Interview: World of Warcraft Devs Dish Details on Guardians of the Dream Update

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Blizzard has just revealed the next major update for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is 10.2 Guardians of the Dream. As many have speculated, and the story has strongly indicated, we will indeed be traveling into the Emerald Dream to faceoff against Fyrakk as he tries to steal the power and Night Elves’ future, which resides in the fledgling world tree Amirdrassil. To celebrate this announcement, I spent some time picking the brains of Lead UX Designer Crash Reed and Assistant Lead Encounter Designer Taylor Sanders. Let’s dive into everything we have to look forward to and some of the exciting changes arriving with Guardians of the Dream.

As a long-time Druid player and adorer of Ysera, the Emerald Dream has been an area I’ve wanted to visit since I first heard about it. We have dipped our toes into the Emerald Dream in Legion and BFA , but we’ve never had an entire zone to explore and explore. It is important to note that we are only traveling into a small part of the Emerald Dream; it is vast and would encompass multiple zones. That said, the sliver we’ll get in 10.2 is roughly the size of the Ohn’ahran Plains.

Since we’re finally diving into the Emerald Dream in a more complete way than we have in the past, we asked about how they felt working on it. Reed jumped right on that with these thoughts:

“I am super pumped. Playing WoW since the beginning, even in Warcraft III, just all the discussions of the Emerald Dream and how cool it can be. My wife plays a Druid; it’s all she ever talks about. It’s just one of these amazing experiences, that I think we are lucky to be able to share with the players right now. With that, it’s gonna come with some really cool things for the player to do. Like, diving into protecting