WoW: The War Within | Asmon Reacts to BlizzCon 2023 

thanks i couldnt find it

Thx a bunch dude 👍

No it did not

Ta!

Lies. It started at 0:01

its all empty words

Words are one thing, but actions another.

empty words

@@kieranlangley3092 classic andy malding in the comments 😂

sounds like a good thought

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

@@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.

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

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

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

Hail yeah, editors are on top of it

reason? why couldnt you see it live?

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

it was instantly online on youtube tho.

@@josephhamilton3822What? Busy doing what? People have lives?

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

@@ramonandrajo6348 someone sounds a little butt hurt.

@@ramonandrajo6348Found the classic andy

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

@@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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

@@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.

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

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

It's what ESO has. Microsoft's _other_ MMO.

@@Emidretrauqe neither of those mmos have instanced delves. if anyone LOTRO just released this two months ago

You mean swtor heroics?

I feel like the Bran bronzebeard companion thing is similar to SWTOR as well

This is what Blizzard has done best for 15 years. Steals something from other games and makes it 100x better. Hope they keep it up!

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

Lots of practice!

He was a lawyer before he started on at blizzard.

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

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

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.

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

True

​@@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.

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

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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.

@@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.

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

@@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

Nice profile photo.

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

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

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

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

@@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.

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

@@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.

@@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.

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

Its nice to see they are learning from the modders

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

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.

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.

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

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)

Yes yes yes, just like heroes in Guild Wars 1

Baby steps my friend, Baby steps.

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

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

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

@@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

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.

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

how tf you playin Lost ark but have never played WoW

​@@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.

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

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

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

Good thing they're making this change in 10.2.5

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

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

@@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.

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.

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

@@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.

​@@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.

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

Man this is an entirely different response from the crowd… where it was mum and silent.. we have damn near a standing ovation 👏

Happens every expansion.

Find me a f2p mmo as massive as WoW.

Sounds like with the unified banking system there should be a way around that. I'd be very surprised if after all the pitch and work we log in do the thing and your rogue is still stuck with something it can't use. We'll see.