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Published on 2023-11-04 06:55 PM
BlizzCon 2023 - World of Warcraft Deep Dive Panel Recap
The BlizzCon 2023 World of Warcraft Deep Dive Panel has started. The WoW team is sitting down to discuss the upcoming War Within expansion and more.
The BlizzCon 2023 World of Warcraft Deep Dive Panel has started. The WoW team is sitting down to discuss the upcoming War Within expansion and more.
- Ion mentions the Alpha likely starting in Spring 2024.
- Delves
- Quick adventures for 1-5 players
- A new endgame pillar and a permanent addition to the game going forward.
- Variety, flexibility, progression
- Difficulty progression will be built into Delves.
- Lessons learned from Torghast, Islands, Scenarios, and Horrific Visions.
- This is an alternative form of content and is not meant to be another mandatory feature.
- Unavel mysteries and seek treasure, in nooks and enclaves throughout the world.
- All Delves end with a room full of treasure. Some will have a boss guarding it, but others may have doors or puzzles.
- You walk into Delves without any loading screen. They are extensions of the outdoor world.
- Seasonal structure, narrative tie-in, and NPC companions
- Brann Bronzebeard accompanies us for season 1.
- Power up the NPC companion with talents and tailor them to accompany your playstyle.
- Small treasure chests contain currency, gold, etc, and can be opened at the end.
- Larger chests require keys or other methods to open.
- The structure of a specific Delve location can change from day to day.
- 12 Delves are currently planned throughout the four zones. There is a secret 13th one not listed.
- Seasonal rewards include helm transmogs and a customizable flying vehicle mount.
- PvP
- PvP Section removed from the vault. They learned through Feedback that randomness with PvP gearing is not good.
- You will gear up entirely via spending Conquest for PvP.
- Warbands
- Most people play multiple characters every week.
- Game wasn't originally built with alts in mind, leading to many clunky systems that they are rebuilding around.
- Focus on convenience and flexibility, not power.
- Account-wide Bank - Multiple tabs, account-wide crafting reagents
- "Warbound until equipped" items that you can give to your other characters
- Drop as personal loot from content at slightly lower item levels than the content
- You can unlock transmog appearances of different armor types on any character but can still only wear the armor type of the class.
- Shared War Within reputation progress
- Flight Paths shared across Warband
- Progression of NPC from Delves shared across account
- Achievement progress shared between alts.
- Don't look into the Dracthyr wearing leather. It's a mockup and not an announcement.
- Dracthyr will now start at level 10 in War Within.
- Dragonflight is now the default leveling experience for new players.
- Hero Talents
- Additional 3rd talent tree
- You will unlock all abilities in your journey to reaching max level.
- Some nodes are passives.
- Some nodes have customizable choices.
- Capstone talent will be more impactful.
- Some talents will offer effects to trigger abilities you may not have talented.
- The team can change the names of the Hero Talent specializations based on community feedback.
- Earthen
- No rep requirement, unlocked through completing story and quest.
- Can be all classes except Druid, Demon Hunter, and Evoker.
- Dynamic Flight
- Not every mount will support dynamic flight, but as many as possible.
- Everywhere you can fly today you will be able to use Dynamic flying.
- Dynamic Flying is unlocked and usable everywhere in Patch 10.2.5.
- You can toggle between normal and dynamic flying at will.
- Dynamic Flying available from the start in Khaz Algar.
- Normal flying unlocked shortly after with no Pathfinder.
- Dragonriding glyphs shifted to evergreen system.
- New battleground - 10v10 map in The Ringing Deeps
- Long overdue, will happen more often.
- Two control points and once central one that changes course of the match.
- Solo queue rated battleground will include this new map.
- Spellbook UI is being updated
- Quest log UI update and filters added. New icons to differentiate quests.
- Cross-realm guilds - Apply and recruit freely across realms
- Day 1 cross-realm Mythic raiding.
During the World of Warcraft®: Deep Dive panel at BlizzCon 2023, Game Director Ion Hazzikostas took viewers deeper into the features coming in the next chapter of World of Warcraft: The War Within™.
During the World of Warcraft: What’s Next panel, the philosophy to continue to utilize evergreen content to make World of Warcraft better with every new feature addition was discussed. With The War Within expansion, the intention is to continue to build on the foundations of Dragonflight and carrying those philosophies forward with replayability, depth, and player agency while considering all the varying playstyles found in the game.
Introducing Delves
Delves are quick adventures for one to five players as a solo experience, with friends, or even as a dungeon group. These adventures are integrated into the outdoor realm as a new endgame pillar alongside dungeons, raids, and PvP. Designed to provide variety, flexibility, and replayability, there are 12 Delves available at launch that take place throughout Khaz Algar in a variety of environments.
Shaped by lessons learned from Torghast, Islands, and Scenarios, Delves intends to allow more player choice and variety.
Just the Facts:
Season One will include the NPC companion, Brann Bronzebeard. These companions will level up as they journey with you and can be customized to be a compliment to your character, whether you need them to do more damage or heal a bit for you.
Entering one of these adventures won’t involve any loading screens to transition into a Delve portal. As you solve the mysteries and puzzles within and defeat the boss at the end, you’ll make your way to a room overflowing with treasure offering currency, gold, chances at cosmetics, and more. If you have the right key, you may even be able to open any large Resplendent Chests that will show up from time to time. These keys can be earned in other Delves, outdoor gameplay, or in a weekly quest. These items will be balanced against dungeon and raid loot.
Delve Locations
Delves will be integrated into the various zones with a variety of environments, settings, and inhabitants.
Delves have several difficulty tiers, resulting in a variety of potential rewards.
The Great Vault
The Great Vault will add the new “World” category, removing PvP. For the first time, players who take part in outdoor world activities will be able to earn rewards from the Great Vault. Whether it’s from completing outdoor objectives or by doing Delves, players will be able to unlock rewards based on the level of difficulty completed. Rewards can potentially reach the level of Heroic raiding or close to Mythic 15 dungeon range.
Players who take part in PvP will no longer need to access the Guild Vault for rewards—which were often more random than players wanted. Instead, players will receive additional Conquest to be able to purchase the items they want most.
There will be a variety of cosmetics available in Delves such as fun new helms like a fungarian hat, kobold helm with candles, or even the terrifying new undersea creature, kobyss, helm.
Players who take part in Delves will also be able to unlock a new customizable flying mount.
Warbands
In summary, Warbands mean account-wide everything. As the years have progressed, World of Warcraft players have changed the way they play, leveling up multiple alternative characters has become the norm instead of focusing only on one character. This is the result of the leveling experience becoming faster over time and playing alternate characters a regular expectation. Players who want to play additional characters currently run into additional challenges, however.
Warbands is an attempt to change the system and create a more alt-friendly experience and reset the foundation of World of Warcraft allowing for the accomplishments of individual players to be reflected across all of their characters on their Battle.net account. This new system will focus on adding convenience and flexibility but will not provide additional power to alts.
Additional Integrations
Hero Talents
With Hero talents, you’ll be receiving 10 new talent points for each of the 10 levels you’ll earn while playing through The War Within. These new talent points will focus on offering the ability to explore a deeper class fantasy, provide additional flexibility to suit your play style, and offer progression and agency while not adding excessive complexities.
With four available specializations, development began with the druids. As an example, a Balance druid might choose between Keeper of the Grove or Elune’s Chosen. You’ll be able to swap between the same way as you change talents any other time during gameplay.
Adding Hero talents to the mix provides three talent trees to choose from: Class, Hero, and Specialization. With ten points available to apply to Hero talents, you’ll be able to access all of the available nodes on a given Hero tree. The choices will lie in which of the talents you want to take first as you level up.
Within the Hero tree there are additional choice nodes you’ll be able to select depending on the type of content you are undertaking.
The Keeper of the Grove tree is available to both Balance and Restoration druids. This selection focuses on summons and offers additional choice nodes.
Elune’s Chosen tree is available to Balance and Guardian druids.
This tree is all about Elune and calling down her power to smite foes and protect allies.
Hero Talent Trees
There are 39 Hero talent specializations available.
Names of all Hero Talent trees subject to change.
Each class specialization will have access to two of the three Hero trees to choose from.
Other Features
Earthen Allied Race
Players will be able to play through The War Within campaign and the endgame questline to unlock access to the Earthen Allied Race. This new race is able to join either the Horde or the Alliance and will be available to play as the following classes: Death Knight, Hunter, Mage, Monk, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, and Warrior. Leveling this new Allied Race will also unlock the new Earthen Heritage Armor.
Dynamic Flight
Dragonriding is here to stay and will also be available for many flying mounts in all flyable areas even prior to the launch of The War Within. Players will also be able to toggle between dynamic flight or the flying style introduced originally in The Burning Crusade (TBC).
Dynamic Flight will be available from the start in Khaz Algar and players will be able to unlock the TBC style of flight at maximum level by exploring the zones of The War Within and completing the campaign. Players will also be able to collect glyphs throughout Khaz Algar as they explore. These glyphs will be shifting to an evergreen state in which players shouldn’t feel as if they need to go back to Dragonflight to gain any they missed before. Some abilities that players have collected from their adventures in the Dragon Isles may be restricted to the Dragon Isles, but base abilities like increased Vigor will become a part of how Dynamic Flight works and available to everyone as they level up.
New Battleground!
This new 10v10 capture-point map is set in the Ringing Deeps. This battleground is similar to Silvershard Mines, but with some additional twists. Players will fight for control of minecarts along with a central node, teams will want to control.
Interface Updates
As a part of the continuing refinement of the Interface, the Spellbook is getting some additional cleanup. It will provide a larger and cleaner layout, take advantage of modern display resolutions, and allow more pages to fit on one screen. It will serve as a one-stop-shop for your spells and talents within the same tab along with specialization information.
Aspects of the quest interface are also evolving allowing more filtering along with hide or show objectives in your quest log. Icons are also getting cleaned up.
While not large changes, development continues to work to streamline the User Interface to improve the default capabilities.
Cross-Realm Guilds
Players will be able to apply for a guild or recruit new players to their guild freely, regardless of the realm they are on. Mythic raiding will be available from the first day of the launch of The War Within. The Hall of Fame will still exist to commemorate the top guilds in each season and in each tier and save their accomplishments, but there’s no longer a need to tie it to unlocking the ability to do the content within the game.
This is another means toward removing social barriers that currently exist so that players can join with their friends wherever they are.
We look forward to sharing more about the future of The War Within as development continues.
Don’t forget to submit your questions for the Q&A next week!
During the World of Warcraft: What’s Next panel, the philosophy to continue to utilize evergreen content to make World of Warcraft better with every new feature addition was discussed. With The War Within expansion, the intention is to continue to build on the foundations of Dragonflight and carrying those philosophies forward with replayability, depth, and player agency while considering all the varying playstyles found in the game.
Introducing Delves
Delves are quick adventures for one to five players as a solo experience, with friends, or even as a dungeon group. These adventures are integrated into the outdoor realm as a new endgame pillar alongside dungeons, raids, and PvP. Designed to provide variety, flexibility, and replayability, there are 12 Delves available at launch that take place throughout Khaz Algar in a variety of environments.
Shaped by lessons learned from Torghast, Islands, and Scenarios, Delves intends to allow more player choice and variety.
Just the Facts:
- 10–15-minute adventures
- Players will unravel mysteries and seek out treasure throughout Khaz Algar
- New Seasonal Rewards with a narrative tie-in and NPC companions
Season One will include the NPC companion, Brann Bronzebeard. These companions will level up as they journey with you and can be customized to be a compliment to your character, whether you need them to do more damage or heal a bit for you.
Entering one of these adventures won’t involve any loading screens to transition into a Delve portal. As you solve the mysteries and puzzles within and defeat the boss at the end, you’ll make your way to a room overflowing with treasure offering currency, gold, chances at cosmetics, and more. If you have the right key, you may even be able to open any large Resplendent Chests that will show up from time to time. These keys can be earned in other Delves, outdoor gameplay, or in a weekly quest. These items will be balanced against dungeon and raid loot.
Delve Locations
Delves will be integrated into the various zones with a variety of environments, settings, and inhabitants.
| Isle of Dorn | Hallowfall | The Ringing Deeps | Azj-Kahet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthcrawl Mines | Skittering Breach | The Waterworks | The Spiral Weave |
| Kriegval’s Rest | Nightfall Sanctum | The Dread Pit | Rak-Rethan Abyss |
| Fungal Folly | The Sinkhole | Deepwalker Hold | |
| Mycomancer Cavern |
Delves have several difficulty tiers, resulting in a variety of potential rewards.
The Great Vault
The Great Vault will add the new “World” category, removing PvP. For the first time, players who take part in outdoor world activities will be able to earn rewards from the Great Vault. Whether it’s from completing outdoor objectives or by doing Delves, players will be able to unlock rewards based on the level of difficulty completed. Rewards can potentially reach the level of Heroic raiding or close to Mythic 15 dungeon range.
Players who take part in PvP will no longer need to access the Guild Vault for rewards—which were often more random than players wanted. Instead, players will receive additional Conquest to be able to purchase the items they want most.
There will be a variety of cosmetics available in Delves such as fun new helms like a fungarian hat, kobold helm with candles, or even the terrifying new undersea creature, kobyss, helm.
Players who take part in Delves will also be able to unlock a new customizable flying mount.
Warbands
In summary, Warbands mean account-wide everything. As the years have progressed, World of Warcraft players have changed the way they play, leveling up multiple alternative characters has become the norm instead of focusing only on one character. This is the result of the leveling experience becoming faster over time and playing alternate characters a regular expectation. Players who want to play additional characters currently run into additional challenges, however.
Warbands is an attempt to change the system and create a more alt-friendly experience and reset the foundation of World of Warcraft allowing for the accomplishments of individual players to be reflected across all of their characters on their Battle.net account. This new system will focus on adding convenience and flexibility but will not provide additional power to alts.
- Warband Bank: Share Items between all of your characters on a single Battle.net account in one convenient bank.
- Warbound Items: These are bonus personal loot items that drop at a slightly lower level that can be shared with alternate characters.
Additional Integrations
- Transmogrification Collection: This system will expand to allow players on one character to add additional class specific items that they can’t equip to their transmog collection. This allows a player on a mage character to collect a warrior item and be able to add it to the transmog collection for use on your warrior character instead.
- Warband Reputations: Many Reputations in The War Within will become available for all characters to access through integration with Warbands. As an example: unlocking a recipe on one character won’t be reliant on gaining the trust of a faction again on an alternate character.
- Flight Paths: Once unlocked on one character, all characters in your Warband can access them.
- Delves: Leveling up a companion NPC will be accessible to characters in your Warband.
- Achievements: Instead of only specific achievements being account-wide, they are being updated so that they are all account-wide rewarding the individual player instead of the character for the accomplishment.
- Login Screen: When you log in to the game, you’ll be able to see a selection of your characters on the login screen waiting for you to choose who you will go on your next adventure with.
Hero Talents
With Hero talents, you’ll be receiving 10 new talent points for each of the 10 levels you’ll earn while playing through The War Within. These new talent points will focus on offering the ability to explore a deeper class fantasy, provide additional flexibility to suit your play style, and offer progression and agency while not adding excessive complexities.
With four available specializations, development began with the druids. As an example, a Balance druid might choose between Keeper of the Grove or Elune’s Chosen. You’ll be able to swap between the same way as you change talents any other time during gameplay.
Adding Hero talents to the mix provides three talent trees to choose from: Class, Hero, and Specialization. With ten points available to apply to Hero talents, you’ll be able to access all of the available nodes on a given Hero tree. The choices will lie in which of the talents you want to take first as you level up.
Within the Hero tree there are additional choice nodes you’ll be able to select depending on the type of content you are undertaking.
The Keeper of the Grove tree is available to both Balance and Restoration druids. This selection focuses on summons and offers additional choice nodes.
Elune’s Chosen tree is available to Balance and Guardian druids.
This tree is all about Elune and calling down her power to smite foes and protect allies.
Hero Talent Trees
There are 39 Hero talent specializations available.
Death Knight
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Hunter
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Priest
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Warrior
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Demon Hunter
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Mage
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Rogue
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Druid
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Monk
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Shaman
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Evoker
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Paladin
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Warlock
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Names of all Hero Talent trees subject to change.
Each class specialization will have access to two of the three Hero trees to choose from.
Other Features
Earthen Allied Race
Players will be able to play through The War Within campaign and the endgame questline to unlock access to the Earthen Allied Race. This new race is able to join either the Horde or the Alliance and will be available to play as the following classes: Death Knight, Hunter, Mage, Monk, Paladin, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, and Warrior. Leveling this new Allied Race will also unlock the new Earthen Heritage Armor.
Dynamic Flight
Dragonriding is here to stay and will also be available for many flying mounts in all flyable areas even prior to the launch of The War Within. Players will also be able to toggle between dynamic flight or the flying style introduced originally in The Burning Crusade (TBC).
Dynamic Flight will be available from the start in Khaz Algar and players will be able to unlock the TBC style of flight at maximum level by exploring the zones of The War Within and completing the campaign. Players will also be able to collect glyphs throughout Khaz Algar as they explore. These glyphs will be shifting to an evergreen state in which players shouldn’t feel as if they need to go back to Dragonflight to gain any they missed before. Some abilities that players have collected from their adventures in the Dragon Isles may be restricted to the Dragon Isles, but base abilities like increased Vigor will become a part of how Dynamic Flight works and available to everyone as they level up.
New Battleground!
This new 10v10 capture-point map is set in the Ringing Deeps. This battleground is similar to Silvershard Mines, but with some additional twists. Players will fight for control of minecarts along with a central node, teams will want to control.
Interface Updates
As a part of the continuing refinement of the Interface, the Spellbook is getting some additional cleanup. It will provide a larger and cleaner layout, take advantage of modern display resolutions, and allow more pages to fit on one screen. It will serve as a one-stop-shop for your spells and talents within the same tab along with specialization information.
Aspects of the quest interface are also evolving allowing more filtering along with hide or show objectives in your quest log. Icons are also getting cleaned up.
While not large changes, development continues to work to streamline the User Interface to improve the default capabilities.
Cross-Realm Guilds
Players will be able to apply for a guild or recruit new players to their guild freely, regardless of the realm they are on. Mythic raiding will be available from the first day of the launch of The War Within. The Hall of Fame will still exist to commemorate the top guilds in each season and in each tier and save their accomplishments, but there’s no longer a need to tie it to unlocking the ability to do the content within the game.
This is another means toward removing social barriers that currently exist so that players can join with their friends wherever they are.
We look forward to sharing more about the future of The War Within as development continues.
Don’t forget to submit your questions for the Q&A next week!
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Published on 2023-11-04 04:44 AM
Dev Interviews - Warcraft Wiki: Cross-Realm Guilds and Mythic
Warcraft Wiki was at a few group interviews and shared some notes. We've recapped the highlights below.
War Within
Classic
Warcraft Wiki was at a few group interviews and shared some notes. We've recapped the highlights below.
War Within
- Cross-realm guilds and cross-realm mythic are coming in the next expansion.
- It is easier to add 10 points to a new talent tree than the current ones.
- Hero Talents, Warbrands, Delves will be evergreenish, at least for a few expansions.
- Account wide reputations will only be for the new factions, TBD what will happen with the older factions.
- No Patch 10.3 is planned, but there is more story to tell after 10.2 and before the next expansion.
- Warbound items can be shared across your Warbrand. Soulbound items are still bound to your character.
- There will be a new battleground based in the Ringing Deeps with more information coming on BlizzCon Day 2.
- The Earthen Dwarves can be all classes except for Druid, Demon Hunter, and Evoker. They will be 25% larger than other Dwarves.
- Your Warbrand will share gold and a materials bank. Currency can be shared, potentially at a cost.
- Dragonflight flying talents will remain in Dragonflight.
- Over 100 old mounts will work for dynamic flying.
- Delves will be cross-faction and can't be queued for.
- The team has been working with machine learning to fit rigs and make new shiny armor rather than always getting stuck on making sure elf ears don't fit through
- Outdoor content for the Great Vault will consist of world bosses, doing public events, and delve progression. Upper item level limit won't be as high as mythic raids.
Classic
- Cataclysm classic will have accelerated leveling from 1-80, not just 1-60.
- Hardcore will launch with as few layers as possible.
- Runes will be per-character at launch
- Shaman tank and Rogue tank will be interesting, the team wants to see how players interact with them
- Cataclysm will launch with Patch 4.3.
- After level 25, the cap will eventually be raised, maybe with new raids, PvP stuff, or abilities.
- Unclear when Classic will end, players are asking for Mists of Pandaria.
- TBD how long Season of Discovery will last, it should be fun but not overstay its welcome.
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Published on 2023-11-04 04:40 AM
BlizzCon 2023 Day 1 Recap
We learned about World of Warcraft: The Worldsoul Saga and the next 3 expansions: The War Within, Midnight, and The Last Titan. Classic is also coming out with a new way to play Hardcore, Season of Discovery, and Cataclysm Classic. Diablo IV announced a new expansion, Overwatch 2 has the Mauga Tank Hero coming, and Warcraft Rumble is live!
World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft - What's Next
World of Warcraft - Opening Ceremony
Dev Interviews
World of Warcraft: The Worldsoul Saga - Pre-purchase The War Within
Diablo IV
Opening Ceremony
Hearthstone
Hearthstone What's Next Panel
Overwatch
Overwatch 2: Deep Dive and Opening Ceremony
We learned about World of Warcraft: The Worldsoul Saga and the next 3 expansions: The War Within, Midnight, and The Last Titan. Classic is also coming out with a new way to play Hardcore, Season of Discovery, and Cataclysm Classic. Diablo IV announced a new expansion, Overwatch 2 has the Mauga Tank Hero coming, and Warcraft Rumble is live!
World of WarcraftWorld of Warcraft - What's Next
- Worldsoul Saga Storyline - Plays out over the next 3 expansions:
- The War Within - Delve into the Heart of Azeroth. Engage with the Earthen and Nerubians. 2024 release
- Midnight - Return to Quel'thalas, Make a stand with the forces of the light to banish the shadow of the Void from Azeroth
- The Last Titan - Witness the return of Titans to Azeroth at Ulduar in Northrend
- New Continent - Khaz Algar
- Azj-Kahet - Major city of the Nerubians
- 8 New Dungeons and 8 boss raid with launch
- Delves - Outdoor world experiences. Scales from 1-5 players, role agnostic.
- Warbands - Account-wide unlocks for almost everything.
- Transmog unlocked when farming regardless of whether or not you can use the item.
- Hero Talents - 10 talent mini tree, access 2 per spec out of 3 total.
World of Warcraft - Opening Ceremony
- WoW Classic Hardcore has a new way to play coming next year
- Season of Discovery - Level cap of 25, Discover abilities to change your class: Tanking Warlocks, Healing Mages, and more!
- Season of Discovery launches November 30, no PTR
- Cataclysm Classic
Dev Interviews
- Cross-realm guilds and cross-realm mythic are coming in the next expansion.
- Account wide reputations will only be for the new factions, TBD what will happen with the older factions.
- No Patch 10.3 is planned, but there is more story to tell after 10.2 and before the next expansion.
- There will be a new battleground based in the Ringing Deeps with more information coming on BlizzCon Day 2.
World of Warcraft: The Worldsoul Saga - Pre-purchase The War Within
- The War Within: Base Edition - $49.99 USD
- Pre-purchase of World of Warcraft: The War Within
- Access to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight*
- Enhanced Level 70 character boost, allowing players to jump immediately into the upcoming content update for Dragonflight, Guardians of the Dream.
- 500 Trader’s Tender
- Pre-purchase of World of Warcraft: The War Within
- The War Within: Heroic Edition - $69.99 USD
- All Base Edition features
- Algarian Stormrider mount and access to special dynamic-flying racecourses
- Upgradable Stormrider’s Attire transmog set
- An additional 250 Trader’s Tender, for a total of 750
- All Base Edition features
- The War Within: Epic Edition - $89.99 USD
- All Base and Heroic Edition features
- Beta access to World of Warcraft: The War Within**
- Early access, minimum of three days before the expansion’s launch
- Squally the Storm Hatchling pet
- Sandbox Storm Gryphon toy
- An additional 250 Trader’s Tender, for a total of 1,000
- 30-day subscription time
- All Base and Heroic Edition features
Diablo IVOpening Ceremony
- Expansion Announcement - Vessel of Hatred
- Coming Late 2024
- Campaign focus on the fate of Mephisto
- Region - Torajan Jungle
- New Class - Unannounced but never before seen in Diablo
- Malignant Rings are coming next week.
- December 5 - Enchanting Preview window coming to the Occultist
- December 5 - Abbatoir of Zir - New activity for level 100 players
- December 12 - Midwinter Blight Holiday Event for three weeks
- Season 3
- The Gauntlet Leader Board
HearthstoneHearthstone What's Next Panel
- Catch Up Packs look at the past 5 expansions to see how many cards of those you have in your collection, and give you cards based on the % missing.
- Everyone gets 2 free Catch Up packs, and there's more of them in the Blizzcon bundle AND the Showdown in the Badlands Pre-Orders.
- Cards with the Excavate keyword give you a Treasure when played. Each time you Excavate, you get a Treasure from the tier you’re on, and then you progress to the next tier
- Duos mode won't be released till somewhere 2024
- During a Duo both have your own board and Tavern Tier and gold, but share health pool AND armor
- You can pass cards to your Duo partner for a gold
OverwatchOverwatch 2: Deep Dive and Opening Ceremony
- New Tank Hero - Mauga
- Double Rail Guns
- Unstoppable Charge
- Reinforce teammates
- Trap enemies with Cage Fight, giving infinite ammo inside the zone and hooking enemies inside
- New PvP Game Mode - Clash
- Teams fight for 5 points back and forth
- The first Clash map is a remake of Hanamura called Hanaoka
- Rework of competitive rewards
- Three more heroes coming in 2024
- New Damage Hero - Venture
- New Support Hero - Space Ranger (codename)
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Published on 2023-11-04 12:08 AM
Overwatch 2: Deep Dive Panel Recap
Overwatch 2 developers sat down to discuss Mauga and everything else revealed today during BlizzCon 2023.
Overwatch 2 developers sat down to discuss Mauga and everything else revealed today during BlizzCon 2023.
- The team worked with three Samoan consultants to make sure Mauga and the Samoan culture were accurately represented.
- Mauga is a tank that sustains by doing damage, particularly critical damage.
- His guns are hit scan.
- Mauga is the biggest hero introduced in the game thus far.
- Mauga means mountain in Samoan.
- Sigma was the original concept for Mauga, but it didn't accurately reflect the character.
- Mauga's left gun takes ten hits to set an enemy on fire.
- His right gun does extra critical damage to burning targets. He also does extra critical damage to Ashe's targets affected by her Dynamite.
- He is immune to all crowd control effects during his Overrun ability.
- His Cardiac Overdrive ability makes nearby allies take reduced damage and heals them by dealing damage.
- Mauga's Ultimate traps himself and his enemies. He gains unlimited ammo during this time.
- Trapping only one enemy in his Ultimate triggers a unique voice line.
- You can stun him out of his ultimate.
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Published on 2023-11-03 10:29 PM
World of Warcraft: Classic What's Next Panel Recap
The World of Warcraft What's Next Panel Recap is starting. This panel dives into what to expect with the upcoming Cataclysm expansion, Season of Discovery, and changes.
Ignite Your Cataclysm Classic Journey with Fiery Upgrades
The World of Warcraft What's Next Panel Recap is starting. This panel dives into what to expect with the upcoming Cataclysm expansion, Season of Discovery, and changes.
- Cataclysm Classic
- The transmog collection system utilized in modern WoW will be available in Cataclysm Classic.
- The pace of leveling in Cataclysm Classic will be increased.
- Hardcore Classic
- Self Found comes to Hardcore in 2024
- This means you won't be able to trade until you reach level cap
- Self Found comes to Hardcore in 2024
- Season of Discovery
- You will get a quest from your trainer at level 2 to go find runes.
- The main part of discovery is finding secrets that often involve multiple players or hidden things.
- Encourages social and community efforts to discover new things
- No public beta or PTR to keep everything a secret
- New additions that feel at home in the original WoW
- At the launch level cap will be 25. This is inspired by the Classic Beta and making it approachable.
- New gameplay at each level cap band
- Experience boost given to previous level band when the cap increases
- Blackfathom Deeps will be reimagined as a 10 player raid instance at level 25.
- The goal is full redesigns to feel like proper raid encounters with new and relevant loot.
- Several outdoor PvP events will be included as the level cap increases.
- Potential for new experiences at higher levels, including locations unfinished or cut from the original game.
- Rune Engraving
- Initially available on chest legs and gloves.
- Permanent
- Exist outside of the talent system
- Runes can also provide previously unique Paladin or Shaman talents between factions.
- Respec costs will be adjusted to be accessible.
- You might not be pushed into one talent tree.
- Over 100 runes in the journey to level 25.
- The leveling process is similar to classic WoW but trying to shake up the meta.
- Examples include a Paladin taunt or tanking Rogue
- New abilities were assured to feel relevant to class fantasy.
- The team wanted new abilities to feel relevant to classic and not modern WoW.
- Example - Druids get Skull Bash.
- Beast Mastery increases pet damage and health.
- Ice Lance deals triple damage to frozen targets.
- Mage - Regeneration heals the target and increases the healing done based on damage done.
- Paladins get Hand of Reckoning Taunt, which also passively increases threat and gains mana when healed.
- Shaman tanks
- Warlock Tanks
- Earning kills in Ashenvale during the Season of Discovery will trigger an event to defeat an enemy leader in the zone.
- Various other camps will spawn across the zone for each faction. You need to take out camps to weaken the opponent leader, similar to Alterace Valley. This also gives a mount for use in Ashenvale only which also provides some of the best gear.
- Level-up raids are 10-player raids during content phases with a three-day lockout.
- Seven new bosses are in Blackfathom Deeps. Existing quests will give new rewards.
- The raid will feature a new world buff.
- Baron Aquanis - First boss with a jumping puzzle
During the World of Warcraft Classic Classic: What's Next panel at BlizzCon 2023, Lead Software Engineer Ana Resendez, Senior Game Producer Josh Greenfield, Lead Software Engineer Nora Valletta, and Assistant Lead Designer Tim Jones opened the door to take a closer look at some of what's coming next to Classic Azeroth.
The Journey So Far
The panel was kicked off with a look at the Classic journey so far, with progression realms taking Classic players through Original WoW Classic, The Burning Crusade Classic, and Wrath of the Lich King Classic, where players are currently facing the Lich King in Icecrown Citadel.
As previously announced, Classic progression realms will advance to Cataclysm Classic next year, bringing players to the exciting aftermath of Deathwing's assault on Azeroth, along with playable Goblins and Worgen, new Race and Class combinations, the Transmogrification system, Archaeology, and Rated Battlegrounds. The Classic release of Cataclysm also means five new zones, ten new dungeons, and seven challenging raids to overcome.
There will also be some new tweaks to Cataclysm Classic, including new dungeon difficulties and rewards, guild progression updates, an account-wide Transmogrification system, and a faster patch cadence on the journey to 80.
Classic Hardcore Gets More Hardcore
Hardcore mode was a great success for the WoW Classic community this year, and many players wanted to know what Hardcore without trading would be like. The devs announced that a Self-Found gameplay option will come to WoW Classic: Hardcore in early 2024.
November Will See a New Season of Discovery
In developing a new twist on WoW Classic, the devs pursued four major kinds of updates: discoveries hidden throughout the world, level-banded content phases, new endgame activities, and new Rune Engraving abilities.
Discoveries
Discoveries are new, hidden secrets all over Azeroth designed to feel at home in Original WoW and bring about a unique experience of social interaction and information sharing. There will not be a public Beta or PTR for Season of Discovery to ensure that the first few weeks feel as exciting and fresh as possible.
Level-Banded Content
Level-banded content phases were inspired by the WoW Classic Beta, where level caps brought about a new and interesting take on gameplay and community. By stepping up to a new level cap after a period of time, we hope to make the season feel approachable, with lots to do but never a feeling of being left behind. To that end, we're working on low-level XP boosts for use in later phases.
Endgame Gameplay
New mechanics to familiar settings and characters are being introduced. Each Raid that marks the level cap of a phase will be fully redesigned with new loot and new experiences. World PvP events for players who'd prefer to go head-to-head are also being added.
Rune Engraving
Rune Engraving is a new set of skills for all players that exists outside of the talent system. It allows you to apply new abilities to your equipment and swap them at any time. To start at level 25, you'll have three slots to engrave: chest, legs, and hands, with additional rune slots unlocking at higher levels.
Class Design
The team's goals were to shake up the Classic meta, give each class something fun drawn from some of our favorite abilities across the first several expansions of World of Warcraft, with some fun new abilities tossed in as well, and focus on class fantasy while staying true to the Classic game.
Blackfathom Deeps
We got a big-picture look at Season of Discovery and learned about the first fully redesigned Raid for the level 25 endgame: Blackfathom Deeps. For the first three challenging bosses—Baron Aquanis, Ghamoo-ra, and Lady Sarevess—players will be pressed to learn new tactics and strategies. This was followed by a quick look at the other four bosses and then a sneak peek at some level 25 Raid loot that will drop.
Keep your eyes on the official World of Warcraft news site for more detailed information about what's next for WoW Classic.
The Journey So Far
The panel was kicked off with a look at the Classic journey so far, with progression realms taking Classic players through Original WoW Classic, The Burning Crusade Classic, and Wrath of the Lich King Classic, where players are currently facing the Lich King in Icecrown Citadel.
As previously announced, Classic progression realms will advance to Cataclysm Classic next year, bringing players to the exciting aftermath of Deathwing's assault on Azeroth, along with playable Goblins and Worgen, new Race and Class combinations, the Transmogrification system, Archaeology, and Rated Battlegrounds. The Classic release of Cataclysm also means five new zones, ten new dungeons, and seven challenging raids to overcome.
There will also be some new tweaks to Cataclysm Classic, including new dungeon difficulties and rewards, guild progression updates, an account-wide Transmogrification system, and a faster patch cadence on the journey to 80.
Classic Hardcore Gets More Hardcore
Hardcore mode was a great success for the WoW Classic community this year, and many players wanted to know what Hardcore without trading would be like. The devs announced that a Self-Found gameplay option will come to WoW Classic: Hardcore in early 2024.
November Will See a New Season of Discovery
In developing a new twist on WoW Classic, the devs pursued four major kinds of updates: discoveries hidden throughout the world, level-banded content phases, new endgame activities, and new Rune Engraving abilities.
Discoveries
Discoveries are new, hidden secrets all over Azeroth designed to feel at home in Original WoW and bring about a unique experience of social interaction and information sharing. There will not be a public Beta or PTR for Season of Discovery to ensure that the first few weeks feel as exciting and fresh as possible.
Level-Banded Content
Level-banded content phases were inspired by the WoW Classic Beta, where level caps brought about a new and interesting take on gameplay and community. By stepping up to a new level cap after a period of time, we hope to make the season feel approachable, with lots to do but never a feeling of being left behind. To that end, we're working on low-level XP boosts for use in later phases.
Endgame Gameplay
New mechanics to familiar settings and characters are being introduced. Each Raid that marks the level cap of a phase will be fully redesigned with new loot and new experiences. World PvP events for players who'd prefer to go head-to-head are also being added.
Rune Engraving
Rune Engraving is a new set of skills for all players that exists outside of the talent system. It allows you to apply new abilities to your equipment and swap them at any time. To start at level 25, you'll have three slots to engrave: chest, legs, and hands, with additional rune slots unlocking at higher levels.
Class Design
The team's goals were to shake up the Classic meta, give each class something fun drawn from some of our favorite abilities across the first several expansions of World of Warcraft, with some fun new abilities tossed in as well, and focus on class fantasy while staying true to the Classic game.
Blackfathom Deeps
We got a big-picture look at Season of Discovery and learned about the first fully redesigned Raid for the level 25 endgame: Blackfathom Deeps. For the first three challenging bosses—Baron Aquanis, Ghamoo-ra, and Lady Sarevess—players will be pressed to learn new tactics and strategies. This was followed by a quick look at the other four bosses and then a sneak peek at some level 25 Raid loot that will drop.
Keep your eyes on the official World of Warcraft news site for more detailed information about what's next for WoW Classic.
Ignite Your Cataclysm Classic Journey with Fiery Upgrades
A New Age of Cataclysm
The maddened Deathwing the Destroyer will erupt from his lair once again, shattering Azeroth as we know it. With Cataclysm Classic™ 1, your journey will continue into the era of fire and destruction. This time, however, you’ll enjoy a much faster content cadence, improvements to Leveling, expanded Collections, and more!
Cataclysm Classic will require only a WoW® subscription or Game Time to play. However, these optional upgrades can heat up your experience during your adventures in Azeroth.
Blazing Heroic Pack
The Blazing Heroic Pack includes Lil’ Wrathion pet for both WoW Classic progression2 and modern World of Warcraft characters3, the Avatar of Flame flying mount2 for WoW Classic progression characters, and a Runebound Firelord flying mount for modern World of Warcraft characters3. WoW Classic progression characters will also enjoy Hammer Regalia Transmog Set4 and Town-In-A-Box Starter Set toy 4.
Blazing Epic Upgrade
The Blazing Epic Upgrade includes everything in the Blazing Heroic Pack, plus a Level 80 Character Boost and 30 days of Game Time.
Follow the official World of Warcraft news site for more information as we draw closer to the next update for World of Warcraft Classic.
The maddened Deathwing the Destroyer will erupt from his lair once again, shattering Azeroth as we know it. With Cataclysm Classic™ 1, your journey will continue into the era of fire and destruction. This time, however, you’ll enjoy a much faster content cadence, improvements to Leveling, expanded Collections, and more!
Cataclysm Classic will require only a WoW® subscription or Game Time to play. However, these optional upgrades can heat up your experience during your adventures in Azeroth.
Blazing Heroic Pack
The Blazing Heroic Pack includes Lil’ Wrathion pet for both WoW Classic progression2 and modern World of Warcraft characters3, the Avatar of Flame flying mount2 for WoW Classic progression characters, and a Runebound Firelord flying mount for modern World of Warcraft characters3. WoW Classic progression characters will also enjoy Hammer Regalia Transmog Set4 and Town-In-A-Box Starter Set toy 4.
Blazing Epic Upgrade
The Blazing Epic Upgrade includes everything in the Blazing Heroic Pack, plus a Level 80 Character Boost and 30 days of Game Time.
Follow the official World of Warcraft news site for more information as we draw closer to the next update for World of Warcraft Classic.
- Certain restrictions apply. Visit shop.battle.net for more information.
- 1 Available on or before August 31, 2024.
- 2 Available in WoW Classic progression realms (currently Wrath of the Lich King Classic™) immediately after the purchase.
- 3 Available after the modern WoW® realms restart with the Guardians of the Dream (10.2) update anticipated on November 7, 2023.
- 4 Available with the Cataclysm Classic pre-patch anticipated on or before August 31, 2024.
- The toy, Transmog set, and Avatar of Flame mount only available on WoW Classic progression realms (currently Wrath of the Lich King Classic™). The Runebound Firelord mount only available on modern WoW® realms.
- Requires WoW® Subscription or Game Time.
- Boost only available on WoW Classic progression realms. and usable only on the WoW game account for which it was purchased or redeemed.
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