Day 1 started as planned. I was ingame before it started on one of my alts, and Heol’s telling me it’s possible they should announce the next EP. I told him that it’s not possible as WoD hasn’t been released yet.
\nSo far of this year’s BlizzCon, I was right. They did announce a new expansion for Hearthstone, coming next month. It’s called ‘Gnomes Versus Goblins’. And it looks like a lot of fun.<\/p>\n
They also announced a new game to the Blizzard franchise. A game they’ve been working on for 17 years; Overwatch. It looks like another FPS team-based game, but has amazing graphics and the characters look really interesting.
\nSometime next year, it’ll be available for beta and urge everyone to sign up and try their game out. I… I’m going to. From what I saw, blew me away. But mostly why I want it, it’s balanced combat. As in, it’s based on skill and not gear.
\nYou can sign up for the beta here. This doesn’t mean you’ll get invited.<\/p>\n
The rest of the first day of BlizzCon was as boring as I thought it would be. I watched a few hours of Hearthstone and WoW Arena championship panels while waiting for the next panel to come up, which explained about the future Warcraft Movie.
\nThe movie, they never showed any clips or even a scene. All they spent doing is talking about how they are trying to bring Warcraft and WoW into this movie. They did show props, though.
\nThey talked about who’s going to be the voices of the movie. So yeah, this is going to be an actual movie we’ll be able to see in Theatres. It’ll be coming March of 2016.<\/p>\n
Next, I saw the Hearthstone Fireside Chat. They talked more about Hearthstone as a whole, and also some of the new cards that’ll be available when the expansion is released.
\nTo get the deck, you got to pay real money or not play the game in Single Player to use ingame currency.<\/p>\n
After that, they explained a bit more in-depth about the class and item changes of WoD(and the current patch on Live) and how they’re not as bad as people think. They mentioned how you’ll be able to still solo content, and I could see myself being the only one in the audience cheering. They also had a Mini-Q&A section, but it was only about this kind of topic.
\nSomeone actually had the guts to ask a question about “Hey, as a Mage, how come I can’t solo Boss Y when a DK can?! That’s not fair!”
\nBlizzard’s answer was pretty ‘duh!’ obvious. They said how “you’ll be able to eventually solo anything with time. Some classes and specs might need more gear than others to do so.” They also stated the obvious how they can’t just change classes to allow everyone to be able to solo old content at the same pace.<\/p>\n
Another question asked, seemed to be pretty much saying “Stop tailoring to casuals, Blizzard!!” Their response seemed fair to me, but I’m sure wasn’t accepted by everyone.
\nThey seem to have three answers to this;
\n1: “You want a challenge, play a challenging class!”
\n2: “We want to make sure all types of players, even ones that haven’t played in a long time know what they’re doing.”
\n3: “Look at your talents. If you want a challenging class, re-arrange them to not give yourself an advantage.”
\nThough I do love how the guy when he finished off the 3rd answer acted when he tilted his head to the right, as in “Ugh… stop whining!” Quite funny.<\/p>\n
And that is pretty much it for Day 1. Day 2, they discuss the WoD Climatics, and have the final Q&A about WoD before the release. Also at 8pm Eastern, is the special “Looking for Group” WoW’s 10th Anniversary special, showing behind the scenes of how you connect to WoW(the server rooms, including my server).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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