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Some cool new features coming along with the next expansion to World of Warcraft “Wrath of the Lich King”, no doubt aimed at fending off serious competition from Age of Conan. For example, some of the new quest mechanices they are implementing in the new expansion offer mount based combat. If you remember in the Outlands of the Burning Crusade expansion, there is a quest where you ride a flying mount over a town and drop bombs. The quests in the new expansion will be similar to that, which falls a bit short of the mounted combat in AoC. In WoW, you ride along a pre-determined path and drop the bombs, likewise in the new expansion you will ride on a horse or other mount with an NPC at the reigns while you chuck bombs off that back of the mount.
They have offered up quests where NPC’s ride on the back and you take control of the mount, but that’s not exactly mounted combat either. I’ll withhold judgment until the expansion comes out but it looks like they will fall short of actual mounted combat where you control the action, all of it. They do mention however that their is a new aerial combat system in the works but the fail to go into great detail, so let’s see what the future holds from Blizzard.
Now of course one feature most people are looking forward to is the addition of the Death Knight hero class. The only requirement to creating your very own Death Knight is having at least one character at level 55 on the realm you create the Death Knight. If you meet that criteria, you can create the Death Knight for any race that is in your faction for that realm.
Death Knights will be primarily a Tank/DPS class character with three paths to build on, Blood (DPS), Frost (Tank) and Unholy (PVP). The Unholy tree has some pretty interesting new game mechanics built into it. For one, the Death Knight will gain the ability to raise a ghoul pet from the corpse of nearby mobs or players. Here’s the twist, if the corpse of a friendly player is used, that player has the option to actually play as the ghoul, controlling it’s actions. Also, the Death Knight will have the ability to summon a small army of undead to fight his enemies temporarily and like the Warlock and Paladin will have the ability to summon a mount, eventually able to quest for an epic summoned mount at higher levels.
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