lich king info

[Lachdanan]

Welcome to Northrend
In Azeoth
Level cap 80
New class death knight
Seige weapons in pvp

2 points of entry in Northend not like hellfire

2 zones you pick which side for entry level zones keeps traffic down

Howling fjord green hills, cliffs looks like arathi.

Borean tundra home to tuskaar race. Naga are melting snow. Reminds of easter island or shimeer flats

Next level zone
Grizzly hlls - home of the furbogs
No snow in the zone, redwood forest feel. Thick lush woods and trees.

Next zone

Dragonblight - this is where the dragons go to die. Lots of ice and snow. Lots of dead dragons, huge zone.

Capital city
Dalaran is capital city for Northend, it gets moved. It will be floating

Improvments
New battle ground with vechicales
Siege weapons
Outdoor PVP zone
Destructible buldings is the goal to winning the zone. 15 man BG 30 min average game

New arena season, gear and maps

Noninstaced PVP zone. The whole zone will be PVP. Lake wintergrasp.

Death knight
Designed to fulfill both tanking and dps.
Can tank with 2 handed weapon. Yes 2 handers. Dual weilding, plate gear, will use spells and abilities! Are a mix of both castng and melee, no rage bar. Will be the first Hero class.
Need to unlock the, at level 80 quest chain, compared to the Warlock mount quest. After quest, you start at a hgh level, level 55. Plans to add more hero classes.

They use a new energy system, rune bars. Spells are cast using runes, blood, unholy, frost, runes must be carved into the weapon can only be done outside of combat. Need to pick whch rune makeup you want, 6 runes max. Certain spells can consume more than 1 rune at a time.

[Lachdanan]

New caverns of time instance

[Lachdanan]

New raid zone for Burning crusade, will be last raid zone before expansion, think Naxx.

[Lachdanan]

Looking to make rogues better in 5v5. Death knights should not replace rogues or dps warriors, won't say how.

[Lachdanan]

More daily quests
Cooking
Solo instance

[Elunne]

Lach I love you

[Meru]

Lach I love you

QFT

[Lachdanan]

Class devs meeting starts in 5 mins - more updates on class info soon

[Citarre]

QFT

QFT

[Lachdanan]

Treeform will now be able to decurse and cast more healing spells than they can now

Don't expect changes to the holy tree for priests

ret palas will get more Raid dps moving away from SoC and strike

changes to protection pala HP

All priests will get fear ward

[Nightlive]

Treeform will now be able to decurse and cast more healing spells than they can now

Don't expect changes to the holy tree for priests

ret palas will get more Raid dps moving away from SoC and strike

changes to protection pala HP

All priests will get fear ward

Sigh where are the shaman changes. Fear ward thing is cool though.

[Lachdanan]

Crap may have lost my last post

Druid tree form will be allowed to casr more spells than now. They will also be able to decurse

[Lachdanan]

The class session sucked. Just focused on the death knight, focusing on a shortage of tanks at max level. Some info that I posted but not much detail as I wanted. Raid meeting starts in 5 minutes.

BTW. Starcraft 2 looks sick.

2v2 arena matches in a hour should be cool to watch more details shortly

[Lachdanan]

6 new bosses
Harder than black temple
Teir 7 loot

[Nightlive]

6 new bosses
Harder than black temple
Teir 7 loot

In expack or before?

[Gogan]

Can't wait to hear about all the new mage changes. You know, things like Fireball Rank 14, Frostbolt Rank 13, and a new spell icon!

Dark Knight sounds like an evil-aligned paladin. Cool, but nothing that excites me too much yet.

I assume the new pre-expac raid zone is Zul Aman, which was talked about before BC came out. Looking forward to any new info on it.

The Fear Ward change is huge. Priests have been begging for that forever. The tree form changes sound really nice too.

Glad to hear about the 2 entry zones for Northrend. Blizzard does learn from its mistakes.

Although it seems like just yesterday we were leveling from 60-70. I'm exhausted just thinking about grinding another 10 levels 6 months from now.

[Lachdanan]

Lich king end game will have something like ahn qiraj

Trash mobs are here to stay

Hyjal trash will now drop epics and rep with sands of time

Monstous kaliri will now drop gold and rep

New 25 man raid will have 6 bosses and maybe another 5 man

May or may not be 5 piece teir 7 maybe 3 piece Teir 7

[Lachdanan]

Nightlive

Before expansion, like naxx was before TBC

[Lachdanan]

Tigole made a statment that they may recycle Naxx into the new expansion.

Naxx will be part of Northrend some how

[Lachdanan]

!!!!!!!!

Just leaked!!!

New 25 man is sunwell and yes before WoTLK

Wow

[Sensational]

Lach, you own dude thx for the infos!

[Lachdanan]

Zulamun is the upgrade of Karazahn. Its a 10 man with better loot than Kara but still a 10 man

[Lachdanan]

Changes to bag space, item rack like mod will be added into the game


Threat meter will be added in stock UI

[Citarre]

Don't expect changes to the holy tree for priests

"because we really do hate the healing priests"

[Onion]

i think it was because protium sent in damage meters of our raids doing trash in ssc showing that priests are OP

[Lachdanan]

From what I see you can change your hair style, but that's it.

[McGrupp]

nice!!!!! you the man lach

[smell]

smell will have a mowhawk!

[Sly]

says on the blizz site hair and dances

[Lachdanan]

Announced warcraft motion picture

[Lachdanan]

Co production of Blizzard and Legandary who made the 300 film.

[Lachdanan]

Fixes to AV will occur

Anti afk measures are coming players can report people for being afk, after other 5 or so other players report you, you receive a debuff, that debuff prevents honor gain

Honor gains will shift from early npc kills to later

Group queue will now be a option for AV

Adding guld battle grounds for guld vs guld fights. Guilds will have a battle ground rating.higher ratings allow the guild access to items or consumables

Future pvp zone
Lake wintergrasp
Full pvp zone regardless if it is a PvE server. Will need to capture a central point.

Arenas
Rating requirment now for weapons, it will be a combo to have a high

Just spoke with tig and the lead designer on Rogue mobility, they agree its a problem and they are not happy with rogues in the 5v5 format and when going up with warriors. They did not go into details other than saying rogues will get 2 more outs. Changes are not to be expected unil expansion or late

Ret arena set in season 3 will have resil