Poster: Trevion at 5/18/2006 10:24:51 PM PDT
Subject: Not good enough. |
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This is not enough to keep your current player base interested in WoW:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/worldofwarcraftexp1/news.html?sid=6151428
GS: Can you tell us more about the new raid instances in the expansion?
JK: As far as raid instances go, you'll get to experience Hellfire Citadel. It's a "winged dungeon"-like Scarlet Monastery. You've got two five-man "level-up" wings levels 60 to 62. Then you have one five-man level-70 wing like a Dire Maul or a Stratholme, and it's also got an Onyxia-style raid in it. We're trying to do much more where we bridge the content up so everyone can get the Hellfire Citadel experience in their own comfort zone.
We will have some badass raid zones like the Black Temple, which is pure endgame raid. We're going to have The Caverns of Time: The Battle for Mount Hyjal, the final mission of Warcraft 3 where the Night Elves banded together with Jaina and Thrall to defeat Archimonde.
We're also going to try some new stuff with raid instances. We're going to do a 10-man raid instance called Karazhan on the raid save timer. That should really feel like endgame content for people that don't want to raid with anything more than 10. That'll just be the tip of the iceberg for the real raiders that want to go out and experience the big, epic content.
Karazhan will be an extremely challenging raid instance for 10-man groups.
GS: Are we going to see more challenging five-man instances in the expansion?
JK: Karazhan will be the start for that. In our current five-man dungeons, the bosses are your reward for putting up with 20 to 30 minutes of clearing through normal creatures. Karazhan is where we're going to start telling players that you will need tactics to defeat some of these bosses. It's bigger than any other dungeon existing in WOW right now. It'll be easy early on, but you'll feel like you've really earned it by the time you get to the end.
(Raiders are not welcome in our guild or PUGs)
| | | http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=8393746&p=#post8393746 | | | Poster: Drysc at 5/18/2006 10:27:46 PM PDT
Subject: Re: Not good enough. |
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It's a good thing you only picked a small part out of a single interview then, there is more than just Karazhan planned for small group dungeons in the expansion.
I feel bad saying 'just Karazhan' though, it's pretty amazing looking.
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