Interviews: Warcraft After Cataclysm
Tom Chilton and Greg Street have been making the rounds again with interviews on IGN and Gamasutra.
Patch 4.3
- If you add up all of the Deathwing encounter stages, it will be the longest fight in the game.
- Each stage of the fight will take place in a different location and offer some loot.
- The encounter starts at Wyrmrest Temple, progressing toward the players being on Deathwing's back while he is flying toward The Maelstrom.
- The new five man encounters will build up to the Deathwing fight, similar to how the Icecrown five man instances built up to the Lich King.
- To combat the complaints of armor always looking the same, there is a sub-lead who is in charge of guiding the art team to produce new styles not found in the game yet.
After Cataclysm
- More armor customization could be coming in the future; Transmogrification was a solution that could be finished in time for Patch 4.3.
- After Patch 4.3, and the world event, the team is going to focus on keeping players entertained and enjoying the game as well as new and potentially returning players.
- On Mists of Pandaria: "Most of the time when we do anything panda-related it's going to be a comic book or a figurine or something like that."
- There are more people that played World of Warcraft but no longer play World of Warcraft than currently play World of Warcraft
- They believe that each spec plays like a separate class, making the game feel as if there are 30 classes.
- Player created content is still in the back of their minds because of how well it worked in Starcraft II. Developing tools for players would take a lot of work, but the reward would be great as well.
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