Oct
18
WotLK Priest Enhancements
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In a recent post on the official World of Warcraft forums, Blizzard had this to say about Priest enhancements in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion:
“Though some priests have found a use for the discipline tree, right now, it doesn’t quite have a solid purpose/goal, but rather seems to act as a supporting tree. This is something we plan on addressing with Wrath of the Lich King. Originally, the goal of the tree was primarily intended to provide staying power, vs. the holy tree which provides throughput.”
Oct
10
New Voice Chat Tools for WotLK
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In a recent interview, Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan talked about the new voice chat tools to be introduced in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion:
“We’ve just started implementing the voice chat on the test servers. It’s an important evolution for WoW. Lots of players are used to running that kind of system using software like Team Speak or Ventrilo. Now we want to implement this in WoW for many reasons.
Firstly, we want vocal chat to be available to every player, including those who don’t have the technical knowledge to install and set up that kind of software. We also wish to ease the lives of players who constantly have to alt-tab to switch between their software and WoW or play in a windowed mode.
Oct
9
Instance Issues Fixed
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In a recent interview, Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan has this to say about the a few issues introduced in Burning Crusade r.e. the difficulty in accessing certain instances:
“I fully agree with you, we did learn many lessons from The Burning Crusade. We’ve already fixed the access issue with recent updates. I can’t tell you a lot about the progression system in Wrath of the Lich King, but we’re exploring new paths to make this add-on accessible to everyone.
For example, we could imagine some open content for a server rather than for a specific guild, like we did with Ahn’Qiraj. We could even push this basic concept a little further. You could also imagine a system which would allow you to grant access to all your characters once you’ve unlocked it with one of them. It’s a very important matter for us; we don’t want to remake what I personally consider a mistake in the Burning Crusade.
We want to re-examine all the trade skills one by one. For example, the leather craft in the Burning Crusade was interesting only in the first level of the add-on. It became rather obsolete later compared to the objects you could take from the monsters, get as rewards for quests or find inside dungeons. In the Wrath of the Lich King, we want everyone to be satisfied with the trade they choose and we want it to be rewarding. Therefore we’re going to analyze everything we did with The Burning Crusade and previously to work out what was good and what was missed out.”
Oct
4
Lich King Beta Key Scam
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There’s been a recent rash of phishing emails claiming to be from Blizzard and offering the chance to get into the Wrath of the Lich King beta.
It claims to come from ‘WotLK Development Team <wotlkBETA@blizzard.com>’ and reads:
Greetings,
You have been selected by Blizzard Entertainment to take part in our special World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King BETA testing. To participate simply log into your account at the special World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King site at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/wotlkbeta . After logging in and confirming your identity, you will be taken to a download page for the Worlf of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King BETA Client. We thank you for your help and participation in this process, as customer feedback is one of our most powerful tools in creating an outstanding game for all of our customers. If you do not wish to participate, simply take no action, and your account will remain as it is now.
Blizzard Entertainment Inc
Account Administration Team
P.O. Box 18979, Irvine, CA 92623
Regards,
Wrath of the Lich King Development Team
Blizzard Entertainment Inc.
But, the actual link takes you to http://wowtlk-beta.awardspace.co.uk/index.html where you’re asked for your username and password for your World of Warcraft account which (obviously) you should never provide outside the actual World of Warcraft website.
Just an FYI to let everyone know this scam is going around.
Oct
2
More Death Knight Q&A
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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King will add a new option to the game’s class roster with the introduction of the first hero class, the necromantic death knight. During the Second and Third Wars, the people of Azeroth learned to fear these merciless, unholy opponents and their terrifying powers. Leading legions of the undead into battle during the Third War, the Lich King’s death knights proved both their strength and their cunning on several occasions, making them an invaluable part of the Scourge army.
In Wrath of the Lich King, you will be able to pick up a runeblade, don some plate armor, and wreak serious havoc using both melee abilities and offensive magic. To give you an early glimpse at the design philosophy behind the new class, we sat down with the World of Warcraft design team to talk about the role the death knight will play in the expansion’s story as well as in its gameplay, and to get their thoughts about goals and ideas for the new class.
The biggest news at this year’s BlizzCon was the announcement of World of Warcraft’s next expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, which will introduce the game’s first hero class, the death knight.
What made you choose this particular class?