Monday, August 24, 2009

Cataclysm

The news are old news already, since it has been two or three days now - the next WoW expansion has been announced: Cataclysm. It will not be a new world like in TBC or WotLK, but instead only some new zones in Azeroth and Eastern Kingdoms, and - and this is the big one - every single one of the old zones will be reworked, since the story is the Deathwing has wrecked havoc with the old world, and death and chaos is everywhere. Torn earth, magma streams, floods, you name it. With it comes flying in the old world.

This also means that all quests and quests NPCs get revisited, since this change is not accomplished via phasing, but with a real reworking of the old continent, so everyone, even those who do not buy the expansion, will get the reworked zones. I wonder what this means for achievements such as Explorer or Loremaster... also, since I never got around to some of it or since it really has been a while, I will now finally level my alliance paladin to endgame and try to get my low level horde druid to reasonable levels as well...