Where is wow headed

It is similar to past expansions after the game is out for a few months people get burned out and disgruntled. I Like Shadowlands and do enjoy the game leveled up a few toons and like to be competitive but not let the game consume me at the same time. Torghast is indeed boring but it is not grueling of a task since they nerfed it… it should take no more than a hour to clear both wings. Overall they could have tried to make it somewhat fun instead of just being a weekly chore. Boosters have pretty much ruined PvP.

Makes it almost impossible for casual players to enjoy the game and gear up. But how is another mans finances your concern? Well this is a natural progression for having a development team consisting of PVE Heroes pandering to shareholders. People unsubbing faster then most of us ever saw it. PVE guilds falling apart due to loot issue. PVP is a shadow of what it used to be and getting worse. You get all these different insights that are really cool. You're talking about secrets - maybe I can answer your question a little bit without giving too much away.

Pretty quickly you'll meet this character who is an archivist - they want to protect these relics. They have this tome, this book in which they're cataloguing all the things that have been lost. As you're killing rare enemies and doing quests and finding the treasure behind the waterfall, that kind of thing, you're going to be finding these pieces of research that you can share with this guy to learn more, and craft new items.

That can result in some really cool secret opportunities that open Korthia up over time. One that's really cool is there's this hidden rift within Korthia that's difficult to access at first. You might access it at first a little bit into the update and find the giant boss who was hiding in plain sight. And you can use an item you craft to pull him back out into normal Korthia and then everybody around you can help you fight it and get an epic reward.

That boss has been there the whole time - you might have been playing through there for a couple weeks and had no idea. That's just one. There are all of these hidden little things we put throughout Korthia for players to find that keep piling on top of each other to be cooler and cooler as you learn more and expand your reputation. Johnny Cash: There's a lot of secrets hidden in Korthia, right?

And we've heard little snippets here and there about some of these groups, like the First Ones. The Primus' message to us early in Shadowlands has a mention of these First Ones in a vague kind of way. That kind of information is something we would never want the Jailer to find out. Will we learn more about them? What will we learn? I don't want to spoil the coolest parts of the patch!

But what I can tell you is there are a lot of things players have learned a little bit about in Shadowlands so far - and characters like Uther, Tyrande or what the Jailer's up to, what his ultimate plan is - we're going to learn more about a lot of those things in Chains of Domination. We'll get some more questions, too! But we're also going to answer a lot of things. Some of the answers players have really been searching for are going to be really satisfying to finally hear.

You're putting Sylvanas as the final boss of the new raid. What can you say about how that fight will go?

What might we learn? Also, I'm not going into this fight expecting to defeat Sylvanas because it's Sylvanas. So how do you create a meaningful boss fight when everyone expects her to live to fight another day? Johnny Cash: As you do the story in Korthia and you're playing through the new chapters, you're going to be building up to that moment, building up to this fateful encounter with Sylvanas that some people hoped would never come and some people have been waiting for for a very long time - and maybe that's different depending what character you're playing.

The Sylvanas fight, the team has put so much love and energy into making this one of the coolest encounters we've ever done. It is spectacular. I know players on PTR [Public Test Realm] have seen a hint of it, but as we've finished everything up and the final visuals are in, and all the extra mechanics and all that kind of thing, it's so spectacularly cool.

One thing that's cool during the fight is you get to see the different phases of Sylvanas as we've known her over the past many, many years. So we get to fight her as the Ranger General, but also as the Banshee Queen, and also as this Maw-empowered ally of the Jailer.

And so we get to see all those different facets of Sylvanas that we've come to know her as over the years. And the thing that people haven't seen on PTR yet, and the thing that Nobody wants spoilers - you want to see it for yourself in the moment and earn that for your character - but we're going to learn a lot of things about where the story of the Shadowlands is going, what the fate of Sylvanas is, and where everything stands.

Those questions people want to know, we're going to have answers to. And I am really excited for people to hear those answers! It's interesting you mention upcoming cinematics. What do you think of players who datamine the patch before it's out and release these unfinished cinematics and dialogue, which players then use to search for clues and potential story developments?

It all gets spoiled before launch, doesn't it? Frank Kowalkowski: Players are passionate and they're willing to go through very extreme lengths to try and figure out what's next because they want to figure out what's next. They're very connected to their characters, the game and the story of the Shadowlands in the greater World of Warcraft universe. From our perspective, we'd prefer people to play through and see it as intended, because then they'd have all the context they need.

But I'm excited the players are excited. Speculation is part of the fun of anticipation, right? Going back to Sylvanas, fans want to know if she's set for a redemption arc.

I think a lot of what that is about is seeing the terrible things Sylvanas has done and some of the cool things she's done, and it being difficult to marry the two sides. Where do you guys stand on the ongoing debate about Sylvanas and whether a redemption arc for her could ever be justified? Johnny Cash: Sylvanas is a complicated character, right? As you mentioned, she's done great and terrible things.

And I think rightfully deserves judgment on either side, depending on who you are, and what speaks more strongly to you. And we treat Sylvanas like any of our marquee characters - these big characters that are really important to the Warcraft storyline, we always want to do them justice and find the right opportunity to tell their story in the best way that we can.

Sylvanas is such a popular character and such a polarising character that people feel strongly about her one way or the other. And ultimately, our goal at the end of the day is to tell her story and to tell it in the context of the greater narrative that we want to weave for people.

We know little about the origins of Voidwalkers , after all. They could well be a cosmic form of the Sha or akin to them. If negative emotions can create negative entities, how much negativity can the destruction of a world generate?

The Abyss and our tendency to stare right into it We're going to Pandaria as part of the escalating conflict between the Horde and the Alliance. Our presence there and the fact that we bring our wars with us will destablize a world that's been apart for 10, years, bring back the Sha, set the ancient Mogu on the path to reclaiming their empire from the Pandaren, and otherwise upset a whole mess of apple carts. One of the aspects of this conflict that I think will need to be sharpened is the tendency to try and show that neither faction is composed of plaster saints or Snidely Whiplash clones.

We'll need to see the Alliance attack more often, more aggressively, and in a more convincing manner than the half-hearted Camp Taurajo massacre. Sentinel Pyrophus. Mugrem the Soul Devourer. Kazj The Sentinel. Sentinel Shakorzeth. Intercessor Razzra. Gruukuuek the Elder. Algel the Haunter. Malleus Grakizz. Flight School: Up and Away!

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