Joel Griffiths

Committed Husband, Multi-Disciplined Engineer, Wakeboarder, Crypto Enthusist, and Unicyclist with roots in places like SGI, Qualcomm, GoDaddy, and Red 5.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

I thought you were making a joke about Warlocks.

I understand now. I agree. Which is the reason I made the suggestions. There were two suggestions.

One would let some servers become unbalanced, but keep one tightly controlled. Two would become faction severs. One would be controlled. Most people who roll on PvP servers only roll on PvP servers that their faction controls. This gives them a place to go.

Not ideal, but it’s easier to implement than my other suggestion. That would require interesting design choices on layers. It would sometime put Horde on layers with no Alliance. But, Alliance players wouldn’t feel overwhelmed. I think it’s the better solution if the two.

I’m sure there are other ideas, but a hard lock on a single PvP server is not going to solve anything. Alliance will continue to leave, and you will get stuck with a single PvP server with almost no Alliance and Horde will never be able to create new accounts.

Blizzard’s approach is to use a hammer and force a balance. That’s the only thing they know how to do. They can’t think of creative solutions, because they make decisions by committee and lackluster leadership. A problem faced by established corporations everywhere. Blizzard is not immune to that.

I’m hoping people put forward ideas until somebody at Blizzard says, “that might work.” Cheerleading bad decisions is just going to make things worse.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

I thought you were making a joke about Warlocks.

I understand now. I agree. Which is the reason I made the suggestions. There were two suggestions.

One would let some servers become unbalanced, but keep one tightly controlled. Two would become faction severs. One would be controlled. Most people who roll on PvP servers only roll on PvP servers that their faction controls. This gives them a place to go.

Not ideal, but it’s easier to implement than my other suggestion. That would require interesting design choices on layers. It would sometime put Horde on layers with no Alliance. But, Alliance players wouldn’t feel overwhelmed. I think it’s the better solution if the two.

I’m sure there are other ideas, but a hard lock on a single PvP server is not going to solve anything. Alliance will continue to leave, and you will get stuck with a single PvP server with almost no Alliance and Horde will never be able to create new accounts.

Blizzard’s approach is to use a hammer and force a balance. That’s the only thing they know how to do. They can’t think of creative solutions, because they make decisions by committee and lackluster leadership. A problem faced by established corporations everywhere. Blizzard is not immune to that.

I’m hoping people put forward ideas until somebody at Blizzard says, “that might work.” Cheerleading bad decisions is just going to make things worse.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@Kapippalist @wowforeverNOW lol

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@Emps_rex I don’t think other healing or rank classes face the same obstacle in their early talent tree.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@Emps_rex You don’t have to spec into DPS to do DPS either.

Shaman have a serious mana issue, and they didn’t lock major mana regen in vanilla behind 11 Points in resto. They balanced it around not having those talents.

As it is, it’s a terrible experience without those first 11 points.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@OneirosApeithos @wowforeverNOW Even if they lock Horde forever, it Alliance will never recover. The worst part is that they could have predicted it (I posted about it myself - before release), and they can still fix it. But, they lack the intellect to use any tool other than a hammer.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@ihartsnape @icyveins Yeah. I craft to make money in WoW. The 1s deposit is straight up killing me - especially for things that can't be sold in stacks.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@wowforeverNOW I wonder how many rolls will change because of this. INT is still good. People will still roll on it. I don't think this will change anything.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@met_oshi @AntagonizticAzn @Lotharemas I'm curious about Shaman because that's the class I want to heal with. In beta, I had a lot of mana issues in earlier dungeons - even specced as resto. The first 11 points have a lot of mana related stuff. I have healed with Priest, and it wasn't too bad - specced as Shadow.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@jonzzy They used to have a list of GM jokes. You could ask them to tell you one.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@RedMustardTV I will do this if I'm on the last mob or two.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@red_2201_ @FieldsSc2 @Lotharemas I meant rewarded in a way that guildies don't respond with "I want to knock a few levels out right now" whenever other guildies want to run a dungeon.

I don't even ask in guild, because I know it's a sacrifice.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@icyveins Perhaps they should ask an accountant. Blizzard has those, right?

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@ErSaken @icyveins Interesting thought. I wish they wouldn't redesign the wheel, but charging a deposit based on a posting price might do a lot to eliminate bad actors (gold buyers and those who post at inflated prices hoping somebody will click wrong on a limited resources).

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@icyveins God, I hope so. I barely list anything I craft because the risk is too much. This should have been considered a bug. Not sure why they felt the need to re-invent the wheel here.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@FieldsSc2 @Lotharemas Classic also rewarded people for doing dungeons more then once.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@Boneszns @PunishedBags @Lotharemas The make DPS pay 50G to run a DPS spec too.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@AntagonizticAzn @Lotharemas DPS can DPS without a spec so why not make them wait until level 40 and drop 50 gold too.

[Joel Griffiths @JoelLGriffiths]

@Victorevans2026 The game interactions qthat really count happen in dungeons.