Ion Hazzikostas Dragonflight Interview with HazelNuttyGames - Legendaries, Renown, and Accessibility
World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas spoke to Hazel of HazelNuttyGames about the upcoming Dragonflight expansion, with extensive discussion on topics like the new talent system replacing the legendaries and covenant choices, what improvements renown has over traditional reputation, and accessibility options for dragonriding. Due to this being a spoken interview, quotes are paraphrased slightly for the sake of readability — please refer to the video for the full unedited content.
Less Borrowed Power Dragonflight will feature less «borrowed power» systems, largely as a result of player feedback, with the talent system revamp replacing the customization and (theoretical) flexibility that players previously found in choice-based systems like Covenants.There won't be any Dragonflight-specific activated ability used by players throughout this expansion. The talent system is being built to last and expand into future expansions, though like in the past, it probably isn't sustainable for more than a few expansions — that's a future dev problem.
This didn't mean borrowed power will be gone forever — even gear and tier sets are a form of power that is continually replaced or left behind as players move into a new tier or expansion, and they don't want to completely shut the door on the idea of exciting or thematic patch-specific systems. We recognized the double-edged sword of creating something awesome, empowering, and complex like artifact weapons in Legion was that we're building this thing that we can't sustain going forward, we have to take it away from you, and losing something awesome sucks.
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