BlizzCast
by Laneer on Jan.10, 2008, under Blizzard
Blizzard launched Blizz Cast today, a nifty new Pod Cast featuring Blizzard on Blizzard interviews. I listened to episode 1 and found it very well produced! The first part is interview by Karune whom I don’t ever recall seeing a post from, he is the Community Manager. It with Samwise Didier the art director about Blizzard concept art and was very interesting to hear how one of their artists got started and what he is thinking when producing concept art for Blizzard.
The second part was an interview done by Drysc with Jeff Kaplan about Sunwell Plateau. There is a new rep associated with it of course to go with the New Raid dungeon featuring Tier 7 (no class specific looks), and a new 5 man, along plenty of dailies. The new rep called Shattered Sun Offensive, which is Scyer and Aldors coming together to drive out the burning legion. He kind of talks about the dailies as something that builds up so I don’t know as we do more maybe more dailies become available as a server, like the AQ gate opening or something. They are also increasing the number of dailies you can do to 25 which is interesting. People on the forums are always trying to get them to lower it! Shattrath will get updated with the patch because of this new alliance.
The 5 man is going to be a level 70 dungeon, more difficult around Shattered halls and Shadow Labs. There are 4 bosses, the first 3 bosses will have normal level 70 blues with the last boss dropping 1 lower level Karazhan quality epic, and in Heroic mode, the last boss will drop a Prince quality epic item.
My predictions for Priest changes might be wrong because they are saying they are evaluating class balance and don’t intend to do any drastic changes in 2.4. Other than that they mentioned small changes and UI changes. I found it funny he specifically he mentioned the ready check, but the description almost exactly matches what they added in the 2.3.2 patch. I don’t know if this was recorded before 2.3.2 was released or if there will just be additional changes to ready check.
I urge everyone to listen to the podcast it was very cool and I hope Blizzard does it often!
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Zarhym
January 10th, 2008 on 5:20 pm
Wow if you read the forum announcement on BlizzCast everyone is totally complaining about the music in the background. I loved the music in the background. Before I had even read the forums I had sent a comment to them and even told them great job and I liked the music
Oh well guess me and the masses don’t agree on something no surprise there!
January 10th, 2008 on 5:25 pm
Wow and someone is even complaining it sounds like it was produced too good. WoW players will complain about anything apparently. “The podcast sounded too good, make it suck more!”
All I can say is wow!