Dragonflight: Fury Incarnate Content Update Notes—Now Live! Yesterday. 7 update. Maurin-sunstrider. Nah, that is not what i want. EJ died mostly because rogue theorycrafters got "bored of the class". Business, Economics, and Finance. 0. ReplyWhile I think there are better hairstyles to fit his face, he has a lot going for him. If there is a future for Blizzard and WoW it’s a future without Ion Hazzikostas. He was the leader of the Elitist Jerks guild before he was hired to work at Blizzard. ION HAZZIKOSTAS: We hear from them, their leaders are visible streamers and folks who have large audiences who get their feedback out and it’s unmistakable. Ion Hazzikostas @WatcherDev. Dreadmoon-saurfang (Dreadmoon) December 18, 2020, 12:39am #9 Most notably, long-time guild leader of Elitist Jerks Ion Hazzikostas (Watcher on the forums) wound up as WoW 's game director. I actually love this dude. Ion Hazzikostas, before he joined Blizzard was an associate in the litigation department at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. There were many topics covered and we'll get into the highlights, but you can watch the whole thing here, as there are English. ). Deleted. When asked what would happen after Wrath of the Lich King Classic during his interview with Asmongold, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas explained that the development team is looking to hear from the community on the topic and would even like to break down specifics, such as if there is a certain thing about Cataclysm that the Classic. “Random outcomes that seem like they’re binary and determine success or failure, where you feel like you won or lost, or strong or weak based purely on the flip of a coin or the roll of a die, well that’s very. 0. In a YouTube video that has resurfaced, Ion Hazzikostas, Game Director of World of Warcraft and member of Elitist Jerks, narrates a guild run for the Amani War Bear in Zul'Aman. From the BlizzCon 2013 US Press Kit: As lead encounter designer on the World of Warcraft® team, Ion Hazzikostas’s primary responsibility is overseeing the creation of. Support. Ion Hazzikostas is one of the lead game designers for WoW. 5%, but Game Director Ion Hazzikostas responded on Twitter that Limit simply encountered a bug and no second secret phase was ever intended for the boss. World of Warcraft on Reddit! I played on MalGanis in vanilla and if I recall correctly Ion was a shaman in EJ, he got the scarab lord title/achieve and also an NPC named after him that was present in TBC, and WotLK, the ring if blood type arena quest lines. Big difference from the days of ghostcrawler doing mainly arena, back when pvp was in its prime. Look I get that Ion Hazzikostas is being praised for FINALLY admitting that "hey guys maybe we went too far" but lets talk about what it took for them to finally reach this decision. Ion Hazzikostas is the Popular Game Director of Blizzard Entertainment. Him and many others like him such as Indalamar/Ramaladni are best known for being the first generation of theorycrafters. Gonk could also be named after the player Gonktarget, an orc hunter of Ion Hazzikostas's guild "Elitist Jerks" who frequently posts on their forums. Season 4 Success. January 14, 2023. He is not hiding behind pre-made words, he actualy says. In an interview with IGN, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas shared his thoughts on the newly announced plan to enable cross-faction grouping for dungeons, raids, and PvP in Shadowlands Patch 9. . Yes. Blizzard Posted. ion Hazzikostas is from Irvin City of California (America) and he recently appeared on the famous show World of Warcraft for an interview session with Asmongold. Instead of focusing on the world, they moved all their effort to (competetive) endgame. Elitist jerks leader being lead dev makes a lot of sense in terms of the expansion's failures, since the expansion is solely catered towards hardcore elitist raiders and no one else. Seems really good in Mythic+ right now, and they're. They forgot about the world they created in classic, and left it unchanged for a very long time until cataclysm, where they renewed it in a way people. Later, as the final nail in the coffin, the site was sold to Ten Ton Hammer. World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas talks the game's future and current soul-searching . As you may remember, back in April, Ion was asked about datamined blue eyes in an interview, replying that they were intended as NPC options. 1 with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas! Patch 9. When asked about the continually increasing emphasis of addons in PvE content during his interview with Asmongold, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas had a lot to say, acknowledging a shift from informational to computational addons which solve encounter mechanics for players automatically, which has become more difficult to. His height is 1. Meriweather: They were not actually elitists or jerks. 5 discussing Time Rift lag, Augmentation Evoker Damage Meters, Gearing and more!. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. venturebeat. Reply With Quote. Dragonflight 10. That’s not gonna be in 10. He is not afraid of talking about misstakes they,him. Preach is sitting down to discuss the details of Patch 9. 1. 0. Standing next to him is also the npc Wodin who is a troll rogue in the same. 5 still has a little bit more story to tell about some of the aftermath of everything that we've seen. Ion “Watcher” Hazzikostas, Game Director for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. Ion only came into development of WoW during Wrath. Many players have been frustrated with Torghast recently, due to some of the recent changes to Torghast and the increases in difficulty to the mode. Read more about his role and vision for the future of WoW on MassivelyOP. 5, cross faction raiding, a change in philosophies when designing WoW and more. Preach Interview with Ion Hazzikostas on WoW 9. profession Game director. Ion Hazzikostas is the Game Director (previously Assistant Game Director[citation needed] and Lead Game Designer and Lead Encounter Designer before that) for World of Warcraft. Most of this thread would get excised from EJ for improper grammar. level 2. " Well yeah, that's what your lot started on Elitist Jerks a decade ago, don't blame the players for something literally you engineered. Patch 9. Despite being in full Naxxramas gear and utilizing a unique strategy to deal with the added mechanics, their best attempt. "Election. World of Warcraft Forums Daily facts. 1. Straw Poll: Ion Hazzikostas Good OR Bad Dev You can VOTE here: strawpoll. What the extent of his magical designer powers at Blizzard are. Say what you will but it is my belief this is a sincere attempt to gauge the community interest in content after the defined "end" of the classic era. Well, the mystery of the NA "extended maintenance" has been resolved, as it was CLEARLY only there so Game Director Ion Hazzikostas could get the first ever Renown 10 rank!!1 Caught in the act by Kozmo4life , " Gurgthock " got the rank before servers went up, showing pure corruption in he upper ranks of Blizzard, as Ion exploited. Last. During a Dragonflight group interview, World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas talks about the importance of class and character fantasy. Bellular interviewed Game Director Ion Hazzikostas on Patch 10. Posted: Jan 31, 2022 12:00 pm. Comment by actaeix on 2020-11-19T17:06:45-06:00For me it is clear that the current development team destroyed world of warcraft over the years. If you couldn’t make a coherent point backed by data and just came in with “feelscraft”, you would get laughed off the site. Ion Hazzikostas joined Blizzard during TBC and was already strongly involved in Wotlk’s raid designing process. Ion Hazzikostas (Game Director) got world first Renown 10 before servers are even up!. USA Texas Fort Worth [1] 1978. real name. In an interview with GameSpot, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas talked about a possible old-world update as WoW is reaching its 20th anniversary. 1’s exciting features, from the challenges of creating engaging raid and Mythic+ content to the Great. 4, die Götter von Zul'Aman, erscheint am am 22. He only does Mythic raids. —I have just watched the Q&A and i must say, i am so happy that Ion Hazzikostas is the game director of my favorite game. 0. Ion Hazzikostas: We used our Artifact Weapons to drain the corruption from that sword in 2018. Patch 2. There was some kinks to work out, but they have been addressed and they now see this as something that can happen towards the end of every expansion. Gurgthock is old friends with Renzik "The Shiv". He was a total fucking tool on the Elitist Jerks forum, and even now, a decade later, the guy cant ever admit he might not be correct. 2. Unlike Classic, which actually had a lot of unknowns, players solved TBC. But still he is the boss , he is raiding hardcore since classic and he makes a game which he enjoys Reply. Instead of focusing on the world, they moved all their effort to (competetive) endgame. Ian Hazzikostas (Ion Hazzikostas) birth. Coldkil. It blows my mind that people STILL don’t correlate Ion, the Guild Master of Elitist Jerks, with Ion, the Game Director of World of Warcraft. 1版本“统御之链”的设计思路与相关展望。. The person leading the investigation. Malosi-stormrage June 3, 2019, 1:41am #6. General Discussion. For me it is clear that the current development team destroyed world of warcraft over the years. In our group interview with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, we asked him several questions on end-game systems, namely why players would choose utility legendaries and modified droprates after the new "loot is loot" simplification system. ” The only thing I’d count on is that they’ll probably be Horde. In a YouTube video that has resurfaced, Ion Hazzikostas, Game Director of World of Warcraft and member of Elitist Jerks, narrates a guild run for the. With only a couple short weeks before the launch of Dragonflight, Raider. Some others might have been too, I dunno. the Assistant Game Director to WoW! Blizzard hired a good number of them. “@jurble It was a brief experiment; we got fairly overwhelming feedback at the time that randomness in the number of drops added a frustrating amount of variation, where the most common outcome of getting 1 drop, when you knew 3. As we know prior to being game director Ion was raid design and was very solid at his job although content was often released buggy. moves made on Ion era cause they wanted 25/20 man raids to be the proponent effect of the game cause that is what the elitist jerks did. The GM of Elitist Jerks (Ion Hazzikostas) went on to become. Upcoming World of Warcraft expansion Dragonflight will be the ninth biennial release for the 18 year old MMO, but it’s also the beginning of something new. View in 3D Links. Keep it clean. Everything is fine. Raidleader of US guild <Elitist Jerks>. Ion just makes terrible decisions and decide to fix everything when a good chunk of their playerbase is gone. >a guild member of lead designer Ion Hazzikostas'. VentureBeat’s Full Interview Cross Faction Raiding Cross faction raiding was briefly brought up and Ion had this to say about it:Elitist jerks is a legendary title within this game’s community, dating back to the first well-known theorycrafting site. TIL there are people who frequent r/wow and don't know about Elitist Jerks and their past. 2m. World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, in our exclusive Q&A. The Game Director for World of Warcraft, Ion Hazzikostas, was the Guild Master of Elitist Jerks, a guild with the greatest WoW forums on the Internet, before being invited to work at Blizzard Entertainment and quitting his job as a lawyer. In other words, the usual copout when being called to deliver and actually not having a clue. After the reveal of WoW 10. You didn’t have to write and argue on Ion’s level, but there were high standards for post quality. A top World of Warcraft (WoW) Mythic+ and Raiding site featuring character & guild profiles, Mythic+ Scores, Raid Progress, Guild Recruitment, the Race to World First, and more. It blows my mind that people STILL don’t correlate Ion, the Guild Master of Elitist Jerks, with Ion, the Game Director of World of Warcraft. Ion used to be a hardcore raider in Elitist Jerks back in the day. El theorycrafting resultaría ser uno de los principales legados de su hermandad, ¿ya habías escuchado sobre él?Sloot is interviewing Game Director Ion Hazzikostas on his Twitch Stream and answering questions about Shadowlands! We'll be liveblogging the interview and summarizing important answers in this post. 2. Elitist jerks leader being lead dev makes a lot of sense in terms of the expansion's failures, since the expansion is solely catered towards hardcore elitist raiders and no one else. Story sucks, classes suck, systems suck, etc. He has made EVERYTHING a failed esport now and completely ruined classic. There is no Sylvanas in XIV. The Game Director for World of Warcraft, Ion Hazzikostas, was the Guild Master of Elitist Jerks, a guild with the greatest WoW forums on the Internet, before being invited to work at Blizzard Entertainment and quitting his job as a lawyer. Sadly though Blizzard probably won’t fire him because they rely on the revenue Ion brings in with. He was in elitist jerks, a theorycrafter, and mathematically proved that Cthun was impossible, even after blizzard stated otherwise. Posted October 11, 2020. The result of months of discussion and planning, he was there to take a deeper look at a game he had played for over 15 years, and the company behind it. Just found out Ion Hazzikostas mains a Resto Shaman (and is pretty damn active too). No if he did itd be a joke cause in reality Ion is an AWFUL player. IT System Engineer by day, avid gamer by night! Bob has been gaming his entire life and first started standing on a chair playing the arcade version of Super Mario Bros. 79. Dedgears-kul-tiras July 10, 2021, 7:13pm #10. Talking about Dragonflight with the WoW Game Director, Ion Hazzikostas! I asked about a variety of systems topics in Dragonflight such as why there isn't Pla. It's funny that people always accuse Ion of being an Elitist that wants to make everyone miserable except for Hardcore raiders. Career. In TBC they were one of the top 10 in the US usually, and sat in the top 25 worldwide. Ion Hazzikostas has tweeted about the decision to add blue eyes as customization options for Blood Elves and Void Elves in Shadowlands. During Mike's visit to blizzard back at the end of October last year, he was able to have some wonderful informal discussions with a variety of Blizzard devs. The first major content drop for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight's expansion, Embers of Neltharion, drops tomorrow and we had the chance to chat with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas and Lead Quest. Faster paced, higher lethality PvP is probably better for WoW PvP overall but getting killed before you get a chance to react isn't great. He needs to work on that mount collection!In a YouTube video that has resurfaced, Ion Hazzikostas, Game Director of World of Warcraft and member of Elitist Jerks, narrates a guild run for the Amani War Bear in Zul'Aman. 1 group interview, discussing design philosophy, computational addons, and taking dragonriding into the future!. Keeping balance on all classes is the goal and that includes Augmentation. Afrasiabi obviously caused a lot of problems, but Kaplan was generally a good designer who made a lot of the most classic content. Context: C'thun was unbeatable with the current gear available to players at the time and the bugs that existed. He talked a bit about why some things felt unfinished, especially specific class specialisations. 0 and moving up to a new position with Activation Blizzard. Instead of focusing on the world, they moved all their effort to (competetive) endgame. youtube comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment Snugglepuff14 • Additional comment actions. So in turn. . Forbes was lucky enough to get a private interview with World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, in which they discussed his feelings on the upcoming Shadowlands launch, its future possibilities, and a very interesting question regarding the end-game faction imbalance between Alliance and Horde player populations. IO's on the Race to World First, over on Douyu (the Chinese streaming platform Twitch equivalent). Ion seems less reluctant than most devs to tell the truth occasionally about WoW actually is, but the mental pretzels he shoots out during extended posts and talks are painful to read or listen to. To me, he's done a very good job with the game and he was responsible for some very iconic. Hakkar Hardmode - Ion Hazzikostas was hardcore . WIRED interviewed Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, wherein he spoke about how World of Warcraft has changed over the years, particularly player motivation and social evolution. They forgot about the world they created in classic, and left it unchanged for a very long time until cataclysm, where they renewed it in a way people. With the latest expansion about to launch, WoW lead game designer Ion Hazzikostas discusses the history and the future of the game. Several. Just found out Ion Hazzikostas mains a Resto Shaman (and is pretty damn active too). Posted on August 8, 2022 by Anonymous. Maximum of Team Liquid is interviewing World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas on Twitch, with a focus on Season 4 content, as well as raiding and Mythic+ in Dragonflight. 0. World of Warcraft Forums Daily facts. Wowhead Patch 10. He plays a Shaman, so yeah ironically one of the worst classes in the game. A long-running gag-feature of EJ’s forums was getting banned for typos and misspellings. Reply Otzil. Don't get me wrong, I've got plenty of beef with Ion for being generally incompetent and his constant resorting to mealy-mouthed lawyerspeak in Q&As, but the guy's hardly. 4 months before a new expansion. fr though, we need more communication regarding the plans for pvp. Report Save. With all the Hate some Gamedevs get these days I want to take the time and appreciate how open Ion is to the community. 7’s release, we had the chance to sit down with Ion Hazzikostas, Game Director of World of Warcraft, to talk about the success of Dragonflight and the overall ‘state of the game. 11. 3. PC Gamer interviewed Ion Hazzikostas on lessons learned from early Battle for Azeroth, hinting at an upcoming 8. Attempt made hours before TBC pre-expansion patch in December 2006. He was only raid boss dev until he was handed the reigns mid WoD during it's failings. Below is a link to the endgame raiding thread for each class. Many topics were discussed, including the Final Boss in Shadowlands, Endgame Loot Philosophy, and our Art Interview with Ely Cannon, but we also have a summary of other talking points from the. 0. 2 info dump. 7, but some holiday updates made it into 10. 개요 [편집] Ion Hazzikostas. Ion is the raid leader for elitist jerks, but dont tell him i said that :D-3. Ion Hazzikostas: Content pacing and time-gating: Ion Hazzikostas: Alt progression and catch-up mechanisms: Ion Hazzikostas: Professions and materials: Ion Hazzikostas: Offensive use of defensive spells: Ion Hazzikostas: Paragon system in BFA: Ion Hazzikostas: Shaman #2 - in the immediate future: Ion Hazzikostas: Azerite #2 - traits,. Senior system designer J. Biggest Shadowlands Successes Making something brand new in World of Warcraft. Zaralek Cavern. He randomly targets players and summons the tentacles under them. Who is in charge of World of Warcraft? Blizzard’s Mike Ybarra clarifies that Ion Hazzikostas is still the game director, despite the recent leadership changes at the company. Ion Hazzikostas sat down with Forbes' Heather Newman to talk about the first patch of Battle for Azeroth and how it went. Amid the discussion include talking points on why the decision was made, what it means for the future of World of Warcraft, and how community. Business, Economics, and Finance. • 8 yr. io got together with the Unshackled Fury and For Azeroth! podcasts to interview Game Director Ion Hazzikostas and discuss the upcoming Race to World First event, endgame designs, and development philosophies of the coming expansion! We'll leave the full set of. Kaurmine-area-52. From the team’s growth to creating. Welcome to r/VictoriaBC! This subreddit is for residents of Victoria, BC, Canada and the Capital…VICTORIA -- Recently unsealed documents are shedding new light on the investigation into the unsolved murder of Victoria real estate agent Lindsay Buziak. Miscellaneous . CryptoBack in the day, they were pretty much the authority on game mechanics, with their guys being the first ones to spot bugs and knowing stuff about the game often better than Blizzard themselves. Elitist Jerks (Horde, Mal'ganis) attempts Hakkar with all Priests up. Ion Hazzikostas, the Game Director at World of Warcraft, was invited to work at Blizzard Entertainment due to his experience as a Guild Master for the WoW forum, Elitist Jerks. 3M subscribers in the wow community. 1 is the first content developed completely from work at home. Grup ini memiliki forum WoW terbesar di internet. Blizzard is preparing to remove a number of inappropriate and poorly-aged references from World of Warcraft, a move which game director Ion Hazzikostas explained was not merely a "smokescreen" to. 2. Ion Hazzikostas is stepping up as game director! Greetings fellow WoW players, It’s been a little over a month since we launched Legion, and it’s been awesome to see. We do change the meta and everything on its head each second patch or so to keep things. 1. Ion Hazzikostas: We actually have some answers to that question coming in Shadowlands. Ion Hazzikostas wrecked world of warcraft. Blizz basically hired the GL of one of the top raiding guilds at the time to become a raid encounter designer, and he just moved up to game director recently. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. <Nihilum> (and later <Ensidia>) shared the same benefits. Now they're giving away shadowlands with a free 50 boost because they're so down bad. Game Director Ion Hazzikostas and Lead Quest Designer Josh Augustine conducted a Dragonflight Patch 10. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment. 0 Speculation ThreadIon Hazzikostas, who was born on September 26, 1978, is 43 years old as of today’s date, May 18, 2022. Now this is a "leak and could be total BS. All details on the site gamebastion. . 0 last. Senior system designer J. Want to know more about Patch 9. 8 min read. Elitist Jerks was the go to theory crafting site for the longest time, also a guild on mal'ganis. Ion Hazzikostas replacement of Tom Chilton as game director broke news last month. He is not hiding behind pre-made words, he actualy says. Also you seem opposed to any new lore they write, sorry but most of the warcraft 3 lore is used at this point, you cant just keep writing the lore of the coat tails of an RTS forever. For me it is clear that Ion Hazzikostas, as game director, is directly responsible for how the game evolved. Giám đốc trò chơi của World of Warcraft, Ion Hazzikostas, là Guild Master của Elitist Jerks, một bang hội có các diễn đàn WoW vĩ đại nhất trên Internet, trước khi được mời làm việc tại Blizzard Entertainment và từ bỏ công việc luật sư. A snippet. He plays the game so he knows our struggle if something is broken or unfair. This company was basically based law firm. 2. Menu. Written by Ion Hazzikostas. This was backed up mathematically by Ion from EJ. The Gods of Zul'Aman patch launches on March 22nd and the raid releases on March 24th. To me, he's done a very good job with the game and he was responsible for some very iconic. WoW Insider posted yesterday about Flexible Raiding's magic numbers. Go to Blue Tracker » Recent Forum PostsThe original point was a question to you. 2. Polygon has interviewed Ion Hazzikostas on Torghast, who announced there are a bunch of changes in the works, aimed at easing the experience of Torghast. Rewards aside, the Forbidden Reach is full. 5 Interview with Ion Hazzikostas - "Mandatory" Raid Specs,. Instead of focusing on the world, they moved all their effort to (competetive) endgame. 5. I remember it blew my mind when I found out Ion Hazzikostas was the same Gurgthock that was the leader of Elitist Jerks on Mal'Ganis back in vanilla (and a bit onward). For some reason I considered Elitist Jerk a rogue dominated forum back in the day, just saw a post of the creator of Shadowcraft saying a goodbye as well on EJ forums. and most of all blizzard fucking. View ProfileWIRED interviewed Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, wherein he spoke about how World of Warcraft has changed over the years,. Business, Economics, and Finance. He is not hiding behind pre-made words, he actualy says. Apr 2009. but what impact do you think this would have on everything if true?Being born on 26 September 1978, Ion Hazzikostas is 45 years old as of today’s date 15th November 2023. No fun allowed as is tradition. Deleted. I have just watched the Q&A and i must say, i am so happy that Ion Hazzikostas is the game director of my favorite game. net worth $20 million. He is not hiding behind pre-made words, he actualy says. Easy to organize raid groups. . Fun fact: This NPC is named after the GM of Elitist Jerks, as we already know from previous comments, HOWEVER, he is also Ion Hazzikostas, now lead game developer. 5. Το σκεπτικό ήταν να προσφέρει απαντήσεις στην κοινότητα, με τρόπο ανοιχτό και ειλικρινή, και αυτό ακριβώς έκανε, σε μορφή βίντεο, το οποίο και μπορείτε να βρείτε. The point is totally true, but some people (including the designers) value immediate. /10char. 1. M+ and PvP are much, much easier to coordinate logistically. While not a direct response, it hits on some of the same talking points that Mike Morhaime brought up when he said WoW had become less social, along with the. Previously , he had been working as a lawyer in D. In a Buffed. 17,226. Live PTR 10. Wrath Classic: The Joyous Journeys 50% Experience Buff ReturnsBusiness, Economics, and Finance. That’s a bit of an interesting. Yes, there is some out of touch updates we would have prefered to never see. Sry game director . 47 votes, 98 comments. m. Members of the WoW Community Council interviewed Graham Berger and Ion Hazzikostas on Patch 10. 2. The current game director of World of Warcraft, Ion Hazzikostas, used to be the GM of Elitist Jerks. The team is super happy with how Season 4 has turned out. GameStop Moderna Pfizer Johnson & Johnson AstraZeneca Walgreens Best Buy Novavax SpaceX Tesla. In today’s World of Warcraft livestream, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas revealed the plans for upcoming raid content in patch 8. Greek Community Q&A with Ion Hazzikostas. what happened to them? well, the game has apparently less number crunching so that means theres less need for theorycrafting. This feat was also attempted by current Game Director Ion Hazzikostas and his guild Elitist Jerks back in the day, but even they weren't able to get it done, wiping at 2%!Now the Classic client isn't the same as Vanilla was, so there's plenty of room to argue here, but one thing is certain, this definitely is a World First, regardless of how you look at it!+20 mythic key teleporters. Massive tuning changes to bosses in Mythic Raid? fr though, we need more communication regarding the plans for pvp. The thing that I believe and I've said before is that Ion's love of WoW is not for the whole of the game. Kotick doesn’t care, he’s not a game developer. Also, ppl tend to move on with their lives from. For me it is clear that the current development team destroyed world of warcraft over the years. If you have a Reddit account, you can post on the thread and hopefully, Ion will answer your questions! The AMA has ended and we have all the replies compiled below. 4. Here is some reasons why: He is passionate about the Warcraft universe. Ion still hasn’t publicly supported the victims of Blizzard or the workers union. He has made EVERYTHING a failed esport now and completely ruined. That should tell you how unfit this dude is to lead the game. The rest of the opening ceremonies he was a wreck. He really…Befor Ion we didn’t had situation where our talents was broken - call fel lord, broken for second Xpac in the row. 0 and moving up to a new position with Activation Blizzard. began to publicly discuss C'Thun Strategies after 1,5 month of futile attempts on said boss. We had the chance to submit some questions for the new Ion Hazzikostas interview and they all god answered, YAY! Dragonflight professions catch-up is on the. 1. He plays the game so he knows our struggle if something is broken or unfair. He's the GM of Elitist Jerks. I have seen the word ion many times in my life as i enjoy science and sci-fi. We want to offer an interesting experience for them. Big difference from the days of ghostcrawler doing mainly arena, back when pvp. 10 hours ago. <Method> has regularly exploited and always remain unpunished. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. With transparency, communication, and community engagement at the forefront of WoW development in 2023, ahead of 10. An Open Response to Ion Hazzikostas. X Patches & 11. PC Gamer Interview with Ion Hazzikostas on BFA's Development. That's a real person you're talking about, not a game mechanic or imaginary elf. Somewhat related, this is one of many things that made the Elitist Jerks forums such a treasure back in the day. Save the Date! BlizzCon is Coming November 3-4. . Some updates may be small, some may be larger and include new mini-games, new achievements but goal is to get to update them before they get. 1, and Ion announced that they are currently looking at adding some new affixes to the level 7 tier, and rotating some affixes out. The lore of Shadowlands with a focus on Sylvanas' characterization was discussed in recent interviews with Ion Hazzikostas, including past parallels to Garrosh and the the challenges of developing a character that elicits passionate community responses. Today, Ion Hazzikostas is a developer on World of Warcraft, but before that he was the guild leader of Elitist Jerks, and after crunching some numbers, famously concluded. He just spent a Q&A session lamenting the fact that Legion lets you no-life-grind and RNG your way to totally ridiculous power levels before setting. Instead of focusing on the world, they moved all their effort to (competetive) endgame. Ion Hazzikostas is Gurgthock, the guild leader of Elitest Jerks. 1. An hour ago. Ion still hasn’t publicly supported the victims of Blizzard or the workers union. 1. Some players may remember the guild <Elitist Jerks>, led by none other than World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, attempting the boss mere hours before The Burning Crusade expansion launched in December 2006. Elitist Jerks was the go to theory crafting site for the longest time, also a guild on mal'ganis. Shenanigans, May 17, 2023 #37. Kronos WoW - The official community subreddit for Kronos, a private vanilla WoW server by TwinStarEh, you dont know much about him then. 120K subscribers in the VictoriaBC community. Mendel and Igorath-Bertox like this. An extra outer ring that has two spec specific traits per spec. He was saying there is a leak that Ion hazzikostas is leaving with 10. I liked the Elitist Jerks website because I wanted to be optimal at raiding but those people banned you for the slightest excuse so it was a huge. Based on what had transpired during the World First Race on Limit's stream, many thought that N'Zoth had a second secret phase that activates at 25. 1. 2014-10-19, 10:44 PM #5. I think that you are just uniformed,and there is nothing wrong with that. - Hedon - 04-18-2006. Here is some reasons why: He is passionate about the Warcraft universe. He was - or still is - the GM of Elitist Jerks, so that alone should answer your query. We will likely be getting the patch 8. In an interview with Chinese website Gamersky, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas answered a question about soloing Legion Raids like Tomb of Sargeras and Antorus. de asked Ion about the giant sword stuck in Azeroth and if there were any plans to include a new story around it in Dragonflight. Advertisement This is the most important guild in one of the. World of Warcraft on Reddit! The GM of Elitist Jerks (Ion Hazzikostas) went on to become. Some others might have been too, I dunno. The first was settled. In einem wieder aufgetauchten YouTube-Video beschreibt Ion Hazzikostas, Game Director von World of Warcraft und Mitglied von Elitist Jerks, einen Gildenlauf für den Kriegsbär der Amani in Zul'Aman. Although we highly recommend reading the full interview, you can catch. CryptoThe normal terms are "soft cap" or breakpoint, depending on the specifics. More raids that will never be run in another game hijacked by "elitist jerks" Ion Hazzikostas. You claimed to know about these things. 15:00. Shadowlands Storytelling from Ion Hazzikostas Interviews -. Elitist jerks? Ion Hazzikostas is their leader. Click the banner below to read the full article! The team created an internal process for employees to flag pieces of the game for review that haven't aged well or could be seen as offensive, and a diverse group reviewed them for change.