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More from a recent interview with Blizzard’s Tom Chilton - this time about flying mounts in Northrend:

“We’re still discussing how (flying mounts) are going to work - we’re not sure if you’ll actually be able to use your flying mount right away. You might have to earn your ‘Northrend flying badge’ at a later level…learn how to defrost the wings, ya know? And whaddya know, you can only do that at, oh, level 78.”

While denying a privilege (even for a little while) that took some folks — especially those who dropped a small fortune on epic flyers — months to earn will undoubtedly outrage some players, for the designers, it’s a necessary evil.

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In a recent interview, Blizzard’s Tom Chilton had this to say about the new Death Knight rune system in Wrath of the Lich King:

“The current idea we’re playing with is you have a fixed time, say 10 seconds, for a rune to fade back in and become usable again, and there are potentially things you can do to speed that up or immediately light up runes. We have this one idea for an ability called Blood Boil — it’s a damage-over-time ability, and after the end of the duration, it lights up two of your Blood runes.”

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Just a quick bit of news - Blizzard poster Bornakk confirmed that new types of flying mounts will be available in Wrath of the Lich King expansion:

We currently have no plans to add another tier of riding skill in Wrath of the Lich King, but we do plan to add more kinds of mounts to the game. We’ll let you know what kinds when things get closer to launching the expansion.

I just noticed the Wrath of the Lich King page on Wikipedia where they have a nice overview of the new Death Knight hero class.  No new information that can’t be found on other posts here, but their entry gives a nice summary of what we know so far.

The Death Knight is the first announced Hero class for World of Warcraft. Death Knights, according to Blizzard developers, will be able to fulfill the tank and DPS roles efficiently. Death Knights can use plate armor and new rune weapons like Runeswords and Runeaxes, but they cannot use shields. They will have summon abilities which resemble those of the Warlock. According to an interview, a Death Knight’s summoned pets will be more similar to a Priest’s Shadowfiend or Mage’s Water Elemental in that they are pets with a set duration. The Death Knight is not considered a pet class because of this.

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The official Blizzard Wrath of the Lich King forums are now open:

U.S. Forum

E.U. Forum

Among the interesting bits of news from the first few blue (Blizzard poster) posts:

• There will be one hero class per expansion
• Zeppelin and Boat routes will be available to Northrend
• The level restriction for using flying mounts in Northrend has not been finalized

World of Warcraft poster Bornakk recently answered a few Death Knight questions on the official WoW forums:

Question: Everyone will roll death knight alts because they startat lvl 60, so they have less work to do.

Bornakk: We do hope a lot of people try out the class, it should be a lot of fun. But we also know that people have their preferred style of play so we don’t expect everybody to drop their current character(s) and play the Death Knight exclusively.

Question: It forces you to master a class in high-level areas where you need to know your class to suceed, and most new Death knights won’t know how to play their class at all.

Bornakk: Just leveling up to reach Northrend will take time and should provide players some great experience in learning the new class.

Question: You will get less hours out of your death knight alt.

Bornakk: I’m a little confused here, but are you saying that it’s a problem that you can’t spend more hours at lower levels?

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Games for Windows published an early map of Utgarde Keep, the first instance in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

Unfortunately the map is a little empty but the folks at WoW Insider did a little research and filled in some of the (potential) details and encounters based on what they saw at BlizzCon and from other news from around the net.

Definitely worth a look.

If you take a look at the EB Games entry for Wrath of the Lich King you’ll see a 11/3/08 release date all but confirming that the expansion won’t be released for at least a year. Although I wasn’t expecting a Christmas 2007 release I am a little surprised that the projected release date is over a year away.

On the World of Warcraft forums Blizzard poster Nethaera commented that this isn’t an official date yet and that they’ll be announcing an official release date on once one has been established:

We haven’t announced a release date as of yet. When we do, you’ll see it up on the official web site here. Retailers have to put some sort of a release date in order to list a game for sale and accept pre-sales for those games. When they do put down a date, it’s generally an educated guess.

There’s been some talk on the WoW forums requesting and suggesting user interface (UI) and bag changes be implemented in Wrath of the Lich King.

Blizzard poster Salthem wrote that it’s still too early to say if there will be any changes but not to expect a major UI overhaul since their history has been to make only gradual changes to the existing interface:

There are a lot of players who are used to the standard interface and changing it dramatically overnight would be unfair to them. If players want a completely different interface there will always be add-ons to accommodate that.

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One of the bonuses attendees at last month’s BlizzCon received was a beta key for an unnamed future Blizzard project. Since then, there has been a lot of speculation about what game these beta keys are going to be for. Blizzard also announced Starcraft II at BlizzCon and has an un-named project in the works (code named Hydra) that makes for three potential betas.

Blizzard forum poster Nethaera asserted that they’re still not sure for which project the beta keys can be used but the important thing for the rest of us is that the beta keys from BlizzCon aren’t the only way to get into any potential Wrath of the Lich King beta:
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