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Heores of the Storm: What's Next - Live Panel Recap

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Recap

This panel was hosted by Alex Kinabrew (Senior 3D Artist), Matt Villers (Senior Game Designer), Kent-Erik Hagman (Lead Hero Designer), and Alex Neyman (Live Game Designer).

Alexstrasza - Art

She's the Queen of Dragons, so they wanted to make her human form regalAddressing the "dragon in the room". Dragons are massive. Team wanted to make her as large as possible. Didn't want a drake but a dragon.They…

The Art of World of Warcraft

The art team sits down to discuss the art and models in World of Warcraft.

Kul Tiras

Wanted Kul Tiras humans to look more battle hardened and robustClothing is made for harsh weather (high collars)Elegant weapons with nautical themes

Drustvar

Lots of creatures that utilize death magicWanted to combine death magic with druid feel

Zandalar

Troll style influenced by Aztec cultureDinosaurs and goldBrotosaur (long necked dinosaur is used as a mount)Blood trolls worship blood Loa and use blood magic. This magic corrupts the creatures around them and turns them…

Designcraft: Building Blocks of Level Design Panel Live Recap

A few members of the Warcraft team are sitting down to discuss how they build the world of Azeroth! More info to come!

Player character is very importantAzeroth itself is the most important character to the design team.

Blocking Out a New Zone

Start with a flat planeAfter they have a basic surface, they start to map what the surface will look likeAll textures are hand painted and geo is moldedOnce hub is established, terrain is push and pulled for elevation differences.Demo zones are shown to art team to break the ice and…

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Submit Your World of Warcraft Questions for Saturday's Live Q & A

Hands on with the Kobolds and Catacombs New Dungeon Run Feature

Visual Effects of the Necromancer Panel Overview

Blizzcon 2017 - Day 2 Schedule

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Heroes of the Storm What's Next - Live Panel Recap

Alexstrasza - Ranged Support - Warcraft Hero

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Recap

This panel was hosted by Matthew Cooper (Lead Live Designer), Alan Dabiri (Game Director), and Travis McGeathy (Lead Game Designer)!

2017 Recap

The release of Heroes 2.0 was the single-biggest moment in Heroes historyHanamura brought a lot of new things, but some didn't quite work out as planned. They're still working on a rework for the map15 new heroes were added in 2017! Hanzo will be the 75th hero in the game, more than double the…

BlizzCon 2017 - Junkertown: The Plan - Creating a New Kind of Overwatch Animation

This is a brief summary of the second Overwatch panel!

In-Game Cinematic Panel

Teamwork: Cinematics are created as a collaboration of the IGC and the Overwatch Engine TeamA whole new engine had to be built to allow creation of cinematicsThe team has about 25 membersThe team incorporates multiple Blizzard game engines

Story Development

Planning started early 2017, when the map didn't exist yetCharacters: Junkrat and RoadhogConcept art, and the Queen's Decree was given to the teamDuring their exile, they…

BlizzCon 2017 - Overwatch - What's Next

A quick outline of what to expect in the future of Overwatch!

New Hero: Development of Moira

Moira is the new Support HealerThe geneticist of the teamMoira doesn't allow morals to come in the way of scienceRecruited by Reyes to join BlackwatchAllied herself with Talon, after Overwatch was gone

The Art of Moira

Concept art weapons included syringes, and a two handed cannon, and tentaclesHer duality between doing damage and healing indicated by the liquid in the tubesDrains energy from her enemiesUltimate Ability: Coalescence, which is a frontal
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CodeCraft – Under the Hood with Blizzard Engineering, Part 1

Mythic Plus Systems

Record a watermark of mythic + level when determining keystone levelDesign team determines what combinations of keystone affixes are possibleDungeon reads keystone when it's placed and allows design team to modify dungeon based on what the key turns on.Design team also is responsible for implementing the chest and rewards at end of keystone dungeon

Overwatch Patch Days

Patch cycle starts days to weeks before patch.Red and blue deployment cycle for patches. Testing happens on one cycle to prepare for launch…

Battle for Azeroth - Allied Races

Subraces are finally here, officially called Allied Races. Two of them were playable at BlizzCon. Keep in mind this is a demo, not final.

In addition to the races listed below, Zandalari Trolls, Nightborne, Void Elves, and Dark Iron Dwarves are planned.

Highmountain Tauren

In addition to the regular options, customize facial hair / hair, horn style, horn color.Racials:

Rugged Tenacity - Reduces damage taken by 330Pride of Ironhorn - Mining skill increased by 15 and allows you to mine fasterMountaineer - Increases your Versatility by 1%.Bull Rush -…

World of Warcraft – Gameplay and Systems Deep Dive

More information to come!

Parmi les nouveaux contenus de haut niveau de la prochaine extension, Battle for Azeroth intègre des « fronts de guerres », des versions miniatures des premiers Warcraft (les jeux de stratégie), rejouant une bataille globale pour le contrôle (et la sauveg...

Entre autres nouveautés promises par l'extension Battle for Azeroth, l'extension intègre des « îles inexplorées », un nouveau mode de jeu PvPvE, plongeant de petits groupes de joueurs dans un environnement hostile avec un objectif à atteindre.

La BlizzCon 2017 ouvre officiellement ses portes en Californie et comme la rumeur le laissait entendre, Blizzard annonce la prochaine extension de son MMORPG et promet un retour aux sources.

Blizzcon 2017 Opening Ceremony Announcements

BlizzCon 2017 - World of Warcraft - What's Next

Plenty of content is coming soon!

Cinematic reinforces the foundation of Warcraft: the factions.

Battle for Lordaeron

Horde burns down TeldrassilAlliance attacks Lordaeron

Attendus de longue date par un certain pan de la communauté des joueurs de World of Wacraft, des serveurs "classics" s'annoncent finalement pour le MMORPG de Blizzard.

BlizzCon 2017 - The Opening Ceremony has Started!

Update 11:02 AM PDT: Opening video shows the passion and experiences of the Blizzard community.

Blizzcon Opening Ceremony in 1 Hour

Hold on to your hats and join us in the chat for the biggest Blizzcon viewing party! Keep checking back to explore the new content as we update live during the panels!



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New Potential WoW Trademark Filed in New Zealand

A potential trademark for the title World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth was discovered in New Zealand by users in the speculation thread.

In addition, whenever you type in a random url under the worldofwarcraft.com domain, you will be redirected to the url without any hyphens.

(Example: worldofwarcraft.com/corgisunleashed redirects to worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/corgisunleashed)

However, when typing in worldofwarcraft.com/battleforazeroth, you are redirected to a page in which hyphens are automatically added to the name:…