WoW: The War Within | Asmon Reacts to BlizzCon 2023

[@AsmonTV]

WoW starts at 0:00

[@beeshot_]

thanks i couldnt find it

[@keanubredenkamp3776]

Thx a bunch dude 👍

[@martinholm8708]

No it did not

[@connorlittle9548]

Ta!

[@bmar192]

Lies. It started at 0:01

[@SoCloseToToast]

I don't even play WOW and never had, I'm just happy the players are getting good things and the future looks positive for this game

[@kieranlangley3092]

its all empty words

[@Nehfarius]

Words are one thing, but actions another.

[@TheRobochicken5494]

empty words

[@db212006]

@@kieranlangley3092 classic andy malding in the comments 😂

[@kristofferlevin1484]

sounds like a good thought

[@tassadon3685]

The Editors uploaded this faster than the warcraft team. Thanks for the quick work, couldn't see it live.

[@ErwinFX]

Hail yeah, editors are on top of it

[@urosmadzarev3925]

reason? why couldnt you see it live?

[@Trump2024Vance]

​@@urosmadzarev3925I was busy at 3pm. He was probably busy at 3pm.

[@KarlMerkli]

it was instantly online on youtube tho.

[@david443567]

@@Trump2024VanceWhat? Busy doing what? People have lives?

[@-Kailinn-]

I agree, Delves is making me feel like playing again. I prefer to play solo for the most part, but also have the option to do group stuff when I feel like it, mostly for pvp. Ion looked so happy up there with all the cheers, looked like he's wanted to do all this forever but couldn't.

[@HowdyMaam]

Right?! I haven't played WoW since the second week of Battle for Azeroth and this announcement is making me want to play again! Pretty exciting stuff!

[@Emidretrauqe]

Delves aside, I still think the open world seriously lacks variety. Everything still feels like a treadmill with very little to break up the monotony.

[@georgewash8926]

I think he's just relieved people actually listened to him instead of booing him. He was probably expecting a harsher reception.

[@tye829]

I'm psyched for delves. It solves my number 1 issue with retail: The outdoor content has gotten bad. Trivial. Too easy. 1v10 mobs with 0 chance of dying. Not rewarding in a figurative or literal sense. Delves is great because it has a progression system that scales difficulty and gives gear. That's legit all I have wanted I think the instanced content like raiding is great.. but I used to enjoy just not doing that sometimes and just adventuring out in the world.. Delves should get me doing that again. Also love the idea of it accommodating 1-5 players. I can def see progging on it alone, but also with my friend who I often play with. We find there isn't really any good 2 player content these days. Questing is trivial like I said, so it's either do that or join a group... It will be good to have a 2-player coop challenge

[@Andarath69]

Why play an MMO and play alone? Makes no sense.

[@BuckScrotumn]

I haven’t played more than 1 character at a time in years, but that new character select screen is insane. It’ll be so cool to see my Death Knight standing next to a bunch of my old characters from Vanilla through Legion.

[@Roald94]

it probably helps with the idea that you character is not alone inside your account.

[@katherinehaywood4558]

@@ramonandrajo6348 someone sounds a little butt hurt.

[@danielortner5079]

@@ramonandrajo6348Found the classic andy

[@poepsnor]

People getting excited over a god damn new character selection screen LMAO.

[@Roald94]

@@poepsnor its not about the new feature, its how they are seeing that things are changing for the better, at least at first glance. the fact that they are addressing the issues the game had, and seem to be doing something about it speaks a lot of how things are taking a different direction. compared to what it was before where they were basically ignoring the players feedback and were just doing their own thing... cant blame them to be frank.

[@iwirq6871]

Ian just Nailed this one. Straight forwards info. To the point, no bullshit. Well done. The future of wow is looking good so far!

[@Zigz15]

Metzen carrying the story. Ion really seems to have learned from his mistakes and working to improve accessibility. Art team somehow keeps getting better. WoW is back baby.

[@brandonkobeshchak]

@@Zigz15 Let's slow down, I am very hopeful as well and as much as WoW and Blizzard has disappointed me I still want it to succeed. Let's wait and see.

[@setver1535]

Its easy when its a huge quantity of things that the playerbase wants and would be receptive to.

[@samwrai]

​@@setver1535but hey, who could Imagine give things players want would make ppl happy and excited to play the game, huh. It's crazy!

[@em3sis]

Remember this post when they ultimately botch it again and they nostalgia bait you for next expansion

[@steveskeet1]

Asmon cycle of expansions: Stage 1 Pretends to be hyped and care Stage 2 is playing on release Stage 3 is critique and quit Stage 4 react videos to the game he hates Refer back to this comment next year.

[@colonelbuttons]

Based take

[@SeanATron-vr8eb]

Baised*

[@Armadan7]

Yup

[@jinsenn]

And it was true

[@thunder9236]

This seems amazing. Blizz looked at their competition and took notes, and it's about time. Looking positive for the future, I hope they keep pace. One thing I'd like them to do is extend the game trial. Right now it's lvl 20 and that shows nothing, blizz needs players.

[@doctorcis3510]

Excited for Warbands. Acknowledging that people making alt guilds are doing so because of missing functionality, and just giving that functionality to people

[@menalgharbwalsharq648]

I was seriously preventing myself from joining people guilds because of the time loss to make transfer to my alt guild bank. Now all this seem useless but I am happy they finally fix that for me

[@WhozZzWho]

easily the one and only thing that might get me to return. Former multiboxer so i have maybe 100+ level 50's just sitting around.

[@menalgharbwalsharq648]

@@WhozZzWho same dude I ve got every class race combo. Not all leveled up ofc but more than half of them are to 60

[@williams100292]

World of Warcraft's greatest strength when it began was its comparative casual nature. If you support the casual player-base with content, your hardcore and more dedicated population will flourish. For years now, WoW has basically ignored the casuals like myself, and it's really heartening to see that they're starting to think of us.

[@jesseperez4185]

exactly, you need to respect and give meaningful content for casuals, once they are hooked and engaged you will get more motivated and serious players. There is so many games I started off as a casual before I started to fiend it.

[@Pandamonium626]

I have wanted the Delve and Hero Talent systems for YEARS, so have many others I bet. I was amazed at how great this presentation was. The future of WoW retail actually has me excited for the first time in a long time.

[@harbhub]

Yeah I don't like that they are saying and doing the right things because I don't want to get pulled back into such an addicting game lol

[@DaKdawg]

All I remember are a bunch of broken promises across multiple expansions. It looks good, but only if it lives up to the hype.

[@emetsalt2678]

Brother The hero talents are just passive talents with extra VFX effects and an RP name There is no new classes made

[@Snabobo]

Dragonfight didnt break promises, sure the story was very meh, but it was an amazing first step to making the game what it should be. @@DaKdawg

[@ThiccGura]

Glad for the warband feature. One of the main things that killed my motivation to continue playing Dragonflight was the thought of having to refarm renown for all factions if I ever wanted to reroll. That and how punishing the profession knowledge power was for people that changed proffs or started late, wonder if that second one ever got a proper catch up or will be scrapped.

[@Roald94]

it will probably depend on how much work they can do, because this seems like a big promise but we will see if they can deliver.

[@jannovotny6046]

Man thats literally the point of the game that your choices have consequences, you cant have everything, and other players may be better, even because of strategic decisions like what prof to do

[@ThiccGura]

@@jannovotny6046 Rep and professions is the worst thing to choose for actions and consequences. One is just making you do redo the same content you already did which should not be a thing. Which is why they're changing it. The other is just punishing people for not starting at the beginning of the expansion or because they decided they wanted to be a different profession. The fact that things like Legendary quest chains got rid of the time gate for players starting late, Valor cap boosted each week for catchup on high end gear, and we get Timeless isle expy zones at the start of new patches for gear catchups means choosing to draw the line at professions made no sense. There were more serious player benefit features that didn't punish people nearly as much as the KP did.

[@masterpiece6440]

Agree with everything related to warbands except for making flight paths warband-bound. Makes levelling quite boring if you can fly from quest to quest

[@griffMcTall]

Makes me feel good for Ion that after years of having to announce Ls and be an apologist, he gets to just unload a dump truck of Ws to the crowd.

[@Blaz_-te2ku]

Those Ls were his doing mainly. WoW would be a much better game without that guy.

[@Arthur_Grey34]

This honestly makes me want to return to WoW. Delves, Warbands, new BG with more to come, all of it sounds great and fixes most of the issues I have with WoW. I've been sick of raid/M+ being the only thing to do in the game, having more content I can do solo or with only a friend or two while still progressing is an amazing change.

[@bjni]

yeah fr there is nothing to do in WoW usually.. for OSRS there is endless things to do and you never run out of content to do. people in WoW so bored they invent their own rules and play the old game just to have something to do. I dont want to do extremely hard content with toxic people on a timer...

[@xulunknown]

not gonna get my hype up just yet but it is looking fairly good so far. and with metzan back hopefully he fixes the story.

[@Laoruperteen18]

can i just point out what a great public speaker this guy is? being able to be on that stage and do a semi-scripted announcement for nearly an our and be consistently eloquent and engaging? this guys good :P

[@conjumonblue6450]

He is good. The Diablo 4 team should be taking notes. lol

[@technicolour2056]

Lots of practice!

[@matt9682]

He was a lawyer before he started on at blizzard.

[@tesladrew2608]

​@@matt9682he was an assistant at a law firm almost fresh out of law school

[@takotako3321]

@@matt9682 He was also a player (GM of Elitist Jerks guild) before he joined Blizzard, so he knows what players care about.

[@Icey13100]

This is handsdown one of the best wow panels in a long long long time. Sounds great.

[@DaKdawg]

It sounds too good to be true. This will be amazing if they actually pull it off.

[@Adroyo]

True

[@xviii5780]

​@@DaKdawg honestly the WoW team was always capable, they just needed to pull their heads out of their asses. I hope that finally happened, somewhat at least.

[@torkyn]

As a new WoW but a long time Guild Wars 2 player, a lot of these features seem very familiar as they've been a staple in GW2. It is nice to see some of those quality of life changes coming to WoW.

[@ingy421]

Ion became a hero today. Gurgthock the hero we needed so badly.

[@RacistJoffrey]

Came in skeptical but this was a massive Ion W. The cheering kind of goes hard, must've been the most badass moment in Ion's life.

[@gamerdude999]

Especially after all he's endured since the SL days, big Ws here.

[@damo8791]

@@gamerdude999 True he had to deal with a lot of crap so I'm glad he's getting some Ws on the board and getting some praise. Must feel good

[@Jon_the_Wizard]

Blizzard's doing really cool and exciting things with WoW and I kind of love it. Big round of applause to see it. Really love the Warbands feature in particular.

[@simonic2063]

So excited for the Warband transmog system. Far too many times I've gotten items that I've farmed for years on a character that can wear it -- only to never have it drop, except on an alt that can't use it.

[@mirpanda1]

Nice profile photo.

[@curts7801]

I might actually want to play wow again. If they can get these changes through, this becomes a game worth coming back to. Good shit.

[@UkoKoromi]

Mee too man, w. cross real guilds itll be easier for lots of us to play together

[@AndarilhoMarco]

Delves sound like some of the jumping puzzles in Guild Wars 2. They have some platform gameplay, some combat, and you explore a cave to get some loot at the end.

[@Oliver_the_place]

Plus shared storage+resources, account wide achievements, the flying mounts, moving to regular mini expansions. They are stealing ideas from GW2! (a good thing)

[@Emidretrauqe]

I swear this game alternates between the most high end, intensive, esoteric number crunching and the most braindead faceroll-y cotent humanity has ever conceived. There continues to be no middle ground.

[@michaelpodlesny9227]

they were always good on hyping ppl on blizzcon, but after all the mess we gone through i cant get excited anymore

[@erikholum4772]

I just hope each Delve is unique and not some copy & pasted cave over and over. WoW does that too much, reusing assets every patch and expansion. I'd like more of this stuff to be hidden though. Provide random content for us to find and explore while leveling, that would make me want to be out in the world and discovering new things.

[@Emidretrauqe]

@@erikholum4772 Everything in WoW is just one giant target dummy. The only thing that changes are the swirlies that you need to move out of.

[@ericmats4662]

would be so cool if your own characters could come and do delves with you like npcs

[@Roald94]

maybe they will do that at some point. considering that they are accepting the idea that your characters exist together inside your account, they might consider in the future that they might as well just go and do shit with you. i wouldnt expect them to have a personality but sure they will have some power to help you. probably they could have a set of skills that they will cast, standard for every class.

[@mastershake8018]

It seems like that would be the natural direction to take with delves.

[@haberak3310]

That would probably be a demanding and tricky thing to pull off, but if they really do want to invest in Delves and Warbands in the future, it would be a great idea. Would also encourage people to have multiple characters of multiple playstyles levelled. That might be good (key word being might, it could very well go wrong, especially with how many WoW players go for over-efficiency)

[@mw4rdi]

Yes yes yes, just like heroes in Guild Wars 1

[@db212006]

Baby steps my friend, Baby steps.

[@CouldntFindGoodNamee]

I really hope they add visual changes to abilities. like make sure dks have wings if they use san'layn, add fantasy to these!

[@Roald94]

this probably is a experiment to test this new system, and then apply some visual elements to make it more apealing.

[@haberak3310]

If I remember the mock up they did of a warrior doing some abilities to show off hero specs, there were some nice visual differences

[@bonestryke5391]

In the examples they gave, this is exactly what they are doing.

[@GeneralSmolderas]

if they make stormbringer shaman call down thunderstorms everywhere and stormbringer on steroids, update their vfx it's gonna be crazy

[@Roald94]

@@GeneralSmolderasthey might be headed into that direction. consider that through the expansions they updated different classes and skills to make them more modern. so what you say, i see that as highly probable.

[@Rafmeistr]

Kinda hyped for the new character selection screen, makes sense now that you have more account wide progression. Gona be cool to have a gang of your favourite classes in matching gear on one screen. Its just a UI thing, but I can already tell it's gona be a huge W for making the game and characters feel more integrated as "your own" characters, but still unique to their own classes. And I think now I will have more incentive to try out new classes where the leveling and grind was simply too daunting before. A more diverse gaming experience with different classes, more playtime. win win for players and blizz.

[@eXcaligore]

Haven't heard a single thing I didn't like, excited to see how it plays out

[@raynorgaming]

Between Season of Discovery and many of the changes coming in The War Within such as the new spell book and hero talents they are clearly taking notice and lessons from Project Ascension (Classless WoW). Obviously, this makes sense and it makes even more sense that the developers are actually playing on Project Ascension and that would be supported by the fact that we know they were playing on many of the private servers hosting hard-core, which is what led them to decide to make their own hard-core server

[@midnightblue3285]

Its nice to see they are learning from the modders

[@scrantondangler8068]

What Sword? lmao Seeing Asmon change his shirt is rare. But I could see him wear this.

[@JaretCampisi]

All of these changes look awesome to me and makes me excited to come back and play wow after not playing for years.

[@nonstopjoliver]

The hero talents are a really good addition. Good direction. Future content progression could be additional hero archetypes to discover, or additional morphs to hero talents (damage types, attributes, etc.). This panel makes me want to resub. I will have to see if 10.2 is worth getting into though.

[@Roald94]

this seems to me that they are adding this archetypes to apeal to the older warcraft audience, the ones who played W3 and so.

[@nonstopjoliver]

@@Roald94 sure, that may be relavent but it is also a good idea for the game regardless of wc3. Wc3 may inform some of the hero archetypes, but this is a good idea for some flavor, future expansion flavor, and progression that will not overly complicate it like the 10+... tbc, wotlk, etc.

[@Roald94]

@@nonstopjoliver dont get me wrong, i like the direction they are taking. also i you consider the classic season of discovery, this is a test on how they could apply this to retail later. i remember people liked to experiment with talents and gems before and tried shit that normally crazy to try, like tanking with a class that was not meant for that. so... add more flavor to wow? yes please.

[@wtff]

I've never seen Ion so happy. You love to see it.

[@properwaffles]

He’s a fantastic presenter.

[@dscarmo]

It helps when you have the best content in blizzcon. This was way better than the whats next one in terms of content

[@menalgharbwalsharq648]

adding hero specs basically multiply the ridiculous amount of classes in wow by X hero specs. This is completely over the top and I love it

[@gamerdude999]

Class identity going through the roof now. I'm stoked

[@mort6578]

And a balance nightmare, as we have seen before. I hope they pull it off.

[@menalgharbwalsharq648]

@@mort6578 it was the best choice to make that hero spec, they can more easily tweak it mid course without doing definitive damage to the great work they pulled off in DF. And since they are planing a 3 xpac run, they will probably feel less forced to add "new" and "evergreen" stuff each xpac without people getting bored, they can just expand on this concept of hero class. I don't know but all this seem very well thought for once (hey they had 20 years to learn) They could even make the hero spec evolve into a mist of pandaria type of tree that is pure bonus on top of the base class and spec, with new spells that synergize with various specs in different ways

[@nidingale]

The amount of Ws is insane, it's about time

[@victorb5]

A lot of good changes and system improvements. Hopefully the Hero Class will feel significant as a specialization rather than just some extra bonuses. If they add some housing, improve the DF crafting system, and bring back a consistent Mage Tower / Brawler's Guild as evergreen systems the game would be in a good place for me. Edit: And maybe some more fun things like the dragonriding races. Having a number of fun events that pop up every so often would make the world feel a lot more engaging as well.

[@masonmcconnell9375]

I've been doing the dragonriding challenge races and they are legit fun and a true challenge I've enjoyed it

[@Noctis198]

I doubt this would be the best time to do housing lorewise because of a coming apocalypse, but WoW 2 would be a good bet for that...yes its gonna happen.

[@Auramus]

This had me on the edge of wanting to come back. The biggest W for me was the new BG, but I'd like to see more 40man bgs and updates to the old ones like Isle of Conquest. Not Ashran though, I wish they remove it from the queue.

[@zombesn]

ashran is nice when you have people to play with, i once queued ashran bg when it was that event where its permanent ashran and i queued up with a bg leader that had macros set up with messages like "follow me" "stack with me " "hold this zone" "push now" and we were playing it like a strategy game, it felt like we were playing warcraft 3, and surprisingly everyone was listening to him... we did events, regrouping, holding and won super hard untill the enemy team got the same experienced bg leader with commands , and it was insane how we were 40 v 40 and everyone was grouped and civilized, we were moving according to enemy movement and finally we ended up clashing every like 5-10 min with the enemy in epic battles. Everyone was grouping for objectives , farming scrolls, consumables, even giving me ( as a healer) the tip that if i click on a fire mote at the ogres i get infinite mana ( really really high mana regen) for like 10 minutes, and then after i get it we started epic fights. I spent my entire day in ashran and it was the best day i had in a while. But yea, 90% of ashrans with random ppl are just zug zugs that spread out across the entire map, ignore objectives and do nothing.

[@Jamie-ul6ww]

@@zombesn Been in an Ashran game just like this, was great - Felt like GW2 world vs world for a little while lol.

[@thelawenforcerhd9654]

@@zombesn Almost everybody but you two hates that guy. He's barking in your face every 30 seconds. The only reason he's there is because he's too bad to play RBG. Notice that you don't him see play alliance anymore-that's because the ally veterans got together and told him where to go. He regularly gets banned for breaking the t&c with communication software but for some reason Blizzard keep letting him back in. Do me a favour if you like that sort of gameplay and go play RBG and do not infect regular pvp with it.

[@Auramus]

​@@zombesn I ended up in Ashran a lot during Dragonflight. The first time of the week I didn't mind because of the honor and conquest quests associated with it, but after that I left 80% of the matches when I joined simply because I do not like being forced down a lane of death where 35 people will TAB target you if you're the closest enemy. The other 20% being 10% joined midgame and we're winning or 10% we got that leader guy to call the shots and pull a quick win most of the time. Note that I will always leave Ashran if I'm melee dps and not a Death Knight who can grip, because the other melee dps just dies straight away or remain stuck in a cycle of not being able to do anything at all to the enemy team without dying.

[@tblaken237]

Or make the 40v40's rated so everyone will actually try to win...I don't play them anymore just because nobody tries and it's a waste of 20 to 30 minutes

[@yuiop2703]

This has me actually excited to return to WoW for the new expansion. I basically just watched 45 straight minutes of raw W's

[@guyfromdubai]

I want to see more deadmines style content. The feeling you get from that dungeon literally every wow player remembers.

[@rbrk512]

I am not a WoW player but I'm happy to see this, hope this brings more competition to FFXIV and we get some real QOL stuff like this too

[@celphalonred1999]

Agreed. This seems like the most positivity the game has gotten in such a long time.

[@PlayerEIeven]

Delves will be coming to the old-world because they're focused on returning there in Midnight and The Last Titan. One could only assume that Delves (a permanent aspect of the game moving forward) will be coming all across Azeroth. ❤

[@Burritobandits]

Dont get hyped for Delves, remember how cool Torghast looked?

[@saphironkindris]

I'm actually pretty excited for Delve. Blizzard can't write a story worth shit these days, but they're at their best when stealing and improving on other games mechanics. They should do that more. Equipable NPC companions that fight with you is also pretty hype for me, sounds kind of like guild wars heroes. Warbands sounds like the legacy system from SWTOR which was great. Rare to say, but blizzard gets all W's today. Now lets see if they follow through on it.

[@moonkinx]

It's like Metzen gave them a one sentence solution to wow as soon he stepped into the meeting room: Give them what they want.

[@alexfrank5331]

It only took them 20 years to add these fundamental features that many other MMO have had for over a decade. Maybe Chris Metzen's leaving and coming back brought much needed perspectives.

[@jamesford5504]

Delves sound like scenarios from a previous expansion, and there just bringing back an old concept.

[@Grimdark887]

Delves sound perfect for someone like me, I havnt played much longer after finishing the past few expansions because it seemed like the only way to get meaningful gear was to do Mythic Plus or rated pvp. I like pvp but just like doing casual battlegrounds. Arena and Mythic Plus were just too sweaty for me. These Delves sound awesome!

[@KayoCity]

Every thing announced is amazing. Well done Ion and Team!

[@MichaelSwart-dl7sq]

ive played wow over the years but never ever got passed the new player experience, recently been messing around in classic and retail, at the moment im enjoying retail alot more cause of how fast the combat is, but im also excited for whats coming to classic and especially retail seeing that the game for a new player feels very messy and almost like a dead game, so getting a cohesive story i think will be great for new players like me

[@beastboy365]

i kinda see the hero specs being like the elite specializations in gw2. that would be cool if they delivered a unique play style like in gw2. like a ranged death night or a melee priest? im really hoping for a massive w for the hero specs brining some fresh relief for the game!

[@broccoli-_-joe1555]

excited for the cross-realm guilds, ever since all my friends stopped playing I've felt like there is no reason to play anymore. but this makes me think maybe I'll be able to create new friends between realms!

[@MrSherhi]

Me too, especially when you take several breaks and each time return to a dead server. I refuse to pay for transfers anymore.

[@HierophanticRose]

Delves look like DDO adventures, which I think are the most positive aspect of that game. I hope it also becomes something like an actual delve, using environment and non combat skills as well as combat of course, and with flexibility to those that just want action action action or a more methodical game can both enjoy.

[@liamglasel]

I'm genuinely considering returning to retail for this xpansion, actually seems interesting and as if they're TRYING to do better for the players. There's still a lot of time between now and then, so ya never know, maybe there'll be another scandal 😂 However, I am pleasantly surprised with both retail and classic, can't wait to try season of discovery. Rare blizzard W.

[@OmniarchOfficial]

Ian looks EXHAUSTED bro... bless him LOL

[@ragnorak5095]

I don't even play WoW but seeing all the QoL and alt friendly/ mandatory grinding reduction just seems like a W....makes me even want to try the game

[@moocorp4574]

Shared reputations is the thing I’ve wanted for like 10 years. I want the feeling of going into the reputation bar and seeing all to exalted. It has made me locked into my main.

[@Papachongo1972]

Not a single fail during this panel . Amazing

[@Icarus696]

Really nice ideas. Guess I'll check out the next expansion ;)

[@Eiszahn]

I havent touched wow since legion but this actually makes me consider giving it another chance. A lot of very good sounding changes. Only thing i am not a fan of is soulbound still beeing a thing. I'd rather gear be "warbound" so you can send it to alts even after equipping them once.

[@mootmanager9245]

It only took 20 years for Blizzard to figure out that the fanbase's wants are more important than theirs. I hope they bring WoW back to being something people enjoy. Instead of a game people play just to complain about the downfall of. I actually want to play again. Im actually excited for an expansion again. This hasnt been the case since TBC for me so I finally have a sense of relief about the future of WoW.

[@kokocaptainqc]

wow is a display of the stockholm syndrom in the video game world

[@a.o.skurtt]

something i really like about asmon is he listens to what some random commenters think, i remember suggesting he get the volume balancer that hasan uses, boom, probably reached out to hasan and asked what it was. makes it a lot better as I and many other people dont use headphones so makes it hard to hear if its not balanced correctly, thanks !

[@gustavobarbosa906]

All this integration allows for saving lots of space in their servers. It's one set of attributes for all toons in the warband.

[@mattdagger1480]

Saying it and following through with it is something blizzard has always struggled with. Ill believe the good words when i see it point blank... I do not trust words from any blizzard employee.

[@mattdagger1480]

Sick of being excited for retail and then it ending up being shit. Has happened since cata.... blizzcon always sounds great. Do not fall for it this time until they prove it with actual released content

[@DaKdawg]

A voice of reason. I will only be impressed after the initial feed back. They are not prepared for the millions of players with banks filled to the gills with stuff to come online and dump into the bank tabs. It's gonna be wildly successful and buttery smooth or the most epic dumpster fire to bear witness to.

[@bradshawboy02]

I know this may be a fringe request, but as a druid main that likes to play all specs in different aspects of the game, we need more saved talent builds. Having ST, AoE, pvp builds saved in 1 spec, sometimes multiple for different activities like M+ and raid as feral and tank, then swapping to healer or boomy to round out a group and not being able to have a saved build for them sucks.

[@dwohl29]

Tbh this is the one presentation that has made me want to return to Retail. I’m so excited ❤❤

[@restinginn9906]

22:35 - “They’re doing it! They’re stealing! YES!!” LMAOO

[@jxggxr_dxv]

So I haven't played since Jaina Mythic in BFA... now this has my interest, let's hope the implementation is done properly and they don't screw things up 'till release.

[@blackhorde22]

I'm still waiting for Guild Halls and Personal Housing you can Decorate and even use with Raid Portals in the Guild Halls so on.

[@thebiped]

Jesus my heart sank when I heard McConnell's prepubescent voice crack over everything and everyone speaking normally. I'd thought he'd gone away.

[@fattymatty9319]

So that warglaive I made with my warrior blacksmith will now be able to be picked up by my dh? And how many characters in a warband? 4?

[@DrHakennase]

We want ffin dungeons with interesting items. Not stat tokens. I want to get items out of dungeons and not the weekly chest

[@ahmadmraish5834]

As a returning player, I received a boost to 70 for buying the war within, I loved every bit of changed they did in Dragon Flight, what they are adding next is also amaaaaaazing. However, the thing I mostly hated... the amount of currency... it over complicates things... AND... the limitation to how many quests I can have active.... 50 is not enough...

[@kokocaptainqc]

lol true not a wow player but a lotro player....50 quests is usually the amount of unsoloable group content you gathered while leveling and you dont want to cancel them because you know you wont care to fetch them back so you do the whole endgame managing 2 or 3 quests slots ^^

[@Lucasaurios]

I got a little choked up when they announced warbands yesterday lmao, all these years suffering through the rep and currency grinds on multiple characters killed my soul little by little and now, finally the nightmare is over.

[@BelchingBeaver69]

You could have just stopped playing

[@Lucasaurios]

@@BelchingBeaver69 i did

[@masonmcconnell9375]

@gay4pay882 maybe he enjoys the game even If some shit sucks

[@defaultname7685]

You really got choked up dude?

[@masonmcconnell9375]

@@defaultname7685 people love wow man some people are more passionate then others

[@Jeffrey_Tyler]

All of this sounds amazing, but WoW will never be "saved" or "good again" until they find a way to make all the back content worth playing. Even with all of this stuff, you're still just confined to whatever the newest expansion is, and that's the biggest issue. The world is HUGE but you only use .001% of it.

[@GoodPunk]

Nice to see Ion on his redemption arc. :D

[@tracemcclain32391]

If the big chests are time gates by weeklys in any way. They need to have a system where whatever specific piece of loot you get is pertinent to your class and spec

[@kylemiller2920]

I'm guessing the big chest keys are to prevent people no-lifing or feeling like they have to spam delves endlessly for the best loot. As long as they add some sort of catch up mechanism for those starting late, I have no problem with them limiting the weekly rewards of the top tier chests.

[@Chakeis]

I hope they start to make old content relevant again, at least making dungeons playable despite your level like in FFXIV. Would be cool to get a MoP dungeon when queuing for a random etc.

[@VindicAlpha]

To quote an old game about the "why" of this sudden turnaround in retail WoW... "Of course they're desperate. They can smell their death and the sound they'll make rattling their cage will serve as a warning to the rest." This is nothing more than the reaction of company execs panicking about their falling stocks and profits finally listening to the actual game designers and programmers instead of marketing for any hope of salvation. The moment the game goes back up, they'll grow arrogant again.

[@adrianl415]

Holy shit they are actually listening to feedback and what people want.

[@10forthebigguy61]

Thisbis the thing ive always pushed for a self guild bank and account reagents and the transmog simplification when stuff i want drops w the stuff im not on

[@ObservingLibertarian]

I look forward to seeing what they've done with Frostfire, that was my favorite mage spec of all time in Wrath and they nixed it in Cata.

[@Beranin]

They nixed it in MoP. You can still run FF bolt in Cata.

[@tesladrew2608]

​​@@Beraninpretty sure mop still have ffbolt. I'd have to double-check but I think legion removed it

[@ObservingLibertarian]

@@Beranin Bolt - but not spec. Cata is when they implemented forced-specs, whereby you couldn't plot your talent points however you wanted, you had to choose a tree and couldn't spec out of it aside from very few points.

[@pmcfearson9453]

I wish the hero gear or talents were gated behind skill based heroic quests like the legion gear and mage tower.

[@ShaLLx64]

And I thought Delves were Dark Elves

[@Linkshandigen]

I'm happy to see the Delves and I like the sound of them. I feel that the open world is WoW's greatest strength and yet the endgame drives players to spend the vast majority of their time in instanced content.

[@sockmonkey3393]

it would be cool if evokers got the chance to fly like a mount. and not just a big burst of speed.

[@twinmama16]

Good thing they're making this change in 10.2.5

[@danh7397]

the delve reminds me of the isle of thunder hidden rooms with challenges and loot boxes that you had to have keys to open

[@mynameiscal3478]

Dang, some of yall cant be pleased, if you hate the game that much, just move on, its not that hard

[@charlayned]

I've been playing retail all along, had some issues I wanted changed but not enough to jump on the "okay, this sucks" wagon. THIS made me excited, I can do a lot of new things, run alts, save banks, and just......fun. Can't wait.

[@Bisskits]

We are almost at the honeymoon phase again...cant wait to hear how horrible this all is a month after release.

[@Tucarius]

How are they doing the delve transition without loading screens? Since everyone /group will clearly need their own instance, it seems like they'll be doing it with layers somehow. I suspect there's going to be problems...

[@LottyLettuce]

I've literally never played WoW but this all seemed amazing (especially being a lost ark player💀). Adding in alternative end game progression to raids lowers the barrier to entry significantly. I was always hesitant due to the cost/crazy add-ons required for raiding, but if this is a sign of things to come then i may have to give it a shot whenever it releases

[@DWlsh43]

how tf you playin Lost ark but have never played WoW

[@celphalonred1999]

​@@DWlsh4399% of the response to wow is very negative. And last i logged 90% of the servers were low pop with a couple on high, which also had loads of Chinese bots. People would tend to turn away from bothering.

[@joravensong548]

@@celphalonred1999 WoW is more culturally significant than whatever MMO you are playing right now.

[@gachigasm3210]

@@joravensong548 thats cool and true but current WoW players are living in the past

[@onducleric]

@@celphalonred1999 You must be on a dead region, on EU you have 9 "Full" Servers and 41 "High" pop servers

[@Alky697]

Anyone know what browser extention he used at 1:15 ?

[@Nick-rl8pn]

Dude. Those transmog collection changes in warband alone will bring me back. Wow. I think the biggest concern I have at this point is that the individual player xp demand for Mythic Raiding/M+ dungeons will still be so far and above the new/casual player-welcoming level that it continues to foster toxic social interactions and turn away or otherwise exclude non-elitists (which is the vast majority of the player base) as compared to the vanilla-wotlk experience which was far more inclusive and less cutthroat with the learning curve and therefore superior to what WoW is in retail today (hence classic-wotlk popularity). It would be the win of all wins if they just dialed back the difficulty of endgame retail content to where pugs were mostly viable enough to eradicate the elitist toxicity that castrates so much of the new player influx in the game these days. I don't care if mythic raiding is simplified to where I don't need 20 addons to beat the hardest content. I'll just turn my attention to an alt or 2 if I reach the pinnacle on my mian and foster further social interaction with an alt raid/m+ progression team in my guild. This might be the first xpac where the aesthetic/story theme of the expansion is almost an irrelevant afterthought to me because of the sheer volume of highly desirable QoL changes they are implementing here. Just wow. Great job, Blizz. 9.5/10 Blizzard. Thoroughly impressed.

[@azzii1965]

Man it just feels good that Blizz is finally getting with the times

[@LemonMan91]

Really feels like Ion is suddenly allowed to be much more honest and open, and even make fun of their past decisions.... Makes me wonder if our old pal Phil Spencer has lengthened his leash...

[@JG-PyroTX]

I feel like Blizzard just said "so you know how we've ignored you for 20 years? So ya were actually going to listen to you now."

[@agentsmith2378]

I never played wow and i feel left out wen Asmon does content on it i wish i had made some time to try it.

[@Halibut86]

Delves AKA Scenarios always end up being residentsleeper content, as by opening accessibility for "groups without a healer" they must make the content trivially easy. Sure there's room for them to not suck, but most likely will end up being pointless. One of the key points touched on was Avoiding combat, which is anti-gameplay at its core. There would need to be new interesting ways to avoid combat instead of just stealth and staying 25 yards away, as well as significant reward for properly doing so.

[@octavice]

This really makes me want to come back to WoW, and I gave up a long time ago.

[@Emidretrauqe]

Happens every expansion.

[@thepiazzaexperience]

35:40 hopefully dynamic flying from the beginning. I don’t want to “unlock” it