Rise of Azshara Content Preview Live Stream

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Rise of Azshara Content Preview Live Stream
Senior Game Designer Jeremy Feasel is sitting down to unveil the curtain on what is coming next in content Patch 8.2 - Rise of Azshara!

• PTR Date - Next week
• Story
  • Sylvanas has learned something and has sent a few Horde Champions out to sea to see it.
  • The Alliance gives chase.
  • Azshara plays her cards here, and the sea opens up, swallowing our ships and giving air to the new zone Nazjatar, formerly under the sea.
• Other Features Not Yet Announced
  • Mount Equipment
  • Robodrome - New Areana
  • Ashran returns as an epic battleground.
• Nazjatar
  • Horde meets the Unshackled.
  • Alliance meets the Ankuran.
  • We will help these factions build up their bases and earn reputation.
  • We will be able to pick one of three combat allies to adventure with us day to day.
    • They level up to a max of 30.
    • Leveling them up makes them stronger and helps progress the story.
  • World quest bosses have affixes and take over points.
  • More world quests can be unlocked through questing.
  • The story involves building up a base, discovering how to counter the naga, and getting the Javelin of Suramar artifact to break open the gates of Azshara's Eternal Palace.
• Azshara's Eternal Palace
  • Underwater boss that snakes in and out of holes.
  • The Azshara fight will change the future of Azeroth.
• Mechagon
  • Rustbolt is a small town that has been fighting against King Mechagon.
  • King Mechagon is building a doomsday device to turn everyone into robots.
  • We will help the mechagnomes rebuild the island.
  • The goal is to make it feel like an engineering playground.
  • Tasks around the island will have you complete quests and gather resources to rebuild the island.
  • Visitor System - 3 thematic visitors visit the island everyday that change the zone and offer a unique daily quest with an awesome rewards.
  • Everything here is open ended and found at your own pace.
  • Some hints are a hat that you can collect and find new color schemes for or a robot spider that eventually becomes a mount if build up enough.
  • The world quests have rare timers or unique methods to spawn them, offering unique rewards.
  • Pascal the Robot needs to be built up to unlock new things over your adventure in Mechagon.
  • Mechano-cat mount is a reward you can build.
• Operation Mechagon: Megadungeon
  • Starts by entering a trash compactor.
  • City has been weaponized against you.
  • King Mechagon is the final boss.
• Pocket-Sized Computational Device
  • New trinket that you cuztomize with punch cards you earn from Mechagon and the dungeon
• Magni Story
  • Essence of the Titans are no longer clinging to Azeroth as it dies.
  • We want to rebuild the Chamber of Heart.
  • Heart Forge - Used to absorb essences and seal wounds of Azeroth.
• Heart of Azeroth
  • Constellation grid lets you slot an essence into tree, picking a major slot (active ability) and two minor slots (passive bonus.)
  • Essences have multiple different types and ranks.
  • Higher ranks gain not just damage, but higher utility.
  • Higher difficulty content gives u higher ranks, including the highest rank which also has a cosmetic aspect.
  • Essences come from almost all content in the game.
• Heritage Armor
  • Gnome and Tauren quests to unlock Heritage Armor.
• War Campaign
  • Baine is locked up undernearth Orgrimmar.
  • His fate and the fate of those who followed him will be revealed in this patch.
• Heroic Warfronts
  • Initially for Stromgarde
  • Heroic Warfronts will be much different.
  • They want to focus on the strategic aspects found in RTS games like Starcraft. Examples are special units sent at your base that needs to be defended, enemy commander appearing on the field, and where to best put resources at the moment.
• PvP
  • Robodrome Areana
  • Ashran Epic Battleground
• Island Expeditions
  • New rewards
  • Crestfall will have a lot of lore from Warcraft II.
• Flying
  • Mechanical parrot is reward for unlocking flying.
  • Flying is unlocked in Kul Tiras, Zandalar, Mechagon and Nazjatar once the achievement is completed.
• Mount Equipment
  • Equipped in mount slot and grants a buff to all mounts
  • Examples include water walking, a slow fall, and the ability to not be dazed.
• New Rewards
  • Machano-wheel mount
  • Crab mount
  • New customizable robot pet
  • Tidal Guardian tamable by hunters.
  • Snap Dragon mount
• New Table Missions
• Brewfest Revamp
• New Profession recipes

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