World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Features2010-02-23As we reported earlier in the week, the second World of Warcraft expansion is, indeed going to be Wrath of the Lich King. I was present on the show floor at BlizzCon when it was announced, as well as when they gave the first official demonstration, and I went on to get over an hour of hands-on time with it (which I will post my impressions of shortly).
For now, I have condensed the hour-long demonstration down to the finer points for your reading enjoyment. If you want to skip straight to the good stuff, it’s in bold.
Ten Ton Hammer should have video ofthe entire demoup soon. I know this, because I was standing about a foot behind a guy wearing a very loud and conspicuous TEN TON HAMMER jersey who was manipulating a large camera on a tripod.
New Continent: Northrend.
Dalaran has decided to move a few thousand miles for some reason, and is now the capital city of Northrend.
Level cap increased to 80.
Hero classes introduced.
First hero class: Death Knight
- Will be unlockable by any character through performing a series of quests, raiding was said to not be involved.
- Will not start out at level 1. They weren clear if it would start out at your character current level (presumably max) or just a mid-range level.
- Uses a une?system in place of rage or mana; players select runes to inscribe on their runeblade, and consume them by performing spells and abilities linked to a particular rune type.
- More hero classes will be added in later patches/expansions.
No new races or new e...
worth it , more pet2010-02-06I would sayobra is well worth it , more pet damage = more threat = less melee for me. I am enjoying the Tundra but thats all i have seen as i have been levelling my new range of pets farming the Rhino herds , so far i have got 3 to my level and just 2 more to gowhen i am not levelling my alts . From the little i have seen and heard about i will enjoy all the newontent but i will be taking my time as i like to swapharters a lot.
I repled some stuff too now. My belt of the blk eagle with.... a green.... 58 Agi, 42 int, 66AP green that has better stats than instae blues of the same lvl (75, and for all I've seen)... Other th...
