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xerox
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posted October 20, 2011 11:32 PM |
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Edited by xerox at 23:43, 20 Oct 2011.
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BlizzCon 2011
It's time for BlizzCon 2011 to kick off!
Thrall / Go'el, Diablo, Sarah Kerrigan and... who's in the background with the green eyes? Could it be a Pandaren Emperor?
BlizzCon is Blizzard's very own huge convention where they make their announcments et cetera. My biggest dream is to go to BlizzCon in about two years, since a WoW expansion is announched every two years.
I will likely be reporting live from all the panels!
These are what is expected to be the main features of BlizzCon 2011.
- WoW X4 announched. Blizzard trademarked a gaming title called "Mists of Pandaria" a few months ago and it is 99% likely that it is the next WoW expansion. WoW fans should expect to see TONS of new content!
- More details of Starcraft 2s first expansion back "Heart of the Swarm". Multiplayer units will be revealed and playable. It's likely that they will unveil some kind of trailer, could be CGI.
More details on Blizzard DotA (official Starcraft 2 mod)
- Diablo III CGI cinematic is going to be revealed and likly, the release date of the game.
- Do not expect any major details on TITAN (Blizzard's unnanounched next generation MMO) or the Warcraft movie.
Announcments
I will update this section live with the most recent information from the opening ceremony and the panels.
Opening ceremony
Mists of Pandaria
Heart of the Swarm
Diablo III
Xerox's prediction for Mists of Pandaria.
We'll see how right or how wrong I am tomorrow. 
There has been ZERO leaks about the expansion this time!
- Pandaren will be WoWs first neutral race, there are two different Tribes who oppose each other.
- A major feaure will be updated race models.
- There won't be a new profession or class.
- There will be a new neutral Pandaren capital city.
- The final Titan facility on Azeroth is on Pandaria and will reveal some stuff about Loas/Demigods, Elune, Old Gods etc.
- N'zoth won't really be a major villian in this expansion.
- - A Pandaren Emperor will be the Cho'gall of this expansion, and Queen Azshara the final villian together with the Naga. The Mists will have a pretty large role, and there will be some kind of mystery attacked to them.
The main plots will be Azshara invading Pandaria in search of a Titan artifact to free the old god N'zoth, the Horde and Alliance trying to conquer it as a new land following the damage caused by the Cataclysm. The Kul Tiran navy led by Jaina Proudmoore will be the main Alliance force.
- There will be more end-game content than in Cata, and that is the focus of this expansion. There will be some kind of end-game progression similar to Path of the Titans.
- Pandaria will be located in the South Seas.
- Azshara used Neptulon's trident to access Pandaria and invade it with her forces.
- Kul Tiras and Kezan will appear as zones in the expansion.
- Jaina's novel Tides of War will tie into this expansion and be "The Shattering" of it.
- The Kvaldir will return to fight the Naga and some of them will be friendly to us.
- The Zandalar trolls will also have a role and Zuldazar will be the final Troll dungeon in WoW.
- There will be a new BG featuring some kind of naval combat that isn't based around sitting in vehicles.
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Over himself, over his own
body and
mind, the individual is
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- John Stuart Mill
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bluecamel
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posted October 21, 2011 09:47 AM |
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- WoW X4 announched. Blizzard trademarked a gaming title called "Mists of Pandaria" a few months ago and it is 99% likely that it is the next WoW expansion. WoW fans should expect to see TONS of new content!
It's so funny because when the Mists of Pandaria thing first leaked months ago, they tried to make us think that MoP wouldn't actually be the expansion name or content, and most of the people on forums believed it.
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We'll see how right or how wrong I am tomorrow.
There has been ZERO leaks about the expansion this time!
- Pandaren will be WoWs first neutral race, there are two different Tribes who oppose each other.
- A major feaure will be updated race models.
- There won't be a new profession or class.
You're saying pandaren will be first neutral playable race? I don't see how BGs would work, the lore/RP junkies will throw a fit if they try to mix alliances in BGs, don't think that would ever happen. But maybe there is a workaround they have planned.
Also, I really hope along w/ no new profession or class, there is no new spells, or if there are they fuse together old ones. They're getting dangerously close to having too many skills/abilities. In real-time PvP games I've always thought there is a tipping point where they have created too many variables. If I'm playing a 3v3 match and each player has 15 cooldowns and 40 spells, that's just too much to keep track of in real time.
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- There will be more end-game content than in Cata, and that is the focus of this expansion. There will be some kind of end-game progression similar to Path of the Titans.
That's kind of a given since they aren't going to re-do the leveling areas again, so more of the time will be spent on end-game stuff. I really hope more of that "end-game stuff" is PvP-oriented. WoW actually has the chance to be an incredible PvP game, but falls short because blizz's philosophy w/ WoW is "PvE first".. they don't make class adjustments fast enough, and when they do it's often "wtf" for PvP because they care more if the change works for PvE.
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- There will be a new BG featuring some kind of naval combat that isn't based around sitting in vehicles.
yes - please no more vehicles in BGs, and no more PvE BGs. It's an oxymoron
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xerox
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posted October 21, 2011 07:39 PM |
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Edited by xerox at 19:57, 21 Oct 2011.
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It's starting now, Blizzard will be live streaming the Opening Ceremony for free with the major reveals: http://eu.battle.net/blizzcon/en/live-stream/
Anyway:
What I mean with a neutral race is that there might be two different Pandaren tribes, and than at level 10 or 15 you have a questline in the starting zone where you choose if you want to go Alliance or Horde.
Naga as a playable race is a also very possible imo, some kind of mutated/redeemed bipedal Naga.
Free stream, though these may be closed down by Blizzard so you have to actively search for them: http://da.twitch.tv/dead_gaming
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Over himself, over his own
body and
mind, the individual is
sovereign.
- John Stuart Mill
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Shyranis
Promising
Supreme Hero
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posted October 28, 2011 02:10 PM |
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Oh. Diablo is a woman this time round? Weird.
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xerox
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
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posted October 28, 2011 02:27 PM |
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It is speculated that one of the protagonists might turn into Diablo at the end of the game.
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Over himself, over his own
body and
mind, the individual is
sovereign.
- John Stuart Mill
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OhforfSake
Promising
Legendary Hero
Initiate
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posted October 28, 2011 03:03 PM |
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If diablo is a woman I wonder if it's the amazon, the assassin or the sorcerers from diablo 2.
Diablo was, if I remember correct, always the spell casting type of character, even when it was the warrior from diablo 1 who were diablo, his main offense were in the form of spells. Maybe it means some very nice area of effect spells will be yielded by diablo this time around?
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