Blizzcon Journal - Friday Aug 3 - Part II

See the Northrend panel notes below, for the best information of the day. I'm pretty overloaded from the discussion panels, but also took some time go out and get pizza too, so I'm not as worn down as I was last time in 2005. I am really excited for this expansion! =D

Here are just some rough highlights from the other panels:

Northrend looks very cool and new, with a lot of zone concepts that remind me of the Scars of Velious expansion for EQ so long ago, that I never really got to play directly.

During the raid panel I learned that you can now shackle deathly ushers. My guild had still been trying to two-tank them, usually ending up with at least one tank, and me dead. ;)

They will be addressing fear ward (for the horde) in the expansion, as well as giving the discipline tree it's own focus.

They will be working on improving prot warriors somewhat in PvP.

Naxxramus is going to get adjusted to 'molten core style difficulty' and moved to Northrend, since a lot of people didn't get to experience it because of the timing of TBC.

There will be a new six-boss dungeon after Black Temple before the expansion is due out. A player questioned him if was the Sunwell, and he said the PR people would be on his nuts if he discussed anything about it, but 'that would be really cool'.

They are thinking about trying to squeeze in another 5man dungeon before the expansion, and got some flack from players for constantly providing raid content in free content patches, but no 5man content in the content patches.