WoW - Cataclysm

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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.

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.

Leveling from 80-85 should be a much bigger deal, the idea is to make sure that gaining a level really means something and doesn't make you feel like you just have 4 more levels to go.

New Classes
Cataclysm doesn't introduce any new classes to the game. Instead, Blizzard have offered more race and classes combinations to players. The Some of these have alreadly been datamined from the 3.2.2 Test Realms. The An Injured Colleague quest and it's new Night Elf counter-part help to introduce the lore for these new race and class combinations, so we can probably expect to see more of these for some of the less traditional ones.

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



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
Deathwing once again sought the services of the goblins, as slaves. Unable to refuse such an offer, the goblins were enslaved by him. A large group have resisted however. With their previous homes devastated by the cataclysm, they escaping to an island off the coast of The Barrens. 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.

Worgen
The cataclysm has cracked open the Greymane Wall, finally revealing what has happened to the kingdom of Gilneas and its citizens. With the Worgen curse taken hold, they have found a partial cure, allowing thme to retain their Human minds even when transformed. Venturing forth from Gilneas and seeking help from the Alliance, they have decided 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.

Worgens will have two forms, a Worgen form and a Human form. Players will be able to customise the look of both forms.

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. With the revamp, a greater narritive and sense progression will be offered to players. Some zones and dungeons 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.
* Some of the zones like the Thousand Needles will be flooded.
* Durotar is wrecked and apparently Orgrimmar could be destroyed. A new Orc city is rebuilt over the course of the expansion.
* Gnomeregan will be part of the expansion as well and gnomes might be able to reclaim their capital. (The last part is still unconfirmed)
* Wailing Caverns will be become a lush tropical area as a result of the druid's magic.
* The Blackrock Spire will erupt and a new version of Blackrock Mountains will be available, apparently Ragnaros will be back too.


In the aftermath of the cataclysm, and the new conflicts on the horizon relief efforts can be found in many zones and new open PvP areas similar to Lake Wintergrasp.

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.

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.

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


It is unclear if the old Goblin locations such as Kezan and Undermine will be included in Cataclyms with the revelation of the goblins' plight, but several new islands have also been risen from the seas by the events of Cataclysm, some on the backs of giant sea turtles and whales, with the addition of several underwater zones.

Characters and Events

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?

The Guardian of Tirisfal
Malfurion Stormrage will be returning to Azeroth to aid in the creation of the new Guardian of Tirisfal - Thrall! Med'an's role in these events is currently unknown.

The New (New) Horde
Thrall will hand over the leadership of the Horde to Garrosh Hellscream, while he serves as a coordinator for both the Horde and Alliance forces in and effort to combat the new threat of the Naga and Black Dragonflight. Without Thrall to keep Garrosh in check, he declares open war on the Alliance. In the political upheaval Cairne Bloodhoof is implicated as a traitor to the Horde and murdered by Garrosh. Cairne's son Baine takes over as the new Tauren chieftan. This could explain why Baine was removed from the game in Patch 3.2.2, you can find more information about this in Ahmo Thunderhorn - replacement for Baine Bloodhoof?

Meni se ne dopada dodavanje klasa...dwarf shaman? jedenje izmeta...Undead hunter? Oni ne jedu...wtf?
Doduse, ideja da se uradi ceo Azeroth revamp je cool...to podrzavam...ali da ukinu death knighta...

[Faldang]

Hmmm, jes' čudna neka gomila ideja koju su nabacali, ali ima simpatičnih momenata. For one, zvuči kao da će radnja da se malo vrati na pravi stari Warcraft stil, bez puno SF-a i (blah) zmajeva.

Nove kombinacije rasa i klasa su totalno retardirane. Human hunter još može da prođe, ali dwarf shaman? o.O

Nove rase zvuče simpatično, pogotovo taj deo sa worgenima i cela priča oko Gilneasa. Super je i što su rešili da opet bace fokus na Azeroth.

Ubedljivo najjači detalj je da će Thrall da postane Guardian of Tirisfal Kad se bolje razmisli, to i nije tako loša ideja. S druge strane, to što su rešili da ubiju Cairnea i zezancije u vođstvu horde, nisam siguran kako će to da ispadne. Samo se nadam da neće previše da urnišu postojeću priču (Wizardsov Spellplague, anyone?).

[Belfabio]

Puno ovdje nema smisla, ali doduse nije bilo smisla ni u TBC(napravili Ilidana obicnog lovca za moci koju je dobio od drugorazrednog warloca Gul'Dana jaceg od jednog od Starih Bogova-Ragnarosa, ili jaceg od legendarnih zmajeva Oniksije i Safirona)

[SonOfTomorow]

Gul'dan drugorazedan warlock
Ajd' možda nije učinio dovoljno da bude prvorazedni - samo je stvorio prvu Hordu, warlock-e i death knight-e...
Meni se ovo sa Thrall-om kao Guardianom ne dopada puno, koliko ja znam Medivh je rekao na kraju WC 3 da više neće biti Guardiana jer je Azeroth u rukama smrtnika.

[Master]

[Belfabio]

[SonOfTomorow]

Јок Гулд'ан их је све ујединио. То ти је као Алијанса - имао си краљевства људи, патуљака и вилењака али до Другог Рата није било тог огромног савеза и били су час у фази мира или рата... Тако ти је са Хордом, имао си бројне орковске кланове који су били одвојени, а Гулд'ан је добио директиву од Кил'џејдена да створи јединствену ратну машинерију која ће освојити Азерот и тако је настала Хорда. Он је увео титулу Варчифа и поставио марионету Блекхенда са којом је уништио Јужно Краљевство Азерота.

А сад Гулд'ан није створио неколицину већ читаву армију "витезова смрти" која је сејала смрт и хаос по свету Азерота, такође он је пренео сва учења демона на оркове и тако створио орковске вешце и некромансере. Гул'дан ти је утемељивач Армије Немртвих и самог Лич Кинга у неку руку јер је он имао утицај на свог ментора касније...

То ти није другоразедан вештац...

[Baalzamon92]

ma sve su usrali sa ekspanzijama....jel misle da stalno dizu level cap nisu normalni...i mnogo ima nelogicnosti pogotovu za ilidana i ragnarosa...po meni je original bez ekspanzija zakon....

[Belfabio]

[Matori]

Videste li sta se desi Aspektima? Postase smrtnici.Steta prica je jako dobra dok se cita. Kakav li ce biti film koji se kako cujem snima vec nekoliko godina? Lore warcrafta u sustini i nema neke velike veze sa wowom, blizzard jednostavno pokusava da poveze pricu nekako , pakuje govna u sjajni papir sa sve masnom i to prodaje,dok nepobijemo sve sto se moze ubiti. Nek vise dodje taj Sargeras i da ga mi lepo rascerecimo ko jadnog Deathwinga i da zavrsimo vise. JBg wow polako umire ne znam sto ga igram vise... A i raidovanje, sve me to smorilo vise igram pvp u zadnje vreme. Igram dok neizadje Guild Wars 2 da vidimo na sta ce to da lici a Pande, Hm...

[duk]

Ja sam igrao kataklizmu par meseci, mozda desetak, sa jednim jedinim likom na nekom privatnom x12 serveru - monsterWoW.
Obzirom da sam imao drustvo s kojim sam igrao, i da mi je to prvi put u zivotu da sam igrao WOW, bilo mi je zaista wooow .
Odusevljavao sam se grindanjem lika, kasnije raidovima, a onda arenom.

Ipak, car igre nije u grafici ili samom tabanju, vec u kombinaciji dugmica.
Mnogi igraci klikcu misem po spelovima i vrhunac igre im he 85. lvl, i onda prelaze na sledeceg lika.

Ja sma imao human furry warriora, full vicious set za arenu i epic setovi za raidove dps i tank. Enchanting i Tailoring na 525 i preko milion golda u goldu, enchantima i resursima za enchant.
35 maunta i 100 kompanjona.

Osim toga, svako dugme na tastaturi je imalo svoju funkciju, svi spelovi su bili podeseni i to je ono sto mi je bilo zabavno - kombinovanje spelova, kretanja, i kakve-takve taktike.
Posebno je kul kad se provali rotacija koja odgovara liku na tom serveru, i kada u toku raida budes prvi po dps-u, ili sam rasturis dvojicu u areni, ili budes prvi u bg.

Postoji par zanimljivih trenutaka, recimo kada je u sred raida tank morao da ode, a zbog njega i jedan healer, ili mu je pukla konekcija, tako nesto.
BH mislim da je bio, kod ona dva zmaja. Preuzeo sam ulogu tanka i sprzio tri seta opreme.
Na kraju je priest glumio tanka, trcao u krug, a mi smo ubijali bosa - trajalo je dva i po sata i raid je zavrsilo nas 4 od 10.


Ipak, kao i vecina drugih privatnih servera, i ovaj je postao zrtva decurlije zeljne dokazivanja, pa su tako bg-ovi zavrsavani za 2 sekunde, postojali su instant kill-ovi u areni...itemi koji su nestajali iz sanducica...skameri koji nude svasta nesto da prodaju...
Zbog obaveza na fakultetu sam odustao od daljeg igranja WOW-a.