May 2008 be a Great World of Warcraft Year!

Hello fellow WoW:ers,

Back from a long vacation I hope You all had as great Christmas & New Year holiday as I had.

We all eagerly await the next WoW Expansion Wrath of the Lich king, sadly Blizzard has still not given an official release date which mean that it's probably months away. My guess would be summer 2008.

Anyway the 2.3 patch offered great additions to the game as:

Mudsprocket - The new goblin town located in Dustwallow Marsh offers an abundance of new quests. This town is a member of the Steamwheedle Cartel, and offers many conveniences including a flight master, an inn, a graveyard, an anvil and forge, and a mailbox. This is a different leveling experience for characters in their 40's who want to change things up a bit.

Zul 'Aman - This 10 man instance located in the Ghostlands requires no attunement, so it's great for those players on a tight time budget. It is designed to be more difficult than Karazhan and also includes better loot! The thing we like most about this area is the availability of the new Hatchet Hills flight path. This flight path is the first of it's kind as it is the only one to connect "classic" Warcraft zones to the zones of the Burning Crusade!

Leveling - As we know, the time to level a character from 20-60 has been significantly decreased since the release of the 2.3 patch. The speed of leveling through those slow low levels is now bearable especially with a leveling guide. The fact that Blizzard are planning to increase the leveling speed of pets in the 2.3.2 patch also sound really great.

Leveling guides which now are up to date for patch 2.3:
Valkor's Gold Making Guide
Joana's 1-70 Horde Leveling Guide
Brian Kopp's 1-70 Alliance Leveling Guide
Ultimate World of Warcraft Guide
Zygor's 1-70 Horde and Alliance Leveling Guides - Try this new great 300 page guide with beautiful ingame functions for a limited discount price.

Here's some of the upcomming 2.4 patch features:

Sunwell Isle

* Sunwell Isle will be located off the coast, north of Silvermoon

* Sunwell Isle will be a major questing hub with a 5-man Normal and Heroic Instance (Magister’s Terrace) and a 25-man raid (Sunwell Plateau). The goal with Sunwell Isle is to close the Burning Crusade storyline before the release of the next expansion.

* There are still a few scenarios left that could be released to provide the players with more content if WotLK gets delayed for any reason.

* At the release of the patch, players will access a small expedition camp where they can start questing. However as the questing progresses, players will expand the camp and make it grow to a small town by retaking building to the enemies (running daily quests mostly). You can consider it as a AQ Gates opening event, the more daily quests that gets done, the faster the whole server will progress.

* The quests will end the Tempest Keep story arc.

* “The Shattered Sun Offensive” will be the new faction of this quest hub. It also seems that Aldor and Scryers will finally start fighting together against the new threat.

* Both 5-man and 25-man dungeons will be accessible from the start, but some bosses will have to be unlocked by running the daily quests (server-wide) and/or leveling your reputation. The 5-man instance will most likely requires Honored reputation with The Shattered Sun Offensive, the first three bosses of the 25-man instance will be accessible from the start, while the three last ones will have to be unlocked through questing.


Sunwell Plateau

* Kael’thas will be one of the boss of the 5-man dungeon, he’s still alive and he’s now got a huge green crystal etched to his chest.

* Kil’jaeden will be the final boss of the 25-man instance. The other bosses include Brutalicus, a giant Pit Lord who has lost his wings, Kalecgos, a blue dragon enslaved by Kil’jaeden, a Fel Dragon, the female Eredar Twins, and a Dark Naaru.

* The 25-man instance will be slightly harder than Black Temple, and is tuned for Tier 6 geared players.

* There will not be any “real” Tier 7 set, but some of the drops will be set pieces (not necessarily class specific). The drops quality will be above T6.

Daily quests

* Patch 2.4 will raise the cap of Daily quests allowed in a day from 10 to 25.

PvP

* Balancing actions will be taken in regard to PvP for certain classes.* Blizzard have large plans for, and they will be aiming to bring it closer to e-sport acceptance.


With this I want to thank you all for being readers of this humble blog and wish you all a happy and prosperous 2008!

/Patrik