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[Preview] World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor First Impressions
BillMurphy
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Garrett Fuller is on hand at BlizzCon this year, and brings back this first hand report from the show's recent panel explaining the lore and background of Warlords of Draenor.
Overall, Warlords of Draenor brings Warcraft right back to where fans want it, or at least, where this fan wants it. In a harsh brutal world with epic heroes fighting for survival, Draenor will bring a lot of players back. There's a lot more to explore in the expansion, including new skills, new character models, a new PVP zone and tons more. The stage is set and fans will be brought to the origins of the IP itself. If Mists of Pandaria was not your style, this new expansion will be everything you want in World of Warcraft. We got our hands on with the game too, and will bring that to you later on.
Read the rest of Garrett's WoW: Warlords of Draenor First Impressions.
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Yea, a bit dissapointed in there being no new race or class. Honestly would have rather seen a new heroic class than the lvl 90 boost. Still looks like some solid additions to the game.
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Yeah, I'm not pleased about that either.
Overall, Warlords of Draenor brings Warcraft right back to where fans want it, or at least, wherethis fan wants it. In a harsh brutal world with epic heroes fighting for survival, Draenor will bring a lot of players back. There's a lot more to explore in the expansion, including new skills, new character models, a new PVP zone and tons more. The stage is set and fans will be brought to the origins of the IP itself. If Mists of Pandaria was not your style, this new expansion will be everything you want in World of Warcraft. We got our hands on with the game too, and will bring that to you later on.
Let me go about disagreeing. Dont' get me wrong, as an old Warcraft 3 player its nice to see stuff referenced about its roots, but that is NOT what has drove most people away, its the over dumbing down of things and trivializing of content. Giving throw backs to where the series began does NOT make it great and something that will drive players back. People want VANILLA WOW or TBC WOW, not Warcraft RTS references and nudging. The mechanics are what drove people away more then the settings have (granted panda land wasn't exactly big on most peoples books, I personally don't mind it fully minus the fact that was the sole focus last expansion).
So no, this expansion will not be EVERYTHING I WANT, nor do I think it will be everything anyone else really wanted who left the game in the first place. If anything, what is known for the expansion is actually quite lack luster and not very impressive of an addition that can really be called 'attractive'. Not saying its all bad (garisons look like they MIGHT be cool though not housing many are wanting) and we don't know all the details, but as of now theres extremely little promise revealed about the expansion to drive most people back to wanting to play.
If Blizz offered a vanilla WoW server or Burning Crusade server I would resubscribe in a heart beat.
I was even considering giving it a go once this new expansion came out... but after reading about how they're making the game easier and dumbing it down even more! Hell no!
Blizzard will never have me back as a paying customer at this rate.
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I feel the same way.
I'd bet 95% of the WoW players now wouldnt even know why hunters have the spell "Beast Lore", and why it was pretty damned important even pre-BC, especially pre-BC.
"I understand that if I hear any more words come pouring out of your **** mouth, Ill have to eat every fucking chicken in this room."
Its obvious they dont really want to invest much.
They probably know they dont stand to get much returning customers anymore. No mater what they do.
Is this seriously all Blizzard can come up with?? No surprise they losing sub by the millions...this addon will surely continue the downwards trend.
"Remaking the world" is nothing but putting a nice wrapping around what actually is re-hashing some 6+ yrs old zones. Except for two zones it looks just the very same as before. New character models still look bad and outdated and they are trying to baffle the viewer by giving the before/after characters way different armor.
What i've seen so far rather has DLC quality and quantity, nothing worthy of an expansion pack.
Only good thing about this is that the game will keep on dying with it.
This isn't a signature, you just think it is.
I could definitely tell. I think you're just jumping on the hate bandwagon because I don't even like WoW anymore but was impressed how much better the graphics looked in these videos compared to older WoW zones.
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Well, thats....underwhelming.
But as long as millions of people are drawing their purses to this, Blizzard will not have to come with anything new.
Hodor!
Looked like all they did was move some trees around. Idk, I've been gone awhile.
To be honest. Those changes drove away players like you and me for sure.
But they got a lot of casual new gamers through this dumbing down. So Blizzard did everything right in financial terms. Its us players that have to look for another game.
Hodor!
Same here. Puts in in perspective for me too. In the time since wotlk came out the other mmo I played continuously for longer than a year, war, has come and gone.
didn't you get Pandas lately?
I like that the focus is not on one big baddies and is instead focused around 6 or 7, ofc. there is going to be a big bad guy pulling the strings in the background but I can see a natural progression through the content taking down each of the clans who joined the iron horde.
I am also not sure but they said that Alliance and horde need to capture their capital cities in the new content so is that a server wide event? like the old AQ gate opening or Isle of kalthalos (or what ever it was called in BC).
Also did they say flying mounts who be enabled in this content? I hope not, worst thing to happen to WoW IMHO.