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I am Randy Jordan. 28:28.660 --> 28:32.740 You know me as Kyvax from the Warcraft community team. 28:32.740 --> 28:35.060 And I'm joined by WoW Developers. 28:35.060 --> 28:39.940 We're going to answer your questions that you asked us following BlizzCon. 28:39.940 --> 28:47.580 I'm joined by Paul Cubit, Maria Hamilton, and Jake Miller, who I saw carrying around 28:47.580 --> 28:48.940 a sword at BlizzCon. 28:48.940 --> 28:49.940 Jake, where's the sword? 28:49.940 --> 28:51.940 Oh, it's off getting room forged. 28:51.940 --> 28:52.940 It's getting room forged. 28:52.940 --> 28:53.940 Okay. 28:53.940 --> 28:54.940 All right. 28:54.940 --> 28:58.840 Coming out of all of our amazing announcements at BlizzCon, we had so many questions from 28:58.840 --> 29:01.980 players all around the world, thousands of questions. 29:01.980 --> 29:07.220 We've gotten the most prominent ones together, and I'm going to ask you all an example of 29:07.220 --> 29:08.220 each. 29:08.220 --> 29:10.860 So every one of these questions was asked by hundreds of people. 29:10.860 --> 29:13.940 I'm going to ask you an example that caught my eye. 29:13.940 --> 29:16.080 And so I want to start with Maria. 29:16.080 --> 29:21.900 We saw a question in Germany from a player named Navarre, who asked, will we ever see 29:21.900 --> 29:27.340 return to faction-specific narratives and stories? 29:27.340 --> 29:29.220 I mean the short answer is yes. 29:29.220 --> 29:35.060 Okay good, short answer, give us a long answer. 29:35.060 --> 29:42.020 So with the story we've been telling so far, with the World Soul saga, we've needed to 29:42.020 --> 29:49.260 come together and unify and our concerns have been largely, we need to deal with this overwhelming 29:49.260 --> 29:50.260 problem. 29:50.260 --> 29:51.260 Yes. 29:51.260 --> 30:00.260 sort of grudging unity. For example, Silverman City, you know, we're having a horrible problem. 30:00.260 --> 30:03.260 Please come help us with this horrible problem, but also you can't go to that part of the 30:03.260 --> 30:06.260 city because we're going to kill you if you do. 30:06.260 --> 30:08.260 And that doesn't always feel good. 30:08.260 --> 30:13.260 No, no. You're definitely getting a different experience. You're playing an alliance character. 30:13.260 --> 30:20.260 You've got NPCs coming up and telling you they don't like you. And even after you successfully 30:20.260 --> 30:27.460 help them, then they say, well, grudgingly thanks, but also I still don't like you. 30:27.460 --> 30:30.100 So we want to make sure we maintain that conflict. 30:30.100 --> 30:34.860 We want to make sure we maintain that idea that we're not in agreement. 30:34.860 --> 30:38.380 We aren't all after the same thing, but we'd like to survive. 30:38.380 --> 30:41.020 So we'll work together very grudgingly there. 30:41.020 --> 30:46.700 And back in the war within, we did have an area where we had an opportunity to tell a 30:46.700 --> 30:50.460 a slightly different story, which was in the Arathi Highlands 30:50.460 --> 30:53.020 when we went and encountered the Red Dawn. 30:53.020 --> 30:55.220 And so there, we intentionally broke you out 30:55.220 --> 30:57.300 so you could sort of see what was going on 30:57.300 --> 30:58.980 from the Horde perspective and what 30:58.980 --> 31:02.020 was going on from the Alliance perspective. 31:02.020 --> 31:05.100 And there, we were able to find out, oh, the problem actually 31:05.100 --> 31:07.460 are these crazy fanatics. 31:07.460 --> 31:09.180 Let's deal with them. 31:09.180 --> 31:11.060 But again, it's a grudging unity. 31:11.060 --> 31:13.980 And that's going to change over time. 31:13.980 --> 31:20.380 it's not going to be always happy, friendly, you know, we need to unify, we expect to have 31:20.380 --> 31:26.420 more conflict in the future and more opportunity for those unique points of view. 31:26.420 --> 31:34.380 Speaking of change over time, I'm curious, how has narrative design in WoW evolved and 31:34.380 --> 31:38.300 changed over the first half of the World Soul saga? 31:38.300 --> 31:44.260 Yeah, it's hard to remember that we're about halfway through. 31:44.260 --> 31:48.500 So when we started, the very first thing we did was sit down 31:48.500 --> 31:49.900 and figure out the broad strokes. 31:49.900 --> 31:50.980 What are the big beats? 31:50.980 --> 31:53.500 How does the story begin? 31:53.500 --> 31:55.020 What happens? 31:55.020 --> 31:55.940 The big pieces. 31:55.940 --> 31:58.380 And then how is it going to conclude? 31:58.380 --> 32:00.340 And we set that up. 32:00.340 --> 32:02.260 And then we started looking at all the smaller pieces 32:02.260 --> 32:07.660 and how we can start moving things, people, places. 32:07.660 --> 32:09.140 We can have certain events happen. 32:09.140 --> 32:12.460 We can let you know about and foreshadow certain things. 32:12.460 --> 32:14.140 And we started setting all those pieces up. 32:14.140 --> 32:20.380 And that's what we've been doing with some of our content 32:20.380 --> 32:22.940 that drops at various intervals. 32:22.940 --> 32:25.620 We've also done a lot of lore walking that's 32:25.620 --> 32:28.140 trying to introduce you to or remind you 32:28.140 --> 32:31.780 or if your new player teach you about people and places 32:31.780 --> 32:34.220 and things that will add to the story. 32:34.220 --> 32:37.340 So we've been setting all of that up. 32:37.340 --> 32:42.180 But most importantly, we've been able to listen to you. 32:42.180 --> 32:45.660 We've been able to listen to what players are responding to 32:45.660 --> 32:49.140 and learn, oh, this wasn't as clear as we wanted it to be. 32:49.140 --> 32:51.900 Oh, they've got a lot of questions about this. 32:51.900 --> 32:54.220 We should make sure we reinforce this. 32:54.220 --> 32:57.020 So with those smaller beats, we're able to do that. 32:57.020 --> 32:58.780 And that's very different from what we've 32:58.780 --> 32:59.940 been able to do in the past. 32:59.940 --> 33:01.900 I mean, a trilogy in and of itself 33:01.900 --> 33:03.980 gives us a different opportunity. 33:03.980 --> 33:08.460 So fundamentally, as we move through this now, 33:08.460 --> 33:11.420 we're getting all of our pieces in the right places. 33:11.420 --> 33:12.980 We're raising all these threats. 33:12.980 --> 33:16.620 We're making clear how serious things are becoming. 33:16.620 --> 33:19.740 And from here forward, we're just going to go, go, go. 33:19.740 --> 33:21.700 Now we're going to just keep moving. 33:21.700 --> 33:25.660 And there's going to be many things happening very quickly. 33:25.660 --> 33:29.100 So we started off kind of pacing with slower, 33:29.100 --> 33:31.060 and now it's going to get a lot quicker. 33:31.060 --> 33:31.700 Exactly. 33:31.700 --> 33:33.500 Good. 33:33.500 --> 33:40.100 Very next question, I want to turn to you, Paul, because so many players asked us about 33:40.100 --> 33:42.200 race class combos. 33:42.200 --> 33:46.540 At BlizzCon, we announced some really exciting things. 33:46.540 --> 33:51.540 I'm personally going to be an undead paladin in the very near future. 33:51.540 --> 33:56.020 The question that caught my eye was from a player named TinkerShell, who said, are we 33:56.020 --> 34:01.580 going to see more race class combos with the current races and classes? 34:01.580 --> 34:08.580 So short answer again, yes, for sure, yeah, I mean, so in 12-2 we saw a really cool opportunity 34:08.580 --> 34:12.900 to add more races to the Paladin roster, I mean, we've been thinking about this for 34:12.900 --> 34:16.860 some time, if you remember back to when we were announcing Midnight, we talked about 34:16.860 --> 34:21.580 the Boyd Elf Demon Hunter, introducing maybe some unfairness, well this is only an alliance 34:21.580 --> 34:26.020 race, how come Horde races didn't get a chance to be a Demon Hunter, we said wait, with time, 34:26.020 --> 34:28.940 and as the Midnight story evolves we're going to have some more opportunities coming for 34:28.940 --> 34:30.140 for Horde races as well. 34:30.140 --> 34:32.980 And Undead Paladin, Forsaken Paladin was specifically 34:32.980 --> 34:34.540 what we had in mind there, 34:34.540 --> 34:36.060 because we had some cool story for it. 34:36.060 --> 34:40.060 But we also, as the story grew into telling, 34:40.060 --> 34:41.780 found some really cool opportunities for story 34:41.780 --> 34:43.180 for Night Elf and Dark Spear. 34:43.180 --> 34:46.420 So these opportunities sort of manifest themselves 34:46.420 --> 34:48.100 as we build the game, 34:48.100 --> 34:50.780 as the team thinks about what we think is cool. 34:50.780 --> 34:52.180 There will be more stuff in the future as well. 34:52.180 --> 34:53.460 And this will all be just a function 34:53.460 --> 34:56.140 of where the story takes us, 34:56.140 --> 34:57.660 as well as sort of the output of the team, 34:57.660 --> 34:58.980 what we're able to accomplish. 34:58.980 --> 35:00.980 So yeah, there will be more. 35:00.980 --> 35:01.740 They came. 35:01.740 --> 35:02.260 Good. 35:02.260 --> 35:03.500 Excellent. 35:03.500 --> 35:07.580 Alongside all of those questions about race class, 35:07.580 --> 35:14.300 we're just questions about how we all look, how we're able to 35:14.300 --> 35:16.380 design our own characters to look. 35:16.380 --> 35:19.580 And so I picked this one question from a player named 35:19.580 --> 35:21.380 Omidon. 35:21.380 --> 35:22.380 It's not even a question. 35:22.380 --> 35:27.100 He said, please tell me there is hope for broader character 35:27.100 --> 35:28.660 customization options. 35:28.660 --> 35:33.060 And I'm telling you, hundreds of varieties of this question. 35:33.060 --> 35:34.740 Yes, so hi, Omidon. 35:34.740 --> 35:36.100 Hi, hundreds of other people. 35:36.100 --> 35:37.420 Yes, there's hope. 35:37.420 --> 35:40.140 Yeah, so this has been something which has been super 35:40.140 --> 35:42.340 important to us, is just being able to express yourself. 35:42.340 --> 35:45.020 And you've seen this in so many ways in the game. 35:45.020 --> 35:48.260 Housing is probably the most apparent and recent one where 35:48.260 --> 35:51.300 we want to make sure that players have choices from a 35:51.300 --> 35:52.620 whole bunch of different cultures, a whole bunch of 35:52.620 --> 35:54.820 different vibes to be able to express themselves 35:54.820 --> 35:56.660 specifically in their home the way they decorated. 35:56.660 --> 35:58.940 But it's not just that, it's also the amounts you choose. 35:58.940 --> 36:00.260 It's the pets that go alongside you. 36:00.260 --> 36:04.700 It's the transmog with changes of coming to transmog in 12.25, 36:04.700 --> 36:06.660 which I'm super excited for. 36:06.660 --> 36:10.980 You'll be able to transmog across different armor classes. 36:10.980 --> 36:13.940 And that is all done with the mindset of let's just 36:13.940 --> 36:16.580 give people more flexibility to be able to express themselves. 36:16.580 --> 36:18.680 Character customization, the way you do your hair, 36:18.680 --> 36:21.540 the way that you present your skin color, facial features, 36:21.540 --> 36:22.220 any of that stuff. 36:22.220 --> 36:24.980 Tattoos is absolutely in that space as well. 36:24.980 --> 36:28.580 So this is something that we're passionate about, providing more options. 36:28.580 --> 36:29.740 There will be one future for sure. 36:29.740 --> 36:32.540 This is always something that we're looking towards for, you know, 36:32.540 --> 36:35.300 and these will manifest themselves in ways you might expect. 36:35.300 --> 36:38.660 So cool new hairstyles, cool new hair colors and whatnot. 36:38.660 --> 36:41.380 And also maybe ways you didn't expect, maybe new options, 36:41.380 --> 36:44.660 new drop downs up here on races that didn't exist before. 36:44.660 --> 36:48.380 You mentioned trans mod restrictions being lifted in 1225. 36:48.380 --> 36:54.660 I just want to ask you, yes or no, what are we doing with class sets with those? 36:54.660 --> 36:58.600 So for clarity, the specific rule sets are cloth, leather, 36:58.600 --> 37:00.000 mail, and plate. 37:00.000 --> 37:01.960 Don't matter anymore when you are transmogging. 37:01.960 --> 37:03.520 You can transmog across those sets. 37:03.520 --> 37:05.560 As far as class specific sets, those will still 37:05.560 --> 37:07.280 be class specific. 37:07.280 --> 37:09.480 And also weapons is something that we've seen questions 37:09.480 --> 37:09.880 about. 37:09.880 --> 37:11.320 You won't be able to transmog to a weapon. 37:11.320 --> 37:12.280 You don't know how to wield. 37:12.280 --> 37:16.320 So no transmogging, swords into guns, and things like that. 37:16.320 --> 37:19.200 Unless you're capable of wielding a gun. 37:19.200 --> 37:19.440 Yes. 37:19.440 --> 37:21.360 So you need to know how to use a gun in order 37:21.360 --> 37:22.320 to transmog into a gun. 37:22.320 --> 37:23.480 It's a short answer there. 37:23.480 --> 37:27.240 And the reason behind this is 100% just trying to find the 37:27.240 --> 37:32.800 coolest way that we can provide flexibility to players. 37:32.800 --> 37:34.520 We've seen a lot of feedback from players that like, yes, 37:34.520 --> 37:35.080 this is awesome. 37:35.080 --> 37:36.600 This is exactly what we want. 37:36.600 --> 37:38.720 But then there's also people on either side that say, hey, 37:38.720 --> 37:39.600 this went a little too far. 37:39.600 --> 37:41.360 That makes me feel uncomfortable to be able to 37:41.360 --> 37:43.960 transmug from plate to cloth and cloth to plate. 37:43.960 --> 37:45.760 And also people who say, we didn't go far enough. 37:45.760 --> 37:48.280 I would love to be able to transmug from paladin to 37:48.280 --> 37:51.920 priest, from rogue to hunter, or what have you. 37:51.920 --> 38:02.920 And so we're going to keep listening to feedback, but we're really excited to sort of take this big giant step forward in flexibility because once you start mixing those armor classes, the possibilities for transmog go exponential. 38:02.920 --> 38:03.920 Got it. 38:03.920 --> 38:14.920 Jake Miller at BlizzCon, we announced Wrath of the Lich King remix, and I saw this question from a player named Parmelion from Slovakia. 38:14.920 --> 38:20.920 Parmelion said, why have you decided to go with Wrath of the Lich King for the next remix? 38:20.920 --> 38:27.280 Well, after we finished Legion Remix, we knew that we wanted to do another fondly remembered 38:27.280 --> 38:33.280 expansion, and with it being the season of Northrend, going into Northrend for the last 38:33.280 --> 38:38.720 Titan, what better way to experience it than to go back to Grizzly Hills, enjoy that lovely 38:38.720 --> 38:45.720 music, and as the Remix team, look at a more mechanically simple expansion and see how 38:45.720 --> 38:50.240 we could remix it even more than we could, say, Legion Remix. 38:50.240 --> 38:55.600 So you'll see systems present in Rath Remix that include things like outbreaks occurring 38:55.600 --> 38:58.960 in the outdoor world, as well as in dungeons. 38:58.960 --> 39:04.320 The magic of the infinite is going to make our dungeons infinitely scaling in difficulty, 39:04.320 --> 39:08.720 as well as seeing what rune forging can look like for every class. 39:08.720 --> 39:14.000 The Hearthstone concept art of every class raised in the Scourge. 39:14.000 --> 39:17.920 I plan to just see that we're very, very happy to water here. 39:17.920 --> 39:23.560 And there's also a surprising amount of unreleased item appearances and rewards that we want 39:23.560 --> 39:28.480 to be able to bring to players, as well as watching concept artists go wild with these 39:28.480 --> 39:29.740 themes. 39:29.740 --> 39:30.740 It's so incredible. 39:30.740 --> 39:34.480 I can't wait for you to see the modern take on mounts like Invincible. 39:34.480 --> 39:38.340 I just want to jump back because I didn't hear that at BlizzCon. 39:38.340 --> 39:40.740 You said Rune Forging for every class. 39:40.740 --> 39:42.540 Rune Forging. 39:42.540 --> 39:43.540 We will die. 39:43.540 --> 39:46.540 We will come back and be ready to Rune Forge as every class. 39:46.540 --> 39:47.540 That's amazing. 39:47.540 --> 39:49.100 I'm really looking forward to that. 39:49.100 --> 39:51.940 There'll be more info in next year. 39:51.940 --> 39:55.460 Next year we've got more info on Wrath remix. 39:55.460 --> 40:02.500 Another thing to consider too, I think, is that we have a lot of players that have never experienced Northrend before. 40:02.500 --> 40:12.180 And since we're going there in the last Titan, it would be really good if they had an opportunity to kind of understand what the place was like, 40:12.180 --> 40:15.260 should anything happen to it. 40:15.260 --> 40:23.260 Understood. Moving on, a lot of questions about housing. 40:23.260 --> 40:26.260 So I just picked one from a player named Mario. 40:26.260 --> 40:31.260 Mario said, what will the future of Warcraft housing look like? 40:31.260 --> 40:34.260 Will there be continual additions, upgrades? 40:34.260 --> 40:37.260 Will there be new styles created down the line? 40:37.260 --> 40:41.260 Yeah. So for sure, I mean, this is a lot same as my previous answer. 40:41.260 --> 40:45.340 answer, it's going to continue to grow in ways you might expect and ways that you won't 40:45.340 --> 40:46.340 expect as well. 40:46.340 --> 40:49.460 So, ways you might expect, yeah, we're going to go to new places and we're going to steal 40:49.460 --> 40:51.860 all their furniture and bring them to our houses. 40:51.860 --> 40:56.500 So, you're going to have all these new cultures of decor that you can be able to absorb. 40:56.500 --> 41:00.540 There will be new endeavors where, you know, these cultures from around the world are going 41:00.540 --> 41:03.500 to come visit our neighborhoods and we're going to have cool opportunities to interact 41:03.500 --> 41:07.820 with them either through the, you know, the quests and tasks that come out of those endeavors 41:07.820 --> 41:10.820 as well as just getting some of their furniture as well. 41:10.820 --> 41:15.820 But also, as you might not expect, I mean, we talked a lot about a lot of these in coming in Eclipse. 41:15.820 --> 41:23.820 Things like showcases, things like mannequins coming up, the functionality like copy-paste, multi-select, by now. 41:23.820 --> 41:28.820 All these things are going to, you know, sort of increase the functionality that you have with them housing. 41:28.820 --> 41:31.820 And we're not stopping there. I mean, we're going to continue adding new things to housing. 41:31.820 --> 41:35.740 I mean, one of the things I've heard a lot of people ask for is different exteriors that 41:35.740 --> 41:39.140 better reflect the exteriors of the different cultures in the world. 41:39.140 --> 41:40.140 We've heard you. 41:40.140 --> 41:43.780 This is something that we are absolutely going to be thinking about as we continue to move 41:43.780 --> 41:44.780 forward. 41:44.780 --> 41:47.940 That's specific to announce at this time, but I want to make sure people know that those 41:47.940 --> 41:51.780 questions and requests are not going unheard, and teams hard at work. 41:51.780 --> 41:55.340 Speaking of questions and requests, well, I've got you, Paul. 41:55.340 --> 42:01.260 So many questions about class design, and we just can't possibly touch on every class. 42:01.260 --> 42:03.740 So I picked a question that's about all of it. 42:03.740 --> 42:09.740 A player named Spicy asked, what have you learned from the reduction of class complexity 42:09.740 --> 42:15.340 in midnight and how has your class design philosophy shifted as a result? 42:15.340 --> 42:20.860 Yeah, so as sort of a reset reminder, at the beginning of midnight we were specifically 42:20.860 --> 42:24.900 looking to reduce complexity in classes, specifically focusing on complexity. 42:24.900 --> 42:30.020 So reducing cases where our class felt complex, but with an attempt to make sure that we kept 42:30.020 --> 42:35.140 depth within those classes as well, kept a sort of a high skill ceiling. 42:35.140 --> 42:39.380 And a good example of a place where we said we gave our example ahead of midnight, and 42:39.380 --> 42:44.780 I think that we hit the mark, hit the mark by and large across a lot of specs, but this 42:44.780 --> 42:45.780 one is Outlaw. 42:45.780 --> 42:50.260 Outlaw is one where we have this mechanic, roll the bones, which is highly complex. 42:50.260 --> 42:53.620 You have a lot of different buffs where you need to memorize the relative value of each 42:53.620 --> 42:54.620 of them. 42:54.620 --> 42:58.580 And in the heat of combat, it was difficult for players to be able to identify when should 42:58.580 --> 42:59.580 I roll the bones? 42:59.580 --> 43:02.620 I re-roll my bonuses to get a chance at maybe getting a better one. 43:02.620 --> 43:05.540 This is something that a lot of people use add-ons for, to just, well, do the math for 43:05.540 --> 43:06.940 me in my head. 43:06.940 --> 43:11.060 This was redesigned in a way where it still has some pretty clear break points of how 43:11.060 --> 43:13.860 your mechanic works. 43:13.860 --> 43:16.980 And you do still have those choices of, well, should I re-roll, but it's much easier for 43:16.980 --> 43:20.820 players to be able to sort of tell in their head when the best time is to do that. 43:20.820 --> 43:25.700 So we think we're able to keep that high-skill ceiling, keep that complexity, and the flavor, 43:25.700 --> 43:29.340 keep the flavor of rolling the bones, rolling the dice without losing it. 43:29.340 --> 43:31.280 Another good example is evoker. 43:31.280 --> 43:36.340 Evoker has the flame shaper hero talent tree, which previously, similar setup, it was all 43:36.340 --> 43:40.040 about setting up in golf, but it was difficult to tell exactly what the best way was to do 43:40.040 --> 43:41.040 that. 43:41.040 --> 43:44.500 The previous version of that tree, that got rebuilt in midnight, which is now more about 43:44.500 --> 43:45.740 flexibility. 43:45.740 --> 43:49.740 You have some charges on some of your sort of iconic and power abilities. 43:49.740 --> 43:53.940 It's more about maintaining uptime on your heal over time, damage over time effects. 43:53.940 --> 43:57.340 And so these are all things which are going to give you flexibility, going to give you, 43:57.340 --> 44:00.380 Again, high-skill ceiling and still maintaining 44:00.380 --> 44:02.140 that fantasy of what it's about. 44:02.140 --> 44:04.220 Resto shaman is another class, on the other hand, 44:04.220 --> 44:07.860 where we saw some examples where players said, excuse me, 44:07.860 --> 44:11.780 players said that when we reduced complexity, 44:11.780 --> 44:16.220 we also maybe reduced some of that skill that was required. 44:16.220 --> 44:18.740 And so we've done a lot of iteration on Resto shaman 44:18.740 --> 44:20.060 over the course of midnight. 44:20.060 --> 44:21.100 I think we're still not quite there yet. 44:21.100 --> 44:22.340 Still a little bit more work to do there, 44:22.340 --> 44:23.940 but this is an example where we're still learning 44:23.940 --> 44:26.020 and adjusting our philosophy. 44:26.020 --> 44:28.620 And speaking of learning and adjusting, 44:28.620 --> 44:30.980 this is my best transition so far, 44:30.980 --> 44:34.780 I'm telling you we had questions from all around the world. 44:34.780 --> 44:38.840 I found myself translating Korean questions 44:38.840 --> 44:41.860 and there was one in particular from a player named Sourcrout 44:41.860 --> 44:46.540 that I really want to ask because it's just, 44:46.540 --> 44:51.540 the question was some raids used to have fun vendors inside 44:52.380 --> 44:54.620 for repairs and upgrades. 44:54.620 --> 45:00.140 why don't they include that anymore and could we see that in the future 45:00.140 --> 45:04.860 first i have to say is our crowd in korea essentially kimchi 45:04.860 --> 45:05.420 i 45:05.420 --> 45:06.660 i didn't 45:06.660 --> 45:08.020 didn't inquire for that 45:08.020 --> 45:09.300 okay just 45:09.300 --> 45:12.780 i'm just someone let me know i just i need you to know i'm very proud of having 45:12.780 --> 45:16.740 translated this correct this is very well done uh... thank you 45:16.740 --> 45:17.700 uh... 45:17.700 --> 45:22.060 so first of all uh... you know we've kind of had a darker tone things have been 45:22.060 --> 45:27.580 pretty serious, so kind of goofy, goofy sorts of vendors would have felt, you know, not 45:27.580 --> 45:32.620 not quite fitting with the story we're trying to tell. That said, I don't see any reason 45:32.620 --> 45:37.100 why we couldn't put more of those in. It sounds sounds great. Glad to hear that this 45:37.100 --> 45:41.140 is something that was enjoyable and we can definitely look at doing that. 45:41.140 --> 45:44.060 We have more raids coming. We do. It turns out. 45:44.060 --> 45:47.660 Plenty of them. Yeah, I'll say sauerkraut. We didn't know that you liked those vendors 45:47.660 --> 45:51.340 and so now that we know, yes, much higher chance that you'll see more in the future. 45:51.340 --> 45:57.120 Flipping all the way back around the world to Romania. I saw a player named Denny boy say 45:57.580 --> 46:00.060 Can we talk about the sword some more? 46:01.500 --> 46:07.900 He Denny boy asked if Sargeras is the only one that can come remove the sword 46:08.420 --> 46:10.900 Jake Jake's looking what sword? Oh my gosh 46:11.660 --> 46:14.220 We're retiring that joke right here right now 46:14.740 --> 46:16.740 We're done 46:16.740 --> 46:17.940 That joke is horrible. 46:17.940 --> 46:19.440 Oh. 46:19.440 --> 46:20.940 Oh. 46:20.940 --> 46:21.580 Wow. 46:21.580 --> 46:25.540 But the sword, the sword was questioned by many players. 46:25.540 --> 46:26.940 Yeah. 46:26.940 --> 46:31.980 So I don't want to, I obviously don't want to spoil here. 46:31.980 --> 46:35.580 As we talked about at BlizzCon, you 46:35.580 --> 46:37.780 can see the tip of the sword, actually, 46:37.780 --> 46:42.180 when you are in the mental vault. 46:42.180 --> 46:45.820 Sargeras barely missed, assuming he was going for the world 46:45.820 --> 46:54.540 soul. That's just as he was. He barely missed. And, you know, I don't want to spoil who or 46:54.540 --> 46:58.620 what is necessary to remove the sword. I can promise that we are going to be dealing with 46:58.620 --> 47:04.740 that sword, but I want to make sure you're all prepared for when that happens. 47:04.740 --> 47:14.220 We prepared, got it. I think I know what you're laying down. A number of questions were about 47:14.220 --> 47:19.420 our new announcements, things that are coming that surprised players. 47:19.420 --> 47:24.940 And I just gathered all the questions up about Tailbound and put them all together. 47:24.940 --> 47:33.260 And so what I saw was how replayable is Tailbound intended to be and what carries over between 47:33.260 --> 47:34.260 runs. 47:34.260 --> 47:35.860 Those are the main ones. 47:35.860 --> 47:38.860 But I just want to ask you, tell us more about Tailbound. 47:38.860 --> 47:39.940 Oh, absolutely. 47:39.940 --> 47:44.180 As with any roguelite game or game mode, those are the questions that are top of my mind. 47:44.180 --> 47:49.780 mind. And so, Tailbound's replayability is about the authored experience going through 47:49.780 --> 47:55.380 authored levels with a known beast sherry that the player can start to learn and embrace 47:55.380 --> 48:00.180 as they carve their own path through them. Of course, they may not succeed on their first 48:00.180 --> 48:05.460 run, but should they succeed on their first, on their second or third run, they will be 48:05.460 --> 48:13.380 able to, they'll be able to unlock more difficulties to take on those levels, on those tails, and 48:13.380 --> 48:17.020 face more challenging mechanics and tuning layered on. 48:17.020 --> 48:20.280 All of those through the lens of the different three classes who solve 48:20.280 --> 48:22.900 problems in slightly different ways. 48:22.900 --> 48:25.260 But in terms of what's carried throughout 48:25.260 --> 48:27.060 a run and throughout 48:27.060 --> 48:28.420 many runs, 48:28.420 --> 48:32.280 inside a run the player will run through the level and explore to find 48:32.280 --> 48:36.920 flasks and drafts and potions. Those are on use effects that are consumable 48:36.920 --> 48:39.560 and as they defeat monsters 48:39.560 --> 48:42.020 you'll collect experience that levels you up 48:42.020 --> 48:44.480 and at each level up point you'll get a choice. 48:44.480 --> 48:46.560 It's not too dissimilar from Torgast 48:46.560 --> 48:49.080 where you are gaining capabilities 48:49.080 --> 48:51.480 and ready to take on a final boss. 48:51.480 --> 48:54.320 Should you fail or succeed, 48:54.320 --> 48:57.560 you'll find yourself back at Quillgrave level one, 48:57.560 --> 48:59.440 but with many spoils to trade in 48:59.440 --> 49:01.680 with the various NPCs in Quillgrave, 49:01.680 --> 49:05.440 those villagers will give you improved starting stats, 49:05.440 --> 49:09.960 they'll give you ways to change up your class talents, 49:09.960 --> 49:15.240 change the flask options that can be found in the world, both the variety and potency, 49:15.240 --> 49:19.160 and the level up choices that you get will change based on how you upgrade things back 49:19.160 --> 49:20.760 with the villagers. 49:20.760 --> 49:24.960 Really common question about Tailbound, and I picked a version of this question from a 49:24.960 --> 49:27.000 player named Cassiel. 49:27.000 --> 49:34.040 The question is, is Tailbound a limited time event, or will we be able to play Beyond Midnight? 49:34.040 --> 49:39.120 A very important question with a more experimental style game mode especially. 49:39.120 --> 49:43.000 When we have the servers up, it's important that we dedicate resources to support and 49:43.000 --> 49:46.320 enable maintenance for those servers. 49:46.320 --> 49:51.680 There's also a lot of WoW to play right now and in the immediate future. 49:51.680 --> 49:57.160 We wanted to balance these, but we're always open to player feedback on when to extend 49:57.160 --> 49:58.760 or bring back events. 49:58.760 --> 50:03.600 A tail bound will be up from 12.17 through 12.25. 50:03.600 --> 50:08.960 A good amount of time to try and fail and try and succeed, to bring back all your cosmetic 50:08.960 --> 50:13.520 rewards to midnight in time for Rath Remix. 50:13.520 --> 50:14.760 Thank you very much. 50:14.760 --> 50:18.640 I am going to ask the last question of this panel. 50:18.640 --> 50:19.640 No. 50:19.640 --> 50:20.640 No. 50:20.640 --> 50:28.480 We are going to have one more question, and that is from a player named Bagzax. 50:28.480 --> 50:35.520 The question is, if any new playable races get added to WoW Forever, will we be able 50:35.520 --> 50:41.920 to see those races, including maybe Skyborne, eventually be added to Midnight, The Last 50:41.920 --> 50:46.280 Hiden, et cetera. 50:46.280 --> 50:48.080 Not for the World Soul Saga. 50:48.080 --> 50:49.080 Not for the World Soul Saga. 50:49.080 --> 50:51.760 You would not see any new race. 50:51.760 --> 50:55.120 I can definitely say that won't be happening for the World Soul Saga. 50:55.120 --> 50:58.560 I don't think we can squeeze in another new race at this point. 50:58.560 --> 51:03.880 I think we're, as I said, we're about halfway through, we're set, we're ready to go. 51:03.880 --> 51:07.320 It's just going to be go, go, go, go, go, that would be difficult. 51:07.320 --> 51:11.320 We still have a lot to pay off, so not for the World Soul Saga. 51:11.320 --> 51:17.360 But you never say never going forward, beyond that, we'll have to wait and see. 51:17.360 --> 51:22.440 Something else in WoW Forever that I really like is you're now creating a character with 51:22.440 --> 51:24.960 a first name and a surname. 51:24.960 --> 51:25.960 How about that? 51:25.960 --> 51:27.520 Is that coming to? 51:27.520 --> 51:28.520 Not in the World Soul Saga. 51:28.520 --> 51:29.520 Not in the World Soul Saga. 51:29.520 --> 51:30.520 Alright. 51:30.520 --> 51:31.520 Okay. 51:31.520 --> 51:32.520 Understood. 51:32.520 --> 51:33.520 Yeah. 51:33.520 --> 51:39.400 very, very excited. And we got a lot of questions about this kind of thing. So thank you very 51:39.400 --> 51:46.400 much. And that's it. That's all our questions about, well, Midnight, we have a lot more 51:46.400 --> 51:52.280 questions to get to. We're going to have the, wow, forever devs out here in just a few minutes. 51:52.280 --> 51:58.360 And I'm going to carry on with them for now. Thank you very much. Paul, Maria, Jake, anything 51:58.360 --> 51:59.560 else? Got anything else? 51:59.560 --> 52:02.360 No, I mean, thank you all for playing Midnight so far. 52:02.360 --> 52:04.720 We got a lot of fun twists and turns. 52:04.720 --> 52:09.360 Hatch 1215 with Unbinding of Kithix Raid is on PTR right now. 52:09.360 --> 52:10.840 A bunch of players are working their way 52:10.840 --> 52:12.640 through the labyrinth of Kindojohn. 52:12.640 --> 52:14.920 And there's all sorts of stuff beyond that in the roadmap. 52:14.920 --> 52:16.120 So thanks for playing with us. 52:16.120 --> 52:18.400 Thanks for your great questions. 52:18.400 --> 52:20.600 And yeah, I'll see you in Azeroth. 52:20.600 --> 52:22.560 Thank you for a good BlizzCon. 52:22.560 --> 52:24.760 Again, we'll see you right back here in a few minutes 52:24.760 --> 52:27.240 with the Wow Forever developers. 52:27.240 --> 52:27.840 Thanks, bye. 58:29.560 --> 58:47.260 We're back, and we're live. We really are live. I'm Randy Jordan. You know me as 58:47.260 --> 58:52.540 Kyvax from the World of Warcraft community team, and I am now joined by the 58:52.540 --> 58:58.360 Wow Forever devs. This is Josh Greenfield, Nora Mills, and our returning 58:58.360 --> 59:04.760 champion Tim Jones welcome back from BlizzCon what a BlizzCon we had and coming 59:04.760 --> 59:09.960 out of BlizzCon we asked for player questions and we got them we got so many 59:09.960 --> 59:14.400 I want to go right to the first one as fast as I can because we got so many 59:14.400 --> 59:19.360 questions a lot of them were about this first topic Josh I found a player named 59:19.360 --> 59:26.080 Maga Taurash who said what went into the development of the Skyborne Elves what 59:26.080 --> 59:29.360 What makes them different from the cinderella or the queldorae? 59:29.360 --> 59:32.700 Yeah, this is a pretty meaty answer, so I think I'm going to kind of start with the 59:32.700 --> 59:35.320 back half of this question. 59:35.320 --> 59:39.440 In terms of what makes them different from the cindorae or the queldorae, they're essentially 59:39.440 --> 59:42.040 kind of cousins to those races. 59:42.040 --> 59:48.840 The queldorae is both a Thalassian and a Darnassian word for essentially noble people or children 59:48.840 --> 59:54.160 of nobility, and they all kind of hail from ancient calendar. 59:54.160 --> 59:59.240 And they've sort of descended, it kind of gone different paths, you know, the, the, 59:59.240 --> 01:00:02.960 the Queldwry who would eventually become like the Blood Elves of the Shindorai, fled across 01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:08.880 the ocean, ended up in, um, uh, um, uh, Quelfaloss on the Eastern Kingdoms. 01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:14.200 And the, uh, Skyborne or the Shindorai, they ended up going a different path. 01:00:14.200 --> 01:00:18.760 And there, it's a long winding road, I suggest you watch the, uh, the, uh, found photographic 01:00:18.760 --> 01:00:23.360 panel for an overview, but they ended up in Skywall, which is in the elemental realm, 01:00:23.360 --> 01:00:28.560 elemental plane. And in terms of kind of what makes them different, you know, 01:00:28.560 --> 01:00:33.600 one of these two sort of offshoots of the high elves have sort of 01:00:33.600 --> 01:00:37.160 suffused themselves with arcane magic and they become dependent upon arcane 01:00:37.160 --> 01:00:41.740 magic, which obviously the Shindorai in Skywall, they don't have that sort of 01:00:41.740 --> 01:00:44.600 thought, they don't have the Sunwell, they don't have anything like that, and 01:00:44.600 --> 01:00:48.240 so they've kind of suffused themselves with more natural or elemental 01:00:48.240 --> 01:00:52.880 magic. And in terms of kind of what went into the development of the Skyborne 01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:58.240 is I kind of want to sort of frame this question with an answer talking about like, you know, 01:00:58.240 --> 01:01:02.640 I think a lot of people have asked like why not the quell the quell Dora or the quell philosome? 01:01:02.640 --> 01:01:08.480 I'll call them philassian high elves. And I think that kind of simple answer is kind of like why not 01:01:08.480 --> 01:01:14.560 both? I think whenever Tim was up on stage, he showed a picture of all the areas that we want to hit 01:01:14.560 --> 01:01:19.440 at some point during our development kind of the journey of wow forever, you know, like I said 01:01:19.440 --> 01:01:23.400 multiple times, it's on the box, it's wow forever, right? 01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:26.360 And that's not things that we're like, man, 01:01:26.360 --> 01:01:28.240 it would be really cool, we should maybe think about that. 01:01:28.240 --> 01:01:31.080 That's like things we intend to do at some point. 01:01:31.080 --> 01:01:33.440 And so we will be back to quell for loss. 01:01:33.440 --> 01:01:36.800 But in terms of the actual development process, 01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:40.040 we started off sort of thinking, obviously, 01:01:40.040 --> 01:01:45.040 a natural place where we want to do elves for wow forever. 01:01:45.040 --> 01:01:49.040 And we ended up kind of, as we were going through the 01:01:49.040 --> 01:01:53.080 development and thinking about Quothaloss, we pretty quickly realized that 01:01:53.080 --> 01:01:57.920 Quothaloss and our ambitions for it were kind of too big for just kind of a 01:01:57.920 --> 01:02:02.160 simple starter or low-level zone and it was also sort of not the right time for 01:02:02.160 --> 01:02:07.880 it. We talked about the time bubble that WoW Forever takes place in and it's 01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:11.640 if you think of it as terms of the original like first year of WoW, what 01:02:11.640 --> 01:02:15.280 that really means is we sort of dilated that first year. It's like a time 01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:21.120 dilation effect so that we can sort of hit a lot of content in between kind of the major beats. 01:02:21.120 --> 01:02:24.480 If you think of the major beats in original WoW, it's like, you know, molten core and 01:02:24.480 --> 01:02:31.360 docking layer and zoogaroo, etc, etc. And also sort of, but we are following that chronology. 01:02:31.360 --> 01:02:35.440 And so at the time that we're launching WoW forever, it's actually not quite the right time 01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:41.760 for us for quothalos either. And so it's one of those things that I think we, whenever we were 01:02:41.760 --> 01:02:46.840 sort of working through that sort of problem, I guess, is it's like, yeah, you know, we 01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:48.600 still really want high elves. 01:02:48.600 --> 01:02:52.040 And you know, one of the things we thought about was like, what if we started like the 01:02:52.040 --> 01:02:56.160 The Lassian High Elves and Northshire Abbey and had them play through like that. 01:02:56.160 --> 01:03:00.680 And I think that pretty quickly, yeah, it pretty quickly kind of was like, well, some 01:03:00.680 --> 01:03:03.820 people might be excited about that, but it didn't really feel like we're putting our 01:03:03.820 --> 01:03:05.600 best foot forward. 01:03:05.600 --> 01:03:10.260 And once we started really digging into it and really talking to, you know, different 01:03:10.260 --> 01:03:15.100 people on the team, Chris Metzen, had a little bit of input on this, and he, you know, he 01:03:15.100 --> 01:03:18.180 kind of encourages, he's like, hey, you know, spread your wings a little bit. 01:03:18.180 --> 01:03:19.780 Let's see what we can come up with. 01:03:19.780 --> 01:03:25.700 And we were really excited about some things that we wanted to do with, let's say, certain 01:03:25.700 --> 01:03:30.580 epic, I would even say legendary original WildQuest lines. 01:03:30.580 --> 01:03:34.580 Did somebody say Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker? 01:03:34.580 --> 01:03:48.580 Anyway, anyway, we had some ideas and we realized that, you know, kind of framing this and this race's origin story and this sort of realm of sky wall gives us a really good set of hooks that we can sort of pay off later. 01:03:48.580 --> 01:03:58.580 And I talked about that time dilation, that sort of timeline. When we get there to that content, I think it will be something that has a really satisfying payoff that we're super-duper excited about. 01:03:58.580 --> 01:04:02.340 about. And the last thing I want to say too is one of my favorite things about 01:04:02.340 --> 01:04:08.900 the Skyborne is it gives us a really great opportunity to explore class race 01:04:08.900 --> 01:04:12.540 combinations that high elves have never really had and that's like high elf 01:04:12.540 --> 01:04:16.940 druids or Shindorai druids and also shamans if you're playing on the horde 01:04:16.940 --> 01:04:21.380 side. We've never had a high elf sort of looking character that could be druids 01:04:21.380 --> 01:04:25.140 or shamans and that's super duper exciting from a gameplay perspective and 01:04:25.140 --> 01:04:29.140 You know, we do have a gameplay first approach on the WoW Forever game. 01:04:29.140 --> 01:04:34.140 I know a lot of Druid-only players who are very excited about this. 01:04:34.140 --> 01:04:38.140 And since you mentioned it, I just wanted to make sure everyone knows 01:04:38.140 --> 01:04:43.140 all of the BlizzCon panels that the WoW Forever doves put on this past weekend 01:04:43.140 --> 01:04:47.140 are on our YouTube slash Warcraft channel. 01:04:47.140 --> 01:04:52.140 And I have also been posting those into our new WoW Forever forums. 01:04:52.140 --> 01:04:55.140 Every panel, you can go watch them right now. 01:04:55.140 --> 01:04:57.140 Next question, huge question. 01:04:57.140 --> 01:05:02.140 Saw so many of these and a player named Andormu asked, 01:05:02.140 --> 01:05:07.140 will character models also have a classic skeleton option? 01:05:07.140 --> 01:05:12.140 Andormu said they noticed that even with classic models chosen, 01:05:12.140 --> 01:05:15.140 the skeletons are still from the modern game 01:05:15.140 --> 01:05:18.140 and seem like they just have the old running animation. 01:05:18.140 --> 01:05:21.420 Sure, well, very astute observation. 01:05:21.420 --> 01:05:24.460 You know, one of our core pillars is we want to be both 01:05:24.460 --> 01:05:26.900 approachable and familiar. 01:05:26.900 --> 01:05:29.960 And so how we interpret that as it applies to character 01:05:29.960 --> 01:05:34.160 models is that in approachability, we want people 01:05:34.160 --> 01:05:38.580 who aren't necessarily diehard classic fans to be able to 01:05:38.580 --> 01:05:39.500 come to our game. 01:05:39.500 --> 01:05:43.100 And if they want to be optioned to have a higher 01:05:43.100 --> 01:05:46.820 fidelity character and those higher fidelity customization 01:05:46.820 --> 01:05:52.740 options on that character. We have an option for them to try out. But also on the familiar 01:05:52.740 --> 01:06:00.060 front we have the ability to play as an SD character model from Vanilla. But in order 01:06:00.060 --> 01:06:07.300 to make the toggle work, there's some technical hurdles that we have to get over. And we had 01:06:07.300 --> 01:06:17.820 to have parity between those models' animations, and so we've painstakingly gone through all 01:06:17.820 --> 01:06:26.220 the animations on both character models and made sure that we have animations like Clay 01:06:26.220 --> 01:06:34.300 was showing at BlizzCon where the run animations are much less bouncy for dwarves and across 01:06:34.300 --> 01:06:42.220 all race-gender combinations, making sure that running, walking, swimming, attack animations, 01:06:42.220 --> 01:06:48.340 and there's lots of attack animations, spell casting animations, interact animations, that 01:06:48.340 --> 01:06:57.860 those main enemies are all grounded in a very classic feel, even though the skeletons for 01:06:57.860 --> 01:07:01.180 both HD and SD character models are shared. 01:07:01.180 --> 01:07:03.540 But I would stress that the beta 01:07:03.540 --> 01:07:07.020 and getting this out to our player base, 01:07:07.020 --> 01:07:11.180 we want to hear what people are and aren't comfortable with. 01:07:11.180 --> 01:07:14.060 So we want that feedback, tell us how you feel. 01:07:14.060 --> 01:07:16.020 I just saw so many questions on this 01:07:16.020 --> 01:07:17.540 and I just wanna ask you, 01:07:17.540 --> 01:07:21.140 can you just quickly run down what our options are 01:07:21.140 --> 01:07:23.020 and what those options result in 01:07:23.020 --> 01:07:26.460 as we're creating our character in WoW Forever 01:07:26.460 --> 01:07:28.620 and then, you know, how the world looks. 01:07:28.620 --> 01:07:30.180 Sure. 01:07:30.180 --> 01:07:32.620 So when you first log into the game, 01:07:32.620 --> 01:07:37.900 there will be a classic and enhanced version that you can 01:07:37.900 --> 01:07:39.980 mode options that you can select. 01:07:39.980 --> 01:07:45.660 And when you're selecting a classic mode option, 01:07:45.660 --> 01:07:48.420 you will automatically turn off quest tracking. 01:07:48.420 --> 01:07:52.780 You'll automatically turn off transmogrification. 01:07:52.780 --> 01:07:54.260 When you get to character select, 01:07:54.260 --> 01:08:00.620 there will be a toggle option at the bottom of all your character customization options 01:08:00.620 --> 01:08:04.780 that lets you toggle whether you want an SD or HD character. 01:08:04.780 --> 01:08:08.100 Now that option exists outside character selection too. 01:08:08.100 --> 01:08:12.860 You can just open up your game menu, go to graphic settings and toggle this in the world 01:08:12.860 --> 01:08:14.660 wherever you want. 01:08:14.660 --> 01:08:17.580 Okay, okay. 01:08:17.580 --> 01:08:20.580 That's exactly what I wanted to know. 01:08:20.580 --> 01:08:26.380 And speaking of character creation, so many questions about Realm-less. 01:08:26.380 --> 01:08:31.940 So we announced at BlizzCon that WoW Forever is going to be Realm-less, I'll put air quotes 01:08:31.940 --> 01:08:34.620 up because that's a new term for us, right? 01:08:34.620 --> 01:08:41.880 I found a question from a player named Erwax from France and Erwax said, how does Realm-less 01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:43.380 actually work? 01:08:43.380 --> 01:08:47.020 And then I have a second question from them, but first Nora, how does Realm-less work? 01:08:47.020 --> 01:08:57.520 Yeah, so really it's all about trying to decouple the player's social experience from the kind of old method of just selecting a fixed realm. 01:08:58.360 --> 01:09:09.040 I think the example that Anna gave on the deep dive panel from BlizzCon weekend was really apt, but basically where when she approached wow and she's just like, well, I want to play with my friends, you know, let's roll on the same realm. 01:09:09.040 --> 01:09:13.400 and discovering that like there are restrictions based on like what you know 01:09:13.400 --> 01:09:18.880 realm you pick even within the same rule set normal PvP and so on and so what 01:09:18.880 --> 01:09:22.420 realm list really means is it like the word I guess itself is somewhat self 01:09:22.420 --> 01:09:27.660 explanatory but in WoW forever you will be selecting a specific rule set rather 01:09:27.660 --> 01:09:35.860 than a realm it will be you know so normal PvP role play or hardcore similar 01:09:35.860 --> 01:09:40.420 to selecting a mega realm would be the vibe. So you would be playing with other players 01:09:40.420 --> 01:09:46.980 within your given rule set. That also means, oh, I guess I guess a good caveat is battlegrounds, 01:09:46.980 --> 01:09:50.900 in which case you may end up with players from other rule sets when you queue for battlegrounds. 01:09:50.900 --> 01:09:54.820 But for the most part, you would be playing with players that are within your given rule 01:09:54.820 --> 01:10:00.180 set. One of the other things I did see online was a little bit of confusion about whether 01:10:00.180 --> 01:10:04.580 you could kind of like hot swap between the rule sets with that one character. It's a 01:10:04.580 --> 01:10:09.140 a lot like current WoW were basically without a character transfer, 01:10:09.140 --> 01:10:11.380 you're not just going to be able to flip-flop between, 01:10:11.380 --> 01:10:15.020 I wouldn't be able to flip-flop between role play and PBE, for instance. 01:10:15.020 --> 01:10:18.660 So no easy hopping between the real sets, 01:10:18.660 --> 01:10:23.620 but we really wanted to balance seeing familiar faces with 01:10:23.620 --> 01:10:28.020 the flexibility of trying to manage player populations in-game. 01:10:28.020 --> 01:10:29.260 Because as you can imagine, 01:10:29.260 --> 01:10:31.860 the experience can get a little out of control if you try to 01:10:31.860 --> 01:10:36.860 cram way too many players in one given location, but it's so important to us that you still 01:10:36.860 --> 01:10:42.060 see familiar faces and we want to replicate that sort of neighborly vibe on a classic 01:10:42.060 --> 01:10:43.820 realm, respectively. 01:10:43.820 --> 01:10:51.540 So then a follow-up question has to be, how does this handle server-wide events, the opening 01:10:51.540 --> 01:10:54.940 of the gates of Encarage, what does that look like in Realmless? 01:10:54.940 --> 01:11:01.540 I don't want to share too much about Encarage specifically, but I will say that we are putting 01:11:01.540 --> 01:11:05.620 effort into making sure that any events that should feel like a global effort 01:11:05.620 --> 01:11:09.740 should still feel like a global effort. So players can look forward to 01:11:09.740 --> 01:11:15.500 contributing to some pretty big awesome fun event type stuff, but yeah I'm being 01:11:15.500 --> 01:11:20.380 intentionally dodgy. And I'll just underline that we do not have on 01:11:20.380 --> 01:11:25.460 Garage coming at launch. You mentioned Hardcore. We don't have Hardcore 01:11:25.460 --> 01:11:29.420 coming at launch. That's coming later, but it will be when it comes it will be 01:11:29.420 --> 01:11:32.360 be a choice like RP or PvP. 01:11:32.360 --> 01:11:33.360 Yeah, exactly. 01:11:33.360 --> 01:11:39.180 Okay, so Nora, I'm just going to keep going on this because the question that just blew 01:11:39.180 --> 01:11:46.740 me away, so many people from one part of the world wanted to get an explanation for how 01:11:46.740 --> 01:11:47.980 it's going to go there. 01:11:47.980 --> 01:11:53.260 So I picked a question from a player named Truth Teller, and Truth Teller said, will 01:11:53.260 --> 01:11:59.580 will, wow forever, use Sydney-hosted game servers for Oceanic players? 01:11:59.580 --> 01:12:04.260 And I'm curious if the answer is yes, how does that work for them? 01:12:04.260 --> 01:12:10.220 Yeah, so we are, I guess I'll note, we are going realm-less, but not region-less. 01:12:10.220 --> 01:12:14.180 So we'll still have regions like EU, CN, and so on. 01:12:14.180 --> 01:12:18.300 But yeah, Oceanic players are going to be, for the most part, hosted on Australian data 01:12:18.300 --> 01:12:20.220 centers. 01:12:20.220 --> 01:12:22.000 also means, you know, Oceanic players, 01:12:22.000 --> 01:12:24.900 you also do still have the option to play 01:12:24.900 --> 01:12:27.760 with your US player friends. 01:12:27.760 --> 01:12:30.040 You're also actually going to share a, 01:12:30.040 --> 01:12:32.360 the same ruleset wide auction house 01:12:32.360 --> 01:12:34.280 with your US friends as well. 01:12:35.440 --> 01:12:38.200 The, I guess the one caveat is, 01:12:38.200 --> 01:12:39.840 if you do find yourself in situations 01:12:39.840 --> 01:12:42.320 where you are mostly playing with players 01:12:42.320 --> 01:12:45.440 from a very different geographic location, 01:12:45.440 --> 01:12:47.720 European can vary as you may end up connecting 01:12:47.720 --> 01:12:49.440 to their local data centers. 01:12:49.440 --> 01:12:51.840 Basically, we're trying to pick whatever makes the most sense 01:12:51.840 --> 01:12:53.680 for that group of players in a given area. 01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:55.480 So I'm here in California. 01:12:55.480 --> 01:12:59.840 I join a group of friends, and they're all in Australia. 01:12:59.840 --> 01:13:01.200 I'm going to be getting- 01:13:01.200 --> 01:13:03.360 You're probably connecting to their data centers, yeah. 01:13:03.360 --> 01:13:06.240 Okay, that's fine, that's fine. 01:13:06.240 --> 01:13:09.400 I'm willing to make that sacrifice for my friends. 01:13:09.400 --> 01:13:13.400 The next question I found in our German forums, 01:13:13.400 --> 01:13:16.160 a player named Sarima asked, 01:13:16.160 --> 01:13:21.160 Do you have to choose a second name in WoW Forever? 01:13:21.560 --> 01:13:23.800 So in WoW Forever we have first name, 01:13:23.800 --> 01:13:25.400 we have surnames now. 01:13:25.400 --> 01:13:28.060 Do you have to put something in that field 01:13:28.060 --> 01:13:31.400 or do you have the option to still go with one name? 01:13:31.400 --> 01:13:35.520 So yes, you do have to put something in that field. 01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:37.560 One of the things that's at the forefront 01:13:37.560 --> 01:13:39.680 of a lot of what we're doing in WoW Forever 01:13:39.680 --> 01:13:41.840 and it's kind of grounded in our very like 01:13:41.840 --> 01:13:44.720 a pro social values for the game is just, 01:13:44.720 --> 01:13:48.360 We want, like player identity is really important to us, right? 01:13:48.360 --> 01:13:51.880 We want folks to be able to kind of like be known 01:13:51.880 --> 01:13:54.920 by their unique name, and the thing I said earlier 01:13:54.920 --> 01:13:57.000 about Realmless being a lot like, you know, 01:13:57.000 --> 01:13:59.040 if I choose role play, it's effectively like 01:13:59.040 --> 01:14:01.960 I'm joining a role play mega realm, right? 01:14:01.960 --> 01:14:04.800 And that means a much, much larger player community 01:14:04.800 --> 01:14:07.480 to play with, which also means a little bit less 01:14:07.480 --> 01:14:09.080 specificity with the names. 01:14:09.080 --> 01:14:12.760 Now I will say names are region wide in WoW Forever. 01:14:12.760 --> 01:14:16.280 So that means if I create Nora Anihart on the role play 01:14:16.280 --> 01:14:21.280 rule set, that name is taken for the PVP rule set as well. 01:14:21.280 --> 01:14:23.760 So it is region wide. 01:14:23.760 --> 01:14:26.480 But yeah, we find that second name 01:14:26.480 --> 01:14:28.560 is kind of a role play forward way 01:14:28.560 --> 01:14:30.320 to reinforce that player identity. 01:14:30.320 --> 01:14:33.600 And it still enable people to have unique names in WoW 01:14:33.600 --> 01:14:34.160 Forever. 01:14:34.160 --> 01:14:35.760 Personally, it's something I'm excited for 01:14:35.760 --> 01:14:38.560 because it is something that's very unique to World of Warcraft, 01:14:38.560 --> 01:14:39.160 I think so. 01:14:39.160 --> 01:14:40.040 I think so. 01:14:40.040 --> 01:14:44.880 But I'm personally excited to see what the players do with this. 01:14:44.880 --> 01:14:50.520 We just have no idea yet how they're going to use first name and last name to make a 01:14:50.520 --> 01:14:57.480 family of characters, to join someone else's family of characters, so forth. 01:14:57.480 --> 01:15:01.920 Social media is going to be so good for a while while we see how everyone sorts out 01:15:01.920 --> 01:15:05.960 their first and last name. 01:15:05.960 --> 01:15:11.480 question that I saw so many of for you Josh and that it came from a player 01:15:11.480 --> 01:15:20.920 named W. Punk or maybe W. Punk I'm not sure but W. Punk said is GDKP going to be 01:15:20.920 --> 01:15:26.480 allowed for Wow Forever why or why not what are we doing there yeah this is a 01:15:26.480 --> 01:15:32.360 bit of a involved answer and so it's gonna I'm gonna kind of bucket my answer 01:15:32.360 --> 01:15:36.080 up with a few other different questions I've seen around this. 01:15:36.080 --> 01:15:42.160 So I think the most important thing to us about, the short answer is that no, we are 01:15:42.160 --> 01:15:43.160 not going to allow GDP. 01:15:43.160 --> 01:15:44.160 Thank you. 01:15:44.160 --> 01:15:45.160 Good job. 01:15:45.160 --> 01:15:46.160 We're done. 01:15:46.160 --> 01:15:47.160 We're done. 01:15:47.160 --> 01:15:48.160 Okay. 01:15:48.160 --> 01:15:52.720 I think the most important aspect of that to us is our first pillar, which is to nurture 01:15:52.720 --> 01:15:54.800 and protect social experiences. 01:15:54.800 --> 01:15:59.200 I think a lot of times concerns around GDP sort of get bundled up in the conversation 01:15:59.200 --> 01:16:03.720 around RMT and things like that, and I will come back to that, we will adjust that to 01:16:03.720 --> 01:16:04.720 it. 01:16:04.720 --> 01:16:08.040 Okay, RMT, real money transfers, real money transactions, real money transactions, yes. 01:16:08.040 --> 01:16:14.600 But the actual main reason that we are sort of not going to allow it in a while forever 01:16:14.600 --> 01:16:21.200 is, you know, it has a sort of tendency we've noticed in the regions where it has been popular 01:16:21.200 --> 01:16:26.500 for longer to reach a level of ubiquity, that it can kind of overtake the traditional 01:16:26.500 --> 01:16:29.980 guild structure and that's one of the really kind of difficult things about 01:16:29.980 --> 01:16:34.220 being a game designer and managing sort of a game at this scale is sometimes you 01:16:34.220 --> 01:16:37.900 have to make difficult choices and you know we never really want to tell people 01:16:37.900 --> 01:16:41.140 how to play but at the same point that is one of our pillars and we want to 01:16:41.140 --> 01:16:44.380 nurture and protect those social experiences and that also means the 01:16:44.380 --> 01:16:47.820 traditional guild structure. The other thing too that we've kind of found is 01:16:47.820 --> 01:16:52.380 that a lot of times once it reaches that level of ubiquity it's a 01:16:52.380 --> 01:16:55.420 really big barrier to entry for new players or players that just don't 01:16:55.420 --> 01:16:59.540 don't have as many resources. If you're kind of the traditional carry or someone that has 01:16:59.540 --> 01:17:06.220 a lot of resources and has been playing for a long time, it's great for you. You get a 01:17:06.220 --> 01:17:10.580 raid and you're going to make some money on the side, but the barrier to entry for newer 01:17:10.580 --> 01:17:15.220 players is oftentimes they have to buy gold to buy into it. And that's something that 01:17:15.220 --> 01:17:19.060 we're taking very seriously in a while forever. And that leads me to the second part of the 01:17:19.060 --> 01:17:25.380 question, which is the real money transactions and the economy. GDP is an excellent way for 01:17:25.380 --> 01:17:30.140 bad actors to launder large sums of gold and we do try whenever we you know 01:17:30.140 --> 01:17:35.060 action accounts of buyers or sellers or bots we try to pull that money back and 01:17:35.060 --> 01:17:38.900 it makes it more difficult for us and that's why one of the things that I'm 01:17:38.900 --> 01:17:42.740 really excited about too about while forever is that we are going to be very 01:17:42.740 --> 01:17:47.540 very actively monitoring the economy you know one of the things that we hear a 01:17:47.540 --> 01:17:52.060 lot with GDP is like well I need this to afford consumables we didn't have 01:17:52.060 --> 01:17:56.140 of GDP and season of discovery and the levels, 01:17:56.140 --> 01:17:57.500 especially once we get to level 60 01:17:57.500 --> 01:17:59.900 and like sort of the rating economy sort of settled 01:17:59.900 --> 01:18:01.700 the way you would kind of expect. 01:18:01.700 --> 01:18:06.540 On a original WoW server, the economy was excellent. 01:18:06.540 --> 01:18:11.100 Expecting for a version of vanilla WoW was very, very good. 01:18:11.100 --> 01:18:14.220 And part of that was because we were constantly managing 01:18:15.260 --> 01:18:16.900 the inflow and outflow of resources. 01:18:16.900 --> 01:18:18.300 Like if we got to a new phase 01:18:18.300 --> 01:18:21.740 and nature protection potions were very needed, 01:18:21.740 --> 01:18:25.500 we had a lot of not uh... you know levers we can pull in knobs we can turn 01:18:25.500 --> 01:18:29.260 to affect the availability of things like elements or if you dreamfoil 01:18:29.260 --> 01:18:32.380 and uh... you know we also have the tarnished undermined real system which 01:18:32.380 --> 01:18:34.180 we are having and while forever 01:18:34.180 --> 01:18:37.740 said that i i didn't know that tarnished undermined real in welfare 01:18:37.740 --> 01:18:41.780 that's correct it's it's kind of like a bat emblem of justice system essentially 01:18:41.780 --> 01:18:44.060 and one of the things we have there was uh... 01:18:44.060 --> 01:18:47.860 you know we had these kind of boxes that had met random resources and i mean 01:18:47.860 --> 01:18:52.340 That was another kind of lever we could pull to adjust the economy, and when a certain 01:18:52.340 --> 01:18:56.740 resource got scarce, we could up the drop rate of it in those boxes. 01:18:56.740 --> 01:19:02.100 That gives you a lot of replayability for dungeons and things like that, and it's great. 01:19:02.100 --> 01:19:07.180 The last thing we're going to do in terms of GDP, and it's just not GDP, but real 01:19:07.180 --> 01:19:12.860 money trading in general, is we're going to very aggressively punish gold buyers. 01:19:12.860 --> 01:19:16.940 Being frank, we've been probably too lenient on gold buyers, and it's been a little bit 01:19:16.940 --> 01:19:22.540 easy to get around some of our some of our actions before and we are taking this very 01:19:22.540 --> 01:19:27.340 seriously and you know as someone who's got a 22 year old world of Warcraft account I can tell you 01:19:27.340 --> 01:19:32.300 it's not worth losing it permanently it's not worth losing any of your accounts permanently so I 01:19:32.300 --> 01:19:39.340 would very strongly recommend that you don't do it it's not worth it I won't I promise thanks man 01:19:39.340 --> 01:19:47.040 Our old friend, Omega, asked a question that got my attention. Omega said, 01:19:47.040 --> 01:19:56.720 will Wow Forever use the midnight add-on API restrictions or the classic API or something else? 01:19:56.720 --> 01:20:03.080 Yeah, so when kind of sitting down to consider this, like I actually like that you listed it out 01:20:03.080 --> 01:20:07.660 that way because like we had to choose between like a do we want to go the modern approach, 01:20:07.660 --> 01:20:13.580 classic approach or some third thing, right? And we have a lot of empathy for add-on developers 01:20:13.580 --> 01:20:18.460 and their ability to also kind of keep up with our patches, our changes to those APIs, 01:20:19.100 --> 01:20:24.780 and so on. So I guess to answer the actual question, we did opt for the modern API approach. 01:20:25.580 --> 01:20:31.340 That said, I will say, you know, Boston counters and just a lot of things I think in WoW forever 01:20:31.340 --> 01:20:36.860 are just kind of a lot more simplified compared to modern. And so I don't really necessarily think 01:20:36.860 --> 01:20:43.420 that the combat restrictions necessarily are going to really impact someone's experience negatively. 01:20:44.140 --> 01:20:49.580 Our hope is that kind of unifying that API with modern is going to be a lot easier to kind of 01:20:49.580 --> 01:20:54.940 keep up with, you know, add-on updates and develop add-ons for our game. I know it's a very common 01:20:54.940 --> 01:21:00.780 use case, for example, for players to customize their UIs with the add-ons. I personally love 01:21:00.780 --> 01:21:03.180 I love doing that myself. 01:21:03.180 --> 01:21:05.020 We also very much don't want players 01:21:05.020 --> 01:21:08.380 to feel like they need add-ons in order to play the game. 01:21:08.380 --> 01:21:11.300 Because I don't know, myself and others on the team, 01:21:11.300 --> 01:21:13.100 like we're add-on purists. 01:21:13.100 --> 01:21:16.460 So I tried to get by with very minimal add-ons. 01:21:16.460 --> 01:21:19.060 And I'm delighted to say that we do also offer, 01:21:19.060 --> 01:21:25.560 In Wild Forever, the damage meter, the cooldown manager. 01:21:25.560 --> 01:21:28.860 And actually, additionally, I'm proud to say too, 01:21:28.860 --> 01:21:31.300 Swing Timer perhaps coming soon. 01:21:31.300 --> 01:21:34.180 So again, we want people to feel like they can just 01:21:34.180 --> 01:21:36.940 jump in and play without feeling like they absolutely 01:21:36.940 --> 01:21:41.380 have to go download add-ons in order to hang, 01:21:41.380 --> 01:21:43.180 in order to play WoW Forever. 01:21:43.180 --> 01:21:48.180 So why do we want that is my question. 01:21:48.820 --> 01:21:50.700 As an add-on impurist, 01:21:50.700 --> 01:21:51.540 Yeah. 01:21:51.540 --> 01:21:56.540 What are we benefiting in WoW Forever overall, the summary? 01:21:56.540 --> 01:22:01.820 the summary. It's I mean it's a lot simpler to be able to like if you're a new player coming to 01:22:01.820 --> 01:22:07.180 the game and like you don't know about the slew of add-ons that are available you don't even 01:22:07.180 --> 01:22:11.820 necessarily know where to look to go get the add-ons basically someone has to like adopt you take 01:22:11.820 --> 01:22:16.860 you under their wing and be like oh you don't use this can trivialize this you should use this to 01:22:16.860 --> 01:22:21.980 customize this piece of your you know like there are a lot of things that can kind of create friction 01:22:21.980 --> 01:22:25.300 in ways that aren't super social or fun, right? 01:22:25.300 --> 01:22:28.020 Because it can lead to some amount of gatekeeping 01:22:28.020 --> 01:22:31.380 if we go too hard on allowing add-ons 01:22:31.380 --> 01:22:33.540 to be a critical part of your player experience. 01:22:33.540 --> 01:22:36.920 And so we're trying to alleviate that while still allowing 01:22:36.920 --> 01:22:41.220 players to have the freedom of utilizing add-ons 01:22:41.220 --> 01:22:43.700 if they want to, if they so choose. 01:22:43.700 --> 01:22:44.980 All right. 01:22:44.980 --> 01:22:48.100 Carrying on from there, Tim, I saw a question 01:22:48.100 --> 01:22:50.380 from a player named Allystar. 01:22:50.380 --> 01:22:55.380 and AllyStar asked, will forever include flex rating? 01:22:55.900 --> 01:22:58.940 Smaller guilds, they can struggle. 01:22:58.940 --> 01:23:02.580 Even with 20 players, a smaller guild 01:23:02.580 --> 01:23:04.740 can have a hard time getting there. 01:23:04.740 --> 01:23:08.580 Let alone 40 person raids, that's a lot. 01:23:08.580 --> 01:23:12.860 So the question is, flex rating possible? 01:23:12.860 --> 01:23:15.540 And then the follow-up question is, 01:23:15.540 --> 01:23:18.740 will cross-faction rating be a possibility 01:23:18.740 --> 01:23:20.220 to solve that issue? 01:23:21.420 --> 01:23:23.900 To start off with the beginning of that question, 01:23:23.900 --> 01:23:27.980 no, we're not going to start off with flex rating, 01:23:27.980 --> 01:23:32.980 but one of the promises that we want to make, 01:23:33.020 --> 01:23:36.560 or that we are making in World of Warcraft forever is, 01:23:37.900 --> 01:23:40.920 we want to support guilds of different sizes. 01:23:43.060 --> 01:23:45.500 At the beginning of Season of Discovery, 01:23:45.500 --> 01:23:55.220 Some people really love the consistent ecosystem of being able to just smash two five man groups together and have enough people for a 10 man raid. 01:23:56.340 --> 01:24:04.820 And that's the promise every single tier that we will ever do will have both a 10 player raid and a 20 player raid. 01:24:05.220 --> 01:24:12.380 And we want it to be really easy for people to graduate from dungeon gameplay into being a 10 man guild. 01:24:12.380 --> 01:24:17.880 And if you have more people than that 10-man guild can approach 20-player content. 01:24:17.880 --> 01:24:23.380 And in those separate ecosystems, we want the content to be rich, deep, fulfilling. 01:24:23.380 --> 01:24:26.880 The 10-man raids will have a lot of bosses. 01:24:26.880 --> 01:24:33.380 I think we have eight or so bosses in our first raid, in the Barrow Deeps. 01:24:33.380 --> 01:24:35.880 Really? Just eight? 01:24:35.880 --> 01:24:38.380 I think somewhere around there. 01:24:38.380 --> 01:24:44.500 And even more in the in the hydra rate and you can get to your pieces across those experiences 01:24:44.500 --> 01:24:47.220 And there will be some people who want to do both and that's awesome 01:24:47.220 --> 01:24:54.320 But we want our our guilds and our social groups that really gravitate towards 10-man content to have a consistent 01:24:55.260 --> 01:25:01.380 piece of endgame content that they can they can do and do it consistently and not have the rug pulled out from under them 01:25:01.980 --> 01:25:05.860 And then the second part of that question about cross-faction gameplay, you know 01:25:05.860 --> 01:25:11.740 So, this is vanilla, we're based in vanilla WoW, the Horde and Alliance hate each other, 01:25:11.740 --> 01:25:17.980 we want to embrace the war in Warcraft and so there's not going to be any cross-faction 01:25:17.980 --> 01:25:18.980 play. 01:25:18.980 --> 01:25:22.700 Horde and Alliance are going to hate each other, they need to fight, we want to encourage 01:25:22.700 --> 01:25:27.140 world PvP, battlegrounds, so yeah, that's our stance on that. 01:25:27.140 --> 01:25:30.340 Alright, I just want to hit a couple other things that were in there. 01:25:30.340 --> 01:25:37.340 40-person rating is on the table, is coming at launch, and then potentially later. 01:25:37.340 --> 01:25:42.340 That is correct. So for launch, we have Onyxia's Layer. 01:25:42.340 --> 01:25:53.340 We aren't going to have a 40-player raid every single tier, but where we're starting out with Onyxia's Layer is kind of the first foray into having 01:25:53.340 --> 01:26:00.340 an extra piece of rating content in addition to the 10 and 20 ecosystems that we want to consistently support. 01:26:00.340 --> 01:26:10.340 And Onyxia really serves as just call all your friends in your guild together, call an extra guild to group up, 01:26:10.340 --> 01:26:18.340 go to Duswallow Marsh and rate Onyxia, get a ton of awesome loot, get some extra tier pieces and have an awesome time. 01:26:18.340 --> 01:26:19.660 Nixie's head is on the table. 01:26:19.660 --> 01:26:20.500 Of course, yes. 01:26:20.500 --> 01:26:24.300 And let us, I would like to understand a little more 01:26:24.300 --> 01:26:28.380 about how dungeons fit into that ecosystem. 01:26:29.300 --> 01:26:33.020 Like, you know, I'm playing World of Warcraft 01:26:33.020 --> 01:26:34.140 for the night sometimes, 01:26:34.140 --> 01:26:37.500 and there's a lot of different difficulties for dungeons. 01:26:37.500 --> 01:26:40.380 Well, we are taking a hard stance 01:26:40.380 --> 01:26:44.180 on across both dungeons and raids. 01:26:44.180 --> 01:26:46.780 The instance is a single difficulty. 01:26:46.780 --> 01:26:49.140 There's no heroic difficulty. 01:26:49.140 --> 01:26:52.780 I know some people have been seeing multiple color variations 01:26:52.780 --> 01:26:53.380 of armor. 01:26:53.380 --> 01:26:56.380 Those are just for offset pieces. 01:26:56.380 --> 01:26:58.900 There's only one version of our 10 men raid. 01:26:58.900 --> 01:27:00.820 There's only one version of our 20 men raid. 01:27:00.820 --> 01:27:01.780 Same with dungeons. 01:27:01.780 --> 01:27:04.100 You get what you get. 01:27:04.100 --> 01:27:06.180 Understood. 01:27:06.180 --> 01:27:08.860 Another subject that I want to make sure and just touch on 01:27:08.860 --> 01:27:14.780 before we go is transmog, because this is a bit novel. 01:27:14.780 --> 01:27:16.440 And so I just want to ask the panel, 01:27:16.440 --> 01:27:21.440 does anyone have something to explain about Transmog? 01:27:21.440 --> 01:27:24.220 We mentioned it quite a bit at BlizzCon, 01:27:24.220 --> 01:27:28.040 but players like, I saw a player named Rosalia, 01:27:28.040 --> 01:27:29.540 came onto our forums and said, 01:27:29.540 --> 01:27:31.820 could you provide some more details? 01:27:31.820 --> 01:27:33.740 Just like, can we just unpack Transmog 01:27:33.740 --> 01:27:37.900 so we can understand how it differs from modern wow? 01:27:37.900 --> 01:27:38.880 Absolutely, yeah. 01:27:38.880 --> 01:27:41.220 One of the things, I think it's really important 01:27:41.220 --> 01:27:43.020 when we were designing Transmog, 01:27:43.020 --> 01:27:46.660 we really wanted to make sure that we were able to, 01:27:46.660 --> 01:27:48.140 even if you haven't enabled, 01:27:48.140 --> 01:27:51.300 maintain a lot of the silhouette that you would have had. 01:27:52.260 --> 01:27:53.500 That's why things like, 01:27:53.500 --> 01:27:55.880 if you have a cloth chest piece and you're a paladin, 01:27:55.880 --> 01:27:57.740 you're gonna need to have another cloth chest piece 01:27:57.740 --> 01:27:59.540 that you're gonna transmog over that. 01:27:59.540 --> 01:28:01.020 And that is kind of important. 01:28:01.020 --> 01:28:02.980 So it's obviously, it's not gonna be completely 01:28:02.980 --> 01:28:04.820 kind of Wild West. 01:28:04.820 --> 01:28:06.900 And then the other thing too that I think we're, 01:28:06.900 --> 01:28:09.300 it's just, it's kind of unique and we're really kind of, 01:28:09.300 --> 01:28:10.540 we think it's really cool. 01:28:10.540 --> 01:28:17.100 is just the ability to have multiple different pieces of armor per slot 01:28:17.100 --> 01:28:19.620 saved per set that you have. 01:28:19.620 --> 01:28:21.940 So again, if you're a healer paladin 01:28:21.940 --> 01:28:24.580 and you get a plate chest piece out in the world, 01:28:24.580 --> 01:28:28.660 if you've designated a plate chest to transmog over that slot, 01:28:28.660 --> 01:28:31.220 it will swap to that plate chest appearance 01:28:31.220 --> 01:28:34.060 when you equip the actual plate upgrade you get. 01:28:34.060 --> 01:28:35.940 And I think that's really cool because it gives you 01:28:35.940 --> 01:28:38.820 a lot of flexibility even within each set. 01:28:38.820 --> 01:28:45.820 and it allows the players who just don't care for it to hop out and they don't have to care for it. 01:28:45.820 --> 01:28:49.320 Yeah, exactly. You can pretty much pretend it doesn't exist. 01:28:49.320 --> 01:28:59.320 So, last question, because we have PVPers and a lot of PVP enthusiasts just asking for some more information. 01:28:59.320 --> 01:29:07.820 So, Tim, how will PVP in forever be different than other versions of World of Warcraft? 01:29:07.820 --> 01:29:14.820 Specifically, there was this player named Last Rodeo in England who asked how will PvP in 01:29:14.820 --> 01:29:15.820 forever be different? 01:29:15.820 --> 01:29:19.820 And so, you know, we're going to go to a rodeo. 01:29:19.820 --> 01:29:20.820 Sure. 01:29:20.820 --> 01:29:25.820 And what happens with PvP in forever? 01:29:25.820 --> 01:29:31.820 Well, like I said before, we want to embrace the Horde and the Alliance conflict. 01:29:31.820 --> 01:29:35.820 PvP is something we want to heavily invest in and support. 01:29:35.820 --> 01:29:38.700 We love the fact that people love dueling so much. 01:29:38.700 --> 01:29:42.020 We love the fact that people love running battlegrounds. 01:29:42.020 --> 01:29:47.380 There won't be any rated PVP, though we've re-envisioned the PVP ranking system. 01:29:47.380 --> 01:29:54.060 There will be a new PVP track to gain honor in and level up through with your own unique 01:29:54.060 --> 01:29:59.100 PVP rewards that will reset every season or tier. 01:29:59.100 --> 01:30:02.460 They'll be aligned with our tier and raid releases. 01:30:02.460 --> 01:30:08.600 And we've really taken care to look at how people participate in battlegrounds and make 01:30:08.600 --> 01:30:13.460 sure that we've adjusted the honor so that people don't feel like they just have to sit 01:30:13.460 --> 01:30:16.140 in Alteric Valley over and over and over. 01:30:16.140 --> 01:30:22.220 So we want our brand new battleground, Darkspear Islands, which has a brand new reputation, 01:30:22.220 --> 01:30:25.740 another progression track as well to explore and get rewards from. 01:30:25.740 --> 01:30:31.160 We want that, Warsaw, Arafy Basin, more battlegrounds to come in the future. 01:30:31.160 --> 01:30:35.280 We want people to be excited and rewarded for participating in all of those. 01:30:35.280 --> 01:30:40.080 Love more battlegrounds to come in the future, that is a great thing. 01:30:40.080 --> 01:30:42.320 So I want to leave that there. 01:30:42.320 --> 01:30:46.960 But before we go, Josh Greenfield, tell us what you got. 01:30:46.960 --> 01:30:51.880 Yeah, so starting next week I'm really excited to announce that we will be having a weekly 01:30:51.880 --> 01:30:52.880 podcast. 01:30:52.880 --> 01:30:58.360 It's going to be hosted by myself and Josh Corbett of Countdown to Classic Fame. 01:30:58.360 --> 01:30:59.360 Josh and Josh. 01:30:59.360 --> 01:31:00.360 Josh and Josh. 01:31:00.360 --> 01:31:07.320 show I guess, but we'll be having that weekly all throughout the beta for the next six weeks. 01:31:07.320 --> 01:31:11.240 So we're going to dive into a bunch of different topics, talking about sort of the topic of 01:31:11.240 --> 01:31:14.240 the week, you know, whatever content is unlocked. 01:31:14.240 --> 01:31:18.060 We're going to have guests from the team, we're going to have other developers on to 01:31:18.060 --> 01:31:22.320 talk about things that they've developed in systems and features and content, a whole 01:31:22.320 --> 01:31:23.320 bunch of things like that. 01:31:23.320 --> 01:31:27.280 And we're also going to have members of, you know, like content creators and members of 01:31:27.280 --> 01:31:29.840 the community who are going to join us at various points as well. 01:31:29.840 --> 01:31:31.720 I would like to join you at some point. 01:31:31.720 --> 01:31:37.240 I just love this so much, podcasting, just speak to my heart. 01:31:37.240 --> 01:31:43.720 So that's it and we're going to get out of here because there's a beta to open. 01:31:43.720 --> 01:31:48.680 There's a wow forever beta waiting for one of you to press a button and send that thing 01:31:48.680 --> 01:31:49.680 live. 01:31:49.680 --> 01:31:51.200 So we're going to go do that right now. 01:31:51.200 --> 01:31:52.720 Thank you very much. 01:31:52.720 --> 01:31:53.760 Thank you so much. 01:31:53.760 --> 01:31:57.320 Thank you everyone out there who asked so many questions. 01:31:57.320 --> 01:32:03.580 It was our pleasure to meet you at BlizzCon, to see you online, and to try to answer some 01:32:03.580 --> 01:32:04.840 of your questions. 01:32:04.840 --> 01:32:09.160 We will see you in the Wow Forever Beta in a few minutes. 01:32:09.160 --> 01:32:09.840 Thanks.