WWI 2008 Full recap

[WoRBot]

Full recap of WWI 2008. Read More

[CycloneCow]

This might be a strange place to pop the question, but does anyone know what keyboard Improved Clicks were using?

[Xentropy]

Hey, video of the Nihilum raid. Do any of you by any chance have video of the PvP panel? Specifically the Q&A session at the end. Your treatment of it left out a question someone asked about frost mages having many talents that have no use in PvE due to boss immunity, and Chilton confirming that there will be a new mechanic allowing us to basically utilize Shatter on bosses. A video for proof I wasn't daydreaming while watching would be nice.

[AK47]

Very nice work as usual guys. Thanks for gathering all those information. *smile*

[alka]

Give more live stream raids, extremely entertaining tbh

[Psyra]

See nothing about the Dire Cat Form here, heared it from a friend that is was on mmo-champion.com

See it as well down here:

Originally Posted by Q&A from blizzard staff

Raids & Dungeons

* Sunwell Plateau is the last content patch before the expansion release.
* There isn't any plan to nerf Kil'jaeden right now, he's intended to be the last boss before the expansion and is meant to be hard.
* Raiding armor sets and PvP rewards sets will look different and won't share the same model anymore in Wrath of the Lich King.
* Uldum was on the original list of dungeons to be added to Wrath of the Lich King but right now it's still unsure if we'll see it or not.


PvP

* Raiding armor sets and PvP rewards sets will look different and won't share the same model anymore in Wrath of the Lich King.


Class Mechanics

* Most of the shaman totems, Unleashed Rage, and Battle Shout are some of the buffs changed in WotLK to affect the whole raid instead of the party.
* Dynamic Line of Sight will be introduced in WotLK PvP, for exemple a pillar might move up and down every 20 seconds, or we might have movable items. More info about Arenas in tomorrow's panel.
* The attacker/target range mechanics are being re-evaluated it might be changed for Wrath of the Lich King to fix most of the existing bugs, including the ones affecting the attack range of Feral Druids.
* Even if it looks like a lot of classes are being changed to make them "more hybrid", but developers still want to keep the classes as distinct as possible.
* There is a plan to give player access to two talent specs to switch between them without having to respec all the time. More details in the future.


World

* You will be able to use your flying mount again at level 77, and might be able to take passengers at level 80.
* A harbor will be added to Stormwind to transport players to Northrend, a new zone will be added in Northern Plaguelands as the Death Knight starting area, and an arena will be added to Orgrimmar in place of the existing empty one.


Professions

* Inscription trading skill is intended to be for both casters and melees, inscriptions benefits every class. The current plan is to use herbalism as the primary gathering profession.


Death Knight

* People playing a Death Knights will see the original voice of their race slightly modified to make it sound more ... Death Knight-ish.
* Tanks will be interchangeable in 5-man dungeons but tanks will have a speciality in 25-man raids. Death Knights will be best against casters and shouldn't be too far behind on other encounters.


Rogue

* Dagger specialization will be improved for rogues in Wrath of the Lich King.


Warlock

* There isn't any plan to change the soul shard farming as it's part of the class, but an "emergency soul shard" ability might be added.


Druid

* There will be a new model for the Druid's Dire Bear form and the Dire Cat form will be introduced.


Paladin

* Retribution paladins will share their itemization with Death Knights and Warriors. Their group utility will be increased by making them more efficient DPS-wise.


Warrior

* The plan is to improve the warrior specs to make sure that DPS warriors would be able to tank a little, while protection warriors would be able to DPS slightly more with new abilities like Shockwave.

[Xentropy]

Yes, they mentioned dire cat form in the Q&A of the class panel. Someone asked if there would be new graphics for druid forms, and that was the response.

[Gunk]

Nice artworks

[Blondi]

guys he went cat form and used dash

[Xentropy]

Nihilum giving up their top secret strategies! Zomg!

[OMGBEAR]

is it me or 1st video of dance & costume contest stops around the middle?

[kidoz]

whats the name of the french song at 31.40 secs into the first WWI costume contest part 1?

[AK47]

Originally Posted by kidoz

whats the name of the french song at 31.40 secs into the first WWI costume contest part 1?

I did watch the whole video wishing you weren't asking for that ...

It's "Alizée - J'en ai marre". It's crap ( still my opinion ) It's teenage girl music.

[Xentropy]

Alizée... sounds familiar. Is that the girl they based the female NE dance on?

[AK47]

Originally Posted by Xentropy

Alizée... sounds familiar. Is that the girl they based the female NE dance on?

It is .. and it was the case too for the question he asked.