WWI 2008 Full recap

#1 WoRBot

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Posted 30 June 2008 - 06:31 AM

This news and the WWI panels will be updated several times (WWI insider) today to be as complete as possible.

Diablo 3 Announced

Two decades have passed since the demonic denizens, Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal, wandered the world of Sanctuary in a vicious rampage to shackle humanity into unholy slavery. Yet for those who battled the Prime Evils directly, the memory fades slowly and the wounds of the soul still burn.

When Deckard Cain returns to the ruins of Tristram's Cathedral seeking clues to new stirrings of evil, a comet from the heavens strikes the very ground where Diablo once entered the world. The comet carries a dark omen in its fiery being and it calls the heroes of Sanctuary to defend the mortal world against the rising powers of the Burning Hells – and even the failing luminaries of the High Heavens itself.
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Overview of Diablo 3

Class panel

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Death Knight

Developers don't want talent trees to be pigeonholed into specific roles. Each tree will be functional both roles.
Runes have a 10 second separate cooldown
Army of the Undead will make players feel like how the Lich King feels when he commands the Scourge to attack
All races are confirmed to have Death Knights. The Lich King wants them all :)

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Anatomy of Dungeons and Raids

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Ulduar

2 dungeons and 1 raid in Storm Peaks
Halls of Stone: level 77 dungeon. Closely tied with Titan lore. Has Iron Dwarfs!
Halls of Lightning next to it, level 80 dungeon.
There's a raidwing in Ulduar as well
Continues the Uldaman platinum disc quest line with the the history and creation of Azeroth

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Complete coverage

Q&A Grab

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What changes will you make in the old world, specifically filling in areas that are blank.
They're adding a harbor to Stormwind, which is a transport location to Northwind. Plaguelands will be also extended with Northern Plaguelands for the Death Knights to have a starting area. There is plan to put a new arena in Orgrimmar where there's an empty arena now.

In season 4 how do you plan on improving class balance?
There are only minor adjustments in Patch 2.4.3 that favor casters a bit.

What did you learn about Arenas so far?
They learned a lot about line of sight and how that affects classes. The first Arena tests had no LOS obstacles and it wasn't as interesting. WotLK will introduce dynamic LOS, possibly a pillar moving up and down or movable items. It's going to add randomness to player skill in Arenas. Tomorrow's arena panel will have more about this.
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PvP Game Systems

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Dalaran Arena

Based on the new lore of the city
Arena map is located in the sewers of the flying capital city of Northrend
No mounts allowed
Similarly sized as the Blade's Edge arena
The dynamic element is a pipe, a wall of water flows out of it sometimes, that is a complete LOS block
Only a few ramps to the center area, player-height ledge on the sides
Water shoots players out of the starting area, players can't stay or return there

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Complete coverage

WWI Costume Contest

Part 1

Part 2

WWI Insider - Blizzard Museum

WWI Insider - Fan Wall Art

Additional WWI Links:
- LVL 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain live @ WWI 2008 (Paris) Videos
- Death Knight First Impressions
- WWI Official Site

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#2 CycloneCow

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Posted 30 June 2008 - 07:11 AM

This might be a strange place to pop the question, but does anyone know what keyboard Improved Clicks were using?

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Posted 30 June 2008 - 07:59 AM

Hey, video of the Nihilum raid. Do any of you by any chance have video of the PvP panel? Specifically the Q&A session at the end. Your treatment of it left out a question someone asked about frost mages having many talents that have no use in PvE due to boss immunity, and Chilton confirming that there will be a new mechanic allowing us to basically utilize Shatter on bosses. A video for proof I wasn't daydreaming while watching would be nice.

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Posted 30 June 2008 - 09:48 AM

Very nice work as usual guys. Thanks for gathering all those information. *smile*

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#5 alka

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Posted 30 June 2008 - 10:42 AM

Give more live stream raids, extremely entertaining tbh

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Posted 30 June 2008 - 11:00 AM

See nothing about the Dire Cat Form here, heared it from a friend that is was on mmo-champion.com

See it as well down here:
[quote=Q&A from blizzard staff]Raids & Dungeons

* Sunwell Plateau is the last content patch before the expansion release.
* There isn't any plan to nerf Kil'jaeden right now, he's intended to be the last boss before the expansion and is meant to be hard.
* Raiding armor sets and PvP rewards sets will look different and won't share the same model anymore in Wrath of the Lich King.
* Uldum was on the original list of dungeons to be added to Wrath of the Lich King but right now it's still unsure if we'll see it or not.

PvP

* Raiding armor sets and PvP rewards sets will look different and won't share the same model anymore in Wrath of the Lich King.

Class Mechanics

* Most of the shaman totems, Unleashed Rage, and Battle Shout are some of the buffs changed in WotLK to affect the whole raid instead of the party.
* Dynamic Line of Sight will be introduced in WotLK PvP, for exemple a pillar might move up and down every 20 seconds, or we might have movable items. More info about Arenas in tomorrow's panel.
* The attacker/target range mechanics are being re-evaluated it might be changed for Wrath of the Lich King to fix most of the existing bugs, including the ones affecting the attack range of Feral Druids.
* Even if it looks like a lot of classes are being changed to make them "more hybrid", but developers still want to keep the classes as distinct as possible.
* There is a plan to give player access to two talent specs to switch between them without having to respec all the time. More details in the future.

World

* You will be able to use your flying mount again at level 77, and might be able to take passengers at level 80.
* A harbor will be added to Stormwind to transport players to Northrend, a new zone will be added in Northern Plaguelands as the Death Knight starting area, and an arena will be added to Orgrimmar in place of the existing empty one.

Professions

* Inscription trading skill is intended to be for both casters and melees, inscriptions benefits every class. The current plan is to use herbalism as the primary gathering profession.

Death Knight

* People playing a Death Knights will see the original voice of their race slightly modified to make it sound more ... Death Knight-ish.
* Tanks will be interchangeable in 5-man dungeons but tanks will have a speciality in 25-man raids. Death Knights will be best against casters and shouldn't be too far behind on other encounters.

Rogue

* Dagger specialization will be improved for rogues in Wrath of the Lich King.

Warlock

* There isn't any plan to change the soul shard farming as it's part of the class, but an "emergency soul shard" ability might be added.

Druid

* There will be a new model for the Druid's Dire Bear form and the Dire Cat form will be introduced.

Paladin

* Retribution paladins will share their itemization with Death Knights and Warriors. Their group utility will be increased by making them more efficient DPS-wise.

Warrior

* The plan is to improve the warrior specs to make sure that DPS warriors would be able to tank a little, while protection warriors would be able to DPS slightly more with new abilities like Shockwave.[/quote]

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#7 Xentropy

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Posted 30 June 2008 - 01:09 PM

Yes, they mentioned dire cat form in the Q&A of the class panel. Someone asked if there would be new graphics for druid forms, and that was the response.

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#8 Gunk

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Posted 30 June 2008 - 02:40 PM

Nice artworks

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Posted 01 July 2008 - 05:10 AM

guys he went cat form and used dash

Blondi - www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Laughing+Skull&n=Blondi
Stunlol - http://www.wowarmory...Skull&n=Stunlol

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#10 Xentropy

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Posted 01 July 2008 - 07:29 AM

Nihilum giving up their top secret strategies! Zomg!

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#11 OMGBEAR

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Posted 01 July 2008 - 07:38 AM

is it me or 1st video of dance & costume contest stops around the middle?

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#12 kidoz

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Posted 02 July 2008 - 04:22 PM

whats the name of the french song at 31.40 secs into the first WWI costume contest part 1?

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Posted 02 July 2008 - 05:45 PM

kidoz said:

whats the name of the french song at 31.40 secs into the first WWI costume contest part 1?

I did watch the whole video wishing you weren't asking for that ...

It's "Alizée - J'en ai marre". It's crap ( still my opinion ) It's teenage girl music.

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Posted 02 July 2008 - 10:24 PM

Alizée... sounds familiar. Is that the girl they based the female NE dance on?

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Posted 03 July 2008 - 05:12 AM

Xentropy said:

Alizée... sounds familiar. Is that the girl they based the female NE dance on?

It is .. and it was the case too for the question he asked.

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