05 August 2008

WotLK Beta: First Impressions

So I spent all last night leveling a death knight, and I must say...its some good stuff...

There is me and the big guy himself..The Lich King...after plundering some Scarlet Crusade.

I'm actually really happy by what they are doing with the death knight starting zone...ill sum it up: You start off, and the scarlet crusade has this whole town...then, a third of the way through, you go back up to The Ebon Hold (the floating death knight capital). When you come back down, you entered a quazi instanced version of the same zone, but now the first half of the Scarlet Crusade's town is burning, and there are more NPC death knights all over the place. Think Sunwell isle, but within hours. The only PC death knights here are ones up to this part in the begining quests...

So that happens again, and more of the town is burning, and by the end, you totally mess every Scarlet Crusader up so much, the leader is like SHIT Y SO SRS? and says that the scarlet crusade has ended, and they will get their revenge in Northrend...cue the Scarlet Onslaught.

So that is cool.

The fight at Light's Hope is also cool, but really just a button mashing fest for 3 minutes until somehow we lose (we have 10,000 troops, and the good guys have 300...but when we get them under 200, we lose somehow...we still have over 9000 ghouls...i didnt get it)

I also dont understand the story about how we get away from the Lich King, yet, the guy who leads up (Morgraine) is still allowed in The Ebon Hold. I suspect after the last DK quest, he goes to Dalaran, but they need to keep another one of his NPC's in The Ebon Hold for the new death knights, since he is also a quest giver...we'll see. I think he is the leader of the 'Knights of the Ebon Blade" which I hear is in Dalaran.

I will leave you with a few more pictures, then I'm off to play more beta!

~Zuma





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