Blue Posts: More Ghostcrawler, Rob Pardo plays Titan

Yet another Ghostcrawler post, and some Titan teaser ...
Blue posts
As some of you have pointed out, the glyph of Demon Hunting in your beta build doesn't deliver on what I described above as the design. The newer version of the glyph, hopefully available in the next beta build, allows a warlock to toggle in and out of the off-tank / survival mode, more like the druid going Bear or the warrior going Defensive.
The new shapeshift granted by the glyph is called Threatening Presence (PH) and adds Taunt and Fury Ward to the normal Metamorphosis toolkit. You still get the damage reduction from mastery instead of the damage boost from mastery while in this form. You can also choose to go into normal Metamorphosis even if you have the glyph. Let us know how it feels.
We appreciate all the feedback and passion on this topic. We expected this glyph would serve a pretty niche community and were surprised at how many players were excited about it. We are still in beta and are still very much experimenting with what kind of gamplay we can deliver in glyphs.
The new shapeshift granted by the glyph is called Threatening Presence (PH) and adds Taunt and Fury Ward to the normal Metamorphosis toolkit. You still get the damage reduction from mastery instead of the damage boost from mastery while in this form. You can also choose to go into normal Metamorphosis even if you have the glyph. Let us know how it feels.
We appreciate all the feedback and passion on this topic. We expected this glyph would serve a pretty niche community and were surprised at how many players were excited about it. We are still in beta and are still very much experimenting with what kind of gamplay we can deliver in glyphs.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
cloudhopper013 Mar 28th 2012 12:49AM
"just got to do a playtest in Titan - pretty rough still, but lots of fun too!"
Well, this is just plain mean.
VezRoth Mar 28th 2012 1:02AM
Yeah. That's just being unfair... I'm dying to know what Titan IS, not how much fun it is.
Drakkenfyre Mar 28th 2012 1:03AM
If that's a teaser, damn.
"Playable alpha" is about the stage it was at the last time they talked about how far along it was (it wasn't necessarily described in such a fashion, just sounded like it.)
Actually MENTIONING something in the game would have been a teaser. Saying you played it and it's still rough is not. Not unless you just suddenly found out about it's existence today.
There was a time when one of the head devs talked about running around the Emerald Dream, and how it was shaping up nicely, and there's tons of surprises he didn't want to spoil for the endgame players. You saw how that ended up.
Domintal Mar 28th 2012 1:03AM
Seriously. How could they do this to us.
Kaero Mar 28th 2012 1:16AM
So... Who's this Rob Pardo guy again?
Also, the tentative release date for Titan has been summer 2015, so "rough" is still expected, especially with how comparatively few people must be working on it with all 3 other franchises ramping up production, no?
Namus Mar 28th 2012 1:44AM
Nooo! rather not know anything that endure a diablo 3 all over again!
viciouspen Mar 28th 2012 7:28AM
If it's not Don Pardo, then I don't give a frig!
Daedalus Mar 28th 2012 7:53AM
It's a teaser because of the implication; this is the first time in recent memory (to the best of my knowledge) that someone at Blizzard has just brought up Titan, unprompted. Maybe it means they're preparing to talk more about it.
coreyniegle Mar 28th 2012 10:05AM
if you buy into another activison series from actiblizz you are fucking retarded.
They gutted and cheezed out wow, we get less and less for our money, and you guys actually want another game from them?
Nuts.
The only reason I play wow is the time i have in and the friends there. When i'm done with it i'll look twards 38studios or another real gaming company, not bobby kotnik
Greg Mar 28th 2012 7:46PM
Rob Pardo was the kid who invited you over to his house the day after Christmas to play with his new Furby, Tickle me Elmo, Cabbage Patch Kid, Tamagotchi, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtle Van, etc- but instead just made you watch while he played with them.
Orrine Mar 28th 2012 1:25AM
Oh Titan. Don't want to hear about it, don't want to know about it, I have other things to be excited about: MoP, Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 expansion. And I want them NOW :P
VezRoth Mar 28th 2012 1:46AM
I do have to agree. I'm looking forward to Heart of the Swarm, but I loves me some zerg.
Edymnion Mar 28th 2012 8:45AM
Considering that, last I heard, Titan had been confirmed as a very casual centric MMO (just what we need, another Free Realms), I really don't care about it.
Shrikesnest Mar 28th 2012 9:00AM
Titan has never been "confirmed" as anything whatsoever. Anything you've heard about it beyond a bunch of nebulous generalities is players extrapolating from absolutely nothing except their own prejudices.
RedMosquito Mar 28th 2012 1:45AM
Blizzard's Vice President of Game Design uses an Orc as his avatar on Twitter! ZOMG HORDE FAVORITISM
Vitos Mar 28th 2012 2:31AM
The ghostcrawler source is to wow.joystiq.com
I'd like to see the actual thread wherein he spoke so I can watch the QQ....
Tuhljin Mar 29th 2012 2:14AM
Found it: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/4253968049?page=2#25
L_fetcu Mar 28th 2012 3:28AM
OK.. stupid question... WHAT IS titan? A link with some info would be nice... first time I hear about it. :(
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goldeneye Mar 28th 2012 3:59AM
@L_fetcu:
See here http://www.loregy.com/titan/blizzard-titan-what-is-the-new-blizzard-mmo/
L_fetcu Mar 28th 2012 4:07AM
Thank you very much!
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