At long last, my BlizzCon site is done! Thanks for the patience, all. As previously reported I had an internet connection on Thursday night, and that was the last I saw of one until I returned home on Sunday. I got straight to work on the pictures, and this is the result. There are a lot of captions to read, and hopefully you'll find something new that you didn't know in there. On the other hand, I'm sure I've forgotten 80% of what I heard, so put up questions and it'll jog my memory.
At first I wasn't very interested, but the Warcraft Lore discussion panel turned out to be the most fun and informative of them all. Chris, the guy who is the "god" of sorts of the Warcraft Universe, is a really cool guy and a font of knowledge. (Of course he is, it's his world!)
Off the top of my head, cool announcements were:
-Mages are going to get invisibility back (it was pulled in beta) in the expansion. It will be one of the top-end talants.
-Ahn'Qiraj in Sillithus is coming in patch 1.9 (expansion not required) and will require the effort of the entire server to open. Alk, here's your persistent world changes in action! Blizz talked a little about their desire to do more of this, but also talked at-length about why it's so very difficult.
-Fully linked auction houses in every major city in 1.9!
-The expansion will not just be the opening of closed off areas in Azeroth, it will be the opening of a whole new planet! That plantet is called Outlands and is where the Warcraft III expansion, The Frozen Throne took place. Looking far into the future, Blizzard plans to take expand WoW to many new planets!
-In Outland, you can buy flying mounts, but they will only work in Outland. A flying mount will be required to access some zones that will not otherwise be accessible.
-Shard bags are in the works for Warlocks.
-A keyring is in the works to hold all your dungeon keys.
-We'll soon be seeing chance-to-proc-on-damage items for casters.
-The devs confirm: Paladins are "Easy Mode."
If you haven't seen the expansion trailer yet, it explains far more than I can. Check it out.
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
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"-Fully linked auction houses in every major city in 1.9!"
Yay! My main is sitting in the AH 5 days of the week, now he can venture away from orgrimmar, and still run his lurcative smelting operation. (1/4 the gold for mount at level 17, yay.) Also outland is a way cool place. I modified my warcraft III main menu screen to be the one of outland a while back.
thanks for all the insightful pics gav! i wonder what kinda mount we'll be buying for interplanetary travel?
Overlords. Hope you like ventral sacks. (eeew.)
Link no worky. /.'ed?
Link Fixed
Very good! BTW, you should of dressed up and stapled forks to your shoulders.
Now that the link works, very good pictures Gavin, many of them are better than the ones blizzard put up on thir website. And in case you were wondering the one of "those guys" that "were everywhere" that was not dressed up was fangtooth, the forum moderator with the murlock icon. They made such a cute couple.
I actually knew it was Fangtooth, but only because I overheard others talking. What I want to know is, how does *everyone else* know it's Fangtooth? Are you people stalkers or something? ;-)
Not a stalker, just a forum troll with too much free time at work. He said in the general forums it was him.
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