Interview: Talking World of Warcraft's Embers of Neltharion With Blizzard's Ion Hazzikostas and Josh Augustine
The first major patch of the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight expansion, Embers of Neltharion, will be launching tomorrow, May 2nd. Ahead of this, I had the opportunity to participate in a roundtable interview with Game Director Ion Hazzikostas and Lead Quest Designer Josh Augustine. This was a last chance to get in all our burning questions before everything goes live on Tuesday. Additionally, if you missed it, Blizzard also recently put out a Developer Chat, which also covers a lot of interesting topics regarding the 10.1 patch. Without further ado, let’s dive in.
We all knew that with the new season, the catalyst, which allows us to turn non-tier items into tier, would likely go dormant for a while and then need to be unlocked again. However, we haven’t had any specific information given regarding how this will work, so I wanted to get a clarification on what we can expect here. Hazzikostas confirmed that with the patch, the current catalyst we have been using will go away and will return sometime in June (4-5 weeks after season 2 starts).
He also clarified that “unlike last time around, you don’t have to do anything to earn the charges. [There are] no quests, there’s also no currency, so it’s just every week all of your characters get a charge, can’t miss them, those accumulate, and you can spend them on a character-specific basis.”
All of that sounds wonderful, especially since I am a forgetful sort, and despite opening the vault on multiple characters every week, I’d forget to pick up the catalyst quest way too often.
He also mentioned that for 10.1.5, they are looking at possibly adding a way for players to use the new catalyst to consume season 1 charges and allow players to finish collecting sets that way. He was
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