WoW Developer Interview with MrGM - 8 Week Dragonflight Content Cycle, Renown in The War Within

wowhead.com:

During BlizzCon 2023, MrGM interviewed World of Warcraft Production Director Michael Bybee, and Senior Game Designer Sean McCann, discussing Dragonflight and looking forward to The War Within! Major reveals include an eight week content cycle for the remainder of Dragonflight and the return of the Renown system in The War Within.

Dragonflight

• The developers know that players love getting content and Dragonflight's heightened patch cadence is working towards that goal. Despite the announcement that there will be no Patch 10.3, they aren't going to leave players without anything to do between now and next expansion.

• The intent is to have content updates happening around every 8 weeks, and to keep doing that until the expansion releases. They're not ready to talk about them in detail, but they are very exciting and include a lot of things that players have been asking for… as well as some surprises that nobody has any idea are coming.

• Not ready to talk about Season 4, but they know many players loved the Fated Season in Shadowlands, and they've discussed bringing it back internally (note: Game Director Ion Hazzikostas separately confirmed a Fated Season for Dragonflight in another interview).

Static and Dynamic Flying

• As Dragonriding becomes a core game-wide feature, Dragonriding glyphs and talent trees will be removed — their effects and abilities will simply be baked into the baseline experience, without any need to discover or unlock anything.

• Dragonriding, called Dynamic Flying in 11.0, is being extended to most mounts, although there are a few exceptions. There are a lot of considerations, but the team is getting really creative with more than just dragons or mounts with wings.

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