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Warlords of Draenor Beta: Guide to UI and Quality of Life Improvements
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08/08/2014 à 13:29
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, with a Nagrand flythrough video and updated pictures of the Ashran faction hubs! Our
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has returned, too, with another set of achievements to complete!
Warlords of Draenor has numerous quality of life changes, ranging from the addition of the Toy box for account-wide vanity items to a new Void Storage tab and a greatly-expanded Group Finder tool!
This guide covers all of the improvements we've noticed in the beta--we've previously covered some in the Alpha, but there have been some changes.
Highlights include:
The new Toy box feature, which allows users to save vanity items to a special Collections tab and free up tons of bag space. These vanity items become account-bound as well.
Players have an additional void storage tab.
New reagents bank and you can craft items keeping the materials in your bank.
Special graphics setting specifically for Raids and Battlegrounds.
New Group Finder tool letting you create groups for various PvE and PvP activities.
Solo queuing for old LFRs and scenarios.
Polearms and staves can be transmogged onto 2H axes, maces, and swords now.
Also be sure to check out the rest of our WoD guides at
http://www.cuckhead.com/warlords
.
Bag Space
Players now have an additional Void Storage tab.
On individual banks, there is a separate
Reagents Bank
. You can craft items using materials that are in this bank--no need to put them in your bags.
Crafting materials now stack way higher. In Mists of Pandaria,
Minerai d'étain
stacks to 20, and in Warlords of Draenor, it stacks to 200. Wowhead tooltips display their max amount.
Junk grey items now have a gold coin indicating they are vendor trash.
Bags come with a "Clean up Bags" option to move all the empty slots to one area. You can also click on a bag to assign it a specific type of item--Equipment, Consumables, Trade Goods, Junk. Clicking on the Broom in your main backpack will then send items to the correct bag. You can also choose to Ignore a bag when organizing items.
Quest items do not take up space in your bags anymore.
Items in your bag have a border around them indicating their quality, ranging from Poor (grey) to Legendary (orange).
There are new options to determine if you want items moved to the right or left when cleaning your bags, or if you want new items to appear in your rightmost or leftmost bag.
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Combat
There is now an option to enable/disable floating combat text for pet battles.
There is now an option to display numbers for ability cooldowns.
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Dungeon Journal
The Dungeon Journal now has a role tab, which explains the basics of the fight for tanks, healers, and damage-dealers. This is a bit more streamlined than the abilities section, which lists each spell in great detail and can be hard for newer players to scan for important parts of the fight.
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Graphics
There is a new graphics setting specifically for Raids and Battlegrounds as well as Anti-Aliasing. These are found under Systems > Graphics.
There is also an option to Show/Hide new character models, if the revamped models aren't your cup of tea.
Outline Mode is a new setting that places an outline around important NPCs and objects so you can glean basic information about them without having to look at nameplates or tooltips.
In Outline Mode, friendly NPCs are green, hostile players/NPCs are red, neutral NPCs are yellow, and unflagged characters from your faction are blue when you mouseover them.
In Outline Mode, quest items are yellow and lootable items with
Ressources de fief
glow purple even without mousing over them.
You can disable Outline Mode, or opt to only turn it on for Quest NPCs, by going to Interface > Display.
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Group Finder
Warlords of Draenor brings an updated Group Finder to the game which allows players to find groups for all kinds of content.
There is a new "Group Finder" button which has tabs for Dungeons & Raids, Player vs Player, and Challenges. This contains the functionality of the old Dungeon Finder and Player vs Player windows.
On the Dungeons & Raids tab, there is a new "Premade Groups" option. Bringing this up lets you choose groups for Questing, Dungeons, Scenarios, Legacy Raids, Mists of Pandaria Raids, or Custom.
On the Player vs Player tab, there is a new "Premade Groups" option. Bringing this up lets you choose groups for Arenas, Arena Skirmishes, Battlegrounds, Rated Battlegrounds, or Custom.
All of these types of groups allow you to start a group or find a group.
All of these types of group allow you to specify a location or instance, if applicable.
All these types of group allow you to specify a minimum ilvl, which must be less than or equal to your own or the group cannot be listed.
All these types of group allow you to specify a Voice Chat system, in a field you type a name into, rather than a drop-down.
All these types of group allow you to add a description
You can also list your character, for each different type of content, and search for specific groups or types of group
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Key Bindings
Instead of one long list of keybinds, there are separate panels when you open up the Key Binding section: Movement Keys, Chat, Action Bar, MultiActionBar, Targeting, Interface Panel, Miscellaneous, Camera, Target Markers, Vehicle Controls, iTunes Remote, Movie Recording.
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Maps
The map now has an area listing quests on the right-hand side, with achievement progress shown at the top for completing all the major storylines in a zone.
When you move with the map open, it remains open but turns transparent.
Bonus objective areas are marked with swords on the map.
There is a new option to sort newly tracked quests in the objective tracker. New quests can either appear at the top, or be sorted by proximity.
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Mount Journal
Players can select Favorite mounts now. These mounts appear at the top of the journal with a star and can be summoned with the new option
Monture favorite aléatoire
.
The journal displays all the mounts you have collected account-wide, including opposite-faction mounts your particular character cannot use. These have an Alliance or Horde logo in the background and opposite-faction ones are red.
Mounts you cannot use in a particular area, such as underwater ones, display in red.
In addition to displaying a model, each's mounts page now displays additional information. All mounts have fun flavor text and some also display their source, related profession, or related achievement. If you visit a mount page on Wowhead's Warlords of Draenor site, such as
Tête de Mimiron
, this special information will show up on the page.
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Questing and Exploration
Rare spawns in Draenor zones are rare the first time you come across them, and then normal after you've killed them once. They also drop their special loot the first time--no need to repeat farm them.
Quest rewards have a small chance to be better-than-expected. Instead of getting an uncommon-quality reward, you have a chance for a rare or epic version. When this occurs, a special Toast message will appear in the center of your screen, similar to when you win gear via a bonus roll in a raid.
Quest items no longer take up space in your bags. Your quest log automatically updates without you having to loot and store items.
Random areas of each zone have bonus objectives that can only be completed in that specific area.
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Solo Queuing for LFR and Scenarios
There are ways to queue for LFR, Scenarios, and Heroic Scenarios if you are above the intended level. On live, these instances have level requirements so once you'd level past the requirement, you had no way of going back--like Dragon Soul LFR. This is great for acquiring old achievements and transmog.
By the Lorewalkers,
Chroniqueur Fu
lets you queue for regular scenarios,
Chroniqueur Shin
for heroic scenarios, and
Chroniqueur Han
for Mists of Pandaria LFRs. You must be above 90 to queue this way.
Right outside the
L’Âme des dragons
portal in
Grottes du Temps
, you can queue up (along with your party members) for Dragon Soul LFR wings via
Auridormi
.
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Toy box
The Toy box is a new storage system that saves all of your vanity items and turns them account-wide. This frees up a lot of bag space!
We've made a guide to all the Toy Box additions, removed items, and how to acquire them.
You can look for Toy box items in our Warlords of Draenor database. We have a
special toy box filter
that automatically updates each build and Toy box items are marked as "Toy" in Quick Facts and tooltips, such as
Boîte à musique de Sylvanas
.
To add an item to the Toy box on beta, simply click on the item and it will be added to the interface. If you have the same vanity item stored on a different character, it will say the item is already known and it is safe to delete.
Once an item is in the toy box, you can set it as a Favorite. This moves it to the top page.
On the Toy box pane, your collection progress is tracked and you can also filter by Source, although that is currently broken on beta.
The Toy box also displays the toys you haven't collected yet, so you are inspired to collect them.
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Transmog Weapons
In Mists of Pandaria, polearms could only be transmogged to staves. 2H axes, maces, and swords were handled separately.
On the Warlords of Draenor beta, all of these weapon types can be transmogged over each other. We tested this with a premade level 100 character buying all the 2H PvP weapons and using them at the transmogrifier.
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What's New Screen
New players are greeted with a "What's New" screen highlighting some of Blizzard's latest features. Currently on the beta, this highlights the toybox, new Group Finder UI, and updated character models.
This window can be accessed by going to the Game Menu as well.
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