Or, with the audience being filled with either Horde fans or Night Elf haters, enjoy laughing at other people’s frustrations.
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Great. I love the VA panel every year and they bring out two members of the writing team. The two this forum love to bash.
edit. And it’s only 3 VA this year…sigh. Anduin, Sylvanas, and Saurfang VAs.
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As a side note … looking through the features of Shadowlands on their own … man does this expansion scream a more thoroughly thought out vision. At least a far more cohesive one that BfA. They are dealing with some foundational elements that needed to get dealt with for ages. They’re going back to some mechanics that clearly worked well in previous installments. They are doing a linear story through the zones themselves. If nothing else, it feels like Shadowlands has a more concrete experience behind it so far.
We’ll see how things go, but at the very least it looks like it might be enjoyable to play on a mechanical level.
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Yeah it feels like they finally figured out what it was that people liked about the older systems and, hopefully, the line when Good RNG crosses over into Bad RNG.
Considering they’re finally adding an island rewards vendor (with a way to target item groups, not specific items) I think they might might be on the right track.
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I am very excited for the tower stuff. Run-based content in WoW, like that weird Nightborne ruins stuff in Legion, is usually very fun.
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I also do want to sort of see what Golden is capable of when I’m more certain she has had more authority over the direction of a Meta Narrative of an expansion. I know she gets a lot of flak for BfA, but considering when she took her current position … there is no way in hell she had that much sway over the main story beats of this expansion. I know she’s largely responsible for Calia, but it also seems like Blizz was of the mind to just have some rando nobody take on that exact same role. A “Calia” of some kind was going to exist no matter what it seems.
The Shadowlands content being released at Blizzcon has me intrigued. Its not the rabid hype and WC3 nostalgia that the BfA content impressed upon me when it first was revealed; even if even then I thought it all seemed a bit disjointed. But, it is an expansion I am willing to tentatively keep an eye on. If nothing else, I am convinced that Blizz’s writing team was more invested in telling this story than BfA’s … so I’m curious to see what that means.
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I was a bit hesitant about the level squish at first, but I’m really liking what I’m seeing about it.
(Deep Dive panel soon!)
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- Level 1-10
New characters will go through an introductory tutorial from level 1-10 to learn the basics of the game in Stormheim.
Why Stormheim, though?
This means you can choose to level entirely through one or a combination of
This part makes me happy. I was rather worried you’d be stuck in one expansion only.
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I am a pretty big fan of undeath in general for fantasy and I really like the Shadowlands. However if you don’t really care that much about the setting this expansion is feeling kinda bare bones? This feels very much like WoD and I am not sure that is a good feeling to be invoking.
Hopefully the deep dive goes well.
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I think one potential problem is choosing the wrong Covenant. He said one and only one.
You know WoW players. If you choose the wrong one because you are this or that class and should have gone a different path then /kick from the raid/mythic.
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Soulbinding sounds like a romance option for my WoW visual novel.
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Someone needs to figure out how to ping people because Hanashi needs to see this.
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Maybe the abilities will be disabled/toned down for raid encounters? Kind of like how some Azerite traits are weaker in PvP?
Well Goldshire’s getting some excitement.
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one of the interviews they said that it was the jailer who spoke sylvanas name to vol’jin
I’m shocked. 
Can we get a link to this interview?
MMO-C has some screencaps of the panels if you’re looking for those.
The new system:
Level 1-10: New modern starting zone. Exile’s Reach. Existing racial/class zones.
Level 10-50: Expansion of your choice.
Level 50-60: Shadowlands
Demon Hunters and Death Knights also start at level 1.
The new starting zone is Exile’s Reach. There’s a new island and they sent out an expedition group to go explore it but they have gone missing. You’re part of the second expeidtion group to go find out what happened.
The story is there’s an ogre who has captured all your friends and plans to sacrifice them to summon a dragon. Part of the fun is the end of the starting zone is a mini-dungeon containing 2 bosses which will scale to the number of players in your party. After that, new players level in Battle for Azeroth.
Existing players can go to Exile’s Reach or the Existing Starting Zones. Chromie reaches out and has a feeling that you’ve done this before. Then she helps you choose an expansion to level in. At level you then enter Shadowlands with everyone else.
Allied races start directly at level 10.
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Very into the idea of just having one expansion to level through.
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I did not just excitedly shout “EYES OF THE BEAST” and no one can prove anything.
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