Blizzcon 2013 - New stuff
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Blizzard's 9th Birthday this month
WoW Movie - Panel on this later

New Expansion: Warlords of Draenor

- Alliance will be taking a valorous stand in this expansion
- Horde will learn from the past (can't talk about this without spoiling the end of SoO!)
- Be prepared to fight "The Iron Horde"

New world: Draenor
- 7 New Continents (Outlands before it was changed)
- Tanaan Jungle (Hellfire Penninsula)
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Frostfire Ridge (Blade's Edge)
- Nagrand
- Spries of Arak (Terrokar/Shadowmoon)
- Talrador (Terrokar Forest)
- Gorgrond (Blade's Edge/Netherstorm)
- New NPC Race: The Sabron (tiger people)
- Frostfire Ridge - New Horde city
- Karabor - New Alliance city (where Black Temple was...is?)

Different Chieftains lead every Orc Clan
- Chieftain Durotan, the Frostwolf Clan (Frostfire Ridge)
- Chieftain Ner'zhul, the Shadow Moon Clan (Shadowmoon Valley)
- Chieftain Kargath Bladefist, Shattered Hand Clan (Peaks)
- Chieftain Kilrogg Deadeye, Bleeding Hollow Clan (Tanaan Jungle)
- Chieftain Blackhand, Blackrock Clan (Gorgrond)
- Chieftan Grommash Hellscream, Warsong Clan (Nagrand)

Garrisons
- Build your own base on Draenor (PLAYER HOUSING!!)
- A piece of land to call your own
- Unique benefits for you and your followers
- Access to professions you don't have (ex. build a mine in your base to get mining nodes even if you don't have mining)
- As the Garrison grows, players will be able to recruit NPC allies and followers to take up residence, gathering resources and embarking on missions on the player’s orders.
- Run Missions
- Offline Progression (send your followers off to a dungeon and see what they get in a couple hours when you come back online)
- Get epic gear
- Garrison grows over three tiers - You get more plots and bonuses. Build an armory, stable, mage tower etc. Each one gives you unique benefits.
- You get to choose your location
- Interact with your followers and locations (name your followers too)
- Show off your achievements by building monuments for them and trophies (mount the monster's head on your wall!)
- Infirmaries - Decrease the recovery time for you and your followers and can get a follower on the field to rez you if needed
- Inn - Opportunity to get new followers. Has a Kitchen with a Cooking profession trainer. Hone in on what follower you want (tank, DPS or healer)
- Pick where your buildings go
- Followers are recruited in many different ways
- Send them on missions
- Mix and match followers so you can get them through a mission
- They level up
- Equip them with gear to increase their ILevel, even after they hit 100
- Quality/Rarity (much like pets)
- Customize with names
- Bring your friends in with you!

Character Model Upgrades (finally)
- Keeping the soul of the original
- Higher visual fidelity
- Better animation
Male Dwarf: Old vs. New
Male Orc: Old vs. New
Male Gnome: Old vs. new
Male Orc Running: Old vs. New
Male Dwarf Walking: Old vs. New
Male Gnome Dance: Old vs. New
Male Dwarf & Gnome
Female Gnome
Male Orc, Dwarf, Gnome shots
Current Male Undead
New Male Undead
New Male Undead Faces
Male Gnome, polygon comparison
Male Gnome face comparisons
Old Male Dwarf Skin model
New Male Dwarf Skin model
More New Male Dwarf
New Female Dwarf
More New Male Orc
New Female Gnome face
New Female Gnome comparisons
Current Male Tauren Model
New Male Tauren Model
Male Dwarf holding Axe: Old vs. New
Male Dwarf Looking: Old vs. New
Male Dwarf Clapping: Old vs. New
Male Dwarf Flex: Old vs. New
Male Orc Standing: Old vs. New
Male Orc Questioning: Old vs. New
Male Orc Casting: Old vs. New
Male Gnome Standing: Old vs. New
Male Gnome Laughing: Old vs. New
Male Gnome Casting: Old vs. New
Female Gnome Standing: Old vs. New
Female Gnome Kneel/Yell: Old vs. New
Female Gnome Talking: Old vs. New
Feisty Female Gnome: Old vs. New

Level Cap raised to 100
- New talents - early designs
- Split tooltips to be spec specific

Instant level raise to 90
- Boost one character to 90 just by buying xpac (even a new level 1 alt)
- Game will clean up your bags, action bar and quests if you upgrade a character you are currently leveling.

Inventory Update
- Collections are account-wide
- Collections for Heirlooms, toys and possibly tabards that will have their own windows in the UI.
- Yes, all your archeology finds will no longer take up bag space!
- You can assign bags to certain inventory (i.e. "Consumables")
- New items added to your bag are indicated by white icons
- Items with Gold symbols = vendor trash
- No more quest items in bags, stored on quest UI
- Craft directly from your bank
- Increased stack sizes to 100

Adventure Guide
- Path to gear upgrades
- Customized for your character individually (ex. if you're an engineer, the guide may tell you to craft something only and engineer can make to help you out)

Dungeons and Raids
- 7 new dungeons at release
- 4 while you level, 3 at max level
- Classic Heroic UBRS
- Normal, Heroic and Challenge levels
- New Dungeons: Bloodmaul Slag Mines, Blackrock Foundry, Auchindoun, Arakkoa Spires, Shadowmoon Burial Grounds, Iron Barracks and More!
- New raids: Highmaul, Blackrock Foundry (16 bosses)
- New world bosses
- Boss scaling in LFR
- Raids will have "Mythic" raiding which is only for the hard-core

PVP changes

New: World PvP zone
- Ashran, staging area outside the Dark Portal
- Faction bases and hotspots
- PvP Sandbox (this fight goes on all the time)
- Uses Cross Realm Technology to balance factions
- Build and commandeer siege vehicles

- UI improvements
- Objective Tracker
- Capture Status
- Battleground Score (determined by objectives, damage/healing, kills, deaths)
- Bonus Random Rewards when you win (items, honor, BoE gear and more)
- Weekly quest to upgrade an item

- Battleground Rewards

- Trial of the Gladiator
- Arena ladder
- Limited availability for queues
- Tournament rules (get gear immediatly and jump into Arena - no PvE gear accepted)
- Determines prestige awards

- Rumor about something called "The Dark Below".

New Game: Heroes of the Storm

- DotA style game
- Play many different Blizzard heroes against each other (Thrall vs. Diablo vs. Kerrigan)
- Quest lines to help you level
- Beta Sign-up live 11/8

Hearthstone

- iPad version is in testing. Also being released is for the iPhone and Android. Due out some time in the second-half of next year.
- "Elite Tauren Chieftan" is the special card for Blizzcon 2013 goers
- Hero cards in development

Diablo III - Reaper of Souls

- Playable on PS4
- No more Auction House
- Better loot drops for end-game
- More "replay-ability"

Titan

- The supposed rumor-game that has been going around. Mike Morhaim (CEO) explained this has been put on the back burner for now.
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Phew! That was a lot of stuff for me to get down!

I'll have some screens of the new models they showed (Orc, Gnome and Dwarf) soon and some of the Garrison interfaces
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Garrison....finally I can have my Shantown!
Shantow the Bear
The Ironsong Tribe


"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." King
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Added all the new model pics they currently have available. I hope the Tauren one gets a bit more refined. Looks more like a dog to me.
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And they're juggling the raid-size mechanics!

* Normal will now scale (!!)
* Heroic will now scale (!!)
* "Flex" is going away
* "Mythic" is the new hardest level for 20-man raids.

Woo hoo! We can get into scalable-normal and scalable-heroic raids!

So excited!

-Zlinka
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I think the new Undead models are amazing!
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(11-08-2013, 02:38 PM)Krell Wrote: Garrison....finally I can have my Shantown!

Well don't get your shanties in a wad.

Admit it, you miss me.
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