Warcraft Experience

The guys from WoW Petopia posted a bit of new information from The Burning Crusade beta for everyone to go check out. Go check it out

1 Up editors have posted several videos they’ve encountered so far:

A handful of us are playing World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade well into the morning hours. We aren’t doing it because we’re hopelessly addicted to Blizzard’s MMO, but rather because we want to start showing people who haven’t got a chance to check out the Burning Crusade some of what to expect from the expansion.

Over the next few days, addicts posing as employees of Gamevideos will be busting out videos of a variety of stuff from the Outlands. For starters, here are videos of three bosses from Hellfire Ramparts, one of the first instances players will encounter post-level 60 in the Outlands.

Slouken speaks up on the upcoming expansions changes to UI modifciation:

Q: Given all the new information that has just been announced are addons like benecast still possible?

You can easily bind specific spells to modified buttons, but you can’t have the addon intelligently pick the rank of the spell. For example, you can set up a row of frames representing the folks you want to heal, and then bind “medium heal” to click, and then “big heal” to shift-click, or right click. Or you could have a column of info frames showing raid member status, and then have a menu of cleanse/heal type spells that pop up when you click on them, etc. etc.

Q: Keep in mind that our secure templates are still a work in progress and we’re trying to make available lots of functionality in building-block style pieces.

Could Decursive be changed so that I could, at the very least, still target the sheeped player really quick with one button, without having to fumble around with my mouse and keyboard to try to select him manually?

You no longer have to target a unit to cast a spell on it, if you have the spell pre-loaded into your buttons. For example, you can have your teammates arranged in a pleasing array, and when they get sheeped they can start glowing or flashing … or just bleat… and then you can either click on them to dispel them or pop up a menu with the dispel action on it, depending on how you have things set up. … while you’re still targeting the flag carrier all along. The key point is that the UI won’t automatically have the right spell ready, you’ll have to plan your tactics in advance.

Slouken does promise to fight hard to get all the functions needed to make legit mods work correctly. Could this be the end of modding as we know it? If thats the case there goes many-a-uber players skills as they learn to rework the game.

If you have managed to download the Closed Beta and made it into the game note there is an equip bug.

There is a known bug that is associated with equipping the following items: Thorium Shells, Heavy Shot and Scout’s Arrow.

Players that have these items equipped already should not have an issue using them or unequipping them. Players may experience crashing when trying to equip them for the first time. Upon relogging, these items will equip normally.

This bug will be fixed in the next available patch.

OOOPS!

The Burning Crusade Beta has started today! And the gang over at wowvault will have a thread to answer any of your burning (pun intended) questions. Be sure to go check it out.

Aeus from the European forums warns us, as of patch 1.12.1, Abandoning quests will destroy quest item(s):

There was new functionality for quest abandoning added in 1.12.1 that will destroy any items related to the quest as soon as it is abandoned. The note for this didn’t make it in time for the patch, and we’re currently in the process of approving the final revision for the web notes.

This was mainly done to curb some of the experience hording for this expansion, and any future expansions to come. We want to ensure people are leveling at an appropriate pace and not using quests which were not initially designed with an expansion in mind to move past 61-70 levels as quickly as possible. This is one of a few steps to attempt to limit the benefit players will receive from planning level progression through pre-expansion quests and turn-ins.

Although not the main purpose of the implementation, this will also help with cases of items remaining from quests taking up inventory space, which we’ve probably all experienced to some annoying degree. It’s not certain at this time if removing collected items that are dependant upon a time-limited item is intended. Fortunately there are not too many quests that would be affected by that.

Worry not my tree hugging friends the Druid Class Morale in TBC will not be as low as you think. Eyonix lets us in on some info:

We want everyone to be happy with their class and feel as though they’ve made the right choice and have as many options for specialization as any other class. We don’t want anyone to feel as though they are at a disadvantage, due to talents, abilities, itemization or any other aspect which could possibly affect a given player’s strength. With that being said, we’ve been reading feedback extensively, from players of all classes and making changes based on our own testing, and that feedback. It should be noted, however, that the majority of changes from this point forward won’t be seen until after beta begins. Much of the feedback we’re seeing on our boards towards any element of the expansion is theory-crafted, and doesn’t take the entirety of all changes into consideration.

Continue to post your feedback, and both the community team and designers will continue to read through what’s constructively provided. Beyond that, just be patient — we’re dedicated to ensuring World of Warcraft provides the best possible gaming experience for everyone involved.

Details are now available on the contents of the World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Collector’s Edition. Click here to see shots of both the standard and Collector’s Edition packaging and to learn more about what Collector’s Edition owners will receive with their purchase.