Cataclysm Closed Beta - NDA Lift

can't wait to fish in the maelstrom

garroshs updated form looks awesome but the troll druid forms are kinda weird

While most of you guys run for the hills comparing the current endgame epics to the cata lvl 80-82 greens/blues, do keep in mind that the current gear hasn't been converted to cata's new stat formula(and this will most likely be done in a patch before cata launches)

I am not saying that these greens and blues won't trump the current epics(coz they will), just that the difference in stats wont be as ridiculous as it is now.

Stamina on cloth items crits you for 9999 ... wow

I love how you naysayers are flocking back to the game. Typical really.

http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...x/uldum_08.jpg
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Hmm the sign on the boat kinda looks like the macedonian flag

Haha, new druid forms are full of win. If I'd ever factionchange my druid, it's gonna be troll all the way. Those bears are just psychadelic.

Originally Posted by Harazi

I read on another site about the Leviathan mob, supposedly it's ridiculously huge ... anyone have any idea of it's comparative size?

I'm guessing from the relative look...well, remember the place in Darkshore that was a giant skull with a sword sticking out of it...kind looks like it would belong to the same creature

Originally Posted by mofi

garroshs updated form looks awesome but the troll druid forms are kinda weird

Garrosh's model looks the same as the leaked image on the Garrosh toy. http://www.figures.com/forums/attach...orcwarrior.jpg Anyway, its not spikes and metal, but then again, the Maghar orcs never were about that...those were signs of the demonic tainted horde. And as for the troll models, I think trolls look weird as hell anyways, so the druid forms are oddly fitting.

Originally Posted by Gractan

from worldofraids.com...
Horde

* Garrosh Hellscream is the new Warchief and has reinforced Orgrimmar and many Horde outposts around Azeroth with dark iron. He's also reclaimed Gorehowl -- his father's weapon -- and now wields it.
* Thrall was captured by SI:7 (and it looks like Garrosh actually set that up), to be later rescued by the Goblins during their new player experience.
* Cairne Bloodhoof was poisoned by Magatha Grimtotem and is now dead.
* Baine Bloodhoof is now the leader of the Tauren race in Thunderbluff (those that are part of the Horde).
* The Forsaken went against Garrosh's wishes and released a plague on Gilneas, killing most of its inhabitants. Sylvannas is expected to be further in the dog house once Garrosh learns of this.
* The Horde have, thanks to Goblin ingenuity, built "The Bomb" -- a weapon of mass destruction -- and unleash it on a night elf village in Stonetalon Mountains. Garrosh, displeased with the slaughter of innocent people, kills the general who ordered the bomb to be dropped.

This Horde lore makes a LOT more sense than the stuff that Boub was posting from earlier leaks. Garrosh may be a bit of an arrogant idiot, but some of the stuff he'd been portrayed as doing earlier was borderline psychotic and made the Horde look like Nazi Germany on speed. This has a lot of the same elements, but portrays Garrosh as maybe a bit arrogant, and maybe in a bit over his head, but not a mad man. Definitely a better overall storyline (Not that Blizzard can be blamed for the "old story", since it was mostly guess work on the part of fansites).

Originally Posted by Cirque

Haha, new druid forms are full of win. If I'd ever factionchange my druid, it's gonna be troll all the way. Those bears are just psychadelic.

Agree...I wasn't going to faction change my druid but the troll forms are great.

Ok, so Blizzard was talking about trying to stop the gear from growing at such rapid speeds during the winter. So I grinded pretty much the bes ICC gear, spent half a year on Shadowmourne, desperatly hoping that I wouldn't need to degrade myself with heroic items and now, this. THAT EPIC POLEAXE HAS TWICE THE FUCKING DPS OF SHADOWMOURNE >_>

I spy with my little eye an epic alchemists stone

Hmm...now this raven npc model is interesting. If I remember correctly, the raven was a sign of Medivh. Maybe we'll see our favorite Guardian in the flesh in this expansion?

oh god my eyes, look at those hideous troll druid forms

Originally Posted by Gractan

I'm guessing from the relative look...well, remember the place in Darkshore that was a giant skull with a sword sticking out of it...kind looks like it would belong to the same creature

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Holy hell you're right, didn't even think of that. Freaky ... wonder if we fight the thing ....

It looks like Loch Modan is now part of the Twilight Highlands? Clearly that's the old loch in the lower left corner, and a new lake in the Wetlands.

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Light Elementium Chestguard

Hmmm... Intellect + Hit rating... makes me think

Originally Posted by daxen

can i get a beta invite if my world of warcraft account is frozen?

mep!!

Originally Posted by Lightbane

Ok, so Blizzard was talking about trying to stop the gear from growing at such rapid speeds during the winter. So I grinded pretty much the bes ICC gear, spent half a year on Shadowmourne, desperatly hoping that I wouldn't need to degrade myself with heroic items and now, this. THAT EPIC POLEAXE HAS TWICE THE FUCKING DPS OF SHADOWMOURNE >_>

You didn't really expect shadowmourne to surpass level 85 epics, even at the lowest item level, did you? Now for the level 81 two handed sword, thats a bit crazy.