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WOW: Call of the Crusade patch today News
MMO PC News by Oli Welsh
World of Warcraft is updated to patch 3.2, otherwise known as Call of the Crusade, on European servers this morning after appearing in the US yesterday.
Call of the Crusade introduces a new short raid and heroic dungeon at the Crusaders' Coliseum, an 80-player keep-capture battleground called the Isle of Conquest, and - in a major change - the ability level your character in player-versus-player battlegrounds or turn off experience gain altogether.
The Argent Tournament series of quests and challenges introduced in the last patch is expanded, druids get fancy new graphics for their cat and bear forms, and mounts (including "epic" and flying mounts) will now be available to levelling characters much earlier and cheaper.
You can read the headlines and patch notes over at the American WOW site while you wait for European servers to be put back online - which should be at 2pm in the UK, 3pm in central Europe.
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Comments: 1-24 of 24 in total
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Also woo @ stupid twinkers being seperated from normal people in battlegrounds. The 51-60 bracket in Alterac Valley has been an absolute disaster for the Alliance in the last few weeks because of an army of stupidly geared up Horde regulars.
As someone who likes battleground PvP with no interest in this kind of outrageous behaviour, this update is game changing and I expect I will love it so much more.
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thebuzzard
05/08/09 @ 08:11
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The real new content of the patch is the battleground, suprised they called it Call of the Crusade when the Coliseum is just filler content. Does look fun though.
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Also this:
"As we've already discussed, we’re in the process of developing a new service for World of Warcraft that will allow players to change their faction from Alliance to Horde or Horde to Alliance. To prepare for this new service, we've removed the restriction that prevents players from creating both Horde and Alliance characters on a PvP realm" I sense a lot of angry level 1 alt making by ganking victims.
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Maybe an article is due on how Blizzard is producing less content as time goes by. Think about it:
Original WoW Raids: Onyxia, Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Ahn Qiraj Ruins, Ahn Qiraj Temple, Zul gurub, Naxxramas Burning Crusade Raids: Karazhan, Gruul's Lair, Magtheridon, Mount Hyjal, Coilfang Reservoir, Tempest Keep Eye, Black Temple, Zul aman, Sunwell And for Wrath? Naxxramas - already in original WoW, so just retuned boss fights Ulduar - no complaints, genuine raid instance Malygos - Onyxia style fight, single room Obsidian Sanctum Onyxia style fight, single room Coliseum - guess what... |
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I hope updating the textures for Druid forms is going to be continued on a larger scale. As it is, only the Draenei and Blood Elf races look visually feasible, while other races now look far too dated. Might be an idea to spend development time on updating race textures before introducing any new ones.
"True... the WoW-addicts keep on playing/paying anyway. Maybe they are moving some of their better team members to the new MMO while they milk WoW?" Exactly. The lack of content is ridiculous, but of course since Blizzard are so far ahead of any rivals they can afford to be lazy buggers and send half their development team to work on something else.
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spudsbuckley
05/08/09 @ 13:29
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Lack of content? Are you people insane?
Compare WoW to any other current MMO and the only one that comes close on content is EVE. |
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poopmonster
05/08/09 @ 13:41
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"Compare WoW to any other current MMO and the only one that comes close on content is EVE."
Everquest 1 |
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spudsbuckley
05/08/09 @ 13:57
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"Everquest 1"
Shame that Everquest sucks balls.
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@Gurgeh
Maybe an article is due on how Blizzard is producing less content as time goes by. Perhaps you should wait untill WotLK is finished before trying to compare the amount of content? I believe that Molten Core was the only raid that WoW launched with. Black Temple, Zul aman and the Sunwell were released well into Burning Crusade. Gruul's Lair and Magtheridon are also Onyxia style fights. Unless they've announced that with 3.2 WotLK is ended and I missed it then it's too early to compare. |
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spudsbuckley
05/08/09 @ 14:24
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The feeling of exploration kind of goes away after your first run of a raid meaning that a large dungeon becomes a boring slog during repeated attempts which will occur if you're farming for gear/badges.
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@spudsbuckley: I am comparing the content being issued in this expansion with the previous expansion and the original game post release (although you should probably scrub Molten Core and Onyxia from the comparison as they were done before release). Whichever way you dice it, there's been much less content this expansion than before.
@sneetch: Blizzard have already said they are only planning one more raid this expansion, Icecrown Citadel. That will make 2 full raids compared to 5 post WoW release and 5 or 6 in TBC. |
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spudsbuckley
05/08/09 @ 14:45
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Blame Diablo 3, i reckon.
They need to time the release of WoW stuff very carefully with D3 coming out as well this year. Don't want to fuck up either of the playerbases. |
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I love the patch because they fixed one of my main annoyances: You can now see the sale price of items in the popup even when not interacting with a vendor. No longer will I stand in the middle of a zone and wonder which of three different grey loot items will actually bring some coin.
Death Knight flying mount is still 950 gold though. :( |
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poopmonster
06/08/09 @ 09:01
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"No longer will I stand in the middle of a zone and wonder which of three different grey loot items will actually bring some coin."
Auctioneer...go to curse.com |
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