Ask Creative Development — Round III Answers

Ask Creative Development — Round III Answers

The heroes of Azeroth have faced down many foes; blazing Elemental Lords freed from titanic prisons, mighty demons from beyond the stars, armies of shambling corpses and even eldritch gods who defy explanation. And yet, there exist only a chosen few equipped to deal with the powerful beast that is . . . Ask CDev. Through the heroic efforts of our brave loremasters here at CDev Publishing, we proudly present to you the answers to Ask CDev #3! We even managed to get them out before our stated deadline of “when the Andromeda galaxy collides with our own.”

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Beadie
Gundrak
Beadie
9/10/2012
Do you think crossrealming on to new player servers could be an issue to keeping them to sub or is there not enough newbies coming it to justify this happening? Im on a low pop realm which is stated for new players and have chatted to more casual players (possibly newer players) about getting camped already..... consistently lol
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Eliasren
Blackwater Raiders
Eliasren
9/9/2012
When does this game go totally free to play?
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Dåmen
Shadowsong
Dåmen
9/16/2012
@Eliasren: hopefully not for a while.. F2P = alot less content and alot less patches normally.
And considering how slow updates come on a p2p model i dont even wanna think what it would be like if this game had no monthly free. Imo this game will stay like this until it dies out.
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Duggalnn
Muradin
Duggalnn
9/9/2012
I would like if they made some new pvp maps :)
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Zorii
Anub'arak
Zorii
9/10/2012
@Duggalnn: Ive often thought if they can bring out a new raid with each patch why not bring ??out a new bg to
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Palinko
Zuluhed
Palinko
9/9/2012
It was us in Us and Canada that had to do the hole password and Q&A dame spyware scan popped up and was not able to per read before i posted it
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Palinko
Zuluhed
Palinko
9/9/2012
I read last night the old lore of wow try to come up with a new name and would like to know if you guys had planed to make this wow like the old game or was it just that the story's line kinda crossed over. If not then you should look back at the time line to see how you can bring the burning legion back in with out might of the hunt for new story line. Also like to add are you guys going to fix the wow AUTHENTICATOR CODE to be used each time we logged in cause I recall the mother had asked you guys this a last year blizz con panle. Only reason I bring it up now I recall just weeks ago we in the to re-due passwords and Q&A for a few days . This would make me feel that it was worth the $$ i spen to have it sent up to me was worth it
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Selexia
Khadgar
Selexia
9/9/2012
Will there be a pre event quest line for Mists ? If so, when will it start ?
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Ruinicpower
Ragnaros
Ruinicpower
9/10/2012
@Selexia: as for I know, there will be the event of teramore island, when garrosh goes insane and launches an attack to teramore, and jaina has to protect it and stuff. That will be available "the weeks before mists is out" so im guessing, this week or the other. It will award a feat of strength if you do it before pandaria comes out.
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Natality
Shadowmoon
Natality
9/11/2012
@Selexia: I read somewhere it starts the 17th i believe

cant wait :3
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Deadnightelf
Borean Tundra
Deadnightelf
9/9/2012
The legendary weapons pre cataclysm, you should be able to trans mog.
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Bellyriaa
Zul'jin
Bellyriaa
9/9/2012
Some Ideas I'm Interested in:

What will role of Draenei in the future. For now they seem to be on the back burner as patches go on. You would think that things would be heating up with them lately as they are seeing things happen on Azeroth echo something Sargeras had his hand in as what happened on Argus. Right now they seem to be just left hanging with no purpose after BC.

Regarding massive capital city targets. I know the forsaken are just sitting tight in northern side of the Continent awaiting info from their allies. With the alliance (in particular humans [but also NE / Worgen]) encroaching on Org the horde hasn't made any serious inroads on the other side. Stormwind was overran once before but held off. Will the capital regions ever be a prime target once again? This would really heat up the hostilities of the two sides and introduce some great stress / strain on all relations between allied and hostile factions. Would the trolls stay and help the orcs if Org was attacked or run to save their hides? Would Dwarves shelter themselves if SW was the same? Would get some really deep and interesting story lines from that.

Also will there be more insight into the Windrunner family. Other than Sylvannas they have remained hidden. Alleria is MIA, Veressa hasn't done much outside Grim Batol. Well about the specific family there have been a few lovable chars/families whose story hasn't been fully realized. With overarching story lines some of the smaller more intimate lines have been left hanging. Would be nice to see some of those items back in game.

Far out question (this one is less serious and more in fun :P dont take this as anything but a joke)? Any thoughts of converging the three big franchises? For example we being wrong on the absolute size of Azeroth as such on the other side there is The Sanctuary. Upon digging to help clean up deepholm we find a world stone. Only to find diablo. Along side We find that sargaras was actually not the only conflict in the universe and parts of a UED expeditionary fleet land on azeroth because of the exodar's energy readings. This could lead into a fully universe wide story line with drae helping out to face the dominion. LOL I KNOW just a joke (dont kill me for this one)
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Aoibheil
Crushridge
Aoibheil
9/14/2012
@Bellyriaa: we draenei are already forgotten..long time ago, just like the worgan, soon the pandas..Blizz will be off looking for another creature to make human like..instead of developing the rich story lines there already..
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Bowdown
Moon Guard
Bowdown
9/9/2012
Would like to see more going on with the Warsong Clan. After Northrend they don't seem to have as much use, say for the Ashenvale logging. What happens with them after Warcief Hellscream is gone? Would also be nice to see some dailies from them or high level quest that would give rep, seeing how it is a long grind to get exalted with them from the Warsong Gulch battleground.
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Sharkerdruid
Dawnbringer
Sharkerdruid
9/9/2012
Cross Realm servers is a simple business decision for Blizz - less hardware to support the game> No different than packed airlines to maximum profit per flight. Simpliflying the game - same story. Hardcore (dieheart) players play far more for their $15 - Blizz wants to attract the casual player, make it easy to compete and spend 5 hours a week playing.
I was attracted to the game because of the depth of content and it gets shallower with every revision. Blizz didn't hit a home run with this one, more like life support for a dyng patient.
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Odinsdkkillu
Quel'dorei
Odinsdkkillu
9/9/2012
im a huge dk fan will their be more of a role coming our way in this expansion? or is the focus on new class?.... as well i love the concept of pet battling system but i saw a preview of the skills in this last patch and noticed that some of my rare or special edition pets don't have advanced tactics verses easy to pets just pointing this out since they where harder to get or cost actual case to get. will their be something to reflect the rarity in the pet battling or is it gona be same for all vanity/battle pets ?
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Odinsdkkillu
Quel'dorei
Odinsdkkillu
9/9/2012
@Odinsdkkillu: were* cash*
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Sølelustrø
Shandris
Sølelustrø
9/8/2012
any chance of more of the vanilla pvp/ more of the vanilla pve gear becoming available for EVERYONE to mog? i know it was harder to get that pvp gear because of the ranks..but for someone like me...who worked for them on my original account and then made a new account should be able to enjoy it..personally the vanilla gear was the best looking stuff of any version..i would LOVE to see more available versions for mogs
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Cthugha
Windrunner
Cthugha
9/8/2012
I would like to see a new spec for each class after MoP and tri-spec specialization with it.
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Ballum
Norgannon
Ballum
9/8/2012
We use to trade for the low level pvp gear in Ashenvale with honor points. I went there and half the items are no longer available. The neck, rings and capes are gone. Where did they move the vendor ?
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Lexarius
Kael'thas
Lexarius
9/8/2012
I would like to See The legion Come Back as well. They are the enemy that is always there so... Where are they. I also Would like to see demon Hunters come back maybe in the next Xpac as a class.
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Centuriön
Mannoroth
Centuriön
9/9/2012
@Lexarius: The Legion will come back. from what ive read sargeras will be the top boss in all of WoW in the end. So if hes going to be brought in then the legion has to come back, everything that has happened so far has led to him returning.
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Misswaka
Agamaggan
Misswaka
9/8/2012
It seems like the legion just got booted away like it was a side line, needs to have a more broad front. they seem now like they need someones help to do anything
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Misswaka
Agamaggan
Misswaka
9/8/2012
When will you bring back the legion storyline, and will you introduce an old god this xpac? plz say yes because the whole game seems to revolve around that and its a good story
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Beetroot
Nordrassil
Beetroot
9/8/2012
why did you can shamans in such a huge way
1 totem at a time= not as fun almost to the point where u must rethink "do i want to to play shaman in MoP?" PLUS all casters are op and its just awful. seems like mages have never been this OP
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Mihyel
Frostwolf
Mihyel
9/11/2012
@Beetroot: Mages are very powerful now, but it's more like it was in vanilla. We're glass cannons. I'm fire and I blow ppl away, but once my defenses are breached I go down pretty fast. I don't think we're OP, but we are very nasty if not dealt with properly.
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Xandér
Hydraxis
Xandér
9/8/2012
I don't believe I'll be playing anymore once my game time is up simply because of your cross realm bs. It would've been nice to have some say in this and the new race. Lag is up tenfold and finishing dailies, gathering profession items and hunting rare pets and mounts is just insanely difficult now. You failed when you introduced cross realm. That was such a horrible idea. I think you should remove it or have new realms that can use that feature that way it's up to the player to be bombarded by people from other realms trying to do the exact same thing you are doing.
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@Xandér: I agree that the cross realm thing is kind of screwed up personally I think that it should only cross realm with the same type/style realms like the RP realms can only cross with RP realms, PvP with PvP, PvE with PvE and RP-PvP with RP-PvP
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Healsbyme
Bloodhoof
Healsbyme
9/8/2012
@Xandér: I think Blizz is preparing for the fail to bite them in the !@# as soon as the novelty of a new race and class wears off.... other than that.... nothing they have done is worth it's weight in steaming piles of poo
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Twilink
Auchindoun
Twilink
9/8/2012
@Xandér: It's a MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER online game. The cross realms thing is buggy right now, but it is going to be the best thing that ever happened to this game. A little competition for the Time-Lost Protodrake will make it all the sweeter to summon, it's finally putting us on par with a high-pop server without dealing with the trolls from other servers chat logs. The world PVP is back with a vengeance, and it will bring life to what was otherwise a dead world. Please work out the kinks soon Blizzard, and thank you guys for all your work!
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Evidently
Lightbringer
Evidently
9/9/2012
@Twilink: im not worryied about the bugs of cross realm areas im !@#$ing pissed that i have to stay in an area 4x as long because i cant kill the guys i need to kill or gather the things that i need to i find my self racing other people to mobs and herbs and things for quests, it feels like im not playing on my own server anymore just one mass, one i frankly hate it
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Bansee
Anetheron
Bansee
9/9/2012
@Xandér: I don't like the cross-realm crap either. I built my toons on a low population server after playing on high pop servers, and now, there is no such thing as a low pop server. It was bad enough for Blizzard to allow both factions on a single account server, now to jumble it all into one mass is horride. They should list servers as cross realm playable or single server so those of us who pay and play can choose. This is just gonna make all servers pvp or pve as they are crossed realms. Blizz has went from sliding down a hill to falling off a cliff with this one.
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Evidently
Lightbringer
Evidently
9/9/2012
@Bansee: but creative devs have nothing to do with this! sorry wrong forum to rant on!
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Bansee
Anetheron
Bansee
9/9/2012
@Evidently: So you like the cross realms as opposed to your rant above?
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Evidently
Lightbringer
Evidently
9/9/2012
@Bansee: no i picked the wrong forum to rant on
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Mihyel
Frostwolf
Mihyel
9/11/2012
@Bansee: I'm loving cross-relm, I'm killing so many ppl :D I haven't had problems with questing because I kill those people who I'm competing with. Now I know ppl are competing against friendlies as well but if that's the case you should just party up, just like it was in vanilla. As for nodes and rare mob camping, again, just kill the guy in your way, if you can't, well tough luck. I think cross-realm is a great idea. Blizz promised world pvp and they delivered
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Ceokt
Azshara
Ceokt
9/8/2012
Is there any chance of getting a little more balance in the use of gems from jewel crafting? No other crafting profession has such a high demand for a single raw material as the "red gem".
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Frostblaze
Velen
Frostblaze
9/8/2012
I was just curious with the paladins now use ashbringer when holy avenger is up, will the sword's look ever come to game as a transmog or a legendary.
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Inttel
Kilrogg
Inttel
9/8/2012
everytime i log in since this patch my guy freezes. cant even play..??
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Husslin
The Underbog
Husslin
9/8/2012
@Inttel: It is one of your add-ons, it happened to me too. I dont know which one it was i just turned them all off that should work if not I dont know.