World of Warcraft - Cataclysm (New expansion!)

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World of Warcraft - Cataclysm

World of Warcraft - Cataclysm

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is the next expansion for World of Warcraft. Dark and forgotten threats that have long stayed out of sight have finally arrived on our shores, unleashing a cataclysmic event upon Azeroth and now preparing more nefarius plans to take it back.


New Classes
The expansion doesn't have any new class. Instead, Blizzard will offer more race and classes combinations to players, some of them have been datamined on the 3.2.2 Test Realms.

* Human Hunter
* Orc Mage
* Night Elf Mage
* Dwarf Mage
* Blood Elf Warrior
* Dwarf Shaman
* Undead Hunter
* Tauren Paladin
* Tauren Priest
* Gnome Priest
* Troll Druid


Level Cap
The level cap in the next expansion will be slightly lower than expected this time around; 85.

This suggests Blizzard wants more room for expansions before hitting the level 100 cap. With less leveling to do (along with the revamped leveling listed below likely to increase the speed and ease of leveling), leveling a new race remains appealing for new and existing players alike.


New Races
The events of the cataclysm has caused two new races to seek new allies. The Goblins for the Horde and the Worgen for the Alliance.

Goblins
The Goblins have found themselves washed upon an island off the coast of The Barrens, their islands devastated by the cataclysm. As they strive to recover, they come across an Orc captured on an Alliance ship and rescue him. The Orc turns out to be none other than Thrall himself, and in return offers the Goblins a place within the Horde. These events are carried out in a quest line, allowing players to experience first-hand the reasons behind the Goblins' shift from neutrality.

It is unclear if the old Goblin locations such as Kezan and Undermine will be included in Cataclysm with the revelation of the Goblins' displacement.

Worgen
The cataclysm has cracked open the Greymane Wall, finally revealing what has happened to the kingdom of Gilneas and its citizens. The Worgen have ventured forth from Gilneas and sought help from the Alliance, deciding to join them to combat the new threats of Cataclysm.

Gilneas will make extensive use of the phasing system (much like the Death Knight starting area), to show what happened while the kingdom was cut off from the rest of the world and lead up to present day.

Last but not least, Worgens will have two forms and will be able to morph between a human form and a worgen one. Players should be able to pick both appearances when they create their character.

New Content
Cataclysm will be the first expansion not to introduce a new continent, instead making use of previously unreleased zones and revamping existing ones.

Classic Azeroth Revamp
A cataclysmic event caused by Deathwing and Azshara will change the face of Azeroth as we know it. Most of the new content for Cataclysm will take the form of a revamped Azeroth, taking advantage of newer additions to WoW such as phasing and daily quests. Most of the quests and mobs in the classic zones will also be redesigned to make leveling less painful. Some zones will change drastically to fit this, e.g.,


* The Barrens will be split into two separate zones of two different level bands.
* Azshara will become a low level (~10-20) zone.


Flying in Azeroth
Part of the redesign of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor is the introduction of flying to the two continents, allowing access to many new areas and quicker travelling across the large continents.

Unreleased Zones & Dungeons
With the addition of flying mounts to Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms and the redesign of many zones, most of the previously unreachable or incomplete zones will now be made available to players. This is where most of the new content from 80 to 85 will take place. Some of these are,


* Hyjal (present)
* Gilneas - The Worgen starting Zone.
* Uldum (Most likely as a dungeon)


Classic Dungeon Revamp
Redesigning Onyxia's Lair in Patch 3.2.2 was just the first step. As most of the leveling will take place in revamped areas of Azeroth, so too will the dungeons, allowing players to use them to level from 80 to 85.

As far as I know, Ragnaros will also be back in this expansion.

Deathwing
Deathwing the Destroyer / Neltharion the Earth-Warder will play a major role in Cataclysm. Having been driven mad by Old God whisperings and turning against his own kind only to be fail in his attempts, Deathwing has sunk into the shadows. While the Horde and the Alliance were busy fighting back the Burning Legion only to then be beset with the Scourge, he has been lurking and moving things into place. After Lady Sinestra's failed attempts to create a Twilight Dragonflight, he again retreated to Grim Batol and succeeded where she failed. With his results seen in the Obsidian Sanctum, he has finally created the supreme Dragonflight he sought and plans to unleash it upon the world. But what of the Old Gods' sway over him?

Azshara
Queen Azshara will also play a major part in Cataclysm. Unknown to many mortal races, long forgotten by others, and believe to be dead by her own kind, she has not been dormant in depths of the Maelstrom. Having those around her transformed by the Old Gods into Naga after her failure in the War of the Ancients, she has become far more powerful and a greater threat than she once was. Not content with just Nazjatar and the depths of the sea, Azshara seeks to reclaim power and reign once again. With the true plan behind Lady Vashj's support of Illidan remaining a mystery we do not know what hand Azshara has yet played. The big question remains, is she now serving her "saviors", the Old Gods?

The Cataclysm
I'm still not sure who is the true end boss of Cataclysm is, but the cataclysm appears to have been caused by attempts to incantation to summon extremely powerful beings using an ancient incantation by Deathwing and Azshara. They're both very powerful, but the cataclysm itself suggests something more powerful is behind it, perhaps their shared past of Old God influence?

Azeroth is changed completely. Some zones are completely destroyed, some are shattered, some are flooded (Thousand Needles), some are ripped in half. Coastlines the world over are changed. Durotar is wrecked, along with Orgrimmar, which is torn in two. A new orc city is rebuilt over the course of the expansion. Gnomes retake Gnomeregan in an instance.

Malfurion comes back and helps activate the new Guardian of Tirisfal - Thrall. Thrall hands over leadership of Horde to Garrosh Hellscream while Thrall serves as a coordinator for both Horde and Alliance forces and players to combat the Naga and Black Dragonflight. Garrosh declares open war on the Alliance, and you can expect more Wintergrasp like areas on the old map. Due to some political manipulations, Cairne Bloodhoof gets painted as a betrayer and is murdered by Garrosh. Cairne's son takes over as Tauren chief.

For Worgen, the Cataclysm brings the Greymane wall down, revealing their secret -- that the worgen curse has ravaged the kingdom. They've managed to find a cure that keeps their human mind permanently but also keeps them in their worgen form. Seeing that they can no longer survive alone, the worgen residents of Gilneas rejoin the Alliance.

As for Goblins, Deathwing calls on the goblins as slaves like he has in the past. Their leader decides to go with Deathwing and enslaves his people because there's no crossing Deathwing and surviving. Fortunately, a large group manages to escape and join the Horde, knowing that they can't go it alone. See the pattern here?

The level cap is 85. New landmasses include islands that are raised as a result of the cataclysm, underwater zones, and the newly-redone old-world zones. Flying mounts will be useable in Azeroth. Many old-world dungeons are changed completely.

Half the point of Cataclysm is to remake the old quest lines, eliminate redundancy and give an overall narrative to all players, whether level 1 or 80. At any particular vanilla area, you can expect to see reconstruction/relief efforts, or all out war between Horde and Alliance NPC's. Wailing Caverns is going to be completely redone into a lush green tropical area, as a result of the druids working their magic to prevent it from falling into lava.

Leveling from 80-85 will be a MUCH bigger deal. Initially in 2008, they considered not raising the level cap at all, as making those quests takes a lot of manpower away from raiding content. But they are trying to make the story so grand and sweeping that ding'ing will actually MEAN something and not just be something you do.

Expect a couple of underwater cities to be on the backs of giant sea turtles and whales.

Make no mistake, the Old God content is not done. Since Netharion and Azshara both have ties to Old Gods, it is now clear that the SERIES wide antagonists of WoW are the Old Gods.

Sounds fantastic, although it won't be the same levelling up a new character.

Being able to fly around Azeroth will be fantastic and hopefully they remake a lot of old instances (maybe even Shadowfang Keep Tim!)

[LindlineOLD]

orly?

Too much info. o.O

[Paul1337noob]

seems a bit to good to be true, if they were planning on revamping most of azeroth, that would take a hella lot of time

[LindlineOLD]

* Tauren Paladin
* Tauren Priest

....just so I got to it first... holy cow.

[Yazoo]

Yeah, lucky you got to it first, because I'm 2nd!

* Orc Mage
* Night Elf Mage
* Dwarf Shaman
* Undead Hunter
* Tauren Paladin
* Tauren Priest
* Troll Druid

WHAT THE HELL?????????????

[digibluez]

Originally Posted by Paul1337noob

seems a bit to good to be true, if they were planning on revamping most of azeroth, that would take a hella lot of time

dont think it would, that's what lotro dev. did they re-done all the lowbie areas in 2 patches.Can be easily done because all the textures and data for the map are already there.

[EaTCarbS]

None of the information below has been officialy announced by Blizzard, this is only a compilation of information gathered from reliable sources.

Take none of it for truth until it actually happens =P

[ebony]

That info was took taken out off scripts for blizzcon 2009 just like it was taken form blizzed before WOLK and dabio 3 was taken they have to Older PoP and stuff in
Someone at Bilzzed get a big banner made for Wold of warcelf Cataclysm they tell there friends they did this work for blizzard they tell there friends before you know it info is out

and somehow someone got there paws in it so A lot of it Ture they been working on fixing the old lands to support the new core for about 1.5 years as they need the game to support more computers that are coming to the market and probs users are having running on top end pc's


as for class changes all classless be open to all races that why they letting you change races in game soon for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ soon it start off just faction then races be added not much after the New EXP is based in the Old lands just a new copy of it on 5 years old as i would say 85% off the maps are unused zone as you level to fast so pass it. so why not make some them into a 80-81 zones come on there starting raids so and allways said it be nice if players used the old zones they missed out a long time ago

Oh one more thing they wonted to add flying mounts and faster land mounts into the normal world but old lands can not support it as there is to many hidden zones to many zones that was going to be added but they never did this is what blizzed been saying for years there stuff they wont to show off but they can not as we never added it, we took the easy opt out and took you to space!

All this souled be read out in the opening of blizzcon 2009 they mad that someone got it maybe they sould lock more stuff up but as they hire public to do the show


Anyway My point is East kingdom and kardom WILL BE a Hole New MAPS NEW ZONES the HOLE THING IS REMADE! Its the only way they can add flying mounts to the game! to many bugs in old land 1 flying mounts 2 remake if they remake guass what they can add a new Core as it be a hole new install, yep your hearing me right a HOLE NEW DAM INSTALL! if they did not do it the reinstall game then are computers agean will be full off more unused zone files 15gb wow its about now, they add new east kingdom etc then we have old world setting there doing nothing and remake of old world 25gb+ ya right think the reinstall be Easyer oh and new core is needed big time 64bit of wow anyone :P they probey do a way the install will install the game and delete the old world Files you would have to isntall the New Exp as a demo account or to just even access BC etc

[Chamassa]

Everything they brought out in wotlk, was in either update databank files or new databank files.. that new install stuff is bull****.
THye can just bring out dvd's with an updater to remove all old crap from common.mpq an common2.mpq, and replaceit with new files.. thats how those files work. thats how patches and expansions have worked for 5 years now

[ebony]

ya but it be like that but they need to have the new exp for the newbies as well as there changeing all the zones so it be nice a new install they have to change so much if they wonted to add flying mounts its a hole new game


Like i said blizzed needs to change the core when the core was made wow did not no about dualcore cups its been patch but its not working right and thats why time gets Dc all the time becouse his computer is to good for wow its trying to install windows 3.11 on a top end system computer will say no!