Everyone has a fighting chance
From all that Blizzard has said, Death Knights are in a pretty good place overall as far as capturing the class fantasy but that some things needed tuning to bring more variety in the way Blood, Frost and Unholy Death Knights play. For our purposes today, we’ll take a look at the Frost Death Knight since it is the one that will undergo the most significant change in Legion with the removal of the spec’s ability to use 2-handed weapons.
The first big alpha patch for Legion dropped last night, and I was too busy sleeping to get a look at all the changes coming to classes in World of Warcraft. However, with the help of our friends at WoWHead, we’ve got some thoughts on the most major changes coming to the Hunter. For starters, the Survival spec will forego ranged attacks for a melee spec with a Polearm as their artifact weapon. Let’s dive in and take a look at the changes, shall we?
Our own Bill Murphy will be on hand tonight at 5:30 pm Pacific / 8:30 pm Eastern to stream some live Crowfall action! It may be the first opportunity for many to see some of the fantastic new stuff included in this iteration of the pre-alpha.
Earlier this week Bill asked, "What does the MMO need?" In that piece he focused on group content. I’d also argue that another thing that MMOs need to bring back is a real sense of exploration. But how?
Dontnod is introducing the world to its latest game in development called Vampyr, an action RPG that takes place in England during the chaotic days following the First World War with humanity facing reconstruction and the outbreak of the deadly Spanish Flu. Built on the Unreal 4 engine, Vampyr will be released on multiple platforms including PS4, Xbox One, and PC in 2017.
Bioware has updated the Star Wars: The Old Republic site with a look at what players can expect to find and do during the month of December. Events include the fourth anniversary log-in celebration, a double-XP event and many more.
The Chinese version of Monster Hunter Online has officially kicked off and is of particular note to Western players as there are no region locks and no key is needed to try out the game. All that is required is for players to set up a QQ account with Tencent. According to Steparu, there are numerous guides online to assist with account set up that can be discovered by a Google search.
Tonight at The Game Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, Cloud Imperium CEO Chris Roberts and actor Mark Hamill, starring in Star Citizen’s Squadron 42, unveiled the official trailer for Star Citizen Alpha 2.0. Roberts and Hamill were co-presenters during the evening presentation seen around the world via global livestream. All footage in the trailer was captured in-game from live play sessions.
MMORPG.com has teamed up with Digital Extremes to bring you a cool new gift key offer for Warframe! These keys will give you a 3 day booster doubles the amount of resources earned from pickups. Get your key now!
The Pangaea teams wants you to know that the game most assuredly is in production and that there is a solid foundation already in place. With the recent launch of the Pangaea KickStarter initiative, the team wants potential backers to see and try a sample of what the post-apocalyptic game has in mind with the release of a free, playable tech demo.