Day 2 began at 1pm EST, with the WoW Live Raid happening at 2:05pm. It pitted two guilds of Heroic Highmaul, to give people a taste on what raiders will be able to play with.
The two devs that were a part of the two factioned guilds, said these two have been practicing a few times, but haven’t been doing it for months.
There was no wipes. Though there was a close to wipe on the final boss of the final phase, they got him down, but barely.
After the raid, there was a half-hour of another mini-Q&A with one of the devs of WoD and people sending in their questions through Twitter. I asked if there’s going to be more soloable content in the future. It hasn’t been answered yet.
Next, was the making of Overwatch; the new game announced yesterday. Who the characters are, and why Blizzard made the game. They showed early concept art of the heroes and the maps, and also early concept art of the trailer.
After, they did a Q&A for the game. They mention that there’s even more heroes than they showed. That’s quite interesting.
Someone asked if Overwatch is similar to Team Fortress 2. They say “To compare Overwatch to TF2 is a compliment. We love that game. But when you play, you’ll see that our game is different.”
After that was a boring area ’till 5:15pm. The WoW Arena Champ Semifinals and Finals. Played WoW at this time and then ate Dinner.
Finally, 5:15pm came. They showed the making of the Intro Cinematic and the Lords of War videos. They explained how they’ve working on this since early 2013. That’s about it.
At 6:30pm, came the WoW Q&A; questions that aren’t just about WoD. A 7 year old kid was the first one asking about Doomhammer, if who would claim it or whatever. Barely understanded him. We even got Red Shirt Guy with one of the devs saying “Oh shit” when he saw him, and everyone cheering the guy on.
Some of the questions were based around lore; things like the Old Gods if they’re really the bad guys. Another guy had a really good question about friends visiting eachother’s Garrisons. I was hoping he would push for “will there be any changes to simplify this?”, instead, asks about Guild Garrisons… bah. They say they would have to change a lot of stuff to make a Garrison as a Guild Garrison.
There was a random question that most people liked, asking “when will we be able to make bacon?!” This turned into a mini-meme.
Also, someone asked a really… really stupid question, asking “how long is it supposed to take to fly from North to South?” Really? Stop wasting the dev’s time! At least ask if there’s going to be flying in 6.1!
8pm, finally they did their “Looking For Group” presentation. It’s to show that WoW is more than a game; it’s a community. Though that has really no meaning to a soloer. It’s also, the fact I don’t really have that freedom to go to BlizzCon IRL to celebrate with the devs.
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But… holy WOW! That presentation was AMAZING!! I.. I was blown away. It actually had me in tears. It went over Blizzard’s history and the reason Warcraft exists.
They explained the history of Blizzard, and say that WoW was inspired by games like EverQuest. That’s quite awesome as I played that game. They also showed one of 17 server rooms, and what a server looks like. They also explained why they call them “realms” instead of servers.
Later on, they had someone expressing the same pain and hate for Deathwing for wrecking Thousand Needles. I’m glad I’m not alone. I’m more glad I got my revenge.
And during when they were talking about WoD, they mentioned how they “mass sent out beta invites for everyone to be a part of the development process”. Aka, how I got in the beta. They even showed proof that the devs WERE reading our posts during the beta!
Knowing this, I can’t wait to see what Blizzard does in the future.
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And now we’re counting down to the close of BlizzCon 2014. Where Metallica is going to rock the house!
L90ETC rocked the house, then had issues trying to become L100ETC. First it was L95ETC, became L00ETC, then L001ETC. Damn Goblins and Gnomes playing Hearthstone instead of fixing the screen!
Finally, they defaulted to just being called ETC. Hope this affects the Darkmoon Faire next month. Soon, Metallica will be rocking all the way ’till the wee hours of the morning.
They also did a new Alliance-themed song after playing Power of The Horde, called “Alliance Will Never Fall”. I couldn’t fist pump high enough as it felt epic!
Now Metallica is rocking the house and rocking it hard. Me? I really don’t like their music. Too much random music and lyrics. Though they did play four songs I got on Pandora, so that’s cool.
So, it “ended” later than it said it would. But the crowd cheered “ONE MORE SONG!!”, and they delivered.
And now BlizzCon’s finally over. Ended at 12:35am. About 35 minutes after they said it would. But still, the final song was an awesome finisher!
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And now it’s time to talk about what I liked about this year’s BlizzCon. I really enjoyed this year, as I did back in 2011 when I paid back then. To say I’ll pay for 2015’s BlizzCon, it’s unsure.
My favorite parts were the unveiling of Overwatch(signed up to be in the beta), and the Looking for Group thingy. The Goblins VS Gnomes Hearthstone EP is also pretty cool, but not really my thing.