World of Warcraft: Legion

[Poisonenvy]

 

The next expansion has today been announced ... with new areas; new level cap; a new hero class; class specific areas, weapons and quests; a new PvP honor system, plus lots more ... check out the videos and links above and below, and keep your eyes peeled for more news!

 

 

• Demon Hunters can only be Night Elves or Blood Elves
• Demon Hunters have two specializations: Havoc and Vengeance. These are for melee damage dealers and tanks.
• UNRIVALED MOBILITY: Demon Hunters can double jump, vault in and out of combat, and even unfold their monstrous wings to perform gliding descents and surprise enemies from above.
• METAMORPHOSIS: Demon Hunters transform into hellish forms, enhancing their chosen role: damage-focused Illidari can teleport into combat, while those who prize defense can grant powerful supportive Auras.
• MELEE DAMAGE: The chaotic energy that flows within Demon Hunters empowers their physical and magical strikes to devastating effect.
• SPECTRAL SIGHT: The Demon Hunters’ apparent blindness belies their true powers of perception. They rely on magically augmented sight to detect enemies, even those that hide behind obstacles.
• Available Weapons: Daggers, Fist Weapons, One-Handed Axes, One-Handed Maces, One-Handed Swords

 

Read more over on Wowhead: http://www.wowhead.com/news=248607/world-of-warcraft-legion-expansion-announcement

 

[Poisonenvy]

The new honor system is a talent point based system.

 

 

 

Essentially, the new honor system is a 50 level talent system that turns honor itself into a variant on experience. It’s similar to the Diablo 3 paragon system, but with talents and abilities that only work in PVP. You can advance through the ranks, gaining new honor levels, unlocking talents and abilities as you go, until you reach level 50 in the system. But then there’s more: once you’ve reached PVP honor level 50, you can carry on being a powerhouse in PVP, or you can chuck all of those levels and go for Prestige.

Prestige basically allows you to go back to level 1 and start leveling in PVP all over again, this time unlocking cool cosmetic rewards, such as new character portraits, mounts, and so on. The system is of course still in development, but the stated aim is to reduce the effect of gear in PVP by essentially letting you ‘level up’ and balance PVP much more separately than PVE. For years players have wanted abilities to work differently in PVP, and now, we’re getting that — indeed, we’re getting abilities that only work in PVP, talents that only affect PVP play, earned by an XP style system that only applies in PVP.

 

(news item from Blizzard Watch)

[Poisonenvy]

Also check out the Blizzard landing page: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/legion/

 

[Poisonenvy]

More information today:

• Demon Hunters will wear leather and be melee--they aren't ranged/mail since it doesn't fit the fantasy.
• Demon Hunters will use a new weapon type, Glaives
• Demon Hunters are a Hero class and will start at a higher level (above 90)
• There are no weapon drops in Legion, you will be focused on your Artifact Weapon.
• Although one interview stated that there will not be any legendary weapons in Legion, another suggested that Artifact weapons can become legendary.
• Artifact weapons can be transmogged into other weapons but not vice versa.
• Blizzard is working on a system for those players who have Artifact weapons but often play more than one spec.
• There will be a "Warforged" system but this will not apply to Artifact weapons.
• Dalaran is the neutral capital city, remaining in Northrend and largely unchanged.
• Karazhan mentioned as "an important place" but no reveal other than that. It's presence in the cinematic was noted for this reason.
• Several classes are in major re-development mode i.e. Survival Hunters becoming a melee spec and Demo Warlocks being masters of summoning demons, not becoming them.
• Hunters: Survival will be melee with a pet, Beast Mastery will be ranged with a pet, Marksmanship will be ranged with no pet.
• No stat squish for Legion
• Profession overhaul is coming
• Flying will come in a similar fashion to how it came in Warlords.
• PvP gear clarifications: no longer have unique stats like Dual Item Level like in the past and they want to define PvP on the honor system. Many more changes are coming to PvP, we should be getting more clarification on this soon.
• Blizzard is working out a way to retain interest in 5 mans throughout the course of an expansion.

[Leeboi2703]

I'm getting even more excited. The change to demonology warlocks has intrigued me and making survival hunters not only makes me wanna change my os but also makes me want to laugh a little because of how many survival hunters we actually have

[Poisonenvy]

I thought he was joking when he made an almost off-the-cuff remark about hunters becoming melee (he was talking about a melee weapon of some sort and said hunters would want it)

[Leeboi2703]

I think it's an excellent idea, the survival hunter as is doesn't really seem like a survivalist, they're just a stand back and shoot magical arrows class atm :P

[Poisonenvy]

From the news I've seen today, bearing in mind the new class, it sounds like we'll be getting a new character slot.  I don't know yet if this means an increase to our maximum characters overall, or just a "per realm" increase ..

[Leeboi2703]

I reckon it'll just be a realm cap increase 

[Poisonenvy]

A little more information gleaned:

• The team has known Legion would be the next expansion back when they started coming up of the Warlords of Draenor concepts.
• We are back in the normal Azeroth, no alternative universe.
• Why does the Legion keep trying to take over Azeroth? The expansion will reveal this over time.
• Illidan is a really important part of Gul'dan's plans.
• Illidan is not pleased with us after Black Temple. Who knows how he will react if and when we come across him to ask for help.
• 12,000 years ago there was a festering wound in The Broken Isles. The Pillars of Creation were used to seal the wound. The Temple of Elune was built on top. The wound was opened again and an infinite number of demons is coming through.
• The Dalaran in Broken Isles has been updated, with a few changes and texture updates.
• Eventually you will be able to fly in Legion, but not right away, similar to Warlords. Starting in Patch 7.0 the first steps towards the flying achievement will be available.
• The DPS and item level are determined by the Relics, as well as modifiers to traits. (This was covered in a little more detail in interviews)
• The team wants to make sure it isn't 2x the work to maintain 2x artifacts. You will need to earn separate relics for your other Artifacts though.
• There will be a quest line for each profession.
• There will be some system changes to professions as a whole to improve the UI and add new functionality.
• There won't be another filler patch between Warlords and the Legion invasion, other than the flying patch.
• In Warlords, the team didn't do enough to express the story through in-game content. The garrison campaign wasn't enough.
• One more character slot is being added.
• Having one artifact per spec will help to focus the specs. Right now Frost Death Knights can use a two-hand weapon or dual wield, but their artifact is two runeblades, so they will focus on dual-wielding in Legion and Unholy will focus on two-hand weapons.
• The new Honor system allows for some new abilities to be added that would have been cut in the past, as they were PvP only.
• Draenor's forces are busy rebuilding Draenor, so they are not going to come and help with the Burning Legion.
• Illidan's storyline will span the entire expansion.
• Only allowing elves to be Demon Hunters fits the lore and is the right choice for Legion.
• One of the social features under development is notifying you when friends join a queue and allowing you to queue with them.
• The team would also like to improve communication across groups. If you have a group of friends you raid with or PvP with there should be a better way to communicate with them.
• Older time limited legendary items, such as the Mists of Pandaria cape, may become transmogable.
• The sewers of Dalaran were mentioned as an Order Hall for Rogues again.
• Champions will unlock or complement content rather than doing content for you.

 

 

 

(From MMO Champion)