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Legion: Artifact Overview, GamesBeat Transmog Interview, The Instance Community Discussion

Blizzcon being Blizzcon, interviews and discussions occur outside of the panels here’s the first 2! Oh and you can read up on each of the Artifacts coming in Legion!

GamesBeat Transmog Interview

GamesBeat had an interview covering the new transmog system.

  • The transmog system will work like the D3 transmog system.
  • This will include tabards.
  • Just like in D3 when you obtain an item it’ll unlock the appearance, meaning you will be able to clear out your bank and void storage!

The Instance Community Discussion

Some of the more gameplay oriented details are below, but you should check out the full discussion in the video!

  • Talent trees are much different per spec compared to in WoD
  • You will go to your class hall multiple times per day. They will have some special features for you to want to stay around for.
  • Jaina will not play a huge role in Legion
  • They want you to be able to continue questing at max level if that’s the type of content you enjoy doing
  • Class specific blogs will start coming out on Sunday
  • Because of Artifacts and the variation in gameplay they’ll provide, set bonuses will be less powerful

Legion: Artifact Overview

Quote from: Blizzard
Legion: Artifact Overview

Only Azeroth’s most seasoned veterans possess the fortitude to wield Artifacts of legend against the Burning Legion. Your myth-forged weapon grows in power as you do, and your choices will change its abilities and the way it looks, sounds, and feels in combat. Fashion your Artifact into the perfect instrument of battle, and guide your faction in its most desperate hour.

Take a moment to check out some more details for each class and the various Artifact Weapons that will be available to them in Legion Class Features page!

Legion Overview Panel Liveblog

We’ll bee liveblogging the Legion Overview here:

  • New features will be announced today!
  • On our Azeroth Gul’dan heard the voice of Kil’jaeden
    • He gave Gul’dan the near infinite knowledge of the burning legion
    • Gul’dan opened the portal at the Tomb of Sargeras
  • The cinematic shown today, ties directly into the main game.
  • The Broken Shore is ground zero for the legion invasion
    • A 40 person scenario for Horde and Alliance (20 horde, 20 alliance)
    • The story will be established here, starts right after the cinematic
  • Demon Hunter info:
    • The starting experience bridges the story from the burning crusade to legion
    • You invade a demon world, Mardum
    • It was a former prison world that Sargeras shattered
    • New demons:
      • The Imp Mother
      • Jailer
      • Inquisitor
      • More unnamed demons
    • You will steal abilities from powerful demons
    • You will get a special demon hunter mount: the Fel Saber
    • Mardum is only the first half of the intro experience
    • The second half is in the Vault of the Wardens
    • You will join a faction, establish the Order Hall and …
    • You get a quest for your Artifact Warglaives

Blizzcon Day 1 – Opening Ceremony Summary

The opening ceremony for blizzcon has concluded, here’s a summary of everything new that was announced:

  • Brightpaw the Mana Kitty, will be this year’s charity ingame WoW pet on the blizzard store
  • Diablo will get a patch 2.4
  • Starcraft 2 will get mission packs, they will provide new stories and missions for the players to play.
    • The first is “Nova Covert Ops”
    • It will have 3 new missions
  • The trailer for the Warcraft movie was shown

  • Heroes of the Storm will get a new game mode next year: The Arena
    • The heroes you play will be randomly chosen (you can choose from 3 random heroes)
    • You could have 5 of the same hero on your team (e.g. 5 illidans)
    • It’s a small, single objective battleground
  • Heroes of the storm new heroes: Genn Greymane, Lunara, Cho’gall (played by 2 players)
    • Cho’gall will be given to blizzcon attendees, those with virtual tickets and a few players on battle.net
    • The rest will have to earn Cho’gall through a quest.
      • You will have to play 2 games with someone who does have cho’gall to get him.
      • If you as cho’gall owner play 4 games with someone who doesn’t have him, you’ll get gold in Heroes.
  • Heroes of the storm new battleground: Towers of Doom
  • Hearthstone is going to get a new adventure: The League of Explorers
    • You will have to defeat challenges for every wing. Completing each wing will give you a legendary card.
    • A new mechanic will be introduced “Discover”. This will present you 3 random cards from which you get to choose 1. It will be appropriate for your deck.
    • It will release later this month! Infact, it starts on Thursday!
  • Overwatch gains 3 new heroes: D.VA, Mei and Genji
  • Overwatch gains 1 new map: Hollywood
  • Overwatch will need to be bought. You’ll get all heroes and maps with it.
  • There will be a special edition: Overwatch Origins
    • This will have 5 different hero skins.
    • This will lprovide ingame bonuses like other collector’s edition games. WoW ingame pet, HS cardback, etc. (Tracer hero for Heroes of the Storm)
  • Origins edition will also be brought to XBOX One and PS4.
  • You can buy at buyoverwatch.com it will give you a pre-purchase widowmaker skin.
  • Overwatch will launch in the spring of 2016.
  • WoW Legion:
    • Gul’dan’s mission was to tear a hole in reality
    • Illidan will help the Alliance and Horde to defeat The Burning Legion
    • The intro cinematic for Legion was shown
    • Will launch summer 2016
    • You can pre-order it now.

Legion Pre-Order Details: Early Access To Demon Hunters and More..

Earlier this morning (or evening for the US) there was a new image on the legion site, that has now been removed again. It showed more details of the Legion pre-order.

  • If you pre-order you get a level 100 character boost
  • If you pre-order you’ll have access to the demon hunter class 7 days before Legion launches
  • The latest release date for Legion will be the 21st of September 2016. (6.2 launched on the 24th of June 2015, so it’d rival SoO for raiders)

legion pre-order

Of course these details can and probably will change, nothing has been officially announced. We can however expect more details tonight at Blizzcon! Also please keep in mind that the latest release date is the 21st of September 2016, given how long Blizzard has been working on Legion it’s not unlikely that it will release earlier than that.

Dragoncon WoW Panel Summary

This weekend MMO-Central and Elvine tweeted out what was said at the Dragoncon WoW panel, here is a summary of the new things we’ve learned:

  • We won’t see Gnome hunters yet.
  • Currently Demon Hunters start at level 98.
  • Warlords was not intended as a filler expansion, but it did introduce some stuff to use in the future.
  • We’ll see much more information about artifact weapons at Blizzcon.
  • We might see artifacts in older content, they’re thinking about it.
  • It’s too early to go into details about how dungeons will be relevant again.
  • Most specs are being overhauled, some are even being renamed. They’re working on making it fit the fantasy of the spec.
  • Some resources are being renamed, such as Insanity for Shadow Priests.
  • There will not be a tabard tab, but the new transmog system will open up a lot of bag slots.
  • The transmog system will be a user interface like in Diablo.
  • Illidan will lead the demon hunters against the legion.
  • Pure DPS classes will not get a tank or healing spec.
  • Flying will be an expansion wide unlock.
  • Still no updated Stormwind Park…
  • They have plans for Jaina.
  • The backpack might be updated.
  • New pet battle mechanics would be in a post launch patch.
  • Multistrike is being removed in Legion. Other stats will get changes.
  • There will be dungeon drops for materials for professions.
  • There will be no more upgrade tokens for crafted gear in Legion.
  • We might get prospecting back for jewelcrafting in Legion, but it’s still being discussed.
  • A new material called Obliterium will be obtained from destroying crafted items, and will be used to upgrade crafted items in Legion.
  • There could possibly be an Adventure Mode in Legion.

Podcast Episode 65: First Impression of Legion

This week in the podcast we talk about the first information set we got about WoW: Legion. We cover a whole range of subjects this time including Artifact Weapons, Class Order Halls, the different lore story threads and the “shocking and surprising” events that will occur on the Broken Shore.

Legion Dev Interview By GameGuideFR

Another dev interview has appeared, below are the new things we have learned from it.

  • They are discussing what they can do with Karazhan.
  • The legion is not just invading the Broken Isles, the legion will invade a bunch of different zones across the world.
  • Our regular weapons aren’t enough to battle against the legion, we need the Artifacts to be able to even put a dent into them.
  • They have solutions in place for loot itemization, but they are not ready to talk about it yet. They will have a good conversation with leather users.
  • Alex Afrasiabi’s (Creative Director) favorite feature is something they can’t talk about yet

Check out the other sources of Legion information as well:
World of Warcraft: Legion Overview
Summary of Dev interview by Icy Veins
A lot more dev interviews