World of Warcraft Expansion Announced

October 28, 2005 9:44 AM

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Blizzard has opened The Burning Crusade page on their World of Warcraft website, confirming that this is the title for the game's first expansion pack. The MMORPG expansion will increase the level cap to 70, add two new playable races one of which will be the Blood Elves, a new continent, new high-level dungeons, new flying mounts and much more. You can find a five minute long trailer on FileShack.

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IGN has a three page preview of the expansion while also taking a look at the upcoming 1.9 patch.

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Dynotaku

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October 28, 2005 9:46 AM

So how come all the expansion pack announcements mention the Blood Elves specifically, but not the Alliance race? What race is it? The Jerk-Bags or something? The Dirty Unmentionables?
- AbortedFetusChristi
  
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  October 28, 2005 9:48 AM
  
  you are thinking of the *shudder* blood elves.
  the other one can't possibly be worse, so they are probably saving the best for last.
  - mittense
    
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    October 28, 2005 9:52 AM
    
    *shrug*
    
    I love the idea of the added Blood Elves for the Horde. Mostly because I've always wanted to play Night Elf, but all my friends were of the Horde variety.
    - andy5000
      
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      October 28, 2005 3:49 PM
      
      THEY ARE BLOOD ELF, GEEZZ
- MrLonghair
  
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  October 28, 2005 9:51 AM
  
  one of the many rumors went that they were going to give Pandaren to alliance but that it wouldnt work for the chinese market, so they scrapped those plans.
  
  I frankly have no idea right now. Dranei is the only new alliance race I can think of, and it would make some sense if we look at the lore.
  - Chod
    
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    October 28, 2005 9:53 AM
    
    Yeah but Blizzard hasn't exactly been great with going off previous lore as of late like the Blood Elves.
  - Dynotaku
    
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    October 28, 2005 10:05 AM
    
    What's wrong with playing as a gaint Panda in China?
    - malloc
      
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      October 28, 2005 10:14 AM
      
      horde gets to kill them
- FTY
  
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  October 28, 2005 10:06 AM
  
  Probably Pandaren, as there was some screenshots floating around of the character selection screen horde with bloodelfs & alliance with pandaren. Those screens were then banned by Blizzard.
  - Str8Dog
    
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    October 28, 2005 10:10 AM
    
    that particular screen shot was of the char selection screen and the genral concensus is it was photoshoped.. here it is for you to judge..
    
    http://www.str8dog.com/images/whawah/29003263277.jpg
    - Crimsonbeak
      
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      October 28, 2005 3:52 PM
      
      fake solely because they would never let Blood Elves be priests.
      - kek
        
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        October 28, 2005 5:49 PM
        
        Sure they would. Priests use magic, blood elves are addicted to magic. You're telling me that a face-melting blood elf shadow priest would be out of the question?
- Dorf
  
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  October 28, 2005 10:16 AM
  
  Well since they added in the blood elves for the Horde to attract people who wanted to be both evil and cute, I would think they would go with an ugly race for the Alliance, just to set things right. I'm thinking Orcish Faeries, a breed somewhere between a normal faerie and an Orc. They look like a normal faerie with wings only they have a horendously ugly body. They can't really fly as well as true faeries, so instead they simply hover across the ground. Their main racial ability is Annoy, which is passive as they'll find an annoying sound effect that loops while moving that sounds like "faerie dust falling from their wings" and gives all NPCs a 50% chance, rolled every 5 secs for every NPC within 10 yards, to attack them just to shut them the fuck up.
  
  Seriously though, I was hoping for Ogres or something for the Horde.
- pyide
  
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  October 28, 2005 11:17 AM
  
  murlocs
  - stump
    
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    October 28, 2005 11:22 AM
    
    This would be so awesome. I love their cackling.
  - pyide
    
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    October 28, 2005 11:22 AM
    
    actually, i'm curious too, why don't they tell us ffs?
- RikiTiki2
  
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  October 28, 2005 11:49 AM
  
  blizzard should just use the high elves still in the alliance as the alliance race.
  
  it allows them to reuse the character models
  - Geoffrois
    
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    October 28, 2005 3:07 PM
    
    Yeah this game needs more elves!
  - algernoN8
    
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    October 28, 2005 3:41 PM
    
    I thought all the elves in the Alliance went all emo and turned into bloodelves
- Downforce
  
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  October 28, 2005 5:57 PM
  
  It will just vault the Alliance to an even bigger ratio overall.
  
  Let's hope they get.... NOTHING