More Significant Affix Changes Coming - Wowhead Interview with Morgan Day and Ion Hazzikostas
Wowhead recently had the opportunity to sit down with Morgan Day and Ion Hazzikostas and discuss many topics about War Within. In this segment, Morgan Day and Ion Hazzikostas discuss some of the overarching philosophies and changes to Mythic+ design coming in War Within.
Affixes in the War Within
Affixes have continued to be a controversial topic amongst the community, especially after last week's announcement of new Mythic+ affixes. There were many different reactions in the community, commenting on the fact that Bolstering and Sanguine are remaining, to critiquing the new level 4 affixes. The war against affixes has been ongoing for some time, with some players arguing that affixes shouldn't exist at all because it doesn't let players enjoy the dungeon, while others argue that they enjoy the week to week changes that affixes provide. We've seen continued nerfs to affixes that have stuck around from the start of Mythic+ in Legion, if you compare Bolstering from Legion to Bolstering now, there's a pretty big difference in its power.
And so, when we were given the opportunity to discuss the War Within with Morgan Day and Ion Hazzikostas, we gave them some time to discuss the overarching philosophy of affixes in Mythic+ and their plans for them in the future and it seems like they have some large plans in the works!
Ion Hazzikostas
This has obviously been a huge topic in the community in recent weeks it's been a huge topic within the team in recent weeks. We're far from done when it comes to the current state of Beta, we're looking to roll out a couple more pretty significant swings in how we approach Affixes and the Mythic+ system. As testing continues in the coming weeks, I don't want to get ahead of spoiling what all those will be, but stay tuned for some forum and blog updates in the next couple builds.
Morgan Day also mentions some of the reasons that they had picked the affixes in the level 7 bucket from last week's announcement, mentioning that they
