Friday, September 14, 2007

Voice chat latest news and some other news

We have the exact list that will have the voice chat enabled on patch day. The following realms will be the pilot study and then each week new lists will be opened up to the voice chat. The first set are these from enchish and german realms.
 
English: Earthen Ring Ravencrest Runetotem Shadowmoon Shadowsong Shattered Hand Silvermoon Skullcrusher Spinebreaker Stormrage Stormreaver Stormscale Terenas Thunderhorn Turalyon

German: Aegwynn Alexstrasza Alleria Antonidas Baelgun Blackhand Destromath Die Silberne Hand Eredar Frostmourne Frostwolf Gorgonnash Gul'dan Kel'Thuzad Kil'Jaeden Madmortem Malfurion Mal'Ganis Mannoroth Nathrezim Nozdormu Perenolde Proudmoore Zirkel des Cenarius Zuluhed

 
For further info you can visit here:. (Info)
Further more the Death knight will be made available to all races currently in the game. The death knight will be a new class just as There is Human Mage there could be Human Death knight, as an example. The revered reputation to get heroic keys and attunement will not change. the conflagrate bug will be fixed in patch 2.2 As it is the icon is still being displayed and conflag is not being consumed at all.
 
As a last note, at some point in the future we should see Surnames as well. However this could take long to implement :)
 
 
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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Daily blues posts.

20% of all trojans on the internet are aimed at WOW. This was revealed yesterday by Kapersky labs where they Produced a list with the Top games targetted by trojans. Wow came second place with Lineage II coming first. As a reminder I would advice a good Antivirus program to stay safe with your wow accound. At the moment I have Avast which is free and updates daily. I got hacked once by a keylogger and believe me - it was a painful fortnight sending emails to blizzard to settle my account back.
 
There will be an increase in backpack size and bag space. Not long ago there was the rumour that players will have an Extra bag for resistance armour sets. The items that can be put on like Onyxia Neck  etc will not be considered as keys. Most probably Season 3 Arena is scheduled for patch 2.3
 
The 8 piece armour set (like Naxxramas) is probably never to be seen again. In a way it is a good approach because players would definitely choose to get an set item instead of a random thus making the raid grow stronger slower. Blizz are happy with the 5 piece armour set and I also vote for that. More over the set bonus is at 4 items so you have a larger leeway to mix and match.
 
Voice chat feature will not go live for every realm on patch day 2.2 Instead they will selectively implement it on some realms and open it up on furthere week maintenances.
The initial set of realms that will have voice chat enabled on patch day: Aerie Peak, Altar of Storms, Alterac Mountains, Andorhal, Anetheron, Anvilmar, Archimonde, Arygos, Black , Dragonflight, Blackwing Lair, Dalaran, Dalvengyr, Deathwing, Demon Soul, Dentarg, Doomhammer, Duskwood, Executus, Gnomeregan, Haomarush, Icecrown, Jaedenar, Kel'Thuzad, Khadgar, Lethon, Mal'Ganis, Norgannon, Onyxia, Scilla, Sentinels, Steamwheedle Cartel, Tanaris, The Venture Co, Thrall, Turalyon, Uldaman, Undermine, Ysera, Ysondre, Zuluhed.
There are no plans for classic realms in the future. classic realms are servers that players can only progress till lvl 60 and don't raid further than naxx.