Idk, when Ion was waxing about permanent systems, I really REALLY thought we were getting Housing.
Profession revamp, to me, is the best thing here. Don't like the new raceclass that much visually. The flying thing, no idea what the actual point of that is except to make something easy into something hard. UI revamp really shouldn't even be a feature.
Generally disappointed.
They have to.
Now the shine of the announcement has worn off, this is an absolute bone head decision.
I'm mostly positive overall, but this class restriction is on another level.
They've designed an interesting new race. Lots of people have wanted to play as Dragon men for years. Yet you have to play an Evoker to play one? It's just an all round bad decision.
They need to rethink this asap.
I mean inhale all the copium you want, but the facts remain. They are lazy and want to cut development time as much as possible. There's no other explanation why they are giving us those 2 humanoid races instead of every other race combo (like the aspects have). They will come up with some bullshit lore reason and you will gladly accept it though, I am sure.
For someone who sometimes kills time doing circle in oribos, the new way of flying is going to be an amazing upgrade.
Okay so it is over. Well here is my totally subjective take on it all:
Cinematic: Absolute dogshit. We followed stone guy for 90% and no dragons till the very end. 2/10
Feature trailer: There wasn't any. Technically the whole thing was one, but we didn't get a traditional hype video. 0/10
Story: Hard to tell at this point, but they didn't really give us a reason to go there. Not yet, anyway. 5/10
Zones: Nothing spectacular really. I mean they look good from a technical standpoint, but none of the zones scream...,oooooh I wanna be there. Also no revamped old zones and I'm a spiteful little shit who hates that Nazjatar and Nyalotha were one zones, Emerald Dream was a raid, but the Dragon Isles got to be a continent larger than Kul Tiras. So.... 1/10
Race and class: Hooo boyyyy. Nothing for old races. 1 new race that can only be 1 class, that has only two specs and is only available for the new race. God, fucking damit. I only.. ONLY give this one point cause they made it a ranged dps and a healing spec. 1/10
Dragonriding: Not gonna lie, this looks cool. Took pages out of GW2's books, and also a covenant with only cosmetic rewards. This is one thing that suggests they are learning and wanna do good. Only problem is, they really emphasized that this is not flying. So that is still the same. This feels like a Dragonflight only thing. I hope I'm wrong, but I will deduct points for this fear 7/10.
New HUD: Is this all of it? Bigger minimap and the option to move it around? This needs some research but so far it looks underwhelming. More of a fucking finally instead of a wow, how cool. 2/10
New Talent system:This is definitely cool. It looks good and you can do presets so everything a talent system needs. Untill we see what the choices are and I can see how well it is balanced I wont give it max points, but 8/10
Professions: my favorite part easily. The whole profession leveling and profession gear is straight out of Final Fantasy XIV (they would choke before admitting it though), and the crafting orders seem like a cool system. I would have liked them to make the act of crafting and gathering more fun, but this still seems the best profession system they've come up with yet. 10/10
Presentation: Super cringe. If they took out all the apologize, the presentation would have been the same lenght. If they took out all the patting each-other on the back and all the telling instead of showing, it would have been chopped down to half size or less. And they had both Ion and Danuser. 0/10.
Honestly I'm not sold yet. Like the best part for me is what I can already have in FFXIV. I don't know why I should want to go to the Dragon Isles and I don't know what I will do once I'm at the level cap beside dungeons and raids. Cool gnoll models though.
Interesting.
I had figured that would be one of the big things people were talking about here after I saw the blurb on the front page (I was busy with work until 25 minutes in) but saw no chatter.
Evoker is two specs, ranged DPS and healer.