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Development Team's Progress in WoW

Tigole has made a post on the b.net forums about what the dev team is up to.
Check it out by clicking here .

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Stress Test Begins Tomorrow!

The World of Warcraft stress test beta is just a day away. Hundreds of thousands of gamers applied for the stress test this past week, and FilePlanet was up to the task, issuing over 100,000 accounts and providing the stress test beta client for download. With the signups and downloads complete, we are just about ready to welcome these gamers into World of Warcraft for the very first time.

Starting tomorrow, September 2nd at 12:00 noon PDT, stress test beta participants will be able to create their World of Warcraft accounts and begin playing the game. Their participation will help us optimize our account-creation and server infrastructure, and enable us to deliver the best online experience possible when the game launches later this year. We want to thank everyone who applied for the stress test beta, and we look forward to seeing the new testers online tomorrow when the stress test beta starts.

Selected stress test beta participants should keep an eye on their inboxes for an email containing further instructions. For more information on the World of Warcraft stress test beta, please check out our FAQ. To get a head start on learning how to play World of Warcraft, take a look at our beta strategy guide.
 
Next Patch News

As quoted by Tyren on the b.net forums.  To read it for yourself click here .

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Quote[/b] ]-The level cap will be increased to 60.
-The gods (ed note: what a joke) have seen fit to grant Talents to Druids and Shamans.
-Stratholme, Blackrock Spire, and Winterspring areas will be added.
-More Warlock-specific quests have been put in place.
-Mana and health regeneration gained from Spirit has increased.
-You can now right-click on gear in your inventory to equip it.
-Experience gained from instance dungeons has been increased.
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Transports

The Gnome engineers have finally finished building the tunnel connecting the Dwarven city of Ironforge to Stormwind city in Elwynn Forest.  Alliance characters will be able to use this tunnel system as a means for transportation between the two major business hubs.
To view the Deeprun Ram simply click here .

Below are some screenshots:

Deeprun Ram
Deeprun Ram 1
Deeprun Ram 2
Deeprun Ram 3
 
New PVP article on IGN giving information on the new battlegrounds and honor reward system.

One very important motivation in designing PvP into the World of Warcraft was to make it feel like Warcraft. Warcraft - starting back in the day with Orcs and Humans - was about the war between Horde and Alliance

We really wanted to bridge the gap. We wanted to design a game where people could have a good time adventuring and at the same time engage in PvP whenever they want, and be rewarded for doing so. That was the overarching goal.
 
New preview

MMORPG has added a new preview to their website based on the World of Warcraft, and you can read it by clicking here .
 
Release Date Rumors

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Quote[/b] ]October 02, 2004 - Hidden amid the 51 PDF slides depicting Vivendi Universal Games' earnings report for the first half of 2004 was a discussion on growth drivers for the next few years, which included planned release dates for World of Warcraft, Blizzard Entertainment's highly-anticipated massively multiplayer online game. Dated September 14 of this year, the document stated three different planned release dates: November 2004 in the U.S., December 2004 in Korea, "early 2005" in Europe and "later in 2005" in Greater China and Taiwan.

Keep in mind, however, that the intentions of the publisher and the intentions of the developer do not always necessarily coincide, and Blizzard is one of the few developers who has the luxury of taking its time. But it is nevertheless interesting to note the separate international release dates.
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IGN Source
MMORPG Source

Exoslayer and I have been talking about the release of Warcraft, and we believe it could be out by the end of this year.
 
New Official Chinese Website

Blizzard's released a new really cool Chinese website for the World of Warcraft.

You can check it out by clicking here .

lol I am actually quite jealous of this website; it's very well done and I suggest you at least check it out!
 
New WoW Beta Patch

The newest World of Warcraft closed beta patch has arrived! Major features of this patch include the new item durability system and changes to the raid group system, based on player feedback. Read the full patch notes here!
The servers are offline in preparation for the patch. Once they come back up, connect to the game as usual, and an automatic update will patch you up to the current build. Thank you again for continuing to test World of Warcraft; your efforts are appreciated!


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Yeah, that Chinese website looks awesome LoJ. I hope we can get something like that for the official US site.
 
New article on the upcomming raid system can be found here.

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Quote[/b] ]We knew from the beginning that players had an expectation going into World of Warcraft for a good raid game. Early on in development, we planned out everything that we felt would make for good raid content. We really tried to go top-heavy with it, to make these raid encounters truly spectacular, because we knew we weren't going to put in a steep leveling curve. We aren't going to bog people down in the normal leveling process, so we expect that there will be a lot of people at maximum level and they'll be anticipating some truly epic challenges. .
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New patch on the way Tigole was nice enough to post a list of some of the changes here hopefully this patch will bring with it the open beta.

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Quote[/b] ] --Hunter Talents and imrpovements
--Pally Talents and improvenments (very cool changes!)
--Some *awesome* changes to the warrior
--Tons of tradeskill polish
--Lots more quests... newbie zone polish, plus additional Horde content in the re-vamped Kalimdor zones (ashenvale, desolace, stonetalon, etc.)
--More flight paths
--More Graveyards
--Onyxia >=]
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I'll post an add on the ToJ site when it releases. Also, I'll see if Tek can post something similar on the CGA site, as well.
 
New WoW Article Comparing to Everquest

Mark Hain has written a new article over at filefront.com, and you can read it by clicking here .

It's a very interesting read, and certainly worth a look. Enjoy!
 
New Article

There is a new article over at Inktank comparing WoW to Everquest 2. It's very interesting, especially for those of you who might be torn between the two games.

Check it out by clicking here .
 
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