Enfin de retour au puit solaire ?

Judgehype a écrit:Après Zul'aman, Blizzard proposera une nouvelle instance raid pour 25 joueurs. Jeff Kaplan aurait laissé entendre qu'il s'agirait d'une instance dédiée au Sunwell, donc le Puits Solaire. A confirmer.

Sunwell plateau sera une gigantesque instance 70 au format 25 personnes, de type Karazhan. Vous vous demandiez ce que magouillaient ces satanés elfes de sang avec leurs manaforges dans Outreterre ? Quels étaient les plans secrets de ce weak d'Illidan ? Réponse à Sunwell Plateau, qui sera le point d'orgue de Burning Crusade Architecturalement parlant, il s'agit d'une île volante hébergeant un énorme chantier s'étirant vers le ciel, à base d'échafaudages complexes, d'enchaînements labyrinthiques de salles, de vastes espaces verts, le tout à la sauce elfe de sang.

A news team "MP" had the opportunity to interview Jeff "Tigole" Kaplan yesterday (a video is on the way) during the Games Convention, and they were lucky enough to obtain new infos (not revealed yet) which are the following:

- Sunwell Plateau will be released before the expansion "Wrath of the Lich King", Tigole said its planned for a patch after Zul'Aman (so it might be 2.4 minimum to get it). Sunwell Plateau is a new instance which can be found in Quel'Thalas (forest region north of the continent of Lordaeron). The instance is divided in 2 parts, one of them is designed for a 25-man raid instance (said to be the most diffcult in WoW, harder than Black temple), the other part is a 5-man instance.

- Tigole talked about a new instance "Nexus" located in Borean Tundra, it should be the first instance you will zone in when entering Northrend by Borean Tundra; this instance will be divided into several wings and the hardest wing is designed for a 25-man raid. Nexus (thats the name of this new wotlk instance) is located at the top of a mountain, and you will encounter Malygyos in it, the blue dragon.

A video of this interview is on they way, which one contains what we talked about in this news and some more new stuff about Wrath of the Lich King. Stay tuned!

Teza
WoR reporter

# Tigole a apporte un complèment d'information quand à la progression de niveau qui va être revue : L'expérience requise pour progresser entre le niveau 20 et 60 va être réduite. Le gain d'expérience pour les quêtes de ces niveaux se verra augmenté de 30%.

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# Drysc précise qu'ils envisagent actuellement de modifier la courbe de progression 1-58 avant la sortie de l'addon Wrath of the Lich King.

Plusieurs joueurs s'inquiètent de la progression de niveau entre 1 et 58 alors que le niveau maximum va être augmenté dans le prochain addon. Blizzard compte augmenter la vitesse de leveling et souhaite aussi revoir la zone de Marécage d'Âprefange pour permettre aux joueurs d'y faire plus de choses et de progresser plus vite.

-Dalaran will have one or two instanced dungeons in it (like Stockades or Ragefire they said).
-Dalaran won't have Auction Houses or class trainers again (*sigh*). Same bass-ackwards reason as with Shattrath. It will probably have portals like Shattrath though, and they said possibly one to Shattrath as well.
-There is concept art of Dalaran and The Nexus - both look pretty cool. The Nexus looks like this huge purple beam of magic shooting towards the sky, with rings surrounding it that look like little islands you could probably land on with a flying mount.
-Malygos is a raid boss (I don't think this is new info, but figured I'd mention it anyways)
-There's a map of Utgarde Keep (low level dungeon).
-It mentions the Stratholme CoT dungeon (which isn't new news but it's recent at least).
-There will be more "micro dungeons" (i.e. non-instanced dungeon-like areas.. I guess Deatholme is probably a good example). One is called Gjalerbron where the Vrykul are working side-by-side with Liches.
-Info about Utgarde: will be similar to Ramparts, but with more memorable moments to break up the "pull-rest-pull-boss" structure of other instances (way they put it). One is a giant flame forge that kills you if you step into it, but if you kill the workers operating it, it dies down. Another is a guantlet area like in Shattered Halls. One boss will be a Lich, another will be a Vrykul who summons scourge minions.
-Metzen says he doesn't want the end of Arthas' story to be predictable, as he says a "Yeah, that's pretty much what I expected" type of feeling.
-One idea for the Death Knight class is that you'll start in Stratholme and have to break your way out.
-Two Death Knight spells mentioned: Army of the Dead (the one from the trailer) which summons a bunch of undead minions, and Death and Decay, which is an AOE spell.
-One idea for an ability is Blood Boil, a damage-over-time ability that after the duration lights up two of your blood runes.
-Generally Blood runes are damage-oriented, Frost are control-oriented, and Unholy are utility and DOT mechanics.
-Inscribers will be able to sell scrolls.
-Only a handful of core spells can be inscribed. Example they used was you cannot extend the range of the Priest's Mind Vision, but you CAN extend the duration of the Hunter's Freezing Traps.
-Metzen feels the Burning Crusade never really had an "ending" moment. Killing Illidan wasn't it because he didn't like the Legion either. So Sunwell will be it.
-The Blood Elves are trying to reinvigorate the Sunwell using energy ported from Netherstorm (i.e. the Mana Forges)
-But supposively rebuilding the Sunwell is an excuse to summon Kil'jaeden (why?)
-Sunwell area will have "tweaker Blood Elves, high on magic" and 6-8 bosses.
-There is that quote that someone posted earlier in the forums that Kil'jaeden is not fully summoned, thus you can kill him with 25 lvl 70s.