BlizzCon 2017 Megathread

[MiRai]

A megathread for people to discuss what's happening at BlizzCon 2017, for both the current expansion, as well as the next. I will be updating this throughout today and tomorrow.

What we know:

• WORLD OF WARCRAFT CLASSIC ANNOUNCEMENT - HOLY SHIT
• New Expansion - Battle for Azeroth
• Two new continents - Kul'tiras & Zandalar (3 Zones Each Continent - 6 New Zones)
• Level cap raised to 120
• New dungeons & raids (duh)
  
  • 10 Dungeons
  • Each faction has level-up dungeons
  • Everything unlocked at 120
  • Mythic Keystones are here to stay
  • UI Improvements
  
  
• Warfronts
  
  • 20-Player Co-op Raid against NPC armies
  • RTS Style
  • Build structures, research upgrades, and lead troops
  
  
• Allied Races
  
  • Unlockable Playable Races (AKA Sub-Races)
  • Starts at level 20 (instead of level 1)
  • Race-Specific Heritage Armor (Unlock @ Level 110) (Transmoggable)
  • Six Races at launch
  • Examples: Nightborne (H), HightmountainTauren (H), Zandalari Troll (H), Void Elves (A), Lightforged Dranei (A), Dark Iron Dwarves (A)
  
  
• Leveling Improvements (Coming in Legion 7.3.5)
  
  • All zones (including dungeons and rewards) scale in level (to an extent)
    
    • Zones have level ranges with caps
    • Level through expansions in any order
      
      • Outland/Northrend (60-80)
      • Cataclysm/MoP (80-90)
  
  
• Island Expeditions
  
  • 3-Player Co-op Gameplay (Role Agnostic)
  • Repeatable, but random (?) content
  • Play against advanced AI opponents (NPCs, but not chumps)

• Azerite / Heart of Azeroth (Artifact Medallion) (More info at a later panel)
  
  • Unlockable traits for gear (similar to Artifact weapons, but not as linear)
  • Traits that are unlocked carry over from prior gear, to newer gear
  
  
• Instanced PvP
  
  • Two new arenas (Tiragard & Zuldazar)
  • New battleground (Seething Shore - off the cost of Silithus)
    
    • Similar to Arathi Basin, but random spawning capture points (~3 active at a given time)
  
  
• World PvP (More information coming in the future)
  
  • Update the system to reflect the 2018 world
  • Remove PvE vs PvP server division
  • Unified servers with PvP toggle
    
    • Instanced into that type of realm with others
    
    
  • Bonuses for playing with PvP enabled (because it can be more inconvenient)
  
  
• Miscellaneous
  
  • Six additional character slots per server (no mention of increasing the total limit of 50 characters per account)
  • You will be able to increase the size of the default backpack if you have an authenticator attached to your account (no ETA)

[ebony]

as well calling it now:

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

this was trademark today in new Zealand

If you go to worldofwarcraft.com/battleforazeroth it got a 303: redirect to https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/battle-for-azeroth


**** this might not be true and could be for something else.

[ebony]

[ebony]

Look who's here!!!

[MiRai]

Holy shit... classic servers were announced. This opens up an entire new (old) chapter for multiboxing.

I can't even right now....

[Wubsie]

I have my concerns about how classic servers will affect the player base for the "current" expansion. At the same time I am intrigued by the concept of stagnation on those servers, meaning you're not in a hurry to get geared before the expansion comes out and can really just play at your own pace.

Good things and bad things. We'll see how it goes.

Also: Who here boxed on vanilla? Anything except shammies even worth considering?

[johny_mnemonic]

xzin multiboxed 5 warlocks, he gained the highest rank i pvp with them. it was soooo long grind back in the day.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

My questions would be:

• Vanilla skill trees and everything or just vanilla content?
• How far back into vanilla? Right before the first x-pack or Day 0(ish)?
• Vanilla forever or expansions at a specified pace? (At some point, even vanilla will get old again.)

[Lance]

xzin multiboxed 5 warlocks, he gained the highest rank i pvp with them. it was soooo long grind back in the day.

Wasn't he priest and 4 mages?

[johny_mnemonic]

Wasn't he priest and 4 mages?

yeah, you are right, he did the pvp rank with mages and priest, but he also played warlocks which was also my first team :-) I started multibox with Outland datadisk.