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我还想知道的一件事是，如果我们第一次去Maw，如果那是一个场景，因为该区域是一个最高水平的地区，非常不好客。因此，在50级的状态下工作似乎不太好。拜登回应说，他们还没有确定第一次进入Maw究竟会如何运作，但它将是某种直接的经验。他还提到，目前的想法与塔纳安的介绍经验类似。这很有趣，因为最近的几次扩展的初始体验都是一个场景，我有点好奇为什么他们这次会偏离这个方向。不管怎样，我们都希望在做了一次之后，我们仍然可以选择跳过它，特别是因为这一次升级alts看起来更有趣，而且惩罚也更少。

那么你最期待什么呢?在这一点上，影域的任何方面你特别关注的是什么?请在评论中告诉我!

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原文：

During BlizzCon, I had the opportunity to interview World of Warcraft's Patrick Magruder, Lead Gameplay Engineer, and Michael Biden, Senior Game Producer who works primarily with the design team. We discussed a wide variety of aspects of the coming Shadowlands expansion and some of how we get from the events in Battle for Azeroth to crossing the veil into the realm of death. It was a fun opportunity to delve a bit further into various aspects of the expansion. So, let’s jump right in.

The first topic I brought up was the questline with Vol’jin to find out who told him to pick Sylvanas as his successor. For anyone who hasn’t played through this questline, as this is Horde only, players could accompany Vol’jin, now in spirit form, to question Bwonsamdi, the Lich King, and Eyir Queen of the Valkyrie. We very quickly learn not only did the Loas have nothing to do with telling Vol’jin to pick Sylvanas, but Bwamsandi is none too happy with her being in power because she tips the balance between life and death too far. The Lich King also had nothing to do with it but offered up the tidbit that Vol’jin’s spirit has been greatly altered. Of course, he couldn’t just say how Vol’jin was altered, that would have been too easy. Eyir gave us a clue about Vol’jin himself because he’s a different kind of spirit. She said he was sent back by someone of immense power and specifically said he’s “been touched by the hand of valor”. Vexingly she wouldn’t say who had done this.

During the Shadowlands What’s Next panel, they talked about the Kyrian covenant and how they are very duty and service-oriented. I got to wondering if perhaps one of them is who had sent back Vol’jin for whatever purpose. Perhaps he’s supposed to help rectify his choice of selecting Sylvanas and maybe has some role in taking her down? Of course, they couldn’t comment on this specifically as it’s probably pretty big spoilers. However, Biden did say they did all of that for a reason and that all of these loose threads are tied together. He also mentioned they think players will enjoy all the different past characters we will encounter in the Shadowlands. This makes me think it’s more likely Vol’jin still has a part to play, but he won’t play it until sometime after the expansion hits.

We then talked about how often the storylines for the Horde and Alliance are often the same basic storyline just told from a different perspective and how sometimes each side sees different parts of the story. In Shadowlands, this won’t be the case. The storyline and a lot of the quests will be the same for both Horde and Alliance. However, Magruder pointed out that there will be some flavor differences. For example, both Horde and Alliance will meet Uther, and he’ll for sure have different reactions to members of each faction. So, although our stories will be aligned there will be some small differences. Instead, the variety of storylines will come from different covenants and their separate endgame campaigns.

Magruder also brought up one of the more interesting aspects of the expansion will be seeing how players combine their different abilities from their covenants to get some interesting synergies. They, unfortunately, they couldn’t give specific examples here because they are still very much in the process of working out what those abilities will be. One thing which does have me concerned is there’s a real chance of groups wanting people based on what covenant they are. Not so much in raids, because those are large enough covering all four covenants probably won’t be too much of an issue. However, in both Torghast and M+, it’s a real possibility, especially since during one of the panels, it was mentioned there might be certain areas only members of certain covenants can gain access to.

On the same note, I’m also concerned with the possibility that since the special abilities each class gets is based on their class rather than their spec, it’s possible for players to feel pressured to pick certain covenants for the specific ability. For example, if the Kyrians offer a cool defensive ability to a class, people who play DPS might feel like it’s a waste to go with that covenant if a different covenant offers a really strong DPS ability. Magruder said they are absolutely aware that’s a potential problem, and it’s something they’ll be focusing on a lot. They want the choice of a covenant to be a meaningful choice for players rather than an “oh I gotta min/max” choice. It’s a narrow line to tread to keep the abilities feeling interesting and powerful while not being unbalanced. Hopefully, they won’t end up going the route of just making all the class covenant abilities DPS abilities, though that would probably be the simplest way to ensure they are all balanced.