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World of Warcraft Expansion Details Leaked
JavaLord writes "The new expansion to World of Warcraft titled "Wrath of the Lich King" recently went into friends and family alpha testing. Some of the first screenshots, along with notes on new spells have been leaked on the world of warcraft forums and other websites only to be pulled down. As usual, the internet routes around censorship, and the low down on Wrath of the Lich King can be found here."
if that page is any indication of what will be coming with WotLK, there will be quite a few upset customers.
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The biggest issue is the maps are known fakes circulated for the last 6 months. Maps have been historically one of the last items finished. I beta tested the burning crusade, Maps were added in one of the last beta patches, especially the map for outlands.
Not to mention they have melee talents for a magic class...
I'd say more, but my guild is raiding.
Almost all this info is coming from MMOwned Forum from what I've seen. Almost all of it is from data mining the data files, so it is no real indication of what is really active in the game. Many times, spells and items are in the data files that are never really included, this is even more true for WotLK.
The screenshots and models are probably near final versions, but spells and the like are questionable.
Its not what it is, its something else.
Probably one of the easiest places to get info about the upcoming expansion is WoWWiki's Wrath of the Lich King page.
Since I'm not in the alpha testing, I can't comment to the veracity of what is on WoWWiki's site, but the editors over there seem to be fairly good.
Wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?
Not totally true. One of the nicest thing about FFXI's expansions is that on top of a number of hours of more storyline, almost every one of them has added totally new things that where never in the game before ToAU added instance battles, chocobo breeding and racing, a Pokemon type game to play between players, and city attacks. WotG added a whole new battlesystem in the past that involves campaigns against enemy armys without the need to be in a massive alliance. This also changed the whole nature of XP grinding as you can easily make a ton of XP without the need of a party. There is a lot more still planned as well. While yeah there is your normal armor recoloring and new mobs, a GOOD MMO maker knows how to add stuff in without upsetting the balance too much while actually including a ton of new content.
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no quests.. Blizzard said quests ruin the game exp.
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TBC introduced:
- Gear progression for solo play (crafting, PvP). You can finally craft powerful items.
- Competitive PvP that doesn't require you to stop living and play 28h a day and it's based mostly on skill (I am perfectly aware that is not perfect). Arena system.
- Heroic dungeons with their own gear progression.
- Completely eliminated the trinity of warrior + priest + mage. It's not perfect but all classes have various abilities that are wanted in the game, it's no more let's wait for the protection warrior to log on so we can do something.
- Socket system.
Stuff TBC will introduce:
- Death Knight class, with its own unique game mechanics: not mana, not rage, not energy. Something unique.
- The 25 man raids will have a 10 man version. So you won't have to run the same Karhazan instance until your eyes bleed. Variety. Options. Something they started with TBC, to allow everyone to experience every facet and story of the game.
- Brand new crafting profession. Again, different than the flock we have now.
- Some other stuff we are unaware of. Power gamers play these games and figure out what is the "best" of everything, and exploit that knowledge to be the "best" in the game. This means that everything new added to the game cannot deviate to far from the existing paradigms, such as damage-over-time, healing-per-mana-point, etc etc I wonder why the FIFA doesn't sanction head butts a la Zidane since that would add 'diversity' and 'deviate' from current football rules. Oh wait
I harbor a deep and impenetrable sadness due to the fact that I realize I will most likely be playing WoW again once WotLK is released.
Deep. And Impenetrable.
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Actually, it's a programming thing. The computer science thing is the same as the math thing, the little corner thingy. Computer science and programming are not quite the same thing.
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