understand why they tried to (ie dratnos) but think they just went about it the wrong way. Personally I think tanks should be able to live largely on their own, and I love they used Galvazzt as an example of a good boss for the healer while also being a good boss for the tank.

[@Eulrich]

@@JDP2393 yea, but what healer does enjoy healing the tank, while dodging 5different mechanics, managing defensives, externals and struggling to keep the group alive? I think the only healers wanting tankhealing back where healers missing the classic raids when tankhealing was all they had to do. They wanted less complexity for the role, and instead they got more and also drained every tankplayers will to live (or at least will to play the game)

[@LordsUther]

The Bench > PoddyC

[@MikeyJ28]

Blizzard probably thinks they don’t need to hire internal raid testers because the PTR exists, but jokes on them… not enough guilds care enough to test the PTR to receive mass feedback.

[@altarlights]

what was up with max this episode lol

[@Dawnille]

Let my boy Dorki speak man, that aside banger episode =^_^=

[@Xenfir_]

As someone who mains healer, the most fun I had doing m+ this season was when I swapped my druid from resto to balance.

[@lovelywaz]

They didn't "save" it when they threw M+ in the gutter this expansion to begin with.... 😠😡 Now, they are just trying to save their sorry little bums by rectifying their own mistakes, and there are many more bD decisions STILL needs to be fixed.

[@jaded-harper]

the blizzard cycle, make dogshit changes that no one asked for---->months later fix them/remove them and act like they are doing something great----->farm good will from community full of sheep---->repeat

[@duetobe]

When it's hard for DPS they get to have fun trying to do more damage, when its hard for tanks and healers they just have to sweat more or we all wipe.

[@BuboStabbins]

This was fun. I like how max keeps everyone real "Guys I'm pretty sure we're making all this up."

[@aswaran2132]

Dorki and Max love to have strong opinions about people without knowing anything about the situations.

[@danielsun9124]

Someone gotta tell Maximum to shut up and listen 🤦‍♂️ bro just staring at his phone or something and just cutting off people

[@crittykat]

I think WoW 2 is already here, it started in Dragonflight. I think Classic servers are going to finally allow them to revamp the entire old world in Retail, bringing it into the modern WoW 2 era without losing the nostalgic nancy's

[@Experiment.626]

Yah considering they keep redoing every expansion

[@JDP2393]

Season of discovery is kind of WoW 2 beginning in classic. Tons of new shit, classic going in a different direction, new raids like kharazan crypts (banger raid btw), feels like a mix of retail and classic already. They could take this pretty far

[@WaltLitty]

Max is out of touch

[@dkducanh]

I wish we still have titanforge , the 2 off shot podcast is either super ego filled (max) or giga cringe (tettles with no dratnos to shot him down) , you never khow you experienced the good old days after it has left.

[@renewestern]

The "problem" with good fight designers, is that they want to make cool stuff, and that's often stifled at "big companies" like Blizzard. And so they leave and start their own games company.

[@victorbastos4530]

Max L takes and won’t let Dorki finish one single sentence it is literally impossible to listen to.

[@SonicAlarm5]

Dorki's "The You You Are" picture goes so hard lmao.

[@gatzarn111]

As far as healing goes, IMO one of the most satisfying moments in the last few years was the third boss in halls of infusion. Pure steady throughput with nothin unexpected. def my peak memory for healing in the last few years

[@HappyPow]

Dorki had a lot to talk and I also wanted to listen but he was held back

[@Frequencyyy]

Dorki finally gets to talk and Max just sits on his phone placating him with "yeah" for 10 minutes because it isnt his turn

[@shadowhawx]

I think they can make healing better if they continue to lessen required interrupts. The damage from packs varies too much between a group that gets every interrupt and those who don't stun/kick everything. This means the regular healing must remain lower as to not just destroy a lot of groups. I can heal 2-3x more in a 7 with bad interrupts compared to a 10 where people are on point. Healing will be more interesting if the numbers are more stable and you can play around the encounter. Imagine a world where they can better design groups when they don't have a higher swing in numbers based on the group. I like the direction with longer casts and better telegraphed mechanics. If you miss those interrupts you should be punished.

[@Keira-irl]

Group quality makes a very big difference in healing right now, and the design philosophy that damage intake is controlled as a group (interrupts, defensives, etc.) and not by a healer, means that the difference between a +++ group in +10 and a + group in +7 is astronomical in terms of healing requirements. What I find most frustrating about healing right now is that I have very little control over how much I will have to heal, and the same pull on the same key level in one group might require nothing more than my passive cleave/procs, and in another group it might require every single one of my cooldowns and cause me to age 5 years. Ironically, the higher I push on my pug healer and the more I get access to +++ groups, the easier it is on me. So in a sense, the challenging part of healing is not in keys where the unavoidable damage starts to matter and you start to do riskier and bigger pulls to +++ (ie. the content that is meant to be hard), but rather in keys where avoidable damage is poorly controlled. I don't think that inverse difficulty is a good thing to have for healers, and the difference between the two is way too much. I definitely agree that healing would be more interesting, but also more enticing to newer healers (which is good for the LFG economy), if that variance wasn't so big.

[@Mastervis]

Healing Galvazzt was difficult, but fair. Unavoidable damage ticks happened every 3 seconds or so doing about 25% HPdamage in a +24. Right now some unavoidable damage does more than 100% percent of someone's HP within the same interval. I can imagine that this would also add to the frustration many healers feel at the moment

[@Aectanum]

While GGG clearly miscommunicated things in this specific situation, I agree with Max on transparency. I think PoE1 has some of the most entitled communities, and GGG being a bit too TMI with them could be one of the key components that fostered that.

[@jasonlastname129]

I opened twitch during the MDI and I had to scroll so far down in the wow section to even find it. It's the the 72nd biggest stream WITHIN the wow category.

[@tatiana_maria]

dorki being hard threw me off so much that my hardcore dwarven realms character died

[@DaveGreco]

I prefer poe1 and will continue to prefer poe1.

[@RisenDark]

57:45 On this subject. Me being a classic andy coming in and wanting to try retail because the raids looks banger I really had a hard experience: - Leveling didn't teach me much about my class along the way. Everytime I got used to something the game threw a new ability and three new talents at me to mix things up (might just be a me issue though) - Dungeons while leveling just felt like a rush to the finish line. Basically just mashing AoE and running. - At max level I jumped into normals to learn my rotation and buttons but enemies just fell over like when leveling (might be because it's still dungeons for people leveling). - Heroics didn't feel better and I barely got to see mechanics. In fact as a tank I didn't even feel like I was needed as people just pulled packs and tanked dmg fine without me. - I didn't even know how to get into Mythics at this point and decide to jump into Raid Finder with 29 other players and shit just dies and loot comes out. - I get the about the same feeling about the Normal difficulty in Raids. Shit just dies. Although I did get to do some mechanics here which was fun! In Starcraft 2 there was a term called "ladder anxiety". Basically the reason you never climbed the ladder was because you never pushed the button to join a game. The fear of making a blunder and getting stomped by your opponent was just making you so anxious that you just procrastinated playing the game entirely. I get the same feeling in retail wow and I think the reason for that is that I simply don't feel confident in my abilities as I haven't learned anything during leveling/dungeoneering and raiding this far. I wish the difficulty could be tuned up a notch so that shit didn't just fall over. So that I could actually get to tank in Heroics before stepping into Mythics and Raids. That I could get punished for mistakes whenever I made them so I would learn from them and feel more confident in my abilities.

[@Rhuiedian]

How is Max on his phone literally the entire time?

[@johannilsson6395]

He has been pretty open about having severe adhd

[@AWaywardKiwi]

goddamn let dorki finish a point

[@billflynn9962]

they have a problem with people who want to play tanks/healers... so they "solve" it by nerfing tanks/healers... need to make those specs OP and fun.. classic players are so mad at retail because they suck and they cant play retail.. they have to play a lesser, slower minding, easier game, and hate that there are smart people out there who can play the harder retail

[@Etzlo1]

I think a good middle ground would just be, more external DR CDs for healers, so we have some control over the tanks life, but it's not healing related?

[@frobono]

No shade but Dratnos’s audio seems off.

[@GamingAndSocialism]

Maybe if they paid their QA more than $30/hour, there wouldn't be as many exploitable bugs? ;)

[@YomsuSwaggins]

We need to pitch some evergreen business decisions to the Microsoft shareholders

[@JarRules]

If you live in Montana Blizzard will pay you Montana wages. They put you in salary ranges based on cost of living. If you live in California working at blizzard or any company and go remote to move to Idaho you can expect a pay cut or less raises until you fit into the salary range for that location.

[@philj.6127]

not to mention homes in quality MT cities are expensive and the state's tax structure is garbo

[@TJR123]

Is the tank perspective screwed here due to bias? I do wish there were more tanks, but as a M+ healer below 13 keys in S1 Tanks seem fine. It feels good to have 1 boss on 2-3 dungeons where I have to keep the tank alive in a key.

[@Elmon11]

55:00 and Riot is definitely more prestigious on a resume nowadays.

[@Theparadoxd7]

Blizzard have not even come close to saving M+. Until depletion is justt straight up gone it's a fuckin waste of time.

[@aaronlevy1262]

Patreon W suggestion. So many people don't do the PTR or watch videos, etc. A "tutorial" that shows how to complete mechanics that are never seen before in any content would save so much frustration and wipes. If Blizz wants to remove toxicity this is the way. No one just "knows", they learn. Let's reduce people from learning the hard way and wiping the raid.

[@TeamFiraga]

so Blizz should groom some boss encounter designers

[@KillchainTV]

I think the only reason SoD doesnt get more oomph is because its directionless. We dont have a map to know whether or not SoD will exist for much longer...personally i think they need to stop trying to appease everyone and say classic is all gone none of this Cata classic mop classic shit no more sod no more classic and just focus on one version of classic + and map out its future so people feel its worth investing into.

[@Kosmo_ch]

I think at the beginning you forgot to give some background and explain what changes blizzard is going to make and how M+ will be saved in next season. I am 30 minutes in and I still dont know what's going on (I am not following WoW news but I listen to the podcast regullary). Cheers! :)

[@Quap-p3i]

Imagine in an m+ if there was no healer present all mobs enrage gaining a buff due to noticing no healer present or some silly move like that.

[@Rylos277]

On tanking: as a healer, I dont like tanks being indestructible. People in the party shouldn't be able to do a run without a healer, because healers can't do the run without other roles. If you have a healer as a role, they should have a purpose. Good tanks should be able to survive noticeably longer than a bad one. I appreciate it being a tricky line to balance, but a big part of the issue is everyone's defensive power and spiky damage intake. No one should be able to be 1-hit unless they do something really wrong. Dps defensives should never be so plentiful that you can preplan all your damage intakes. It should occasionally be used to save your life.

[@nkilpatrick95]

this is the most like one of my discord calls with my friends this podcast has ever been

[@Aggrofool]

Gingi is a prolific exploiter

[@Fotumain13]

Very often when a build is nerfed in PoE early on in a league, it's because the build was causing significant server issues.

[@JustCheg]

I can tell you right now, there are blizzard QA third party offices working from Belgrade Serbia, I have friends working there. Most of the QA is outsourced, and also severely underpaid. People here do it for $500 monthly. And yes, there is a huge difference in standard between US and Serbia, but that is not enough to get through the month. And its not only Blizzard, same company does Riots QA and few other big studios.

[@Belugafishcat]

Don’t hate on Max! He’s looking at the game from a whole different view and talks with the best players in the world on a daily. Imagine a dung where you miss one or two kicks, cds is used for the optimised dmg, tank knows the group will contribute, healers know defensives will be used, dps don’t stand in shit. Same for raid, soaks, buffs, movement are all on par. That’s max world and that’s what he’s sharing!

[@mcshamkraken4448]

People love to complain. As well as that, our (players) tastes and desires change in time a bit. This season was too hard, even for a CE player that has hit M+ title in the past, so many pugs in 9, 10's, and 11's were just sad.

[@Theparadoxd7]

The fuck? Who in their right mind thinks "oh I'll make this giga op to make people play it then nerf it" that always leaves people with bad tastes in their mouths. People who play the class already - Why the fuck did you do this to us? Which then leads to "fuck this I'm quitting ANOTHER fucking nerf????!?!" People who rerolled - Wtf this class is shit now that I don't do x damage or healing. Whereas if you start low and tune up you only had the people who liked it playing it and then everyone is like "YOOOO A BUFF YESSSS THEY ARE LISTENING!!!!"

[@galadinwow]

I think introducing a "practice mode" would take away from the social glue of a raiding guild that is figuring out the mechanics together. Sometimes that can be frustrating or annoying, but that's part of the process. I think it's ok sometimes for Blizzard to engineer tailored experiences.

[@Spectre1Gaming]

I main Tank and I don't mind doing lower damage as long as I can keep aggro and stay alive that is my 2 primary jobs as a Tank we don't need to be over taking Dps or it makes no sense Tanks were never that way and I have played since Vanilla.

[@Skiptoomyl0u]

As someone who has played a large amount of classic and retail. More of a retail player now. There are a lot of retail players who actively shit on and hate classic. Its the same problem both ways. Retail players are absolutely not above classic players in regards to civility about other games lmao.

[@Adventures-cb6sz]

There is 100% something wrong with a grown man crying over a video game on live TV.

[@karj_gaming]

47:45 QA is NOT a low "level" position, it's a low PAY position. All game workers are exploited, QA just happens to be some of the MOST exploited. Good QA is near impossible to find, just as other development disciplines. Don't help propagate more division and hardship for QA workers with this kind of talk.

[@GooseComics]

Sod is not extremely dead. That is another brain dead out of touch take from Max who has no idea what he's talking about. Sod has a brand new dungeon and it's insanely good. Just because it's not only fangs or hardcore, doesn't mean it's dead.

[@Drager00]

Max really doesn't know how arpgs cycles work. GGG's wanted people to jump between poe1 and poe2 leagues as there is typically massive drop off after a few weeks rather than turn into only playing poe2. GGG leadership massively underestimated what they needed and yeah GGG definitely has to be massively hiring/trying to scale up in whatever way possible

[@zizthesin]

Hardcore BDK main here, i love when all tanks can be self sustaining because its really fun to solo tank a kurog heroic style fight for fun

[@Mentok211]

Please god give Brewmaster decent buffs. The Niuzao buffs are negative useful.

[@prkr_ae]

wake me up when the poe talk is over... ResidentSleeper

[@eXileris]

Here's an example. Hpal keeps getting nerfed because of overperforming in raids. Meanwhile in M+ the throughput feels significantly worse.

[@trev_tha_rev6708]

same Dorki same bro stay Hard

[@myersmayhem2023]

Personally they still havent changed what would make me come back next season hopefully they will do more They still only drop hero track outside of weekly vault which makes gear progresion bad. No one finds it fun to only gear through hoping you get the right vault every week. You still feel behind if you dont mythic raid which is a full time job and just fucking silly to expect anyone to do i get max is in this podcast but mythic raid is the absolute worst thing in wow and trying to force it to have extra good gear is making everything else worse Or sorry you can also rmt a few crafted items...

[@MrCkv3]

just curious, if mythic+ could drop farmable mythic loot, wouldn't you just feel even more behind compared to those who grind m+ for full mythic gear say w1 of a season? Or do you mean it should drop time-gated mythic gear, kind of like how the vault functions now but more than a single piece every week?

[@myersmayhem2023]

​​@@MrCkv3 Not even a little If i dont play for two weeks right now im behind two vaults with no other way to compensate If i could farm the highest teir loot i might fall behind for a bit if i take a break but i can just play to catch up im not gated on a weekly rng vault Same with alts are alwyas just behind however many vaults the missed you cant make that up I think that gear shouldnt be locked behind time If i can play 20 hours this week and none mext week i shouldnt be forever a week behind because of a vault i should be able to just pick up where i left off and run more keys for the highest gear track

[@Aggrofool]

Blizzard did this because the hardcore blazed through gearing in DF, then complained there was no incentive to keep playing. Also raiders were madge they had to spam M+ for gearing as raid requirement.

[@MetalMusicMan]

they need to nerf dratnos's beard point it's overcentralizing to the meta

[@raymondandsweetheart7150]

Imagine if pirate jump in palm pyro and killed Yamato and said something i came to finished what I started. That would of been so epic.

[@Theparadoxd7]

Dratnos "one of the problems with capitalism is it incentivizes short term investement". No it doesn't, if anything that's the opposite of what it's intentionally doing - I make product you pay me for product/what it's worth. If it's constantly short changing people then another will come along to take it's place. Corporatism is what you meant to say which is extracting as much value out of customers at all times which is what is crippling capitalism right now as they use regulatory restrictions by creating new laws that only benefit big companies forcing little ones to be unable to compete.

[@gageracer]

They could easily show the bosses at least before raid. We have a campaign right? Why don't we see the bosses on the campaign and do their mechanics without getting nuked? So we can say most people saw at least once what this boss does. It would also make the season campaign more coherent and less braindead. Of course they would need to make it phased or a mini instance otherwise you know how wow day 1 questing is: tab target everything before they die.

[@jordandeaver683]

Dratnos is a paradox player???? Bring light to eu4 and eu5. Eu4 a goat game

[@crutchfield7231989]

Kyveza is a boss that is extremely obvious with a bad tank with them dying or missing masks because of the positioning

[@lost1head]

They dont want people to be working remote because executives own property in Irvine and don't want it to go down in price

[@deadjosh13]

I feel like seperating M+ and Raid balancing will solve a lot of issues

[@tomasgonzalez2711]

GGG made an entire expansion for poe1 with 1 guy