Posts Tagged ‘gossip’

Flying through Azeroth

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Not too long ago a blue posted this

The vanilla flavour lands were never designed with free flight in mind. That, coupled with the introduction of character flight at higher levels gave us a chance to stagger when and how players see content. With changes to mounts and their systems in the past, and those coming our way in the not too distant future with 3.2, this may be addressed further down the line.

It’s been discussed at great length of course. I mean, who would not talk about this? There are so many plans for changes and updates to the experiences we all have within the world and so many ideas we would simply love to put in place. Ideas like this keep us going, driving us to continue to make cool improvements.

Now, I didn’t really take much notice of it. But today I stumbled onto it again on incgamers. Below the post was a comment telling people to look up the poster “Nalgon” on the wow-us discussion boards. Doing so, will get you 1 post dated 21st of June 2009, this is what it states:

No point in debating, heres the REAL scoop kids…
Cataclysm is the next Wow X-Pack
New level cap is 85.
Horde = Goblin
Alliance = Worgen
Azeroth zones completed & flying mounts enabled.
Zone changes & phasing in Azeroth – Desolace with trees, Barrens with volcanic eruptions!
Cross realm adventuring, think BGs but for PVE & the possiblilty to start new characters at level 50.
Enjoy!

Holy crap (I love that phrase), flying mounts in Azeroth! Brilliant, we finally get to see stuff like Ironforge Airstrip, the Dancing troll village and mount Hyjal legally and without the trouble of wallwalking or glitching. I hope they will implement some extra quests in the old world that make use of the new flying ability, and Blizzard being Blizzard I bet they will implement some nice daily quests for that, huzzah!

So, what will be the first thing you do with your flying mount in Azeroth?

Worgen debunked?

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I think not! According to an interview on the Taiwanese gamebase website, the Worgen race speculation has been debunked, read the full translated interview here: http://www.scrollsoflore.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4853

The q&a part talking about the Worgen and Goblin masks..

Q10. Some players datamined the new masks models from Patch 3.2 PTR files. Are they really the hints for the new races in the expension?

B: These masks are made for the upcoming in game event Hollow’s End this year. I said it’s too early to connect them to the new races. If there’s gonna have new races in next expension. We will make an official announcement.

This has led many players to believe all the rumors to be false, but…if you read carefully you will notice that the Blizzard answer does not deny the masks being indicative of the new races being Worgen and Goblins. It just states that they are to be used with Halloween’s event, a great evasive answer that actually doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know.

Goblins vs. Worgen

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Boubouille of MMO-Champion.com made a staggering discovery in one of the ptr-builds, 4 new Halloween masks, 2 Worgen and 2 Goblins, he claims these will be the new races joining the Horde and the Alliance. Much discussion has followed on how 2 simple masks can prove the new races, but also what side would these new races be on? My guess is as follows

Goblins go to Horde

  • Horde already has Goblin zeppelins
  • Alliance already has an engineering race
  • Goblins just don’t like Gnomes
  • Gnomes don’t like Goblins

Worgen go to Alliance

  • Alliance lacks a feral race
  • They are human

The next minor ptr build there were more masks added, at least one of these was of terrible quality (a scan from an rpg-book it seems), which immediately sprouted discussions about a neutral faction being added to WoW. To be honest, I don’t believe in a third faction being added, just a gut feeling telling me it makes absolutely no sense. I think the latest masks were added to throw some mud into all the speculations.

(fake) Patchnotes

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Someone posted these, probably fake, alpha patch notes on the wow-eu forums a while ago. Now I assume they are fake, this doesn’t mean they’re not interesting.

Welcome to the World of Warcraft: The Cataclysm Friends and Family Alpha. The list below contains information on the current available content available for testing and general information. This information is subject to change.

General

* The continent of Kezan is now available! To travel there, visit one of the three transportation masters in either Booty Bay, Ratchet or Kul’Tiras Isle.
* NPC Transportation Locations

o Alliance:
+ Kezan to Suramar City (The Broken Isles)

World Environment Zones

* The following zones are available for testing: Kezan and The Emerald Dream.

Dungeons

* The following dungeons are available for testing:
o Kezan: The Undermine (78-82)

Classes

* All Classes are available for play. Spells and talents will be available for testing past 80 for the following classes: Druid and Warrior.
* The Arch Druid Hero class is now available for play.
* Creating a new Arch Druid will start you at level 65 in The Emerald Dream and requires you to have a Druid level 65 or higher.
* For Alpha Testing purposes, This requirement has been removed.
* No starting quests are implemented though Arch Druid abilities will be available for testing.
* Several new Arch Druid talents, although they will appear on the talent pane, are not yet implemented.
The Blademaster class, although the icon is shown in the character selection screen, is not yet available for testing.

Druid
* (NEW) Stomp: (Dire Bear Form): Knockbacks target(s) in a frontal cone for 1 sec. Causes a high amount of threat.

Warrior:
* Heroic Strike now heals the Warrior for 5% of total health and an additional 5% if Rend is active on the target.

Professions
* The following tradeskills are available to train up to 525: Mining, Herbalism and Skinning.
* A new tradeskill has been implemented: Woodcrafting. Visit Princes south of Kezan to gain access to this new profession.

WoW Gossip

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

As you all probably know by now, Blizzard registered domain names and trademarks for Cataclysm, rumor goes that this will be the new WoW expansion. Since I like rumors a lot I decided to build this mini-site. On this site I will try to collect all rumors and speculations about the upcoming WoW expansion.