Wowhead Interview with WoW Classic Developers - Season of Discovery
Wowhead had the pleasure of sitting down at Blizzcon with Linny Cooke-Saverline, Game Producer, and Tim Jones, Assistant Lead Classic Designer, asking about WoW Classic Season of Discovery. In our conversation, we cover the new Hardcore Self Found mode, PvP in WoW Classic, Balancing Season of Discovery, as well as the possibility of new Tier Sets coming in the future!
Linny Cooke-Saverlline, Game Producer (Left) and Tim Jones, Assistant Lead Classic Designer (Right)
Hardcore WoW Classic
What exactly is Hardcore Self Found?
Self Found is basically you are working by yourself, as far as the items you have. You don't have the ability to trade, you can't use the mail box, even with mail to yourself, as well as no Auction House.
Will there be Hardcore Realms for Season of Discovery?
It's something we have to be careful of, on the Classic team. It's already a juggling act to manage Classic Era realms, Hardcore realms, Progression realms going from Wrath to Cataclysm Classic. And now Season of Discovery. On one hand we want to offer an amazing menu of options for Classic players, but we also have to be mindful and respectful of fracturing our player base, by giving them too many competing options. That's not to say some people won't want Hardcore Season of Discovery, and I think that's something we definitely want to listen to player feedback and something we'll be investigating. Even with Hardcore, it only came out what, two or so months ago? There are still a lot of players still progressing and leveling their characters. We want to be respectful of those player's journeys.
Season of Discovery and PvP
Where did the inspiration of Season of Discovery come from?
From the start, Seasonal realms were meant to be a
