Shadowlands Interview with Morgan Day and MrGM - Class-Wide Artifact Transmog, Experience Removed from Heirlooms

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Originally Torghast required a key but they heard feedback that players wanted to run Torghast as much as they want.

There are a lot of different layouts of floors, many dynamic spawns of mobs. There's a lot of replayability.

Mounts & Mythic+ Reward

There's lots of cool ideas that they have for mounts but have no idea where to put them.

They'll be peppered all over the place including Torghast and the Maw.

There's a big scary elemental in the maw and the Shadowlands Season 1 Mythic +15 mount will look like that.

Torghast Minimap

Torghast minimap is unique as they needed to come up with a solution for some technical issues.

Their solution also created fog of war in the minimap.

Weapon Swapping in Mythic+

With no gear swapping in Mythic+, they never thought of weapon swapping until now. He's going to write it down.

Weekly Chest

Shadowlands will have multiple different options for the Weekly Chest

You'll be able to pull one piece from a lot of different options. If none of the options are enticing, you will be able to instead pick an important currency.

Castle Nathria

Lots of compelling stuff in the new raid.

Castle Nathria was built with a purpose, it should feel like people live there.

There's a portal boss, portaling players all over the place.

One of the bosses takes place on a large dance floor.

The final boss has multiple floors, but he also has mirrors

Legion Timewalking

They've been releasing timewalking dungeons from an expansion on a cadence.

It probably won't come out at launch but eventually.

Legendary Runeforged Powers

Thunderfury has a very specific look and power.

The goal with the Runecarver is that he could have created the returning legendaries -- they're sticking to set bonuses and Legion Legendaries.

Artifact Appearances

They're looking for Artifact Appearances to be used for every spec of the class rather than for the specific spec.

Different Shoulder Transmogs

It's something that they want to keep pursuing

There's been some concerns that Shoulders were designed as a pair, where the shoulders are not the same on each side, where they would clip or something similar.

Heirlooms

They removed the experience bonus from heirlooms.

They're looking to replace it with something that is not just extra experience that will be equally as beneficial and unique.

Class / Race Combinations

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Comment by leobolinOoh, I'm guessing we'll get a different color of the maw elemental mount for each Shadowlands M+ season, kinda like the gladiator mounts.Comment by Williamgood"Shadowlands Season 1 Mythic +15 mount"
Hmm not sure how I feel about that, obviously current patch still has one...Comment by bamastrong87I see they upgraded their pc specs to run shadowlands at max setting. Require more specs than cod warzone lolComment by viktae"They removed the experience bonus from heirlooms."

What ? IComment by AarkanRemoved experience bonus from heirlooms? I guess with the revamped leveling being faster than it is with the buff and heirlooms this makes sense but then let us have stuff like past legendaries as heirlooms and give us bonkers leveling powers if we want. The weapon was always the strongest legendary anyway because it let you kill things so much faster.Comment by ClanesI really don't understand no new race/class combo's in an expansion where one of the main features is greatly expanding Character Customization.
Especially when there are tons of examples of NPC's that have combos that players do not.

Goblin Monk, Worgen Shaman, Night Elf Paladin, etc etc.

It feels like such a tease that Blizz will put these characters in to show that they exist and are possible, but then never expand on anything beyond that.Comment by FixiBest replace the heirloom benefit with something of actual value, since those were in-game pretty expensive to collect for every spec, every slot.Comment by KelrasNot a fan of the bonus exp being removed from heirlooms.

I get that Shadowlands is streamlining and speeding up leveling a lot, but I think there is value in an option for people who want to pick it to level even quicker than the average player. That used to be one of the main purposes of heirlooms: they were something that let you level quicker than a new player or a player that didn't want to use heirlooms.

I hope they reconsider. They could remove the bonus xp from heirlooms and maybe add like an extra xp tabard or toy or something.Comment by maffuuHmmm no Experience Bonus on the heirlooms? But thats why I spent 100s of 1000s of gold on upgrade tokens for most of them to allow usage from level 1-120 now... that feels like a kick in the teeth.Comment by KelrasI really don't understand no new race/class combo's in an expansion where one of the main features is greatly expanding Character Customization.
Especially when there are tons of examples of NPC's that have combos that players do not.

Goblin Monk, Worgen Shaman, Night Elf Paladin, etc etc.

It feels like such a tease that Blizz will put these characters in to show that they exist and are possible, but then never expand on anything beyond that.Comment by AmnieThe fact that we aren't getting new race class combinations in Shadowlands makes me very sad. It's supposed to be the customization xpac. I'm now very depressed over Shadowlands and much less excited for it.Comment by xiKiritoSo are class specific weapon legendaries returning with shadowlands?Comment by safer666So that's no Night Elf Paladins (and other new Race/Class combos) confirmed then.

It's a small thing, but I was really holding out hope for that given all the other customisation options. Quite a blow to my personal keen.Comment by ssithl"They removed the experience bonus from heirlooms."

What ? IComment by punkmanjHeirlooms
They removed the experience bonus from heirlooms.They're looking to replace it with something that is not just extra experience that will be equally as beneficial and unique.Comment by Wowhuntress67my thought exactly!"They removed the experience bonus from heirlooms."

What ? IComment by tarax"They removed the experience bonus from heirlooms."

What ? IComment by Wowhuntress67Best replace the heirloom benefit with something of actual value, since those were in-game pretty expensive to collect for every spec, every slot.Comment by rossyysHeirlooms
They removed the experience bonus from heirlooms.Comment by deathlavitzGuess i feel better using timewalking badges to level heirlooms, since I have so many to spend and still have over 100k of them laying around unused. Wish i could of just bought them with badges instead of gold initially.

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