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Borrowed Power in Talent Trees, Other Dracthyr Classes, White and Grey Transmog and More: Interview Roundup

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We're taking a look at some more big reveals that are coming out of Blizzard talking with many fan sites, with plenty coming from the group interview with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas, via Wowhead.

  • Borrowed Power and possibly even legendary abilities in the talent trees. 
    "Eagle-eyed observers may have noticed that the Convoke the Spirits icon in our sample talent tree that we showed off. That is accurate, that is going to live there. Whether its Covenant abilities or even some Shadowlands legendaries are something that we're looking to roll into the Talent system." 
  • Chromie Time will be extended to 60, so players can pick whichever expansion they want to level through to get to Dragonflight. 
  • The Empower (holding down spells) mechanic is Evoker-specific, but might come to other classes in the future. 
  • Dracthyr could be able to choose other classes in the future. 
  • They're working on converting Solo Shuffle into a rated solo queue with specific rewards. 
  • Lots of white and grey items will be added as transmog options:
    "Ongoing expansion and customization of it is something we are looking to do certainly by Dragonflight, possibly before then is rolling a lot of the white and grey quality items into the transmog system so that you can choose from a lot of simpler, humbler civilian attire-type looks. We want to keep adding in more options for customization and self-expression." 
  • And the most important part of the interview: "The name of the stone watcher in the cinematic is "Koranos"."

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Sadly, I'm still expecting talents to go live with the same excitement and flourish as "Your weapon takes no durability damage" type conduits.

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3 hours ago, Hariko said:

Sadly, I'm still expecting talents to go live with the same excitement and flourish as "Your weapon takes no durability damage" type conduits.

Played Kyrian tank in SoD, switched over to Necrolord now. I don't think I was as appreciative as I should have been of Mikanikos' trait of "casting/recieving healing restores your armor durability".

Perspective.

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about time with the white and grey transmog. now just make it so every class can at very least collect every armor piece and imo be able to transmog into any armor.

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I'm not a big transmog person...have my looks for each class that I stick with...but adding white/grey items is a nice addition.

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20 hours ago, Hariko said:

Sadly, I'm still expecting talents to go live with the same excitement and flourish as "Your weapon takes no durability damage" type conduits.

Depends what's going to stay in those talent trees. I hope they avoid boring talents such as "this ability now does +1% damage".

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Hmmm, when it comes to Chromie Time thing, they can just make it NOT kick you out of it at level 50 automatically and let us keep questing in the different time periods, you just stop the npcs leveling with you, capping at level 50....problem solved.....the idea is good, but its poorly implemented.

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