Blizzard launches the next beta version of its upcoming online game.
Blizzard Entertainment has launched the next phase of its beta test for World of Warcraft, its upcoming online game based on the developer's Warcraft fantasy universe. The new version of the beta includes all the game's playable races, including the races of the "Alliance" (humans, night elves, gnomes, and dwarves) and the races of the "Horde" (orcs, trolls, tauren, and undead). The updated beta also introduces the new druid class for testers, as well as numerous additions, like the "rest state," which provides an experience bonus for fresh adventurers who are just starting to hunt monsters, and actually levies an experience "fatigue" penalty against players who fight monsters nonstop. Also featured are inns, hearthstone items that let players return to their home locations, and various changes and additions to each individual character class.
News source: GameSpot
Blizzard Entertainment has launched the next phase of its beta test for World of Warcraft, its upcoming online game based on the developer's Warcraft fantasy universe. The new version of the beta includes all the game's playable races, including the races of the "Alliance" (humans, night elves, gnomes, and dwarves) and the races of the "Horde" (orcs, trolls, tauren, and undead). The updated beta also introduces the new druid class for testers, as well as numerous additions, like the "rest state," which provides an experience bonus for fresh adventurers who are just starting to hunt monsters, and actually levies an experience "fatigue" penalty against players who fight monsters nonstop. Also featured are inns, hearthstone items that let players return to their home locations, and various changes and additions to each individual character class.
News source: GameSpot
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CD / DVD Burn
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Led by the banshee-queen Sylvanas, the Forsaken are an Undead faction that split violently with the Scourge during the Third War. Knowing that no Human agency would ever give them shelter or aid against the Scourge, now their hated enemy, they turned to the savage Horde, based across the sea in the distant land of Kalimdor, for assistance. To convince the Horde to allow the Forsaken into their alliance, the Undead ambassadors claimed that they merely sought a cure for their degenerative condition, which they believed that only the powers of shamanism and the life-giving energies of the earth could provide. In exchange for the shamans' healing aid, the Forsaken vowed to support the Horde in all of its ventures throughout Lordaeron and Azeroth. Having done battle with the Undead on many occasions, Orc warchief Thrall and Tauren chieftain Cairne Bloodhoof of the Horde were immediately suspicious of the Forsaken's motives. However, due to growing political tensions, the warriors acquiesced to a council of sages known as The Earthen Ring. The council argued that it was the Horde's duty to aid the Forsaken, who wrestled with inner demons just as the Orcs had for generations. Though Thrall and Cairne secretly suspect the worst, it remains to be seen what Sylvanas and her fanatical Forsaken have planned....
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