Ouaaaaaaahm, what a dream. This sleeping 17 hours a day can't be good ... Anyway, let's see what new things there are lately ... Eing? Looking for partners? Am I a Tusk? An aunt who reads backwards? A team meter to see who has it the longest? But ... but ... but ... Aaaaaaaaaaanda, today is April 1, the day of the innocent saints in much of the world. I already understand everything!
That's how I found myself on Thursday. Well yes, like every 1 April, is celebrated on the day of the innocent saints or April Fool's (for the Americans), and from Blizzard they do not miss it or crazy. Every year there have been jokes about future modifications, and as always, I am going to ask Chromie to open the library, to see what changes have happened in recent years:
- The first joke of all, related to WoW, was in the year 2004, before the game went on sale. In the heat of information boiling, a new playable race came out, the Two-headed ogres. These beings, according to the information they provided, were to be controlled by 2 players at the same time, one of them taking control of the character. They always went in a group, and they were really two classes in one (a warrior's head and a magician's head, for example).
- At 2005When the game already existed, they assaulted us with new jokes. One of them, I suppose many people would believe it, since it imitated an existing service in other video games, the Pandaren Xpress. Reportedly, an agreement had been reached between Blizzard and Pandaren Xpress (a version of an existing Chinese food chain in the United States, Panda Xpress), so that just by typing / panda in the game you could choose a menu of Chinese food, confirmed by a Game Master and they brought it to your home.
More jokes that were played that year had a lot to do with the new PvP system. Reportedly, the current (and continues to this day) system to make PvP combat… Warcraft PvP campaigns was reportedly going to be removed. Going to a tavern, and sitting in front of some rudimentary computers, the campaign began. Never "Orcs against humans" was so true.
They also included the warbucks, which consisted in that, every time you killed a character of the opposing faction, you obtained a "badge" that you could exchange for coffee in the taverns. This coffee gave you a number of different benefits. Also, if you collected 50 different ones, they gave you a voucher to have a medium-sized coffee in real life.
- We have already reached one of my favorite years, in this April fool's jokes, the 2006. While considering which new members would join the Alliance and the Horde, they reported which race would join the Alliance: The Wisp. Those little ghosts around the moonlight and Darnassus were announced for inclusion in the Alliance instead of the Draenei. His abilities were ... curious. They committed suicide to drain mana and eliminate beneficial magic effects, it increased its spirit in a brutal way, when it became a tree, but it lowers its dodge with axes ...
But the pearl was taken by the announcement of the Patch 1.11.0, with some peculiarities ... at least curious. Some pearls were, for example, fixing a "bug" that allowed rogues to use two one-handed weapons at the same time, a new breed class combination for gnomes, the druid (bear cub and kitten forms are now available !!) , Loss of experience for the night elves every time they jump, the paladins do more damage if they use cloth ... and if they wear a matching dress, the critical increases, a maximum of 5 entries to dungeons per day (wipes included) ... come on, I could pass the article saying what changes brought the patch, but then I wouldn't talk about anything else xD.
- Let's move on to 2007, which was a bit of a dull year in WoW-related jokes. I have only found one, which was the creation of a new hat by the engineers. Let's see, let's get back to the time. The armory was more or less recently opened and many people were not satisfied that they could see what he is wearing and what he is not, so from Blizzard they gave them this little joke. A tinfoil hat, with which you can neither inspect her from the game, nor see her character in the armory, and with which you can also see CIA agents, such as Agent Scully! Good joke, but a bit bland compared to other years.
- And already, since the year 2008 I already begin to remember, since I played. I still remember the new Hero class that they were going to introduce with the Death Knight, the Bard. To play this class, you had to use the keyboard in a slightly strange way (without beating around the bush, it was held like a guitar) and used a mixed system of runes, combo points and Guitar Hero. If to that we add the two branches of talents that were announced (Metal, Punk Rock ...), we have a class that would kill me ... but laughing. The link where the announcement is made is the following http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wrath/features/bard/bardclass.xml They also announced a big jump, the possibility of playing WoW from the consoles. With incredible 2D environments, in which you can move in any of the 8 directions. Again, I leave a link better, because whatever it says, it is little with what it really is: http://www.wow-europe.com/es/moltencore/
- Coming to the end of this journey, we meet the year 2009, in which I have to say that it bites like a hake. Two jokes were announced. A revolutionary system dance combat, with which you could make encounters, both alone and in a group, competing to see ... who dances better. And now, with whom I pique (and all my brotherhood with me) was ... with the epic mount customization. I was so happy, to see what changes there were, and I found this the first of the two. I forgot what day it was, and of course… I stung. In the ad, it was explained that a system was going to be put in place to tune the mounts that you have, either by adding an exhaust pipe, an umbrella or any trinket for vehicles. More pranks were announced, but they are not WoW related (Starcraft's Tauren Marine, for example).
- Finishing, this year remains, which has been spectacular the amount of jokes that have been. The armory, battle.net match finder, the E-Peen, to see who has the longest (the equipment bar, of course), battle.net neural service, Diablo thermal blankets, with a pillow that steals you the soul ... Very good jokes, which have made me laugh for several hours as they were discovered.
The truth is that I love details of this type, they make a game much closer and allow us to be a little distracted. And you, did you eat a year like me? What do you think of the April fool's jokes?