Brand New Cataclysm Info! (Some Major Stuff)

posted 2010/06/13 at 2:01 AM by Malgayne

Press Eventlotbignew raid "downshifting systemGuild Advancementremoval of the Path of the TitansPath of the Titans and the Glyph SystemPath of the Titans: Removed!mayGlyph System ChangesMedium Glyphspossiblefine establishmentGuild AdvancementGuild Reputationguild currency idea has been scrapped.whichguild reputation

Completing quests

Doing rated Battlegrounds

Killing raid bosses (to get credit, the raid that downs the boss must be mostly comprised of guild members—7/10 for 10-mans, and 20/25 for 25-mans)

Earning guild achievements

Guild Achievements

10,000 total quests completed

Having a max-rank of every profession

Having an 85 of every class

etc.

Guild Levelingguild talents idea has been scrappedNew Guild Interfacecharacter feedfilterableRaids10-Mans and 25-Mansper player"downshift" your raid.two separate 10-man groupslegitimateRaid Lockoutsany raidNew ZonesStormwind

Has been completely redesigned to accomodate fly-overs. A lot of attention specifically has been paid to Stormwind Keep.

A second trade district—mailbox, auction house, bank, etc.—has been added to the Dwarven District.

On the way out of Blackrock mountain, Deathwing has destroyed the Park completely. Have no fear—the druid trainers have relocated.

They've added some new areas in the back—some lake area, as well as a city cemetery. Some quests have been added here to help flesh them out.

Orgrimmar

Garrosh is hanging out in the center of Orgimmar, not the Valley of Wisdom. A metaphor?

The goblins have their own area, the Goblin Slums, in the west end of the Valley of Spirits. Garrosh doesn't think much of them.

There is a second trade district in Orgrimmar too—in the Valley of Honor. They're also adding more forges.

The Valley of Wisdom is now a Tauren district.

There's now a back gate, leading into Azshara—providing a convenient entrance for goblins leveling through that zone.

The Drag is the only throwback to old Orgrimmar.

The Bastion of Twilight

This will be a raid offshoot of Grim Batol, run by the Twilight's Hammer.

This is the "Naxxramas" of Cataclysm—entry level raiding.

5 boss fights, plus a sixth Algalon-style optional, ultra-hard boss.

Will include a "council" fight of Twilight Ascendants, cultist ascended into elementals

Final (non-optional) boss: Cho'gall!

Skywall

The elemental plane of air, home to both a dungeon and a raid

Vortex Pinnacle: 5-man, will battle against the minions of Al'Akir the Windlord. Bosses include a djinn, a storm dragon, and a lesser elemental lord

You will be able to use your flying mount to fly from platform to platform (real mount, unlike The Oculus)

Raid is similar to this, but larger in scope—you WILL fight Al'Akir himself

Holy cow I wish I could take pictures, this place looks gorgeous. It's like a cross between Ulduar, Dalaran, and clouds.

Deepholm

The Orgrim's Hammer has crash-landed in this zone! The Skybreaker is still in the air, and you will be tasked with finding out what happened!

Deepholm USED to be settled, but when Deathwing broke out of the Earth temple, the whole zone became disrupted.

Therazane the Stonemother will be hanging out here. She'll run a quest hub with dailies and a rep similar to the Sons of Hodir, but, you know, better.

Uldum

This is like WoW does Egypt. Like titan architecture, but with squares and pyramids instead of circles and globes.

Denizens of Uldum are called the "Tol'Vir", and are connected somehow with Al'Akir's wind elementals.

Other Juicy Tidbits

The Shimmering Flats is mostly submerged, but the majority of the gameplay still takes place above water.

You will be hearing brand new music in familiar zones.

The Forsaken are coming into their own—you'll be seeing their own unique architecture as they spread across Silverpine Forest and other zones.

When you gain a level, an announcement appears in the center of the screen letting you know what new abilities you have access to, and advising you to see your trainer. Skills you're leveled for but haven't trained yet will be marked as such in your spellbook.

Archaeology will let you find two types of items—Common Artifacts, which are kind of a collection game where you're trying to find all of the artifacts for a particular race, and Rare Items which will produce actual usable items. Most Rare Items will be cosmetic only, but a few will have actual effects.

Cross-server raiding still hasn't been solved. They're working on it, but it's not there yet.

There will be more Algalon-style encounters—ultra-hard optional bosses for hardcore players only.

The current heirlooms will stop growing after level 80. There will be a whole new crop of heirlooms for Cataclysm. Goblins and Worgen will be able to start using heirlooms immediately at launch.

Wrath of the Lich King had about 1000 new quests. Cataclysm has over 3000.

What do you think?What are you looking forward to the most?

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Comment by MrX101 I'm Extremely! Dissapointed in the Guild Talents and Path of the Titans going away. Man there srly making things much too easy now..., Too complicated common blizz, stuff being complicated is what makes them fun in the first place, simply crap gets old fast...

Also WTF Permanent Gylphs that you just choose out of combat wtf?
I thought the idea of Gylphs where that you keep the best ones in you bag to constantly switch between bosses, as each one was suppose to have advantages and disavantages but it ended up all &*!@ed.. I wanna know how Insribors are gonna get money if they make em permanent..

Meh... Least Raids system seems to be improving, Comment by Sinespe Path of the Titans did seem to be a bit too much bloat when Blizzard was already developing so much for Cataclysm. It was a nice idea, but it needed to be so elaborate that I think they've made a wise choice to put it on a back-burner. That will allow them to invest more of their resources on developing an expansion that already looks like it's shaping up to have brilliant depth.

I do, however, think that the loss of Guild Talents is huge -- but I can see why they did it. Sometimes having too much choice is a bad thing, and the animosity from certain guildies wanting certain talents which work out as "Sub-optimal" to the guild's overall aims could lead to unnecessary rifts in otherwise stable guilds. I think the compromise of per-level perks, and increasing the guild level cap by 5 to 25, will be more than enough to give that extra sense of importance for guilds to stick together. Comment by Nukedoom You will be hearing brand new music in familiar zones.Comment by Othragon That's some serious amount of information to digest. I'm gonna have to go back and read it all again.

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Just wow. I'm getting the feeling that Cataclysm is either gonna be really well accepted or turn alotta people away from the game. I feel that in wrath they added many new features but the keyword here is indeed change. Not everyone is susceptible to this grose amount of change all of a sudden. Many people will feel disoriented wich is not a feeling you want to get in a game this size. Comment by blajy i am excited about the news i have only 1 question....when cataclysm will be released? (stupid q i know but i really want the answer) Comment by Beir I wanna know how Insribors are gonna get money if they make em permanent..Comment by Meebo Here's hoping all this Guild Achievements, Guild Rep/Exp will mean that people will start to look for guilds again instead of continually pugging and having to state stupid GS numbers just to get in. Comment by finfangfool My first reaction to the scrapping of path of the titans was disappointment. It was something new I wanted to explore, so I was sad to see it go. But truthfully I think Inscription is a fairly weak trade-skill, so using it to take PoT's place and adding the medium glyphs means we'll still have the same amount of customization, it just won't have a cool name like "Path of the Titans".

I don't see a problem with the changes to guild achievements. Seems like they're keeping all the goodies, just making it easier for casual guilds (like mine) and making it easier for guilds to cooperate with each other rather than competing. I like the changes to raiding, and most of the other stuff was already hinted at so no big deal there. Rather experience it first-hand at this point then read about it.

One other thing, this does seem like a move to streamline it so as to push it out faster. I'm ok with this. I'm already getting bored with the current game (levelling another alt for fun), but I'm waiting on the Echo Isles event to tide me over and hoping for an October release. So long as they don't remove archaeology from the game I'm happy. Comment by Saankaa I can't wait! Gimme release, or at least beta! Comment by menemew OMG! Saurfangs gunship has crashed, impossible! :´( Comment by Psyxer lol Screenshot №6 - tree from Avatar Comment by Yzaxtol When i first read this article I was double checking the date to make sure it wasn't April 1st ... but I can see where they're going and hope they make a different character progression which isn't directly linked to leveling up.

Probably just going to be reputation rewards. :S Comment by aaroc I wanna know how Insribors are gonna get money if they make em permanent..consumable scrollsComment by menemew You will be hearing brand new music in familiar zones.Comment by Shawasha I sure hope guild progression gives nothing useful.
Imagine the following scenario:
LFM raid, min GS xxxx, min guild level xx, link achievement
Sorry your guild isn't elite enough for you to join a pug. Comment by ArkkiMeisseli After reading all this and adding it up to everything else I've seen, I can now honestly say that I'm looking forward to the 4th of July.
No, I'm not a Real American Patriot - that just happens to be the day my WoW subscription expires. Comment by LotosTheWarlock aww i was really looking forward to The Path Of The Titans i thought it would of been pretty fun but, BLIZZARD is the experts. i'm just really happy to get to play cataclysm Comment by Darkmanian Pretty sensible measures went into taking out the content they have. Its just odd that the developers didn't have the work flow set out in a way that they could predict these road blocks that lead to them taking out PoTT and guild talents. I'd like to think that before they conceive an idea and birth it in an engine, that they also consider the long term effects it might have so that they save time and resources. Comment by Sinespe OMG! Saurfangs gunship has crashed, impossible! :´(Comment by katosjoes Yeah! Moar worgen info, please! :D

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