The Blizzcon WoW Q&A panel just concluded, here’s a summary of the new information that was shared:
- When players have to make choices (primarily for horde players thusfar) there have to be repurcussions of these choices in the future. Blizzard is experimenting with this.
- There might be a job posting up soon on the orgrimmar boards for new warchief for the Horde…
- The Auction House architecture needs to be rewritten before the 20% AH fee can be removed.
- Things you earn in WoW Classic will not have any effect on your Modern WoW account.
- They are still working actively on the class flavor visuals like librams. The way it takes form might be more along the line of heritage armor.
- They are not satisfied with the leveling experience. They do not know if a level squish would be the answer, but they are discussing how to solve this.
- They have taken more measures in the last years against player toxicity and will implement new technologies in the future to further combat it.
- RNG has always been a part of WoW and will continue to be so. If there was no RNG for rewards you could always note on the calendar when you get a certain reward, there would be no excitement in whether or not you’ll get an item or something cool happening.
- There’s nothing to announce yet, but they’re looking at improvements for the mythic+ cache.
- They’re satisfied with offensive cooldowns being on the GCD. If it doens’t feel right for an ability they’ll look at the ability. Movement abilities will go back off the GCD.
- They are looking at using sharding in WoW Classic in a limited way. The first few weeks when the servers are very busy they think they can use sharding to limit the issues of a launch.
- They’re looking at how Gallywix’s story can be expanded beyond “a 2 dimensional moneygrabber”.
- You’ll be able to transmog over fist weapons with 1 handed weapons in patch 8.1. Wands still can’t be fixed due to their special ranged animations.
- The story isn’t over yet, there’s much left to explore. There will be a difference between Sylvanas’ story and Garrosh’ story. Garrosh was an amateur compared to Sylvanas.
- PvP talents are not active in island expeditions/warfronts because you’re not fighting other players.
- In patch 8.1 an account bound item is being added for BfA flightpoints for alts.
- In patch 8.1 mythic+ progress will show on the armory.
- Class themed tier sets will not return in BfA, that does not mean they won’t return in the future.
- For now they are focussing on restoring WoW Classic, after that they will look at what makes sense in terms of updates.
- Questions that couldn’t be answered will be answered on the forums in the next week or so.