Developer Q&A - Senior Game Designer Paul Kubit

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Developer Q&A - Senior Game Designer Paul Kubit
Paul Kubit will be talking about patch 7.2.5 content including: Black Temple Timewalking, the Deaths of Chromie, Trial of Style, The Great Gnomeregan Race, and more!

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Trial of Style

• Trial of Style will make all transmog changes and haircuts free!
• It is a five day event that may run multiple times per year. It depends on how it feels when it goes live.
• Trial of Style rewards are previously obtainable transmog appearances, but they aren't as easy or desirable to get anymore.
• This is the first season of Trial of Style. More appearances could be added as rewards.

Illusions on Hunter Weapons

• The team didn't make the technical changes to add enchant appearances to bows and guns.
• A fiery gun might look odd.

Secrets

• Foreshadowing exists in the game now, in places where you might not expect it.

Class Mounts

• You will be able to go back and get your class mounts after Legion.

Pet Battle Dungeons

• Patch 7.2.5 adds the Deadmines pet battle dungeon.
• The team will keep adding pet battle content as long as players are interested in it.

.5 Patches

• It is good to have smaller patches that include some content for players that aren't always the majority of the playerbase.
• The smaller patches also allow the team to react to player feedback and offer new content more often.

Legendary Item Upgrades

• You will need to collect items from playing the game to upgrade your legendary item, similar to the item level 940 upgrade.
• You won't have to accept the quest to start collecting those quest items.
• The upgrade item will bring your legendary to item level 970, so you will only have to do the upgrade once.

World Quests

• The base item level of World Quest rewards won't be going up. They went up in Patch 7.2.
• When Mythic ToS opens, the Titanforge cap will go up, but the base item level will not increase.

Black Temple Timewalking

• Your level and item level will be scaled down to an appropriate level for the old raid.
• You will be able to get rewards that are appropriate for your character level.
• It will be open during the Burning Crusade timewalking weekly event.
• It will be tuned towards the low side of Normal difficulty.
• The team wasn't against making it similar to Raid Finder in difficulty, but the encounters are relatively complex and removing mechanics would ruin the feeling.
• There may be raid groups that won't be able to clear it and that is okay.
• You will need to go in with a premade group.
• A single player could wipe the raid on Gorefiend. The mechanics still exists.

Raid Pacing

• The raid release pacing in Legion has worked out pretty well so far.

Glory of the Tomb Raider

• Armaments of the Legion don't exist anymore. They were Legion weapon appearances. There weren't appearances for all types of weapons, so they changed the achievement.
• The team didn't want to do a mount this time, as class mounts were just unlocked.
• The Tomb Raider title and pet are in the latest build.

Great Gnomeregan Race

• This is a micro-holiday that has players run from Gnomeregan to Booty Bay.
• This was inspired by the Running of the Gnomes community event.
• Micro-Holidays aren't usually based on real holidays, but instead things that happen or could happen in Azeroth.
• The team talked to the organizers of the Running of the Gnomes event to make sure they were okay with this event.

Legendary Item Equip Cap

• There are no plans to increase the cap to 3 at this time.
• The team has changed legendary items to make them all more competitive with each other.
• Increasing the cap to 3 would make it take longer for alts and more casual players to catch up.
• Keeping the cap at 2 also allows for more flexibility to wear different set pieces and keep the bonuses.

Third Relic Slot

• There aren't plans to make the third relic slot available right away at Level 110. The team wants it to be a reward for completing your campaign.
• The amount of effort required for each step has been reduced as the expansion went on.

Order Hall Champion Item Level

• There are no plans to add a champion item level catch up item at this time.
• This kind of catch up was more important in Warlords, as missions were more essential to your gameplay.
• The Elite Strike missions do require a higher item level and adding a catch up mechanism takes away from these missions being challenging.

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