Fireside Chat 2026-11-2

[Kestrel]

We will be hosting another weekly fireside chat with Kestrel on November 2nd at 11pm UTC. Join us in game to ask any question you may have about the project, where we are headed, and make any suggestions you'd like!

Chats will take place for 30 minutes on each realm, starting on the PvE realm, then Hardcore realm, then PvP realm (15 minutes on each faction). Look forward to seeing you all there!

[Leyla]

We will be hosting another weekly fireside chat with Kestrel on November 2nd at 11pm UTC. Join us in game to ask any question you may have about the project, where we are headed, and make any suggestions you'd like!

Chats will take place for 30 minutes on each realm, starting on the PvE realm, then Hardcore realm, then PvP realm (15 minutes on each faction). Look forward to seeing you all there!

Hello Kestrel! Lovely idea!

Unfortunately I cannot make it at this time today. Please note my feedback here:


General feeback:
- I think you guys hit the nail on the head with the Blood Ring PvP set adjustments. They are on a level to be relevant without being over-powered, so perfect!

Questions:
- Are there plans to alter the arena map pool? Sunstrider Court is very small, and something like Nagrand Arena would be a great addition/replacement.
- Is it planned to enable tmogs in arena again in the future?

Suggestions:
- I understand why gear (apart from weapons) is set to unchangable during an arena round. But trinket swapping should be allowed in arena when out of combat, as it's a significant staple of vanilla pvp. In many matchups it adds another layer of complexity for players to battle it out.
- Making consumables usable in arena turns it into a pay2win cash battle, for the most part. Popping a LIP, FAP, flask, GSPP or the like can be an enormous, game-deciding advantage. Ratings, in the most general sense, exist to reflect capability. That would be a) skill, b) team composition and c) gear quality. Hence my suggestions: Disable all usables/consumables apart from conjurable consumables. Healthstones should only be usable when you have a warlock in your team.


That said, I am very grateful for arena making its comeback now! Thank you for taking the time to read my suggestions, you guys are doing great work!

[Kestrel]

Questions:
- Are there plans to alter the arena map pool? Sunstrider Court is very small, and something like Nagrand Arena would be a great addition/replacement.
- Is it planned to enable tmogs in arena again in the future?

Suggestions:
- I understand why gear (apart from weapons) is set to unchangable during an arena round. But trinket swapping should be allowed in arena when out of combat, as it's a significant staple of vanilla pvp. In many matchups it adds another layer of complexity for players to battle it out.
- Making consumables usable in arena turns it into a pay2win cash battle, for the most part. Popping a LIP, FAP, flask, GSPP or the like can be an enormous, game-deciding advantage. Ratings, in the most general sense, exist to reflect capability. That would be a) skill, b) team composition and c) gear quality. Hence my suggestions: Disable all usables/consumables apart from conjurable consumables. Healthstones should only be usable when you have a warlock in your team.


That said, I am very grateful for arena making its comeback now! Thank you for taking the time to read my suggestions, you guys are doing great work!

Thank you for the kind words <3

We do plan to introduce more arena maps to the pool, and eventually have a rotation of arena maps to keep things fresh once we have enough to be rotating through. I will say that new arena maps are likely not to come until new zone/dungeon/raid content is added though as that is higher priority for the team at the moment.

We do have a patch coming to arenas SOONtm that will adjust a few things, including consumable usage in the arena, some cooldown/ability usage in the arena, and the currency used to purchase the gear.

Excited to get some (realm v realm) arena tournaments going in the future as well!