Shadowlands Interview with Ion Hazzikostas and Tonton - Open World Lag, Swapping Covenants, PvP Power

Shadowlands Geposted 09.07.2020 um 12:25 von Squishei

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LiveblogCovenant Abilities and Soulbinds

You can use them everywhere.

Once you hit max level and join a covenant, and have a soulbind, it's part of your character.

Covenant Abilities in PvP

They have the ability to have custom tuning in PvP.

The last thing they want to do is disabled something completely.

Will Covenants become the new factions?

The Covenants aren't exactly enemies against each other.

The can occasionally come into conflicts; there may be some PvP stuff that might be Covenants v. Covenants when it makes sense, but only when it makes sense.

PvP Problems

BFA was systems on top of systems and created some pretty broken systems and complexity.

They're learned from some tuning mistakes from things like corruption and essences -- passive dots or effects aren't exactly a reflection of skill.

Mage Tower

Down the line, there's room for additions. The Mage Tower was partway through Legion.

There are a number of customizations that can be earned from challenges like from the Covenant's Path of Ascension or Torghast's Twisted Corridors.

Larger Rewards for Mythic+/PvP

A portion of the reward is ego.

They don't want to push the reward ladder too high - every class can complete a +20 in time, every class can get 2400 in time.

They admit that they're not perfectly balanced but they don't want people to have a pressure there for in-game rewards.

PvP Power

PvP Power was an internal experiment that was datamined.

There are no plans to add a stat like that -- they want to make sure that it's clear what spells perform best.

They've decided that PvP only stats are not the right thing for the game at this time.

Shadowlands Launch

It's a little early to say if there will be anything special for the Shadowlands launch.

Changing Covenants and Being Meta

Covenants are set up to be a different choice than specs or talents.

WoW is a series of interesting choices -- from buttons to gear and talents to class and faction

Covenants are intended to be part of your identity.

There's a lot of customization, if you go into a dungeon, you pick the AoE conduits and the AoE soulbind.

Nadjia which was shown yesterday is more single target focus and you can socket single target conduits and use that as your single target conduit.

When returning to a Covenant, it's going to be much harder to prove yourself back to the Covenant since you left via a quest.

It should be a similar choice to deciding between Mage and Hunter.

Battleground and Arenas

New Arena in Bastion, no new Battleground

Tertiary Stats

Tertiary stats will probably be about how it is now.

Lag in Open World Battles

It's been going back all the way to WoTLK and Wintergrasp.

They've been working on it over the past year.

The problem is the game is more complicated, there was a preach video that speculated what was going on and he wasn't too far off.

However, it's an explanation, not an excuse. Ion knows it feels terrible and they're been working on many optimizations

Prepatch

Will probably be a few weeks before Shadowlands launch

Level squish and systems will be live.

Inspired by the Scourge event from WoTLK

They're gonna tell the story of how the Heroes of Azeroth are gathering in Icecrown and preparing for the Assault.

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