The scene couldn’t be more boring. It’s from Saturday that I want to take various hours just to catch up with what’s happening in the blogosphere because I’ve still old stuff to comment and discussions to push forward (instead I played WoW full time and I’ll write an update to my “guide to instances” soon). Maybe today I’ll write more of the stuff noone wants to read.
In the meantime there’s “news” about World of Warcraft. But they appeared on the wrong (european) website while the american forums died again, so maybe you didn’t see them.
The first news is a preview from an upcoming instance, “Dire Maul“. It’s for level 55+, in Feralas and it will offer a different type of content. Or at least it’s what they state:
– Dire Maul consists of three separate wings ranging in difficulty from level 56 to 60.
– There are many ways to complete the quests located in Dire Maul, and the decisions a party makes along the way will directly influence the potential rewards.
– In recent years, rumors have surfaced of an ancient arena within Dire Maul’s courtyard where unique creatures were once fought for sport.
– Adventurers will find that the occupants of Dire Maul possess many rare and epic weapons, armors, and profession recipes never before seen on Azeroth.
I’m happy to see that if “more content” has to be, at least it will offer something different. I hope the game will keep going in this direction.
The second news is about two test servers entering the US realms:
Two new public test realms are being introduced in the U.S. to help us test future changes that are going into World of Warcraft. These realms will supplement the ongoing QA process already in place internally. We are deploying these test realms so that we can gather valuable feedback on various test issues in a closed environment without having these issues adversely affect our general audience.
No other details about them. I was hoping to see something different even on this aspect. At least incentives for the players to be helpful and a better relationship between devs and testers.
More specific news:
However, this initial testing phase requires characters between the levels of 55 and 60 in order to properly test the content and functionality for the next patch. Email invitations have been sent out to a random set of players who meet these qualifications. Their level 55 to 60 characters have been copied to the test realm and will be waiting for them when they log in for the first time.
I’m still only level 51. I guess I’m not enough catass :)
(This idea to write the news about the US on the european site and vice versa is really awesome. Keep going)