Blizzard Entertainment has dropped extensive development notes for World of Warcraft: Midnight's Public Alpha. The update brings major changes to every class, introduces the long awaited player housing system, and includes significant quality of life improvements designed to make gameplay more accessible.
Player Housing Makes Its Debut
Player housing is now testable in the Alpha. Players receive "A House for You" upon logging in, which walks them through their faction's Neighborhood, introduces the Steward, and leads to purchasing a house. The system lets players customize interior layouts, expand into basements and attics, and decorate with items from vendors, professions, and world exploration.
Blizzard has outlined what's coming during Alpha and Beta testing. Future updates will add house relocation, exterior decoration and customization, house exterior size upgrades, and Charter Neighborhoods for custom player groups. Endeavors will let neighborhoods work collectively toward rewards, while social visiting features will make it easy for friends, neighbors, party members, and guild mates to visit each other's homes.
Character Level and Available Content
The Alpha build features level 80 character templates with a maximum level of 83. Available content includes Eversong Woods, the level up campaign, local stories, the Arator Campaign, and Arcantina Visitor Quest 1 (unlocked after completing the Arator Campaign). Blizzard recommends creating new template characters for each phase rather than using previous characters, which may be broken.
Stat Squish and Combat Changes
Midnight introduces a stat squish affecting player and creature health, damage, healing, item levels, and stats on items. Character levels aren't affected. Blizzard acknowledges some items or effects may have been squished incorrectly or too harshly. Legacy content scaling has been adjusted to compensate.
The diminishing returns system has been reworked to reduce PvP frustration with crowd control. Players now become immune after two applications of CC from the same category (like after being stunned twice). The reset timer for diminishing return categories dropped to 16 seconds from 18 seconds.
All classes received increased interrupt durations in PvE content for better tools against caster enemies in dungeons. Most interrupts now last 5 seconds instead of 3, with some variations: Mages and Warlocks have 7 second interrupts, Evokers have 6 second interrupts, Rogues have 6 second interrupts, and Shamans have 4 second interrupts. These changes don't affect PvP combat.
Death Knight Gets Major Rework
Blood Death Knights saw substantial changes addressing long ramp up times for both defense and offense. Shattering Bone is gone, with its power redistributed into baseline damage abilities for more consistent damage. Boneshield now requires fewer abilities to manage since Tombstone and Bonestorm no longer deduct charges.
Death Strike healing dropped from 25% to 20% of all damage taken in the last 5 seconds, but power got redistributed into baseline defensives, talents, and Boneshield. Bone Shield armor jumped by 25%. The goal is making damage intake more predictable at higher Mythic+ keys while preventing Blood Death Knights from dying before other defensives activate.
Frost Death Knights received updates to Obliterate, which now deals partial Frost damage. This lets developers fine tune damage differences between casting with Killing Machine or without. The Apex Talent tree Chosen of Frostbrood makes Frostwyrm's Fury deal 100% increased damage to the first enemy hit and grants 15% Haste for 12 seconds.
Unholy gets the most dramatic overhaul, moving away from Festering Wound mechanics. The new core rotation centers around Lesser Ghouls, a new summon type. Festering Strike now grants a buff that makes the next several Scourge Strikes summon Lesser Ghouls instead of applying debuffs to enemies. Army of the Dead has been updated to summon Lesser Ghouls and returns as the primary cooldown with a reduced 1.5 minute cooldown.
Putrefy, a new Rune spending ability, lets players sacrifice their oldest summoned Lesser Ghoul to explode and deal Shadow damage to nearby enemies. The ability is positioned early in the specialization tree for further interactions players can opt into. Targeting is automatic, just press the button.
Midnight introduces Dread Plague, a new single target disease working alongside the AOE Virulent Plague. Scourge Strike makes diseases inflict an additional tick of periodic damage at reduced effectiveness, while Runic Power spenders extend disease durations. The Blightburst talent allows Putrefy explosions to consume a significant portion of remaining disease duration and deal that damage instantly.
Demon Hunter and Druid Changes
Midnight introduces Devourer as a new Demon Hunter specialization. Havoc Demon Hunters received targeted changes reducing total button count for offensive, defensive, and utility abilities, particularly those with overlapping roles. Large multiplicative skill bonuses were changed or removed to make natural gameplay more effective. Blur now reduces damage taken by 25% instead of 20% and no longer increases Dodge chance.
Vengeance updates focus on improving defensive kit usability. Defensive gaps that made Vengeance susceptible to hard to understand deaths have been addressed by boosting baseline defenses and making Demon Spikes easier to maintain at high rates. Demon Spikes duration increases to 12 seconds from 8 seconds and its cooldown is now affected by Haste. Fel Devastation damage increases by 15% and healing by 600%.
Balance Druids see fundamental changes to how Eclipse functions. Lunar Eclipse and Solar Eclipse become active abilities with 15 second durations and 30 second cooldowns, with talents offering two charges. The goal is for Balance Druids to prepare for each Eclipse and choose the optimal moment to activate it. Depending on talents and fight pacing, Eclipse may be active 60 to 80% of the time.
Feral Druids received changes addressing hidden mechanics like bleed snapshotting, now applied only by Tiger's Fury and Prowl. Bloodtalons has been removed. These changes reduce complexity around choosing the best builder in each moment, placing more focus on maintaining bleeds and building and spending combo points. Brutal Slash and Adaptive Swarm have been removed, but new abilities like Chomp and Blood Spattered provide new tactical options.
Guardian Druid's Rage economy has been oversaturated, particularly during cooldowns and multi target contexts. Changes smooth out Rage income and provide healthier outlets while pulling back survivability contingent on multiple defensive layers. Berserk has been redesigned to reduce Mangle, Thrash, and Growl cooldowns by 50% and Frenzied Regeneration cooldown by 100% for 15 seconds. Survival Instincts now has two charges baseline.
Restoration Druids see significant reduction in the number of buffs applied to allies, making raid frames easier to parse. Mastery becomes much more effective per heal over time effect active, as Restoration Druids can now only apply up to 5 HoT effects to allies. Tranquility direct healing increases by 40% and no longer applies a HoT effect to allies.
Evoker Specialization Updates
Augmentation Evokers received changes simplifying Ebon Might targeting in raid environments. Since it now applies to all raid members, there's no need to micromanage who receives it. Ebon Might now grants 8% primary stat instead of 5% and applies to all damage dealing allies within 100 yards. It now splits its effect when applied to more than 2 other allies.
Devastation Evokers see removal of Shattering Star and Firestorm with fresh talents added, including one letting Deep Breath be used a second time. Fire Mages have had easier access to generating Hot Streak with Phoenix Flames reintroduction and Hero Talents. Midnight heavily increases damage of premier spells like Pyroblast, Flamestrike, and Meteor while reducing access to guaranteed crits by removing Phoenix Flames.
Preservation's gameplay has revolved around planning large healing moments and rotating powerful cooldowns. Midnight simplifies this by lowering the number of cooldowns being juggled and changing Lifebind. Bread and butter healing spells become more effective, particularly Emerald Blossom, Verdant Embrace, and Dream Breath. Healing Surge and Tidal Waves have been removed, with Healing Wave and Chain Heal base cast times reduced.
Hunter Specialization Overhauls
Beast Mastery Hunters received changes reinforcing their fantasy of consistent, reliable, and powerful pet sourced attacks. The number of conditionals, auras, and modifiers on Barbed Shot has been reduced to make it easier to spend when available. Bestial Wrath receives a flat 30 second cooldown when fully talented instead of Barbed Wrath's dynamic cooldown reduction.
Multi Shot has been replaced in the Beast Mastery spec tree with Wild Thrash, a new pet sourced attack dealing substantial area damage while activating effects like Beast Cleave and Kill Cleave. Kill Command damage increases by 50% and Beast Cleave duration increases to 8 seconds.
Marksmanship Hunters are generally in a satisfactory state after recent updates, but see notable changes. Streamline is being removed, with Aimed Shot damage increased to compensate. Kill Shot moves from the Hunter class tree to Marksmanship, letting the spec fully own the execute niche. Aimed Shot damage increases by 50% (unchanged in PvP combat).
Survival Hunters received continued refinement and focus on their fantasy with clearer playstyle, gameplay, and visual direction. Over Alpha's course, one handed weapons will be reintroduced to Survival Hunter's available weapons pool, distancing the spec from its spear only identity since Legion.
The spec is doubling down on its relationship with pets through new talents creating interdependency between Hunter damage and pet damage. It's also leaning into the rugged, crafty, bomb centric fantasy with Flamefang Pitch (a new Fire grenade), Boomstick (a new visual and fantasy identity for Fury of the Eagle), and numerous new Wildfire Bomb talents and synergies.
Coordinated Assault and Flanking Strike have been combined into Takedown, a new burst cooldown blending the best parts of both spells into one moment. Mongoose Bite has been redesigned, and simplifying it creates more interesting design space for Survival both now and in the future.
Mage Class Transformation
The Frostfire Hero Talent tree has been completely reworked. It previously added many auras that players were incentivized to track and play around, filling the tree with damage procs and new damage events. The redesigned tree lets gameplay more directly enhance and elevate existing gameplay within Fire and Frost trees instead of overwhelming it. Frostfire Mages should have more intuitive rotational priorities, fewer auras to track, and punchy, big moments with Frostfire Empowerment and Isothermic Core.
Significant work addresses button and aura bloat in the Mage core tree. Defensive power has been consolidated to simplify the defensive landscape and make it more approachable. All Mage Barrier spells now have 30 second cooldowns instead of 25 seconds and shield for 25% of maximum health instead of 20%. Mirror Image no longer reduces damage taken, with duration reduced to 15 seconds from 40 seconds.
Shifting Power is being removed. It was uniquely powerful for Fire Mages and substantially less interesting for Arcane and Frost, but came with tuning challenges making it difficult to balance cooldowns appropriately. Fire Mages will receive spec specific adjustments to make Fire Blast more accessible to compensate.
Arcane Mages received changes simplifying decision making around when to Arcane Barrage by reducing the number of effects and folding remaining ones into Arcane Salvo, a new resource. Arcane Pulse, a new area damage spell, replaces Arcane Explosion when learned, featuring 40 yard range and ramping damage, mana cost, and area effect per Arcane Charge.
Fire Mages have had increasingly easier access to generating Hot Streak. This impacts Pyroblast and Flamestrike tuning and combat pace in extreme ways. Midnight heavily increases damage of premier spells while reducing access to guaranteed crits by removing Phoenix Flames. Kindling becomes a flat cooldown reduction on Combustion (now reducing cooldown by 30 seconds).
Mastery: Ignite effectiveness has been reduced by 25% and no longer makes Fire Blast spread Ignite baseline. Ignite spreading as baseline functionality has proven too powerful and very cheap to acquire in the talent tree. Players now need to rebuy some power in the talent tree to present more opportunity cost across builds. Fireball damage increases by 100% (unchanged in PvP), Flamestrike damage increases by 70%, and Pyroblast damage increases by 45%.
Frost Mages received a gameplay overhaul simplifying rotation by removing competing spell priorities and giving each spell a clearer place. Midnight's Frost Mage features building and spending debuff gameplay centered around two reimagined mechanics: Freezing and Shattering. Frostbolt and Flurry apply stacks of Freezing while Ice Lance consumes them to deal significant bonus damage.
Monk, Paladin, and Priest Changes
Brewmaster's kit contains numerous very niche cooldowns and abilities, as well as talents with highly transformative gameplay impact. In aggregate, these can make the spec difficult to learn, especially combined with developing intuition around Stagger. Changes aim to broaden niches while narrowing transformational talent impact. Demon Spikes duration increases to 12 seconds from 8 seconds and its cooldown is now affected by Haste.
Mistweaver's Midnight updates focus on simplifying moment to moment decision making and tracking while making cooldown moments smoother. Jadefire Stomp's positional gameplay has been removed as it didn't match combat approachability goals. Sheilun's Gift now overrides Vivify when learned, with healing increased by 25% and mana cost matching Vivify. Vivify primary healing increases by 60% and no longer reduces healing beyond 5 targets.
Windwalker Monk's Midnight updates primarily focus on removing conditional modifiers and ensuring base spell damage feels impactful. Critical strikes will be the main way damage changes values; otherwise each spell remains largely consistent between in and out of cooldowns. The goal is reducing rotational overhead and allowing more focus on procs, resource management, and Mastery: Combo Strikes to drive gameplay.
Holy Paladin's updates focus on removing various inconsequential healing sources and cutting secondary tracking buffs. The amount of mid range cooldowns has been reduced to ensure Aura Mastery is a satisfying and impactful button press. Light of Dawn has been updated to target in a circular radius around the paladin rather than a frontal cone, as getting the perfect angle could sometimes be difficult.
Protection Paladins received changes addressing pain points at combat start with competing priorities and abilities clashing. They were subject to significant pressure and tension between defensive abilities, Holy Power generation, generating and maintaining threat, and immediate need to place Consecration. Changes also smooth things out by paring back short duration or low impact defensive abilities to concentrate power into fewer moving parts.
Retribution Paladin receives close examination of Holy Power generation, setup spell casts, Hero Talent balance, and third gate spec tree design. Execution Sentence and Final Reckoning have been combined into one powerful ability useful in both AOE and single target situations. The new Execution Sentence unleashes a heavenly blast around the target, dealing Holy damage to all enemies nearby, and calls down a hammer slowly falling from the sky upon the target.
Discipline Priests aim to consolidate and remove cooldowns and damage/healing modifiers to make base spell casts feel strong. With removal of Schism, Shadow Covenant, and several supporting talents, focus shifts to Mind Blast, Penance, and Shadow Word: Pain dealing solid consistent damage, providing access to chunky burst healing on more consistent cadence. Atonement now heals all targets for 60% of damage done instead of 28%.
Holy Priests see changes removing medium cooldown spells and tracking auras while boosting power of existing spells to improve consistent healing. Individual spell casts should feel powerful even outside cooldowns. Longstanding casted spells Renew and Heal have been removed. Renew is now only triggered through talents like Benediction and Lasting Words.
Shadow Priest changes focus on simplifying the cooldown launch sequence and the frequent number of high priority procs in the rotation. Updates also refine the fantasy and visuals of core spells to create a consistent theme of using Old Gods power to haunt enemies. Void Eruption has been renamed to Voidform to reduce confusion. Devouring Plague has been renamed to Shadow Word: Madness and redesigned.
Rogue Specialization Changes
Assassination received numerous changes focusing it on core DOT maintenance and Energy management gameplay. Special case ability uses have been removed from the rotation, such as applying Caustic Spatter with Mutilate. The number of abilities used in cooldown windows has been reduced. AOE gameplay has been updated to remove the need to enter stealth to apply bleeds to multiple targets.
An element of Energy management and timing has been added. Assassination Rogues are deliberate fighters, and choosing when to spend Energy is an important part of gameplay. Strong new rewards exist for maintaining unbroken strings of Envenoms, so players should bank Energy then stretch every Envenom to its limit to keep pressure on targets.
Outlaw before Midnight could be very demanding to play. Factors involved in when to cast Roll the Bones could be complex, performance relied heavily on maintaining Adrenaline Rush, and shortened global cooldown could result in high actions per minute. Midnight aims for Outlaw to be a very approachable rogue spec while embodying its fantasy of a tricky, resourceful, sometimes underhanded fighter willing to roll the dice and take a chance.
Roll the Bones now grants a single bonus of varying power. Outlaw no longer uses Vanish offensively, and Adrenaline Rush has consistent duration but provides a bigger boost while active. Roll the Bones has been updated to provide one of four possible bonuses of increasing power, each granting all bonuses of previous ranks and adding a new one.
Coming into Midnight, Subtlety had multitude of overlapping damage increases from cooldowns, conditional bonuses, and temporary effects needing precise alignment in unintuitive ways to produce good damage results. It overly punished players for getting it wrong, and even when correct could make rotational gameplay feel much more rigid than intended. Subtlety's Midnight updates focus on giving cooldowns and effects clear purpose while reducing the number of conditional effects needing tracking.
Shaman Class Overhauls
Goals with Elemental for Midnight include reducing the number of rotational abilities and auras tracked, making it simpler to engage with Stormbringer talents, and adding new gameplay for using fire spells in AOE. Flame Shock can now be replaced with an upgraded ability, Voltaic Blaze, that applies 6 Flame Shocks and causes the next Lava Burst to hit all Flame Shocked targets.
Going into Midnight, changes aim to reduce the amount of information to track for playing Enhancement Shaman optimally. Goals include reducing the number of buttons, auras, and spell highlights to track while heavily considering how it feels to play Enhancement Shaman. Maelstrom Weapon has been updated so melee damage has a chance to generate Maelstrom Weapon, stacking up to 5 times. Each stack reduces cast time of Lightning Bolt or Chain Lightning by 20% and boosts their damage by 20%.
Shamans have many strong utility options and numerous rotational spells, so an important goal for Midnight was balancing the number of possible active abilities. Changes also aim to remove talents that add constantly active auras or temporarily modify other spells, which can make normal spell casts feel weak. A significant change is removal of Healing Surge and Tidal Waves. Base cast time of Healing Wave and Chain Heal has been reduced to simplify gameplay.
Warlock Receives Substantial Updates
Unstable Affliction and Seed of Corruption are returning as Affliction's main Soul Shard spenders. Malefic Rapture solved many issues that plagued Affliction toward the end of Battle for Azeroth, but placed heavy emphasis on rotational setup and increased overall complexity. Malefic Rapture constantly posed the question "when should I spend my Soul Shards?" which was difficult to answer given how many factors impacted its throughput.
Vile Taint has been removed and replaced with Shared Agony, an effect similar to Balance Druid's Twin Moons. This gives a controlled, tunable method of scaling Agony application in multi target situations that maintains core, DOT centric gameplay of Affliction.
Summon Darkglare cooldown extends to 2 minutes from 1 minute to reduce frequency in which players want to pool Soul Shards to maximize Unstable Affliction with Darkglare. A new 1 minute cooldown, Dark Harvest, has been introduced as an experimental channeled spell mirroring Malefic Rapture in some ways but needing only a single DOT effect to maximize throughput instead of scaling per DOT effect.
The first goal for Demonology moving into Midnight is addressing reliance on addons to monitor Wild Imp energy to make decisions on when to cast spells like Implosion, Power Siphon, and Summon Demonic Tyrant. To accomplish this, the energy component from Wild Imps has been removed, meaning Wild Imps will be around much longer (40 seconds) before disappearing. To prevent many Wild Imps from running around, a limit has been added to how many Wild Imps can be summoned at once.
Overall, the development team is fairly happy with Destruction's current state but wanted to make changes going into Midnight to make gameplay smoother and reduce the amount of conditional power Destruction relies on, such as temporary damage windows or maintenance buffs.
Warrior Class Changes
Much of Arms' damage has come from aligning damage increase and high damage cooldowns together, with loss of damage from not doing this correctly every time being very high. Focus remains on Colossus Smash as Arms' most important damage cooldown, with some new talents to customize it for different fights. Some of Arms' modifiers to the next use of an ability, such as Martial Prowess, have been removed to make it less complex to determine the best rotational ability to use.
Sweeping Strikes has been redesigned so the next 12 damaging single target abilities within 30 seconds hit 1 additional target within 8 yards for 75% damage. It's a 30 second cooldown. Colossus Smash now affects all enemies within 10 yards and functions as Warbreaker did. Warbreaker has been removed with its effects added to Colossus Smash.
In Midnight the goal is refining Fury's core builder/spender gameplay and resolving some pain points. Powerful Execute talents have been added to make conditions about when to use Sudden Death less complex for players who enjoy it. Bonuses have been added to make Critical Strike a more appealing stat for Fury Warriors, with new AOE talent options. Rampage now replaces Slam. Recklessness increases all Rage generated by 50% instead of 100%.
The development team is pleased that major spec work Protection received in Ghosts of K'aresh has been successful, so they're comfortable letting things settle a bit more. Most changes Protection has received are due to several talents moving to the Warrior class tree work. In Midnight, Thunder Clap is positioned to be the primary AOE threat tool, focusing Revenge toward dealing additional damage with excess Rage.
User Interface and Accessibility
A new tab called Journeys has been added to the Adventure Guide. This tab will help players track their Renown, Delves, Prey, and Great Vault reward progress. The Delves tab has been removed from the Group Finder panel. Players can now configure the Delve companion through the Delves section of Journeys. The development team notes that only previous expansion Renown and Midnight Delves will be available in Public Alpha 1, with artwork still work in progress.
Nameplates now have a new visual style with their own Options Menu section under Gameplay. Added options include preview of the Nameplate as options are being changed, nameplate style, display of certain Nameplate Information like rarity icon, health percentage and health values, highlight important casts, cast bar information, types of buffs and debuffs to display, size of buff/debuff icons, debuff padding, aggro display, nameplate sizing, show offscreen Nameplates, and simplify Nameplates.
Support has been added to save multiple layouts in the Cooldown Manager. Right clicking a cooldown in the Cooldown Settings window now gives players the option to assign a sound and event type. Up to 3 alerts can be assigned to a cooldown. Personal Resource Display has been added to HUD Edit Mode with options to show Friendly Buffs, show Special Resources on Targets, hide Health and Power Bars, and only show while in combat.
On login, existing players may be prompted with a choice to adjust movement keys to use strafe or keep them to turn the character camera. If a player hasn't logged in for a long period of time, in character select, returning characters may be given the option to go straight to the Catch Up Experience. A new Tutorials tab has been added to the Adventure Guide for players to teleport to a Catch Up Experience.
Professions and Items
The number of qualities for stackable reagents and consumables has been lowered to 2 from 3. One goal of having qualities is so players who invest time and effort into professions can produce more valuable goods. The development team believes that, as far as reagents and consumables are concerned, this goal is better accomplished by having 2 qualities (normal quality and high quality) with the added benefit of simplifying the system.
Fractured Sparks no longer need to be combined into whole Sparks before they can be used in crafting. Whole Sparks drop instead of Fractured Sparks, and Spark costs have doubled.
Fully collecting a class set's appearances now unlocks all lower difficulty variants. For example, collecting all Mythic appearances will automatically unlock the Heroic, Normal, and Raid Finder variants, while unlocking Heroic would only unlock Normal and Raid Finder. Eligible sets will be marked as such in the set collection UI. This change is retroactive to all legacy content. Items will no longer change their appearance when upgraded.
The development team feels the Catalyst has been largely successful in expanding access to powerful seasonal set bonuses but has also generated friction in its dual use as the primary source of class set appearances for many players. This friction has been further exacerbated by loot roll restrictions in situations such as participating in LFR raiding.
Acquiring a class set 4 piece bonus now unlocks a character specific Feat of Strength that will enable Catalyst charges to drop from raid bosses, Mythic+, Bountiful Delves, and Rated PvP on that character for the remainder of the season. The decision to spend Catalyst charges can be difficult early in a season as players anticipate looting more powerful armor in the same slot in the near future.
Player Versus Player Updates
Elite Rank is now attained at 2300 personal rating instead of 2400. This means correlated ranks and titles such as Legend, Strategist, and Gladiator will have their game win requirements to be at or above 2300. The development team has seen feedback around the top end PvP rewards being extremely difficult to achieve in more recent seasons. Their goal with this adjustment is to slightly ease the requirement while still maintaining the prestige that comes with attaining these rewards and titles.
The map mechanics in Eye of the Storm for Battleground Blitz have been reverted to align with how the map typically functions. This means that all four bases will be active at all times, rather than its prior functionality in Battleground Blitz where only two bases alternated based on flag captures.
The development team's initial goal with these map changes was to have a better gameplay experience with smaller team sizes on larger maps. They saw that the changes on the map led to stalemate gameplay which they want to avoid.
Adjustments have been made to Swift Pursuit for better map traversal. Swift Pursuit now grants 100% mount speed (aligned with other large maps, Arathi Basin and Deepwind Gorge). 30 seconds after the match starts, Swift Pursuit is increased by an additional 50% while on the map's bridges (150% mount speed total).
What's Next for Midnight
The World of Warcraft: Midnight Alpha represents one of the most ambitious class redesigns in the game's history. With sweeping changes across all specializations, significant quality of life improvements, and the debut of the highly anticipated housing system, Blizzard is clearly addressing long standing player concerns about complexity, button bloat, and accessibility.
The reduction in aura tracking, simpler defensive abilities, and consolidation of cooldowns across multiple classes suggests a design philosophy focused on making moment to moment gameplay more intuitive without sacrificing depth. The removal of conditional modifiers and temporary damage buffs in favor of more consistent baseline power represents a fundamental shift in how classes will feel to play.
Player feedback during this Alpha phase will be crucial in shaping the final release. With so many interconnected systems receiving substantial changes, extensive testing will be necessary to ensure balance across PvE and PvP content. The development team has made clear their intention to iterate based on player feedback and internal testing throughout the Alpha and Beta phases.
All profession recipes and gathering nodes are available for testing in the current build, letting players provide feedback on the crafting system changes. The Public Alpha phase provides an unprecedented opportunity for the community to influence the direction of these major changes before they reach the live game.
