Dungeons should always be relevant content.

#1 - March 18, 2015, 5:05 a.m.

No matter what ilvl. Dungeons are the easiest, most bite-sized part of World of Warcraft, and it is something that players should need to do, no matter what their ilvl is.

In Wrath, the incentive for dungeon content was reputation.

I think that dungeon-crawling should give way to unlockable perks, or perks that gain strength, or gain charges based on the amount of bosses and/or trash you kill. I haven't thought of a perfect system, but the idea is still there.

Kaivax

Community Manager

#33 - March 19, 2015, 3:25 p.m.

Once again, my incredibly-selective RPG-fantasy-only dyslexia kicked in, and I read this thread title as "Dragons should always be relevant content".

Immediately, I was pondering the importance of dragons to anything the player might experience:

Why aren't there more dragons everywhere?
They're fairly powerful creatures who seem to have no problem producing a great deal of loinfruit.
They seem to have adapted to pretty much every enviroment on every planet.
They all have distant relatives who can do really powerful magics.
They're pretty good with language and communication.

Anyway. Carry on. Not trying to derail.

Just.

You know.

Dragons.

Kaivax

Community Manager

#122 - March 19, 2015, 6:03 p.m.

I nodded so many times while reading this that I think I hurt my neck:

03/19/2015 10:11 AMPosted by Planeshaper

There are numerous reasons blues post to a thread to blue tag it.

One of the most common is that they simply like the OP and want to give it visibility to see what kind of discussion emerges amongst the players.

Because they know that more people will post to a thread if it has a blue tag, they give it one. And while many will post directly to the blue (adding extra chaff to the thread), a few will actually attempt to participate in the discussion that otherwise wouldn't have seen the thread.

If they add "something of value" to the discussion, it's more likely people will switch to talking "with the blues" instead of "with each other" than if they don't really add "something of value."

If their post is basically, "here's this thread, forum people," then it's more difficult for the people who insist on talking to the blues instead of each other to engage the blues in argument. The "best" you can do is just say something like what you said, that Kaivax just popped in quickly.

That actually makes it easier for them to overlook your post, if you can't get into an argument with them about the subject at hand. It makes it easier to find players who are discussing or attempting to discuss the topic with each other.

The only thing I would add is -- the steps we take internally to utilize good feedback from forum threads are the same whether or not we tagged them with a blue post.

Kaivax

Community Manager

#220 - March 19, 2015, 10:05 p.m.

03/19/2015 12:18 PMPosted by Woopei
03/19/2015 08:25 AMPosted by Kaivax
Once again, my incredibly-selective RPG-fantasy-only dyslexia kicked in, and I read this thread title as "Dragons should always be relevant content".

Immediately, I was pondering the importance of dragons to anything the player might experience:

Why aren't there more dragons everywhere?
They're fairly powerful creatures who seem to have no problem producing a great deal of loinfruit.
They seem to have adapted to pretty much every enviroment on every planet.
They all have distant relatives who can do really powerful magics.
They're pretty good with language and communication.

Anyway. Carry on. Not trying to derail.

Just.

You know.

Dragons.

I can't really tell, but it looks like your pic is a cigar-chomping yaungol with a machine gun...

It's a Tauren Space Marine, of course!