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Qhue

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So they kick the Night Elves and Draenei off of Kalimdor and kick the Undead and Blood Elves off the Eastern Kingdoms? That would necessitate some more Cataclysm-like reworking of the main world which seems quasi pointless.
 

Palum

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So they kick the Night Elves and Draenei off of Kalimdor and kick the Undead and Blood Elves off the Eastern Kingdoms? That would necessitate some more Cataclysm-like reworking of the main world which seems quasi pointless.

Well says it is set up, not that it happens immediately? IDK
 

Juvarisx

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Battle for Lordaeron
  • Horde burns down Teldrassil
  • Alliance attacks Lordaeron
  • All out war sets up for Horde controlled Kalimdor and Alliance controlled Eastern Kingdom
  • No external threat, so war against each other becomes focus
Sounds like they are going to have to redo a lot of the old world zones again too
 

Juvarisx

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6 allied races at launch with more planned.

  • Void elves, Lightforged Draenei, Dark Iron Dwarves for Alliance
  • Nightborne, Highmountain Tauren, Zandalari Trolls for Horde
Void Elves are the Alleria Windrunner type elves.

Allied races have new racials

Sounds like you just need to do the quest to unlock them then can race change, leveling them is just to get a heritage transmog
 

Needless

Toe Sucker
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They said it was 3 for each faction, i forget which was which though. I'm sure it'll be on mmo-champion real fast lol

edit: see above
 

Palum

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They said it was 3 for each faction, i forget which was which though. I'm sure it'll be on mmo-champion real fast lol

Fuck alliance getting screwed again. Slightly yellow draenei and slightly purpler elves.
 
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Juvarisx

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Leveling Improvements
  • Expanding zone scaling to all zones
  • Zones have level ranges with caps
  • Flexible expansion order
    • Burning Crusade is 60 - 80
    • Northrend scales from 60 - 80
    • Applies to dungeons as well
    • Beginning in 7.3.5!
Welp that makes leveling really fucking nice
 
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Wombat

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No external threat, so war against each other becomes focus
Sounds like they are going to have to redo a lot of the old world zones again too

Wait, are they really going to redo the vanilla leveling again? Have Horde not step off Kalimdor and Alliance not step off Eastern Kingdoms? It was borderline a waste of time in Cataclysm, but now those zones are newer than multiple other expansions*.

Is that seriously their schtick? "Experience the adventure from the beginning as a new (sub)race!"

*I _might_ consider it acceptable for new players (not that I know there are any), if those new zones autoscale from 1-110 and you don't have to enter an old continent unless you want to.
 

Palum

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Leveling Improvements
  • Expanding zone scaling to all zones
  • Zones have level ranges with caps
  • Flexible expansion order
Welp that makes leveling really fucking nice

Fuck finally I can level WoD > Cata > and finish up in Dun Morogh!
 
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norp

Bronze Squire
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I have no idea why but I actually enjoy leveling, so I guess I'm happy about those changes.

Still not sure if the expansion is particular interesting overall but could be neat.
 

Juvarisx

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I'm going to miss my Doomhammer =/

Heart of Azeroth
  • Heart of Azeroth: Artifact Quality Medallion, A gift from Azeroth herself to the world's protectors
  • Artifact weapons are getting a proper send off
  • No huge trait tree, serves as a power source
  • Azerite levels up the amulet, empowering armor
  • Access tiers in a hierarchy of abilities on expanding rings
 

Juvarisx

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Island Expeditions
  • Explore uncharted isle across the Great Sea
  • Horde and Alliance skirmishing over resources
  • 3-player cooperative gameplay, role agnostic
  • Complete varied and dynamic objectives