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Blizzcon Legion Q&A Liveblog

We’ll be liveblogging the new information from the Legion Q&A here:

  • When we discover Alleria and Turalyon you will change the way you view WoW
  • Subraces for the models is something they will do, but there’s no ETA as it presents difficulties
  • The traditional guild is something they’re going to look at, due to the way group finder has made realms less important it’s something they’ll look at.
  • The achievement to fully unlock flying will not be fully unlockable at launch.
  • We’ll see Bolvar Fordragon somewhere. Beyond this expansion.. absolutely.. we’ll see
  • Stuff like green fire for warlocks for other quests is something they’ll have to see.. they are focussing on class content
  • They’re looking at changing tapping mobs. E.g. when someone taps a mob, you could still attack it as well to get experience and quest credit.
  • They still have the goal of expansions more quickly, but the emphasis is on quality. The team is bigger, expansions could come out faster. Not necesarily once per year.
  • The tomb of sargeras is a monument. That may change.
  • Something they’d like to do for guilds is have someone be able to be in multiple guilds at the same time.
  • There will be no new battleground in Legion. They are focussing on the new pvp system.
  • There are no plans to update zones such as the draenei starting area.
  • The burning legion will invade different zones.
  • All keystones will have the same affixes (e.g. enrage) for the same week.
  • Titan’s grip for Fury warrios is “alive and well”.
  • 1 Burning Legion transcending reality:
    • Legion is going to answer the questions
    • On Archimonde: “we’re working on some kinks there”
  • Scenario’s as something in Mists of Pandaria to queue up for will not come back
    • They will be used for quests
  • There will be a lot of catch up mechanics for the 2nd and 3rd artifact weapons.
  • Relics are like the standard weapon drops.. you will have to choose which artifact it goes in. Much like you need to loot different weapons for different specs.
  • In Legion you will have Tri-spec! For druids all 4, for demon hunters 2!

Blizzcon Legion Game Systems Live Blog

We’ll be liveblogging the Game Systems Panel here:

  • They’re going to talk about items, professions, classes, demon hunters
  • Artifacts and Class Halls:
    • The Deadwind Harvester, a Scythe created by Sargeras. For the affliction Warlock.
      • You’re going to open a gateway to a demon world.
      • You’ll go into the catacombs of Karazhan and follow the steps of the dark riders.
      • Every time you kill something you steal a soul, the artifact will light up and increase your spell damage.
    • You will use Artifact Power to power up your artifact.
      • Earn it from:
        • Quest bosses
        • Rare spawns
        • Rare drops
        • Dungeon/Raid Bosses
        • Winning Arena/Battleground
      • You will use it to unlock Artifact Traits. (similar to talents)
        • Editor’s note: some of them are similar to the very old talent system that was used up to cataclysm
        • You will be able to unlock all of the traits eventually
    • You can loot relics to socket into your artifact to increase it’s power.
      • They also give you bonus ranks to traits. E.g. if 1 trait has 3 ranks it could get a 4th rank!
      • They’ll allow you to customize your character. Do you want to focus on burst damage? for example
      • They have different types. For example the Scythe has 2 different slot types. Meaning you can put 2 relics in your artifact.
    • At level 110 you can upgrade your artifact through a quest chain and dungeons.
      • This will also unlock a new model.
    • As previously announced, you’ll be able to unlock different colors for the same model.
  • Class Halls:
    • They’ll be at a location that strongly represents the class
    • The druid class hall will be shown today
      • They should be surrounded by nature
      • It’s called The Dreamgrove
      • The influence of the Emerald Dream can be felt there
    • You’ll be able to empower your Artifact in the class hall
    • You’ll encounter Class Champions, which are different from garrison followers
    • You’ll have a Scouting Map, which will expose new content to you over time
    • There will be mini quests like demon hunting and pick pocketing
    • There will be special class features
      • Hunters: Eagles that will give them access to a special flight network that noone else has
      • Druids: Dream portals to travel around
      • Warriors: An arena
    • Every class will have their own spell like death gate to quickly get to the class hall
      • Hunters will be picked up by eagles

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.

WoW At 5.5 Million Subscribers, Warcraft Movie Trailer Teaser and Warlords Season 2 PvP Ending Soon

WoW At 5.5 Million Subscribers

The Q3 2015 numbers are out and WoW’s subscriber numbers have dropped by 100k subscribers! This is also the last time Blizzard will be publishing subscriber numbers.

Warcraft Movie Trailer Teaser

The actual trailer will be shown at Blizzcon on friday, but a teaser was released today.

Warlords Season 2 PvP Ending Soon

Quote from: Blizzard
Warlords Season 2 PvP Ending Soon

After an in intense season of conflict in Arenas and Battlegrounds, the time is coming soon to see who has climbed to the top of the PvP ranks. Prepare to fight your last battles of this season, and remember—there is no substitute for victory!

Warlords Season 2 will be ending as soon as a few weeks from now. Once the season ends, we’ll begin a roughly two-week process to determine end-of-season reward eligibility.

All players who believe that they may have qualified for Warlords Season 2 awards should note the following:

  • In order to ensure you receive your award(s), please refrain from transferring your character(s) to another realm or faction until after Warlords Season 3 has begun.
  • Warlords Season 2 titles and mounts will be awarded a couple of weeks after Season 3 begins.

Conquest Points will be converted to Honor Points at the end of the season, and any Honor above 4,000 will be converted to in-game currency at a rate of 35 silver per point. A few other things to keep in mind once the season has ended:

  • The Honor cap will remain at 4,000.
  • Warlords Season 2 items with rating requirements will no longer be available for purchase.
  • The Season 2 vendors will move over from where they are now and convert to selling last season’s gear for honor. The Season 3 vendors will appear in the newly vacated vendor location.
  • Rated Battleground and Arena matches will not be available during the break between seasons.
  • We will confirm the start date of the forthcoming Warlords Season 3 in a post here in the weeks to come.

In war, you win or lose, live or die—and the difference is but an eyelash. To the battlefield!