Blizzcon 2019 - Day 1 Recap

[Stoy]

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Blizzcon 2019 - Day 1 Recap
We learned about a new WoW expansion, Diablo 4, Overwatch 2, and a Hearthstone expansion today, and there are even more panels tomorrow! Check out a recap of what we learned today below and be sure to click through for the full details on each item.

BlizzCon 2019 - Day 2 Schedule

Note: all times are converted to the timezone your computer is currently in.

World of Warcraft

• World of Warcraft: Shadowlands expansion announced!
  
  • Cinematic Trailer
  • Features Trailer
  • Press Kit Screenshots
  • Highlights
    
    • 2020 Release Date
    • 5 New Zones
    • Level Squish to 50, Level to 60 in Shadowlands
    • Revamped Leveling Experience - Level 1-10 in a new zone, 10-50 in any expansion, 50-60 in Shadowlands.
    • Choose a Covenant - Gain two abilities, one class specific. Changes your gameplay.
    • Torghast, Tower of the Damned - Endless ever-changing dungeon that can be played solo or with up to 4 players
    • Improved Character Customization for existing races - Hide bones on Undead, Wildhammer Dwarf Tattoos, and more
  • Prepurchase Today
    
    • Prepurchase versions and bonuses announced!
  • Shadowlands Preview: Bastion and the Kyrian Covenant
  • Official Blizzard's What’s Next Panel Recap
  • Make a Wish Foundation and We.org Charity Pet - Dotty the Baby Alpaca
  • WoW 15th Anniversary Event Live Tuesday, November 5th, 2019.
  • WoW Classic - World Bosses and PvP Honor System Live in a Week
  • See the full MMO-Champion World of Warcraft - What's Next Panel recap by clicking here.
    
    • Pre-patch - Scourge are marauding across Azeroth. Scourge invasion 2.0.
    • 8 dungeons in addition to Torghast - 4 level up and 4 max-level.
    • Castle Nathria - 10 boss raid in Revendreth
    • Less RNG - Professions tweaked, weekly loot chest gone (choose from options), legendary items are crafted.
    • Class abilities are coming back, the unpruning!

Diablo

• Diablo IV announced!
• We got a Diablo Immortal gameplay trailer.
• Cinematic Trailer
• Features Trailer
• Diablo IV - Classes, World, Story, and more!
• Highlights
  
  • No release date
  • Dark non-linear campaign
  • Shared open-world with 5 distinct regions
  • 5 powerful classes, the 3 announced are Sorceress, Barbarian and Druid.
  • Being developed for PC, Xbox One, and Playstation 4.
• See the full MMO-Champion Diablo IV Unvieled Panel recap by clicking here.
• Diablo Group Q&A
  
  • Treasure goblins will return
  • Base game supported by expansions as the business model for Diablo IV.
  • Diablo IV is using a brand new custom built engine that uses physical based rendering
  • Skills will be bound to classes, you may have an item or two that procs another class’ skill, but still no plans for another enigma.
  • There will be a Hardcode mode

Overwatch

• Overwatch 2 announced!
• Cinematic Trailer
• Features Trailer
• Highlights
  
  • New Game Mode - Push
  • New Hero- Sojourn (More unannounced heroes to come)
  • Story and Hero Missions
  • New Maps - Toronto, Gothenburg, Monte Carlo, Rio De Janeiro
  • Character Talents and Progression System
  • PvP Crossplay with Overwatch 1
  • All Earned cosmetics carry over between games.
• See the full MMO-Champion Overwatch 2: What's Next Panel recap by clicking here.

Hearthstone

• Hearthstone: Descent of the Dragons expansion announced!
• New Game Mode - Battlegrounds announced!
• Reveal Trailer
• Battlegrounds Trailer
• Release Date - December 10th, 2019
• Prepurchase Today
• Check out Hearthpwn's Expansion Announcement Details
• See the full Hearthpwn's Hearthstone: What's Next Panel recap by clicking here.
• Hearthstone: Telling a Year Long Narrative Panel

Heroes of the Storm

• Deathwing is free to anyone with a Virtual/BlizzCon 2019 ticket purchase.
• See the full MMO-Champion Heroes of the Storm - What's Next Panel recap by clicking here.

Warcraft 3: Reforged

• Warcraft III: Reforged beta is available to anyone with a Virtual/BlizzCon 2019 ticket purchase.

Starcraft II

• Arcturus is the next Co-Op Commander.
• Verse Deepmind AI Coming

[dhru2]

The real "full" version of the game costs £70... In my country most of the people earn £150-190/month.
I may have to skip it. I don't really understand this mambo-jumbo story anyway. We killed Helya... end of story.
One more reason to play classic where you write your story and not some liberal vegan normie woman...

[DTJames]

Shame that there are no Diablo 2 Remastered.

[Th3Scourge]

Is the wow deep dive panel livestream free or only via virtual ticket?

[imabubble28469]

all i wanted was a reforged release date... they literally have two months to tell us if its at least going to be delayed o3o

[Twdft]

[*]Torghast, Tower of the Damned - Endless ever-changing dungeon that can be played solo or with up to 4 players

They said "bring 4 friends" which means 5 player max.

[Magicon]

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all i wanted was a reforged release date... they literally have two months to tell us if its at least going to be delayed o3o

Wc3 reforged update 23.15 today

[Qnubi]

There is a typo in the Diablo section:

There will be a Hardcode mode

[Sorshen]

Diablo Immortal does not deserve the big tile, wtf

[twothe]

"Note: all times are converted to the timezone your computer is currently in."

Last time it was 3 hours off at GMT+1.

[Amerissis]

There is a typo in the Diablo section:

No, you really have to code hella fast to get abilities to kill the monsters

[jk1895]

Level Squish to 50, Level to 60 in Shadowlands

This is not a Highlight, it's a disaster!

[PePeNinja]

The real "full" version of the game costs £70... In my country most of the people earn £150-190/month.
I may have to skip it. I don't really understand this mambo-jumbo story anyway. We killed Helya... end of story.
One more reason to play classic where you write your story and not some liberal vegan normie woman...

Well if for you 70 Euro is too much i think you should not even play video games first but try to fix your life..

Video games are not a necessity..

[Ameonna]

And what if that shadowy guy is Terenas? I mean he have same hair style and same eyes just longer eyes browl =p and actually i always thought strange that Terenas knew so much stuff back in wlk because its him who say there must always be a Lich King

[Nitex]

Will Diablo 4 really be on PS4 and Xbox1? Seems like the next gen consoles will be out for a few years by time it gets released. Seems like it would make more sense to make it PS5 and Xbox2.

[GreenJesus]

Will Diablo 4 really be on PS4 and Xbox1? Seems like the next gen consoles will be out for a few years by time it gets released. Seems like it would make more sense to make it PS5 and Xbox2.

How would they do that when they dont exist yet?

Edit: nvm.. didnt even know the ps5 was announced.

[Jotunhammer]

Umm, Starcraft 2, thats truly dead, same as last year, only get 1 commander and thats all the news it will have, talk about devs and gamedevelopers dropped the game dead.

[Super Kami Dende]

The real "full" version of the game costs £70... In my country most of the people earn £150-190/month.
I may have to skip it. I don't really understand this mambo-jumbo story anyway. We killed Helya... end of story.
One more reason to play classic where you write your story and not some liberal vegan normie woman...

It's not coming out for over a year. Put away like £5-10 a month until release and buy it? It's not Blizzards issue People live in countries with shithouse economies.

[Crookids]

I thought they were going to go into more detail about the new character customization options in the 'deep dive'. They didn't.

Expansion looks like it's going to be fun af though. I am enjoying Apologycon 2019

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The real "full" version of the game costs £70... In my country most of the people earn £150-190/month.
I may have to skip it. I don't really understand this mambo-jumbo story anyway. We killed Helya... end of story.
One more reason to play classic where you write your story and not some liberal vegan normie woman...

I'm as against the woke leftist story drivel as the next guy but I'm not seeing a "liberal" or "woke" story in the new expansion. Look at the demographics of the crowed at Blizzcon. You think they don't know this? There's no way they're going to go that direction again especially with how bad the PR went for Overwatch gender nonsense and HK. Overwatch is a meme in the community now and if they dare contradict themselves about politics after the HK fiasco, they will get nonstop outrage. At the least, it's not worth the loss in money which it will unequivocally cause.