Blizzard managed to get the World of Warcraft community more excited again by their announcement of the next expansion, Cataclysm. But it looks like it’s not only Azeroth that gets blown up by the Cataclysm. Blizzcon ‘09 announced some major changes that will make you ask “Mommy, what happened to Soul Shards, Hunter mana and the gear stats?” Well in a sense they got blown up!
New Soul Shard System
Just the other day Gjhostcrawler made a comment that the new soul shard system they’re working on will be cool and interesting. Shards will be a core mechanic of the Warlock class …read more

Once again it’s time to hear what Ghostcrawler and the rest of the development team have to say about the World of Warcraft classes moving forward. We’ve seen the Q&A feature for the Shaman, Mage and Death Knight in the past. Now it’s time for the Warlock Q&A.
In the mage Q&A, the devs mentioned that they’re planning to make mages and warlocks feel less similar and that since they’re happy with where mages stand right now from a design perspective, warlocks will be the class that would be drifting away. Ghostcrawler said that the soul shard system is the area …read more

I’ve recently been spending much of my non-raiding time in World of Warcraft leveling my warlock alt so I can get him to 80 as soon as possible. Some disappointment with my mage alt’s damage output has pushed me to level this warlock in hope that he’ll do better than my mage. Whether that’s going to happen or not has yet to be seen. In any case, I’ve had a lot of fun playing him again.
He was around level 64 when I decided to play him more seriously again and he just hit 70 this morning, which I’m quite happy …read more

Zavex from the Cenarion Circle realm says he’s been playing Warcraft 3 a lot lately and thinks that the Necromancer is a core class missing from Warcraft lore and would be nice to include th class in the game. As I would have expected, Blizzard CM Nethaera shot the idea down for now.
We have many interesting classes that we could implement, but like all things, we needed to decide which classes would be the most interesting and capable of being robust additions to the game from the start. The Necromancer is one class that has been in consideration before. Who …read more