World of Wacraft: World Awakened - expansion leak

[WickedJesther]

World of Wacraft: World Awakened

Part 1
Short lore introduction

After the costly victory against the Jailer that left our champions drained of their anima and power gathered over decades they once more find themselves in Azeroth. But the world didn’t stand still during their departure. Not as powerful as before, our champions are still the best Azeroth has to offer and they will have ample opportunities to prove it on their quest to regain the power so that they can once again protect the world from threats both without and within…
Yet their biggest challenge might be finding themselves among new heroes who arose in their absence. Though young and inexperienced they remind our champions of their early days… But will these two different groups find common ground or will it spark another conflict.

The Story arc will slowly unfold from level 10 thruu quests added to the leveling zones with a grand event at level 50 that start the main expasion story.
Quests are heavily dragon themed and will build the narrative for the Dragon Isles.

Part 2.
Core system changes of the expansion

Following the tragic events of Shadowlands we find our champions back on Azeroth.
Yet their power and abilities diminished greatly, almost to that of young adventurers taking their first steps in the world.

All characters start on lvl 1 and will once again be able to level to 60. This decision comes from a few key things we want for the game going forward

Leveling was always a key experience in MMO games and we want it to feel better this time around

• Reaching lvl 60 will take 30% less time than now.
• Shadowlands had a huge influx of new players who had a hard time adapting to the game
• We want old players to mix with the new ones coming into the game for the first time. We hope that this will help build communities like the game used to in Classic
• New players will receive a permanent buff “New Blood” until they reach lvl 60 on at least one character. This will help older players to identify if their group is made up of newcomers to Azeroth.
• Old players will have a “Veteran” buff until reaching lvl 60 on at least one character
• The world will be updated to force more group interaction among players. This means tighter quest hubs and more “elite” quests that need a party to complete.
• Most of the old raids will be converted into leveling locations. The idea is to have 10-30 man raids that will allow to reach all the way to lvl 60.
• Raiding is one of the core game experiences and so far new players had no chance to practice before max level. Which in turn gave them a hard time joining a raiding guild.
• Running different specialization of your class from raid to raid will offer additional xp/item rewards. We hope this will increase the amount of players who try out healing/tanking specializations.
• Completing dungeon/raid/battleground with more “New Blood” players will increase rewards for “Veterans”

Guild halls and communities

• Guild hall will be an instanced zone available to all guild member and outsiders invited to a raid group
• Trophy room will allow to collect and display guild achievements (new items added for visual effects like statues, paintings etc.)
• Mission table will also be available in the guild hall after reaching certain requirements (this is still discussed as it might cause problems for non-guild characters)
• Guild leader will be able to open portals to raid and instance locations. This will be possible by crafting “focusing iris” items from different professions and a hefty amount of gold for the upgrade.
• The portal will lead to the summoning stone instead of the entrance (still discussed). This will allow access to the zones instead of only the dungeons and might improve player open world interaction
• PvP vendor will be available in the guild hall. That includes queueing for rated battlegrounds/arenas. This will require spending a lot of honor points to purchase “License” from capital city to have their representatives visit our guild hall. Gold cost is being discussed.
• Build in arena for guild vs guild pvp combat is being worked on. Would work similar to brawlers guild. Players would be able to spectate the combat. (This is harder to implement and might not make it to final release)
• Crafting tables for professions will be available but very expensive to build.
• Auction house vendor is being discussed but might cause too many players to never leave guild house and the cost would have to be extreme.
• Guild bank would be available if the Auctioneer is agreed on.
• Training dummies will be built by blacksmiths/engineers.

Player Vs Player

• The entry level for new players is too high. We are considering ways to improve this experience. Practice arenas with bots and in-game NPC tutorials are most likely the direction it would go.
• Added daily and weekly pvp quests that will fill “zone” progression bar for rewards. We recognize that some players just want to focus on this aspect of the game and want to improve their experience.
  We also recognize this may limit the open world pvp but we hope improved rewards for the weekly 25 kills quests will make up for this.
• Gear from arenas and Rated Battlegrounds will scale per rating of the activity.
  This means that a person with 2400 rating in arena and 0 rating in Rated Battleground will scale down when starting battleground. And vice versa for players with High Gear from Rated Battleground who start Arenas
  We hope this will improve the experience for all players who are climbing the brackets
• New interface that should help with filling your teams. Players will be able to post their profile for leader to search through
  This will contain the basic information like player ilvl/character statistics, both main and secondary, rating, highest lifetime rating in bracket, games played this season.
  Leader will be able to filter through class/spec.
  This system will however be subject to change after PTR as we fear that this might cause toxic behaviors towards players who aren’t the absolute top of their class.
• Players will be able to spend honor/conquest points on rewards much like the valor points were a currency for materials. You will also pay for Guild Hall cosmetics with this. Different cosmetics will be purchasable with conquest than for valor or gold. This will give the guild hall a flavor that represents the Guild's primary focus. PvP, PvE, Merchants.

New Guild/community recruitment tools

• Guild leader will now be able to specify in the LFG tool what class/spec they are looking for.
• A roster of all interested players will be then available to the Guild Master and officers.
• As with Rated Battleground this will have and extended list of information about the candidate.
• More information about the Guild for player searching for their home.
• Current online, raid progress, rated battleground rating, top 5 m+ keys this week.
• This system is a work in progress. New features will come soon and will be coordinated with cross faction implementation

No new class coming this expansion

• The team is testing few additional specialization for existing classes
• Hunter Tank based on sharing damage and cooldowns with pet.
• Hunter will be able to shortly merge with pet’s soul to greatly increase hunter's abilities
• Different pets will provide different raid cooldowns and will require some planning before combat.
• Paladin buffing spec. Damage and healing done converts into targetable and passive buffs for party/raid members. The higher the damage and heals the stronger the buffs.
• Early testing of the spec showed potential but we felt the class might feel too mandatory for m+ if not handled correctly.
• Shaman Tank is also being discussed but most likely won’t make it to expansion release.

Raid and mythic+

• - New Raid progression system.
• - Similar to honor levels. Every boss kill will award you progresion points towards next reward.
• - Higher difficulty will reward more xp.
• - Every level offers a reward item (mounts, cosmetics, tabard) + a heroes chest.
• - Heroes chest may contain addional chance for a rare mount, pet, and account bound XP token, and a very low chance for raid BOE item.
• - Killing trash mobs will also grant a limited XP amount but only once per reset

Mythic+

• - Similar to raid we want to offer progression system to dungeons
• - Trash and boss will fill the progress bar by a small amount. Finishing the dungeon will be the main focus as it will grant much more points to the progress bar.
• - Rewards will be similar to Raid. Mounts, pets, tabards + chest. Expierience tokens can also drop from chests but a much lower rate. Chests will also contain augment runes, crafting resources, and a chance for a socket consumable.
• - Leaving a timed keystone before it's finished will lower your progress bar.
• - Frequent leaving of timed keystones will cause a visible debuff „Fearfull” on your character for a fixed amount of time.
• - Finishing dungeons after time limit will grant a timed buff „Determined” to your character
• - Dungoens will be sligtly shorter. We want the timers to be around 32 minutes. Was inteded to be even lower but that caused affected the timing of Bloodlust/Heroism which we wanted to avoid.

New expansion systems will be discussed in a later post.

[JDBlou]

No. /10chars

[Soulwind]

World of Worldcraft: World Aworldkened

[Wonderment2]

I can only hope that this a "shitpost" fake leak over a "wishlist" fake leak

[Fistfighter]

the World of warcraft gets segregated into New bloods and Old heads, because the dev team felt like there wasn't enough hostility and toxicity amongst the playerbase.

[Zankai27]

>Our characters are de-leveled to 1

Fucking never.

[rarhyx]

what do people get with these fake leaks?

[Swnem]

Lol SL had a huge influx of new players he says.

[huth]

what do people get with these fake leaks?

Yelled at.

[Teriz]

+The team is testing few additional specialization for existing classes
+Hunter Tank based on sharing damage and cooldowns with pet.
+Hunter will be able to shortly merge with pet’s soul to greatly increase hunter's abilities
+Different pets will provide different raid cooldowns and will require some planning before combat.
+Paladin buffing spec. Damage and healing done converts into targetable and passive buffs for party/raid members. The higher the damage and heals the stronger the buffs.

This sounds absolutely terrible.

[Konteil]

this is the worst one yet lol. are people even trying anymore?

[Thestrawman]

This sounds absolutely terrible.

I swear that's one of your bad tinker ideas.

[rarhyx]

Yelled at.

but... who likes to get yelled at?

[huth]

but... who likes to get yelled at?

Beats me. WickedJesther apparently.

[Romanthony]

The MASSIVE backlash they would get from de leveling our characters would mean this would never ever happen

Hunter will be able to shortly merge with pet’s soul to greatly increase hunter's abilities

Though this is the only thing ive ever wanted i wanted this skill in the game honestly xD So the only thing i wanted form this leak

[Gourbaak]

is there people still reading those shitty fan fiction ?

[enigma77]

No

/10chars

[Schmilblick]

Go do your homework instead of losing your time on such crap.

[CalamityHeart]

what do people get with these fake leaks?

Responses.

[taishar68]

Yelled at.

I should report this post for awesomeness.