There has been a lot of talk about the class changes, talents and specs, but not a huge deal about the new zones. Just caught this gem over on FOH. A walkthrough of Karazhan.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...urning+crusade

For a 10 man this place is just massive. The scale of this stuff is huge. Looks pretty amazing to me. The scale between this place and somewhere like UBRS is just staggering. If anyone else has any videos or screenshots of the instances in the expac (especially videos) please do post them.

Edit: Library and Chessroom both were nice standouts. So was the Opera House. Would be sweet if the Chessroom had a special boss encounter where it was based like a chess match.

its hard for me to visualize a new instance's feel without the mobs being in it. will the opera house be the next suppression room? etc. etc.

looks amazing though. my one concern is that new boss encounters will be too easy. or, if they are difficult, that you would have to reclear the fast respawning trash over and over just to get to your current boss challange.

I think it would be awesome as well if they had a chess-based boss encounter.

I think the size speaks for itself. Look at the player running around. Then imagine how big a molten giant or something similar in size to one would be compared to her. Then place the giant in the room. It seems to me that any boss currently in the game could fit easily in some of the more impressive places in the video. Maybe the large rooms that stand out are for bosses.

It also makes me wonder how long it would take to clear if there were a large amount of mobs in each room. I think it would take quite a while since it took the player around 16 minutes to run through the whole place.

The chess part could be like in the first harry potter book/film. The whole instance looks amazing!

That place is HUGE. For a 10 man I am really impressed.

Don't forgot that he was only going upwards. Unless it was scrapped the tower had an exact duplicate going down.

Hopefully, 10 hours? Jesus.

That is goddamn awesome. But I saw very few horse heads :(

The chess board does have a special encounter. Check out the spell database.

I'm pretty sure that Blizz CMs have said that the chess board encounter won't require you to know how to play chess ...

But what do they know?

That's too bad. Having some cross-over to real world knowledge/skills is always nice, imo. As I recall, the old MSX version of Metal Gear and had actual Czeck dialog in it relevant to progressing. You could translate it directly or through some in-game alternative.

Huge is an understatement. It looks like Medivh knew how to live. I can imagine so much variety and lore that could be involved in that instance, it's almost insane. I'd think that (especially in the library) there would be a ton of little books you could read through, and little levers and switches to open rooms. NPCs that aren't just there to kill you, but tell stories and recount tales of their life and death. The theater and the chess room look like they could offer some -very- original and intersting fights. If the mobs are numerous and placed as they are in the current instances, it'll take about a week and a half to clear. Hopefully Blizz won't fill it so full of trash that it gets monotonous.

That place is supposed to be epic, it was the home of the Last Guardian after all. :)

I do wonder if the instance is gonna be on a 3 day timer or a 7 day timer. This place is basically supposed to the MC of BC(I originally thought it would be the UBRS, but I've changed my mind about that).

Perhaps it's just one side set up, and you get a stage encounter like Archaedas. 10 Pawns zerg first, then each of the pairs combined and finally a King and Queen encounter.

Or even better, a movement encounter like Heigan. Bit of DPS on the boss (could be the King or Queen piece) and then avoiding the pawns and other pieces thwomping on you. You can evade it by knowing and seeing how the pieces (would) move, although that seems like a bitch to code and if the fight really doesn't require you to know chess mechanics then it's prolly not happening :) Ahh, boss designs, I can dream on forever...

Anyway, saw the video (saw a quicker runthrough by the Noggaholic guys last week as well) and it does look awesome. Plenty of nooks and crannies for bonus loot and I could see a lot of places where a boss fight would take place. And the last bossfight seems wicked, big platform on top of the tower kind of resemblant to Nefarian's room with the balcony.

I'm optimistic, AQ was huge, but the trash wasn't too bad (few less pack here and there, and remove half of the ones prior to Cthun). However, looking at Naxx, they forgot all that.

I was thinking that each instance reset would put one of about a dozen classic openings or games on the chess board and that would give you some hint of what to expect from the encounter.

There is a ton they could do with the concept, I hope they live up to the potential.

I ran around here on a sandbox of the BC a day ago. Its huge, I got lost several times. It looks like a very well designed dungeon. In my own opinion it would make sense that arcane spell mobs would be in this dungeon.

It looks absolutely amazing. I am really looking forward to that dungeon, makes me wonder how much time I will actually spend in 25 man instances... Any word on how many bosses they plan to put in there?

PS: sup Mygore.

10 Bosses

Don't know if that includes the last boss or not.

10 bosses in a place that size? :monocle: That's quite a bit of empty space.

"30 minutes" of trash inbetween bosses...

I wonder if we'll be seeing more BoE epics.

Probably not empty space - I bet there's going to be tons of trash mobs.