Some American fan-sites have recently been able to participate in the Fan-Site Summit US organized by Blizzard at their premises on June 28. Were present on site Wow head, Convert to Raid, Curse, Gamebreaker TV et WoW Insider accompanied by the community team made up of Bashiok, Crithto, Daxxarri, Lore, Nethaera, Rygarius and Zarhym!
Let’s summarize everything that was said during their discussions.
Summary:
General
- About the legendary capes these are the first legendary equipment not to be weapons. In order to alleviate this possible discontent of the players, skills specific to these capes can be activated. They will be easier to obtain at the start of 5.4. :
- Essence de Yu'lon: Your attacks have a chance to grant you the Essence of Yu'lon. In doing so, your next direct damage attack will burn the target using a Jade Fire Dragon, dealing 5.000 direct damage as well as an additional 30.000 damage over 6 seconds. This also applies to other enemies near the burnt target.
- Niuzao's Endurance: Niuzao's Stamina completely absorbs damage from an attack that would normally have killed you. 60s of CD.
- Spirit of Chi-Ji: Your healing skills grant your target Spirit of Chi-Ji, healing those targets for 3% of their missing health every second for 3s.
- Xuen Squall: Your attacks have a chance to trigger a Flurry of Xuen, causing your target for 60% of your weapon damage to all targets in front of you every 0.5s for 3s.
- The existence of a 5.5 patch remains to be determined.
- L'ordalie will happen on the PTS. These are pretty basic early-stage challenges like getting some DPS or keeping an NPC alive. There will also be mixed, such as not putting yourself in the fire or interrupting to prevent checks or treatment. During the challenges, we will find ourselves grouped with NPCs, exactly as if they were players. There will be a ranking, bronze, silver and gold.
PvP
- Arena groups will disappear completely in order to provide a system similar to battlefields. This will be available for your entire region, allowing you to group with whoever you want.
- Arena ratings will be removed and only one personal rating will remain. Here is already an image showing the changes on the interface.
- No The Defense of the Alehouse battlefield planned.
quests
- The future Island of Frozen Time promises to be a dynamic area and not a big quest grouping like Blizzard usually does.
- There will be World Boss, tournaments mascots but also random events. The player will have the impression of being one of the first to discover the island.
- Un of the world boss, Ordos, will be difficult and will require a Legendary Cloak for all party members. He will respawn every few hours and will allow players with a legendary cloak to fight him for raid-grade gear (normal to normal overwhelming).
- The user interface will be provided with alerts in order to find / join fights easily.
- Quest designers needed to work on 5.2 before moving on to the expansion. But there was so much to do in 5.3 and 5.4 that they were only able to expand recently, after completing the 5.4 quests.
- The Golden Lotus still has some quests in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms. Former quest bosses and a few other NPCs have become reputation rare.
- Randomizing the daily quests doesn't take away the sense of repetition, so developers will be looking to add other styles of activities.
JcE
- The new raid: Siege of Orgrimmar will offer a more gradual progression in terms of difficulty.
- This content will be offered in several phases with the attack on Vale of Eternal Spring by Garrosh, then his move to the siege of Orgrimmar and finally the attack on his last quarters.
- Previous raids gave mounts based on luck. Killing Garrosh on Heroic Difficulty will give the raid a 100% chance to pick up a Special Mount, the chance will increase to 2% in the next third.
- An achievement related to killing Garrosh will also grant a mount, the Wolf Kor'kron.
- When they set up the achievements "Glory of the Raider ...", there was no heroic version. But that changed with the arrival of Ulduar and it poses concerns on certain stages, where you have to choose between normal and heroic modes, not everything can be accomplished at once. For Siege of Orgrimmar, the achievement can be performed as normal.
- Flexible raids will arrive faster than LFR. They have a different lock. They are there primarily to allow playing with friends but guilds can also use it as a way to learn strategies. It will be possible to achieve the achievements.
- The heroic scenarios are a great success.
- The lightning equipment are very popular with players. The name will surely change in the future, but this equipment combined with the value point upgrades is a real plus for PvE players.
- The improvement works much better in 5.3 than in 5.1.
Sources
Wow head
MMO-Champion
