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You will have your Artifact for the entire expansion, so hopefully you will enjoy seeing it and the variations you can unlock. Those sets aren't very visually complex and didn't have high quality textures, but players became accustomed to wearing their set for a long time. People have a fondness for the Vanilla armor sets. Normally the team builds a weapon and moves on, but doing Artifacts allowed them to respond to player feedback, going back and adjusting color or theme to get things right. It did allow them to really focus on each weapon and put lots of love and care into each one. This ended up not saving them any time at all, probably costing some. After that they realized they would need multiple models and colors per spec. As the Artifact Weapon system was actually implemented, they realized a few weapons per class wouldn't work, they would have to weapons for each spec. The team initially thought doing artifacts would be great! Rather than creating tons of weapon models they would just have to do a few weapons per class and some color variants. #WOW LEGION PTR GEAR VENDOR SKIN#
Most of the artifacts with one skin took around four days, with a couple hours for each color variation after that. The artists have a guideline of time they can spend on a weapon model based on the rarity, with an epic weapon taking something like three days. We might see more Artifact skins in later legion patches depending on how the initial set of skins is received. Whatever works will inform the decisions on how future skins are unlocked. The team is still in the process of figuring out what is working about the current artifact unlock sources and what isn't. They will probably be rewarded from achievements somehow, likely tied to new content as it is released. The artifact skins that aren't in the UI yet don't have final sources yet.
The fishing artifact is already implemented and in the game, so you should be able to earn it once Legion releases. They talked about adding a few different variations of the accessory you could earn, but it didn't feel great. The original approach felt too formulaic and hacked on. If a Rogue set would work really well with poison vials, the team may add the poison vials to the set belt. In the future, rather than just giving every class a cosmetic accessory, the team will build on the theme of the set. There is still a lot of opportunity for the other cosmetic accessories that are less obvious choices than librams and quivers, such as accessories for Rogues. What we have seen so far in Legion is about as far as the cosmetic class accessories will go for the Artifact portion of it. They were able to use some of the ideas for Artifacts or part of Artifacts. After the team posted the blog, they started talking about Legion and Artifacts and how it would impact this idea.
Only a fraction of the ideas from the Cosmetic Class Accessories blog made it into Legion.There will be asymmetrical armor and custom 3D shapes on things like gloves and chests.In Legion, there will be less mirroring, symmetrical armor sets, and sets that use the same few 3D shapes we have seen forever.We had the opportunity to talk to Tom Chilton and Chris Robinson.Ĭosmetic Class Accessories and Armor Sets It tells the story of Illidan and the Illidari.
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There will be a new animated series in Legion called Harbingers, similar to the Lords of War series in Warlords.Another stat squish is coming in the expansion after Legion.There is a plan in place to make it better in Legion. The devs recognize that BRF came out too quickly and release pacing in Warlords wasn't great.Improved social features won't be in at release, but hopefully soon afterwards.The team wants to use feedback on the melee updates to inform the caster animation changes. Caster animations are on the list to improve.Your loot specialization will control what legendary items can drop for you in Legion.
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Patch 7.1 contains a new dungeon and will go on the PTR around the time that Legion is shipping. There are solid plans for at least three content patches in Legion already. There are three raid tiers coming in Legion! Two raids are are coming with release, another raid in Patch 7.2 and one more raid in a later patch. Several fansites and influencers had the opportunity to interview the developers at an event this week! #WOW LEGION PTR GEAR VENDOR UPDATE#
Update (3 PM ET): Added one more interview recap.
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Update (4:30 PM ET): The Warcraft movie may have a $31M opening in the US.