View Full Version : World Of Warcraft Expansion Confirmed
DigiQ8
23-06-2005, 01:44 PM
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?ForumName=wow-general&ThreadID=3698633
Of course, on top of all this, each content update will also bring new quests, items, professions recipes, and continued class improvements. Some have asked about an expansion and what it might hold. I wanted to let players know that it is in the works, and we’ll release details as soon as we can.
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Sparta
23-06-2005, 01:46 PM
yeah read this on Penny Arcade. Interesting
Jintor
23-06-2005, 02:33 PM
Not that excited. Maybe my friends will be.
Expansions are good, though.
KagePrototype
23-06-2005, 03:58 PM
Bleh, it was confirmed months ago. Just no one picked up on it.
oldagerocker
23-06-2005, 04:07 PM
What would they add? more classes? another race? another continent?!
Sulkdodds
23-06-2005, 04:11 PM
World of what?
oldagerocker
23-06-2005, 04:13 PM
World of EXTREME expansions.
OCybrManO
24-06-2005, 12:38 AM
I want an EXTREME profession that includes base jumping, crocolisk wrestling, and racing experimental goblin/gnome vehicles...
gh0st
24-06-2005, 01:06 AM
"Purchase gold for WoW at rock bottom prices!"
This banner makes me realize how sad the world has become.
Sparta
24-06-2005, 01:59 AM
*buys gold
Good to hear it. For those who dont play WoW, blizzard add in ALOT of free elements into the game, its awesome. The addon wont just be small like alot of other mmorpgs addons like "New dungeon" since we get them for free anyways, it will be huge, add alot of cool stuff. What we dont know yet.. but Im looking forward to finding out. :)
Septih
24-06-2005, 01:33 PM
i remember rumours about them including northrend in the expansion, and maybe more classes/races. would be cool, but maybe a little too much to hope for?
Gunner
24-06-2005, 01:56 PM
Addicts, all of you. Quit now!
Sulkdodds
24-06-2005, 02:49 PM
Never. Hey, it doesn't give us lung cancer.
15357
24-06-2005, 02:50 PM
Never. Hey, it doesn't give us lung cancer.
Instead, it gives you happiness which in this world is not allowed. :|
X-FacToR
24-06-2005, 08:54 PM
That is just madness, so awesome.
Jintor
25-06-2005, 02:13 PM
I'm seeing WORLD EVENTS. WORLD EVENTSS!!!
oldagerocker
25-06-2005, 11:37 PM
thats a good point, alloot of things you'd expect in an expansion (honor system/battlegrounds etc) are free updates.. so maybe this expansion really will be huge... and ofcourse not mandatory. So possibly it will be another continent... along with races (ogre for horde, blood elf for alliance?) and quite probably a higher level cap with new dungeons etc.
but i find it hard to believe they'll do this.... they are doing so much for free as it is. do they really have the manpower?
Yes, you would have expected Blizzard to be working on this addon for some time, I know they havn't got a release date yet. But they always have a master plan an just like Warcraft 3 I would expect them to have been developing this addon since the release of World of Warcraft. Anyway, my idea would be that they are going to increase the level cap reduce the time it takes to get to level 60 fill in loads of spaces in quests such as level 49-52. Loads of people have problems here. Also as Oldagerocker said you could proberly expect ogre and bloodelves. They are already in the game its just you don't get to actually play as them. Personally I would like more classes and a higher level cap with a level speed increase.
They wont add Blood elves oldage, since blood elves are not part of the Aliance or the horde. If anything.. they might add Naga.
oldagerocker
26-06-2005, 12:45 AM
ok thanks, im not completely in on all the story... sorry.
If they do add them, there going to have to come up with some lame reason why they join the horde or aliance.... Hope they dont.
Hmmmm, may I ask why Halflife2.net has an advertisment which makes money from World of Warcraft activitise. In the NDA it clearnly states its illegil to make money from World of Warcraft in any way, this includes selling gold for real money.
Gunner
26-06-2005, 06:48 PM
Hmmmm, may I ask why Halflife2.net has an advertisment which makes money from World of Warcraft activitise. In the NDA it clearnly states its illegil to make money from World of Warcraft in any way, this includes selling gold for real money.
It's not HL2.net, it's the ads themselves that detect keywords from the text body.
ch0ke
26-06-2005, 07:51 PM
man i wonder how the Hero class system will work...i reckon it will be starting at lvl 0 again, but you will now hve a special frame around your portrait like elite mobs or rare mobs. and i wonder if you have to do some incredibly dificult raid instance or event to get this hero class to activate on your character itll be sweet i reckon.
cant wait for blackwing lair
cant wait for blizzard to seem some sense and stop making the warrior sets tank specced only twats, our best sets hve been nerfed to instances only pretty much
man i wonder how the Hero class system will work...i reckon it will be starting at lvl 0 again, but you will now hve a special frame around your portrait like elite mobs or rare mobs. and i wonder if you have to do some incredibly dificult raid instance or event to get this hero class to activate on your character itll be sweet i reckon.
cant wait for blackwing lair
cant wait for blizzard to seem some sense and stop making the warrior sets tank specced only twats, our best sets hve been nerfed to instances only pretty much
That is the purpose of a warrior. Thats the role they take on in the game. If you wanted to be a dmg dealer you should have been a rogue or mage :D
thats a good point, alloot of things you'd expect in an expansion (honor system/battlegrounds etc) are free updates.. so maybe this expansion really will be huge... and ofcourse not mandatory. So possibly it will be another continent... along with races (ogre for horde, blood elf for alliance?) and quite probably a higher level cap with new dungeons etc.
but i find it hard to believe they'll do this.... they are doing so much for free as it is. do they really have the manpower?
I don't think they'll add Hero classes for free, plus i don't even think Blizzard have got Hero classes worked out in their heads yet. I'd like to see a Neutral race playable, like the Goblins that can attack both Horde and Alliance if they please and vice versa. They'd be the ultimate PvP race and most noob-unfriendly :) But there would be diminishing returns for Horde/Alliance killing Goblins and vice versa.
Blizzard are ace, they have gone to my favourite games developer after WoW...they might not be able to keep full control over such a big MMO (don't forget, this is the first one they've made) but they do try really hard...you can see the efforts they make. I think they got the manpower for a massive expansion. They must make around £2million a month on accounts, especially with the release in the Eastern world that is supposed to be big as well.
man i wonder how the Hero class system will work...i reckon it will be starting at lvl 0 again, but you will now hve a special frame around your portrait like elite mobs or rare mobs. and i wonder if you have to do some incredibly dificult raid instance or event to get this hero class to activate on your character itll be sweet i reckon.
cant wait for blackwing lair
cant wait for blizzard to seem some sense and stop making the warrior sets tank specced only twats, our best sets hve been nerfed to instances only pretty much
I don't think they could make another instance harder after Blackwing Lair...at least not for some time. Blackwing Lair is supposed to be even harder than Molten Core...i know that only one clan on my server has beat Ragnaros and they was alliance (11k alliance 4k horde on mine). Horde did try and got pwned off Lucifron ...the first boss :P
Blizzard are ace, they have gone to my favourite games developer after WoW...they might not be able to keep full control over such a big MMO (don't forget, this is the first one they've made) but they do try really hard...you can see the efforts they make. I think they got the manpower for a massive expansion. They must make around £2million a month on accounts, especially with the release in the Eastern world that is supposed to be big as well.
Hell Blizzard has been my favorite Developer when I discovered the oringal Diablo, a very fun simple game.
With Starcraft they made them more than my favorite....
They made us.... BFF's...Best Friends Forever...(note that only popped into my head thx to Eric Cartman).
Chances are hero classes *will* be a free update. The way they will work will mean you NEED to buy the addon to get your charater higher level (Say if you get to 60, then go to a hero class). Very few addons too mmorpgs do this.
Addons are what there called.. Add ons, they add things to the game, but you in no way need them. Having only people who get the addon be able to gain the next class would be stupid. Addons more likely going to have new races, places to go, and maybe new classes for the new races.
Sparta
27-06-2005, 09:47 AM
I only just got back into the game last night and now there are Hero classes coming soon? I'm just getting used to the Honour System and Battlegrounds, i need more time dammit!
goblins as playable race please :-D
Warbie
28-06-2005, 08:02 PM
What is this hero system? Just a rumour?
An official Blizzard rumour, actually :p
Blizzard have'nt released any information about what a Hero class will be and i don't even think Blizzard know or they'd of give some info about them by now.
CommunistPenguin
29-06-2005, 03:35 AM
goblins as playable race please :-D
Yes! That would be pretty cool actually. A horde equivilant to the Gnomes. Though it probably wouldn't work since the Goblins are supposed to be neutral.
Yes! That would be pretty cool actually. A horde equivilant to the Gnomes. Though it probably wouldn't work since the Goblins are supposed to be neutral.
they could make it work
No, they really couldn't, at all :(
Booty Bay = Neutral
Ratchet = Neutral
Gadgetzan = Neutral
Goblins are the main neutral race in the game. Two of the biggest places you go at 30-40, then again at 45-52ish are run by goblins, which are neutral.
It wouldn't really work.
They could make a new race based on goblins though.
What is this hero system? Just a rumour?
There going to be the next lot of classes, for example a hunter might be able to take a hero class "Demon Hunter" which gives them ...shadowy skills or somthing :P Thats what we know so far.. There just going to be the next level of classes.
No, they really couldn't, at all :(
Booty Bay = Neutral
Ratchet = Neutral
Gadgetzan = Neutral
Goblins are the main neutral race in the game. Two of the biggest places you go at 30-40, then again at 45-52ish are run by goblins, which are neutral.
It wouldn't really work.
They could make a new race based on goblins though.
I dont see how being the same race as them would change anything? who gives a crap?
I dont see how being the same race as them would change anything? who gives a crap?
Alot of people. I wouldnt want them to do somthing as dumb as that.
KagePrototype
02-07-2005, 05:05 PM
I dont see how being the same race as them would change anything? who gives a crap?
Because it would ruin the idea of two factions being at war with each other, plus you coulds easily grief people from either side since you're neutral, which would be dumb.
oldagerocker
02-07-2005, 10:50 PM
Ogres for horde ftw. more Huge buggers =D like the taurens are more hordey...
pfft the alliance can have pixies or something :P
PvtRyan
03-07-2005, 04:14 PM
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/underdev/
Look under 'On the horizon'. Hero classes are there. It's listed here like it will be put into WoW itself, not an expansion.
I hope the expansion will bring player housing. I know space is limited in WoW, but they could make it an instance or something. There is already an instance in Stormwind, but supposedly that's a prison area where the most powerful creatures are being locked up (like stockades but a lot higher).
I think the expansion might bring the Outlands as an entire new continent (or world even) and is accessed through the Dark Portal. With possibly the Draenei as a playable (neutral) race. But I don't think so because they don't look quite cool enough.
I also would like to see more content that doesn't require an omgwtf guild to complete. First Molten Core, then BWL and after that south Silithius which supposedly is a raid area and requires a raid group to even move around in. More new five man instances like Maraudon and Dire Maul please. WoW is currently too much aimed at large guilds and this kills the smaller ones. I only know that we're getting Zul'Gurub in STV which is 10-20 man raid I believe.
cant wait for blizzard to seem some sense and stop making the warrior sets tank specced only twats, our best sets hve been nerfed to instances only pretty much
Every class has that currently. That's why Blizzard made PvP rewards and of next patch, they are permanent (you'll be able to use the items of your highest achieved ranking).
KagePrototype
03-07-2005, 05:57 PM
I also would like to see more content that doesn't require an omgwtf guild to complete. First Molten Core, then BWL and after that south Silithius which supposedly is a raid area and requires a raid group to even move around in. More new five man instances like Maraudon and Dire Maul please. WoW is currently too much aimed at large guilds and this kills the smaller ones. I only know that we're getting Zul'Gurub in STV which is 10-20 man raid I believe.
I've heard things about Medivh's Tower in Deadwind Pass being a new 5-man instance. But really, I would think Zul Gurrub will be enough for all the casual players for a while, until they introduce something else. And when you say too aimed at large guilds...well, there's only 4 raid encounters at the moment, compared with everything else. :p
Personally, I think the expansion will be a new continent and hero classes. I would think they'd finish the two current continents first before adding a new one though.
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