Solushen_guin

"Please stop gnome abuse. Abuse night elves instead, there's enough of them as it is."

-Alystrial-

"Boom, boom you stinky dworf! Don't ever scare us like that again ole buddy! Rest and relax, and come back to us soon. Alys and the rest of Blood of the Fallen, we love ya Fred!! "

RedRouge

"Get well soon Alleria - we miss you!"

s he raced, he wondered if he had made the right decision, leaving the Undercity and all. He was much better at the theoretical uses of chaos rather than the practical application, and had an alarming tendency to find himself mangled into unnatural shapes. If he had stayed in the lands of the Forsaken, he could have studied to his still heart�s content, with the only physical harm coming from an experiment that went bad.

Hurrying over a river Delano had to admit to himself, since self deception never really suited him, that even with his frequent visits to the spirit healer, he was happier than he had been since the fall of his (living) homelands. He was traveling, seeing new things and in the company of people whom were quite different than the angst spewing corpses of his home. Practicing his Chaos magic brought out hidden talents of the energy, and when he met other Warlocks he could compare notes.

In fact, our focus is to continue to develop end game content to broaden the number of things players can do post level 50. That includes tweaks to class abilities, adding new items, adding new quests, dungeons, and so forth.

Not only are a lot of the annoyances of MMORPG gaming smoothed out, World of Warcraft does an amazing job of crafting its game world. The graphics are straight out of Warcraft III and make use of the same brilliant colors and stylized, comic book-like characters and locations. Each of its zones has a unique color palette and its own feel, but the whole time there is no doubt that you�re in a Warcraft game. There are also plenty of touches that Warcraft fans will appreciate, such as logging camps with human peasants busily chopping wood and bringing it back to a gathering point. Speak to one of them and you�ll hear the familiar unit acknowledgement phrases from the game�s real-time strategy inspiration. The world is packed with details that help bring it alive, water flows in streams and cascades over falls, birds fly through the air, and benign fauna can be seen in the wilderness. While the game�s open spaces are certainly impressive, the cities are simply incredible. They are complete cities, filled with streets, alleyways, parks, shops, and everything that you�d expect to find in a city. The architecture is often remarkable, such as the monument-lined stone bridge that leads to the gates of the human city. When you first enter one of the cities, you�ll feel like a tourist and will want to spend some time walking around and taking in the sights.

I was doing the typical instance crawl last night when I discovered one of my all-time gaming pet peeves; the control-freak. Oh, you know the type, I think, "Ok, guys, everyone ranged attack this boss, I'll tank. Healers, only heal me." I've seen them in other multi-player games of course but they hold a special place in my pantheon of annoying gamers when it comes to MMORPGS. �Let me be the team leader,� they say, �I can set up the party the right way.�

"We do not currently have plans to allow learnable languages."

"All characters now have full rest state, which is 30 bubbles. This lasts until you burn it off. ;)"

"We're aware that level 60 characters do not gain from having rest experience at this time, however, we do not have another form of in-game compensation that we can give that would both 1) satisfy level 60 players and 2) not damage the economy/gameplay as a whole."

"Due to the legal issues and management concerns surrounding volunteers, we do not plan upon having a system like this at this time."

"I'm not sure of the specifics at this time, however, I know that the development team is planning on making changes to the way spirit currently works, or at the very least it benefits certain classes. As soon we have additional insight into the matter, we will provide an update."

" We want to keep such events a relative surprise, rather than announcing them beforehand. Major events such as the winter-time events in the game were given some notice in the patch notes. :)"

" The dungeon team works on more than one dungeon at a time. And then some.

Dungeons have many stages of development:

--concept
--rough level design/layout
--art/lighting pass
--rough spawn layout
--pull testing
--creature design
--quest design
--boss design
--itemization
--countless playtesting, bug fixing
--polish
--additional polish, bug fixing and exploit prevention (once live)

So at any one time, there are lots of different dungeons being worked on at one time. In the process of development, we often run into various roadblocks. Perhaps we're waiting on some new code or art that has us held up on a certain dungeon. If we have more than one dungeon in the pipeline, we can switch over and make progress on something else while we wait.

The dungeon team is also responsible for other tasks in development as well. For example, we do a lot of work on the PvP battlegrounds. We also were responsible for Lord Kazzak and Azuregos.

There's a lot of iteration that takes place in the dungeon design process. Some people would be interested to know that Blackrock Depths used to be about 1/5 the size and included Ragnaros's Lair at one time. Or that Blackrock Spire used to only consist of the area known as UBRS, which also included a part of Blackwing Lair. Hordemar city was added later. Or you know the little chapel in Stratholme? That's where the Scarlet Bastion used to be -- and it only had 1 room inside...

So right now our primary focus is to get Blackwing Lair out but we are very actively working on other zones as well. For example, we have a very casual raid zone in the works. I hope this answers your question ;)"

"Other classes are currently higher priority than Paladins at this time. Eventually, we'll dive in. ;)".

"We do not offer this service at this time."

As a working professional I love the current implementation of the rest system. What has been released thus far about the honor system sounds like a grinder's paradise. Are the developers definitely going to include a helping hand, per se, for the casual player?

We have implemented a system very similar to the rest state system for honor. This system will give you a bonus to the number of honor points you earn in a week, up to a certain amount. It is slightly different in that each week the bonus pool re-fills itself completely. Once you have used up this pool for the week, you will earn points at a normal rate.

In addition, since the majority of players in WoW are casual gamers, the majority of player will be competing against players of a similar skill level and playtime. We expect many players to be surprised at how viable they will be in the honor system.