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Lepidus  5/11/06 7:22:32 PM
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Garrett Fuller spoke to Technical Game Designer Wyatt Chang on the floor of E3. During a private demonstration, Chang showed off the Burning Crusade, the new races (pictures included) and let us in on some new information.

Well as all of you know by now the new Alliance Race is the Draenei. More importantly we were able to learn a lot about both new races and some of the upcoming content to level seventy. Wyatt Cheng from Blizzard, a producer on World of Warcraft, met with Dana and me for a good thirty minute demo. It seems that Blizzard is starting to move the game into a better direction from the stagnant end game we are all playing now. First, let me go through the races and their abilities, classes, and professions. Then I will try to go through what is coming from level sixty to seventy. There were many questions asked, not all were answered, but the ones that were will have the answers here. The Burning Crusade is a highly anticipated expansion and looks to put Blizzard back on track from the level sixty end game.

Let us start with the Blood Elves. We have seen the pictures of the “pretty” Horde race, but what about the stats? The racial traits of the Blood Elves being with: a +15 to Enchanting, +5% resist to all magic, a mana tap ability, and something called Arcane Torrent which allows Blood Elves to AOE silence enemies for two seconds with a two minute cool down. The Arcane Torrent seems to be the most important ability which will frustrate players in PvP. The small boost in mana will be great for casters, but will also boost warrior Rage and rogue Energy. Speaking of classes, the Blood Elves will have: Warrior, Hunter, Rogue, Priest, Mage, and Warlock. Those are the character statistics; let’s look at the starting area.

You can read the article here.

 
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you said the drainei or whatever was for the horde.. thought id let you know.

i sure hope the out door pvp comes soon, also the BE are broken. I mean really does any other race have those kind of racial skills? its just bs...
 
drumboy  5/11/06 11:25:06 PM
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Dont know if you may know the answer to this, But seeing as you cant have more then one enchant on an Item at anytime, How will Jewels Affect this.  Will you be able to have the sockets plus get enchants on your weapons and armor or is it either/or?
 
GFulls  5/12/06 12:09:33 AM
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Blank thanks for the tip, we finally got the fix up.

socketed items are totally separate from enchantments.

thanks guys!
 
Zderzaq  5/12/06 4:46:39 AM
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I really hope all those changes will put fresh air into WoW ... ::::09::
 
gnappa  5/12/06 8:43:20 AM
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Thanks for the upate my friend.  But sadly it sounds like more of the same for WoW.   They had nothing to say about PvP except "we will see".  That tune hasn't changed since Beta.  Bad news for those of us wanting more World PvP.
 
Faemus  5/12/06 11:12:21 AM
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What did the nether drake look like? Did you see it being flown, or hanging out at a hitchin post?

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GFulls  5/12/06 11:48:43 AM
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saw it flown, looks cool, almost like a shadow dragon. there will be colors and rare mounts as well, but the nether drake is the only one we saw, they didnt say if there were others.
 
wowkrazy  5/13/06 9:08:51 AM
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The World is a Conspiracy...
Whatever sounds Good 2 me...

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damian7  5/13/06 10:41:00 AM
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WTS - a clue. cheap.

I do not support stupidity or weakness. Sorry.
doesn't sound like there's going to be much "end game" content for solo or small group players still.  i really thought that games like wow would've learned from eq's mistakes.  but i guess there's enough kids playing that want to be in the 5 bazillion person guild that they'll just keep on ignoring the small group and solo players.

unfortunately, this doesn't sound like any of the dynamic reactionary environments like what's coming down the pipes for games like eve-online and ryzom.  a changing world dictated by the actions of the players (which would be a good way for some outdoor pvp to get going), is the sort of thing we need to see more in the mmo world.

since it's a wow expansion, i'm sure it'll look pretty.  as for the multi server pvp.  that might make the queues for bg NOT take an hour+ for a 15 minute fight.  which would be nice, and is just a jacked up work around to a still broken pvp environment.  but oh well, put a spin on it and *poof* it's a bold new feature, not a half-assed fix.
 
Spinecrawler  5/13/06 12:47:59 PM
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