The new female dwarf
In another surprise, not just one but now a second character model preview has come out this week! However instead of an Artcraft blogpost they put the new model up on the Warlords of Draenor website. The preview is a bit different from others but check it out here or the images down below (click on them for the full image)!
Blizzard WoD Press Tour
Blizzard also started a WoD Press Tour in Europe and Korea, so we can expect more information from those in the next few days/weeks! To start off with the french site Mamytwink.com got to play in Draenor and he gave his first impressions. The full article can be found here, below is a translation (My french is not brilliant but I’ll do my best):
- I played a Gnome Warrior in Shadowmoon Valley, the area of the alliance. After playing for about 5 hours and 80 quests I reached the end of the zone and lvl 92.
- The new character models are excellent. The facial expressions are great!
- At lvl 91 I had 63k health as a tank.
- Mobs had around 100k health.
- I did between 1k and 5k noncritical damage. I hit for 10k with crits.
- To get from lvl 90 to 91 I had to get 597k experience and 640k exp for 91-92.
- Quests grant between 10k and 15k exp with the hardest ones giving 20k experience.
- There’s a new type of quest, the bonus quest. When you walk into a zone bonus quests can appear in your list. If you complete them you’ll get bonus experience and if you leave the zone it’ll be removed.
- Shadowmoon Valley consists of big lush plains, everything happens in the moonlight. The surroundings are calm and feel good. The trees and plains are beautiful (colorful). The zone contains the Naaru, Draenei Villages and an Iron Horde base.
- The Alliance starting area is very far along. Many details, impressive vegetation and full of different types of mobs.
- I found a whole lot of The Burning Crusade mobs: Talbuks, Turtles, Larvas, Bears, Sporebats, Wolves, Bees. The new Talbuk and Sporebat models are EPIC.
- The Alliance area focusses on Sporebats, Draeni / Iron Horde. Ner’zhul is the main bad guy in the zone.
- The Zone ends with a scenario which I could not test. It’s called “Grommar’s Purge”.
- I got to listen to the new music which was very good.
- To conclude I thought the zone was really well done. The fact that it exists out of the colorful plains it immerses you in a new game with out a feeling of déjà vu (with the exception of the mobs but that’s not a real shock).
The Korean site Inven posted 3 videos with Warlords of Draenor footage on youtube:
Celestalon Tweets
And then to end this Warlords packed news post, Celestalon tweeted we’ll be seeing much more WoD information soon!
In the mean time, please hold tight, and forgive me for not answering every question until our big burst of info goes out. Thanks!
— Celestalon (@Celestalon) February 21, 2014
@JustinBHDev I don’t want to sidestep our wonderful community team with giving estimates yet, but it’s not far off.
— Celestalon (@Celestalon) February 21, 2014
@Hinalover Sooner than what we’ve commonly used Soon™ to refer to.
— Celestalon (@Celestalon) February 21, 2014
@ForAntics Yes.
— Celestalon (@Celestalon) February 21, 2014
So all in all we can hear the drums of Draenor getting closer!