Re: Warlords of Draenor - General Discussion

by **Tantzui** Sat May 03, 2014 12:42 pm

New cloth leveling armor is pretty nice imo.

Zouyo wrote:Not an actual Blizzard thing, this is fan-made, but damn is it a good idea if I ever saw it

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I wanna see that in the game!

by **erwtenpeller** Sat May 03, 2014 3:36 pm

I was hoping to see some more draenei-inspired gear as well. This all looks very... Orcish.

But they do certainly look cool!

by **Rmuffn** Sat May 03, 2014 4:48 pm

The raiding gear looks like weird spaceman shit. So it's good the orc stuff gets some love too

by **Helmut** Sat May 03, 2014 6:46 pm

Tantzui wrote:New cloth leveling armor is pretty nice imo.
Zouyo wrote:Not an actual Blizzard thing, this is fan-made, but damn is it a good idea if I ever saw it

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I wanna see that in the game!

I think that this would be a -terrible- idea. Clicked the link before I read it was fanmade. I got pretty upset.

by **Izzifix** Sat May 03, 2014 7:47 pm

Mount shadowmeld would be pretty fun, but a lot of thestuff isn't very well thought through.

by **siegmund** Sun May 04, 2014 7:41 am

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Will it be a thing or not we shall see I guess.

by **Rmuffn** Sun May 04, 2014 1:07 pm

So the elf miracle medicine-magic-ritual was a fraud?

by **Zouyo** Sun May 04, 2014 1:19 pm

I think it was a temporary solution perhaps... or it could be that Genn never did the Night Elf ritual. Won't know until more details appear I think.

by **Izzifix** Sun May 04, 2014 1:30 pm

Alliance just needed more savage. WoD is coming, and we need to let go of sanity. Time to embrace our inner spiky brutes.

by **Allonia_Miral** Sun May 04, 2014 1:36 pm

I guess it just didn't work as well as they thought! Or the curse is stronger than anticipated.

Also will see if this is something that affects all worgen or just some?

by **Lexgrad** Mon May 05, 2014 10:57 am

The armour sets are v orc. One cant help but wonder if the Draenei story is going to be quite Green.

Oh and tbh Graymane can die and it will make little impact on anything important. Tho I cant help but be annoyed that the furries get lore when DKs dont and a damned lich king is there!

by **Zouyo** Mon May 05, 2014 12:43 pm

He's NOT the Lich King in this version of events Lexgrad. Ner'zhul here has no clue at all about the undead stuff. Gorefiend is still alive and orc in this version of Draenor.

Speaking about the armour sets, who wants to take bets on what the other classes are gonna look like, given that the Pally set is Justicar 2.0. Could we be seeing 2.0 versions of the other Tier 4 sets? And for DK's since we don't have a T4 set, probably something that looks along the line of how Gorefiend looked in Black Temple?

by **Lexgrad** Mon May 05, 2014 12:45 pm

Who cares the ifs and buts.

by **erwtenpeller** Tue May 06, 2014 10:26 am

With the release of Patch 6.0, the drop rate of the Heirloom weapons from Garrosh Hellscream on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic difficulties will be significantly increased.
Players who have yet to get any Heirlooms will have a 100% (guaranteed) chance of getting a spec-appropriate Heirloom when defeating Garrosh on Normal difficulty or higher.

So ehm... We gonna get a Normal group together for 6.0 to farm some looms? Razz

by **Zouyo** Tue May 06, 2014 11:12 am

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by **Zouyo** Tue May 06, 2014 1:35 pm

Garrisons
Having a garrison is mandatory, but what you do with it is up to you. It will work well with the story that you experience while leveling, but if you level with dungeons you can catch up on your garrison later.

Garrisons will offer a some normal raid quality any maybe a few heroic raid quality items towards the end of the raid tier.

Mythic raiders will be fine if they don't do anything with their garrison.

There will be some account level restrictions that ensure that you don't have to do everything with your garrison on every alt.

Blizzplanet

Orcs will come through the Dark Portal and take over Blackrock Mountain in the Warlords of Draenor world event.

The alliance will work with Velen, Akama, and Maraad in Shadowmoon Valley.

Assaults on your garrison will happen repeatedly, and get harder as time goes on. You will keep upgrading the item level of your followers.

You will have to make many choices about the buildings in your garrison as you level through the zones.

After boosting to 90, all of the things in your bags will be mailed to you. The mail has an unlimited duration, so you can sort through those things whenever you want.

Soo.... *scratches head a little at the Garrison part with the alts* We having a garrison for each character, or a shared garrison or what?

by **erwtenpeller** Tue May 06, 2014 1:36 pm

I hope they change their minds and make it account wide. That would be nice.

by **The Z** Tue May 06, 2014 5:31 pm

Ah...if anything, Blizzard can still try and lure me over with new zones. Maybe I should roll over to PvE realm when/if I return, so I could just explore all those new places in relative peace...

by **Zinkle Figgins** Thu May 08, 2014 1:06 pm

Personally I expected thicker woods and way more spires, but it looks very good nonetheless

by **Skarain** Thu May 08, 2014 2:42 pm

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Once Matt and Kelli finalized their demo zone and we agreed that everything was heading in the right direction, the real work could begin. Now the whole zone could be completed using the style and techniques that worked in the small demo zone. They’d still have to work out the look for some of the smaller subzones, though, like dense forests, beaches, and a massive thorny bramble where the Shattered Hand orcs dwell.

I'd guess that the earlier was just a demo, and the real one is much, much more dense forest and much more spires, but we'll see.

Something like Thousand Needles would indeed be nice.

"We must construct additional py- spires"

by **Zouyo** Sat May 10, 2014 10:17 am

Garrisons
Garrisons not account wide currently. Could "found" FOLLOWERS at least be account wide? (with exclusions, like achieves)
Sometimes you have to choose one or another, and they have different abilities, feels meaningful per-character atm. (Muffinus)

Can we have a few alliance vs horde skirmishes with npcs.
Would love to do this, we'll see if we have time, maybe later in the expac as a new pvp thing ??? (Muffinus)
It's the very core of Ashran's kit (holinka)
Holinka would build his garrison in Ashran if he could. It would be perpetually on fire. (Muffinus)

So garrisons stuck in Shadowmoon for alliance? That kind of sucks considering perpetual blue-darkness.. Especially for RP..
Aware of this concern, investigating skyboxes. We want it to be a place you feel great about, very conscious of the look. (Muffinus)
I love it, but could garrisons have a special item/quest/vendor/reward to change the sky? Is that a lot of work?
That's a fun idea! We did weather-changing stones on Timeless Isle, could be something similar. (Muffinus)
I think it could be neat to tie "cosmetic" ideas to certain buildings or followers. RP reasons if nothing else.
I, too, dream of a world where I can adorn each of my followers with a different fancy hat. (Muffinus)

Will you be able to invite other players to your Garrison still, or is that idea tossed?
You definitely will be able to. (WatcherDev)

With garrisons integrated to leveling, will i be forced to quest to unlock it? Or can i LFG level and get it eventually?
You'll get your garrison almost immediately upon arriving in Draenor. You can still develop it even if you LFG to 100. (WatcherDev)
well that sucks...will questing to 100 make it develop faster?
Tons of benefits unlocked via level-up questing, but alternate ways to get them at max level. (WatcherDev)

And with that thing about the skies in mind...

by **Anivitas** Sat May 10, 2014 10:53 am

Pretty.

by **Zouyo** Tue May 13, 2014 10:07 am

A thought occurs to me, now that War Crimes is out, and by now a few of us will have read it, I presume.

We all know what's gonna happen since its the prelude book to Warlords of Draenor... so, my question is this. When do we react to the events within it? When Beta is launched? Sooner? Later?

by **erwtenpeller** Tue May 13, 2014 10:11 am

Well, does anything shocking happen in it that the people must know? That will effect our day-to-day role-playing routines?

by **Skarain** Tue May 13, 2014 11:07 am

erwtenpeller wrote:Well, does anything shocking happen in it that the people must know? That will effect our day-to-day role-playing routines?

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Tell us in spoilers. I personally do not mind being spoiled, but respect meanwhile those who yet intend to read the book.

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