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World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
August 17, 2008
Following on from The Burning Crusade expansion pack Blizzard have announced the upcoming release of the latest add on to the most popular MMORPG in the history of the internet. No offical release date has been announced , but those WoW’ers eager to play it can expect it to be availabe in late 2008. The expansion began beta testing on July 17th of this year. Opt-in beta test keys were sent out starting on August 4th, 2008.
Some of the new fatures rumoured to be included:
- Level cap raised to 80
- Battle with the Lich King at the Frozen Throne
- One new playable class: Death Knight
- A new continent: Northrend
- The creation of a new profession: Inscription
- Profession level cap raised to 450
- Hundreds of new items, quests, dungeons, creatures, spells and weapons
- Siege weapons and destructible buildings (for PvP)
- Transform your hero’s look with new character-customization options, including new hairstyles and dances.
- A non-instanced Battleground.
- Improved Graphics Engine (applied to shaders, flame effects and detailed shadows)
- New factions including the Speartusk and the Taunka, a racial cousin to the Tauren.
- Achievements for both the expansion and existing content
- New Mount, Vanity Pet and Token Storage
Northrend is a new continent in northern Azeroth. The continent is about half the size of the Eastern Kingdoms and is rumoured to match Outland in size. Although Northrend is shown mostly covered in snow and ice, developers stated that only parts of the continent will be frozen over. The new continent will have about eleven zones with content for levels as low as 68, though players will be able to travel to Northrend at any level.
Blizzard have also announced the introduction of Hero classes. Hero classes will consist of classes from Warcraft 3 that were deemed too strong to play from level one or could not fit a primary class role. At this stage Blizzard has confirmed only one Hero class: the Death Knight. Death Knights, will be able to fulfill the tank and DPS roles sufficiently. Death Knights can use plate armor and new rune weapons like Runeswords and Runeaxes, but are unable to use shields. A Death Knight’s summoned pets will be more similar to a Priests Shadowfiend, in that they are pets with a set duration. This class will not be accessible using normal character creation. Instead, once a player has a level 55 character, they will be able to create one Death Knight character per realm, which will begin at level 55 with a full arsenal of spells. Both the Alliance and Horde factions will have access to the class, but Blizzard is still working on the lore as to how Death Knights were accepted into the Alliance. Instead of relying on rage, energy, or mana, the Death Knight will use a new resource system called runes. Runes will be displayed under the player portrait. The Death Knight will influence what abilities they are able to use by adding special runes to their weapons, a process which can only be done outside of combat. Confirmed runes are blood, frost, and unholy. Each rune has its own unique abilities and look. Up to six runes can be set together in combinations of different numbers and types.
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