WotLK beta infos. Options

[Oddies da Nerfed]

Not only am I in WAR beta, but I managed to end up in the WotLK beta as well. With WAR servers down in preparation for 4.1 goodies I have had more time to play with lich king. Most my experiences sofar are with my now 61 death knight. Sofar the DK has been quite fun with each tree being useful and varied from eachother. Hard to pick just one to roll with. I will throw some mroe info in there about DK and northrend as I get time to write stuff up, because play time > write time.

[Scan_Man]

Nice info dude!

I read today they added "phasing' to the game. Basically, it makes the world seem more dynamic because the world will change bassed on your progression. You are actually in a seperate copy of the world, kind like a world instance, than others who have not made as far as you. I think this is awesome. Its also one of the best features Lord of the Rings Online (first done somewhat in Guild Wars) has. However:

"If you progress in a story to a new phase, you are removed from the previous one making you unable to see or help players in the earlier version. So far most areas that use phasing technology have 2 or 3 phases, and each of them are sufficiently long (or short) to make sure there is enough players in each phase to allow player interaction."

Seems Blizzard has not fully looked at what Lord of Rings Online did to fix not being able to go back and help players in the earlier version. What Turbine did was allow you to tag along with players if you group (level 1-5 intro being the exception) with them if you have completed a part they have not. Also there is an NPC to allow you to jump to any part of the epic quest line you have completed so you can help friends catch up.

Overall though I really like this feature because if its any like on Lord of the Rings Online it will really give a boost to the level of storyline immersion.

[Oddies da Nerfed]

Only place I have seen it added sofar is the DK starting area. It is possible they will add it to ice crown shall see. The area chats are still linked for questions/talking. It does certainly add a nice flair to the DK starting areas. Now if they just tell us why we have to go to outland beyond the fact we just need 10 more levels for northrend.