Enhancement Shaman Spell Animations, Artifact Unlocks, Warcraft Movie Set, DLC #530

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Legion - Enhancement Shaman Spell Animations
New animations aren't complete, but here is an early preview of the new and modified Enhancement Shaman spell animations.

Legion - Artifact Appearance Unlocks
PvP artifact appearances will be unlocked for all specs per character when you earn the difference appearances.

Warcraft Movie Set
Duncan Jones shared another picture from the Warcraft movie set today!.

Blue Posts

Legion PvP Testing
This morning, a wave of invites was sent out with a focus on PvP experience. We'll continue to monitor participation. Thanks! (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Item Level Scaling in PvP
Can we get any confirmation how it trickles down to lower level PvP? Still static 0.1%?
Low levels are currently set to the same scaling values as level 110. The baseline item level is different for each bracket. It is approximately the ilevel of an heirloom item at the max level for each bracket. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Grove Warden
Will they ever fix Grove warden? The camera bug is making me so dizzy, I love the looks of the mount but can't stand using it.
Just a... heads-up... this is something that we are aware of and it's being tracked for a fix in an upcoming patch. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets

Classes
doesn't matter when often one "style" is too good not to play over the other talent. i often choose my gameplay style by class.
During alpha, you should pretty much ignore tuning. (Celestalon)

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator / Artifact Calculator / PvP Talent Calculator)
happy with the state of balance druid gameplay on #legion? Would love to hear design goal, spec seems a bit... lost atm
Balance is looking solid, especially after the latest Artifact revisions. Any specific feedback or questions? https://t.co/hyt0g0EJ7q (WarcraftDevs)
Our issues are here in this post, but no Dev gave us an answer.https://t.co/DvhMjCUogp
That feedback is almost exclusively about tuning, which hasn't happened yet. (Celestalon)

Art
Will male-BE in #legion eventually get ALL the updated melee animations? (i.e. Bloodthirst upwards swing instead of old spin)
This is an interesting question. They have the animations, but some iconic race-specific animations are still... (Celestalon)
...used for a few things, since players found them iconic. Don't want to lose all the soul of the race. (Celestalon)

Character / Items
Will the Warglaives of Azzinoth be recoded as "warglaives" with new warglaive animations? Or still swords and old animation?
It's important that Warriors and Rogues continue to be able to use them, so they will likely remain as swords. (WarcraftDevs)

The shapeshift camera bug is there with ghost wolf form, too
We are aware of this issue across many transformations on the Alpha. We're working on fixing it soon. (WarcraftDevs)

Artifact based abilities seem to act like Artifact is a separate mob - critless DotS, only 5% Crit, no benefits from Mastery
They should act like you casting them, using your stats. It's a bug if not. (Celestalon)

PvP
Curious if @WarcraftDevs are seeing anyone use Adaptation or Relentless in #PVP. Everyone I've seen uses Medallion.
We would be interested in hearing feedback from players who have tried Adaptation or Relentless in PvP. (WarcraftDevs)

Will we get an option to see our PvP Prestige progress on a bar like our Xp and Artifact Power?
Yes, this will be an option! (WarcraftDevs)

Ghostcrawler Tweets
Ghostcrawler still occasionally talks about WoW. Remember that he no longer works for or speaks for Blizzard.

LFD was a choice between doing content or not doing it at all. Could take hours to find dungeon groups.
I'll argue that's a false dichotomy. I agree with the problem but maybe there were other solutions. (OccupyGStreet)

I dont get why you think matchmaking is no valid group setup mechanism if most of the players prefer it over organization.
I think they are valuing convenience though. It's like being surprised that players like free loot. (OccupyGStreet)
In BC, Mechanar was the most popular dungeon by far. I don't think it was for the encounters. It was for quick badges. (OccupyGStreet)
So you just have to be careful when you measure participation that you don't mis-conclude they love the content they are doing. (OccupyGStreet)

N'Zoth Revealed
Hearthstone's latest expansion has revealed N'Zoth, who is one of the Old Gods.

Dark Legacy Comics #530
DLC #530 has been released!

[Pendulous]

Unleash arrows!

[xezar]

So kinda sad they reveal an old god in a dumb vtcg instead of, you know, in the main game series...and to top it off he looks like a poor cross of C'thun and Yoggy on top of it.

[grexly75]

I would think that since N'Zoth's main digs are underwater (from what I can gather) he looks more like a giant mean as all Octopus or Squid..

[AemosBlackwater]

So they revealed the "face" of Nzoth with Hearthstone and not wow... i have no words.

[Wries]

I'm starting to join the crowd wanting GC back. Seems his thoughts are on the ball. Participation does not equal enjoyment.

[Magemaer]

Seems some people haven't figured out yet that WoW isn't their main project anymore. It's just an old boring addicting game that entered maintenance mode years ago.

Nice art btw, very hentaish.

[Rezhka]

Give back that Lightning Crash effect to Elemental please... Along with dat thunder sound effect as well.

[Coconut]

Why would people complain they reveal N'zoth (and Y'shaarj) in Hearthstone?!

So they're not allowed to have an Old-God themed expansion in HS because we haven't seen all old gods in WoW? We weren't ever going to see Y'shaaraj in WoW since he died long ago, who knows when we'll see N'zoth... let's just enjoy the awesome art, can we?

[tss]

N'Zoth looks really inspired. No, I mean look at it. I can see the entire two seconds of thought the artist put into it. What a nugget of gold.

I'm starting to join the crowd wanting GC back. Seems his thoughts are on the ball. Participation does not equal enjoyment.

No fuckin kidding. Shame his headmeat is being wasted on an even more cancerous game than WoW.

[DrMcNinja]

Well, that's one way to kill the suspense of a BIG reveal...

[Yakshamash]

LOOOOOOOOOOOL for N'zoth in HS!!! Now we know why Micky Neilson left...

[Super Kami Dende]

People complaining that something Warcraft related was revealed in a Warcraft game.

People these days bitch about anything.

[grexly75]

People complaining that something Warcraft related was revealed in a Warcraft game.

People these days bitch about anything.

Tell me about it, it is amazing what people will bitch, moan whinge and cry about, it really does and it is becoming very pathetic..

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N'Zoth looks really inspired. No, I mean look at it. I can see the entire two seconds of thought the artist put into it. What a nugget of gold.

Ok then if you are such an artistic genius lets see you draw a better version of N'Zoth and post it here for everyone to see..

[Rehok]

Seems some people haven't figured out yet that WoW isn't their main project anymore. It's just an old boring addicting game that entered maintenance mode years ago.

Nice art btw, very hentaish.

Well that's because WoW isn't a project but its still their biggest game. Blizzard don't have "main" things anymore as they have different teams (which may sometimes overlap) to develop for different things. Its hardly in maintenance mode when as i said its still their biggest game and will continue to do so most likely.

[Deleted]

Lol the new tauren sounds... "Myueehhhh"

[Shockeye]

Why does the Shaman in the animations video keep missing with off-hand attacks? Lots of swings with no apparent hits happening.

Re: GC - I always liked him and was sad when he left Blizzard and WoW; he's got a great brain in him and I appreciated his work for WoW even if I didn't always agree with the reasons at the time.

[VanishO2]

N'zoth reminds me of DK's T15 shoulder/helm...

[Monketron]

N'zoth looks pretty cool. Keeping the whole 'Old gods with tentacles look' while also differentiating him enough from C'Thun and Yogg-Saron. Hope we'll see him one day modelled in 3d for WoW...hint hint!

[Tenjen]

whats wrong with the grove warden btw?