I hope many of the World of Warcraft fans are very excited by the upcoming expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.
One of the main features in this expansion is the introduction of Hero Classes.
The first Hero Classes to be introduced in Wrath of the Lich King is the Death Knight. As we know that the death knight is a powerful user of necromantic skills. One of the famous Death Knight in the Warcraft universe is Arthas. Arthas was a paladin who became a death knight and terrorised Azeroth and Northrend, eventually fused with the spirit of Nel’zhul and became the Lich King.
So you might be wondering how to we play the Death Knight? Detailed information have not been released by Blizzard yet, but you will need to meet certain criteria before this Hero Class is unlocked. Once unlocked, you are able to create a new character under the Death Knight class.
As the name suggested, it sounds like a Warrior class, but definitely more cool.
These are some characteristics of the Death Knight class:
- It can fulfill either the DPS build or the tanking build.
- Able to dual-weld weapons or handle a single 2H weapon. Shield is not necessary. =)
- Plate armour (how to tank with a mail armour?)
- Different from Warriors as Death Knights are more casting oriented, with summoning spells, etc.
- Unlocked through specified quests and interaction with Arthas.
- Start off at relatively high level, 55 to 70 (unconfirmed yet)
- Use the Rune Resource System, which runes are carved on the weapons.
- Runes belongs to the following 3 schools, Blood, Frost and Unholy.
Currently, details of classes that are able to unlock the Death Knight is unavailable, but both Horde and Alliance are able to unlock this class.
Minor map update by IceFrog.
* Fixed Furion’s Treant stats
* Fixed the neutral creep spawn time in -rd
* Fixed how Psi Blades damage spill area is calculated (149031)
* Undid some of the previous Primal Split duration buff
* Fixed a bug in -sc
* Improved Leoric cast animation time
* Fixed a bug with morphling in -sh
* Improved some issues with Omnislash
* Lowered Null Talisman recipe cost from 175 to 150
* Temporarily disabled the leaver freeze functionality until next version (too many issues, not enough time while its being abused)
* Fixed a bug with Nature’s Attendants
* Fixed a bug with Grapple and Aegis
* Improved text presentation a little with swaphero
* Fixed a bug with Earthshaker and picking up DD rune
You can download from FileFront or getdota.com.
The Chinese won 3 out of 5 gold medals at the Asian World Cyber Games 07, held at Singapore for the past few days. The Chinese won the DotA Allstars, FIFA 07 and Dead of Alive 4. Singapore bagged 1 silver and a bronze.
This year WCG is certainly more fun. Cosplay is part of the event, and if you are there, you can see people dressing up as games or anime characters.
For the DotA replays, you can visit GG-game and download the replays.
While the World Cyber Games Asian Championship is going on, IceFrog has released DotA version 6.46 for the masses.
The change log is as follows:
- Reduced overall bandwidth used in games
- Fixed a big exploit
- Improved Waaagh!TV compatibility
- Fixed a potential issue in -dmar and respawning
- Fixed a bug with the recent recoding of Death Pulse that causes it to hit invisible units
- Lots of internal coding improvements to get it to a stable state
- Reduced Greater Hawk’s movement speed
- Added a timer in -rd/-xl/-lm to show you how much time you have left to pick your hero
- Fixed various fatal error potential issues
- Fixed Land Mines doing a little less damage than advertised
- Fixed a bug with Battle Hunger that caused it to sometimes fail to detect the hero killing with a couple abilities
- You can now disassemble Helm of the Dominator (157261)
- Rewrote how swaphero works, all old glitches with swaphero are now fixed (You can use -swap instead of -swaphero as well). You can now also select more than one hero to swap with.
- Fixed a bug that changed Bloodseeker’s model scale up
- Fixed Suicide Squad, Attack! from killing wards
- Improved Medusa’s Intelligence Growth
- Lots of misc glitches fixed
- Added new icons for Reincarnation, Berserker’s Blood, Life Break, Remote Mines and Conjure Image (142075, snork, eva00r)
- Fixed a workaround that still allowed flying courier to steal base items
- Fixed some buff stacking issues with Malefice
- Changed Rabid icon
- Improved some lag problems that happened with nature’s attendants
- Fixed a bug with Enchant that sometimes caused it to slow the converted unit
- Fixed Wall of Replica from working on Meepo’s clones
- Added overhead text to show how much damage Test of Faith does
- Lowered Replicate mana cost
- Adjusted Tree Respawn code to not respawn if a hero is standing near it, as to not accidentally trap it.
- Fixed a bug with BKB that caused heroes with full ability card (like nevermore) to lose access to one ability during Avatar if done in a certain order.
- Fixed some lag problems with various abilities
- Added an ability to the Circle of Power to allow you to freeze an allied hero that has left the game (to prevent him from being killed due to things like Thundergod’s Wrath)
- Fixed a bug with Spirit Bear in -dm with -nd on that caused the bear to not restore the bear’s items (this is only a bug with -nd)
- Lightning Grapple no longer pulls creeps (temporary solution for some creep abuse, better ai will be attached in the future so they can resume their path properly)
- Fixed an exploit that is possible with Surge
- Fixed Arcane Orb from dealing bonus damage to Warlock’s Infernal
- Fixed a bug with stun chance on level 1-3 Chaos Bolt
- Fixed Vacuum from working on BKB’d units
You can download the map directly from Filefront or from getdota.com.
As expected, Wrath of the Lich King is announced in BlizzCon. Whenever Blizzard announces new stuffs, it gets the gaming world in awe. Starcraft II was announced weeks ago, and here comes the World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.
World of Warcraft : Wrath of the Lich King is the second expansion to the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft. Since its release in November 2004, the subscriber base has reached more than 9 millions to date, making it the most popular MMORPG.
New features to Wrath of the Lich King
- Level cap rised to Level 80
- More talents, skills and items
- Customise your character, including new hairstyles, dances and etc.
- New continent to explore, Northrend, the home of the Lich King.
- New profession which allows you enhance your skills, “Inscription“.
- New battlegrounds and arenas.
- New 5-man dungeons, 10-man and 25-man raids.
- New epic siege warfare for your deployment for destruction of buildings.
- New Hero Class, Death Knight
Watch the Wrath of the Lich King trailer here!
The expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, is already available for public testing during the BlizzCon. Hence it is already at a playable stage where tweaks and balances need to be sorted out before releasing it to the public with a boom. The release date of Wrath of the Lich King has not been announced, but the earliest we can deduced might be early next year.
It will be an exciting year 2008, with Starcraft II and Wrath of the Lich King imminent for release. Check out GameBlog for more update on Wrath of the Lich King.
