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Shadowlands Interview with Ion Hazzikostas and Tonton - Open World Lag, Swapping Covenants, PvP Power
Shadowlands
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09/07/2020 a las 12:25
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Tonton is interviewing Ion Hazzikostas on their Twitch stream and answering questions about Shadowlands! We'll be liveblogging the interview and summarizing important answers in this post.
Shadowlands Press Event Coverage
News & Updates
Potential Class Wide Artifact Transmog
Account Wide Legendary Power Recipes
Changing Covenants Should be Easy, Changing Back Should Be Hard
Rune Carving - Legendary Armor Crafting
Change Gender at the Barber Shop, No Longer a Paid Service
New Class Animations on Character Selection Screen
The Final Boss of Shadowlands
Pathfinder Based on Renown Instead of Reputation
No Bonus Experience from Heirlooms in Shadowlands
Shadowlands Content
Save Famous Characters from the Maw
The Maw Max Level Questline
The Maw Max Level Zone Preview
Venthyr Covenant Campaign Preview
Sinfall Covenant Sanctum Environment Preview
Covenant Sanctum Systems - Upgrades, Many Resources, Transportation Network
New Systems
Rune Carving - Legendary Armor Crafting
Soulbinds Progression Breakdown
Covenant Adventures: Missions Evolved
Dangers of the Maw - Eye of the Jailer Levels
Blue Posts
The Maw Zone Preview
Abominable Stitching Recipes
Venthyr Covenant Preview and Ember Court
Night Fae Covenant Preview and Queen's Conservatory
Necrolord Covenant Preview and Abomination Stitching
Kyrian Covenant Preview and Path of Ascension
Covenants System Preview
Soulbinds and Conduits Preview
Interview Coverage
PandaTV and Ion Hazzikostas Liveblog
Lordmons with Morgan Day - Pantheon of Death & Unlocking Legendary Powers
Warcraft Radio and Patrick Dawson Liveblog
Judgehype Insights with Patrick Dawson
Morgan Day and MrGM Liveblog
Zones, Covenant Armor, and Customization with Ely Cannon
Ion Hazzikostas - End-game Loot, Utility Legendaries, Droprates
Highlights from Ion Hazzikostas Group Interview
Shadowlands Lore with Steve Danuser - Elune, Sylvanas, Calia
Sloot Interview with Paul Kubit
HazelNuttyGames Interview with John Hight
Tonton Interview with Ion Hazzikostas - Open World Lag, Swapping Covenants, PvP Power
Lapi Interview with Ion Hazzikostas - Weekly Loot, Covenant Tuning
Liveblog
Covenant Abilities and Soulbinds
You can use them everywhere.
Once you hit max level and join a covenant, and have a soulbind, it's part of your character.
Covenant Abilities in PvP
They have the ability to have custom tuning in PvP.
The last thing they want to do is disabled something completely.
Will Covenants become the new factions?
The Covenants aren't exactly enemies against each other.
The can occasionally come into conflicts; there may be some PvP stuff that might be Covenants v. Covenants when it makes sense, but only when it makes sense.
PvP Problems
BFA was systems on top of systems and created some pretty broken systems and complexity.
They're learned from some tuning mistakes from things like corruption and essences -- passive dots or effects aren't exactly a reflection of skill.
Mage Tower
Down the line, there's room for additions. The Mage Tower was partway through Legion.
There are a number of customizations that can be earned from challenges like from the Covenant's Path of Ascension or Torghast's Twisted Corridors.
Larger Rewards for Mythic+/PvP
A portion of the reward is ego.
They don't want to push the reward ladder too high - every class can complete a +20 in time, every class can get 2400 in time.
They admit that they're not perfectly balanced but they don't want people to have a pressure there for in-game rewards.
PvP Power
PvP Power was an internal experiment that was datamined.
There are no plans to add a stat like that -- they want to make sure that it's clear what spells perform best.
They've decided that PvP only stats are not the right thing for the game at this time.
Shadowlands Launch
It's a little early to say if there will be anything special for the Shadowlands launch.
Changing Covenants and Being Meta
Covenants are set up to be a different choice than specs or talents.
WoW is a series of interesting choices -- from buttons to gear and talents to class and faction
Covenants are intended to be part of your identity.
There's a lot of customization, if you go into a dungeon, you pick the AoE conduits and the AoE soulbind.
Nadjia which was shown yesterday is more single target focus and you can socket single target conduits and use that as your single target conduit.
When returning to a Covenant, it's going to be much harder to prove yourself back to the Covenant since you left
via a quest
.
It should be a similar choice to deciding between Mage and Hunter.
Battleground and Arenas
New Arena in Bastion, no new Battleground
Tertiary Stats
Tertiary stats will probably be about how it is now.
Lag in Open World Battles
It's been going back all the way to WoTLK and Wintergrasp.
They've been working on it over the past year.
The problem is the game is more complicated, there was a preach video that speculated what was going on and he wasn't too far off.
However, it's an explanation, not an excuse. Ion knows it feels terrible and they're been working on many optimizations
Prepatch
Will probably be a few weeks before Shadowlands launch
Level squish and systems will be live.
Inspired by the Scourge event from WoTLK
They're gonna tell the story of how the Heroes of Azeroth are gathering in Icecrown and preparing for the Assault.
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