|
|
Support the Cauldron, buy from our store.
Wrath of the Lich King
Last post 08-25-2008, 10:25 AM by Feralia. 38 replies.
-
 11-25-2007, 7:55 AM |
-
Grunthor
-
-
-
Joined on 10-26-2006
-
-
Posts 1,151
-
-
|
Coming soon to an expansion near you.
Death Knights
Inscription - spell augmentation
Seige Warfare with destructable buildings (New PvP Zone and Battleground)
Character Customizations: New hair styles, New dances.
New Starter zones: Howling Fjord, Borean Tundra
Other Areas: Gjalerbron
New Dungeons:
Utguard Keep
Caverns of Time: Stratholme -- Witness a pivotal moment in Arthas' story -- the culling of Stratholme -- while standing right next to him.
 Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 12-01-2007, 12:31 PM |
-
Grunthor
-
-
-
Joined on 10-26-2006
-
-
Posts 1,151
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
It looks like Naxx will be moved to Northrend in the expansion. Or at least updated.
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 12-03-2007, 4:37 AM |
-
Duchess
-
-
-
Joined on 10-27-2006
-
-
Posts 982
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
I also read that Dalaran will be the new neutral city. Same deal with no AH.
Enchanters will be able to make items to put on AH. Yay!
Also flying mounts will not be useable until about level 78 or so. This is to ensure that you fully explore the new area. I heard something about novel public transportation being included.
Green drops will be at current Tier 4 level.
I can back these up, but I'm too lazy right now to look 'em up. Trust me. ![Wink [;)]](/emoticons/emotion-5.gif)
 Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 12-04-2007, 4:10 PM |
-
Duchess
-
-
-
Joined on 10-27-2006
-
-
Posts 982
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
The euro forums link for WOTLK, you probably have something similar on yours. Lots of info to get your teeth into.
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 12-04-2007, 5:06 PM |
-
Grunthor
-
-
-
Joined on 10-26-2006
-
-
Posts 1,151
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
It looks like they are calling it 2.4 ---> 3.0.0 patches.
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 12-11-2007, 6:23 AM |
-
Grunthor
-
-
-
Joined on 10-26-2006
-
-
Posts 1,151
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
From a blue post
The Mohawk in the Mr. T advertising was a custom model made specifically for the commercial, there is no guarantee that it will be a new hair style in Wrath of the Lich King. (Source)
and another blue post
You shouldn't see any "old" faction providing rewards in Wrath of the Lich King. From a design philosophy Blizzard prefers to NOT give more experienced players a distinct advantage over new ones. Based on this example the Argent Dawn faction will probably not be re-used for Northrend. (Source)
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 01-03-2008, 6:15 PM |
-
Duchess
-
-
-
Joined on 10-27-2006
-
-
Posts 982
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
Wowwiki's page on WOTLK. Some nice little videos at the end.
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 01-04-2008, 5:43 AM |
-
Grunthor
-
-
-
Joined on 10-26-2006
-
-
Posts 1,151
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
Jeff Kaplan (Tigole) Interview in PC Zone
The latest issue of PC Zone (#190) was released with a small interview of Jeff Kaplan containing a few more information about the expansion, nothing really new but a few people asked for it by mail and more details are always welcome. In a few lines :
- Northrend isn't just all snow, for example the Howling Fjord is completely green and modelled after the Redwood Forest while the Borean Tundra (2nd starting zone) has typical autmun colours.
- Devs really feel they were too protective of Illidan and want players to interact with Arthas a lot more, you will talk to him, have moments with him, and you won't have to be a raider to see him. There is also the new CoT instance letting you "clean" Stratholme with him in the past.
- There are four points of entry for Northrend (two for each side).
Howling Fjord
- Alliance players will enter the zone by boat through the Fjord walls and arrive in the middle of a big battle. (Note : See Valgarde)
- Horde players will arrive in an area with a brand new Forasken architecture with a nice "Tim Burton feel". (Note : See New Agamand)
Borean Tundra
- Alliance players comes into a giant Alliance stronghold with a brand new leader that devs are currently building up, and a massive alliance steam ship. They plan to launch an expeditionary force to get to the Icecrown Citadel and defeat Arthas.
- Horde players comes into the Warsong Fortress ruled by Garosh Hellscream, son of Grom Hellscream. The Warsong base is said to be "absolutely huge and epic".
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 01-04-2008, 6:18 AM |
-
Grunthor
-
-
-
Joined on 10-26-2006
-
-
Posts 1,151
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
I watched the videos and the ones of the Forsaken in New Agamand look really interesting. I guess those tankers are filled with the new plague that they are about to unleash on the Scourge. It does look a little Tim Burton-esque.
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 01-04-2008, 4:57 PM |
-
Duchess
-
-
-
Joined on 10-27-2006
-
-
Posts 982
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
Yeah, looks cool, eh? More in the styling of UC. They mentioned in that wowwiki that they are going for more of a gothic fantasy style with this expansion compared to the high fantasy style of Outland. That's fine for me, with the exception of Zangarmarsh and parts of Nagrand, I found Outland quite barren.
I'm curious about Sylvanas, will they replace / update her toon with the one from the lament video they released ... and who will they leave in charge of UC? Maybe they will just have her in both places. I hope they use the newer toon, it was always a bit odd to see her as a Night Elf, esp. as High Elves are in the game now.
Dagnammit, I wish they'd announce a release date sometime soon...
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 01-05-2008, 2:47 PM |
-
Grunthor
-
-
-
Joined on 10-26-2006
-
-
Posts 1,151
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
The educated guessers are saying 2.4 this summer and 3.0 in the autumn, say September-November timeframe (ie pre-Christmas). I'm expecting 2.4 to go on the PTR's next week after the extemded maintenance that they have scheduled.
I have no idea if they'll update Sylvanas' model to the Hight Elf version. I hope they do. If I was to guess about who she would leave in charge I'd say Varimathras. But I'm guessing. She may want to keep him close by.
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 01-06-2008, 4:52 PM |
-
Duchess
-
-
-
Joined on 10-27-2006
-
-
Posts 982
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
I'm thinking 2.4 in the next couple of months and WOTLK 3 - 4 months after, late spring / midsummer. I read a post from a blue in the US forums that said to expect an announcement about 2.4 'soon'.
I think if they had just the one major new instance until Autumn people would start going elsewhere - what with Age of Conan and Warcraft coming up this year they will need to keep interest going. At least that's my reasoning for hoping it comes out sooner. ![Big Smile [:D]](/emoticons/emotion-2.gif)
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 01-09-2008, 1:10 AM |
-
| 02-06-2008, 3:53 AM |
-
Grunthor
-
-
-
Joined on 10-26-2006
-
-
Posts 1,151
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
Another Hero Class in the works?
Quote from: Tigole (Source)
What's more, with any luck, we'll see more Hero classes some time after release, the hot Zitron tip being some kind of Archdruid quest directly connected to Malfurion Stormrage and the much-anticipated Emerald Dream.
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 05-09-2008, 8:12 AM |
-
| 05-11-2008, 7:45 AM |
-
Grunthor
-
-
-
Joined on 10-26-2006
-
-
Posts 1,151
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
Part I
Death Knights
- All players with a level 55 character will be able to create one Death Knight per realm, per account. (Gamespy.com)
- Blizzard's designers decided to start the class with a full complement of abilities right off the bat, figuring that any player that has advanced a character to level 55 would be able to learn to handle the new class with minimal difficulty. (Gamespy.com)
- Death Knights will have a summonable Skeletal Deatcharger Mount. (Gamespy.com)
- Death Knights aren't using Mana or Energy, the runes are their primary source of power and are slotted into their "blade," which lies underneath their health bar as a visual indicator of what resources are available to the player at any given moment. (Gamespy.com)
- Spent runes automatically refresh after a set period of time, much like a Rogue's energy bar. (Gamespy.com)
- There are six slots in the blade, and the player is free to fill those slots with any given number of Blood, Unholy or Frost runes. (Gamespy.com)
- Death Knights also have a secondary resource called Runic Power generated by using your rune abilities. It will use the same mechanics as rage and increase when you deal damage, or slowly decrease if you're not using it. (Gamespy.com)
- Death Knights will have a lot of abilities that cost all available Runic Power with varying levels of effectiveness based on total Runic Power spent. (Same mechanics as Execute for warriors, or finishing moves for Rogues) (Gamespy.com)
- Death Knights will have spells equivalent to auras called "Presence", providing them with powerful self-buffs depending on their role in the group. (One for tanking, one for damage dealing, etc ...) (Gamespy.com)
- An instant lifedrain spell (described as death coil without the fear component) will be available. (Gamespy.com)
- Death Knights will be the first class to use diseases as a source of damage, with abilities that become strong depending on how many diseases are already applied to the target. (Gamespy.com)
- "Army of the Dead" will spawn numerous undead minions to attack nearby hostiles targets. (Gamespy.com)
- Death Knights will also revive an enemy (or ally) as a ghoul to use it as a pet with its own special abilities like a disease-inflicting strike and a stun. (Gamespy.com)
- When an ally is risen as a ghoul, a pop-up will appear and this ally will have the choice to control the ghoul if he wants to. (Gamespy.com)
- The Death Knight's particular niche will be in tanking magic-damage-dealing bosses. They will have an ability much like a banshee's anti-magic shell, greatly diminishing the amount of incoming magic damage they'll receive in combat (Gamespy.com)
Death Knight Skills
- Death Coil -- Depletes all Runic Power, dealing 600 damage to a non-Undead target, or healing 900 damage on a friendly target. (Curse.com)
- Death Grip -- This is the Death Knight's "taunt" ability. It also pulls the target to the Death Knight, forcing them to attack the Death Knight for a short amount of time. Yes, I said pulls the target; Blizzard is going to allow players to move mobs in the expansion both with Death Grip, and other knockback/pull abilities. This works on players too, so PvP balance ahoy! (Curse.com)
- Chains of Ice -- Roots the target in place. When the spell fades, it places a snare on the target that reduces in potency as the duration runs out. (Curse.com)
- Death Pact -- Sacrifices the raised ghouls to heal the Death Knight. (Curse.com)
- Death and Decay -- Targeted, AoE Damage-over-time which pulses similar to the Paladin spell Consecration. Anyone affected by Death and Decay has a chance to be feared. (Curse.com)
- Frost Presence -- Increases Armor by 45% and allows the Death Knight to generate 25% more threat. Only one presence can be active at any time. (Curse.com)
- Unholy Presence -- Increases Attack Speed and Movement speed by 15%. Only one presence can be active at any time. This was described by Tom Chilton as the "PvP" presence. (Curse.com)
- Anti-magic Shield -- Reduces the damage of the next magical spell cast on the Death Knight by 75%. It also converts the damage reduced into Runic Power. (Curse.com)
- Strangulate -- Depletes all Runic Power, dealing minor damage and silencing the target for up to 5 seconds. (Curse.com)
- Summon Deathcharger -- Allows the Death Knight to summon a Deathcharger mount. This mount is acquired through quests, similar to the Paladin and Warlock land mounts. (Curse.com)
- Raise Dead -- Raises a nearby corpse to fight for the Death Knight for 2 minutes. If used on a player corpse, the player has the option to play as the ghoul for the duration -- gaining access to the ghoul's abilities. (Curse.com)
The ghoul has the ability to do the following:
Leap to the target
Rend for decent damage-over-time
Stun target, and of course more
Raids & Dungeons
- All raid dungeons in Wrath of the Lich King will have both 10-person and 25-person versions. So at level 80, every major encounter and every big boss fight can be experienced with a group of 10. (Gamespy.com)
- 25-person raiding progression is not dependent on 10-person raiding progression. (Gamespy.com)
- There will be no attunements or keys to obtain, and you won't be locked out of a 25-person instance if you decide to attempt the 10-person version, and vice-versa. (Gamespy.com)
- 25-person raids will earn more, higher-level rewards, in what should be the equivalent of one "tier" of loot quality. (Gamespy.com)
- A new instance focused on the different dragonflights "The Chamber of Aspects" might be added to the game, but this isn't confirmed yet. (Gamespy.com)
- Zero raid bosses have been designed at this point. (Gamespy.com)
Others
- Players will unlock their flying mount at level 77. (Gamespy.com)
- You can use your Outland flying mount, and new flying mounts will be available. (Gamespy.com)
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 05-11-2008, 7:50 AM |
-
Grunthor
-
-
-
Joined on 10-26-2006
-
-
Posts 1,151
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
Part II
Inscription
- Inscribers will create glyphs that allow players to modify their spells and abilities. (Eurogamer.net)
- Going by the first recipe, which requires Peacebloom, they'll rely on the herbalist gathering profession. (Eurogamer.net)
- Every player will get a new spell book page to which they can add six glyphs - currently, four major and two minor. (Eurogamer.net)
- Major glyphs will be effective in combat - adding damage over time or stun to a physical attack, for example - while minor glyphs will give convenient or cosmetic improvements, removing the need for some spell reagents. (Eurogamer.net)
- Glyphs can be sold at the Auction House (Eurogamer.net)
Enchanting
- Allowing enchanters sell their enchantments at the Auction House is still planned.(Eurogamer.net)
Lake Wintergrasp / Vehicles
- The new vehicle technology, which introduces physics and handling characteristics - including inertia, turning circle, grip and suspension bounce - to land and airborne vehicles and special mounts. (Eurogamer.net)
- It also allows for up to eight passengers per vehicle, and brings up bespoke action bars and skills for vehicle and turret operators. (Eurogamer.net)
- It was intended to be used solely for PVP siege weapons - Dwarven steam tanks, Forsaken plague spreaders and Orc demolishers. (Eurogamer.net)
World
- Even if you'll be able to meet him as soon as you reach Dragonblight (LVL 71-75), the final encounter against Arthas won't be until the last patch of the Lich King cycle. The Icecrown Citadel, will appear after launch. (Eurogamer.net)
- Dragonblight will also let you reunite (violently) with the Scarlet Crusade. (Eurogamer.net)
- Players will meet a lot of monsters from Classic WoW in the Grizzly Hills, including Furbolgs, Kobolds, the Venture Company, and Worgen Werewolves. (Eurogamer.net)
- Arugal has been resurrected and now leads the Worgen Werewolves in Grizzly Hills. (Eurogamer.net)
- In Grizzly Hills, you will also find an evil sister city to the Alliance capital, Ironforge. (Screenshot ?) (Eurogamer.net)
- The Argent Dawn faction returns in Zul'Drak. (Eurogamer.net)
- In Sholazar Basin, you'll take part in a faction-reputation war between the Wolvar (sentient wolves) and Oracles ("the next evolution of the Murlocs" - a worrying thought). A much lighter take on reputation gaming is promised here, with players actively encouraged to defect to the other side at will. (Eurogamer.net)
- The expansion will contain a lot of "vehicle quests" as an evolution of BC's bombing runs - throwing flaming oil at Worgen from horseback, airlifting supplies in a gyrocoptor, and yes, mammoth wrangling. (Eurogamer.net)
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 05-11-2008, 7:50 AM |
-
Grunthor
-
-
-
Joined on 10-26-2006
-
-
Posts 1,151
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
Part III
World
- Northrend is Huge. It is larger than Outland by a couple of zones, and some of the zones in Northrend are bigger than the largest zone in Outland. (Source)
- The mounts available to buy in Wrath will probably be able to take passengers. These mounts will also work in the old world (Provided they are land mounts), so players can give low-level characters a ride! The new mounts will also be slightly faster, around the speed of the Armored Netherdrakes. (Source)
- We're not sure if that will be available from the start but one of the ideas is to give the players new mounts they can buy and allow these new mounts to be available for passengers. (Source)
- Trainers and Auction houses will remain in the "Old World" (Source)
- Dalaran wil be in Nothern/Central Northrend, near the final zones (Source)
- The Ashbringer lore will feature heavily in Wrath (Source)
- More details on Northrend and Vehicles in Part 1 and Part 2
Professions
- Blacksmithing may be able to put Gem slots on items that didn't have them before (Source)
- All professions will give players something powerful specific to them, similar to the Epic weapons that weaponsmiths can make just for themselves (Source)
- A new metal ore found in Northrend is Cobalt. (Source)
- The new cloth in Northrend is called Frostweave. (Source)
- The way inscription is going to work is you'll have a series of mats that you need to do and then you'll create a scroll that will actually do the buff of the spell in question. Each scroll will have a specific use, so you won't create a generic scroll, it'll be a special scroll that will upgrade this fireball to do this type of thing. Right now we're still trying to make sure we've got that kind of mechanic down. That's actually most of the work. Most of the work is figuring out how that all works, what the materials are, how that comes together, and once we have that, then figuring out what the individual spells are and what the individual spells are and what the effects are going to be is going to be relatively easy. (Source)
- More details on Inscription in Part 2
PvP
- Lake Wintergrasp will have daily quests, and there will probably be a buff that effects the entire continent, as well as rewards from all dungeons similar to the Spirit Shards players can currently get from the Auchindoun instances when their faction controls the area. (Source)
- There will probably be two new Arenas in Wrath, one set in Dalaran, one in Orgrimmar Arena (Source)
Raids & Dungeons
- In Wyrmrest Temple there's a raid instance similar to Onyxia's Lair where it's a small raid instance with a single encounter in the Chamber of Aspects. We plan to put a raid encounter in there and let you take part in that and initially we plan to go with one raid encounter, but if we want to expand the space and introduce other dragon flights we can do that through the Chamber of Aspects. (Source)
- A raid encounter in the Nexus will let players free drakes and then fight on their back, allowing them to use their abilities. Bronze, Green, and Red drakes will be available and each one of them will have his own set of abilities. The boss fight is tuned around the abilities of the drakes and players will be able to pick any combination (e.g. 3 Green, 1 Bronze, and 4 Red). There's a boss fight that has lots of adds in it, and one of [the drakes] can apply this buff to a bunch of adds while another one can basically consume the buff and get health back from all of it and also assume a tanking role. So your tank is then healing himself based off of this debuff that another one is applying to everyone. (Source)
- Developpers think they didn't reward PvE enough in the Burning Crusade, and will try to change that in WotLK. (Source)
- Heroic dungeons weren't rewarding enough in BC, Wrath of the Lich King will change that and make player feel that Heroic instances have their own tier of loot instead of a few additions to the normal loot table. Expanding the Heroic Badge system will be a major step to achieve this. (Source)
- The Arthas storyline will play out through the patches as well. So Arthas doesn't die in shipping Wrath of the Lich King. Arthas will die in a content patch. (Source)
- PvE ladders on the official armory are possible in the future (Source)
- More details on Raid & Dungeons in Part 1
Death Knights
- Changing runes won't be as prohibitive as talent speccing or anything like that, but at the same time, it won't be so fluid so that you're doing it between fights. We're going to hit some sweet spot between those two. (Source)
- Death Knights aren't restricted to swords, they can also uses maces and axes and dual-wield their 1-hand version. Obviously, they can't use a shield. (Source)
- Using a 2-hand weapon or dual-wielding won't change anything to the amount of runes (6) you can use. (Source)
- Death Knights will start off in a floating necropolis in the Eastern Plaguelands, much like Naxxramas in its current location. They will then go on to level in a dedicated area East of Tyr's Hand and the Noxious Glade, where they will learn more about the background of Death Knights. (Source)
- A few more DK abilities
Blood Presence - DPS. Increases DPS and heals the DK slightly when attacked. ( Source) Blood Strike - Does an amount of damage based on how many diseases are on the target. ( Source) Blade Strike - Applies disease to the target in addition to doing damage. ( Source) Mind Freeze - Interrupts spell casting ( Source)
- More details on Death Knights in Part 1
Patch 2.5 ?
- "We just released 2.4.2 on the PTR [public test realm] last week and that's just kind of a minor bug fix patch with a handful of small adjustments. 2.4.0 does represent kind of the last content patch for Burning Crusade and for WoW before Wrath of the Lich King comes out, and so we are talking about doing something in between when 2.4.2 comes out and when Wrath of the Lich King comes out but haven't decided exactly what that is or when that's going to come out. It's only a possibility at this point." (Source)
- "There will be no event to open the route to Northrend like AQ; the day of the expansion release, players can go straight into Northrend. However, a month or 2 in advance there will possibly be a large patch, similar to pre TBC. Players will get hints of why they will have to go to Northrend in this peroid, and this patch will possibly feature new talent trees and class changes." (Source)
- "Blizzard are planning to bring out cool new items for players to spend all their money on, BEFORE Wrath comes out." (Source)
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 05-11-2008, 10:55 AM |
-
Duchess
-
-
-
Joined on 10-27-2006
-
-
Posts 982
-
-
|
Re: Wrath of the Lich King
Cool, some nice nuggets there. I like that all the raids can be done as 10 or 25 mans. It's excellent that they are beefing up Heroic loot too - to be honest, some of the hard heroics like BF, should have had much better loot for your efforts. Cost me 15g in repairs each time I did it - and I'm a clothy!
I wonder what they'll put where Dalaran is now then...
I'm so happy about being able to sell enchants on the AH, I can never be bothered to 'bark' my enchants so this will be great for lazy enchanters like me.
The new mounts sound fun... not sure about offering a taxi service though, but it will speed things up when helping friends level their lowbies I guess.
It's a bit odd that 'zero raid bosses have been designed at this point'. I would think they would have completed all of that by now and be polishing up the game.
Oh well, only thing missing is an ETA....
Avatar by me.
|
|
-
| 07-17-2008, 2:25 PM |
|