
Scenarios - phased group content that is encountered in the wild - are a way of bridging that gap.įinding an NPC in need - on Pandaria, these will chiefly be wandering Brewmasters - can trigger a series of rolling objectives within a phased-out version of the zone. WoW's Dungeon and Raid Finder queuing systems have taken the stress out of finding other players for group content - but as yet there's been no comparably easy way to find allies for open-world PvE. Getting a character to max level in WoW will no longer necessarily mean a series of take-it-or-leave it raids: if you'd rather solo your way through evolving PvE content, gather lore, or start a farm, you can do that too. “I think people were expecting a lot of new stuff and they got to 85 and they got more raids and more dungeons and more item levels, which is very similar to what we'd delivered with Northrend.”īlizzard are taking this complaint seriously, and one of the most exciting things about the expansion is how much variety is being injected into the endgame. “One thing that we know we didn't do well with Cataclysm was create enough endgame level 85 content” explains lead content designer Cory Stockton.


The second thing that Blizzard wanted to stress is that they're listening to the community, particularly with regards to Cataclysm's weaknesses. For the dedicated WoW player, however, where the pandas came from is of less interest than what they're going to bring to the game.
