Questions for the Devs, Warcraft Movie, Day of the Dead, Tweets, Pumpkin Contest

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Submit Questions for the Developers
We have our first interview in a long time coming up at Blizzcon and as always, we want to let the community ask questions! This time our interview will be covering the design of Legion.

If you have any questions you think we should ask, be sure to add them to the comments of the linked post for consideration. We will pick the best questions and add them to our list!

• Don't post any questions in the comments of this news post. Use the linked topic instead.
• These should be questions about Legion, not Warlords of Draenor.
• No class specific questions please. This includes things like balance between the different healing/tank/DPS classes and specs.
• Keep questions reasonably short.

Warcraft Trailer Screenshots
Some screenshots from the Warcraft trailer were posted on Reddit this weekend. Obviously this was not intended for release and may not represent the final movie.

Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead was updated last year. There are several wrestling inspired costumes you can purchase for 100 from Chapman. Once in the costume, you can do battle with other costumed players. You can use the costumes even after the holiday is over!

There seems to be a bug with the achievements this year, as you can't kill other players with the costume on, only bring them to 1 health. You need to be dueling for them to die.

If you haven't already done the other part of the holiday, be sure to check out the guide on Icy Veins.

Level	Type	Slot	Name
1	Holiday		"Blooming Rose" Contender's Costume
1	Holiday		"Night Demon" Contender's Costume
1	Holiday		"Purple Phantom" Contender's Costume
1	Holiday		"Santo's Sun" Contender's Costume
1	Holiday		"Snowy Owl" Contender's Costume

Name	Points
To The Afterlife Defeat a contender while wearing a contender's outfit purchased during Day of the Dead.	5
Vientos! Defeat 20 contenders while wearing a contender's outfit purchased during Day of the Dead.	5
Calavera Defeat 50 contenders while wearing a contender's outfit purchased during Day of the Dead.	10

Blue Tweets

How do you feel about Wildstar's area-effect visuals and would you change them? (Muffinus)
I think Wildstar really made that their thing, so it works for them. I was worried we were going to overdo it for WoW.
I agree with this statement. (Muffinus)

Why is "gamey" considered a bad thing? — Games need rules, but when the rules intrude too much it can be disruptive… https://t.co/IRrx2YUwhh
Real answer: because immersion is often at odds with clarity. Sometimes, there is a more immersive way to get that gameplay. (Muffinus)

Commercial gyms are like Casual guilds, with casual members. Minimum effort yet members want maximum attention / perks.
Gyms want to be a product that everyone buys but very few people use: https://t.co/AYIC1JlY2I (holinka)
ultimately you should be happy about those casuals. They keep prices down. (holinka)
over the members who pour their sweat and hard work day in day out at the gym?
make a gym like that! Maybe you can change the world! (This is all addressed in the linked podcast btw) (holinka)
also it is probably not $10-20 more a month. More like "double or triple what I pay now." (holinka)
I'm also not saying it's a good thing. Just the way gyms are structured now. Definitely room for high price hardcore gyms. (holinka)
why should that even be a means to an end though. I'm not even thinking about a REALLY hardcore gym. Just some place that has high
I guess the bottom line is most gyms are setup to sell memberships not to have people work out in them. Seems backwards right? (holinka)
Just describing why not defending it. But that person who gets on the elliptical for 10 then leaves is more cost effective. (holinka)
pays as much as you but is only there for 10 minutes. Most cost effective person? The one that never shows up at all. Free money (holinka)
real life is very sad (holinka)

Ghostcrawler Tweets
Ghostcrawler still occasionally talks about WoW. Remember that he no longer works for or speaks for Blizzard.

what's your take on the popularity of classic WoW servers? Is it time?
I've never played on one. I understand the appeal but not sure if it's a satisfying meal or just a light snack. (OccupyGStreet)

2015 Pumpkin Contest Winners

The winners of this year's pumpkin-carving contest have been chosen -- and they're monstrously spectacular. We'd like to thank everyone who participated this year, and we can't wait to see your mad scientist skills in action again next time around.

Check out all of the creepy, incredible, and creative winning pumpkins here.

[Arrashi]

Is that karazhan ? Also, wolf looks super cute.

[Nerraw]

Hot. Damn. I am hyped for that trailer.

[Deleted]

Is that karazhan ? Also, wolf looks super cute.

looks more like dalaran to me.

[Grumar]

I haven't really kept up with any movie news, but is their a reason the orcs aren't green?

[Shampro]

I haven't really kept up with any movie news, but is their a reason the orcs aren't green?

They've mainly been showing the Frostwolf orcs (protagonists) who aren't green (yet). But the other clans are corrupted as per leaked footage.

[Grumar]

They've mainly been showing the Frostwolf orcs (protagonists) who aren't green (yet). But the other clans are corrupted as per leaked footage.

Makes sense, thanks.

[Mazzic518]

That wolf looks awesome

[Tornwar]

I am crazy hyped for the trailer! Is gonna be awesome

[Kededia]

This movie is gonna suck so hard...

[Gloriandus]

Maybe it's just these screenshots, but there's a lot of that fake "CG sheen" going on, especially in that forest battle. It looks like a souped-up version of an old Warcraft cutscene.

[The Last DJ]

Holy shootsnacks it's a female orc!

[Holywraths]

Can someone tell me what that blue tweet is all about? I can't really seem to grasp what's going on in there....

[Azahel]

looks more like dalaran to me.

It's lordaeron, just look at the towers.

[Ethenil]

It's lordaeron, just look at the towers.

Well, looking at the towers I get a feeling it's Dalaran o.o

[Azahel]

Anobody noticed that High Elf?

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Well, looking at the towers I get a feeling it's Dalaran o.o

Well, the tops remind me of this

and this


But it also looks a lot like Dalaran so I don't know :P

[cyndallis]

Can someone tell me what that blue tweet is all about? I can't really seem to grasp what's going on in there....

The gym membership analogy? Just Blizzard defending the necessity of 'casual' catered game play elements in WoW again. MMO-Champion occasionally has graphs on this but the usual trend is around 10-15% of raiding guilds setting foot into a mythic raid and only around 0.5-1% actually completing current mythic content. If Blizzard designed all content such that it was only accessible to this 10-15% of players they are bound to see a precipitous drop in subscribers - why subscribe if there is nothing you can or want to do afterall. If they did go that route then obviously they would have to make up for the loss in subscribers with either a higher subscription fee or less content.

Like he said. Hard core players should be grateful casual players are still subscribed. He said that they keep the price down. The reality is they are probably the only thing keeping the game alive. I'm really hopeful that Legion can bring back and keep some players... I'm personally dreading the day they make the decision to cater to even -more- casual gamers and we end up with a F2P model.

[Deleted]

This movie is gonna suck so hard...

And you know that how, exactly?

[Mazzic518]

And you know that how, exactly?

He is "The Prophet"

[Draedarr]

Anobody noticed that High Elf?

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Well, the tops remind me of this

and this


But it also looks a lot like Dalaran so I don't know :P

I really think that it's Dalaran, because if you look in the right corner, near the mountains, you will see some domes that resembles Dalaran from the game

edit: And the blue things that appear to be emanating from the tower