Day 2 is here. But for the first time in the history of myself attending BlizzCon (via the Virtual Ticket), real life bugged the hell out of me. That, and I also not only missed the EU launch of the GNE to WP11..but also the US launch. I hate missing the launches for the GNE in Elite Dangerous. Thankfully this’ll be the only time I’ll miss them, and.. just, whatever. It’s so hard to focus on just one online game, of one event that only happens once a year.
But you know, life sucks.
The other problem is the promise that they made, of all steamed panels would be available in the archives. But no. 1/3rd of the panels didn’t show up in the archives, so what happened to this promise?
So I think this is the last time I buy a Virtual Ticket and just give my opinion on what MMO-Champion posts about what’s going on, next year. Honestly, that’s the better option than spend $40.
Anyway, let’s go over to what I didn’t miss.
The first one was the ‘Legion Design Retrospective’ WoW Panel. It basically covered the development of Legion (yet no mention about WoD being a filler expansion), from what was cut, to the reasoning behind World Quests.
It was interesting, but it didn’t make me pumped for the future of WoW. They didn’t even go over why they chose to have very little rep gear (except “dailies should be ‘fun’!!”).
Yes, dailies should be fun. But give me more options to gear up instead of Heroics and WQs!
Next off, was a discussion of the cinematics and cutscenes of Legion. The first one was rather tear-jerking of seeing Ysera die infront of our eyes (spoiler alert). Even I felt the water coming out of my eyes. But it was awesome how they wanted to show this emotion to the player (and mentioned the music they used). Plus saying when they had her looking up at Elune: “she’s still a tragic victim, unlike Deathwing and Malygos”. And to end it, one said “at least you saved her soul”. That… that… *tears come to eyes again* ..I’m not crying!! It’s just something in my eyes!
But they tried to change the mood by talking about the badass cinematic of Sylvanas VS Greymane, and several others (how they captured Varian in his final moments, etc).
One of my favorite panels of BlizzCon. Always good to watch.
And then there’s the final panel; the WoW Q&A. Overall, I found the questions were pretty good. While I didn’t see the entire panel (due to multiple reasons), one thing’s for sure… this woman named “Panser” (aka ‘TradeChat’ on Youtube) who was the Moderator (first time I’ve seen this happen) made me cringe everytime she spoke. What really made me cringe was someone asking about if gnomes would get more specs. The person mentions about Gnome Druids and the Moderator’s all “Yes, tiny little Druid forms!! 😀 “.. Ugh. Never watched TradeChat, and this gives me a reason never to do so.
Oh yeah. Our hero, Red Shirt Guy showed up again! It was bound to happen. And his question was pretty good.
Right… now for the questions. They varied from wondering what happened to certain people, to wondering what the future of Artifact Weapons would be.
Three of these questions caught my eye. The first one was about Ysera “dying a ‘Game of Thrones style’ death” (with a big “SPOILER ALERT!!!” being yelled by someone in the audience). Their answer was “her spirit still lives on” and “I wouldn’t hold on to her being gone for good”. ..Interesting. Will Ysera make a reappearance as a human? Who knows.
Second one was about Wrathalon and why he wasn’t in Legion. Their answer was “he was cut due to complexity”, “he’s just wondering around”, and “we will see him again in a future content update”. Nice.
Final question was about the WoW Token. Yes, it still exists. But…”we have plans to expand it in the very near future” to include the ability to turn it into B-Net currently to purchase Char Transfers/Race and Faction Transfer/etc. I have mixed opinions about this (hearing players purchase these things for Blizzard to offer them for Gold).
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And that was it for the Q&A. Going over what MMO-Champion posted, there was no questions of questlines requiring Mythics to complete. Not happy about that news. But, Ion did say (back in October) there would be more Q&A’s coming sometime after BlizzCon. So I still have a chance to voice my opinion on it. 😛
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And by the time I completed editing this .. good lord, 39 revision post(soon to be 40 once I hit the Update button), the Closing Ceremony is finishing up (and I’m missing it). But oh well.
So that covers it for this year. Good year, but the stream could had been better. Can’t believe I missed so much that I’ll never be able to watch.