BlizzCon 2011 Archive

  • What’s the difference between the gold-based auction house and the currency-based auction house? The gold-based auction house uses in-game gold for purchases and sales. With the currency-based auction house, players will be able to conduct these transactions using actual currency from an authorized payment method or from funds that have been added to their Battle.net account. Players can choose to participate in whichever version of the auction house they prefer, on a per-transaction basis.  ...

    BlizzCon 2011: Diablo III Auction House FAQ

    What’s the difference between the gold-based auction house and the currency-based auction house? The gold-based auction house uses in-game gold for purchases and sales. With the currency-based auction house, players will be able to conduct these transactions using actual currency from an authorized payment method or from funds that have been added to their Battle.net account. Players can choose to participate in whichever version of the auction house they prefer, on a per-transaction basis.  ...

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  • Over the next two weeks, this hub page will grow as we add more BlizzCon 2011 updates. This is a transcript archive to read the BlizzCon 2011 panels. There were around 20 panels led by Blizzard Entertainment developers covering World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Diablo III. Those who wish to can still order the BlizzCon Ticket Livestream at the official BlizzCon website. All VODs will be available...

    Blizzplanet: BlizzCon 2011 Panels Transcript Archive

    Over the next two weeks, this hub page will grow as we add more BlizzCon 2011 updates. This is a transcript archive to read the BlizzCon 2011 panels. There were around 20 panels led by Blizzard Entertainment developers covering World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Diablo III. Those who wish to can still order the BlizzCon Ticket Livestream at the official BlizzCon website. All VODs will be available...

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  • In this panel, the developers talk about some of the initial dungeons in the Jade Forest and Valley of the Four Winds, the new PvP Battlegrounds, and the new Arenas. Achievements will be shared among all your characters, and the developers will introduce ones where all your characters participate in to complete an achievement. Resilience will have a few changes to accommodate newbie PvP players who are wearing mostly PvE gear at first. Nothing really...

    BlizzCon 2011: Mists of Pandaria – Dungeons, Battlegrounds, Arenas & Major Class Changes

    In this panel, the developers talk about some of the initial dungeons in the Jade Forest and Valley of the Four Winds, the new PvP Battlegrounds, and the new Arenas. Achievements will be shared among all your characters, and the developers will introduce ones where all your characters participate in to complete an achievement. Resilience will have a few changes to accommodate newbie PvP players who are wearing mostly PvE gear at first. Nothing really...

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  • BlizzCon 2011 is now gone, and players from all around the world have begun to fly back home. The lucky ones to have already arrived home, have begun to put their awesome BlizzCon 2011 Goodie Bags up for sale on eBay, as well as other individual items such as the Tyrael statue, and in-game vanity pet code card as a way to somewhat reimburse themselves the travel and accomodation costs. It’s become almost a yearly...

    List of BlizzCon 2011 Goodie Bag Items on eBay

    BlizzCon 2011 is now gone, and players from all around the world have begun to fly back home. The lucky ones to have already arrived home, have begun to put their awesome BlizzCon 2011 Goodie Bags up for sale on eBay, as well as other individual items such as the Tyrael statue, and in-game vanity pet code card as a way to somewhat reimburse themselves the travel and accomodation costs. It’s become almost a yearly...

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  • During the World of Warcraft: Intro to Mists of Pandaria panel, Cory Stockton introduced one of the coolest features to be released in the upcoming expansion: The Pet Battle System. Here’s a transcript of the panel: Pet Battle System Cory Stockton: Pretty much everyone who plays World of Warcraft probably has a vanity pet. I don’t think everyone necessarily has all the collections, or the achievements but it’s definitely something everyone knows what it is...

    BlizzCon 2011: Pet Battle System in Mists of Pandaria

    During the World of Warcraft: Intro to Mists of Pandaria panel, Cory Stockton introduced one of the coolest features to be released in the upcoming expansion: The Pet Battle System. Here’s a transcript of the panel: Pet Battle System Cory Stockton: Pretty much everyone who plays World of Warcraft probably has a vanity pet. I don’t think everyone necessarily has all the collections, or the achievements but it’s definitely something everyone knows what it is...

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  • During the World of Warcraft: Intro to Mists of Pandaria, WoW Game Director Tom Chilton discussed the new features: PvE Scenarios, PvE Battlegrounds and Challenge Mode Dungeons. Here is the transcript of the Scenarios Panel. Scenarios Tom Chilton: Scenarios are about re-using parts of the world that we already created in interesting new ways. I’ll go over one example which is the Defense of Goldshire. It also gives us the ability to do some interesting...

    BlizzCon 2011: Scenarios, PvE Battlegrounds & Challenge Mode Dungeons

    During the World of Warcraft: Intro to Mists of Pandaria, WoW Game Director Tom Chilton discussed the new features: PvE Scenarios, PvE Battlegrounds and Challenge Mode Dungeons. Here is the transcript of the Scenarios Panel. Scenarios Tom Chilton: Scenarios are about re-using parts of the world that we already created in interesting new ways. I’ll go over one example which is the Defense of Goldshire. It also gives us the ability to do some interesting...

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  • During the World of Warcraft: Intro to Mists of Pandaria, Wow Lead Systems Designer Greg Street — known as Ghostcrawler — led the discussion about the Pandaren Race Features. Pandaren Classes Ghostcrawler: We have a new race: The Pandaren. One of our early concepts here. The hair and facial style options and the female pandaren are not available yet when you go play here at BlizzCon. Those are still in development. So far they’ll look...

    BlizzCon 2011: Pandaren Race Features

    During the World of Warcraft: Intro to Mists of Pandaria, Wow Lead Systems Designer Greg Street — known as Ghostcrawler — led the discussion about the Pandaren Race Features. Pandaren Classes Ghostcrawler: We have a new race: The Pandaren. One of our early concepts here. The hair and facial style options and the female pandaren are not available yet when you go play here at BlizzCon. Those are still in development. So far they’ll look...

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  • During the World of Warcraft: Intro to Mists of Pandaria panel, WoW Lead Content Designer Cory Stockton introduced the discussion about the Creatures of Pandaria. Creatures of Pandaria – Transcript Cory Stockton: Next up, let’s talk a little bit about what we are going to be killing here. It’s not all going to be a happy land. You got to have stuff to kill. First off the race of fish-like creatures: The Jinyu. They kind...

    BlizzCon 2011: Creatures of Pandaria

    During the World of Warcraft: Intro to Mists of Pandaria panel, WoW Lead Content Designer Cory Stockton introduced the discussion about the Creatures of Pandaria. Creatures of Pandaria – Transcript Cory Stockton: Next up, let’s talk a little bit about what we are going to be killing here. It’s not all going to be a happy land. You got to have stuff to kill. First off the race of fish-like creatures: The Jinyu. They kind...

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  • Here’s a transcript of the Continent of Pandaria Panel by WoW Lead Content Designer Cory Stockton. Cory Stockton: You have heard what World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is, but now we want to tell you what you’re going to be; and what is this place. It is going to be five new zones, level of zones, for continent itself. Another thing that we’re changing here is the fact that we’re going back to a...

    BlizzCon 2011: Continent of Pandaria Panel

    Here’s a transcript of the Continent of Pandaria Panel by WoW Lead Content Designer Cory Stockton. Cory Stockton: You have heard what World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is, but now we want to tell you what you’re going to be; and what is this place. It is going to be five new zones, level of zones, for continent itself. Another thing that we’re changing here is the fact that we’re going back to a...

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  • Tom Chilton led the World of Warcraft Class Talent System Panel after the official announcement of the upcoming World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria expansion. In a nutshell, basically, the current talent system will be thrown out of the window. Poof! It’s gone. The Talent System will be revamped from the ground up. We won’t see the same vertical talent system we have been used to in the past seven years. The new talent system...

    BlizzCon 2011: World of Warcraft Class Talent System Panel

    Tom Chilton led the World of Warcraft Class Talent System Panel after the official announcement of the upcoming World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria expansion. In a nutshell, basically, the current talent system will be thrown out of the window. Poof! It’s gone. The Talent System will be revamped from the ground up. We won’t see the same vertical talent system we have been used to in the past seven years. The new talent system...

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