WoW: Allianz Shamanen und Horden Paladine kommen

• Fr, 21. Juli 2006,
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• Class Design,
• Paladin,
• Shaman,
• World of Warcraft

Tja davon war irgend­wie aus­zu­ge­hen und nun kommt die Bestä­ti­gung:

So what does all this back­ground mean in terms of game­play? Sim­ply put: In The Burning Cru­sade, Alli­ance play­ers can play as Draenei shamans, while Horde play­ers can play as Blood Elf pala­dins. Pre­viously, play­ers on eit­her side weren’t able to access those cha­rac­ter clas­ses: pala­dins were exclu­sive to the Alli­ance, while shamans were exclu­sive to the Horde. Accor­ding to Bliz­zard, Horde pala­dins and Alli­ance shamans will have many of the same talents of their tra­di­tio­nal coun­ter­parts, though they “will also enjoy some uni­que abi­li­ties to them­sel­ves, simi­lar to the priest class’ racial spe­cial­ties.” Since this new fea­ture will fun­da­men­tally change the asym­me­try bet­ween the game’s two fac­tions, it will pres­um­a­bly have a signi­fi­cant impact on the way the game is played, espe­cially in com­pe­ti­tive player-versus-player com­bat.

Tja was soll man davon nun hal­ten? Wer­den Shama­nen über kurz oder lang dann kom­plett das Zeit­li­che seg­nen und die noch bes­sere Frage lau­tet: wie soll mein Bloo­delf Pala­din heis­sen? Es wird mehr als span­nend, wie Bliz­zard bei­den Klas­sen eine Rolle im zukünf­ti­gen Raid-Game geben möchte. Ich kann mir nicht vor­stel­len, dass man das jet­zige Rol­len­mo­dell so ein­fach mit­ein­an­der mischt, wozu soll­ten Horden-Raids dann noch Shama­nen mit­neh­men? Da wird noch eini­ges an Class-Design Arbeit auf Bliz­zard zu kom­men.

Diese Mel­dung bringt sämt­li­che Foren und Ser­ver zum schmel­zen. Hier einige lesens­werte Reak­tio­nen von Bliz­zard:

In terms of game design, one of the opti­ons it opens up is for spe­ci­fic clas­ses in dun­geon encoun­ters. We alre­ady have several encoun­ters that high­light the abi­li­ties of a sin­gle class or make use of a clas­ses spe­ci­fic abi­li­ties. Shaman and Pala­dins in the pre­vious design could not par­ti­ci­pate in such encoun­ters. If kil­ling a crea­ture requi­red a Shaman, the Alli­ance could never beat the encoun­ter and vice versa. This change allows the two clas­ses to bring their own abi­li­ties into a situa­tion which may high­light their class as an inte­gral part of the encoun­ter.

The fact is, by allo­wing for this par­ti­cu­lar change we will be affor­ded the oppor­tu­nity to open up many more opti­ons for both the Shaman and Pala­din -- while pre­se­ver­ving the dis­tinc­tion bet­ween the two. We feel stron­gly that there is much more to gain by this route than there is from the fla­vor gene­ra­ted by keeping a class uni­que to a fac­tion.

Und es hat nur zwei Jahre gedau­ert. bis diese Hybrid-Klassen eine Rolle im Raid und ein funk­tio­nie­ren­ded Class-Design bekom­men. Wird sicher lus­tig, dann meine alten Pala­din Arti­kel zu lesen.

Was ist noch bekannt? Beide Klas­sen wer­den wei­ter­hin irgend­wie exklu­siv gehal­ten. Was so aus­sieht, dass man Bloo­delf Pala­di­nen einen Racial Skill geben wird, der diese dann sicher­lich im gro­ßen Maße, den Allianz-Paladinen über­le­gen machen wird. Glei­ches gilt für Dranei-Shamanen. Bliebe noch das Pro­blem Fear-Ward, aber auch hier darf man anneh­men, dass Bloodelf-Priests sicher­lich Fear-Ward bekom­men wer­den.

Thema Mudl­fa­tion. Es braucht nicht viel um zu sehen, wie hef­tig zukünf­tige Raids mit bei­den Klas­sen sein wer­den, wohl aber auch nur im alten Con­tent.

First of all, we plan to allow most of the Shaman and Pala­din buff effects to stack, with a few excep­ti­ons of course. This means that both will be extre­mely use­ful in regards to impro­ving the poten­tial power level of those around them. Beyond this, you’re only thin­king in cur­rent “WoW” terms and seem to only be digesting cur­rent end-game. When the Burning Cru­sade relea­ses all clas­ses will have access to new spells, talents and abi­li­ties, which will be taken advan­tage of (and play a large part in) grouping/raiding in the expansion’s end-game.

It’s also import­ant to note that moving for­ward, we’ll be able to design our raid and dun­geon encoun­ters to spe­ci­fi­cally draw out the strengths of each of these clas­ses, whe­reas now we actually take mea­su­res to prevent an encoun­ter from being too bene­fi­cial to only one of the clas­ses.

I’d also like to men­tion that beyond rai­ding, we think it will be excit­ing for play­ers that feel strong alle­giance to one spe­ci­fic fac­tion to have access to a class that has see­med unavail­able to them.

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