Battle for Azeroth is World of Warcraft's Seventh expansion, following Legion.
Race to level 120 in two new islands that are separate for both the Horde and the Alliance.
The first Island is the Alliance's Kul Tiras, Birthplace of Jaina Proudmoore.
The second island is the home of the Zandalar tribe,
Aquire new items that grant increased power from minerals called Azureite. The dwarf Magni Bronzebeard entrusts you with a necklace and armor that will act like Artifact weapons did. These items will replace your Legion weapons, which will be replaced by normal ones through quests.
Unlock new Races by completing achievements, or gaining exalted with certain factions.
The allied races are for the alliance: Void Elves, Lightforged Dranei, Dark Iron Dwarves, and Kul Tiras humans.
The Horde races are: The Nightfallen, Highmountain Tauren, Mag Har Orcs, and the Zandalar Trolls.
Complete zone quest stories on your alts, Vanilla zones scale on level.
Explore islands with your friends for loot. Islands randomize every time you visit, face new challenges every time.
Fight against other players to create bases and lay siege against other player fortifications in the siege maps inspired by Warcarft RTS games.
Brand new PVP instancing. Players can join same faction player groups and PVP on that player's server. This ties into a new feature called 'War Mode', where players toggle PVP on in cities and fight against opposite faction players who are also flagged. PVPers gain 10% XP from quests and kills with this toggled on.
Dueler's Guild is a new PVP mode where players who are flagged in the city can take part in duels against other players in Dueler's Guild. Play until you are defeated for prizes daily by fighting through 3 players in a row, your cooldowns will not reset.
Join social groups across server. Talk to players no matter the faction or server. Talk over the Bnet app in the game or not.
Battle for Azeroth has Launched!
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Predictions?
and 'unveiling of the in-game item for Overwatch'
We will get 8.1 info, and probably panels about the art, music, voice actors, and such. But since in November when Blizzcon happens, BfA will only be like 3 months old, there won't be a whole lot of new WoW stuff to talk about.
I think Diablo and Overwatch are going to dominate this year's Blizzcon.
My predictions:
Diablo 4
Overwatch full expansion, with Blizzard's take on the Battle Royale genre
Take it up with Grand Wizard Tyrande.
Tyrande, after the Night Elves and High Elves coming to the aid of Thalyssra, after her city willingly joined the Legion: Look, given the track record of your people, we just want you to promise not to be evil.
Thalyssra: I am deeply offended by this. Us, evil?
A few weeks later, as part of the Horde, the Nightborne aide in an offensive war that slaughters thousands of civilians and burns down Teldrassil.
Thalyssra, probably: Ha! That’ll teach you not to question our moral choices! For the Horde!
If they DONT have a lot of info, that is like.... really concerning. Like WoD all over again levels of concerning.
I mean, if what we have now is pretty much what WoW is at this point and they are winding down then fine. I would love to just consume the rest of what I like and finally do something about my "all other games" backlog.
Tyrande is also a huge douchebag to the Nightbourne rebels and makes almost no distinction between them and the collaborators soooo
Meanwhile Blood Elves show up and offer to sponsor them at a really good Mana Addicts Anonymous group that really helped them out.
honestly there's a lot of reactions that we should see in response to the escalation of the lore but that's Too Much Writing so instead we just get Saurfang going WOAH WHAT THE CRAP
the problem with the BfA storyline is that everyone who isn't sylvanas or an orc just kinda gets subsumed into the overall story; like are all the other member races/factions cool with burning teldrassil? Who knows, because the story doesn't really seem to be concerned about them at all
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Rohkan-Trolls seem to give no shits because Trolls and most Elves don't like each other and he is kind of focused on his stuff
Thalyssra-No real response, same with Occulus. My guess they didn't care? I don't know probably just ignored
Rexar-Likes the Horde over the Alliance as one lets him live and do his stuff the other wants him dead. Straight up says he just doesn't want to deal with any of it and will do his job.
Lillian Vos-Crazy
Nathanos-Crazy and will follow Sylvanas off a cliff
Garona-Again the Horde won't kill her, doesn't really ask questions, has some interactions with Nathanos that makes you think she doesn't like him but is in it for the Horde
Saurfang-Sulking
The rest we deal with are Zandalari who give 0 shits about the Night Elves.
Remember, every allied race they add going forward is in theory another reaction that under normal circumstances they would have to account for, but what's more likely is that they just won't bother to write for them since the allied races are in large part meant as glorified cosmetic options so their relevance to the faction politics after they join is a non-factor.
You couldn't get them to change their stance on this same writing hole back with the Pandaren faction leaders, I don't see why this would now be different with the allied races.
She really needs one.
baine also showed up to do management and ambassadorial stuff and he has no comment either
You're in the wrong thread, the HotS thread is that way :rotate: ->
Void elves and dark irons have been getting a decent amount of play on the Alliance side.
... but uh, the last two story quests for Suramar still aren't accessible? "A Growing Crisis" and "A Change of Seasons." I looked it up and the info says those are locked behind rep gains.
Edit - Okay I'm on the "A Growing Crisis" thing already but it's a raid quest. fml
Try going back to Shal'aran and seeing if there's any new quests?
Edit - By the way, FUCK Blizzard for locking a story quest behind a raid like this. It'd be one thing if it was the conclusion but it is not.
You could LFR it at the time, wasnt a big deal.
Lfr worked for it.
(I am asking because my job involves taking care of children and I need to know when I can actually set aside time to do this).
I was pretty sure they changed this when BfA launched, so I went and looked. And indeed.