BlizzCon 2017 - WoW Battle for Azeroth Interview Roundup

Blizzard Geposted 11.11.2017 um 21:49 von Squishei

InterviewsPerculia's Interview with Patrick Dawson and Chris RobinsonYouTube LinkWowhead SummaryPanser's Interview with Alex Afrasiabi and Chris RobinsonYouTube LinkWowhead SummaryBlizzPlanet's Interview with Jeremy FeaselYouTube LinkBlizzPlanet SummaryWowhead Article on BFA's ZonesLostCodex's Interview with Alex Afrasiabi and Shani EdwardsInterview TranscriptAnniefuchsia's Interview with Jay GillTwitch VoDWowhead SummaryGamespot's Interview with John HightGamespot TranscriptArticle on Burning of TeldrassilEurogamer's Interview with J. Allen BrackEurogamer TranscriptArticle on Classic ServersBlizzPro's Recording of the BlizzCon Press ConferenceYouTube videoArticle on Battle Pets and TortollanJesse Cox's Interview with Ion HazzikostasYouTube VideoArticle on Ulduar TimewalkingArticle on Legendaries and TitanforgingArticle on Vol'jinOverwatch Reddit's Interview with Jeff KaplanOverwatch Reddit TranscriptWowhead SummaryStarting Zone's Interview with Chris Robinson and Jeremy FeaselAudio InterviewWowhead SummaryThe Instance's Interview with Chris RobinsonWowhead SummaryAutomaticJak's Interview with Jay GillYouTube LinkMethod Interview with Steve Burke and Chris RobinsonWowhead SummaryYouTube LinkGameplanet interview with Ion HazzikostasTier Set DiscussionBattle for Azeroth and ClassicBlizzard Watch's Interview with Steve BurkeBlizzard Watch Transcript

The Story Jaina will be explored as well as Kul Tiras

Armor will get improved visuals as the Heart of Azeroth Powers up.

They are happy with the way that followers work and they want to see the mission table move forwards

Quest content for professions was liked, they are excited about armor pieces related to Heart of Azeroth

Hotted89 and Asmongold's Interview with Ryan Cobo and Shani EdwardsYouTube Link

Classic Servers are not tied to an expansion.

Everything is on the table right now for Classic, including quality of life fixes.

No challenges planned right now for BFA, similar to the Mage Tower challenges.

They were talking about adding PvP Gear Vendors back to areas in Kul Tiras and Zandalar.

No plans to change to the Mythic Raid size.

There won't be large sweeping changes for classes going into BFA, compared to Legion launch.

FinalBossTV's Interview with Ion Hazzikostas and Alex AfrasiabiYouTube LinkFinalBossTV Transcription

Allied races will get their own character kits: emotes, flirts, funnies, exertions.

Warfronts are a large raid scale PvE experience and are not planned to have PvP elements.

The rank system for Professions is likely staying.

Taliesin and Evitel's Interview with Ray Cobo and Shani EdwardsYouTube Link

No plans for anything mobile at the moment.

There are no plans for paid-for loot boxes at the moment.

There are no plans to give players their own boats for the expansion.

Vanion's Interview with John Hight and Patrick DawsonYouTube Link

Warfronts should take about 45 minutes.

Missions will be returning but you will no longer have bodyguards with you in the world.

The 77-day rule was not planned by Blizzard.

Legendary items could come back, but through the old system similar to pre-Legion with special iconic weapons.

WoWChakra's Interview with Ray Cobo and Shani EdwardsYouTube Link

The Epic ending for artifact weapons will occur in the new patch.

Players will learn a little more about the Void Elves in 7.3.5, but most of the information will come in BFA.

Beta might not be by the end of the year, but they hope to get it out at the beginning of the next year.

Buffed's Interview with J. Allen Brack and Shani EdwardsBuffed's Transcript

They're figuring out how exactly to make the players in Warfronts cooperate with each other.

The Honor talents felt weird when you swap from your PvE talents to your PvP talents as soon as you're in PvP.

PCGamesN's Interview with Ion HazzikostasPCGamesN's Transcript

There's a possibility of open-world Timewalking during the relevant Timewalking weeks.

7.3.5 should flesh out the epilogue of Legion, the events of Antorus and the events that lead up to BFA.

7.3.5 will be coming to PTR "in just a few weeks.

Hard modes will be a part of Ulduar Timewalking.

Rolling Stone's Interview with Ion HazzikostasRolling Stone's Transcript

They have been trying in recent years to link together expansion stories into a larger meta-narrative.

Mythic Keystones and World Quests were very successful in this expansion.

Polygon's Interview with Ion HazzikostasPolygon's Transcript

Legion's endgame was satisfying compared to WoD's end game and the new warfronts and islands will show what is possible at end game.

Island Expeditions can range from tropical islands, to a frozen tundra or an abandoned Gilnean manor.

Warfronts are a PvE feature because then they can sell and script out those heroic moments.

They're thinking about how to bring faction conflict into dungeon and raid gameplay as well.

Digital Trends' Interview with Jeremy Feasel and J. Allen Brack.Digital Trends Classic TranscriptDigital Trends Expansion Transcript

Classic's launch experience was not a great experience, so they want to gameplay to be great, with the 2004-2005 systems and modern conveniences.

Content-wise Classic will be identical - UBRS that had a 10 player and a 5 player version. At some point, the 10 player version was dropped. They're trying to figure out what to have.

It's important to come back to the core of why we're heroes, who we're fighting for and what the world is after finishing some story arcs.

You can do whatever you want when you enter a Warfront; you can do nothing but chop wood, or go and take territories.

PCGamer's Interview with Alex Afrasiabi and Ion HazzikostasPCGamer Transcript

Undercity and Teldrassil and in very dire straits and will likely occur in the intro event similar to the Broken Shore in the Legion expansion.

The changes to PvP servers are a foundation to build new world PvP content.

The "War Campaign" is something that progresses as you level up.

Horde players will have a quest line to give context as to what's going on in Kul Tiras.

MMO-Champion's interview with Steve BurkeMMO-Champion's Transcript

Heritage Armor is only for the Allied Races and only wearable by the Allied Race it is designed for.

The new AI is being focused in Islands and Warfronts

The team likes flying being something that takes times to unlock. They want to see that you completed the content before you can fly above it.

They are trying to tie some of the professions stuff into the Heart of Azeroth.

Kotaku's Interview with Ion HazzikostasKotaku Transcript

They hope that the changes to the PvP systems can bring life into World PvP

There's still some significant barriers such as server transfers which cause faction imbalance.