The War Within Tier Set Bonus Design Philosophies - Simpler Designs for Season 1
With Beta opening, Blizzard shared some design decisions behind the set bonuses for The War Within Season 1. The bonuses are simpler in design in order to give Hero Talents their time in the spotlight.
Datamined Tier Set Bonuses
Blizzard also revealed that the Catalyst will work the same way as Dragonflight Season 3, starting with one charge in week 1 and gaining one charge every other week.
Welcome to the War Within Beta!
We’re excited to share the bonuses you’ll discover on Class Sets in The War Within.
Please note: These bonuses will be playable in the second Beta build.
The War Within Class Set Armor Design
We’re aiming for relatively simple bonuses for these class sets to let Hero Talents breathe as the primary focus for The War Within Season 1.
We’re still looking to influence gameplay in a light manner, but we want these sets to have a minimal impact on talent selection and as close to zero impact on Hero Talent selection as possible. Similar to the first season of Dragonflight, there are significant changes coming to classes and we would like to establish a baseline we can build upon throughout The War Within.
It’s very important for us that these class sets do not influence Hero Talent Tree selection in meaningful ways.
We’d like for players to feel like they can select either Hero Talent choice in any content they participate in. As we move through The War Within, we’ll be exploring ways to increase the complexity of class set bonuses while maintaining this as an obtainable and core goal.
In terms of the gameplay levels players can expect from these bonuses, we aren’t looking to make these demand high levels of focus to optimize.
These bonuses generally avoid things such as heavy cooldown reduction, large resource generation, and influencing talent selection particularly in the final gate.
We’d also like to note that there are not currently any plans to change the acquisition of class sets in The War Within Season 1. As in 10.2 Guardians of the.
