00:10ARD Text im Auftrag von Funk
00:10Hallo und willkommen zurück zu WowCast.
00:14Heute geht es um Midnight's erste Major Update,
00:16The Curse of Ulotech.
00:18Joining mich sind zwei Mitglieder der Development Team
00:20und uns über was kommt.
00:23Hey, ich bin Rachel Vogt.
00:25Ich bin eine der Lead Quest Designen.
00:27Ich arbeite auf alles, von legion order halls,
00:31durch Zoldazar, Emerald Dream,
00:34und vor kurzem habe ich mit Supervising Story auf Zolomon.
00:38Hi, mein Name ist Taylor Garcia.
00:40Ich bin ein UI Engineer,
00:41so ich bin ein Programmierer,
00:44das hilft, dass alle die Screens Sie haben,
00:46Inventory Spellbook, etc. funktionieren.
00:48Ihr kennt mich aus solchen Hits,
00:51denn unsere Spieler sind sehr clever,
00:53und wir sind immer sehr begeistert
00:55bei den Dinge sie machen.
00:57Vielen Dank für uns.
00:59All right,
00:59let's set the stage.
01:01Where does the Curse of Ulotech
01:02fit into the Ongoing Story?
01:04In the 1207 Update,
01:06Revelations,
01:07Zuljan is looking for a weapon,
01:09a weapon that he believes will secure
01:10the future of the Amani
01:12without having to rely on the Loa.
01:14This puts him at odds with his sister,
01:16Zuljara,
01:16who, as the Hashé,
01:17has put her faith in the Loa.
01:19Zuljan is manipulated by a mysterious spirit,
01:22who lore enthusiasts will find rather familiar,
01:25and this spirit will lead Zuljan
01:28to the Coiled Isle,
01:29then we start our next chapter.
01:31Is the Coiled Isle
01:32the mountain that's shrouded by fog in Zulamon?
01:35Yes.
01:36So, that whole new outdoor zone,
01:37that is the Coiled Isle,
01:38the fog is going to be lifted
01:39and you can go and explore the area.
01:41We've got coastal ruins,
01:43we've got troll architecture,
01:44and then inside of that big mountain,
01:46there's this giant cavernous interior,
01:48and we're going to get to go in there and explore,
01:51and it's full of this very corrupted ecosystem.
01:55And at the center of it all is Ulatek herself.
01:58She is an ancient, powerful creature
02:00of hatred, corruption, and venom.
02:03Ultimately, Zuljan's decisions
02:05will lead to her being unleashed.
02:07Meanwhile, Zuljara is going to go to the Isle,
02:10and we're going to go with her
02:11to try and bring her brother and others home.
02:14They're going to delve into the buried history
02:17of the Isle,
02:18and we're going to find out what was locked away,
02:21and who was left behind.
02:22And this is going to lead us to a new raid,
02:25the Venomous Abyss.
02:27Now that we've finally reached
02:29the mysterious Coiled Isle,
02:30what outdoor activities can we expect?
02:33So, in that cavernous indoor space
02:35inside the mountain,
02:36we'll find the vaults of Atal Utek.
02:39This is a space with challenging group content,
02:41as well as rotating public events,
02:43and challenging those public events
02:45will build toward a big boss fight.
02:48While we're in the zone,
02:49there will also be this custom talent tree
02:51that'll give you some different perks
02:53of player power,
02:54but also some quality of life perks as well.
02:57So, for example,
02:58something to reduce the potency
03:00of some of that venom,
03:01because it can be very strong
03:02as you're exploring early on.
03:03I like to call it spicy water.
03:06So much spicy water flowing.
03:08The island is sounding extremely dangerous.
03:11Are there any other zone activities
03:13that we have to do outside of the vaults?
03:15Yeah, so there's also going to be,
03:16throughout the island,
03:17these cursed surges
03:18that are just kind of rolling through,
03:19and they're spawning these rare elites regularly
03:22at five different rotating locations.
03:24And once you've killed one of those rare elites,
03:27it unlocks some cursed fishing in that spot.
03:29It's also going to include a local story
03:32with a Tortolan sea captain named Taka,
03:34and you will gain reputation with his crew,
03:37and as you do,
03:37you're going to learn to fish in other cursed waters.
03:40Well, then let's jump into the systems.
03:42What are some of the standout features?
03:44Yes, so we're going to be introducing layers.
03:47This is not like a layer cake.
03:48It is like a dragon layer.
03:50This is an evolution on world bosses.
03:52So you are familiar with world bosses.
03:55You find them in the open world.
03:56In this case,
03:57they're going to be instanced encounters.
03:58So you're actually going to be able to scale the difficulty
04:01up to flexible mythic,
04:03which is 15 to 25 players.
04:05The goal here is basically to make things a lot easier for the player.
04:08It's a lot like a delve,
04:10where there's a very specific layer entrance in the world.
04:13You just need to go to that,
04:15set the difficulty that you need,
04:17and there's a summoning stone.
04:18It's a lot easier to not have to juggle a lot of the same kinds of party and grouping shenanigans.
04:25That should make the zone feel a lot smoother by having the world boss inside an instance location.
04:30And of course, a new major update equals a new season.
04:34So let's talk about Season 2 and what's in all those details.
04:38Yeah, so Season 2 is going to be starting a week after the content update goes live.
04:43There's going to be a 3-boss dungeon, Altar of Fangs,
04:47and as we mentioned earlier, there's the Venomous Abyss,
04:49which is a new raid.
04:50It's going to include 8 bosses,
04:51and Bula Tech herself as the main final boss.
04:55And we're going to have 3 new delves.
04:57We'll have the Ring of Glory,
05:00Gnarldor Isle,
05:01Toxa Tal,
05:02which is the new Nemesis delve,
05:04and we'll have new Snake and Venom variants to existing Midnight delves.
05:08To our Mythic Plus dungeon rotation,
05:11we're going to add a new dungeon,
05:13Altar of Fangs,
05:14and the remaining Midnight dungeons,
05:16which include Murder Row,
05:18Den of Nalarak,
05:19The Blinding Veil,
05:20and Boyd's Gararita.
05:21We're going to be bringing back King's Rest
05:24and Ruby Life Pools,
05:25plus the Temple of Cethralis,
05:27because, again, snakes.
05:29We're also going to have Prey Season 2,
05:31which is going to be coming with some new affixes,
05:33some new targets,
05:34and some hunts on the Coiled Isle.
05:36And, of course, with hunts, that means Astalor,
05:39everyone's favorite.
05:40He's going to be having new voice lines,
05:42and we're also going to have some new Arkantina quests.
05:45I love his voice lines.
05:47Kill for me.
05:49Kill for me!
05:50No!
05:51On top of that,
05:52is there anything on the PvP side?
05:54Yes, so Training Grounds have introduced players
05:56to the PvP ecosystem,
05:58and sort of like with the Battleground versus bots,
06:02we're now adding Arenas versus bots.
06:04That'll make jumping into the Arena easier
06:06for those who are intimidated
06:07by jumping in with real players,
06:09because you'll go against bots.
06:11Lastly,
06:12is there anything else players should expect in the update?
06:15Yeah, so on the UI side,
06:16we've got the Cooldown Manager.
06:18That is now going to be able to track
06:19your trinkets and your potions,
06:21so that should help a lot
06:22with a lot of the consumable management
06:24for managing your other resources.
06:26We've got a whole bunch of new updates
06:28for the ping system as well.
06:29So now you can ping your Action Bar,
06:31the Cooldown Manager itself,
06:33and that will give the rest of your team
06:35a communication about the status of your spells.
06:37You can also ping your own unit frame,
06:39and that will convey your health to the group,
06:42which is very helpful for when your healer
06:44is watching your health slowly go down
06:46as you stand in spicy water for too long
06:48and take all the damage.
06:49Speaking of your healer,
06:51we've also got some new configurations
06:53available for healers on Raid Frames,
06:55where they can now configure which kinds of healing buffs
06:59and what the priorities of them are
07:00that they want to show up there
07:02so they can track what kinds of heals
07:03they've got on the group.
07:04And then, of course,
07:05speaking of combat,
07:06there will be class changes.
07:08Then on the housing side,
07:10the big one I think that players
07:12are going to be the most excited about
07:13is blueprints.
07:14For everybody who's wanted to share
07:16all of those fancy cool builds
07:18that everybody's seeing online,
07:19you're now going to be able to export
07:21the entirety of your exterior and your interior,
07:23just the exterior, just the interior,
07:25just a room, etc.
07:26and then share it with other players,
07:28share it with friends,
07:29paste it online,
07:30and other players can import that
07:31and have that in their home.
07:33It's also really nice because
07:34if you want to, you know,
07:36change things up and try something new,
07:39you're going to be able to save
07:40what you currently have,
07:41fiddle with it,
07:42change your mind,
07:43and then reload what you saved
07:44and put yourself back to where you were.
07:46You don't have to lose all that work.
07:48Of course, if you do want to lose all that work
07:49and you just want to start clean and fresh,
07:52there's going to be a reset button,
07:53which is going to just clear out the whole thing,
07:55put all your decor back into storage
07:56and let you start new.
07:58What if you don't have everything
08:00that's inside the blueprint?
08:01We've actually got a very robust
08:04series of UI systems
08:06that are basically going to convey to you
08:07exactly what is inside of the blueprint
08:09and exactly what you're missing,
08:11which parts of it,
08:12and for certain things that are missing,
08:14you're going to be able to import anyway.
08:16So for example,
08:17if you have everything
08:18but you're missing like two chairs,
08:20you can still import it.
08:21And then, you know,
08:22if you want to go get those two cherries later,
08:23you can.
08:23Or if you didn't want them anyway,
08:25that's fine.
08:26But we're going to have a way for you
08:28to be able to very easily have a whole breakdown
08:30of exactly what you have,
08:31what you don't have,
08:32and what's needed.
08:33And speaking of which,
08:34for the interior of your house,
08:35there's going to be a brand new kind of decor
08:38called a pet bed.
08:39And essentially this is going to be a way
08:41that you can bring your non-combat companion pets
08:45into your house.
08:46So for example, Rufus, our charity pet,
08:48you can place them on a bed inside of your house
08:51and they can either sit tight,
08:52hang out there,
08:53or you can have them wander your house.
08:55We're going to be having some new navigation tech
08:57which will allow them to understand
09:00kind of the layout of everything you have in the house,
09:02all the decor.
09:02I can't wait to place my Mr. Bigglesworth
09:05and then have him completely take over my chair,
09:07and then that chair is no longer mine.
09:09So that's all of the stuff for inside of the home,
09:11outside of your house,
09:13out in neighborhoods.
09:13we're going to have a whole bunch of new endeavors
09:15for different factions and groups.
09:17We're going to have Amani trolls,
09:19kobolds,
09:20Onar and centaur,
09:21and of course,
09:21Tortollans.
09:23I can't wait to fill up my house
09:25with cats everywhere
09:26and see all the blueprints
09:27that people have to share.
09:29What are you guys most excited about
09:30in the Curse of UlaTech?
09:32I for one am excited about
09:33continuing the story of Zuljahn and Zuljara.
09:36Players got to be introduced to them in Zul'Aman.
09:39Now we see where their story goes.
09:40We're also going to get an update on Erator
09:42as he deals with the fallout of the Voidspar.
09:45But we're going to go investigate
09:46the resurgence of the Twilight's Blade with him
09:49and continue the hunt for Zalatath.
09:52I think with how much green there is in this update,
09:55it's not necessarily quite related,
09:57but I'm a big fan of goblins
09:58and I'm really excited to see goblin blueprints
10:01and I'm excited to see all of the different builds
10:03that I'll finally be able to just download and import for myself.
10:07I hear you have a pretty sweet goblin accent.
10:09I don't know what you're talking about.
10:12Thanks so much for joining us
10:13and telling us all the details about the Curse of UlaTech.
10:16Thanks for having us.
10:17I'm excited to see players jump in.
10:19Thank you all for watching
10:20and we'll see you next time on WowCast.
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