Vanion interviewed Tom Chilton at Gamescom and had a lot of interesting things to say about Warlords. Check out our summary or the full video below:
- Scenario’s will not be max level queued content at the start of WoD. They are mainly used during leveling to progress the story. They also put more of an emphasis on dungeons, raids and world content. They might end up doing scenario’s in patches. It depends on what the players want.
- There were a lot of reasons for the WoD delay. One was that during MoP they increased the team size by about 80 people. They had to catch up but this will allow them to do more content in the long run. They also ended up changing a lot of the content. Garrisons required work from all the different teams, ending up to be a very big feature.
- The release schedule for patches is still being worked on. It will likely be similair to MoP but it will change depending on the development of the next expansion after WoD. A raid tier should last atleast 4 months otherwise it will feel too rushed.
- The amount of patches has not been decided. It will depend a lot on what the players want to see after they get through all the launch content and the scheduling for the next expansion.
- They are talking about additional 5man dungeons. These could consist of dungeons in draenor or the timewalker dungeons (scaling down to old dungeons).
- The adventure guide will not be in for the launch. They would still like to add it in a later content patch. At the start of an expansion it’s more obvious what you need to do than when you’re a couple of patches in and only just reaching max level.
- There will be a legendary questline like in MoP. This time for a ring. You’ll start on it around lvl 99. It will be less grindy than the MoP one. They feel the ring would be better as well because there still is another ring slot you’ll want loot for. Unlike the cloak where you did not want any other cloak to drop. The ring will have a spell effect to show people you have it.
- It is likely there will be more legendary items. Possibly weapons for doing the harder content.
- Farahlon might be in a future patch as additional zone content. However they know they definitely want to do Tenaan Jungle as an additional zone content.
- Grommash Hellscream will be the final boss for the final raid tier.
- The new nagrand arena will probably become a new arena for regular arena pvp.
- Warforged items will drop in regular dungeons.
- Valor and item upgrades will not be in Warlords.
- There is a chance they’ll add a tier 4 to the garrison as well as possible new buildings.
- In 6.1 or 6.2 there will possibly be a transmogrification revamp. It would likely be a collection type system where you wouldn’t have to store them in your bank or void storage.
- They are still far from having technology for spectator mode.
- There are no class quests planned for WoD yet.
- Regarding flying in WoD, it will depend on how players feel about it. They need to look at how it will go in the initial launch. If players overwhelmingly want it by 6.1 then they’ll probably do it.
Players of course wanted more information regarding the release schedule, the devs tweeted out we’ll get more info soon!
We’ll have more details on raid release timing, 10th Anniversary event duration, etc., soon. But don’t worry, we don’t want to rush you.
— Watcher (@WatcherDev) August 14, 2014
.@Kinegos yeah that tweet was unclear, sorry 🙁 I meant we won’t rush you to level to 100 – we’ll have more info soon (not TM)
— Watcher (@WatcherDev) August 14, 2014
We’ll get an official post out Soon ™ covering dates for the end of the Arena and CM seasons, plus a Draenor raid release plan.
— Russ Petersen (@nite_moogle) August 14, 2014