It'd be an off Blizzcon year anyway. They blew their load last year to make up for 2018.
Pretty sure they won't. It's an event with tens of thousands visitors and all of them got cancelled this year (or will, later on).
- - - Updated - - -
By the way, the survey has been closed as they received enough answers already.
This survey has reached its quota and responses are no longer being solicited.
MAGA - Make Alliance Great Again
I imagine that Blizzcon could still be happening, though it is highly dependant on an announcement that the Virus has either gotten a foolproof vaccine, or that it goes through the population real quick.
If we are still in lockdown, or close to it by the end of May then i would imagine Blizzcon being cancelled.
Though then again, who knows. Blizzcon is a pretty big event, they might be banking on people going back to normal by September.
The world revamp dream will never die!
I think the idea is more that the one one the left is ambient effects from proximity ot Anima, whereas the one on the right is the actual Anima in the zones.
I guess the fitting comparision here would be the difference in BfA between Azerite the ore and Azerite the energy. One os the one you will see most often, they are mostly interchangeable, but one is more "pure" than the other.
The world revamp dream will never die!
Actually I find curious that they show that graph in Blizzcon, a graph of a substance (anima), that we are supposed to use as a coin right? And they even bothered to do different anima models depending on the zone... You might be right, anima could be something far more important in the gameplay than what we thought.
Hopefully in a few days we will have some news, because, seriously, we do not know anything about Shadowlands. I do not understand why I am so hyped for this expansion without knowing a thing about it.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Yes. It is what all the covenants use to fuel their various activities, and what keeps the zones themselves going. It will be around the zones (you can see some here, or the residual "not anima" effects; and of course it's very plainly there in the early bastion concept, as well as visible in the true anima form in the Oribos architecture sample)
Think of it like raw arcane energy in the leylines you see in Dragonblight/Borean Tundra. It's a natural energy source created by the dead passing into the Shadowlands, that both keeps everything run and is actively used by the people living there to do things.
The Covenants start in a non-great place and part of your activities basically involves collecting Anima for them, because every zone is in an Anima drought since the Maw is taking all the souls. It's not a "coin" so much as a favor, that then goes into Soulbinds to advance them, and also various covenant rewards.