Thule
08-16-2008, 13:56
Wrath of the Lich King Beta Mounts
A few mounts are already available in the Wrath of the Lich King game files, however it's not always easy to link mount spells to the right models. Hopefully, that's something we can do and below you will find a short preview of the mounts you might see in Northrend. (This is only a list of what looks like buyable/permanent mounts, we didn't include all the temporary mounts from quests)
The Magnificient Flying Carpet (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/s17.jpg) ! See Blizzcast Episode 4 (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=12760.0)
Black Warp Stalker (the model definitely looks fine, but is still tagged as PlaceHolder in the game files, might be because the saddle is missing)
Winged Steed of the Ebon Blade, the Death Knight flying mount. Please note that another spell named "Swift Skeletal Gryphon" might be used to rewards "old" classes with this mount at some point.
The Hog - This is supposedly an Engineering mount (the spell isn't flagged as Engineering for the moment). The speed buff is similar to the one used for the Winged Steed of the Ebon Blade and might mean that the mount speed scales with your level.
Polar Bear - Probably the first Polar Bear mount available in Northrend.
Frostwyrm - ... Do you really have to ask ? ^^
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/magnificientflyingcarpet_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/magnificientflyingcarpet.jpg) http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/blackwarpstalker_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/blackwarpstalker.jpg) http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/wingedsteed_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/wingedsteed.jpg)
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/thehog_horde_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/thehog_horde.jpg) http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/thehog_alliance_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/thehog_alliance.jpg)
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/polarbear_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/polarbear.jpg) http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/frostwyrm_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/frostwyrm.jpg)
Build 8788 - Jewelcrafting Daily Quests
The latest beta build introduced the first batch of profession daily quests mentionned in Blizzcast Episode 4 (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=12760.0). 6 new daily quests have been added for Jewelcrafters and require you to craft a few item and drop something from a monster in Northrend.
Shipment: Blood Jade Amulet - Bring a Vrykul Amulet, a Jagged Dark Jade and a Runed Bloodstone to Timothy Jones in Dalaran. You can find a Vrykul Amulet on any Northrend Vrykul.
Shipment: Glowing Ivory Figurine - Bring a Shoveltusk Ivory, a Lustrous Chalcedony and a Glowing Shadow Crystal to Timothy Jones in Dalaran. You can find a Shoveltusk Ivory on any Northrend Shoveltusk.
Shipment: Wicked Sun Brooch - Bring an Iron Dwarf Brooch, a Wicked Huge Citrine and a Rigid Sun Crystal to Timothy Jones in Dalaran. You can find an Iron Dwarf Amulet on any Northrend Iron Dwarf.
Shipment: Intricate Bone Figurine - Bring Proto Dragon Bone, a Solid Chalcedony and an Intricate Dark Jade to Timothy Jones in Dalaran.
Shipment: Bright Armor Relic - Bring an Elemental Armor Scrap, a Bright Bloodstone and a Potent Huge Citrine to Timothy Jones in Dalaran.
Shipment: Shifting Sun Curio - Bring a Scourge Curio, a Quick Sun Crystal and a Shifting Shadow Crystal to Timothy Jones in Dalaran.
All 6 quests are available to players but the 5 others won't be available anymore after you picked one. This might be for testing purposes only and we could end up with random daily quests each day.
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/dailyjewel_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/dailyjewel.jpg)
The quest rewards you with tokens used to buy plans for your profession.
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/jeweltokensfinal_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/jeweltokensfinal.jpg)
Also, another quest named "Gem Perfection" was added for both Horde and Alliance jewelcrafters. You can get it in Vengeance Landing / Valgarde and will get rewarded with a new skill giving you a chance to cut uncommon quality Northrend gems into perfect gems.
Horde
Gem Perfection - Return two Huge Citrines, two Dark Jade and two Shadow Crystals to Carter Tiffens in Vengeance Landing.
My skills are going to waste in this wretched place. I spent many years learning to cut gems into their perfect form and have nothing to work on! You look like the type who may be able to find me some gems and if you do I can teach you the skill of gem perfection. This will allow you to sometimes cut a perfect gem with increased bonuses when cutting a uncommon quality gem from Northrend.
Alliance
Gem Perfection - Return two Huge Citrines, two Dark Jade and two Shadow Crystals to Ounhulo in Valgarde.
It's has the cold of the Icewyrm's breath up here does it not? Not only do I lack customers for my crafting skills, but I also lack stock of gems to sell! If you can bring me several uncut gems to replenish my stocks, I can teach you the skill of gem perfection. This will allow you to sometimes cut a perfect gem with increased bonuses when cutting a uncommon quality gem from Northrend.
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/gemperfection_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/gemperfection.jpg)
Blue posts
Quote from Blizzard staff
Extra BlizzCon tickets drawing
I can assure you we are very aware that players who are eligible to participate in this drawing want to know as soon as possible whether or not they will be able to purchase tickets so all necessary travel arrangements can be made. That said, there are many components to implementing this drawing, so we're not quite ready to give a date for its launch just yet. What I do know is that, after seeing the complications of the original ticket purchasing process, we're absolutely committed to executing this drawing correctly and as quickly as possible from the top of the company down. We'll be providing plenty of new information about the drawing early next week. Stay tuned! (Source (http://blue.mmo-champion.com/25/9023783171-question-for-the-blues.html))
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/hunter.jpg Hunter (Skills List (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=620) / Talent Calc. (8788) (http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?hunter))
Upcoming Beta Changes
We definitely do want to make traps more usable. We've discussed a lot of different options over the years (including throwing your traps, having them turn into shots etc.) but in the end we feel we'd like to retain the unique gameplay of traps, and improve them without re-designing what traps really are.
Some changes we are working on:
Distracting Shot will now be a "Mocking Blow"-esque taunt (so it will taunt the mob onto the Hunter for 6 sec). This will allow you to "peel" monsters to you (and thus to a trap) a lot easier than it is now.
Freezing Trap will no longer break on damage 100% of the time. It will still break on damage, but on x amount. So if the mob has a DoT on them, or the mob gets cleaved while in Freezing Trap, it won't just immediately break. Because of this, we're canning Bear Trap (since Freezing Trap will accomplish what Bear Trap was intended for, plus you guys have enough keybinds as it is). Note that we don't intend Freezing Trap to be a stun, so the tuning on how much damage will break it will be important.
Camouflage - We'll be introducing this new spell at level 80. It will give you limited stealth capabilities. A bonus with it is that you can lay your traps while Camouflaged and it won't break the stealth, allowing you to setup your traps before a pull if desired.
Trap Mastery - This talent will be a 1-point talent now, we've condensed a lot of the trap talents in the Survival tree. It will do stuff like increase damage of Immolate, root the dispeller of your Freezing Trap in ice, increase the number of snakes from your snake trap, etc. (Source (http://blue.mmo-champion.com/3/8765641671-has-anything-been-done-about-ice-trap-yet.html))
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/warrior.jpg Warrior (Skills List (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=600) / Talent Calc. (8781) (http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?warrior))
Tanking in Wrath of the Lich King - 5 Man Instances / Thunder Clap
If you have run many of the Northrend dungeons, you'll see that there aren't many of the Shattered Halls style 6-7 mob pulls. And if we add t...
More... (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=13096.0)
A few mounts are already available in the Wrath of the Lich King game files, however it's not always easy to link mount spells to the right models. Hopefully, that's something we can do and below you will find a short preview of the mounts you might see in Northrend. (This is only a list of what looks like buyable/permanent mounts, we didn't include all the temporary mounts from quests)
The Magnificient Flying Carpet (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/s17.jpg) ! See Blizzcast Episode 4 (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=12760.0)
Black Warp Stalker (the model definitely looks fine, but is still tagged as PlaceHolder in the game files, might be because the saddle is missing)
Winged Steed of the Ebon Blade, the Death Knight flying mount. Please note that another spell named "Swift Skeletal Gryphon" might be used to rewards "old" classes with this mount at some point.
The Hog - This is supposedly an Engineering mount (the spell isn't flagged as Engineering for the moment). The speed buff is similar to the one used for the Winged Steed of the Ebon Blade and might mean that the mount speed scales with your level.
Polar Bear - Probably the first Polar Bear mount available in Northrend.
Frostwyrm - ... Do you really have to ask ? ^^
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/magnificientflyingcarpet_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/magnificientflyingcarpet.jpg) http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/blackwarpstalker_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/blackwarpstalker.jpg) http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/wingedsteed_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/wingedsteed.jpg)
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/thehog_horde_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/thehog_horde.jpg) http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/thehog_alliance_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/thehog_alliance.jpg)
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/polarbear_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/polarbear.jpg) http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/frostwyrm_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/frostwyrm.jpg)
Build 8788 - Jewelcrafting Daily Quests
The latest beta build introduced the first batch of profession daily quests mentionned in Blizzcast Episode 4 (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=12760.0). 6 new daily quests have been added for Jewelcrafters and require you to craft a few item and drop something from a monster in Northrend.
Shipment: Blood Jade Amulet - Bring a Vrykul Amulet, a Jagged Dark Jade and a Runed Bloodstone to Timothy Jones in Dalaran. You can find a Vrykul Amulet on any Northrend Vrykul.
Shipment: Glowing Ivory Figurine - Bring a Shoveltusk Ivory, a Lustrous Chalcedony and a Glowing Shadow Crystal to Timothy Jones in Dalaran. You can find a Shoveltusk Ivory on any Northrend Shoveltusk.
Shipment: Wicked Sun Brooch - Bring an Iron Dwarf Brooch, a Wicked Huge Citrine and a Rigid Sun Crystal to Timothy Jones in Dalaran. You can find an Iron Dwarf Amulet on any Northrend Iron Dwarf.
Shipment: Intricate Bone Figurine - Bring Proto Dragon Bone, a Solid Chalcedony and an Intricate Dark Jade to Timothy Jones in Dalaran.
Shipment: Bright Armor Relic - Bring an Elemental Armor Scrap, a Bright Bloodstone and a Potent Huge Citrine to Timothy Jones in Dalaran.
Shipment: Shifting Sun Curio - Bring a Scourge Curio, a Quick Sun Crystal and a Shifting Shadow Crystal to Timothy Jones in Dalaran.
All 6 quests are available to players but the 5 others won't be available anymore after you picked one. This might be for testing purposes only and we could end up with random daily quests each day.
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/dailyjewel_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/dailyjewel.jpg)
The quest rewards you with tokens used to buy plans for your profession.
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/jeweltokensfinal_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/jeweltokensfinal.jpg)
Also, another quest named "Gem Perfection" was added for both Horde and Alliance jewelcrafters. You can get it in Vengeance Landing / Valgarde and will get rewarded with a new skill giving you a chance to cut uncommon quality Northrend gems into perfect gems.
Horde
Gem Perfection - Return two Huge Citrines, two Dark Jade and two Shadow Crystals to Carter Tiffens in Vengeance Landing.
My skills are going to waste in this wretched place. I spent many years learning to cut gems into their perfect form and have nothing to work on! You look like the type who may be able to find me some gems and if you do I can teach you the skill of gem perfection. This will allow you to sometimes cut a perfect gem with increased bonuses when cutting a uncommon quality gem from Northrend.
Alliance
Gem Perfection - Return two Huge Citrines, two Dark Jade and two Shadow Crystals to Ounhulo in Valgarde.
It's has the cold of the Icewyrm's breath up here does it not? Not only do I lack customers for my crafting skills, but I also lack stock of gems to sell! If you can bring me several uncut gems to replenish my stocks, I can teach you the skill of gem perfection. This will allow you to sometimes cut a perfect gem with increased bonuses when cutting a uncommon quality gem from Northrend.
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/gemperfection_small.jpg (http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2008/august/gemperfection.jpg)
Blue posts
Quote from Blizzard staff
Extra BlizzCon tickets drawing
I can assure you we are very aware that players who are eligible to participate in this drawing want to know as soon as possible whether or not they will be able to purchase tickets so all necessary travel arrangements can be made. That said, there are many components to implementing this drawing, so we're not quite ready to give a date for its launch just yet. What I do know is that, after seeing the complications of the original ticket purchasing process, we're absolutely committed to executing this drawing correctly and as quickly as possible from the top of the company down. We'll be providing plenty of new information about the drawing early next week. Stay tuned! (Source (http://blue.mmo-champion.com/25/9023783171-question-for-the-blues.html))
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/hunter.jpg Hunter (Skills List (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=620) / Talent Calc. (8788) (http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?hunter))
Upcoming Beta Changes
We definitely do want to make traps more usable. We've discussed a lot of different options over the years (including throwing your traps, having them turn into shots etc.) but in the end we feel we'd like to retain the unique gameplay of traps, and improve them without re-designing what traps really are.
Some changes we are working on:
Distracting Shot will now be a "Mocking Blow"-esque taunt (so it will taunt the mob onto the Hunter for 6 sec). This will allow you to "peel" monsters to you (and thus to a trap) a lot easier than it is now.
Freezing Trap will no longer break on damage 100% of the time. It will still break on damage, but on x amount. So if the mob has a DoT on them, or the mob gets cleaved while in Freezing Trap, it won't just immediately break. Because of this, we're canning Bear Trap (since Freezing Trap will accomplish what Bear Trap was intended for, plus you guys have enough keybinds as it is). Note that we don't intend Freezing Trap to be a stun, so the tuning on how much damage will break it will be important.
Camouflage - We'll be introducing this new spell at level 80. It will give you limited stealth capabilities. A bonus with it is that you can lay your traps while Camouflaged and it won't break the stealth, allowing you to setup your traps before a pull if desired.
Trap Mastery - This talent will be a 1-point talent now, we've condensed a lot of the trap talents in the Survival tree. It will do stuff like increase damage of Immolate, root the dispeller of your Freezing Trap in ice, increase the number of snakes from your snake trap, etc. (Source (http://blue.mmo-champion.com/3/8765641671-has-anything-been-done-about-ice-trap-yet.html))
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/icons/24x24/warrior.jpg Warrior (Skills List (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?page=600) / Talent Calc. (8781) (http://talent.mmo-champion.com/?warrior))
Tanking in Wrath of the Lich King - 5 Man Instances / Thunder Clap
If you have run many of the Northrend dungeons, you'll see that there aren't many of the Shattered Halls style 6-7 mob pulls. And if we add t...
More... (http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=13096.0)