"Provide an identical itemization system for all expansion phases."

Blizzard developers have today announced an update on their plans for World of warcraft TBC Wrath of the Lich King and included an in-depth look at their strategy regarding "#SomeChanges."

While the original goal of TBC when it was introduced in 2019 was to bring "#NoChanges" an user experience It became apparent fairly quickly that the premise is well-intentioned but slightly misguided.

The game began to move into the Outlands for Burning Crusade, Blizzard began to take small liberties in altering TBC from its previous version to offer players an experience that would make them feel like you were getting best from TBC without destroying the basic idea behind the content from the past.

To prepare in preparation for WotLK, Blizzard explained its three pillars of its #SomeChanges mentality and provided a few examples of what players can expect in Northrend. The three pillars that #SomeChanges is to "nurture and protect social experiences," keep the game "approachable and familiar" and to make "the game" the "main player."

"One very big key to this is to provide 'Social Proximity' in our game, or what some cognitive scientists refer to as 'Repeat Serendipitous interactions that are a result of 'Repeat Serendipitous Interactions" the article said. "You require multiple interactions in some time and with same people with a feeling of being satisfied or helpful. ... When we alter the Wrath of the Lich King TBC We will make changes to improve Social Proximity, and in this way, help nurture and preserve social interactions."

The social aspect of TBC is the major reason that the dedicated players of TBC servers continue to play. In attempting to preserve that as a cog for deciding the best way to build WotLK, Blizzard is trying to maintain perhaps the most distinctive characteristic of TBC in comparison to retail WoW.

Furthermore, ensuring accessibility and comfort "works to minimize the changes we make, since that it is easy to damage our familiarity," according to the developer. "But it also encourages us to consider making changes in cases where a complex system could be improved to make it less complicated and easier to understand."

In this respect it is expected that the Emblem technique in WotLK will be slightly adjusted and simplified. The boss that is the final one of each raid level will drop one Emblem which can be used to buy a piece of gear with capability that is  wow classic tbc gold equivalent to that of the raids. Emblems will also be dropped in dungeons and older raids that can be used to get equipment that is less powerful.

Blizzard posted its conclusion by reasserting its pillars and how they connect to four goals they have for itemization in the game:

"Foster an active player-based ecosystem which is engaged in all WotLK incidented media"

"Maintain the proper amount of players who are enjoying Heroic Dungeons throughout the whole expansion."

"Preserve nostalgic itemization elements."

"Provide an identical itemization system for all expansion phases."

The post that was written by Blizzard represents a high level of transparency and transparency for the game developer as it looks to cultivate positive relationships with its TBC player base which is filled with gamers who are generally dissatisfied and critical of Blizzard. WotLK hasn't been given an officially announced launch date, however it is supposed to come in the second half of this year.

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The consolidation of the realm is now on the next step in World of warcraft TBC Burning Crusade servers, players are asking questions about the thinking behind consolidating the TBC experience.

Today, an employee of the WoW TBC producers today used the WoW forums to respond to an active member of the WoW community council via an elaborate and lengthy post.

The initial post raised concerns and questions about a wide range of topics, such as servers with low numbers of players which aren't being integrated, issues with faction balance upon merging, realm merging on Season of Mastery servers, and possible two-week character lock-outs for characters as well as other issues.

WoW TBC producer Aggrend attempted to answer what he could about the variety of issues, with the major portion of his article in response to how Blizzard was able to determine which servers would or would not be combined.

"There was a myriad of factors that contributed to the decision to determine which servers were going to be retired, however, we mostly relied on data on the Daily Average World Population (DAW) which we keep internally," Aggrend said. "There was a specified threshold we examined and if, for certain duration, a realm was in the range of the DAW threshold then we added that realm into the database of servers to get consolidated."

Aggrend also said that the coming launch of Wrath of the Lich King TBC will likely increase the amount of people playing on servers in just like TBC did. They also hinted that there may be more character transfers for free to come, though.

"There were several factors that involved in the decision making process to select which servers were scheduled to be retired however we mostly relied on information about how many people live in the Daily Average World Population (DAW) that we keep internally," Aggrend said. "There was a particular threshold we considered and if, over an extended period of time, the realm was in the range of the DAW threshold the realm was added to the list of servers to become consolidated."

Aggrend stated that  buy wow tbc gold  forthcoming version of Wrath of the Lich King TBC is expected to boost server players in exactly the way TBC did. They suggested that there could be more character transfers for free to comein the near future, though.