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Death Knight restrictions lifted in WOW News

MMO PC News by Oli Welsh

21 January, 2009

World of Warcraft is patched today - yesterday in the US - with a raft of substantial changes including the lifting of restrictions on the creation of Death Knights, adjustments to the Wintergrasp player-versus-player zone, major class changes, 3D support and the introduction of a black President.

Death Knights can now be created on any server, regardless of whether the player has a character over level 55 on that particular server - as long as he or she has one somewhere. This was how the system was originally intended to work, but Blizzard wisely waited for the dust to settle on the new class first.

The Wintergrasp player-versus-player zone in the new continent of Northrend receives a wide range of tweaks intended to improve its pace, balance and reward. There are extensive class changes, with Death Knights, Druids and Hunters getting the most attention. Blizzard has also added a swanky new game launcher, and even support for Nvidia's new 3D imaging technology.

There's tons more, including the lifting of racial restrictions on which mounts you can use, very important but quite boring mechanical changes to bonus armour, reputation rewards and dispell resistance, and an easing off of death penalties - with more graveyards and faster travel, graveyard runs should be more painless than before.

You can read the full patch notes at the US WOW site, since the European one is down for maintenance.

The patch has been hit with problems in the US. Wintergrasp battles have been taken offline after crashing the world server and Death Knight restrictions haven't been lifted for everyone, according to WOW Insider.

Consequently we wouldn't be surprised if you have to wait a little longer than the scheduled server restart time of 10am GMT to see the effects of the patch in Europe.

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YobRenoops
21/01/09 @ 10:08
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World of Snorecraft.
Oli [staff]
21/01/09 @ 10:10
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I was wrong - servers up now. No problems with Death Knight creation for me.
LFace
21/01/09 @ 10:11
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Patch downloading as slow as treacle currently...
niacin
21/01/09 @ 10:13
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3D? Ok i want to try that but I don't want to fork out for a new monitor and the glasses, sigh another thing to put on the when i win the lottery list.
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21/01/09 @ 10:17
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Our server (Argent Dawn EU) is losing raiders like crazy as Naxx is completely unusable whenever wintergrasp is up.

No sign of a fix for it either.
bigbadbeasty
21/01/09 @ 10:24
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@ farticusmaximus

I'm on Argent Dawn too. The server queues are what kill me :)
Slipstream
21/01/09 @ 10:37
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Patch at 20% ZzZzZ
bigbadbeasty
21/01/09 @ 10:38
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It is only a 56mb patch. Probably worth downloading elsewhere...
kestral
21/01/09 @ 10:47
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finally i can make me DKs
farticusmaximus
21/01/09 @ 10:54
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@bigbadbeasty

Been getting bad lately hasnt it? Havent seen queues on AD for a long time.
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21/01/09 @ 11:09
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Im on AD too, not found the queues too bad, but then again i usually only get to play at silly hours, never on at peak " home from work" time.
Chimpy
21/01/09 @ 11:15
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I believe there are fixes in 3.0.8 for Wintergrasp and Naxxramas lag.
FooAtari
21/01/09 @ 11:36
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/is going to roll a DK tonight.
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kestral
21/01/09 @ 13:36
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meh can't make DK yet restrictions not lifted :( edit: ah depends on the server - newest ones dont work?
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FooAtari
22/01/09 @ 11:32
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I couldn't create a DK, is there some different way to create them
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27/01/09 @ 12:09
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not being able to make more than one per server is still bullshit tbh.
Its not a hero class. its balanced around the other classes so the only heroic thing is skipping 55 levels :/

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