Blizzcon Live Stream

[mmcookies]

Deepholm
- temple of earth under twilight's hammer's control, deathwing's pad where he recovered and gathered strength for the cataclysm
- large subterranean environment
- something about being very very scary (goddamn sound cutting out)
- biggest zone in Cataclysm
- expansion portal hub will be in Deepholm

Uldum
- two dungeons? (stream is really starting to suck, must be a lot of ppl tuning in)
- temple of titans
- titan machine was "cloaking" Uldum, Cataclysm broke the cloaking
- brann bronzebeard is all like i'm totally there
- holds titan secret weapon (Uldumsday weapon)
- new NPC race "Tol'vir" stone-like cat people

Mount Hyjal
- underseige by Ragnaros who was banished to elemental plane of fire, but now have returned with his army to burn the world tree
"too soon"
- malfurion stormage back from emerald dream
- defending world tree will be primary questing point through the zone
- darkwhisper gorge sundered by Cataclysm and taken over by twilight hammer
- concept art, everything's burning

Twilight Highlands
- lots of emo vampires (jk)
- grim batol sheared in half by deathwing
- headquarters of Twilight's Hammer
- two new port towns for horde/alliance
- red dragons pushed back
- twilight dragon flight a major player in the zone lore

New Raids and Dungeons

Firelands - raid in elemental plane of fire
Uldum - two new leveling dungeons
Blackrock caverns - another dungeon in BRS (twilight hammer and deathwing)
Grim batol - one level up dungeon and a raid
Skywall - a dungeon and a raid

Heroic deadmines and SFK
- same art, but revamped encounters and abilities

[mmcookies]

PVP

Tol Barad PvP Zone
- prison sits on the island that horde/alliance fight over
- like WG when battle is in session
- like Quel'danas when battle is over (main daily quest hub, extra profitable for controlling faction)

Battle for Gilneas

New Arenas

Rated Battlegrounds (more in the systems panel)
- access to same types of gear as arena system

end of expansion panel

[mmcookies]

Back to interviews

Talking about organizing the movie, doesn't sound like anything's set in stone.

more stupid questions from twitter
filler filler... more organization information about Blizzard development.

If this guy uses the buzzword "gel" one more time...

[mmcookies]

"Behind the Scenes" about Blizzard Cinematic

Takes about a year to produce a cinematic intro o_o

more twitter questions
must kill twitter users...

Diablo 3 Heroes and monsters panel coming up

[mmcookies]

monk class
- inspired by p&p rpg
- fragile, fast melee (interesting contract)
- opposite from barbarian (not tough)
- fighting game character (combo moves)
- holy magic
- speed over toughness
- bit more challenging for early game, but evens out later

got stuff to do... here ends my babbling
someone else take over if you want

[Siaea]

poke poke

hey, you stopped!

I needs to know more!!

[Never Ending Pew Pew]

yea mmcookies said in the last post that he had to go. had stuff to do. Was hoping someone else would pick up the babbling

[Multibocks]

Hey ask about faction transfers, I NEED MORE INFO!!! Like when

[Heenan]

Continuing on with the Monk...

Design

• Religious, spiritual warrior on the side of Good
• 1,001 body tattoos that takes a lifetime to finish
• Part of a highly structured, theocratic society

Combo moves

• Fighting game references
• Depth to melee moves
• Combine combo moves
• Reference - Diablo 2 Assassin, WoW Rogue
• Way of the Hundred Fists - Click mouse 3 times, different move for each click
• Crippling Wave - debuff, reduce damage, refresh surrounding debuff durations
• Exploding Palm - damage, damage, DoT bleed that explodes to surrounding foes
• Can combine combos: open with Hundred Fists, go to Crippling Wave, end with Exploding Palm

Skill Effects

• Martial arts action
• Holy color palette
• Runic knowledge
• Seven sided strikes - like chain lightning, but the Monk is the bolt

[Heenan]

I was going to go through all of the videos but it looks like the news sites are on top of it