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2006-11-28T17:15:00.002-08:00

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PvP Honor System & Rewards Article

This is our final in-depth look at the upcoming player-versus-player systems planned for World of Warcraft, and it deals with the new Honor System and Rewards. When these systems are deployed, there will be many more incentives for players to fight each other than just the thrill of the kill. And honorable PvP players will receive just rewards for fighting players that are of appropriate levels. We're in the midst of testing these systems, but there is already a lot that we can share with you.

As we have mentioned before, when you kill other players in your level range you will receive an honorable kill. All your honorable kills for a week are then calculated to give you an honor score for that week, which then translates into an honor ranking. This honor ranking carries with it titles and material rewards, and eventually, officer status and other perks.

Honorable Kills

Honorable Kill!
The way we calculate honor is fairly detailed, and a lot goes on under the hood while we crunch numbers to arrive at your final ranking for the week. However, what players will see when they kill an appropriate-level target is a simple message. We can't actually display your honor score from a kill when it happens because we don't determine the final value of a kill until the end of the day. Also, your honor points for the week are a percentage of the total honor points available based on your contribution to your team's overall effort for that week.

If you are grouped with others, then all players in your party also gain an Honorable Kill. In fact, it works just like experience points. And just like experience points, you'll get a group bonus for your Honorable Kill as well. At this point, the way we determine whether your opponent counts as an Honorable Kill works similarly to how we determine whether you will get experience from a monster. If you would get experience for killing a monster of the same level as the opposing player (i.e. their level number is not colored gray to you), then you'll get an Honorable Kill.

In some cases, you might end up joining with other groups to slay one or more enemy players. In those instances, we will not be using tapping rules to prevent other groups from earning an Honorable Kill as well. If multiple groups team up to kill a player, all groups will earn a percentage of honor based on how much damage they dealt to the defeated player. For example, imagine that an enemy player is killed by two other players. Player A was solo and did 35% of the damage, while player B was in a group and did 65% of the damage. Player A would get 35% of the honor from the kill, and Player B's party would get 65% of the honor. That honor would then have a group honor bonus applied to it before being divided amongst the group. Rest assured that even players that did not engage the enemy player (perhaps because they were healing instead of fighting) will get honor points; as long as you are in a group that helped kill an opposing player, you'll get honor.

The amount of honor you gain is based mainly on three factors: 1) your target's level, 2) your PvP rank, and 3) your level. Then, at the end of the week, we gather all your Honorable Kills and Dishonorable Kills, and then apply certain modifications based on relevant data. For instance, we track repeat kills, and the system will reward you less and less honor with each successive kill of the same opponent on the same day. You'll gain full points for your first kill, but you get far less points with each kill after that, to the point were you will eventually get zero if you continue to prey on that player. We also add a bonus to your score for participation in strategic objectives, such as conquering a Battleground or killing an enemy NPC leader, such as Thrall or King Bronzebeard. The exact number of strategic leaders has yet to be determined, but at the least, the four racial leaders for the Horde and Alliance will count as strategic objectives. For those out to kill the human leader, keep in mind that neither King Anduin nor Jaina actually qualifies as a strategic objective; it's the king's protector, Highlord Bolvar Fordragon, who is the true leader you must kill in order to gain bonus honor points for your faction.

Dishonorable Kills
Player versus player battles are always best when played out between opposing forces of equal level. Thus, our system creates incentives to attack foes around your level. And it also does not reward those who kill players far below their level. If the player or PvP-enabled NPC you kill is trivial (i.e. gray to you), then you won't get an Honorable Kill. In fact, if you kill an NPC who is not PvP-enabled or who is PvP-enabled and trivial, you will gain a Dishonorable Kill. This exacts a penalty on those who, for whatever reason, kill trivial NPC bystanders. To make it easier to identify a potential Dishonorable Kill, such NPCs will be labeled as "civilians" in their tooltip. Note that dishonor does not apply to killing players, regardless of their level.

Dishonorable kills immediately reduce your current rank, causing the rank bar in the honor interface to move to a lower position. The amount of rank lost increases for each dishonorable kill made that day.

Tracking PvP Rankings
At the end of the week, we will total everyone's honor points including modifications, and then compare everyone's scores against each other. Based on this, we arrive at 14 rankings for all PvP participants. Your final honor score for the week is thus a percentage of the total honor pool that is established for that week. The honor pool is set at a minimum value, and can be increased through the successful achievement of the strategic objectives outlined before. Because we will recalculate all ranks weekly, players can move up or down in rankings based on activity or inactivity. We will not reset players' points each week, so players don't start at zero and on equal footing each time we recalculate honor scores, but rankings will start to shift if a player begins to engage in more quality PvP action or begins to withdraw from PvP play. We anticipate that it will be quite some time before players eventually climb up to the higher ranks, as the system naturally requires players to amass large quantity of quality kills in order to break through to the highest levels. This could take several weeks, if not months, to happen.

Honor Tab
To display a player's PvP rank, we will be adding a new element to your character info sheet that shows your current rank. Your character sheet will have an "Honor" tab that tells you how many Honorable and Dishonorable Kills you're accumulated for your current play session, the previous day, and last week. The tab will also show players a few other stats, such as the number of points awarded them during the previous week and their overall ranking for that period as well.

PvP Rankings and Rewards

Officer's Barracks
There are a total of 14 ranks in our PvP system. The lowest five ranks are considered the rank and file of the PvP army, while the ranks from six and higher are considered officers. This distinction is important because once players achieve an officer rank they gain access to the officer's barracks, where some of the best PvP rewards are contained. We are also aware that it breaks the sense of immersion in the game to have a top heavy system with more higher-ranked players than lower-ranked ones. The system is thus designed so that most players will be settled into the "enlisted" ranks, while each successively higher rank will be populated by fewer and fewer players. The highest rank of 14, for example, will only be occupied by the top 0.1 percent of players (one in every one-thousand characters). You'll need to fight furiously and honorably to climb up the ranks of our PvP system and keep it up to stay there.

PvP Reward Mount
Although we've been calling the material benefits of a PvP rank rewards, it would be more accurate to say that achieving a rank gives you the right to buy certain exclusive items. You don't necessarily gain a free item when you hit a certain rank, but your rank does entitle you to buy and use a "reward" item. And in all cases, these reward items will be priced substantially lower because they are rewards. The elite commander's PvP mount you can buy when you reach rank 11, for example, costs one-tenth the price of a normal elite mount. You can use that as a general guideline for how much (or how little) a PvP reward item will cost you when you attain the right rank to buy it.

All 14 ranks, their titles, and the rewards you can get when you attain those ranks are listed below:

Rank Icon Alliance Title Horde Title Reward

14 Grand Marshal High Warlord Epic-quality weapon and shield
13 Field Marshal Warlord Epic-quality helm, shoulder armor, and gloves
12 Marshal General Epic-quality gloves, leggings, and boots
11 Commander Lieutenant General Commander's epic mount
10 Lieutenant Commander Champion Superior-quality helm and shoulder armor
9 Knight-Champion Centurion Battle standard

Battle Standard
Use: Place a Battle Standard with 1500 health that increases
the maximum health of all party members that stay within 45 yards
of the Battle Standard by 15%. Lasts 2 min.

8 Knight-Captain Legionnare Superior-quality chest armor and leggings
7 Knight-Lieutenant Blood Guard Superior-quality boots and gloves
6 Knight Stone Guard Access to officer's barracks, officer's tabard, and potions
5 Sergeant Major First Sergeant Superior-quality bracers
4 Master Sergeant Senior Sergeant Superior-quality necklace
3 Sergeant Sergeant Superior-quality cloak, 10% discount on all goods and repairs from your faction's NPCs
2 Corporal Grunt Team insignia trinket
1 Private Scout Tabard

Buying PvP Reward Items

Most of the items listed are self-explanatory, but they all offer tremendous bonuses that will make even the most diligent treasure hunter take notice. Stay tuned to www.worldofwarcraft.com, because in the next few weeks, we'll unveil more of the actual rewards themselves. The only item that does bear explanation is the battle standard. It is a special item that you can plant in the ground, like a shaman's totem, for an area effect benefit for you and your party.

With the exception of the tabards, discount, and access to officer's barracks, all the reward items must be purchased from a PvP vendor. The rewards for ranks one to five can be bought from a PvP vendor that stands outside the barracks, but the rewards for ranks six and above can only be purchased from vendors inside the officer's barracks. You can already see the entrances to each side's officer's barracks in the cities of Orgrimmar and Stormwind.

Shaman Armor Set

Champion's Mail Helm
Head Mail
301 Armor
+8 Strength
+25 Stamina
+9 Intellect
Durability 70/70
Classes: Shaman
Requires Level 58
Requires Champion
Equip: Improves your chance to get a critical strike by 1%

Set: +40 Attack Power.
Set: +20 Stamina.
Set: Shock spell critical strike chance increased by 2%.

Champion's Mail Shoulders
Shoulders Mail
278 Armor
+5 Strength
+5 Agility
+16 Stamina
+15 Intellect
Durability 70/70
Classes: Shaman
Requires Level 58
Requires Champion
Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 3.
Set: +40 Attack Power.
Set: +20 Stamina.
Set: Shock spell critical strike chance increased by 2%.

Legionnaire's Mail Chestpiece
Chest Mail
370 Armor
+20 Stamina
+20 Intellect
Durability 120/120
Classes: Shaman
Requires Level 58
Requires: Legionnaire
Equip: Improves your chance to get a critical strike by 1%.
Set: +40 Attack Power.
Set: +20 Stamina.
Set: Shock spell critical strike chance increased by 2%.

Blood Guard's Mail Grips
Hands Mail
231 Armor
+6 Strength
+15 Stamina
+7 Intellect
Durability 50/50
Classes: Shaman
Requires Level 58
Requires Blood Guard
Equip: Increases healing done by spells and effects by up to 11.
Set: +40 Attack Power.
Set: +20 Stamina.
Set: Shock spell critical strike chance increased by 2%.

Legionnaire's Mail Legguards
Legs Mail
324 Armor
+5 Agility
+20 Stamina
+11 Intellect
Durability: 90/90
Classes: Shaman
Requires Level 58
Requires Legionnaire
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 16.
Set: +40 Attack Power.
Set: +20 Stamina.
Set: Shock spell critical strike chance increased by 2%.

Blood Guard's Mail Walkers
Feet Mail
255 Armor
+14 Stamina
+10 Intellect
Durability: 60/60
Classes: Shaman
Requires Level 58
Requires Blood Guard
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 8.
Equip: Increases the speed of your Ghost Wolf Ability by 15%.
Set: +40 Attack Power.
Set: +20 Stamina.
Set: Shock spell critical strike chance increased by 2%.

Warrior Armor Set

Champion's Plate Headguard
Head Plate
534 Armor
+9 Strength
+8 Agility
+31 Stamina
Durability 80/80
Classes: Warrior
Requires Level 58
Requires Champion
Set: Increases your chance to parry an attack by 1%
Set: +15 Stamina
Set: Reduces the cooldown of your Intercept ability by 5 sec.

Champion's Plate Pauldrons
Shoulders Plate
493 Armor
+7 Strength
+6 Agility
+23 Stamina
Durability 80/80
Classes: Warrior
Requires Level 58
Requires Champion
Set: Increases your chance to parry an attack by 1%
Set: +15 Stamina
Set: Reduces the cooldown of your Intercept ability by 5 sec.

Legionnaire's Plate Armor
Chest Plate
657 Armor
+9 Strength
+6 Agility
+25 Stamina
Durability 135/135
Classes: Warrior
Requires Level 58
Requires Legionnaire
Equip: Improves your chance to get a critical strike by 1%
Set: Increases your chance to parry an attack by 1%
Set: +15 Stamina
Set: Reduces the cooldown of your Intercept ability by 5 sec.

Blood Guard's Plate Gloves
Hands Plate
410 Armor
+16 Strength
+15 Stamina
Durability 45/45
Classes: Warrior
Requires Level 60
Requires Blood Guard
Equip: Hamstring Rage cost reduced by 3.
Set: Increases your chance to parry an attack by 1%
Set: +15 Stamina
Set: Reduces the cooldown of your Intercept ability by 5 sec.

Legionnaire's Plate Legguards
Legs Plate
575 Armor
+7 Strength
+13 Stamina
Durability 100/100
Classes: Warrior
Requires Level 58
Requires Legionnaire
Equip: Improves your chance to get a critical strike by 2%.
Set: Increases your chance to parry an attack by 1%
Set: +15 Stamina
Set: Reduces the cooldown of your Intercept ability by 5 sec.

Blood Guard's Plate Boots
Feet Plate
452 Armor
+8 Strength
+5 Agility
+23 Stamina
Durability 65/65
Classes: Warrior
Requires Level 58
Requires Blood Guard
Set: Increases your chance to parry an attack by 1%
Set: +15 Stamina
Set: Reduces the cooldown of your Intercept ability by 5 sec.

A shaman orc donning
"The Earthshaker" PvP reward armor set

It is important to note that all the PvP reward items have a rank requirement, just like normal items have a level requirement. Tese items will be very potent, and useful in both PvP and normal combat, although they will of course be tuned to provide the most benefit in player versus player battles. As you can see, even the lowest ranked item is of superior, or blue, quality, while the higher ranks eventually give you epic, or purple, items.

We're working very hard daily to fine-tune all the aspects of our upcoming PvP system, including further testing of the Battlegrounds and the ranking and rewards. We hope you'll bear with us as we continue to iron out the details and balance it for your enjoyment. We're as excited as you are to engage in a true player-versus-player system that will finally elevate the war between Horde and Alliance to the truly epic proportions it deserves. Thanks for being patient, and we hope to see you soon on the battlefields of Azeroth.

About WOW Power Leveling Service

2006-11-28T17:15:00.001-08:00

About WOW Power Leveling Service

WOW Power Leveling is most frequently used in multiplayer games, where it usually refers to a player that is of much greater power assisting a player of much lower power in defeating enemies that are far too powerful for the low level player, but are easily and quickly killed by the more powerful player. Defeating high level challenges rewards the lower level player with experience points more rapidly than normal.

In World of Warcraft Powerleveling or Power Leveling has become so popular for players looking to quickly advance through the lower and not very exciting levels of the game that a number of profession gaming companies have set up powerleveling or power leveling services.

One of the Most reliable and honest Power Leveling sellers is www.dr-hu.com

These companies, for a fee will help you enhance your World of Warcraft character. They log into your WOW account and play your WOW character either for a certain amount of time or until a certain level or objective is achieved. While you character is being leveled you are required not to login to your account. Most offer the following power leveling (powerleveling) services:

Customized Packages, you specific what type of character development you are looking for and work with the company to create a package. Usually more expense then pre-defined options.

Part Time development, this is done over a set number of hours - 6,12,24,36, or 48. A professional gamer players your character for this set amount of time.

Specific development from one level to a higher level. e.g. From level 20 up to 40. You pay a set amount of money for this service and it is done over time, usually with a guaranteed maximum time limited to archive the desired level.

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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

2006-11-28T17:13:00.000-08:00

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

Developer(s) Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher(s) Vivendi Universal
Designer(s) Rob "EnoYls" Pardo
Jeff "Tigole" Kaplan
Tom "Kalgan" Chilton
Release date(s) January 16, 2007
Genre(s) MMORPG
Mode(s) Online
Rating(s) ESRB: T (Teen)
OFLC: E (Exempt)
PEGI: 12+
Platform(s) Windows, Mac OS X
Media CD, DVD
System requirements See System requirements
Input Keyboard, Mouse

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the first game expansion for World of Warcraft. Per the press release from Blizzard on November 10, 2006. The release date is set as January 16, 2007 in Europe and North America. It will be available in a similar time frame in Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore as well, and availability for mainland China and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau will be announced in the near future.[1]
Contents

General information

The initial information about the expansion was announced on the first day of BlizzCon 2005. Some points of interest include:

* The Sword Of 1000 Truths from the South Park episode Make Love, Not Warcraft is likely to become available in The Burning Crusade.
* The Blood Elves will be the new Horde race. Their starting zone, Sunstrider Isle in Quel'Thalas, site of their capital of Silvermoon, is north of Eastern Plaguelands. Their classes will be: Rogue, Hunter, Mage, Priest, Warlock and Paladin.
* The Draenei will be the new Alliance race. Their starting zone, the Azuremyst Isles and their capital city Exodar are located off the northeastern coast of Kalimdor. Their classes will be: Warrior, Priest, Paladin, Mage, Shaman, and Hunter.
* The expansion pack will feature a new profession, jewelcrafting, which will allow players to create rings, necklaces and trinkets, as well as place mined gems into socketed items. Other professions will be augmented with recipes that include sockets for special jewels that will enhance items.
* The level cap will be raised from 60 to 70 with new abilities, spells, and talents for all characters and classes.
* A large new land will be available for exploration via the Dark Portal called Outland. This area is the remains of the ruined planet of Draenor.
* The talents for all classes have been revised and updated to allow for the new level cap of 70. You can read the changes here (Note: The talents that have been decided as of now are not final and may be subject to change before release)
* The landmass of Azeroth will be increased by 25% (This likely refers to the size of the gameworld, as opposed to land-area).
* A flying mount will be obtainable at level 70, after completing repeatable quests, which will be usable only in Outland. Some of the areas in Outland will only be reachable with this mount. The Alliance will get an armored Gryphon and the Horde will get an armored Wyvern. Both factions will be able to get the Nether Drake. In addition, Druid characters gain a flying form at level 68.
* New dungeons include the Caverns of Time, the Hellfire Citadel, Karazhan Tower, the former sanctum of Medivh, and more.
* A new battleground called 'Eye of the Storm" located in Outland.
* Some content will be available to all players without the expansion, such as new talents and new items (such as items crafted with the Jewelcrafting profession). To level past level 60, play as the new races or to play in Outland, however, one will need the expansion. Other features that require the expansion will be forthcoming.[
* On July 21, 2006, it was announced that Blood Elves will be able to play as Paladins, which were previously unavailable to the Horde. Similarly, the Draenei will be able to play as Shaman, previously unavailable to the Alliance.
* New endgame instance raids are capped at 25 members (previous instances had a limit of 40 players).
* New dungeons will have scalable difficulty levels. What this means is that when you advance in levels, you'll be able to return to lower level dungeons and play them at increased difficulty, which will also yield better item drops. Blizzard is considering adding this feature to currently existing dungeons but has no plans to implement them yet.
* World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is currently undergoing a closed beta test in Korea. As with the World of Warcraft closed-beta test that occurred in Korea in 2004, participants can acquire beta keys from various fansites.
* Invitations for the United States Closed Beta were sent via email to those who had gone to BlizzCon on October 11, 2006, and the beta test is currently taking place.
* There was a conference for GameStop Store Managers from September 26, 2006 to September 30, 2006, in which store managers signed up for betas for the Burning Crusade. GameStop store managers were also high priority recipiants for the betas for World of Warcraft when it was first coming out.
* Blizzard has announced that the release of The Burning Crusade will be January 16, 2007.

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Collector's Edition
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade will ship in standard as well as Collector's Edition packages. The Collector's Edition will come in a special box that contains exclusive extras, including:

* World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade on both CD and DVD
* World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Behind-the-Scenes DVD
* The Art of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Hardcover Art Book
* Exclusive In-Game Pet: Netherwhelp
* Two World of Warcraft Trading Card Game Starter Packs, plus Exclusive Cards
* Map of Outland Mouse Pad
* World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Soundtrack CD

Background story

"Several years have passed since the Burning Legion's defeat at Mount Hyjal and the races of Azeroth have continued to rebuild their once shattered lives. With renewed strength, the heroes of the Horde and Alliance have begun to explore new lands and broken through the Dark Portal to investigate the realms beyond the known world. Will these heroes find friends or foes? What dangers and rewards lie in wait beyond the Dark Portal? And what will they do when they discover that the demons they thought vanquished have returned to renew their terrible Burning Crusade?"[4]

In the first expansion pack for World of Warcraft, the Dark Portal leading to the ravaged home world of the Orcs will be opened. Many new things await the adventurers of Azeroth as they will meet new enemies and forge new alliances and fight epic battles to save their homeland from the Burning Legion.

New playable races

Blood Elves
Main article: Blood Elf

The Blood Elves and their starting area.

The Blood Elves and their starting area.

The Blood Elves are the remnants of the High Elves who survived the destruction of Quel'Thalas by the Undead Scourge. They style themselves as Blood Elves in remembrance of their slaughtered brethren. At first they remained loyal to the human forces in Lordaeron and their racist human commander, Grand Marshal Garithos, but it became increasingly clear that they were no longer welcome in the Alliance.

Blood Elves are highly adept with magic, but their skills have led them to become addicts to that power. Blood elves cannot live long without it and will do anything to wield it. After the Scourge destroyed the Sunwell, their source of magical power, they began to experiment with demonic energies. One group, led by Prince Kael'thas, joined with Illidan and the Naga in exchange for magical power. The Blood Elves remaining in Azeroth now seek the Horde's help in reaching Outland, so they can be reunited with Kael'thas and achieve the destiny which he has promised them. The Blood Elves had re-established a firm foothold in Quel'Thalas, and have rebuilt many of the lost spires and buildings that fell during the Siege of Quel'Thalas. The Blood Elves are constantly threatened by the Winnowed, who are devolved Blood Elves who succumbed to their addiction to magical energy and lost much of their sanity. Their ancestral homeland of Quel'Thalas also borders the Deatholme region, which has been heavily infested by the remnants of the Scourge that occupied Quel'Thalas. One faction, named Tranquillien, consists of Blood Elves who wish to purify the region of the Undead.

* They join the Horde alongside the Orcs, Trolls, Undead and Tauren.
* Their racial traits are centered around their addiction to magic, which include Mana Tap (Drains enemy's mana) and Arcane Torrent (An AoE silence that silences for 2 seconds).
* Their starting zone is Sunstrider Isle, located in Eversong Forest in Quel'Thalas.
* Classes available to Blood Elves are: Priest, Mage, Warlock, Hunter, Rogue, and Paladin. It was announced that the Blood elves would be the only race not to have warriors to keep the amount of classes fair compared to other races. In addition, with the exception of the rogue, all of the available classes use mana to symbolize their racial addiction to magic.
* The male dance for the Blood Elves is apparently the dance that Napoleon does at the end of the movie Napoleon Dynamite.
* The female dance for the Blood Elves is Britney Spears' Toxic dance routine however some people speculate that it could be something known as "Yogurting" from another MMORPG.
* The Blood Elf mount will be the Hawkstrider [1]
* The voice of the male blood elf is done by Cam Clarke.

Draenei

Main article: Draenei

These uncorrupted Draenei share lineage with the Eredar, one of the Burning Legion's major races. Whereas their Eredar brethren were twisted by shadow magic, Draenei have aligned themselves with the Light.

The Draenei were led by Velen, one of the three highest ranking members in Erudean society. The name Draenei means "exiled ones" in Erudean language, because they were chased out of their ancient homeland of Argus by Kil'Jaeden. Kil'Jaeden and Archimonde were two other great lords of the Eredars, who fell to Sargeras' corruption and became demons.

The Draenei and Velen fled Argus, and were helped by the Naaru, enigmatic beings that blessed the Draenei with light-given knowledge and power. With the Naaru's help, they settled on a peaceful world which they named Draenor, meaning "Exile's Refuge" in the Erudean tongue.

They had somewhat peaceful relations with the indigenous shamanistic Orc tribes in the region for centuries. However, Kil'jaeden discovered their secret refuge on Draenor. He corrupted the orcs into a bloodthirsty frenzy, and the orcs killed over 80% of the Draenei in blind rage.

Many Draenei who fought the Orcish horde were also devastated and affected by the fel energies wielded by the Orcish warlocks, and mutated into lesser forms, resulting in subspecies. The Broken and the Lost Ones are two genetic mutations. The Broken are led by the great sage Akama, and serve Illidan in Outland. The Broken retained some of the characteristics of the once-majestic Draenei. The Lost Ones are further devolved forms of the Draenei, and hold almost no resemblance to the Draenei. The Lost Ones are Draenei who were mutated by arcane and fel energies that were released when Draenor exploded and crumbled into Outland. Most Lost Ones inhabit the Swamp of Sorrows in Azeroth, and carry great hatred for Orcs. Save for few tribes, the Lost Ones have lost their sanity and are hostile to most races.

The surviving and uncorrupted Draenei fled to relative safety in their interdimensional ship, the Exodar. They crash-landed on the Azuremyst Isles of Azeroth, and pledged their support to the Alliance to fight the Burning Legion and the Orcs. Their capital city is named Exodar after their interdimensional ship that crash-landed in Azeroth, and is built out of the largest husk of the remains of the ship.

* They join the Alliance along with Humans, Dwarves, Gnomes and Night Elves.
* Their dance is confirmed to be from the Tunak Tunak Tun music video, by Daler Mehndi.
* Their starting zone is Ammen Vale, located in the Azuremyst Isles, which are off the western coast of Kalimdor.
* The following are available classes for Draenei: Warrior, Priest, Paladin, Mage, Shaman, and Hunter.
* Their racial traits are centered around Holy powers, which includes Blessing of Naaru (Heals 50 damage over 15 seconds, which scales with level), Heroic Presence (1% bonus added to chance to hit for party members up to 30 yards, may scale with level), Shadow resistance (+10 Shadow resistance), and +15 skills bonus to Jewelcrafting.
* The Draenei mount is confirmed to be the Elekk, an elephant-like creature.

New enemies

Since April 10, 2006 Blizzard has released information on several new enemy races to be featured in the Burning Crusade. [2]

* The Broken
* Eredar
* Ethereals
* Fel Orcs
* Fleshbeasts
* Forest Trolls
* Fungal Giants
* Gronn
* Naaru
* Ogre Lords
* Ravagers
* Rock Flayers
* Spore Bats
* Spore Walkers
* Warp Stalkers

New zones/areas
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Azeroth

There will be three new areas accessable in Azeroth in Burning Crusade: Quel'Thalas (the home of the Blood Elves), Azuremyst Isles (the home of the Draenei in Azeroth) and Mount Hyjal, which is only accessable via the Caverns of Time.

Quel'Thalas

Main article: Quel'Thalas

The starting area for the Blood Elves, Quel'Thalas is located in the Eastern Kingdoms, north of the Eastern Plaguelands. Quel'Thalas will be divided into two areas. Eversong Woods will be the starting Zone for levels 1-10, and will have the "typical" features of a starting area - a secluded new character zone, a low-level town and the capital city of Silvermoon. The Ghostlands will be a level 11-20 zone and will connect to the Eastern Plaguelands, as well as to Zul'Aman.

Azuremyst Isles

The Azuremyst Isles are the lands the Draenei claimed as their own in Azeroth, where the dimensional ship of the Draenei, called the Exodar, crashed when attempting to escape Draenor. They are now the westernmost location in Kalimdor, located off the southwestern coast of Teldrassil. At present, there are three major areas - Ammen Vail, where new Draenei players start out; Azuremyst Isle itself, where the Draenei capital of Exodar is located; and Bloodmyst Isle, for further adventuring (similar to Loch Modan for the Dwarves and Gnomes, Westfall for the Humans, or Darkshore for the Night Elves). The Azuremyst Isles are for levels 1-20.

Outland

Outland, the remnants of Draenor, is accessable via the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands. The Outland side of the Dark Portal is in the Hellfire Peninsula. Draenor was once the homeworld of the mighty orcs but was destroyed by the magical energies unleashed when Ner'zhul opened numerous portals to other worlds at the end of Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, thus creating what is now known as Outlands. Outland is also the refuge of Illidan Stormrage, also called Illidan The Betrayer, brother of Malfurion Stormrage. Illidan seeks to conceal himself from Kil'jaeden because he failed to destroy the Frozen Throne and the Lich King.

Netherstorm

Netherstorm is a zone intended for level 67-70 players. It is home to two neutral cities, Stormspire and Area 52, as well as a battleground instance named Eye of the Storm (though only accessible through the battle masters in major cities, it is suposedly in Netherstorm), and a high-end raiding dungeon called Tempest Keep, home of Kael'thas Sunstrider, the leader of the Blood Elves. Tempest Keep is one of the areas in Outland that is unreachable without the use of a flying mount.

Zangarmarsh

Zangarmarsh harbors two Alliance posts (Telredor and Orbeor Harborage), two Horde posts (Swamprat Post and Zabra'jin), and two neutral faction posts (Cenarion Refugee and Sporeggar). The specific nature of the faction that holds rules over Sporeggar has not been released. Zangarmarsh is also home to the Coilfang Reservoir raid dungeon, where Lady Vashj and her Naga minions reside.

Nagrand

Nagrand contains four cities: an Alliance town named Telaar, a Horde town named Garadar, and two neutral towns, Aeris and Halaa. Nagrand is mainly a PvP area. Aeris is run by The Consortium, a new faction of merchants, similar in motive to the goblins. Nagrand is similar in appearance to the Barrens with more vegetation. Grom Hellscream's newly discovered son, Garrosh Hellscream, resides in Garadar.

Terokkar Forest

Terokkar Forest has three cities: an Alliance town called Allerian Stronghold (possibly named after Alleria Windrunner, a High Elven ranger that was part of the group thought lost when the Dark Portal closed), a Horde town named Stonebreaker Hold, and a neutral city, Shattrath City. Shattrath is meant to be the major quest hub in Outland, is as big as a faction city and comes with its own city map. The instance Auchindoun is located here consisting of four wings: Auchenai Crypts for levels 64-66, the Shadow Labyrinth for levels 65-67, Sethekk Halls for levels 67-69, and the Mana-Tombs for levels 69-70.

Shadowmoon Valley

Shadowmoon Valley is the highest level zone in the expansion. Illidan and the Black Temple can be found here.

Hellfire Peninsula

Due to its harborage of the Dark Portal, Hellfire is the first accessible zone for players who have just entered Outland. It is intended for level 58-63 players and has various quests that pit the Alliance against the Horde and vice-versa. The Alliance town of Honor Hold and the Horde outpost of Thrallmar are located in Hellfire. There are three towers in the middle of the map similar in function to the towers in Eastern Plagueland. Ownership of all three towers by a specific faction provides a zone wide +5% damage buff to that faction.

Blade's Edge Mountains

Contains "Gruul's Lair" a new raid instance allegedly involving two raids; the King of the Gronns and his Council, and the titular Gruul. The Alliance town of Sylvanaar, the Horde town of Thunderlord Stronghold, and the Ogre-led Gronn'bor Shrine can be found here.

New instances

Auchindoun

Auchindoun will be located in Outland's Terokkar Forest. It contains 4 wings and the level range changes for each wing. The first and easiest wing will be Mana-Tombs, with a level cap of 64-66. The second wing, Auchenai Crypts, will contain mobs at a level of 65-67. The next wing, called Sethekk Halls, contains mobs 67-69. The last wing, named Shadow Labyrinth, contains level 70-72 mobs. In the Warcraft II expansion, Auchindoun is a fortress that the Alliance destroys to further their expeditions. (Note: Often mistranslated as 'Arcane Doom').

Black Temple

The Black Temple will be one of the final destinations in the expansion. This instance is found in Shadowmoon Valley in Outland. This instance will be one of the new 25 man instances planned for the expansion. The Black Temple is rumored to be home to the Betrayer, Illidan.

Caverns of Time
The Dark Portal as it will be seen after players travel back through time to aid Medivh as he opens it.
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The Dark Portal as it will be seen after players travel back through time to aid Medivh as he opens it.

The Caverns of Time, located in the desert of Tanaris in southern Kalimdor, is not a single instance but a sort of portal to a number of different instances, similar to the Scarlet Monastery, but on a much bigger scale. The Caverns of Time, guarded by the bronze dragon flight, allows players to travel through the history of WarCraft and relive some of its most exciting moments. This provides a tremendous opportunity for Blizzard to implement a near infinite amount of new content, should they choose, allowing players to fight the epic battles seen in their previous strategy games. Currently Thrall's escape from Durnholde Keep, the opening of the Dark Portal, and the Battle of Mount Hyjal are all events slated to be included in the Caverns of Time upon its release, and the possibility of a PvP Battleground set in Hellfire Peninsula during the time period of Warcraft II has been mentioned. The Caverns of Time is being designed for players between level 60 and 70

Coilfang Reservoir

The Coilfang Reservoir will be found in the Zangarmarsh in Outland and home to Lady Vashj, the leader of the Naga in Outland and a lieutenant of Illidan. The Coilfang Reservoir is for players between level 60 and 70. The instance is not completely submerged drawing parallels to the Sunken Temple instance in the Swamp of Sorrows on Azeroth. The Coilfang has a 25-person raid wing in addition to a 5 or 10-person wing similar to the Hellfire Citadel. The five man wings are called Slave Pens, The Underbog, and The Steamvault. The raid is called Serpentshrine Cavern.

Players reach all four instances by swimming down a tube in Serpent Lake.

Gruul's Lair

Gruul's Lair is an upcoming raid dungeon found in the Blades Edge Mountains in Outland. Blizzard representatives have hinted that this dungeon will contain mostly Ogres. The dungeon will focus around two encounters, an Ogre "Council" of some sort, and then Gruul, a 25-man raid encounter. Gruul, one of the giant Ogrish demigods is probably one of the cycloptic Gronn.

Hellfire Citadel

Hellfire Citadel, located in Outland's starting zone will be the expansion's first and easiest dungeon. Blizzard recently revealed this dungeon will be mostly populated by fel orcs and will feature three 5-person winged instances and a raid encounter ending with the Pit Lord, Magtheridon. The three five man instances are Hellfire Ramparts, The Blood Furnace, and Shattered Halls.

Hellfire Ramparts is populated by fel orcs from the Shattered Hand clan and Bleeding Hollow clan, and has 3 bosses: Watchkeeper Gargolmar, Omor The Unscarred, and Vazruden The Herald, which is actually Vazruden and his dragon mount Nazan. Killing each boss yields Thrallmar or Honor Hold reputation and a powerful item.

Karazhan

Interior shot of Karazhan.

Located in the southern Eastern Kingdoms, in Deadwind Pass, Karazhan, the former home of Medivh now lies in ruin. Blizzard has stated that this dungeon will be larger than Upper Blackrock Spire and Lower Blackrock Spire combined making it one of the game's largest dungeons. Within the tower, players will fight many spectral mobs and experience scripted boss encounters. One such encounter occurs in an Opera House within the tower where players will fight on stage with a boss. Karazhan is slated to be a 10-person raid instance for players at level 70. There will be a save function in Kharazan so that players do not need to run through the entire instance each run, likely in the form of a transporter, which possibly needs the player to activate save points at the end of different sections, much like in conventional games. Speculation of the final boss, who fans had suspected to be anyone from a Shade of Medivh or Sargeras, to the missing dragon Neltharion (known as Deathwing after his betrayal during the War of the Ancients) to the Death Knight Teron Gorefiend took a strange turn when IGN stated that the final boss was a "Prince Malchazzar." This claim seems dubious as the character seems to come from nowhere in the most lore-heavy instance in the game, as well as the fact that Karazhan has not yet been populated, according to videos taken of the instance from Test clients.

Medivh's staff - Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian - can be used to open a portal to Karazhan's front gate.

Tempest Keep

Tempest Keep will be located at the northern tip of the Netherstorm in Outland. This dungeon consists of four wings, three of which are five-man instances, the fourth, which is the keep itself, is a raid instance. Here, players will encounter Kael'Thas, leader of the Blood Elves in Outland and the second of Illidan's lieutenants. The raid portion of this dungeon will be approximately the size of Molten Core. This instance will be for max-level players and is split into four wings: The Mechanar, The Botanica, the Alcatraz, and Eye of the Storm. Also, there are rumors of The Burning Legion taking hold here.

Zul'Aman

This dungeon, a 10-man raid is located in Quel'Thalas and is home to the Forest Trolls. This raid is intended to display more myths about Trolls, and it is also designed to be harder than Zul'Gurub, a 20 -man raid in Northeastern Stranglethorn Vale in Eastern Kingdoms

Player vs. Player

World PvP in Outland.

The Burning Crusade will contain numerous changes to PvP. This includes a PvP Arena System and the ability for players of either faction to capture the neutral town of Halaa located in Nagrand. The interactive map displayed on Blizzard's website shows multiple 'neutral' cities, however it isn't clear as to how similar they will be to Halaa. The new PvP Arena System will allow players to compete against other 'Arena Teams' regardless of their allegiance. It has also been confirmed that the Honor System will undergo major changes. It has been stated that there will no longer be 'Ranks' as before but players will still earn 'Honor Points' that will be spent like currency. Lead game designer Tom Chilton stated in an interview that their goal with the Arena system was to separate the competitive PvP from the non-competitive PvP. The Honor System will behave more like a "non-competitive grind" in order to make it feel like "something that you can work toward over time." The Arena System and the Honor System will have separate rewards.

Rumours of a new battleground have been confirmed by Blizzard.

Arena games are split into two sections: rated and non rated games. To enter a rated game, you must form a arena group in Nagrand. You must also be at the highest level in the level cap.

PvP rewards currently have a buy price of honor and battleground tokens. Honor doesn't decay from week to week, so a player can now gain honor at his or her own pace in order to purchase rewards.

As of 24 October 2006 several Blizzard posters have announced that the PvP review will in fact take place in the upcoming Patch 1.13. The last patch, 1.12, was designed to be the final major update before the expansion, but the pushing back of the release date to January has allowed them more time to implement certain aspects before it arrives.

New "Looking For Group" interface

The Burning Crusade expansion will contain a substantial change to the process of finding a party or raid. The new interface will allow players to select 'Looking For Group' or 'Looking For More', dependent on whether or not they are currently in a group. Players will then be allowed to select the type of group they are looking for: dungeon, zone, raid, quest or battleground. Once a category has been selected, further options will appear to refine the player's search, and a group will automatically be found for the player if there are other players with the same goals. It is suggested that this feature was implemented after user feedback in relation to "spam" on the global channel.

System requirements
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World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade runs natively on both Macintosh and Windows platforms. Boxed copies of the expansion use a hybrid CD to install the game, eliminating the need for separate Mac and Windows retail products.
Windows

* Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4); Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
* Intel Pentium3 800MHz or AMD Duron 800MHz
* 512 MB RAM
o 1 GB RAM recommended
* 32MB 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as an NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or above.
o 64MB VRAM 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability, such as an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 class card or above recommened
* DirectX compatible sound card

Macintosh

* Mac OS X 10.3.9 or newer required
* 933MHz G4/G5 processor
o 1.8GHz G5/Intel or better recommended
* 1GB MB RAM or higher
o 2GB DDR RAM is recommended
* NVIDIA or ATI graphics processor with 32MB VRAM,
o 64MB VRAM recommended
* 6.0 GB free HD space
* A keyboard and mouse are required. Input devices other than a mouse and keyboard are not supported

All platforms

* Connectivity:You must have an active internet connection to play.
* Mouse: Multi-button mouse with scroll wheel recommended.
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