"It would be cool if you could be a Goblin and a Monk" WoW: Dragonflight's Patrick Dawson and Maria Hamilton talk class combos, 10.1, and more

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WoW: Dragonflight has a couple of huge updates coming: 10.0.7 and 10.1. I recently had a chance to speak with a pair of game developers after previewing the major latter patch. Maria Hamilton (Lead Quest Designer) and Patrick Dawson (Production Director) both sat down with me to discuss both updates and how they will affect the playerbase.

This interview covered a wide variety of topics related to the 10.0.7 and 10.1 updates. Players will have access to a wide variety of content, and it’s certainly something to be excited about. From new areas, raids, and allies, WoW: Dragonflight’s 10.0.7 and 10.1 updates are going to be massive.

It’s always a pleasure to chat with Maria Hamilton and Patrick Dawson about WoW, and their insight is invaluable regarding how some of the upcoming content was created.

Patrick Dawson: So when it comes to class balance, it's something we monitor from the first day, the very first day. And we look at data, we look at community feedback, we look at sentiment and try to discover what we can fix through hotfixing — through tuning a bit — and then what requires something a little bit more heavy, something more that requires maybe a content update that we want to be able to put it into. And then if we really feel like we need to do something transformative, we would likely target a season change content update for that.

So with Ret Paladin — and that's not the only class — there's a few others that are doing attention in Return to Forbidden Reach. That's an opportunity for us, as we've decided to release content more quickly, to have an opportunity to revisit something like this mid-season and make some meaningful changes to these classes that could use a little bit of help and love from what we're just