Hard to say exactly what we’ll do. We have a lot of ideas, that’s for sure and we had a lot of ideas before SoD even released. The funny thing about our process on classic is that we have ideas and plans going into things, but those ideas often times evolve rapidly into something else based on reception and feedback. It’s one of the best and worst things about our team. Our pipelines can’t be set too much in stone too early because we know we’ll want to pivot based on what we learn mid-race. It’s also why our team being smaller and more focused is so valuable (even if we have some rougher edges sometimes than we’d like). With a large team comes a lot of capabilities we might not have, but it also comes a the cost of agility.

I think my comments were more just rumination on the sort of dichotomy of how awesome the original wow leveling game is vs. what our goals for SoD are with all the class changes we made. I think I’m very glad we have Era and Hardcore to preserve that original WoW leveling journey as it was though. I’d likely feel very different about SoD if that didn’t exist.

I of course think SoD is fantastic and I’m very happy with it and super proud of what the team did with it. I absolutely want to keep doing more things like this and/or to build on this. Part of being a good dev imo is looking at what could be improved though, and keeping that in mind as much as also looking at what works and building on that.