Shadowmoon Valley Preview, Alliance Garrison, Connected Realms, Forging Frostmourne

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Warlords of Draenor - Shadowmoon Valley Preview
Today we are taking a look at Shadowmoon Valley, the Alliance zone in Warlords of Draenor.



Warlords of Draenor - Alliance Garrison
Shadowmoon Valley also contains the Alliance garrison. The initial base with barracks and a monument is pictured here.


US Connected Realms - Update 6/30
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
As previously announced, we’ve been working toward connecting realms to increase the number of players on low-population realms. Here's a continuously updated list that contains currently planned connections, future plans, and completed realm connections, all in one convenient location.

*Please note this list does not encompass all potential future connections. Please check back for further updates.

Next Connections
We will be connecting the realms listed below on Thursday, July 3 during a scheduled maintenance beginning at 5 a.m. PDT through approximately 1:00 p.m. PDT. Once maintenance is finished, these realm connections will be complete.

  • Alterac Mountains and Balnazzar, Gorgonnash, The Forgotten Coast, and Warsong
  • Gnomeregan and Moonrunner

We will be connecting the realms listed below on Thursday, July 10 during a scheduled maintenance beginning at 5 a.m. PDT through approximately 1:00 p.m. PDT. Once maintenance is finished, these realm connections will be complete.

  • Zuluhed and Andorhal, Scilla and Ursin
  • Ysera and Durotan

Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Warlords of Draenor Theorycraft Discussion
With the changes to haste breakpoints, how will temporary haste buffs like the one from elemental blast affect HOTS or totems? Will we see the additional tick or heal long after the temporary buff is gone?
Haste is checked at the beginning of each cast, and on each tick of periodics.

Is there any way that you can set the healing dummies to put you into combat whenever you heal them and for something like 30 seconds after your last healing event to them? It would make healing testing a lot more accurate and let us test combat regen/sustainability of different spell selections.
Ah, hmm... I'll see what I can do about that. In the meantime, easy solution should be to just stand between the healing dummies and some damage dummies and throw a spell on a damage dummy. As long as you stay within 50yd of the damage dummy, it'll stay in combat with you. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
PvP
On the good news front, currently working on something awesome we haven't even told you about. (holinka)

e.g. brand new PvPer goes in at 1500 MMR. Gets wrecked 10x. Better experience if they start at ~1000 or so, win as they learn?
You are bootstrapped at the beginning of the season. You are actually 800 MMR. (holinka)
Admittedly poor transparency. Discussing that. (holinka)
ah, well, fair enough IDK, from friends starting arenas, losing a lot right off the bat is a reason why several don't continue.
Yeah agree with that and common complaint. Something we are discussing going forward. (holinka)

The objective of the developers should be to get more people playing pvp, not pissed off at the gearing process
Removing MMR tanking could be argued as helping there as new players aren't facing ppl that tanked. (holinka)

Have you considered matching by ilvl and then by rating? Does that extend queue time too much?
MMR adjusts on winning/losing so gear gets taken into account. There are all kinds of edge cases/exploits to gear matchmaking. (holinka)

MMR is MatchMaking Rating, and by tanking I think he means it's going to lower everyone's rating a LOT initially.
Tanking MMR means deliberately losing games to lower your MMR for easier wins against lower skilled players. (holinka)

Make Prideful Conquest achievement account wide? Would boost bg queues and reduce the amount of players tanking
The average player queues to earn conquest. Making them not need conquest will not improve queues. (holinka)

So you are turning 5hours+ into atleast 24hours. Because honor gear will be required, which u will replace later
Yes you have to devote time into making your character more powerful in WoW. It's a pillar of the genre. (holinka)

Man At Arms - Forging Frostmourne
Tony Swatton created a Frostmourne sword this week after fans requested it.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Shadowmoon Valley Preview, Alliance Garrison, Connected Realms, Forging Frostmourne started by chaud View original post
Published on 2014-07-01 07:43 AM
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  1. Arvandor's Avatar
    KARABOR you are not forgotten!
  1. elvor0's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Alixie View Post
    The overweight hairy guys are horde players. No surprise. Arthas having a much closer connection to the alliance makes that part extra cringe worthy.

    Dudes a /blacksmith/... he could knock a good portion of people out with a single punch.
  1. KungFuFanta's Avatar


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    Quote Originally Posted by elvor0 View Post
    Dudes a /blacksmith/... he could knock a good portion of people out with a single punch.
    Even a slap from that guy would leave you dazed, his arm probably weighs 60 kilos while in motion.
  1. Keile's Avatar
    Man at Arms is now the new Lich King.....
  1. Bathory's Avatar
    That was way more interesting to watch than azeroth choppers.
  1. Alopex Major's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Desareon View Post
    Thanks very much Blizzard, for making so everyone's Garrison will look the same...So much for that unique player experience that was talked about at Blizzcon...Jeez.
    As of last night, at least, you also cannot invite people to your garrison. Not sure if that's intended or not, but disappointing for those who wanted to use it for RP.
  1. Biruta's Avatar
    Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease, I want it 8)
  1. BaneDraegonfire's Avatar
    I just hope we get one of those lil Podling things as non combat pet lol
  1. mmocf89c8b0f36's Avatar
    Pre-destroyed SmV looks soooo pretty *.* And of course horde gets boring Frostfire Ridge...
  1. TheCrazyCatLady's Avatar
    LOL...Khadgar's servant giving people tours of the garrison. I like it.
  1. KoolKidKaos's Avatar
    That sword looks so bamf, where can I buy one? lol
  1. Mellrod's Avatar
    The overweight hairy guys are horde players. No surprise. Arthas having a much closer connection to the alliance makes that part extra cringe worthy.
    Actually no. First off, The Blacksmith doesn't even play World of Warcraft, he just shouted a popular and well-known phrase from the game. Second off, he's not some sort of fanboy who knows aboutWoW lore and whatnot, he has a job making weapons to be used for movies and the like, and he's been making this web-show to craft weapons from pop culture/media as requested by fans. Frostmourne was requested from day one. No where in his occupation does it say he needs to look up the lore of a weapon he makes. Tony does what he wants.

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    Alliance Garrison looks amazing. Alot better than horde one imo. Can't wait to quest in Shadowmoon Valley!
  1. BurnetRhoades's Avatar
    Except it wasn't forged. It was shaped out of stamped metal. Hilt and all is really cool though.
  1. zingar's Avatar
    "from friends starting arenas, losing a lot right off the bat is a reason why several don't continue" lol? they lose so they give up? why even try arenas if youre so casual in the first place?
  1. Kaleredar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Bathory View Post
    That was way more interesting to watch than azeroth choppers.
    Ahem, the HELM makes you the lich King. Frostmourne is just a particularly potent rune weapon.


    /nerdy
  1. Kathranis's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Laylriana View Post
    Horde gets Super Thrall in their Garrison and Alliance gets Khadgar's Servant. LOL
    Khadgar's servant is in the Horde garrison, too.
  1. DrakeWurrum's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Desareon View Post
    Thanks very much Blizzard, for making so everyone's Garrison will look the same...So much for that unique player experience that was talked about at Blizzcon...Jeez.
    If you want unique player housing, or even stuff that's similar to that, the only place I know of right now would be Wildstar.

    Unfortunately, Blizz has yet to take up the cup on unique player land-owning, whether it be housing or a farm, in a way that's particularly exciting. I'm hoping they look at what Wildstar did for the next expansion and find a way to incorporate it.
  1. Slaziar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kaleredar View Post
    Ahem, the HELM makes you the lich King. Frostmourne is just a particularly potent rune weapon.


    /nerdy
    Actually, It's both the curse runeblade & armor.
    Quoted from wowwiki:
    When Ner'zhul was transformed into the Lich King by Kil'jaeden, his disembodied spirit was shackled to a magical suit of armor as well as the runeblade Frostmourne.
  1. maxo's Avatar
    Frostmourne hungers!
  1. Terracresta's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by DrakeWurrum View Post
    If you want unique player housing, or even stuff that's similar to that, the only place I know of right now would be Wildstar.

    Unfortunately, Blizz has yet to take up the cup on unique player land-owning, whether it be housing or a farm, in a way that's particularly exciting. I'm hoping they look at what Wildstar did for the next expansion and find a way to incorporate it.
    Ultima Online still handles player housing better than most other games out there. For more recent MMORPGs there is ArcheAge that is offering player housing were you can place them everywhere in the world I think, never had a house while trying out the korean version. Sadly combat feels really outdated and put me off the game.
    Wildstar is featuring instanced housing, so it's not as awesome as some people might think. Still a nice addition to the game.

    On the other hand there's Everquest Next and Landmark further in the future even though I don't know if you can build houses in EQ Next like you can in Landmark or if you have to build them in the latter and then transfer them to Next. If you can build whatever you want, wherever you want in Next or transfer stuff over from Landmark, EQ Next would offer the best player housing yet.


    About the Frostmourne smithing video, I was hoping for the good old fashioned way, the blade not being a "cutout". Still interesting and it made me remember how I was cutting shuriken out of steel back in my school days (the earlier ones). ^^
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