Quote:Your participation in races around most stage of 25 characters on the public Testrealms in March 2006 has you a place in the beta test to World OF Warcraft: The Burning Crusade secured. We will inform you and to you further information will dispatch, how you can participate in the beta test, as soon as the phase begins, in which the winners of the competitions participate may.

Congratulations!

Quote:I have to admit, Google's translation tools just get better and better. I ran that German through the translator:
Cute!

-Bolty

Quote:Congrats!:) We expect lots of non-NDA-violating reports about the beta!

Quote:Thanks. Here's the first one: Your tier 3 set from Naxxramas will be trash can fodder once you reach level 70;)

Quote:Thanks. Here's the first one: Your tier 3 set from Naxxramas will be trash can fodder once you reach level 70;)

Quote:I've actually wondered about that. Tier 3 gear has item levels between 86 and 92+ (not sure what the level on the rings are since thott doesn't seem to have any of them listed). Normally, level requirements are determined by subtracting 5 from the item level, so this gives us 81-87. Since this is (way) above the level cap, the required level is reduced to 60 so that current characters can actually wear them.

I can't see them changing the level requirements on existing items when they change the level cap, but will new items follow the old rules? If this ends up being the case, you might not see better gear until you hit the new cap since Tier 3 is already 10+ levels above even the new level 70 cap.

Note that this would apply to all dropped gear. Quest reward gear, on the other hand, often does not have a level requirement at all. Instead, it uses the level requirement of the quest itself to prevent lowbies from obtaining leet gear. If they go back to the old level requirement rules, I can see dropped gear becoming essentially useless from 60-69 with quest gear perhaps stepping up to fill this void. Or, Blizzard could completely change the gear scaling curves in the 60-70 range so that the rate of stat inflation increases even more :blink:

Quote:Looks like we could be as soon as 3 weeks away from beta.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...p=1#post9341971
Tseric
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anyway, any chance you can let us know when you might start going into more details on the expansion regarding the classes.
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Closer towards Beta. If I had to ETA it, I would say we'll be talking about new abilities and spells in about 3 weeks, mebbe less.

Quote:I've actually wondered about that. Tier 3 gear has item levels between 86 and 92+ (not sure what the level on the rings are since thott doesn't seem to have any of them listed). Normally, level requirements are determined by subtracting 5 from the item level, so this gives us 81-87. Since this is (way) above the level cap, the required level is reduced to 60 so that current characters can actually wear them.

Quote:I'm gonna suspect castille means the redesign of the paladin and shaman classes, not the Burning Crusade expansion. :w00t:

As for socketed items: I'm gonna suggest it's quite possible that sockets could actually be paid for with itemization points, meaning that socketed items might have fewer stats than non-socketed items, with the expectation that you will be tailoring the rest of the socketed item to match your specific needs.

That obviously doesn't go toward Nobbie's statement that level 70 gear will completely blow away level 60 tier 3 gear. But it is a possibility.

Quote:Thanks. Here's the first one: Your tier 3 set from Naxxramas will be trash can fodder once you reach level 70;)

Quote:Hint: Having a tier 3 set from Naxxramas will make it faster for you to get the level 70 items that will let you toss your tier 3 set from Naxxramas into the trash can.

Quote:Speaking of which, how is your Naxx progress? Any chance of a Neriad does Naxx thread?

Quote:Based on a Tseric post I expect Tier 3 to be a sidegrade to 70 standard group gear, so it'll probably remain useful right up until you get into BC's end game (especially if group gear is budgeted in less raid-friendly ways). Whether that standard group gear will be blue or purple or hazel and how much of it's power will come from sockets I have no idea. (I'm using the term 'standard group' rather than 'small group' because of the hints at an elder game for small groups.)

Do you think Naxx will still be run post expansion? Seems a terrible waste if not.

Quote:#1 request:

PLEASE... if it doesn't violate any NDA, clue us in on the new races' mounts.