Official Cataclysm Leaks/Spoilers Thread (Page 23 of 27)

tree form is going away thankfull (as a permanent form anyway) but i think im switching to priest because BE > Troll or Tauren

Vagmoo the Druid and more fuckin 80s than you can handle bro

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Let me get this straight. Goblins with cars = bad. Gnomes with fucking nuclear bombs and robots = A-OK?

i appreciate that Blizzard are trying to do something different with the new zones compared to the other races' starting areas, the goblins have a big hub with easy transport and the worgen have a long linear starting experience with lots of phasing. I'm not crazy about either design aesthetically but it makes a change from kill x rats, go to the next hub, kill y goats, etc. I'm not gonna sperg about how it's a great storytelling innovation or whatever because frankly compared to the ways other games have to tell you stories an MMO is always going to fall short, but it does show at least a small amount of progress in that regard.

yeah I always thought gnomes were supposed to be the tinkering inventors and the goblins were the power-hungry businessmen. The kezan storyline goes along with that i suppose but shit like the something-cola (i forget what it's called) would fit better with gnomes.

Watched that video for the goblin quest, and yeah, those sound effects are pretty much kindergarten level.  Not sure people are surprised by this, though; WoW has always been about as juvenile in humor as it gets, and has about as much capacity for sinister as a Love Is comic strip.  You were already playing a fairly cartoonish game, may as well get used to it.  Blizzard wasn't going to suddenly do an about-face and make an area look ripped right out of Demon's Souls, or something similar.

Last edited by Duplicity (07/28/10 12:08 PM)

Yes, 83 is the cap atm. Mt. Hyjal and Vashj'ir are basically the Fjord/Tundra equivalents. Hyjal is pretty big, I did every quest there except for what I think is the last one - fighting Ragnaros, which is done in a similar style to the battle for undercity. Vashj'ir is pretty massive and it seems like I have a pretty large chunk of it to go yet, but I already hit 83 so I stopped questing. It's totally underwater so early on you quest for a permanent zonewide waterbreathing + speed buff, and about halfway through you get a quest for an underwater mount hyjal. At 82 or something you can get the quest for Deepholme which is an under-earth realm you get to via diving into the actual maelstrom. Twilight Highlands east of Wetlands I think is the other 82ish zone but its nyi

There are several leveling dungeons

All that shit about trash needing CC and healers having to pick who they heal and when is BS so far. In average ICC gear (which honestly with a 30% buff anyone who wants can get), the first 3 dungeons (thats all thats available) are a joke. You just burn everything down. Healing is still binary and mana still infinite. Damage is either trivial or one shots non tanks (lol Throne). Oh and they drop 279 blues that compete with 277 epics.

The hardest part about the dungeons right now is any idiot that got randomly selected to be in the beta can copy a premade character over and log into the queue with a class they have no idea how to play. This is the biggest mistake blizzard has made with the beta. How could they expect anything besides their beta forums descending into a worthless pile of shit with a bunch of scrubs playing characters that they have no idea how to play?

There are a couple of bosses that are pretty fun for 5 man fights. There's a Netherspite 2.0 fight which while certainly not impossible will be wiping pugs for a while. Unfortunately its also completely optional : p

Sounds fortunate to me.

I'm sure they'll get everything in and done and tuned for PvE, and then PvP damage will still be out of control.

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