Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King

Welcome back to Ask a Beta Tester, where we answer your questions about the Wrath of the Lich King beta! We had quite a few questions regarding the multi-passenger mounts coming in Wrath, so we’ll mostly focus on those. That’s not all we have today, but most of it. Our first question is from JPN…

What does the tooltip mean for the Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth where it says it carries vendors?

It means just that! It comes with two vendors. One sells reagents (including poisons) and the other sell trade supplies, like thread and parchment. The trade supplies vendor also sells some statless fashion clothing.

If you’re not using the vendors and want to let your buddies hop on, there will be an Eject button to throw the vendors off and make room for your friends. And yes, only people in your party or raid can get on your vehicles. No random strangers will be jumping on your mammoth or motorcycle.

Continue reading Ask a Beta Tester: Multi-passenger mounts and Enchanting

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Filed under: Wrath of the Lich King, Achievements

Like most Wrath beta patches, build 8962 comes packing new achievements. This patch doesn’t have a massive list like some previous builds, but what it does have is pretty cool:

• Leading the Cavalry – Obtain 75 mounts, be rewarded with an Albino Drake.
• For the Alliance! – Slay the leaders of the Horde, be rewarded with a Black War Bear.
• For the Horde! – Slay the leaders of the Alliance, be rewarded with a Black War Bear.
• Glory of the Hero – Complete all of the Heroic Dungeon achievements, be rewarded with a Red Proto-Drake.
• Glory of the Raider – Complete the Normal Difficulty raid achievements, be rewarded with a Plagued Proto-Drake.
• Heroic: Glory of the Raider – Complete the Heroic Difficulty raid achievements, be rewarded wtih a Black Proto-Drake.
• What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been – Complete the World Event achievements, be rewarded with a Violet Proto-Drake. (Note: World events means holidays here, like Brewfest, not things like the Ahn’qiraj gate event.)

The rewards are definitely the most noteworthy part of this. Wrath of the Lich King is introducing a ton of new mounts, so it won’t surprise me to see massive diversity in what people are using after the expansion has been out for awhile. There are plenty that come from things other than Achievements as well, but we’ll get to those later.

[ via MMO-Champion ]

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Filed under: News items, Wrath of the Lich King

In somewhat unusual news, 7-Eleven seems to be moving into the video game sales business in some capacity. I’ve noticed that 7-Eleven had sold a couple select games like Madden in the past, but I never thought much of it. I assumed they just had some deal with the distributor for that particular game.

However, that’s not actually the case. Their Madden sales turned out to be quite the success, and their demographic is rather gamer heavy. Man, who would have thought a 24-hour convenience store would attract a lot of young gamers? My mind is boggled. As of this season, 7-Eleven has begun offering pre-orders of select major upcoming releases (such as Wrath of the Lich King) at their locations. All of their offerings will have midnight releases at the 24/7 chain, so your next midnight release party might just take place between a Slurpee machine a beef jerky rack. I have a feeling they won’t be holding any costume contests.

Oh, if you’re curious, 7-Eleven says Wrath in Novermber, too. Man, I could actually go for a Slurpee right now. AFK.

[ via Kotaku ]

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Filed under: Priest, Expansions, Death Knight, Wrath of the Lich King

A lot of people who read Ask a Beta Tester regularly have been asking about how easy Burning Crusade heroics will be at level 80. Can they be 3 manned? Can they be duo’d? This one’s for you, guys. I decided it’s worth a mention all on its own.

Three players, two Death Knights and a Priest, have recently trio’d almost the entirety of Karazhan, minus only Nightbane due to not having completed the quest needed to summon him. Admittedly both Death Knights were using a deep Unholy build which is tuned a little high now, but they’re not wearing any high end gear, either. The spec that the tank used is a bit unusual for an Unholy Tanking build. They didn’t take Bone Shield, and I suspect Magic Suppression being bugged had something to do with its exclusion, though that may have been fixed and I missed it. A fun little detail they discovered is that Gift of Arthas, which procs a disease, is counted as one of your diseases as a Death Knight and augments abilities that scale depending on how many diseases you have active such as Death Strike.

So there’s your answer, ladies and gentlemen. Karazhan can be 3-manned before any raid gear is available, so Burning Crusade heroics will surely be able to be duo’d if you’re still hoping and praying for Anzu come level 80.

[ via DeathKnight.info ]

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