Datamining has been happening for the past day or so, but it's not until now that we get to the juicy stuff:
spell data. It's great that Wowhead got it all up so fast, but it's a huge data dump and not fully contextualized yet. I attempted to filter out the weird and …
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We can officially say that every race can now play as the best class in the game. Alex Afrasiabi announced the news on Twitter today: Gnome Hunters are coming in Legion!
Remember during Warlords of Draenor's development when Blizzard was talking about "spec differentiation?" It almost became a buzz phrase. They sort of delivered, but not in a way that mattered much. At their core, the 3 Hunter specs were still the same. We had a Focus generator, a Focus dump, and a signature ability. The "differentiation" …
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For the most part, Blizzard focused on broader topics rather than specific class information. That doesn't mean we didn't learn nothing about Hunters though! I've picked up this information from various sources over the course of today. Just a reminder that a lot of this isn't confirmed and can change.
The Hunter Class Hall
The lore behind the Hunter artifacts was recently revealed by Blizzard. Marksmanship gets a bow/crossbow, Beast Mastery a gun, and Survival a spear. If you don't like the looks of these weapons, keep in mind that you can transmog them even though they're artifacts. However, you cannot transmog into another spec's artifact.
Here is how they
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Current Hype Level: 10/10
I'm pretty excited for BlizzCon (even though I'm not going in person), especially with the little movie teaser from yesterday. The footage looked amazing if you ask me. We've seen so little of it and already I can pick out many little details they got right. The guns look like Warcraft guns. The orcs look …
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Hey, Hunters! Yeah I am still here. Just fresh out of stuff to talk about in this downtime and complete lack of news... until today! Patch 6.2.3 was announced today and it adds quite a bit for a minor patch. Here's some quick thoughts on the main features:
Valor points returning
Valor is coming back purely for …
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It sure has been slow on the news front ever since the Legion announcement, eh? Blizzard wasn't kidding when they said they'd be more tight-lipped about things this time around (can't say I blame them after Warlords). We did get a few new tidbits of info today, and when I say "tidbits" I really mean …
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One of the things I'm most excited about in Legion is the focus on class identity. The fact that every spec gets some lore surrounding their artifact weapon is pretty cool to me. I don't expect them to be ground-breaking quest lines (since they have to do 36 of them), but the very fact that each …
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This week we discuss Legion, the newly announced expansion for World of Warcraft. We talk about melee Hunters, petless Hunters, and good old big red Hunters. We also talk about the new Artifact weapons, the in-game Hunter’s Hall, and much more.
The Hunting Party Podcast also turned six this week. We’d like to thank all of the …
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