Shadowlands Torghast Interview with Paul Kubit

Shadowlands Posted 2020/05/15 at 7:06 PM by Archimtiros

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Torghast Progression and RewardsShadowlandsBattle for AzerothLegionone legendary equipped at a time

This “breadth game,” as Kubit calls it, should give devoted players a reason to keep playing, while letting uninterested players jump to a different mode.

“There are no current plans for a leaderboard,” said Kubit. “But you better bet that that’s one those things that’s on our list of cool potential things in the future.”

timed debuffsresponse stating their intentTorghast Group Scaling

Torghast is something completely new for World of Warcraft: an endless mode that shouldn’t devolve into a weekly chore for months on end.

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Comment by OldburyGood stuff. The choice aspect of the Legiondaries were great (yes I'm aware most people just wanted what simmed the best) and it was the RNG acquisition that sucked. Looking forward to seeing what effects Shadowlanderies give us and see if any of them are something to alter gameplay around.Comment by Ralph2449For leaderboards to become a thing it needs to become more skill based, which means powers cant get out of control, you should get more powerful but you should never consistently one shot everything, the tower needs to scale to high difficulty levels similar to alpha's early 25s where you have to be methodical or you are out.

I would like leaderboards, obviously once it is balanced and per SPEC BASIS, since we know demon hunter will roflstomp through it just like visions while casters will suffer.Comment by walrock"Torghast is something completely new for World of Warcraft: an endless mode that shouldn’t devolve into a weekly chore for months on end."

Fingers crossed, because thats what visions are right now.Comment by zugzugzuugCool now remove torments a lot of people dont want torments.Comment by FawfulHopefully we get more info on non-Torghast stuff again soon. We've got a few slivers, but every interview lately seems to revolve around Torghast. More lore stuff! Interview the art director! Something!Comment by warcrafteelPlease. do not. screw THIS UP.Comment by trogCool now remove torments a lot of people dont want torments.Comment by Ralph2449Cool now remove torments a lot of people dont want torments.Comment by MendokusaiCool now remove torments a lot of people dont want torments.Comment by ThePancakeCzA way how to keep everyone happy would be to make the torments like a "hard" mode. You can choose to do the version without it, for somehow reduced reward, or do it with torments and get... Something different? While it might be a terrible idea, who knows it's alpha. They might come up with a way how to make torments less tormenting for the weaker classes. Balance them somehow.Comment by Ralph2449Funny because most people that care do watch people who play them, and we see how heavily it affects higher floors.

Yeah nobody is gonna get affected in the early noob levels where you roflstomp everything and only require a small amount of effort, once you start going into late 20s and early 30s with floors full of elites, the story is very different.Comment by MendokusaiCool now remove torments a lot of people dont want torments.Comment by elmurgood so i can go in get my lego and then neevr go back til the next patch . thk godComment by MendokusaiFunny because most people that care do watch people who play them, and we see how heavily it affects higher floors.

Yeah nobody is gonna get affected in the early noob levels where you roflstomp everything and only require a small amount of effort, once you start going into late 20s and early 30s with floors full of elites, the story is very different.Comment by JaigarFunny because most people that care do watch people who play them, and we see how heavily it affects higher floors.

Yeah nobody is gonna get affected in the early noob levels where you roflstomp everything and only require a small amount of effort, once you start going into late 20s and early 30s with floors full of elites, the story is very different.Comment by Ralph2449
1/ when, with experience, your brain will realize that rushing it or take your time make no difference it will be ok
2/ this only make the affixe part of the global difficulty of the floor. Even if you try to go fast the affixe will be here you can easy balance it with lowering the hp of the mobs if the floor is considered too hard. That is exactly the right exemple to see that on higher floors even with the affixe trying to rush it (big pulls= harder) or going slow (a little bit more stack of the affixe but not really between a 30m and a 45m run) is pretty much the same difficulty
3/ Agree with this one, you should maybe have some "warning" or "delai" before mobs come
4/ ones can find it annoying, others challenging. This is hightly subjective. I find it's annoying to die when i try to kill a mob, but i don't want to be not killable because then there is no reason to play.Comment by SingleServinGusI'm sorry, I couldn't even read the article after seeing the picture. Sploosh! Hello Daddy! <3Comment by Aralndai cant keep up with amount of interviews coming. i really like that XD reminds me of legion times. but i wish it was more structured like back in legion. each dev and they focus on a spcecif subject like Steve Danuser for lore, paul Kubit for quests and kind of tie in with steve's lore, paul Kubit on professions and secrets, Holinka for pvp, ion for everything else, (i forget everyone and what they do)etc.Comment by slemaireCool now remove torments a lot of people dont want torments.Comment by Ralph2449Yeah because people who might want to push content now will be capped not only on floor difficulty which is the main thing that is supposed to stop you but also RNG torments

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