The interview in brief:
1) More information about the story of WotLK. Why players need to go to Northrend (the new continent). Accodring to Tigole, players will face the story "right off the boat" when arriving to Northrend. In previous interviews we already knew that the story will be made to unfold as the players progress through the game. One thing one must keep in mind though. Players will not be able to skip content (flying to higher level areas etc) because Blizz wants that all players have the opportunity to see the content. Pretty much like The eye instances where you need a flying mount to go there and to get a flying mount you need lvl 70. This time however it is unknown what barriers they will put to stop people from rushing through content.
In the WotLK both the Horde and Alliance are going to send their forces to defeat the lich king, but they are unaware that Arthas is actually trying to lure them against each other. This is a cunning strategy by arthas to bring them both under his power because his mindless minions are not enough for him to achieve greater goals. Is' very similar to W3 story and many aspects of the story should follow the same saga.
2) How does the Death Knight fit in? Death knights wil lstart off under the power of the Lich king but then through some quests you break free and choose to join either the Allies or The Hordes.
3) Does the Death knight has any specific weapon or could it be any weapon? At this moment it could be any weapon. Death knights can turn any weapon to runed weapon.
4) The concept of hero class has been going on for since the original warcraft. Now blizz felt that it is the right time to introduce this concept.
5) Why raising level cap to 80? Why 10 levels? Tigole explained that to level things out again, people need to progress a further of 10 levels so that new and very hard core players are even out at the end of Lvl 80. This will balance the game and at the end you will not have a level 180 item and level 100 item players in same battlegrounds for example. At this moment item level from BT are around 125-146 from t4 to t6. Adding 10 levels would even out the differences and provide more content to the game.
6) New instances in Nothrend and the Titan city. The titan city will be named Ulduar and there will be Azjol'Nerub, Malygos the blue dragon (short instance like grul or maggy) Naxxarams 2 which will be the easiest 25 man raid - much like SSC for now.
7) Are players going to feel too strong after killing Illidian - Malygos and Arthas? Tigole does not think so. The only thing is that the game should not be overpowered to any player.
8) New features to add to WOW will be Destructible Buildings, siege weapons, new voice chat and non instanced pvp zone. Tigole talks about upgrades to the servers and solid bandwidth - which I doubt given the latency and DC's we got lately :)
9) Will old battlegrounds like AV feature siege warfare? Possibly but only very remotely. Blizz is testing Lake wintergrasp first and see how it goes from there. Also adding siege warfare to AV could be hard because of the way it was coded.
10) Aszahara Battle ground. Tigole reveals that that project was done long ago and put apart for AV.
11) More information about inscription, is that atm it is still in development and many things can change. Basically inscriptions will change player's spells.
12) New Dance features: Some dances will still remain the same but the new system will allow players to actually join pieces of dances together and then show it off to their friends.
13) New features will include the Nexus, a winged dungeon with a lvl 70 wing, level 80 wing and a 25 man raid to Malygos. The old Stratholme instance where you can fight alongside arthas and put the building to fire - back in time when Arthas was still in shining armour. Also after Zul Aman patch there will be another patch with 6 bosses 25 man raid harder than BT. This will be called Sunwell Plateau and it will feature also a 5 man dungeon.
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