Chronowarden Revealed! Evoker Hero Talent Breakdown and Developer Interview - The War Within
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2024
- This is my interview about Chronowarden, the new Hero Talent for Evoker in World of Warcraft - The War Within! In this video I am joined by Jereico, George Velev (Game Producer), and Jade Martin (Lead Combat Designer). OPEN FOR MORE INFO↧↧↧
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Jereico's Interview Video: • Chronowarden Hero Tale...
#evoker #augmentation #preservation #pve
00:00 Introduction
01:27 What are Hero Talents?
01:59 Chronowarden Evoker Hero Talents
02:12 Balance and General Questions
06:27 Themes and Concepts for Hero Talents
09:28 Hero Talents Breakdown
28:00 Closing Thoughts and Outro 
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Since Hero Talents are being designed with thematic flavor in mind, will Chrono Flame change the color of Living Flame to Bronze? Bronze npcs have a beautiful animation for Sand Blast that would fit thematically, and Living Flame has a very unfortunate fruit punch-flavored Kool Aid color that I'd be okay with replacing.
With that in mind, Bronze npcs also commonly use a channel spell that could replace Disintegrate. With the upcoming increase to mana costs, having this version replenish more mana could be an interesting choice for a node, and having it castable in Visage could be another unique flavorful way Chronowardens can stand out. It doesn't add a button and it would be more appealing than dropping motes.
Please note this is purely anecdotal - dropping motes doesn't seem to be catching on. Even when I've explained their usefulness in groups, they've often been mostly ignored, even when they're directly in front of players. This could be that they're often out of the way, or that I'm often pugging, but if players are aware of their usefulness and still not drawn to them, perhaps they're just not fun. Is there something more appealing we can do with them?
When Bronze magic dropped, it inroduced a fresh, fascinating way to play the game that inspired players imaginations. Using Echoes, Reversions, Rewind and especially Stasis effectively was a fun challenge to learn and especially rewarding when used effectively. For seasons 2 and 3, fervor for Prevokers has died down as the approach has shifted away from interesting interactions to throughput.
This system has the potential to revive what was interesting about Preservation. However, so far the only thing that looks like it makes gameplay more fun and interesting to use (or noticeable outside of logs or modes) is Warp. Instead of adding a HoT to Spiritbloom, what if the extra HoT was added when Spiritbloom hits players that have Echo or Reversion? This could interact well with the extra Essence Bursts from the capstone talent and revive Reversion. What about incorporating a new way to approach Stasis? Rewind?
While devs are understandably focusing on balance my hope is that they're still able realize the potential of Hero Talents to be something truly special for players. It must be difficult but Blizz has been killing it lately. Kudos to them and their hard work, and thank you for the interview.
Amazing vid and quite detailed! I've shared this with my Guild as the first part of the Q&A helps all classes.
My biggest hope is that some of these talents for Augmentation will allow for longer a duration on Ebon Might, which would allowing more room for player error and/or movement during encounters. I'm saying this because I've been enjoying the added seconds from the Season#3 set 4-piece and will be very very sad to lose those extensions. Hero Talents feels like a proper place for this ability too.
Thanks for the video! chronowarden looks very powerful
Thank you for this! And hats off to blizzard, finally getting on feedback early!
Does warp replace hover? How far do you warp?
You guys really convinced them to nerf warp, TY 😂
What kinda Elf is that behind Jade it looks like cross between a Blood Elf and a Night Elf. I went and check the character customizations in the game and couldn't recreate that look.
That's Alleria, she's getting a new transmog in TWW. The art specifically is from the TWW key art
@@CyclopsToppingWolverine Ah that's right now I want Blood/Void elves with eye markings. Her ears look kind of like Night Elf ears here.
deva really needs help in the defense department these would of been great talents for devastation as a pvper we really need help on this department
How much more? Class talents buffed specifically for dev and you now have good passive mitigation and sustain. Not to mention active mitgation with Rescue, scales, zephyr, and Renewing blaze. You guys just ask for more and more. Feels like Boomkins crying squishy but never bear form.
@@tobias1438 you're talking about pve im talking about pvp im assuming cause you mentioned zephyr.
@@Anonymoussss0207 yeah, sorry
dev needs 1 more defensive, preferably just a 20% hp shield. or it needs insane self regen like rogue@@tobias1438
I can see at couple potential issues with this tree.
First off, Time Convergence makes you want to use lower-impact cooldowns constantly to maintain 10% intellect buff. Cauterizing flame in particular has a 1 minute cooldown and will reset itself if you don't cleanse anything, so using it purely to maintain the buff would potentially be the play. I think this will feel very clunky in-game.
There is a significant amount of haste in this tree, which is by far the worst stat for most preservation builds. Together with the reduced empower cooldown, I worry this will lead to mana issues (especially with the 10% mana cost increase on many spells planned for 10.2.5). This could force blossom builds in longer raid fights to rely purely on essence burst rather than actually spending essence to cast, which i think is suboptimal.
As a healer you want consistency rather than RNG. I think Instability Matrix in particular can be hard to play around for both m+ and Echo raid builds. If a low roll can reduce the cooldown by 5 seconds rather than 15, this causes some of your main healing spells to randomly not align with incoming damage. I would much rather see a flat decrease here.
I doubt Cauterizing Flame with no cleanse would trigger the buff, that seems like something that, at worst, would be caught in PTR.
@@GearyDigit Yeah I think so too, but what about Rescue, Time Dilation and other utility? 10% main stat is a lot. You are going to use them off cooldown just to maintain the buff if they don't change it.
@@arneeman4787 On the one hand, the way I think they'll probably settle on it is just having it be, 'Using [Skill A], [Skill B], [Skill C], [Skill D], or [Skill E] gives you [buff]' instead of the current wording.
On the other hand, fucking with casters being a core part of your rotation is incredibly funny to me.
Haste is also worthless on aug so it doesn't make sense either.
@@tobias1438 What do you mean? After Mastery, it's the only valuable secondary stat. Reducing your GCD and cast times makes it easier to maintain EM by spamming Eruption.
Would rather warp, would work like fel rush, going the direction you are. Hate when blink yeet me to the ground.
Gonna be intersting that's for sure.
I think the problem, looking at the trees, is if we're trying to give an equal number of this or that, the this or that given has to be equal. 3 target storm bolt doesn't make Warrior have utility, it just sort of exists.
Can we find other classes elsewhere?
they have only 4 up right now including chronowarden on wowhead.
Ty for getting the DR nerfed even BEFORE the PTR 💀
Pretty cool, just sucks wow is so competitive that it will always suffer from the same thing. Cookie cutter builds. If you want to be viable, you will just copy paste the build you find off google and never look back. So we have the illusion of options, but not really options
Too many people looking for faults instead of just being excited for something that isn't even finalized. At this point blizzard should stop sharing their plans and letting people think their opinions are important to the developers. They're going to design what they want regardless of input, community council kind of proved that they're only looking for appearances.
They are often too concerned with appeasing the playerbase to actually be true to their creativity, which would actually create something special for the playerbase. It might not appeal to everyone but trying to appease everyone you end up with a game that doesn't quite appeal to anyone. That's how we end up with a game with 4 raid difficulties dividing their playerbase, and all sorts of competing aspects of design. They don't have a core identity anymore. They gave it up to play it safe because once the company became massively successful, now there is so much money involved to protect.
@@saucythighs If people are unhappy with the game, they can quit - and still they don't. So what incentive does blizzard have to change? To them if it's making money it's working. They are in the business to make money, and haven't been in the business to make good games for well over half of the company's lifespan. It's been quite a bit longer that they've been purely bottom line driven over quality games driven. If people don't like what it is now, it's not going to change unless they stop making money. My evidence that it wont? The Sparkle Pony in the WoW in-game shop made more money for Blizzard than the entirety of Starcraft 2. So if you are someone that doesn't like WoW now, I'm not sure there's any hope for change for you.
I wish they were more impactful. I want them to change our rotation. I don't want to play the same spec I've played for the 3rd expansion.
That sucks
There is still time to iterate on them.
I'm happy they aren't impactful enough to change rotation. These should be mini specs and not a spec 2. I don't want my rotation to keep changing wildly, I like where it's at. If you're not happy with your spec or are bored of it you can always change. I was a frost DK since cataclysm and never got bored of that and would hate for shit to drastically change every expansion
Aug came out in the middle of DF