WoW - expansion details released

The Mad Hatter · Post by **The Mad Hatter** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:47 pm

Full details here. Blood elves for the Horde are confirmed, as is a new continent and an increase in the level cap to 70.

Jancelot · Post by **Jancelot** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:27 pm

Nice. A new continent and socketed items!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:34 pm

According to a Blizzcon insider only Blood Elves are in the addon..nothing for Alliance.

SlyFrog · Post by **SlyFrog** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:38 pm

Daehawk wrote:According to a Blizzcon insider only Blood Elves are in the addon..nothing for Alliance.

Although this may irritate those who want balance, I think this might be a good thing. I would imagine that it will almost guarantee a significant bump to Horde membership, hopefully bringing a bit more parity between the two.

SuperHiro · Post by **SuperHiro** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:46 pm

Daehawk wrote:According to a Blizzcon insider only Blood Elves are in the addon..nothing for Alliance.

I thought that was because Blizzard is still working out who the new Alliance race is (they nixed what they originally had).

Mr. Fed · Post by **Mr. Fed** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:39 pm

So two new Horde races? Because the link says two new playable races....

Jewelcrafting! Like enchantment, but narrower!

Grimwar · Post by **Grimwar** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:44 pm

Only thing I don't want is Blood Elves flipping when they jump. I don't even play Alliance and I still get annoyed by all the jumping nightelves trying to do a flip.

I am not to keen on Blood Elves personally, I was hoping for ogres. Part of me thinks the addition of Blood Elves is an attempt to give the horde a pretty race for horny teenagers and chicks. Ogres I think would have kept the horde atmosphere better.

I am pretty excited about Outland though. I hope it will be as dark and creepy as I imagine it. And the addition of flying mounts should be interesting, but it seems they will only be usable in Outland.

yossar · Post by **yossar** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:15 pm

Grimwar wrote:Part of me thinks the addition of Blood Elves is an attempt to give the horde a pretty race for horny teenagers and chicks.

Or anyone else who prefers an aesthetically pleasing character.

dedewhale · Post by **dedewhale** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:23 pm

I might have to renew my membership soon!

pad152 · Post by **pad152** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:27 pm

[quote="The Mad Hatter"]Full details [url=http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrusade/]here.[/url] Blood elves for the Horde are confirmed, as is a new continent and an increase in the level cap to 70.[/quote]

Just how much are you people spending on this

$50.00 for the game, plus $30.00 per month, now they want you to spend more on their expension.

I just don't get MMORPG's.

Koz · Post by **Koz** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:47 pm

dedewhale wrote:I might have to renew my membership soon!

This won't be coming out for quite some time (knowing Blizzard), so I'm sure you can bide your time.

Exodor · Post by **Exodor** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:50 pm

pad152 wrote:$50.00 for the game, plus $30.00 per month, now they want you to spend more on their expension.

I just don't get MMORPG's.

$30 a month?

Who the heck is paying $30 a month for WoW?

Mr. Fed · Post by **Mr. Fed** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 7:58 pm

Exodor wrote:
pad152 wrote:$50.00 for the game, plus $30.00 per month, now they want you to spend more on their expension.

I just don't get MMORPG's.
$30 a month?

Who the heck is paying $30 a month for WoW?

Conjoined twins?

yossar · Post by **yossar** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 8:03 pm

Exodor wrote:
pad152 wrote:$50.00 for the game, plus $30.00 per month, now they want you to spend more on their expension.

I just don't get MMORPG's.
$30 a month?

Who the heck is paying $30 a month for WoW?

Koreans.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:21 pm

I think they went with Blood Elves because it was easy to ad them and saved them time and money and work. They're basically just Night Elves with new skin tones..least to my eyes.

CGMark · Post by **CGMark** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:01 pm

I am not sure how many times this needs to be said. Blood Elves have been added to horde becuase they horde need a 'pretty' race. Its the reason for the skew in the alliance to horde ratio. Kids dont want to play ugly races. Its all over the forums since day 1. The kids dont think the horde are cool looking. So while this will fix somewhat the problem, its going to move most of the kiddies from alliance to horde. So your welcome to em. They are killing us on Alliance side. ( Dwarf Paladin, myself, not pretty)

I doubt that they would NOT add an Alliance race. I think adding two to the horde would REALLY mess up the ratio. I am sure we will have some sort of idea soon.

Koz · Post by **Koz** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:26 pm

They are adding an alliance race. Right now there's a big question mark in the placeholder on the official site (and Blood Elves are in the Horde placeholder).

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningc ... index.html

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:13 am

Maybe alliance will get an ugly race

jpinard · Post by **jpinard** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 3:32 am

Grimwar wrote:Only thing I don't want is Blood Elves flipping when they jump. I don't even play Alliance and I still get annoyed by all the jumping nightelves trying to do a flip.

I am not to keen on Blood Elves personally, I was hoping for ogres. Part of me thinks the addition of Blood Elves is an attempt to give the horde a pretty race for horny teenagers and chicks. Ogres I think would have kept the horde atmosphere better.

I am pretty excited about Outland though. I hope it will be as dark and creepy as I imagine it. And the addition of flying mounts should be interesting, but it seems they will only be usable in Outland.

Blech. I am way more happy about Blood Elves than Ogres. The Horde did need a pretty/sexy race. But the Blood Elves need to look much more evil.

Lord Percy · Post by **Lord Percy** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:42 am

I hope the Alliance gets murlocs as their race. Muwha.

Lorini · Post by **Lorini** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:54 am

Blood Elves are basically a caster race, they get a free Mana drain spell and a spell that let's them silence all spellcasting for for 2 secs within 8 yds. They look more like traditional elves than Night Elves.

I'm sure that they'll announce the second race soon. Also, there may not be an open beta for the expansion. The expansion area will be entered from the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands.

Lorini

Ralph-Wiggum · Post by **Ralph-Wiggum** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:40 am

Lord Percy wrote:I hope the Alliance gets murlocs as their race. Muwha.

That would be awesome. Who wouldn't want to be a murloc?

Baroquen · Post by **Baroquen** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:08 am

Me. I hate murlocs.

Eh... I've been playing since day 1, but I'm finally just bored with it. I've got a 60 (and a couple approaching alts). Did some limited end-game raiding, but the group/guild I was working with fell apart. Otherwise, I've just got this feeling of ennui about the whole thing. And the expansion info doesn't have me salivating either.

<shrug> Oh well.

Gedd · Post by **Gedd** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:41 am

Exodor wrote:Who the heck is paying $30 a month for WoW?

I do, but that's because my wife has her own account as well.

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