Listen "#358 - For Azeroth!: “Beta Build Anxiety”"
Episode Synopsis
The Midnight Beta is Live. Raid Testing is Scheduled. As the March on the next Warcraft Expansion moves on the crew questions if we are going too fast, too slow, or both simultaneously.
The Warning Overlooked
Midnight Prologue: The WarningDec 2nd in NAVereesa Windrunner and Arator investigate visions and prophesiesAs a part of the content update, players who have added Midnight to their account will gain access to Housing Early Access.Updated New Player ExperienceNew Lorewalking: The Elves of Quel'Thalas allows players to learn about the origins of the Blood Elves and the Void Elves.The Lich King’s assault on the SunwellThe tainting of the Sunwell by Alleria Windrunner, and the creation of the Void ElvesPandaren Heritage ArmorTurbulent Timeways returns10 weeks of Timewalking6 new dungeons from the ShadowlandsThe Brawler’s GuildDec 9New bossesRevised encounter orderRewards including Housing Decor
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Midnight Prologue: “The Warning” Content Update Goes Live December 2!
Play with the Blues: Midnight Pre-Launch Event
Mon Nov 1711:00 PST - 13:00 PSTRealm: Midnight Prelaunch EventThe realm will become available when the event begins and will remain open after the event ends for a short period of time for those who still want to test out the pre-launch event.Requirements: Copy a character from the live servers to participate in the test.The quest “The Cult Within” will begin a chain that will lead players to the Twilight Highlands in the Eastern Kingdoms.The event repeats quickly and can be tracked in the map.The build will be based on Midnight so there will be class changes
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Play with the Blues: Midnight Pre-Launch Event - November 17
Midnight Beta
New with the beta:
Allied Race: HaranirCOMBAT TUNINGDevelopers’ notes: As Midnight transitions into beta, tuning will quickly start happening at a much more rapid pace. We are working to get things into a better tuned state to ensure quality playtesting and feedback from both internal and external sources. This tuning will come in various stages and won’t all happen at once, but a few notable changes are happening that feel worth discussing slightly more:Several classes will see some generic increases or decreases to their overall throughput amounts. Most of this right now is to coincide with “zeroing out” some passive modifiers attached to the class or spec that was adjusting their throughput. Rather than continue to tweak this number up and down, most of them have been set to zero. In some cases, we adjusted the spec’s tuning up or down to compensate for the change. In other cases, we felt it was ok to not adjust the spec’s throughput and just return the values to zero.Melee classes are starting to see an increase to their auto-attack damage dealt either in this week’s update or in the coming week’s updates. Auto-attacking is a part of melee characters, and we want to make sure that an appropriate amount of damage is being attributed to your auto-attacks while engaged in combat.All healers had a 20% increase to their damage dealt this week. We are monitoring the rate at which they can complete content while solo and felt that a boost to their offensive throughput would be appropriate.NEW ACCESSIBILITY FEATURE: COMBAT AUDIO ALERTSCombat audio alerts have been added for reading your target’s name and announcing when your target dies, when combat starts, and when combat ends.Transmog is disabled for the week.Next Week: Limited Raid TestingUpdated Transmog SystemMythic+ DungeonsMidnight Season 1 DungeonsUpper-tier DelvesHousing - Night Elf and Blood Elf exterior decorAdditional User Interface Updates
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Midnight Beta Test Development Notes - #18 by Linxyhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe26_kqAy4ypSkmpRiO_eJQyvcp0el5PKcUTO0ZrYu4qi3-eQ/viewform
Raid Testing
Midnight Raid Testing Schedule
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