Talgog

And iPhone cameras have been unleashed.

Rumors are true on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

-- Arthas getting off his butt and wanting to kill everyone.
-- Northrend added.
-- Death Knight Class. (doesn't say if hero or not)
-- Level cap raise to 80.
-- New battleground/PvP "stuffs."
-- "Expanded character customization options."

Looks like the German leak was mostly, if not totally, accurate.



Beefnote for the thread:

OKAY HERE ARE SOME GROUND RULES

You can speculate on what you think would be cool or interesting. You can speculate on how you think things may interact with each other in some way.

You may post information and screenshots, please do lots of this

You can NOT however:

Speculate on how things will be overpowered or unbalanced, how things that are introduced in the expansion will make you, your profession, your class, your favorite ability or your dog "useless".

Cry about how a new expansion makes your current playing a "waste of time"

Derail this into yet another discussion about how certain things will be only accessible to a certain percentage of the population, go on about casual/hardcore

Whine

 

mek

Yep, new BG/pvp stuffs are "siege warfare and destructible buildings" in that photo, along with a new BG. Looks like that leaked QA was word for word correct. I'd be very surprised if they didn't have more information ready by now, though... the vague handwaving over "unlocking" the deathknight will probably cause a small riot if there isn't more to know.
Here's the sidebar text:

Some of the highlights you will learn more about at BlizzCon:

• The dark, necromantic Death Knight - the first new character class added to World of Warcraft since launch.
• Northrend, the harsh, icy continent where the Lich King holds sway - complete with new zones, quests, items, and monsters.
• New level cap of 80 - including access to mighty new powers and talents.
• New Battlegrounds: featuring siege warfare and destructible buildings.
• Expanding character customization options, including new hairstyles and dances, the ability to change the hairstyles of existing characters, and new skin color variants.

 

mandella

*sigh* I just hope this class will be available to everyone, not certain classes/races. However, can you imagine Tauren Druid to be a Death Knight, for example? Hm hm...

 

Hav-

Can be preorded, if you live in Sweden, at least.

 

Talgog

Done.

I don't expect that link to last long at all, though.

It's a booklet two page, right page being new Arthas art, left side detailing "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King" with the usual "this bad guy going to destroy world" motivation blurb, and a blue sidebar discussing features of the pack.

 

• Chicken

If you've read the leaked preview before, you'd note that the Death Knight does not replace your existing character. What I'm guessing will be the case is that you need to have done a quest line on one of your characters, and it then adds Death Knight as a class available to the races it's supposed to be available to on the character creation screen. This way you don't limit people of certain races/classes from accessing the class, while still limiting the races available to the class.

That is, of course, assuming the rumors about how the class becomes available were true as well.

 

Maledict

Hopefully we'll have a FAQ by tonight to stem the tide of panic and angst that will overhwlem the internet like a fetid burst sewer over the course of the day.


My own contribution will be - please god don't let it be excatly like that questions session that was released earlier. Please don't let them be that stupid.

 

• frmorrison

Iphones ftw.


This is interesting that the German site seems to be accurate, and I hope the Blizzard /wrath page will be live soon to get official information.

 

• Disquette

Ok, what I can read from that pic, the sidebar:
apologies for anything I got wrong, it's a bit hard to read.

 

Charsi

*turns head sideways*

The dark, necromantic Death Knight, the first new class added to World of Warcraft since launch.

Is it me or does this sound like a whole new class selection that you unlock, as opposed to something you do to your own character?

New level cap of 80, including access to mighty new powers and talents.

50 point talent trees?

New battlegrounds including siege warfare and destructible buildings.

New character customization options including hairstyles and dances, the ability to change hairstyles of existing characters, and new skin color variants.

New dances? I'm definately buying it.

 

Mondragon

Character customisation, brilliant move. SWG rocked with it!

Gnomes with mohicans please.

http://hosted.filefront.com/mrpboy/ - My WoW PVE Movies. SSC/TK/BT

 

Brissa

The fact that nothing that was said in the QA segment on the german website has been refuted by the new reliable information makes me very, very afraid that it might just be true.
But even if it is I really hope that they have some very clever idea to avoid an SWG scenario, I cant possibly see them being that dumb.

 

Stopokingme

This makes me think of Native American gnomes smoking peace pipes and wearing feathered head dresses, I'm sure you mean mohawks

Wonder what they'll do to talent trees with 10 more levels to gain, expanding further on the existing ones indefinitely for each expansion sounds like a pain in the butt to balance.

 

Northerner

Hmm, if it is an "unlock DKs for your account!" thing then it sure would be nice if they would add one more character slot per server. I'm personally capped unless I want to delete an alt and as most of them are 60+, I would really rather not.

The expansion is obviously still quite a ways out though so I'm not going to get terribly worried about it yet. There is certainly no guarantee I'll even be around by then.

 

• Vykromond

Bigger, from MMO-Champion forums (h/t Svenn): http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y41...d/06ef8e57.jpg

[The] opening of the Dark Portal, and the renewed war to... Burning Crusade's destruction of worlds, the heroes [of Azer]oth have given little thought to the frozen wastes of [Northr]end- and the terrible, ancient powers that wait there. [Th]e brooding evils of the fallen Nerubian empire and their [malev]olent sovereign have not forgotten Azeroth...

The former death knight and now Lich King Arthas has set in motion events that could lead to the extinction of all life in Azeroth, as his undead armies and the necromantic power of hte plague threaten to sweep across the land. Only the mightiest heroes can survive the frozen [wastel]ands with any hope of disrupting... Arthas- and perhaps... the Lich King himself... for all time.

Some of the highlights you will learn more about at BlizzCon:
(stuff other people already typed out)
* Expanding character customization options, including new hairstyles & dances, the ability to change the hairstyles of existing characters, and new skin color variants.

 

Docjowles

Can we please hold back on the speculation about DK's? That's what got the last thread locked, we should have more official information in an hour or two.

 

Northerner

Hey now, the Mohawk had feathered head dresses too! I don't think they spent quite as much time smoking peace pipes though, that area was pretty contested.

 

• Chicken

The other text on the picture is flavor, but still interesting, I'll write it down line for line since it's partially cut off (Edit: changed to just normal text since this is a pain in the butt to read); stuff marked in parentheses are my guesses to the text there, which is cut off on the picture.

Past that point it's unreadable.

 

• frmorrison

Text:

The dark, necromatic Death Knight - the first new character class added to World of Warcraft since its launch.
*Northrend, the harsh, icy continent where the Lich King holds rule, complete with new zones, quests, items and monsters.
*New level cap of 80 providing access to mighty new powers and talents
*New battlegrounds featuring siege engine warfare and destructable buildings
*Expanding character customisation options including new hairstyles & dances, the ability to change the hairstyles of existing characters, and new skin color variants.

 

Hozz

It seems like Deathknight is going to be a regular, non-hero class.

 

Zygot

... (delete this)

 

Talgog

*cue jokes about Arthazz with a mohawk and a warrior and a warlock breeding*

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This is interesting. Greater character customization, much "heavier" PvP and what's pretty much a complete game balance revamp in adding a new class (along with this being Northrend and big bad Arthas himself) seems like Blizzard decided they had to do something drastic to fend off the coming rival MMO's. They really dropped their biggest "gun" here, as Arthas is certainly more iconic than South Seas.

Big casino, but that really is a ton of new content to throw at people. Revamped PvP and an entire new class, along with more personal avatars and the normal new goodies? Hell yes.

This actually looks quite a bit larger than Burning Crusade in that regard.

I may reup just to buy this once it comes out (and once I'm not drowning in the first year of law school).

 

Stopokingme

Yay, another class to balance raids around, thanks Blizzard :P

Oh well, here's to hoping they enlarge raids to 30 then so we can get an even 3 of every class spread.

 

Caligula

It is mind boggling that someone wouldn't want things like new classes in an expansion pack...

 

Brissa

Considering that normally you have to grind those through the abyssmal 20-60 content it doesnt suprise me.