Wrath of the Lich King: Alpha leak compendium; title music suite, abilities, pictures
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Haeleos
Member
I had a cool idea after seeing Frostmourne.
A persistent capture the Frostmourne. Make it an uber over powered item and if a player dies, the other players of the opposing faction can pick it up and steal it for their side. That way you could have huge guild wars of hunting down Frostmourne, which would be the curse for having ownership of it.
You'd just have to figure out how it would reset since a player could log off after getting it. I think a week of ownership and then it gets reset to drop from Arthas for the whole server. That way it's not really a permanent item, but more a week of fun OP for that character, but having to be constantly hunted down and needing protection by fellow guildmates.
It wouldn't drop in arenas or BGs, and have it only useable outside of instances so that players wouldn't just stay in town and use it for raid runs.
It's thought it would be a fun idea. Good roleplaying elements to it as well. I realize Blizzard probably wouldn't do something like this... but I was just brainstorming some gameplay ideas. I haven't played WoW in awhile, but something like that would make me come back.
It would make for a good PVP scenario as well. This way the weapon is more like a 1 week buff than an actual permanent weapon.
A persistent capture the Frostmourne. Make it an uber over powered item and if a player dies, the other players of the opposing faction can pick it up and steal it for their side. That way you could have huge guild wars of hunting down Frostmourne, which would be the curse for having ownership of it.
You'd just have to figure out how it would reset since a player could log off after getting it. I think a week of ownership and then it gets reset to drop from Arthas for the whole server. That way it's not really a permanent item, but more a week of fun OP for that character, but having to be constantly hunted down and needing protection by fellow guildmates.
It wouldn't drop in arenas or BGs, and have it only useable outside of instances so that players wouldn't just stay in town and use it for raid runs.
It's thought it would be a fun idea. Good roleplaying elements to it as well. I realize Blizzard probably wouldn't do something like this... but I was just brainstorming some gameplay ideas. I haven't played WoW in awhile, but something like that would make me come back.
It would make for a good PVP scenario as well. This way the weapon is more like a 1 week buff than an actual permanent weapon.
Alex
Member
Some new NPC's, really nice art direction, especially on the giants:
Warlock Demon Form:
Music suites:
Dragon Blight
http://rapidshare.com/files/116392214/Dragonblight.zip.html
Borean Tundra
http://rapidshare.com/files/116390331/BoreanTundra.zip.html
Grizzly Hills
http://rapidshare.com/files/116393379/GrizzlyHills.zip.html
Howling Fjord
http://rapidshare.com/files/116395406/HowlingFjord.zip.html
Northrend
http://rapidshare.com/files/116395766/Northrend.zip.html
Factions
Alliance
Valiance Expedition - The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.
The Silver Covenant - A militant core of high elves that rejects the admission of blood elves into the Kirin Tor. They've united under the banner of Vereesa Windrunner and joined the Alliance forces in Northrend.
Explorer's League - This organization seeks to find the origin of the dwarven race by collecting Titan artifacts. Their most recent research has led them to various archeological sites in Northrend.
Horde
The Taunka - These hardy people are cousins of the Tauren and have become valuable scouts for the armies of the Horde as they march northward.
The Hand of Vengeance - The Forsaken tasked by Sylvanas Windrunner with enacting Undercity's vengeance against Arthas by delivering the latest strain of their deadly Plague.
Warsong Offensive - Garrosh Hellscream commands the Horde's main expeditionary forces as they make their way into Northrend to face Arthas and the armies of the Scourge.
Neutral
The Kalu'ak - The tuskarr are a tough but peaceful people who derive their livelihood from fishing and whaling. Their settlements have recently come under fierce attack and welcome any allies who would come to their aid.
Kirin Tor - The mages and archmages running the city of Dalaran. Faced with the rising threats of the Blue Dragonflight and the Scourge, they've transported their city to the heart of Northrend.
The Wyrmrest Accord - With the Blue Dragonflight's violent upheaval against all mortal users of magic, the remaining dragonflights have banded under the leadership of the Red Dragonflight to combat their wayward kin.
Knights of the Ebon Blade - Freed from the grasp of the Lich King, his former Deathknights have regrouped against him under the banner of Highlord Darion Mograine.
Warlock Demon Form:
Music suites:
Dragon Blight
http://rapidshare.com/files/116392214/Dragonblight.zip.html
Borean Tundra
http://rapidshare.com/files/116390331/BoreanTundra.zip.html
Grizzly Hills
http://rapidshare.com/files/116393379/GrizzlyHills.zip.html
Howling Fjord
http://rapidshare.com/files/116395406/HowlingFjord.zip.html
Northrend
http://rapidshare.com/files/116395766/Northrend.zip.html
Factions
Alliance
Valiance Expedition - The main armies of the Alliance in Northrend, moving against the Scourge and unified under King Varian Wrynn's command.
The Silver Covenant - A militant core of high elves that rejects the admission of blood elves into the Kirin Tor. They've united under the banner of Vereesa Windrunner and joined the Alliance forces in Northrend.
Explorer's League - This organization seeks to find the origin of the dwarven race by collecting Titan artifacts. Their most recent research has led them to various archeological sites in Northrend.
Horde
The Taunka - These hardy people are cousins of the Tauren and have become valuable scouts for the armies of the Horde as they march northward.
The Hand of Vengeance - The Forsaken tasked by Sylvanas Windrunner with enacting Undercity's vengeance against Arthas by delivering the latest strain of their deadly Plague.
Warsong Offensive - Garrosh Hellscream commands the Horde's main expeditionary forces as they make their way into Northrend to face Arthas and the armies of the Scourge.
Neutral
The Kalu'ak - The tuskarr are a tough but peaceful people who derive their livelihood from fishing and whaling. Their settlements have recently come under fierce attack and welcome any allies who would come to their aid.
Kirin Tor - The mages and archmages running the city of Dalaran. Faced with the rising threats of the Blue Dragonflight and the Scourge, they've transported their city to the heart of Northrend.
The Wyrmrest Accord - With the Blue Dragonflight's violent upheaval against all mortal users of magic, the remaining dragonflights have banded under the leadership of the Red Dragonflight to combat their wayward kin.
Knights of the Ebon Blade - Freed from the grasp of the Lich King, his former Deathknights have regrouped against him under the banner of Highlord Darion Mograine.
Oni Link 666
Member
Nice job with these updates, Alex. Keep it up.
What the hell is that naked undead girl doing? :lol
I really like the look of that area with the Japanese style architecture.
Man, if Warlocks could tank. :lol Just make Hunters and Rogues be able to heal or tank and we'll be set. :lol The tank and healer shortage would be over for good.
What the hell is that naked undead girl doing? :lol
I really like the look of that area with the Japanese style architecture.
Man, if Warlocks could tank. :lol Just make Hunters and Rogues be able to heal or tank and we'll be set. :lol The tank and healer shortage would be over for good.
KyanMehwulfe
Member
The new giants are awesome. I love the detail; the swords and gate strapped to the feet to protect their ankles from tiny humans and orcs, or the polar bear strapped to his arm. They're absolutely massive, too -- towering over the fel reavers from Outland.
Arthas' face looks odd yet but they're nailing his armor.
Arthas' face looks odd yet but they're nailing his armor.
Scrow said:
It's a combination of two sayings:
"eating crow" meaning to be proven wrong.
"let them eat cake" is a quote often attributed to Marie Antoinette, but there's some dispute as to that. The phrase is a suggestion for the poor, who couldn't afford bread -- the suggestion is that Antoinette had so little knowledge of how the poor lived that she thought that somehow cake would be less hard to come by.
MattPeters
Member
Oni Link 666 said:
Rogues can tank. Havnt you seen Gaeowyn in action? He's tanked Gruul (and a 5 man Gruul run too boot lol) as well as Mother Sharaz and Illidan in Black Temple.
SiegfriedFM
Member
Looks very incomplete. Jeff Kaplan said that warriors would have three new "unique" abilities, comparable to mage teleporting/food making, rogue lockpicking, warlock summoning etc. I don't see anything like that there... unless the knockback is a unique warrior feature, that would be interesting...
The undead girl is a new mob type, they're crawling around one of the dragonflight shrines.
The undead girl is a new mob type, they're crawling around one of the dragonflight shrines.
VictimOfGrief
Banned
Man I'm glad I don't play WoW anymore. :lol
Still--- sounds like a lot of nice enhancements.
Still--- sounds like a lot of nice enhancements.
Takeda Kenshi
blew Staal
Funny how this 'leak' occured on the same day AoC launched. Coincidence? I think not. ;P
Takeda Kenshi
blew Staal
ManaByte said:
Eh, of course they'll go after the sites to take it down... but not until after the info is in the minds of all of its customers.
ManaByte said:
They've asked *some* sites to take down the info, but not all of them. In particular, http://wotlk.wikidot.com/ is still up & so far has the most information of any site out there. How that website is still up with all its info, while other sites with less info. were asked to remove WotlK stuff, is beyond me.
There's no way Blizzard can be so oblivious as to not know about that website, so either something fishy is really going on or they want people to know about the alpha info.
I would be willing to guess that the warrior talent that allows them to Duel Wield 2handers is a fury talent and thus you would have to choose that over mortal strike.
Also, someone earlier mentioned that the 1 leaked Paladin talent, Martyr had seemingly no use. The moment I read that, I thought, wow a 12 second bubble for your entire Arena/BG team. Just pop Martyr and then pop your bubble; essentially your entire party is invulnerable for 12 seconds, just make sure to run away from that mass dispel :lol
Also, someone earlier mentioned that the 1 leaked Paladin talent, Martyr had seemingly no use. The moment I read that, I thought, wow a 12 second bubble for your entire Arena/BG team. Just pop Martyr and then pop your bubble; essentially your entire party is invulnerable for 12 seconds, just make sure to run away from that mass dispel :lol
funkmastergeneral
Banned
This thread got me itching for some WoW so I resubscribed last night and it was kind of boring. I quit when the first expansion came out because I was an old hardcore raider, and finding out all my tier 3 gear was obsolete day 1 bugged the hell out of me. My warrior is up to level 65 but the game just isn't as much fun when I don't have my friends to play with, very lonely 
Amankhan said:
Well from what I understand, basically what they told WoR and MMO-Champion is that they had to take down the information or they weren't coming to BlizzCon for free. That's it. It's not like they're threating legal action.
That site is still up because there's nothing to threaten.
Eric WK said:
If it's anything like last time, then they will threaten legal action if asking nicely doesn't work. The thing is now, no one seems to be linking that sort of thing on the main WoW forums. If it starts getting too big for it's britches, then I'm sure they'll do something.
Fragamemnon
Member
Xiaoki said:
The Flurry talent and enough crit to keep it up most of the time make the issue of swing speed not a problem. Already, the most optimal DW setup for Fury warriors is slow main hand/slow off-hand with as much top-end damage as possible for big whirlwind and white damage. Warriors also don't really focusing on with +hit too much past the 90-ish rating where yellow attacks never miss.
Given that the main problems with fury DPS-and there was never a huge problem there to begin with-were mostly due to bad itemization choices and threat, I'm sort of surprised they'd drop a DPS bomb like this on fury.
Not that I care too much there (my warrior is protection, whose new talents are great btw) , I was just surpirsed to see it. Better itemization and some tree reworking (Enrage being required for Fliurry blows, for example) would have had a more measured and less chaotic effect.
Holy crap! I was chatting with a friend a few weeks back about potential new talents and, being a lock, my first thought was that it would be cool if we could get a demon form ala Illidan. He laughed and said it'd never happen. :lol
Oh, and that title music is amazing. I hope they keep it for the final game. Good stuff.
Oh, and that title music is amazing. I hope they keep it for the final game. Good stuff.
http://www.war-tools.com/t52475.html
yep, dual wield two handers (the titan's grip is ALL the way down at the bottom of the tree) and Warriors are now Barbarians from D2 total - the last talent is LEAP ATTACK :lol :lol
yep, dual wield two handers (the titan's grip is ALL the way down at the bottom of the tree) and Warriors are now Barbarians from D2 total - the last talent is LEAP ATTACK :lol :lol
XxenobladerxX
Member
Wtf,they better give paladins (RETRIBUTION FIX PLEASE) something good.
Some of these new moves are crazy...
Some of these new moves are crazy...