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BlizzCon 2017 World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth What's Next Panel
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At BlizzCon 2017, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, the next expansion after Legion, has been announced and more in depth information is being revealed at the What's Next panel. On stage we have Alex Afrasiabi and Ion Hazzikostas to give us all the details about what's coming up in WoW!
Please note, this is a summary - for an exact transcript please refer to this panel on the BlizzCon 2017 Virtual Ticket.
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Alex Afrasiabi on stage
We want to prepare you for the coming war.
Alliance attacking Undercity
Horde burning down Teldrassil
Discussion of who fired the first shot! Who knows?
Horde seeks Zandalari, Alliance seeks Kul'tiras - we seek out lost territories for new resources - both have great navies.
With no external thread, we've turned on each other.
Kul'Tiras - Alliance Leveling Zone
Kul'tiras is an ancient human civilization ruled by four houses.
Three main regions: Stormsong Valley, Drustvar, Tiragarde Sound.
Tiragarde Sound
Tiragarde Sound has Capital and is a Hub, led by Katherine Proudmoore - Jaina's mother
Kul'tirans by nature are monster hunters, specifically sea monsters. Tiragarde Sound also has a Pirate Problem!
Tiragarde Sound video
Drustvar
-Drustvar is a forested mountainous region in Southwest Kul'tiras.
-Lord and Lady Waycrest lead the region
-Supplies arms to Kul Tiras
-Land of Drustvar is cursed
-Drustvar video
Stormsong Valley
-Has lots of Quillboars
-Lush, green
-Northern region of Kul Tiras
Zandalar - Horde Leveling Zone
-Ancient Troll Empire
-Once a Landlocked Mountain range, changed with the Sundering
-Large navy
-Things are not going great for the Zandalari - Continent is in turmoil
Zuldazar
-Zuldazar is the Capital and only safe refuge in the region
-Also current horde capital for this expansion
-Rules by King Rastakhan and Princess Talanji
-Investigate an internal uprising
-Stop blood troll invaders, hammering the borders
-Video of Zuldazar
Naz'mir
-Nazmir is a festering swampland
-Inhabited by Blood Trolls
-Beat them by enlisting Powerful Loa
-Frog mount!
-Facility which may hold titan secrets.
-Video of Nazmir
Vol'dun
-Desert of Vol'dun
-Old god legions attacked this many years ago
-What do Zandalari do with an uninhabitable desert? Send their criminals there
-Befriend the Vulpera (a race of Fox people)
-Face off against sethrak (snake race)
Character Stories
-Character stories: following Anduin, Sylvanas, and where's Jaina?
-What about Thrall?
-Exploring Vol'jin's story
Content
Zones
-6 new zones, 2 new continents
-You level to 120 primarily in your own faction's contintent
-The rest of world opens up at 120
-The scaling zone tech still in game so you can choose zones to level.
-Two epic Alliance and Horde war campaign storylines that lead you to the other continent.
-Set up outposts in the opposite faction's land.
-There will be world quests and emissaries.
Blizzard
During the World of Warcraft – What’s Next panel at BlizzCon, Creative Director Alex Afrasiabi and Game Director Ion Hazzikostas dove into the world, story, and features coming in the next chapter in the World of Warcraft saga:
Battle for Azeroth
.Discover what lies in wait on the shores of Kul Tiras and Zandalar, prepare for battle in Island Expeditions and on large-scale PvE Warfronts, and find out what’s in store for the champions of the Horde and the Alliance in the war to come.
Drawing the Lines of BattleAzeroth paid a terrible price to end the apocalyptic march of the Legion’s crusade—but even as the world’s wounds are tended, the age-old enmity between the Alliance and the Horde returns to the fore.As mounting tensions erupt into full-blown war, the Horde fights a desperate battle to keep control of Lordaeron and maintain their foothold in the Eastern Kingdoms—an epic confrontation that will serve as players’ introduction to the expansion. Across the vast Great Sea, the night elven home of Teldrassil lies reduced to smoldering ashes, leaving the Horde to dominate Kalimdor. These events set the stage for a war that will engulf all of Azeroth.In order to break this stalemate and secure ultimate victory, both the Horde and the Alliance will seek out new allies to defend faction, family, and home. In addition, each will need to fight for land and resources to secure their faction’s survival.
Explore Two New Continents
To bolster their ranks, heroes of the Horde will venture into Zandalar to seek out the Zandalari trolls and persuade them to add their naval might to their war efforts. Meanwhile, the Alliance will turn to the seafaring kingdom of Kul Tiras—home of Jaina Proudmoore—to convince them to fight by their side.But these lands are not without troubles of their own. Dark forces move against the people of Kul Tiras, while the Zandalari trolls try to quell an uprising brewing from within and repel invaders encroaching from the swamps. If we have any hope of enlisting the aid of either the Kul Tirans or the Zandalari, we will first have to root out and vanquish those threats.Heroes of each faction will level to the new maximum level of 120 on their own continent, each comprised of three distinct and varied zones.
Alliance—Kul Tiras
If you’re on the Alliance, you’ll venture through the seafaring kingdom of Kul Tiras and untangle a web of betrayal and dark magic. Kul Tiras is dominated by four major houses, including House Proudmoore in Tiragarde Sound, House Waycrest in Drustvar, and House Stormsong in Stormsong Valley.
Horde—Zandalar
Zandalar is the heart of the troll empire and is known as Azeroth’s cradle of life. Trolls are among the most ancient of beings known to exist on Azeroth—their presence precedes the arrival of the titans. There are three main territories in Zandalar: the lush jungle of Zuldazar, the dank marshland of Nazmir, and the storm-scorched desert of Vol’dun.As you progress through the story for your faction, your ultimate goal will be to convince these potential allies to join your cause—but that doesn’t mean your effects will only be focused on your own continent. There is a bigger picture to be taken in: that of a world at war.Much like the Class Order Campaign in Legion, there will a sweeping War Campaign story arc that anchors players in the battle between the Horde and the Alliance. Every couple of levels you gain, you’ll also advance the War Campaign, which will begin taking you to the opposite faction’s lands to start laying the groundwork foradvancement into enemy territory. These footholds will provide the foundation for your end-game experience when the opposite faction’s areas open up to you at max level. At level 120, you’ll also be able to unlock new World Quests and Emissaries across both new continents.
Subraces
Features:
-Allied races: Alliance and Horde looking for help/allies
-Players are reaching out through custom quest content to show how those allied races come to join the Alliance or Horde.
-Once you play through that, you can unlock the ability to play that race.
-New racial abilities, varied customization
-Allied races begin at level 20
-If you level an Allied race from 20 to level 110, you unlock a set of Heritage armor specific to the sub class.
-6 allied races at launch: Horde get Nightborne, Highmountain Tauren, Zandalari Trolls. Alliance get Void Elves, Lightforged Draenei and Dark Iron Dwarves.
-Allied races video.
Blizzard
The Heroes of Azeroth
As you explore these new lands, you’ll also participate in the stories of some of Azeroth’s most iconic heroes and leaders of the Horde and the Alliance, including Jaina Proudmoore, Thrall, King Anduin Wrynn, and Warchief Sylvanas Windrunner.There’s also one more tale we’re not quite done telling: As Horde players journey through Zandalar and commune with ancient troll Loa spirits, they may gain new insight into the fate of Vol’jin, fallen warchief of the Horde.
Allied Races
With the lines starkly drawn between the Horde in the west and Alliance in the east, both factions will seek out new allies to aid them—including some friends they’ve encountered before.As a champion of the Horde or the Alliance, you’ll be able to play through a series of quests to bring new Allied Races into your faction. Once you have secured a given race’s allegiance to your faction, you’ll unlock the ability to create new characters of that race, complete with new racial abilities and a variety of customization options.
Horde
Alliance
Nightborne
Void elves
Highmountain tauren
Lightforged draenei
Zandalari trolls
Dark Iron dwarves
Once unlocked, players can begin playing their new Allied Race starting at level 20. As with other races, once you unlock an Allied Race you’ll be able to use a Race Change or Character Boost on your new character—but those who engage in the complete leveling experience (from level 20) will earn a distinctive cosmetic Heritage Armor set for their new race.These six new Allied Races are just the beginning, and this is a system that lays the foundation for new additions in the future.
Leveling Improvements
-Blizzard is expanding zone scaling
-Old world zones will have level ranges with caps i.e. some will be 10-60, some will be 40-60.
-Taking a step back from Zone Choice and how you level through Expansions
-What if you could choose? Flexible expansion order: BC content is 60-80, WotLK is 60-80, Cata is 80-90, bounce back and forth or pick one. Point is player choice.
-Beginning of these leveling improvements will be 7.3.5
Blizzard
Leveling Improvements
If you choose to level up a new Allied Race—or if you ever just want to play something new—we’re making some improvements to the leveling experience that will allow you to more fully explore the conflicts and stories in the game’s leveling zones. Building on Legion’s level-scaling, we’re expanding the level ranges that each zone in classic Azeroth (and beyond) supports. This means you’ll be able to group with a wider range of friends and allies, while also being able to enjoy your favorite zones longer. Each of these scaling zones will have a wide range of levels it can support.On an even larger scale, we also want players to have the freedom to choose between different expansions’ content as they level up. So, for example, both Outland and Northrend might scale from levels 60–80, allowing a player to level exclusively in one expansion’s content, or to bounce back and forth between the two as they prefer.We’ll also be adjusting the rewards that can be earned from quests and dungeons, so that they scale in the same manner as the zones themselves. Our goal is to create a truly flexible experience throughout the world of Azeroth so that the choice of how you experience it is yours.We want to get these improvements into your hands as soon as possible, so you’ll start to see the initial stages of these changes in just a few weeks as Patch 7.3.5 rolls out to the Public Test Realm.
Heart of Azeroth
-Commune with the world soul to receive a gift from Azeroth herself
-Artifact quality medallion
-Artifact weapons "are consigned to history"
-As Azeroth suffers and bleeds, her life essence is bleeds out onto the earth (Azerite)
-As you encounter it in the world, it feeds your medallion.
-Incredibly potent power source to unlock latent powers in your pieces of armor.
-Azerite Armor: Tiers of power for armor. Unlocked by how powerful your amulet is.
-Possibly 3 slots can be changed by the amulet
Blizzard
The Heart of Azeroth
In the aftermath of the Legion’s assault on Azeroth, the world is teetering on the brink. As the Horde and the Alliance battle, the very essence of Azeroth is seeping out. It’s up to you to not only defend your faction, but to also defend Azeroth herself.Early on in Battle for Azeroth, Magni Bronzebeard will entrust you with a powerful artifact to wear around your neck throughout your journey: the Heart of Azeroth, which represents the hopes and dreams of the world.
Over the course of the expansion, you’ll encounter Azerite, an incredible new resource that’s appeared in the wake of the Legion’s demise. As you gather this substance, you’ll use it to empower the Heart of Azeroth. Unlike the artifact weapons that heroes wielded in Legion, the Heart of Azeroth is not itself an item that you will customize; instead, it will serve as a source of power that awakens latent properties of some other pieces of armor that you’ll wear throughout your adventures.Speaking of gear, we’ll also be performing another stat “squish,” like we did in Warlords of Draenor, to bring player health and damage numbers down to more comprehensible numbers without affecting players’ actual effectiveness against the foes around them.
Island Expeditions
-Explore uncharted isles across the Great Sea
-Azerite and other treasures on these islands.
-Horde and Alliance skirmishing over resources.
-3-player cooperative, role agnostic gameplay
-Theme is exploration - island can change between visits.
-Complete varied and dynamic questions - friendly trolls, enemy mogu, could be a variety of things.
-replayable dynamic experience.
-Race against advanced AI opponents
-You can choose also to race against enemy players to do so instead.
Warfronts
-Large scale battles back on the home front
-Fantasy anchored in WC3, RTS roots
-20 player cooperative raid versus NPC armies
-Build structures, research upgrades, lead troops
Blizzard
Island Expeditions
The Great Sea is filled with uncharted islands, and Battle for Azeroth will send you to wide array of these in an effort to locate resources to fuel the war between the Horde and the Alliance. The new Island Expeditions feature is a three-player cooperative experience grounded in exploration and small-scale conflict, set in a diverse range of environments. Each time you set out on an Island Expedition, you’ll engage in a variety of objectives and race against “Advanced NPC” opponents for these resources. If you’re looking to engage in PvP, there will be an opportunity for it here as well.
Warfronts
While Island Expeditions offer small-scale conflict, cooperative (PvE) Warfronts represent large-scale war on the homefront as members of each faction fight for control of a location critical to the war effort.Anchored in the real-time strategy (RTS) origins of Warcraft, you play the role of a lieutenant leading the charge on the ground of a massive battle. Together with 19 fellow allied players, you will create an outpost, secure resources, set up supply lines, and train troops to push forward to assault and overcome an enemy stronghold. Unlike Warcraft III, you’ll be fighting in this conflict firsthand rather than commanding from a top-down perspective—putting you on the front lines of a large-scale, 20-player PvE experience.
PvP Updates
-New Arena in both new continents - Tiragarde and Zuldazar
-New BG: Seething Shore - off the coast of Sillithus
-Skirmishing over separate areas in the BG
-Tells the story pre-expansion - keep and eye on the PTR for this
-New brawls are coming
-Previews in 7.3.5
-World PvP Changes: old 2005 ruleset doesn't work too well for the new WoW world
-Looking to update this system.
-Remove PvE v PvP server division
-Now an individual toggle.
-When Pvp mode is enabled, we want to make it feel worth your time.
-Aim of these changes is to build up and improve world pvp
Blizzard
PvP Updates
While there are many new PvE experiences waiting in Battle for Azeroth, there are also some new PvP updates for players to look forward to.In a new Battleground, Seething Shore, players of the Horde and Alliance will descend upon Silithus to battle over the Azerite bubbling to the surface. This Battleground will offer dynamic control point gameplay similar to Arathi Basin, but with new control points appearing periodically as resources are depleted. This new Battleground will require coordination as you and your team work to overcome the opposing faction. Since this Battleground actually serves to tell part of the story that leads to the events of Battle for Azeroth, we also plan to offer a preview of the Seething Shore during patch 7.3.5 as we continue to build upon the conflict between the Horde and the Alliance for the coming expansion.Beyond instanced PvP, we’re also reexamining how PvP plays out in the outdoor world. The PvP system hasn’t fundamentally changed since the launch of World of Warcraft; however, so many other systems that shape the world, ranging from flying mounts to cross-realm zones, have changed the way players interact. We’ve heard feedback lamenting the decline of world PvP over the years. Meanwhile, there are players on PvP servers who don’t necessarily enjoy that gameplay, but also don’t want to switch servers and leave their friends behind. Looking ahead to Battle for Azeroth, this feels like a great opportunity to update the PvP system to better reflect the state of the game world today.The core of our plan lies in bringing all servers together under a single PvP ruleset. Players will ultimately be able to choose on an individual basis whether they want to opt in to PvP gameplay or not. While in a capital city, you’ll be able to opt into world PvP, and you will venture out into a PvP-enabled version of the world, populated by other players who have also opted in to PvP gameplay. This also provides a universal foundation upon which we can build new world PvP systems that previously would have inherently excluded everyone playing on a PvE realm.For those who do opt in to the PvP experience, there will be some slight bonuses such as extra experience gain or reputation gain to offset the additional risk. The nature and magnitude of these bonuses will undergo extensive tuning, with the goal of not making anyone feel obligated to participate in PvP if they dislike that gameplay, while counterbalancing the loss in efficiency for those who do.
Dungeons
-10 new dungeons, each faction has separate level-up dungeons
-All available to both sides at 120
-Mythic keystone updates - design more of our dungeons with this in mind.
-Freehold - pirate area of Tiragarde Sound. Sprawling cliffside outlaw hideaway
-Atal'Dazar - troll dungeon. Undead dinosaurs, tomb of troll kings
-Tol Dagor, Waycrest Manor, Shrine of the Storm, Siege of Braolus, Temple of Stehraliss, The Underrot, King's Rest, Kezan are the other dungeons.
Raid
-Uldir, Halls of Control
-8 bosses
-Titan quarantine facility
-Face off against the source of Zandalar's corruption
-shut down and sealed away for thousands of years, new spin on titan architecture
-slimy foes!
-Queen Azshara - future raid boss
Blizzard
New Raid
Originally designed by the titans as a quarantine facility used to analyze and dissect their ancient enemy, the Old Gods, this large pyramid looms menacingly over Zandalar. But as with most things involving the Old Gods, something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.We’ll have more details about this first 8-boss raid dungeon at a later date.And before we leave, you might want to keep your eyes out for Queen Azshara, too. The sea, after all, is her playground.The stage is set for a climactic war that will determine the fate of the world—prepare for Battle for Azeroth!
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