The Ultimate Blizzcon 2016 Recap

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BLIZZCON 2016 TLDR

Links will be provided under each subject if you want to find out more information about something specific.

7.1.5
- Brawlers Guild

• New Bosses

• New mount

• New Currency

- Micro Holidays

- Blade's Edge Arena Update

- Pandaria Dungeons in timewalking

- Class Stuff

• Hunters get traps back!

• Secondary Stats holding us back from higher ilvl being "fixed"

• More talent diversity

7.2
- Flying is back!

• Pathfinder part 2 will give us full blown flying

• Class mounts being tied in as a reward somewhere in the new Pathfinder achievement

All class mounts can be viewed here

- Legion Assaults

• Pre-launch styled event in a specific Broken Isles zone

• Will disable the WQ in that zone

• 3 player scenario tied into all this

- New Raid - Tomb of Sargeras

• 9 Bosses

• 4 sections (Cathedral, Flooded Caves, Elven Wing, ?)

• Kil'jaedon is the last boss

- New Dungeon - Cathedral of Eternal Night

• Available in Heroic, Mythic, Mythic +

• We can use the Aegis of Aggramar

- PVP Brawls

• Similar to Hearthstone Brawls for BG's

• Tarren Mill vs Southshore BG is one of them

• Winter Arathi Basin (Frozen Water and low visibility)

• Eye of the Storm with gravity turned off

• 15v15 arena

- Dungeons

• Upper and Lower Karazhan will be Mythic + and Heroic

• Court of Stars and Arcway will also be Heroic

• New Affix for keystone. Bursting: Non-boss enemies explode causing all players to suffer 20% of their max health in damage over 4 seconds.

- Artifacts

• All traits with only 3 points will now have 4 (the grind continues)

• New traits will also be added

• New knowledge levels

• Multiple trait relics

• Green Fire type quest for each class

• One new appearance for each weapon

- The Future

• We're going to Argus, the home of the Legion.

Want more information on WoW @ Blizzcon 2016?
Wowheads recap
MMO-Champions recap

- Mean Streets of Gadgetzan

• 3 Crime families which introduce Multi-Class Cards

• Grimy Goons: Hunter, Paladin, Warrior

• The Kabal: Mage, Priest, Warlock

• Jade Lotus: Druid, Rogue, Shaman

• Release date is early December

- No new classes will be added if the new classes will steal the niches from the current 9 classes

- Platinum Heroes might be a thing past 500 wins in the near future

- Co-op Content is something they're looking into doing


Want more information on Hearthstone @ Blizzcon 2016?
Hearthpwns Q&A Recap
Hearthpwns updated list of all the new cards in Mean Streets of Gadgetzan

- Sombra Revealed

• Available on PTR next week

• Origin Story Video

• Stealth Hacker

- Arcade Game Modes

• Replaces weekly brawls

• Mystery Duel (1v1 best of 9 rounds)

• Elimination (3v3 no respawn best of 5)

• Mystery Heroes (6v6 random hero each time you spawn)

• No Limits (Hero stacking will be allowed which means Quick Play will put a one hero limit just like comp play)

• All Brawls (The home of all past and future brawls)

- Overwatch League

• Video of Overwatch League

• Salaried pro-players

• Localized league system

• High rank players are drafted by their local team

• Similar to LCS from Riots League of Legends

- New Map: Oasis

• Control Map

• Desert Themed

Want more information on Overwatch @ Blizzcon 2016?
A thread with some pics of the new map
Overpwns Q&A recap
Overpwns Sombra recap

- Necromancer

• New Playable Hero

• Available in "Rise of the Necromancer Pack"

• Will only be available through purchase

• One-Handed Scythes will be the main class weapon type

- Anniversary Dungeon

• 16 level Cathedral

• Butcher, Skeleton King, Lazarus, & Diablo will be featured

• Only 8 direction movement

• Graphics will look like Diablo 1

• Sneak peek picture

• Limited time event for January of every year

- Two New Zones

• The Shrouded Moons & Temple of the Firstborn

• Free as long as you have RoS expansion

• Picture of Shrouded Moons

• Picture of Temple of the Firstborn

Want more information on Diablo 3 @ Blizzcon 2016?
Rise of the Necromancer Video
Diablofans full recap

- Two New Heroes (Ragnaros & Varian Wyrnn)

• Forged by Fire Trailer

• Varian in development video

• Ragnaros in development video

• Varian arrives on November 15

• Ragnaros arrives in December

- New Heroes Brawl Battleground "Blackheart's Revenge"

• In development video

• Released next Week

- Nexus Challenge

• Unlock Champions for free by playing with your friends

• Playing 15 games in anything but Brawl will award you with a Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch goodies (including a Genji skin)

• Finish 30 matches to earn Auriel, Greymane, Kerrigan, and Li-Ming

Want more information on Heroes of the Storm @ Blizzon 2016?
IGN Article on two new heroes
VG247 Recap

- Third and final Nova MIssion Pack

• Arrives later this month

• Alexei Stukov will be the newest co-cop Commander added to the game

Alexei Stukov Commander Preview Video

- Two new maps are planned for co-op

• Miner Evacuation & Left2Die

- Co-op Mission Leaderboards is a new feature in the works

- New Weekly Mutations with the new Mutators in the coming year, with special seasonal events planned.

- Major multiplayer patch is set to be released in the coming weeks.


- Teaming up with DeepMind to help advance AI research

Want more information on Starcraft 2 @ Blizzcon 2016?
VG247 Recap
Polygon Recap