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Badger Babble

Auldyn
Nov 17, 2016
4 min read

Bringing you the most pertinent and promising news and speculation for World of Warcraft, welcome to Badger Babble.

GUILD NEWS

New Members

This week we welcomed Junglee to the Guild. We all hope you have an enjoyable time with us and look forward to playing with you!

Raid Update

The Emerald Nightmare is saved! Thanks to the fall of Xavius last week, we have "ticked off" the opening raid of Legion.

Raiding in Trial of Valor began on Tuesday with a hard fought fight against Odyn. We didn't down him, but we are confident that he will fall later this week.

Remember to check our News Pages for write ups and videos of our Guild Events.

Badger of the Week

The Badger of the Week award is an award given in recognition of being an exceptional Badger (or a Badger who made an epic goof!) in recent times. Voted for by the Guild Officers, the Badger of the Week Award comes with an in game reward and your name in lights on the front page of the website for a week.

Organising social events for the guild can be a stressful thing. Planning progression raids is simple because they will always be well attended, but planning social events have many considerations; Will the time suit people? Is the event interesting? is the event fun?

For throwing himself into the Lion's Den of social event organisation we wanted to show our appreciation to Sangar by voting for him as our Badger of the Week for running his Sunday Night Socials, which have been a great success.

Thanks Sangar, your efforts have been greatly appreciated!

WARCRAFT NEWS

Blizzcon Recap

Delivering New Content

One of the key goals for Legion is to make sure we’re delivering a steady stream of content throughout the expansion. We want to make sure there’s always something to look forward to. We also want to take better advantage of the very nature of MMOs by providing a living, breathing world, with things changing day-to-day or week-to-week, and offering a wide variety of content and new rewards.To accomplish this, we’re building our patch structure in Legion to deliver content updates of varying sizes. You’ll see everything from a small patch like 6.2.3, which added Cataclysm Timewalking and other features, to larger update like Patch 6.2: Fury of Hellfire, or something in-between like Patch 7.1: Return to Karazhan—there’s no one size fits all approach.

Looking into Patch 7.1.5

Now that we’ve released patch 7.1, we’re preparing for our next patch, 7.1.5—one we’re considering a “small” patch. This kind of patch contains features like system updates, rewards, and evergreen content—things that aren’t tied to any overarching story.

Here’s some of what you can expect in Patch 7.1.5:

Timewalking in Pandaria
Brawlers Guild Season 3
Blades Edge Arena Update

Micro-Holidays

Unlike holidays like Winter Veil, which run multiple weeks, “micro-holidays” offer brief, holiday-style events with new activities for players to take part in. For example, the citizens of Azeroth might be invited to celebrate a specific moment in their history for just a single day. These events are meant to be activities players can participate in for fun, rather than for game-changing rewards.

With Patch 7.1.5, we’ll be rolling out a variety of micro-holidays with the intent of adding more to them over time. Each one is meant to make the world feel more alive without making players feel like they need to participate for big rewards—while still providing some more variety and fun.

Class Updates

Legion featured one of our biggest class overhauls yet, and since launch we’ve been listening to feedback from the community and making balance adjustments—but we’ve been somewhat limited in terms of what we could change in our hotfixes and first patch. Most of the changes up to this point have been constrained to hotfix-based numerical tuning. Patch 7.1.5 is when we’re really trying to tackle some of the broader class issues.

We’re taking a look at are talent rows, so we can increase the diversity of talents. For example, in the Barrage row for Marksman Hunters, it feels like there is only one option in the row that you must take regardless of your play style. There’s room for fine-tuning, and we to make it so everyone feels like they can customize their character to their liking.

We’re also looking at the relative weightings of secondary stats such as Haste, Mastery, and Crit. These are often pretty disparate for different specs and this disparity can sometimes make it feel as if an item that should be an upgrade with a higher item level isn’t as desirable as we would like. We want to make sure the gaps between best and worst aren’t so large that they distort gameplay. We’re going to be making a lot of efforts toward that end in patch 7.1.5.

This patch also allows us to make some tweaks to specific rotations, look at how things have played out since Legion, and find where there’s room to improve the overall fluidity and feel of the different specs.

And More!

Weekly Bonus Event: Arena Skirmishes

All week, from anywhere in Azeroth, open the Group Finder (default hotkey: i), select the Player vs. Player tab on the bottom of the window, and then under Casual, choose Arena Skirmish and JOIN BATTLE. You’ll be matched up with teammates and provided with opponents to kill in the Arena. You can also queue for a Premade group or create your own group within the Premade tab.

Look for the following all week long: