World of Warcraft : Cataclysm en 2010 - Primeras imágenes, trailer y vídeos

Como era de esperar, Blizzard Entertainment se ha beneficiado de la ceremonia de apertura de la BlizzCon 2009, para presentar la nueva ampliación para su exitoso MMO, World of Warcraft.

Posteriormente el propio CEO de Blizzard Entertainment, Mike Morhaime, ha confirmado durante una entrevista a Wow.com, que el juego estará disponible en 2010, pero no nos proporcionan informacion mas concreta sobre cuando vamos a poder visitar las ruinas del paisaje de Azeroth, una vez se ponga a la venta World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.

Como su propio nombre indica, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm supondrá un verdadero cataclismo en el universo de WoW, con la destrucción de muchas zonas existentes, nuevas razas como los Goblincs o Worgens y el aumento de nivel a 85 niveles, ademas de incluir nuevas y atractivas combinaciones de razas.

Aunque de momento no disponemos de mucha mas información, Blizzard ha difundido las primeras imágenes de la expansión y un vídeo con la presentación de varias de las mejoras que serán incluidas en el juego.

Features of Cataclysm:

New Profession:
Archaeology

New race and class combos:
Undead Hunter
Human Hunter
Night Elf Mage
Blood Elf Warrior
Tauren Paladins
Gnome Priest
Dwarf Shaman

Class Changes:
Hunters will no longer use intellect, neither do Enhancement Shamans. Spirit will no longer be useful to Mages or Warlocks. Tanks will be “defence capped” (in realty: crit capped) by default through talents rather than needing specific gearing. More on this as the expansion draws closer.

Warlock shards will be gone from your backpack – you will burn a shard when you need a boost or a special ability – it’s like a cooldown multiplier. Examples of such bonuses given were potentially guaranteed crit or instant cast Soulfire.
New PVP zone:

Tol Barad, set on an island. Horde and Alliance fight for map control and access to a prison. It’s described as like the Isle of Quel’Danas when it’s inactive, and like Wintergrasp when the battle for the zone is underway.

There will be a new Battle for Gilneas battleground, new arena maps, and most importantly, rated battlegrounds that allow players to build their rating “and access same type of gear as arena.”

Key stats on items:
Defence, attack power, spellpower, mana per five, armour penetration are all gone: replaced by core stats – such as agility, strength, intellect and spirit.

Dungeons and Raids:
- More endgame content than ever before
- The Firelands: go into elemental plane
- Blackrock Caverns will be a new level-up dungeon in Blackrock Spire
- Grim Batol will be home to a level up dungeon and a raid instance
- Skywall – also a level up dungeon and a raid instance
- Level 85 Heroic Deadmines and Heroic Shadowfang Keep: new fights, new creatures, new abilities

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