Battle for Azeroth Demo - Lightforged Draenei and Highmountain Tauren Racials, First Look at New Zones

Blizzard Posted 2017/11/03 at 5:12 PM by Ketsuki

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The characters have ~16k health and 4k mana.

These seem to indicate a stat squish in the upcoming expansion.

Allied RacesAlliance - Lightforged Draenei

Lightforged are a special race of Draenei that were blessed by the light. Character customization offers new horn styles, light-touched tattoos that can be changed and the glowing rune on their forehead is also customizable.

Playable classes are Warrior, Paladin, Hunter, Priest, Mage.

Light's Judgment Call down a strike of Holy energy, dealing 5,150 Holy damage to enemies within 5 yards after 3 sec. 40 yd. 2.5 min CD. Instant.

Forge of Light Summon a Forge of Light, enabling Blacksmithing. Blacksmithing skill increased by 10.

Racial Passives
Demonbane Experience gained from killing Beasts increased by 20%.

Light's Reckoning When you die the Light avenges you, dealing 1,248 Holy damage to enemies within 8 yards and healing allies for 1,486.

Holy Resistance Reduces Holy damage taken by 1%.

Horde - Highmountain Tauren

Highmountain Tauren were first introduced in Legion, in the Highmountain zone. The characteristics that separate them from regular Mulgore Taurens are also customizable. Tribal Painting on their fur and face, carved tribal markings on their horns as well as the horns themselves are customizable, variations of their moose like horns. Note: In druid form the horns on the bear and cat form change to moose horns.

Playable classes are Warrior, Hunter, Shaman, Monk, Druid.

Bull Rush Charges forward for 1 sec, knocking enemies down for 1.5 sec. 2 min CD.

Racial Passives
Pride of Ironhorn Mining skill increased by 15 and allows you to mine faster.

Mountaineer Increases Versatility by 1%.

Rugged Tenacity Reduces damage taken by 330.

Waste Not, Want Not You have a chance to loot additional meat and fish.

OtherNote on Allied Races:

Dark Iron Dwarves

Void Elves

Nightborne

Zandalari Trolls

Note on Customization:Starting ZonesAlliance - Kul Tiras, Drustvar

Drustvar seems to be a small human village that was once lively until recently. Everyone in the town seems to be frozen in time but still breathing, an effigy sits in the center of the town protected by some strong magic.

Kul Tiras has a few other subzones, Fallhaven, Caver's Harbor, Barrowknoll Cemetery, Fletcher's Hollow, and Gol Koval. The area seems to have a Stormheim's woods or Grizzly Hills type of feel. Rares and Treasures are found all around the zones.

North is Carver's Harbor a small harbor and pig farm, infested with wicker beasts, dog-like creatures that have wooden masks and armor, reminding you of Trolls.

In the center is Barrowknoll Cemetery which is dark and misty. It seems most of the creatures here would be friendly, such as stags, does, and tiny bunnies; all have been bewitched or cursed with blue glowing eyes and have become hostile. Further into the Cemetery there are spirits and more wicker wearing beasts and creatures.

South the land becomes somewhat dry and the creatures that inhabit it are large bats and large bonespiders, then more skeletal creatures.

Even further south is a mountain covered in ice and snow, a large arcane stone sentinel can be seen from the distance.

Lastly to the southeast is Fletcher's Hollow, a small area has some humans fighting off massive amounts of wicker beasts and thralls. There is the Elderstone Mine that is shrouded in a ominous purple light. The overall feel of this entire zone gives off the feeling you are fighting against a witch-like being that is trying to curse all the living creatures of the land.

Horde - Zandalar, Nazmir

Nazmir is a traditional troll area. The first thing you notice is the massive Blood Moon in the sky.

Moss and vine covered Troll ruins is what you see when you first start in this zone.

There are a few named subzones, The Necropolis, Shaldra'mah, Terrace of Sorrows, and Bloodbutcher Outpost.

Friendly mask wearing floating spirits litter the starting area. The first quest you do allows you to transform into a Blood Troll once you appear close to Shaldra'mah.

As you progress farther into the zone, it becomes dark and misty with large elites. Rares and Treasures appear on the map as you are questing.

You traverse a broken bridge to The Necropolis. After drawing some runes and sounding the drum you enter the Necropolis, which is guarded by two Zandalari Empire stone guardians.

Inside you see a large floating troll named Bwonsamdi, swirling in souls around him. He is the quest giver for The Necropolis.

Further east is Shaldra'mah, as you approach you see they are hostile until you get closer and transform into a Blood Troll, a tall pale troll with blood stained feet and legs up to the knee, blood stained hands to your elbows, neck stained blood and vials of blood hanging from the waste. Your hair is also soaked in blood and your eyes are black and sunken.

In this village the females are the leaders, and literally everything is soaked in blood and they worship a god that is a large blood bat. Southeast is the Terrace of Sorrows, large lizard, komodo dragon-like monsters infest these ruins along with some large vultures.

Further in there are starving trolls and raptor like creatures as well as some that have risen from the dead. Lastly there is a large structure that was walled off in the demo. It looked like a sunken temple-esque place, possibly a dungeon later on named Zul'Nazan.

Class Observations

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Comment by KrikkenNice! I can't wait to see what void elves have for racials!Comment by Myxx66thanks for the stat squish again. Unwieldy already once again.Comment by MonnienDruids have Mark of the Wild again.

WOWW =D is this amazing!Comment by Vantix24The heritage armor looks amazing! I’m wondering if you unlock the heritage cosmetic armor if you’ll be able to use them on the opposite faction? ie nightborne armor on a voidelf or voidelf armor on a blood elfComment by jjonessecDruids have Mark of the Wild again. Awesome change!Comment by ForgeisterAs always, horde racials are better than alliance onesComment by 3lizadeathGlad we're finally getting a stat squish. Aside from that the racials for the new races look pretty good. In regard to the zones, I wonder how it's going to feel with fewer of them this expansion. I think I'll appreciate it as someone that has only been playing one character for a couple of expansions now but I wonder how it will feel to people that level a lot of alts. The zones look great though, I'm definitely going to have to level at least one character for each faction.Comment by dessaferreirabHighmountain Taurens <3Comment by msronzioNote on Customization: On this demo there did not appear to be any new customization for existing races.Comment by ZaytrinI loved the Zandalari in MoP, glad to see them return and working with the hordeComment by aurora0081Exciting! I like the idea of different continents for each faction.Comment by RayanistAll the nostalgia, from the faction war to raid buffs
Ooof yes I want it now.Comment by GreatBaalWanted : "Bear and beer"!Comment by firefreezer3Very cool models and more buffs make the game feel more unique Hope to see it soon..Comment by SayerelCannot wait for the allied races! Also yay druid's getting mark of the wild :)Comment by SgtCrushemI hope the zones don't feel too small. It Kinda seems that way since I don't play AllyComment by Sp33deyStat Squish is amazing, I didn't expect that MUCH of a stat squish, but I'm all in for that.Comment by jjanchan
This is a bit of a shame. I've been hoping we could see more customization like sliders introduced into this game, and this seems like the perfect expansion to release that. It'd augment our characters in a more customized way, separating them from one another in uniqueness. Blizzard, if you're listening, please consider embellishing the older races! It'd be great to make them still appealing in some unique way.
Comment by SiorraI wonder if we'll get any adjustments to exisiting racials?Comment by shaxiPlayable Highmountain Tauren finally!

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