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WoW level cap to 70 Submitted by Abalieno on October 17, 2005 - 22:26. I get italian news from the interweb. THE BURNING CRUSADE. The correct translation of the diciture is: "Blizzard surprises everyone by bringing us to level 70!" Or something like that. Now it's 22.30 here, but you can be sure I'll go out early tomorrow and find out what I can. If there's something juicy I could try to scan it. I'm not sure whether the magazine is out or not, though. Anyway, that's the most important PC game magazine we have here and it is surely reliable. It's also sad that Blizzard couldn't think anything else than just to rise the level cap. How innovative. EDIT: It seem the scan was posted on the official site and is now removed. It's not sure whether a fake or deleted on Blizzard request. The moderators on the forum of the magazine are closing all the threads about the episode and asking everyone to understand that the situation isn't simple and they cannot comment further. Official comment from the editor of the magazine: at this point it's advisable a general "no comment". Do it for me, please! (and thanks) They have always previewed the cover and summary long before the magazine is out. I believe they just didn't anticipate what was going to happen in this special case and now they are in trouble. And, since we are talking about rumors, there's a screenshot hinting that the new horde race will be the "blood elves". That the expansion will have two new races, one for each faction, was somewhat confirmed here. Worldofwar also commented this "leak" and added more details about the title: A little more on the Burning Crusade name. This trademark was registered by Blizzard back on 3 May of this year under 'computer software'. At the time speculation tied it to a WoW expansion after discovering mention of the name on Blizzard's page about Sargeras, champion of the Titans, specifically this bit: "Once Sargeras saw that his armies were amassed and ready to follow his every command, he launched his raging forces into the vastness of the Great Dark. He referred to his growing army as the Burning Legion. To this date, it is still unclear how many worlds they consumed and burned on their unholy Burning Crusade across the universe." And finally a screenshot with what seems a Blood Elves town: Source: The Cesspit | WoW ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The screenshots that the links in this article went to were all removed upon Blizzard's request.

All of this was taken from http://www.cesspit.net/ _____________________________________________________________ Here's your rumors. To begin with, Jeff Green's post confirming the two new races in the expansion has been deleted. For reference I'll mirror it here: Here is, instead, the translation of the *official* explanation about the "leaked" cover of the magazine announcing the level cap to 70: "During Monday, 17 October we have closed various topics about World of Warcraft. The cover of the upcoming "The Games Machine" in the preview section of this site was also modified. This happened to comply our agreement with Blizzard Entertainment. The omission isn't representing the desire to censor or disinform, but just the respect of the set date to disclose informations. What happened won't compromise the content of the next issue of "The Game Machine" that will be regularly out next week." Therefore we ask "The Game Machine" readers and the community of this forum to patently wait a few more days. Thanks." Which basically means (my english is broken but my italian is not) that the cover of the magazine with the title of the expansion (The Burning Crusade) and the catchphrase hinting the cap to 70 were, indeed, reliable. Again on the forum of the magazine some readers are claiming to own a copy of the preview and wrote down some of the features (and here we have an high probability of fake, but, still, they could make sense): -- New region: Outlands New Instances: Kharazan - Near Deadwind Pass (5-man) Caverns of Time in Tanaris (unusual place where the players will be able to move back and forth in time to reenact the main events of the history of Warcraft) Level cap raised to lvl 70 - There will be repetable quests to gain access to a flying epic mount usable only in the Outlands. New profession: Jewelcrafting, it will be possible to create gems to apply to weapons and armors and add effects. Other professions will be able to craft objects with embedded slots for these gems. New races: Horde - Blood Elves with a new starting zone north of Eastern Plaguelands and a new dungeon. Alliance - Undisclosed Battlegrounds shared between servers. Atmospherical effects. Release: Not before May 2006. -- The new region isn't Northrend but the Outlands, with the remains of the planet Dreanor, the world of the first orcs. The remains of this planet float in the air, this is why it will be formed like separated "isles". Two dungeons will be located here along with a new one near the Deadwind Pass. Same for Tanaris. There will be a brand new instance working like a temporal breach that will allow the players to time travel (hence the name: Caverns of Time) and reenact past events. The war at mount Hyal is one. The level 70 is real, but no hero classes. The new race for the horde is the blood elf. The racial traits will be a "Mana Tap" to slowly leech the mana of the target (it will be applicable more than once like the Sunder Armor) and that will then directly load the second trait: "Arcane Torment (or Torrent)" which will work like an area silence. The starting zone will probably be near Quel'thalas. The Alliance race is still not available but it seems it will be Pandarens. The new profession will be Jewelcrafting that works in a similar way to how the gems worked in Diablo 2. And btw, the main boss will be Illidian. -- Finally, yet another creation screen appeared on the internet (LOL!). Some of what is written here is true. Some isn't. It's like a game. Enjoy. Source: The Cesspit | WoW[/url]

So does this mean the pictures are from Outland?! o_O hmm maybe they added it to Quel'Thalas. PANDA! we're going to do some exploring.

In the immortal words of Panda, oh em gee! Where did they get those?!?!?

There are other games in the world besides WoW?! o_O haha jk. oh, and Zelda ftmfw. can't wait.

Yep, it's true. Exodia starts transfering tomorrow.

Grats man! Post lots of pics of the wedding. Enjoy your honeymoon.

awww I never even got a chance to get to know you. Come back soon.

best ytmnd I've ever seen!!!!

That's always great, unless it's a druid, mage, or rogue. Jumping off cliffs in cat form is also awesome. Non druids always forget that doesnt hurt us and they follow like no big deal. Then they're all blood and loose chunks of flesh on the ground. muahahahaha

OMG Aelora is back. That is the most FTW i've seen all week.

Haha this truly is the druid way of life. They should hand this out to every n00b dr00d at lvl 1. I had to learn it the tough way.

Stormrage aka the Bullwinkle set. So I'll get to go from having dead birds on my head and shoulders, to wearing oven mits, branches, and a robe made out of a quilt, to looking like Bullwinkle. God I love being the red-headed stepchild of Blizzard. http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/189/stormragefront7qe8gr.jpg http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3402/fullsr2ic7yg.jpg

I am so lost right now

fileplanet. about a minute

Can you taunt?

Step on down to the druid forum some time Gryph. We'll go bear and pretend we're tanks to make you feel at home.

Omg we broke our record... again... and by that much.... and I was there... and now the record got erased?!?!

Yes yes, I did too. I And Garnok, PA>PvP

It took them 10 months to realize they needed to add that cemetary?!?!!? grumble grumble That's the only reason I havent lvled my alt. I didnt feel like making that corpse run ever again.

pssstt Should I tell Gryph that this is the third post about this mace on our forums? haha love ya Gryph

I've been saying for a month now that they increased the rate on 1.7. There is just no way dozens of priests got EoS/EoD's that quickly. Until a month ago I had only seen one Benediction in 8 months of playing. Now every body and their cousin has it. They're all over the damn place. yeesh.

Already?!?! OMG they better have fixed all those dr00d bugs.

WoW had a notice about accounts being stolen on the login screen a couple days ago, I guess in responce to this. That really sucks. I hope he gets his account back soon, and with all his gold and items still there.

Stang, there's spirits floating around that rez you when you die. I couldn't figure out why they were there or what the purpose was. So that's how he gains a lvl Valdez? I died twice and rezzed twice.... oops.