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Blizzcon Discussion

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Livestream here. http://us.battle.net/blizzcon/en/live-stream/
Its free for the first day, after that you can probably find other means to watch it online.

-They just announced the annual pass. If you sign up for 12 months of wow (billed monthly), you get a free wow mount and Diablo 3 for free. Great news for wow players like me. Edit: You also get in the expansion beta when you do this.
-Diablo 3 box revealed. Collectors version was announced too. Comes with the normal slew of free stuff. Game comes on a USB flash drive instead of the normal cd/dvd.
 
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I really hope they have some great new things to announce for WoW. I totally lost interest in Cata. They should briefly touch on that in 45 min or so.
 
An Emerald Dream expansion could draw me back in, but dunno. Most RL friends that played have moved on, as have I.
 
I only care about the starcraft developer panel. i hope i can find it online when its one. not interested in paying $40
 
They just announced the wow expansion.

New race is the Pandarian
New class is the Monk
New land is Pandaria

New expansion is called "Mysts of Pandaria"... or lol MOP.
 
lloose said:
They just announced the wow expansion.

New race is the Pandarian
New class is the Monk
New land is Pandaria

New expansion is called "Mysts of Pandaria"... or lol MOP.
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I thought I remember hearing something about how the Panda race would never be in WoW. Guess they are running out of ideas.

Also cool that D3 will be on a usb drive.
 
Dear gods? Pandas?... next upgrade will bring wombats, or wallabys. I don't know what Blizz people are smoking, but I certainly would ask them to change dealer. Unless it's some evil plot of them to secretly kill WoW. "Hand of Bobby Kotick, I sense, hmm" :)

I hope Trion won't pull "pandas" on Rift. I'm glad I cancelled WoW sub.

And now, giving free Diablo 3 to the 1 year subscribers seems like apology :)
 
lol. Was thinking about playing WoW again but not a chance now. I'm guessing Blizzard really doesn't care anymore and is focusing efforts on whatever this "Titan" game will be.
 
And BTW... it seems Howard Camping was right after all. The end of the World came. But it's end of World of Warcraft. :D
 
lloose said:
They just announced the wow expansion.

New race is the Pandarian
New class is the Monk
New land is Pandaria

New expansion is called "Mysts of Pandaria"... or lol MOP.
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This seems like an announcement straight out of wow's yearly april fools releases. How on earth is this real?
 
FranklyShankly said:
This seems like an announcement straight out of wow's yearly april fools releases. How on earth is this real?
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Pandarens are a legitimate race in the WoW universe. This does go against them saying they would never be in the game, though.
 
And we finally have a true WoW killer, it's WoW:Mists of Panderia.
 
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lol. Was thinking about playing WoW again but not a chance now. I'm guessing Blizzard really doesn't care anymore and is focusing efforts on whatever this "Titan" game will be.
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Agreed. Id like a hint at what Titan is, but as for WoW, I can check it off my to do list.
 
I got that bitch a panda. Bitches love Pandas.

My wife may start playing because of this lol
 
good info from the expansion showing up here:

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/

and the live blog here:

http://wow.joystiq.com/2011/10/21/blizzcon-2011-mists-of-pandaria-preview-panel-liveblog/#continued

completely new talent system, they had too many cookie cutter specs so they're mixing that up
valor points can be gotten from dailies but at a slower rate than raiding
The big bad guy in this expansion isn't a guy but rather the opposing faction, horde and alliance.
more ways for you to advance your characters, more options you get to choose from

Monk brewmaster = tank
monk mist weaver = healer with unique healing style
monk windwalker = melee dps
 
I had to check the date to make sure this isn't April 1st, because this feels like a joke...and a terrible one at that. You mean to tell me that after all the epic moments in WoW over the last few expansions (taking on the Lich King and Deathwing himself) the next expansion is...this? Do they have no ideas left? The Emerald Dream would've made for a much better continuation of WoW. This...this is pathetic.
 
It looks like talents will work similarly to how D3 will work but also a bit different i think. No multiple points per tier of talents, and no 3 distinct trees of specs. Each talent will branch into a full fledged spec I guess.
 
no auto attack for monks. They want them to have a street fighter feel. Sounds like you are going to be working those buttons arcade style!

No talent points or rank anymore. One talent tree per class. Earn talents every 15 levels. When you do get a talent you can choose one of three available. Their goal is no mandatory talents. They want you to be able to change talents as easily as glyphs. Can even change them for individual fights.

More info coming later from the talent panel.
 
Archer75 said:
No talent points or rank anymore. One talent tree per class. Earn talents every 15 levels. When you do get a talent you can choose one of three available. Their goal is no mandatory talents. They want you to be able to change talents as easily as glyphs. Can even change them for individual fights.
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I have two thoughts when I read this:

1) Sounds like someone at Blizzard has played some RIFT, and
2) Did WoW really need MORE simplification?
 
Archer75 said:
no auto attack for monks. They want them to have a street fighter feel. Sounds like you are going to be working those buttons arcade style!

No talent points or rank anymore. One talent tree per class. Earn talents every 15 levels. When you do get a talent you can choose one of three available. Their goal is no mandatory talents. They want you to be able to change talents as easily as glyphs. Can even change them for individual fights.

More info coming later from the talent panel.
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Sounds boring. When you thought it wasn't possible to dumb the stuff down any further, Blizzard finds a way.
 
Scenerios:


PvE Scenarios are a way to give new interesting content that doesn't make sense in a dungeon content.

Scenarios are more about reusing parts of the world in interesting new ways, and introducing new types of PvE gameplay that we've never seen before like PvE battlegrounds.

They are short instances for a few players, the amount of players can vary depending on the scenario, some of them can be for 3 players.

You don't need the typical tank/heal/dps setup, you will just be able to enter and play your role no matter what it is.

It will be a staged experience where you will try to accomplish some greater goal
For example, a scenario might require you to kill 25 kobolds in stage 1, then find and return 4 goldshire children, and then kill the boss.

Developers would like to do PvE battlegrounds, where you will have to slay 50 alliance/horde soldiers, destroy 6 towers and the barracks, and then defeat the enemy General.
 
Any info on the new IP?
I am always going to be interested in WOW news but I am pretty much done playing forever.
 
challenge mode dungeons:

Complete a dungeon in x minutes
To earn Bronze, Silver, Gold medals.

Gear levels are normalized, all your gear will be brought to the same level to make the competition even.

You can't just get better gear to overpower it.

It will reward sweet looking gear with no stats, and valor points!

Challenge Mode will reward you with very unique looking gear to show off how awesome you are to your friends

A new challenge dungeons UI will be added, you will be able to check your medals, your ranking, show what rewards you can unlock, etc ....
 
pet battle system:

You will be able to collect, level, and battle with companion pets.

It will be accessible to all players.

Works with almost every pet

Pet Customization, you will be able to name your pet, give them visual abilities, etc ...

There will be "Wild pets", you can find them in the world and engage in battle with them. You will then be able to get that pet and add it to your Pet Journal.

Pets have random stats, some of them will be very good at tanking, some will have a CC ability, etc ...

Some pets will only be found during a specific season, while it's raining, or during the day or the night. Some of them will only spawn in the spring, when it's raining, in elwynn forest at night!

Most pets will become tradable

Pet Battles -- PvE and PvP battles. Turn based combat.

Queue system for fighting against other pets.

Fight with a team of 3 pets.

Pet Journal lets you manage your pets.

Pets will be account wide

Master and Master ability -- travel around the world, and there are masters that you can find and fight. Just like Pokemon dungeon leaders. You get a master's ability though when you win
 
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Dungeons:

9 new dungeons in the new expansion

6 dungeons will be on Pandaria

Scholomance and Scarlet Monastery (Wings 1 and 2) will be back in Heroic Mode

World raid bosses will return

3 new raids to launch with. Feature Mogu and Mantid races as enemies.
 
Quests:

Faction improvements -- offer players more ways to earn the items you want. Work in groups of factions, you won't have to grind so much.

Lots more incentives for dungeons and raiders to do more dailies and outdoor stuff. Ie: do 5 dailies, do a dungeon, you can roll on a piece of loot that only shows up for people that have completed 5 dailies.

Molten Front type thing will be available right from the beginning.

Focus on more max level content. They agree Cataclysm content was burned through way too quickly.
 
What they are talking about doesn't sound like World of Warcraft anymore.

Man, how the mighty have fallen. WoW hasn't been good since Burning Crusade.
 
PvP:

Tol'vir Proving Grounds -- New arena. Located in Uldum. Simple layout based on Nagran arena. Sense of place in the world. You'll know it fits in Uldum.

Valley of Power - Located in Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Holding the object earns points. Multiple point zones. Object does damage to holder. Damage increase over time. Murderball style of play.

Diamond Mine - Escort mine cars to depot, multiple tracks, first to X resources win. Goblin mine below N. STV.

Choices for new battlegrounds, not sure which to do: Stranglethorn Diamond Mines (payload), Valley of Power (murderball), Azshara Crater (DOTA).

Resilience - Big barrier of entry to arena. Resilience is now a base stat. PvP gear adds to it.
 
Achievements:

Allow achievements to be shared among all characters on the same Battle.net account, things such as the raid achievements and the ones which are difficult to get.

Allows to include new achievements such as "get all the professions to the maximum level"
 
Damn, the pet thing, sounds like World of Pokemon: Warcraft edition.
 
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