Scott Johnson

I want to go normal. I want to go heroic. And then guess what? Let's get some keystones going. Let's start farming that shit. And let's freaking go mythic. I've never even gave a crap before, right? And suddenly I give a crap.

Yeah. Where you're supposed to be having fun regardless. I mean, say what you want about Blizzard. Say what you want about WoW. They have always had... This is a toxic problem they have always had. I don't know why the player base is like this sometimes. I'm not trying to say everyone is. Obviously, they aren't. There's a ton of people who aren't. But why has it got this reputation?

It has a reputation for a reason. And I don't think it's Blizzard encouraging it. They don't do that. In fact, if anything, they're just like... what if we LFG? You guys don't have to freak out so much in there. How about you don't have to wait by some stone and hope another dude shows up? How about, you know, they try to make these things simpler.

You can still do it all the hard way you want, but they're like, what if you had some AI followers that would help you just get this experience that we spent all this time making?

Yeah, just... That'd be really realistic. I mean, there is that button you can hit that'll say, I need directions, essentially.

Yeah. And that worked great in one particular situation. I got lost and I was like, I don't know where the next tunnel is. Like, this is just really, it's really obtuse where this is located, or at least it felt like it. So I hit that toggle and the character says something like, you want me to lead? No problem.

And this mage goes running out and then starts walking toward a hole in the wall and went, oh, that's the hole. Okay, nevermind. And then I untoggled it immediately and kept leading. So just giving me the tools. I really appreciate that. I do think there's room, though, I'll say this, for follower dungeons to also scale some difficulty. The base level is very, very simple.

They give you some good gear in there for your first time in there. It's definitely going to be an eye-level improvement over what you walked in there with. But it's not amazing. And it'd be nice if I went through there a couple of times on regular and then went, all right, I'm ready for a heroic follower dungeon or even some sort of mythic adjacent difficulty.

I mean, I still think people should be nicer and go, oh, no worries. The first time in here, check it out. It's over here. Like, but no one does that anymore. They should. They don't.

Yeah, because they're all kind of in it together trying to figure it out.

Yeah, it's very cool. So we'll see what they end up doing with it. you know, I walked out of there going, this is cool. It's just cool that it exists. I may never use it more than the first times I go through each new dungeon and see them. I may never touch it again after that for, for that entire expansion. I don't know why I would. Right. But, but now I know them. Now I can go in there.

I can properly lead a run through there. I can do it with friends and strangers. I ran some her. Oh, the one, the one thing that does throw you is immediately almost after I finished the last dungeon of this expansion, um,

on follower mode, I immediately queued up for a heroic version of the same thing and got in right away because I was a tank and I was a little nervous, but I knew this place now, right? I was like, okay, I can do this. The bosses throw, you know, starting with heroic and moving forward, especially in a mythic, they start throwing new mechanics at you. Yeah.

And I was like, oh, these weren't on the floor when I was here last time. Shit.

Yeah. You're a dead hunk of paladin meat on the ground and nobody wants that.

uh speaking of which remix is ending or has ended it's done yeah um they even took down the ui that was saying how many days to count down for a while said zero which i thought was weird they finally get rid of it um i don't know if you played much of that but i thought that was really cool and i came to it late so i didn't get all the stuff i wanted to do done but a lot of people were leveling characters zero to 70 in like an hour and a half two hours oh my god like everybody's got like eight billion alts now yeah and they basically created like an arcade game oh my gosh

And it's fun. It's really fun. And it made me realize it's not just because it's set in Pandaria. That helps because everybody loves going there. But it also just really captured the essence of what would be fun to tweak this. It's not that different than what classic players have liked about the Season of Discovery stuff.

New ideas, new concepts, new abilities, this cloak that just gets exponentially more powerful the more you play and the faster you level and all of that. And I think that was a brilliant little test of maybe what's to come. So if they're going to do more of that, that's great. I don't know where else you'd take it.

Maybe Legion would be a good backdrop for this because there's so many places to go.

uh even just to start your journey you can pick the you know that whole continent's just got tons of content um but and then maybe even bring this one back again make a rotation but but doing this with the retail game and not just weird stuff with classic i think is very good for the health of the overall wow thing and i say more of that please i loved it