Being wrapped up in thinking I fixed my Visual C++ crash in Skyrim, only to show up again during the Dragonborn questline, I haven’t been following the news of WoW.
I’ve made a post in the official Bethesda forums. I feel really confident I have a good chance of either removing the error, or if I can cope with it with no “if ignored, it’ll only get worse” damage to my computer.
Anyway, I found Nobbel87’s channel again on YouTube and checked it out. And two months ago, he had a video going over the latest that he has heard.
-WoD is in Alpha (now in Beta since May 27th).
-Changes to raids in WoD. Hunters will have a 1 day misdirection spell. Very sweet and useful.
-News of the lore of WoD.
-The splash screen has been changed to show a glowing red Dark Portal instead of green(indicating that “Um… what’s going on?? Why is the Dark Portal red?!” feeling), similar to what it looked like in TBC, before the portal opened.
-The town overwatching the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands gets ransacked and taken over by the Iron Horde.
And here’s what I’ve found out by clicking a link on the channel page, mostly about stuff I care about;
-A mentioning of an “epic quest” before you go build a Garrison. Is this an epic group quest? An epic soloable quest? Who knows. It also mentions you go to Shadowmoon Valley for Alliance, or Frostfire Ridge for Horde. Doesn’t list what level you have to be to get it(or maybe they haven’t decided yet). I’m going to assume Level 100, and it being endgame content. Would make sense.
-Having to find blueprints and materials to upgrade your Garrison. …. Typical Blizzard style concept here. This means, either collection quests, or collection “quests”(looking for what you need without requiring a quest, making it harder to pinpoint where to go).
And that’s it about Garrisons (for now) that is new news.
-The new Level 100 talent tier has been added to all classes (I’m going to assume they’re unusable ’till the launch).
-All chars you own from Level 1 to Level 99 for leveling, will get specific, helpful(to their class and hopefully spec) Major Glyphs automatically added every quarter of your leveling (aka, Level 25, you’ll get this. Level 50, you’ll get that, etc…).
And talents for Hunters in WoD? … Right now, it don’t look good for high level BM Hunters like me, but this could change.
Looks like they’re putting more “love” into Marksman Hunters. And it looks like another talent reset will happen. Fun. 😛 But, it’s to be expected after every EP.
One change, no more Serpent Sting. It’ll be a Survival hunter only ability. However, I’ll still have Arcane Shot(my only DPS option). And if that’s not bad enough, they’re removing some abilities for Pets like Rabid. Lynx Rush is going to be moved from the Level 90 tree to the Level 75 tree(aka, you’ll get it in TBC instead of MoP) and then replaced by Stampede for an unknown reason…. what the FUCK?! *facepalm*… Blizzard. I loved Lynx Rush, and so did my pet!
The only good things I see out of this, Mend Pet and Revive Pet will be fused into one button instead of two, and still only affect your active pet. Sweet.
Also, Hunters will be able to tame Hydras! 😀 Most excellent.
So, that’s about it for this one. And if you wish you join the Beta, well.. it’s not possible without a key, just like with MoP before its release.
There’s three ways to get a key;
1. Opt in to Blizzard’s beta program, give them your specs, and pray they pick you.
2. Have a friend who has a key and is willing to show the content for you.
3. Through Wowhead’s Beta Key giveaways.
Talking more about option 3, yes, once again, Wowhead offers keys. But, instead of their usual “just tell us how bad you want it in the comments section and we might consider!” way, you have to actually work for it.
Each week, you have to have (or do if you haven’t yet) a specific achievement ingame to be entered into a chance to get a Beta key. This week until July 7th, you have to do (or have done) one of the wings of the Siege of Org raid to be qualified. You can even do an LFR raid and you’ll still qualify(if you get the achievement).
Week 1 (this week), they’re offering 200 keys. Weeks 2, 3, and 4, they’re offering 300 keys. Week 5: 400 keys. And finally, Week 6: 500 keys. For a total of 2,000 Beta keys.
But seriously, though, with as many players in WoW, do you really think I would have a chance? Everytime I’ve tried for a key, I never got one.
There really is no point (for me) to come back to WoW for WoD’s pre-launch content until it nears launch day(and by then I’ll have the digital copy preordered for my two accounts), so I can re-train to be a Hunter(relearn buttons/how to solo a dungeon/etc…) a few weeks before the release.
And I don’t know when that day the portal will re-open into Draenor instead of Outland. I’m going to assume in the fall, like MoP. And it’s going to be $20 like always for the standard edition.