Warcrafting and moi

Wrath of the Lich King! I always spell that Lick King … hum ho. Anyway the next expansion has reached beta, yay. Lots of new information has surfaced so I’ll post a bit about some of what we’ve discovered. First up general content.

I’m actually quite excited about Wrath. It’s a real continuation of “old” WoW and for those that played it a direct continuation of Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. TBC was really a “side track”, Blizzard cleaning up some loose ends in the form of the Burning Legion (for now), Vashj, Kael and of course Illidan. Now we head away from the Sci-Fi high concept world of Outland - which even now I consider disappointing from many perspectives - to Northrend and oldy worldy dungeons and dragons styling.

So what new things have we discovered? Well for me the most exciting thing is seeing Dalaran in-game. Levelling a mage and reading up on their history in the lore of WoW Dalaran figures prominently. It always disappointed me that Dalaran was missing. When Blizzard announced it was moving to Northrend I though “err right, run out of ideas …” but in truth the whole back story looks interesting and solid. After that I started to “worry” a little about what Blizzard may do with it. I envisioned some lazy arse attempt at a “new” Dalaran looking more like Stormwind than lofty spires and all new architecture. It seems though my fears are unfounded. Like much of the Northrend artistic style Blizzard have really pulled out the stops. Dalaran in beta looks amazing - just as it should look, in fact better in many aspects. GJ Blizzard!

Lots of information regarding instances and zones has also appeared. I remain a little dubious about what Azjol’Nerub will contain, it should be a zone unto itself. Right now it looks to be a single instance - still there’s nothing saying Blizzard couldn’t patch a raid or instance in at a later date. The Ulduar instances and raid should prove interesting too for lore fanatics - the origin of the Dwarfs, details on the Titan’s, all set to be revealed.

I guess much of this I’ll discuss again and in more detail - so far I’m quite pleased with what I’ve seen. Little details like the introduction of Stormwind Harbour all look set to make Wrath significantly better and more “involving” than TBC - let’s hope the trust is well placed!

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