Battle for Azeroth - Spell Animations, Hotfixes, Overwatch Update, FinalBossTV

PTR Server Slam

Card Nerfs, New Meta, Playing Post-Nerf Decks - Omni/Stone #34

Battle for Azeroth - Spell Animations
Warlocks and a few other classes have some new animations in the Battle for Azeroth alpha. Keep in mind that we are still very early in the process.







Activision Blizzard Earnings Call
The Activision Blizzard quarterly earnings call didn't have a ton of news this time around.

  • Blizzard is expected to grow in 2018 with the release of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth this summer.
  • Activision Blizzard had 385 million Monthly Active Users in the quarter, up from 384 million last quarter.
  • Blizzard had 40 million MAUs for the quarter. While down sequentially, this is the 6th quarter in a row with 40 million or more MAUs primarily driven by Overwatch and Hearthstone
  • For the second quarter in a row, players spent over 50 minutes per day in Activision, Blizzard, and King games, in line with some of the most engaging online connected platforms in the world.
  • The inaugural season of the Overwatch League started on January 10 with 12 world-class team owners from across the globe, multiple league and team-level sponsors, a premium viewing experience and a robust distribution strategy. In its first week, the Overwatch League reached more than 10 million unique viewers across the world with an average audience of more than 280,000 on a per minute basis.
  • Blizzard delivered record segment revenues and operating income for a year with no major game release, as they continued to deliver continuous content across franchises including Overwatch, Hearthstone, and World of Warcraft
  • The Overwatch League has met and exceeded expectations. The focus now is on audience growth.


Patch 7.3.5 Hotfixes - February 8
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Characters
  • Nightborne earrings will no longer be hidden by some helms.

Classes

Quests
  • The Twilight Highlands quest "Skullcrusher the Mountain" should now be less difficult.
  • Players should now always be able to find Anduin in the throne room if they are on, "A Gift for the King of Stormwind".

Overwatch - Year of the Dog Event
The Year of the Dog Event has new skins, a new map, and more!





Polls - Hearthstone
There was a lot of excitement around the initial Hearthstone launch, but are you still playing now?





FinalBossTV - #164: Legion Mages
FinalBossTV covered Patch 7.3.5 Mages this week!

This article was originally published in forum thread: Battle for Azeroth - Spell Animations, Hotfixes, Overwatch Update, FinalBossTV started by chaud View original post
Published on 2018-02-09 07:37 PM
34 Comments
Comments 33 Comments
  1. mmoce213c955fb's Avatar
    FinalburgerTV
  1. Ajonos's Avatar
    "What other games are you playing besides Hearthstone?"

    Wow, those sure are some comprehensive options...
  1. DrIvoRobotnik's Avatar
    Hellfire? It's back!?
  1. Baluki's Avatar
    The problem with Hearthstone (at least for me) is that I'm willing to pay up to $60 for a game, but HS costs hundreds of dollars every time there's a new expansion to get the cards you want. It's an extremely expensive game.
  1. Saevenar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ajonos View Post
    "What other games are you playing besides Hearthstone?"

    Wow, those sure are some comprehensive options...
    I'm honestly not sure why they didn't have "Skyrim" listed on there at least as a joke, but they are apparently looking at this for marketing purposes.
  1. MakeMeLaugh's Avatar
    Warlock fire spells look more like magma spells.

    Hunter ones are kinda fine, except for rapid shot. It doesn't look rapid at all, looks slow as fuck and bad lol.
  1. InfernalDark's Avatar
    Who the fuck creates these idiotic polls
  1. Rukario's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by MakeMeLaugh View Post
    Warlock fire spells look more like magma spells.

    Hunter ones are kinda fine, except for rapid shot. It doesn't look rapid at all, looks slow as fuck and bad lol.
    They look like dark fire...would you rather have them copy fire mage's ones?
  1. MrExcelion's Avatar
    Interesting that so many said no with Hearthstone, but thats probably accurate. Was too much to keep up with and loot crates are locked down upon more nowadays than when it first came out

    (Side note, I feel like a lot of thes comments tend to focus on [Why is X on the frontpage] even though its appropriate, like ppl still do that with DLC and its WoW-related 100% lol. Not all content is gonna be for you. I think a variety of content is good, whether it be tweets, PTR videos, polls, addon spotlight, podcasts, comics, etc. MMOC probably isnt a huge team so I think they do a great job with what they have to work with. Daily posts for going on a decade now and it's all free. They've been consistent with a variety approach since the start. That said, its fine to give feedback if you don't like something on the frontpage, but also try to say what you do like at the same time, and also be understanding of the variety approach)
  1. jackofwind's Avatar
    Why is Serpent Sting now some weird sidearm crossbow instead of just a poison arrow off your actual weapon?
  1. MakeMeLaugh's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rukario View Post
    They look like dark fire...would you rather have them copy fire mage's ones?
    If that's the only way for it to look like fire, yes.
  1. ------------------------'s Avatar
    finally, a decent rain of fire animation
  1. Squiggit's Avatar
    I'm seriously hoping most of those SV animations are placeholders. Arctic Bola is just a snowball and throwing owls at people is kinda silly.
    Rapid Fire looks especially bad though.
    Quote Originally Posted by jackofwind View Post
    Why is Serpent Sting now some weird sidearm crossbow instead of just a poison arrow off your actual weapon?
    Because it's Survival's Serpent Sting and they're still a melee spec.
  1. jackofwind's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Squiggit View Post
    I'm seriously hoping most of those SV animations are placeholders. Arctic Bola is just a snowball and throwing owls at people is kinda silly.

    Because it's Survival's Serpent Sting and they're still a melee spec.
    Well that makes sense. Looks weird in the shown animation though where he sheathes his bow on his hip to fire a crossbow
  1. coocoo's Avatar
    what other games are you playing:
    [x] none of these bloody options.
  1. Kithelle's Avatar
    I hope Death Bolt is a placeholder...because it is practically a copy of Demon Bolt right now.
  1. Lockheed's Avatar
    Not a huge fan of the Incinerate change. It looks OK, but I have always loved the current "ground-creeping" animation, it is very unique as opposed to the traditional flying projectile animations that most other spells have, and it looks really cool when it is hitting multiple targets. Please don't change it!
  1. mmocfd328e0b6e's Avatar
    Are their money greedy managers that blind?
    With the first exp. of HS they killed their own f2p playerbase. Now it is just a money sink. You cannot even reach rank20 with basic decks. The playerbase goes down slowly until only the payers stay.
    But who cares at the end of the day. They only use 5% or less for developing by the income of HS.
  1. Rukario's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Sorotia View Post
    I hope Death Bolt is a placeholder...because it is practically a copy of Demon Bolt right now.
    I hope so as well, and it's a copy aside from the casting and sound.

    - - - Updated - - -

    Quote Originally Posted by Lockheed View Post
    Not a huge fan of the Incinerate change. It looks OK, but I have always loved the current "ground-creeping" animation, it is very unique as opposed to the traditional flying projectile animations that most other spells have, and it looks really cool when it is hitting multiple targets. Please don't change it!
    I think the new one looks very original, there is no spell in the game with that level of detail, the old one had no impact animation or barely had one but now you can actually see the dark fire bursting when it hits the target, it gives meaning to the spell's name if you ask me.
    Besides, i think the angle didn't really do it justice, here is a gif from the alpha: https://gfycat.com/AncientImmediateKob

    Pay attention to the details...incinerate might not look gigantic but it has a lot of details in the animation.
  1. Squiggit's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rukario View Post
    but now you can actually see the dark fire bursting when it hits the target, it gives meaning to the spell's name if you ask me.
    I actually think the impact effect is too good looking, considering Incinerate fits into the rotation as fairly weak filler.
Page 1 of 2
1
2
LastLast

Site Navigation

Social Media

Services

My Account

Support

Advertise

Resources

Terms of Service

Privacy Policy

Our Communities

© 2023 Magic Find, Inc. All rights reserved.