Warlords of Draenor Open Q&A: What We Learned

by JR Cook - 12 years ago     show comments

The Open Q&A panel is always a little bit of a mixed back in what you’re going to get. Sometimes you get lots of interesting stuff, other times not so much. There wasn’t a whole deal of reveals other than Grommash Hellscream being announced as the final boss of Warlords of Draenor.

Open Q&A

• Garrisons feature on table is a possibility but not being worked on
• Co-op gameplay plans for Garrisons
• Full 40-man raid can go to one person’s Garrison
• Dark Iron Dwarves will have a role in Warlords of Draenor
• Final boss of Warlords is Grommash Hellscream
• No plans to update content like Twilight Highlands where Garrosh is leading Horde forces, Blizzard wants people to be able to play through the timeline
• Pet Battles as a base is fine, collection aspect will be expanded in Warlords such as more pets and trainers
• Pet Stable in Garrison will have unique trainers, possibly epic pet battles, still working it out
• More customisation possible in the future
• Wrathion will probably just be a cameo this expansion
• Smart heals probably out of hand, might become less-smart so players are still making intelligent decisions
• Understand with difficulties for 10man guilds, they believe long term will be better for high end raiding design
• No plans to change hunter AoE, specifically volley
• Forged gear not planned for removal
• Legendary questline will re-appear, but also probably more traditional legendaries
• Still thinking about how to make alts work with garrisons
• Some Titan lore in Warlords but not much
• Itemization simplification “Mr Robot should not have to approve your items”
• Will be some changes to racials that had hit and expertise bonuses since they won’t have any effect any more
• Expect 4-5 healers in Mythic raids
• Mythic raids will attempt to utilize things like Enslave Demon because they can assume you have all classes.
• Dynamic events in old world would be great idea but very resource intensive and focus is on Warlords
• Bonus rolls will continue in Warlords but not sure yet how to acquire them
• Rolling in LFR doesn’t hurt chances for bonus roll in Heroic
• No plans to ever do vanilla/early expansion servers
• Not locked in on how exactly tertiary and secondary stats will work for separate roles
• Min maxers will probably want a second set with the specific stats they are chasing
• People currently working on bringing old Warcraft games to be able to play again
• Draenor will be accessed through Dark Portal, not sure how to get to Outland but there will be a way
• Mythic raid lockouts will not be loot based
• Sensitive to separate lockouts possibly meaning people feel the need to run same content over and over
• Bringing back Eyes of the Beast is on the radar, but would be a big thing
• Mythic content is going to be worth the growing pains for 10 man guilds that want to raid top level