Blizzcon 2017 Recap
Lots of new info this year! Be sure to read each post, watch videos, and stay tuned for more information as we get it.


Opening Ceremony

World of Warcraft


  • Battle for Azeroth Features Trailer
  • Battle for Azeroth Cinematic was released!
  • World of Warcraft: Classic Trailer
  • World of Warcraft - What's Next Panel Recap
    • Battle for Lordaeron kicks off expansion. Teldrassil is burned down by Horde.
    • New Alliance Continent: Kul Tiras
    • New Horde Continent: Zandalar
    • Epic "War Campaign" will tell the story and bring you to the other faction's continent at max level
    • World quests and emissaries are here to stay.
    • Zone scaling in the old world. Expansions now have level ranges that cap.
    • Heart of Azeroth is a new artifact neck that uses Azerite to power up itself and three armor slots.
    • Island Expeditions: 3-player scenarios
    • Warfronts: 20 man faction raids inspired by Warcraft RTS roots
    • Removal of PVP/PVE server rulesets. Personal choice toggle now.
    • 10 dungeons at launch
    • Ul'dir is the first raid.
    • Azshara is part of the story
  • Gameplay and Systems Deep Dive Panel Recap
    • Gain Azerite from playing the game
    • Island Expeditions are role agnostic and have dynamic replayability
    • New AI behaves unpredictably and makes strategic decisions
    • First Warfront is Stromgarde
    • WoW Communities are new social groups that help players of similar interests play together
  • Battle for Azeroth - Allied Races
    • Unlock 6 new race options via quest chains to fight for your faction
    • Alliance: Void Elves, Lightforged Draenei, Dark Iron Dwarves
    • Horde: Highmountain Tauren, Nightborne, Zandalari Trolls
    • More coming after launch
  • Designcraft: Building Blocks of Level Design Panel Recap
    • Panel detailed the process of creating a zone in World of Warcraft
  • Art of World of Warcraft Panel Recap
    • New spell effects for Warlocks are on the way
    • Upright standing orcs are coming as well. Toggle between hunched and upright in the Barber Shop
    • New druid forms for Allied Races capable of being druids
  • Live Q & A with the Developers
    • Stat squish and item squish
    • Unique raid buffs are back and are class specific
    • Titanforging will continue, however, slots affected by the Heart of Azeroth can't warforge/titanforge.
    • More character customization options coming in expansion.
    • Jaina is not a villain, just flawed
    • Void Elves will switch into a void form in combat and have a more normal form when desired.
    • Timewalking will be expanded
    • Flying will unlock similar to Legion
    • The Legion legendary system is gone in Battle for Azeroth
    • Starting bag will increase in size if you have an authenticator attached to your account
    • Worgen/Goblin updates are on the way, but not for 8.0
    • Players get 6 new character slots per realm.
  • Boss Design Workshop Panel Recap
    • Watch the boss design team discuss mechanics of one of the new bosses in Battle for Azeroth
  • Shadow the Fox Plush announced for charity

Overwatch


  • Blizzardworld Map First Look Trailer
  • New Support Hero: Moira
    • Moira First Look Trailer
    • Biotic Grasp: Primary fire is Regeneration, which is a healing throughput. Controlled by a meter. Secondary fire is Decay, which does damage and fills the meter back up. Small amount of Leech
    • Fade (Shift): A small dash, making her invisible, which also grants movement speed
    • Biotic Orb (E): Pulls out two orbs, then the healing one can be activated by Primary fire, or damage orb by Secondary fire. This orb does AOE healing, bounces around, slows down when it is close to a friendly target
    • Coalescence (Q): Long range frontal beam that heals allies and damages enemies affected by it. This ultimate pierces barriers
  • Reinhardt Origin Story Cinematic: Honor and Glory
  • Overwatch - What's Next Panel Recap
    • Blizzardworld Map is a hybrid assault/payload map.
      • Coming to PTR soon and going live early next year
    • New skins coming soon in base lootboxes
      • Immortal Orisa
      • Magni Bronzebeard Torbjorn
      • Nova Widowmaker
      • Blackhand Doomfist
      • Barbarian Zarya
      • Butcher Roadhog
      • Crusader Reinhardt
      • Ecopoint Mei
  • Junkertown: The Plan - Creating a New Kind of Overwatch Animation Panel Recap
    • Cinematic team discusses what it takes to bring the Junkertown Cinematic to life.
  • Overwatch: Archives Panel Recap
    • Overwatch team discusses the behind the scenes making of Overwatch
  • Voices of Blizzard - United Nations of Overwatch Panel Recap
    • Overwatch voice actors interviewed on their characters

Hearthstone



Heroes of the Storm


  • Dragons of the Nexus Cinematic was released.
  • Highlights Trailer shows off what is to come.
  • Alexstraza and Hanzo are the two new heroes coming to the Nexus.
  • Heroes of the Storm What's Next Panel Recap
    • Target frame is being added to game.
    • Heroes in Hiding: New way of showing heroes inside vehicles, Stitches Gorge, Zagara Maw, etc.
    • Blizzard voice chat is being added to game client.
    • Performance-based matchmaking is coming.
    • Camera improvements
    • Team is making stealth more manageable
    • The standalone tower in towns is being removed.
    • Certain map objectives will be pushed back to allow for longer laning phases.
  • Heroes of the Storm: Deep Dive Panel Recap
    • Alexstraza is a support hero.
    • Team wanted Alexstraza's dragon form to feel massive.
    • Alexstraza heals teammates and can rain fire down from above as a dragon.
    • Hanzo is an assassin hero.
    • Hanzo has a higher attack range but his attacks are slower.

Diablo III
  • No announcements at Blizzcon
This article was originally published in forum thread: Blizzcon 2017 Recap started by Stoy View original post
Comments 19 Comments
  1. Xtrm's Avatar
    Bahaha poor Diablo.
  1. mmoc4359933d3d's Avatar
    And that's why I don't play Diablo anymore.
  1. Uselessrouge's Avatar
    they dont even try to hide it ... i mean in the ceremony they did not even show diablo.. its that kid you leave at the side of the road and act like you dont know him
  1. Rixarius's Avatar
    I still love you Diablo ;-;
  1. gyrados's Avatar
    why they doing stat and ilvl squish
  1. Aviconus's Avatar
    1. D3 has officially dieded. 2. What was left of WPvP just dieded as well. If someone has to choose whether or not to level in peace, or get ganked by some level 120... said person is never going to flag themselves for PvP until 120... if they do it at all.
  1. Ophenia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aviconus View Post
    1. D3 has officially dieded. 2. What was left of WPvP just dieded as well. If someone has to choose whether or not to level in peace, or get ganked by some level 120... said person is never going to flag themselves for PvP until 120... if they do it at all.
    There is a chance you'll have to do it if you're a min-maxer though, for the increased reputation that may allow you to reach exalted before.
  1. Prokne's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aviconus View Post
    1. D3 has officially dieded. 2. What was left of WPvP just dieded as well. If someone has to choose whether or not to level in peace, or get ganked by some level 120... said person is never going to flag themselves for PvP until 120... if they do it at all.
    Killing lower level players isn't WPvP. Now you will have to fight equal opponents.
  1. RotDog's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Prokne View Post
    Killing lower level players isn't WPvP. Now you will have to fight equal opponents.
    Which is actually exciting and why I am going to wait patiently until we also know what rewards we will get for having it turned on besides rep and exp. I was about to abandon my PvP servers because I was tired of being ganked while leveling.
  1. Kelxin's Avatar
    So wait ... Killing PvP vs PvE servers, making them all the same (won't that be great on RP servers? LoL) ... Making an all PVP focused expansion??? Making a full all out classic server? ANOTHER alliance city burnt to the ground. Let me do some math, my 3 accounts, my wife's account, and my kids account ... Man, Bliz, thank you so much! You guys are going to save me a TON of money for the next year or two! (~ $50 per expansion copy X 5 copies = $250 + $1800 for ~24 months until the next expansion comes out after this one @$15 per month x 5 accounts = $2050. Hrm, definitely think I can find better entertainment for that than this garbage they've been spewing.
  1. Hottage's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aviconus View Post
    1. D3 has officially dieded. 2. What was left of WPvP just dieded as well. If someone has to choose whether or not to level in peace, or get ganked by some level 120... said person is never going to flag themselves for PvP until 120... if they do it at all.
    There will be rewards (likely an XP and/or reputation boost) for being PvP flagged while leveling.
  1. Deianeira's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kelxin View Post
    So wait ... Killing PvP vs PvE servers, making them all the same (won't that be great on RP servers? LoL) ... Making an all PVP focused expansion??? Making a full all out classic server? ANOTHER alliance city burnt to the ground. Let me do some math, my 3 accounts, my wife's account, and my kids account ... Man, Bliz, thank you so much! You guys are going to save me a TON of money for the next year or two! (~ $50 per expansion copy X 5 copies = $250 + $1800 for ~24 months until the next expansion comes out after this one @$15 per month x 5 accounts = $2050. Hrm, definitely think I can find better entertainment for that than this garbage they've been spewing.
    Calm down man, They are making a toggle for pvp that will give you some perk if you have it ON(more exp/more rep) or whatever they choose to have as a carrot. Also the expansion will NOT be entirely PVP-oriented Because from what i could see all the Island Expeditions, Warfronts and the likes will all be PVE and possibly later on also atleast the Islands able to support 3v3 PVP scenarios. Ofc if you really dont think this is sounds good perhaps you could do like most people will do, just play the game that is live now and wait for more info?
  1. mmoc3514689de5's Avatar
    4 big no sells that early? I mean this is the first announcement, The Reveal, the time to make your pitch and have everyone jump on the hype train like we did for WoD (and regretted sorely) and for Legion (and regretted just a bit here and there). Whoa Nelly
    GG Blizz, your WoD 2.0 has just overtaken Cata in how unlikely you are to get my money for it.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Quote Originally Posted by Deianeira View Post
    Calm down man,
    He's calm. In case you missed something, he's mostly doing some math an expressing his attitude to game making company which decided that putting a whole string of no-sells into xpac reveal could be a huge money saver for some people. Which it clearly is.

    Quote Originally Posted by Deianeira View Post
    They are making a toggle for pvp that will give you some perk if you have it ON(more exp/more rep) or whatever they choose to have as a carrot. Also the expansion will NOT be entirely PVP-oriented Because from what i could see all the Island Expeditions, Warfronts and the likes will all be PVE and possibly later on also atleast the Islands able to support 3v3 PVP scenarios. Ofc if you really dont think this is sounds good perhaps you could do like most people will do, just play the game that is live now and wait for more info?
    Yes yes, when the main premise of xpac's launch is "an all-out war between Horde and Alliance" it's not a PvP xpac at all. Yeah...
  1. Ammeg's Avatar
    You forgot to add in the Q&A section that The Exodar and Silvermoon are going to be the last bastions for the respective factions.
  1. Prodd's Avatar
    Titanforging again? Grinding 5 mans to get such a high ilvl that raids rarely drop upgrades and the bosses get overtuned?

    Not going to even bother, passing this expansion.
  1. Bumbac's Avatar
    Worst Q & A ever!

    Developers did great, the questions they got were terrible. Already answered elsewhere or really stupid and pointless.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ammeg View Post
    You forgot to add in the Q&A section that The Exodar and Silvermoon are going to be the last bastions for the respective factions.
    What it really means is: "Well they are part of Outland map separated from Eastern kingdoms and Kalimdor. We have no plans or enough resources to change that so far."
    It is fair enough so do not get your hopes too high for them.
  1. sluddyazin's Avatar
    I think for most of us who left the game somewhere around WoTLK or later, the birth of the Classic Server will bring a lot of us back. I will be coming back for sure once it's launched. I have no interest at all in BoA, but Vanilla, hell yes. Vanilla had a shit ton of problems, but if I had to choose between it and World Quests, Class Halls, Garrisons, Legendaries and Epics for merely logging in, LFR, Companions, Artifact Weapons ,and all the other garbage in the game now... I know what I choose.

    I'm not saying running UBRS 450 times for a single trinket is fun... but I'll take it over what WoW is today.
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  1. volrat's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aviconus View Post
    1. D3 has officially dieded. 2. What was left of WPvP just dieded as well. If someone has to choose whether or not to level in peace, or get ganked by some level 120... said person is never going to flag themselves for PvP until 120... if they do it at all.
    Being ganked while leveling was the life of PvP?

    Really?

    That's why ppl grows an avversion to pvp, i think this can only help the way pvp is percieved, and perhaps will bring more players in it.
    Those who enjoyed chainkilling lower players are just sociopathics, not pvp players.

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