Travis Day.
Travis Day, also known as Indalamar, is a former senior game designer for Diablo III. He previously worked as a game designer for Diablo III: Reaper of Souls. His first position as a game designer was as a member of the World of Warcraft team, handling item design duties.
He announced on July 11, 2018, that he decided to start a new adventure after 13 years with Blizzard.[1] He passed away on August 10th, 2022, at the age of 41.[2]
As Indalamar
As Indalamar, he was an active player during World of Warcraft beta, and was widely attributed as the cause of a series of nerfs to the warrior class. He was a member of the Nurfed guild. Some players on the Warrior forums gave him the flattering title of "The Warrior." Indalamar's fame stems from a discussion on the Warrior forums during the Beta testing phase of World of Warcraft. The discussion centered around the possibility that warrior damage output was far too high. Indalamar thought it was. Many disagreed, so he filmed a video[3] of himself farming to prove his point. Within a few hours, the discussion's thread had several pages worth of replies, and in the same day Blizzard nerfed the Fury tree for warriors, which was the tree Indalamar was mainly using. The changes made were in relation to the Bloodthirst and Slam abilities. The old version of Bloodthirst allowed a 100% critical chance with bonus damage after killing an enemy, which meant (as Indalamar showed) that a warrior could start every fight with a huge critical and proc Flurry every time. The Slam ability was also redesigned to become interruptible.
After beta, Travis Day was hired on by Blizzard Entertainment to be an item developer.
Notes
- Indalamar has been referenced by Ramaladni, a Brotherhood of Light warrior mentioned in Naxxramas quests. His items were said to be
[Ramaladni's Icy Grasp] and 
[Ramaladni's Blade of Culling]. Indalamar was also referenced by a TCG character, this time a jungle troll warrior. - His brother is Nisstyr, Guild Leader of the Nurfed guild on Blackrock.
- Travis Day, Adept Yad M'Sivart ("Travis M. Day" spelled backwards) and Travis Daybreak are named after him.
- Other items which directly reference Indalamar are (all the following are developer-only test items or NPCs):
- Indalamar's Super Hot
- Indalamar's Ring of 200 Spell Crit
- Indalamar's Ring of 400 Attack Power
- Indalamar's 83 Test Dummy <QA Punching Bag>
- His grenades...
- His <Emporium of AWESOME> vendors...
- Indalamar's Emblem of Heroism Vendor
- Indalamar's Emblem of Valor Vendor
- Indalamar's Emblem of Stone Keeper's Shard Vendor
- Indalamar's Emblem of Conquest Vendor
- Indalamar's Nax 10 Vendor
- Indalamar's Nax 25 Vendor
See also
- Indalamar, TCG card
References
- ^ Travis Day on Twitter: "After 13 years at Blizzard I've decided it's time for a new adventure. This friday will be my last day with the company and while I'm not entirely certain what I'm going to do next I am excited to see what the industry has to offer."
- ^ Rachel Day on Twitter: "Morgan and I are saddened to share that our brother Travis Day passed away yesterday at 41 years old. Travis was loved greatly by friends and family and will be deeply missed."
- ^ WoW Alpha - Indalamar Undead Warrior OP (Video).
External links
- Warrior Kill Rate on WarcraftMovies (Requires Premium account to access the archive)
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