Jeff Kaplan Shares More About Patch 2.4 In First Blizcast
So Blizzard just released their first Blizcast, which is what they call their podcast. In the World of Warcraft portion of this first Blizcast, CM Drysc interviews lead designer Jeff Kaplan about the upcoming patch 2.4. While he talks about some stuff we already know about, he also expounds on this information to give us a better idea of what to expect when the patch comes out. Here are some of “new” things he mentioned:
Aldor and Scryers Join Forces to form the Shattered Sun Offensive faction
There’s a reputation associated with the whole Sunwell Isle. So the Isle has not just the raid dungeon, which is the Sunwell Plateau, but it also has a five person instance which is the Magister’s Terrace, which can be normal or heroic, and there’s also a whole hub of quests that are going to be daily quests and that hub actually gets built up by the players over time. And there’s a reputation associated with all of these things called the Shattered Sun Offensive. And what that is, is the culmination of the Scryer and Aldor storyline. The two groups have finally banded together, a continuation of that scene that was playing out in the inn in Area 52. They’re now banded together to drive out the Burning Legion who are inhabiting the Sunwell which has been re-ignited. So we think it will be really exciting – Shattrath, a lot of the NPCS will be changed that were previously either Scryer or Aldor specific to Shattered Sun Offensive NPCs, so blood elves and draenei like those soldiers out front by the flight masters – you’ll actually see them change. So it should be pretty cool.
It’s great to see the two factions finally setting aside their differences and joining forces. It’s also great to see some development in the story manifest itself in the game.
Magister’s Terrace (5 man) loot
Difficulty-wise we’re tuning it to be a max level dungeon, so level 70. We expect it to be a more difficult max level dungeon but not by much – around the difficulty, I would say, of Shadow Labyrinth or Shattered Halls – somewhere around there. It will also have a heroic mode which will be on par in difficulty with our other heroics. In terms of loot, what we’ll be dropping in the normal version – you’ll get one fifteen dungeon blues off the first three bosses, which is just normal level 70 dungeon loot. But the last boss will drop a one ten epic item which is on par with a Karazhan epic, with a lower level Karazhan epic. In heroic mode they’ll drop lower level Karazhan epics off of every boss, and the final boss will drop an item that’s on par with a Prince Malchezzar Karazhan epic, so a really good epic item at the end of the heroic.
Wow! Better loot! I’m excited now
Click here to download the first Blizcast or here to view the transcript of the whole thing.
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2 opinions for Jeff Kaplan Shares More About Patch 2.4 In First Blizcast
Apadwe
Jan 11, 2008 at 4:53 pm
That sounds awesome! I can’t wait.
Angelo
Jan 13, 2008 at 7:35 am
I’m really excited about the Magister’s Terrace dungeon since it’s new content I can do. Also once my guildies and I get to do the heroic mode, we can finally see Kael’thas at last since we aren’t close to seeing him at the Tempest Keep at all. Of course the cool gear is also awesome.
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