BlizzCon 2015 - Legion Panel Liveblog

Publicado 06/11/2015 a las 14:35 por Serrinn

Summary

Demon Hunters will have their own unique mount and work closely with Illidan who isn't prepared for their arrival. They will start in Mardum then end up escaping from the Warden's prison.

Val'Sharah is a druid oriented zone--there will be new models for Druids, including an updated Sea Lion and Moonkin form.

Stormheim is about the Vyrkul and introduces a new dragonflight, the new stormdragons!

Aszuna is a ravaged and cursed Night Elf zone. Azshara has devastated it and many of its inhabitants are cursed; there will be new Naga models, new male Banshees, and more.

Highmountain is an earthy zone, focused around the Tauren. Unique, new models for Tauren exist and all the creatures, including copious Harpies and moose, are very aggressive and strong compared to usual.

Suramar is a destroyed land with a city that remained pristine through magic--the Nightwell powered and protected it. As such, the inhabitants are addicted to its energy. Known as the Nightborne, they are allied with the legion. They exile some of their kin who become depraved lunatics without the Nightwell's support, eventually becoming withered.

There will be two raids (The Emerald Nightmare and the Palace of Suramar). Players will face Cenarius, Xavius, and a blighted dragon.

All leveling is scaled: zones can be approached at any level and will scale naturally, leading everyone to Suramar for 110. This lets the player pick their path.

There will be ten dungeons, five of which will scale and five which will be end-game.

Challenge modes are redone and will be less about rushing to completion and more about an actual challenge! There will be random buffs added to make it more challenger, e.g. periodic damage throughout the dungeon or extra damage from mobs. Gear will no longer be downscaled and there will not be gold, silver, etc ranks any longer.

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Cutscene the first to start a story in an expansion.

Legion invasion coming directly from tomb of Sargeras

Hand off in the cinematic is to Varian and Sylvanas on the Broken Shore

Broken Shore is the spring board for the expansion, gets everyone on the same page.

Boost experience is separate so actual Broken Shore area is a "40 player scenario".

Demon Hunter Introduction

Demon Hunter introduction

They are quite serious about battling the legion!

Illidan opens portal to Mardum for demon hunters

NEW DEMONS!: winged gargoyle model!

Demon Hunters get their own fel saber mount, you learn abilities as you quest

After you're introduced, you join your faction

return to mardum to establish your class order hall

start your artifact quest line!

Val'Sharah

Val'sharah - Emerald nightmare within

Forgotten area of druidism where Malfurion met Cenarius

Tracking corruption of the land - many corrupted areas in the zone

Meet archdruids in the zone whom you quest with

Xavius caused satyrs to flood the zone

New moonkin model preview with more character detail

New sea lion form for Druids as well

Val'sharah zone concept piece, gives palate for the zone

other assets based on that concept piece

Zone twist is the "Nightmare"

how to depict nightmare in game was conceptualized in different ways

Video of that zone presented

Stormheim

Rugged natural beauty, dangerous, highlands, ravines, treacherous nature of land that embodies spirit of Vra'kul, its inhabitants

Intro scenario to Stormheim, picks up story of Vra'kul seeking new gods

God king seeks entrance to Halls of Valor, sories of Kvaldir and Val'kyr

"Mystic vrakul" "Ascendant Val'kyr", "Skovald'

NEW DRAGONFLIGHT: stormdragons

Stormheim started with "Fall colors" concept piece

New Vrykul architecture

Aszuna

Azshara's vengeance was unimaginable, world is destroyed and ruined

(Also you can see way further in WoW in Legion! 3x as far! New rendering tech!)

Contains dying remnants of the Blue Dragonflight

Arcane energies help them in Asuna

Azuna inhabitant are cursed--new Spectre models

All new high res Naga models

New creature: Wrath of Azshara

Warden warriors and owl companions on the Warden's Isle

General themes is the "Greek isle" theme with stylized olive and cypress trees

Highmountain

Tauren clans live here, descendants of those who fought in war of the ancients--Rivermane, Skyhorn, Bloodtotem clans

new skins and models such as Alpine Harpies and Ettin

Large, aggressive mobs in Highmountain

new creatures like BABY MOOSE

Highmountain Tauren have moose--type horns, range of different inscribed and decorated horns on the NPCs

Horns show clan affiliation and rank

Highmountain has a unique pine forest which became the foundation of the zone

Lots of new Tauren concept art

Suramar

Zone where the Sargeras quest line culminates

Palace of Suramar has grand arcane well to create massive shield zone to protect the city

The elves became dependent on this Nightwell, an abused and corrupted power source

New night elf type: Nightborne - master arcanists, can conjure armor and weapons at will

Nightfallen - withered night elves in dark places of Suramar

"Arcane" colour scheme for zone - foundation piece of magenta/other colored trees

Ancient night elves are arcane based, unlike current druidic night elves

Suramar city was a very ambitious project, creating a playable night else metropolis

Leveling in Legion

What order do we do zones in? Easy answer: THE ZONES SCALE! You can do the zones while leveling in any order you chose (4 level up zones)

All roads still lead to Suramar - level 110 Zone, conclusion of journey for now

This makes this easier to play with your friends - you can do the same zone at different levels

World is scaled, not players

You will still get scaled quest rewards

Artifact will always keep you ahead of the power curve while leveling

Non-scaling large scary monsters like fel reaver will still exist

Endgame in Legion

Goal is best of both worlds: warlords/mop dailies, balance between freedom for objectives and take multiple roots to success but also imbue it with a sense of purpose and reason for your actions

Since it's all flexible zones, you can put dailies all over since it can all scale up to 110

System of out door world quests, constantly ongoing and always changing - "World quests"

Map updates with varied quests, objectives, with varied reasons and rewards

They vary in time--some are a few hours, some rare quests stay on for a week, a more organic sense of new things around the world. They want to overwhelm you with choices and options

Huge list of things, decide what rewards you value and what you want to tackle and go do it

Many tied to factions in the Broken Isles

Could be some PvP objectives, tower assault, kill some NPCs in flagged area

Could be killing world raid bosses

Could be profession related, unique outdoor objectives

Bringing back fun mini-games - Gnomebliteration, Roll Club, etc

Emissaries from different factions show up at your order hall can ask you to do various objectives

If you don't log in every day that's ok--freedom to do different things in this system

More info on outdoor endgame coming

Raids

Raids will come out, same pacing as WOD

Emerald Nightmare first raid - 7 bosses and was originally the Emerald Dream

Climbing a world tree to enter into the reality of the dream

First raid boss in Emerald Dream is a Dragon!

The Pestilence Worm - former a green dragon that defending the dream, now a dragon of death and decay

Boss 2: Corrupted Cenarius, due to the nightmare

Xavius manifested in the nightmare he looks like a huge big grotesque demon.

Palace of Suramar is a 10 boss raid, Gul'dan's base of operation

Nightwell is being infused with a Pillar of Creation

Not a dark demon raid, it's a majestic elven city

Combining concept art and 2D raid layout

Has things like a garden, an observatory, etc

Root our demons of the legion and the Nightborne who have betrayed their brethren

Boss: Grand Magistrix of the Nightborne

Final boss : Gul'dan

Dungeons

Ten dungeons coming

Five dungeons scale with level in accordance with Level up system, where the final five are max level

Eye of Azshara, Neltharian's Lair, Halls of Valour, Dark Heart Thicket, (new) Violet Hold

Dungeons are very integrated into the stories of the zones

Vault of the Wardens, Black Rook Hold, Hellheim, Suramar Noble District, and Suramar Catacombs are the max level dungeons

"Mini attunement": find another way in to the Palace from the Catacombs through foundations of the Nightwell

Dark Heart Thicket: foot of the World Tree, rescue an ally in the clutches of the nightmare. Our reality + threat of the nightmare

Halls of Valor: like Valhalla, where greatest warriors of Vry'kul goes

Hellheim: fallen val'yr, waiting for Ship of the Damned upon which you do this dungeon! - Ghostly ship feel, on your way to rescue "precious cargo".

Black Rook Hold: elven fortress towering over Val'sharah - militaristic side of Night Elves. Lord Ravencrest, Illidan's mentor - discovering Illidan's secrets.

Challenge Modes

Goals: avoid repetition, keep variety in difficulty and reward, etc.

CM repurposed as true open ended, endgame experience. Dungeon is as hard as you need it to be, with commensurate reward.

In Legion CMs you start a CM with a keystone and it has a power level associated with it.

There is still a timer, but not a frenetic mad dash, more about core dungeon game play.

Pass your keystone? allows you to try a harder level with better rewards.

Fail? you get a lower level keystone so you can try again.

Unbounded progression - there will always be a new step on the path to difficulty.

Can always ad new modifiers to health/damage/affixes in the dungeon.

"Raging affix - all creatures below 30% do double damage"

extra mobs, extra enemies in pulls, molten mobs, constant dots damage through whole dungeon

starts at small step above of Heroic dungeons.

Higher you go - better rewards. This can be a genuine alternate path to raiding.

More to come!

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