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WotLK thoughts at 75

Dufe — Thu, 09/11/2008 - 11:18

I hit level 75 of Dufe last night. I figure this is probably a good time to stop and share some of my thoughts on Wrath thus far.

For starters, the environment is much better than BC. Between the shadow improvements, more detailed terrain, and just generally better zone layouts, Northrend will be much more enjoyable place to level. I think the quests tend to be more inter-related to create a more cohesive lore path as well.

There are technically 2 more zones than in BC as well, although the PvP zone doesn't really count in terms of leveling. The "level spread" of the various zones is similar to that found in BC. In terms of leveling, the added PvE zone would be kind of like having another nagrand level zone in BC. I think they've done a good job of designing the zone/quest hub layout (more quest hubs than BC) in way that will reduce congestion, even if only slightly, from what we saw in places like Hellfire Pennisula.

As for gear, I have now replaced one thing. I swapped out my [Carved Witchdoctor's Stick] last night for the Wand of Blinding Light. All of the other gear I've seen pales in comparison to the T5/6 level gear I've got. The stats that Blizzard seems to be using to differentiate between healing vs dps caster gear are about what we expected. Some gear has MP5 or loads of spirit (healing gear), the "dps" gear tends to have either hit rating, or just more crit and haste than the "healing" gear.

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Vehicle UI

Roguered — Thu, 09/04/2008 - 17:47

Here is a shot of the vehicle UI in wrath. Special quest vehicles have abilities. When you get on one of these the hud changes to show the vehicle UI.

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Bottom of Naxx/Entrance

Roguered — Thu, 09/04/2008 - 17:45

So I flew up in there and that's how you get into Naxx.

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Shadow of Naxx

Roguered — Thu, 09/04/2008 - 17:40

Here you go G, a nice shot of Naxx's shadow cast down on the town below.

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Naxx over winterguard

Roguered — Thu, 09/04/2008 - 17:37

View of Naxx from Winterguard keep.

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Ontop of Naxx

Roguered — Thu, 09/04/2008 - 17:34

Hanging around ontop of Naxx. I'm stealthed so I'm a little hard to see.

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Switching Toons for Wrath

Atar — Wed, 09/03/2008 - 08:21

Since I've been back at work these past two weeks I've done an insane amount of research on all the classes and specs that will be introduced in WotLK. All these changes are going to take a lot of getting used too, but I really think everyone in DF is capable of grasping the new class mechanics swiftly.

As of right now I'm not sure if I want raid as a Feral Druid anymore for Wrath. I'm not 100% on that conclusion, but I'm really thinking about. I've really focused on the Priest and Shaman talents as of late. All three trees look amazing to me for both classes.

Point blank...I love to heal. I think healing takes a huge passion and it takes a lot of skill to be an amazing healer. I'm still doing research on both Priests and Shaman at the moment to see the how well they'll perform in WotLK.

Also, I've really really been looking into Shadow Priests. One of the things that draws me to them for Wrath is that there aren't a HUGE amounts of changes as far as play style and I like that. I've always thought playing a shadow priest, although low on the dps meters, was extremely fun. The constant casting of DIFFERENT spells and you're not spamming just one or two buttons. I've been leveling a second priest on my spare time lately to go shadow for WotLK. I'm not sure if it'll be my main or not. We'll see when that day comes.

BTW...this was my first blog EVER