Sunwell Plateau confirmed and New Wotlk instance "Nexus"

Teza · 08/24/07, 12:20 PM

The following infos are coming from an interview with tigole during the Games Convention:

- Sunwell Plateau will be released before the expansion "Wrath of the Lich King", Tigole said its planned for a patch after Zul'Aman (so it might be 2.4 minimum to get it). Sunwell Plateau is a new instance which can be found in Quel'Thalas (forest region north of the continent of Lordaeron). The instance is divided in 2 parts, one of them is designed for a 25-man raid instance (said to be the most diffcult in WoW, harder than Black temple), the other part is a 5-man instance.

- Tigole talked about a new instance "Nexus" located in Borean Tundra, it should be the first instance you will zone in when entering Northrend by Borean Tundra; this instance will be divided into several wings and the hardest wing is designed for a 25-man raid. Nexus (thats the name of this new wotlk instance) is located at the top of a mountain, and you will encounter Malygyos in it, the blue dragon.

A video of this interview should be up this week end.

Source

Malan · 08/24/07, 12:21 PM

• SaintDemoniac · 08/24/07, 12:29 PM

To be fair to Teza, I really only check worldofraids / mmo champion regularly when :

A> Something big is announced and there are constant updates to it (blizzcon, new patch notes, big PTR stuff etc)

B> There is the ever present race of people killing new things (black temple, hyjal)

I check EJ a few times a day.
So thanks for the info

Teza · 08/24/07, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Malan

Don't you have an entire website where you announce this stuff already?

Sorry i though these infos were noteworthy enough to deserve an EJ topic (the admin can merge it with the appropriate topic but i didnt find any), i reported the infos here for ppl who dont check wor (like i have done for the haste rating change in the 2.2 patch topic).

Skulli · 08/24/07, 12:44 PM

Well, i guess we wont see Sunwell before december or something.
2.2 still on ptr and maybe ready in a week or two. After that ZA is on the ptr which takes atleast a month and sunwell testing the same.

Nite_Moogle · 08/24/07, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by Teza

(the admin can merge it with the appropriate topic but i didnt find any)

Wrath of Lich King Stuff (was 'Blizzcon' thread)

It's sneaky you see, having fallen halfway down the first page.

diospadre · 08/24/07, 12:54 PM

This stuff is big enough for its own topic, we don't need to cram fucking everything in that gigantic topic.

Malan · 08/24/07, 12:56 PM

♦ Praetorian · 08/24/07, 12:58 PM

I saw the WoR update on my way out to a meeting and would've made this thread if it weren't here already when I got back. You people need to relax.

Mokoto · 08/24/07, 12:58 PM

I am kind of excited to see what the 5-man will be, obviously max-level dungeon, I wonder what the faction grind will be if it has a heroic component. I can only hope it will have requisite daily quests, and not just running the instance a billion times to get the key.

Cromfel · 08/24/07, 12:59 PM

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I dont really follow those sites on regular basis, so having own topic here discussing the areas dont seem inappropriate at all. Well, thats up to mods to decide anyway so why speculate. Edit: Praetorian beat me to it.

Could someone elighten me about Sunwell Plateau creatures and/or background? Im not that much of lore freak, so excuse my lack of information. What enemy would we be facing there? Trolls? The Convocation of Silvermoon as resurrected servant or something else? *Blush*

LodeRunner · 08/24/07, 1:01 PM

This means I get to kill more elf right? I love killing elf.

Nfariessence · 08/24/07, 1:02 PM

I probably wouldn't have looked for it until it appeared on mmo-champion (which is browser-friendlier for my little php proxy) and until I was at work again on Monday. So thanks for the update Teza, I appreciate having seen it here.

♦ Praetorian · 08/24/07, 1:06 PM

Originally Posted by Mokoto

I am kind of excited to see what the 5-man will be, obviously max-level dungeon, I wonder what the faction grind will be if it has a heroic component. I can only hope it will have requisite daily quests, and not just running the instance a billion times to get the key.

I think the existing heroic keying mechanism is really part and parcel of the whole leveling experience. You aren't going from Cenarion Neutral to Cenarion Revered by running Coilfang instances 100x. You get most of that rep from quests, complemented by instance runs. There's no reason they'd necessarily copy that format for a post-70 instance.

If I were in Blizzard's shoes, I'd use this 5-man as proof-of-concept for a "hard" 5-man as part of a reasonable progression. I think the last thing we need in patch 2.4 (or whenever) is another source of ilvl 112-115 blues, and I don't expect that. Especially if they're adding tons of new badge rewards (as they have promised) in 2.3, you could tune a new 5-man (nonheroic) around an expectation of gear from existing heroics (i.e. high end blues and epics, badge-bought items, crafted epics, etc.). See how it works out. Then make the heroic version (let's say, unlockable not by rep grinding but by completing a time trial clear of the nonheroic instance) another tier above that. And see how it works out.

If it works, then it can serve as a model for a real endgame 5-man instance progression in WotLK.

snape · 08/24/07, 1:07 PM

Am I the only one going to voice that it's kinda....silly? perhaps to have not only ZA in Ghostlands, but now the Sunwell in Eversong Woods?

We can rehash how it sucked for Horde to get to MC/BWL until we're blue in the face, but it was payback in AQ40 honestly. Basically, if you're Alliance, have fun traveling through 2 Horde zones to get to the Sunwell.

Anyone can see the problem, so I hope they recognize the issue and create a portal or transporter to Eversong/Ghostlands - at least for Alliance.