Valenna in Northrend
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago at 2:26 pm. 0 comments
On Wednesday, thanks to an anonymous benefactor (and Phae’s persistence), Valenna landed in Valiance Keep on the southern edge of the Borean Tundra on the beta servers. But of course, someone already stole the name “Valenna” on the server, so in my efforts to find a suitable replacement she was renamed “Parry”. Let’s just say this really isn’t my favorite choice and has lead to some really confusing combat logs.
So, time on the beta has been hit and miss as there was scheduled maintenance extended late into Wednesday night. But after my guild’s SSC run failed to get off the ground (or even out of the hanger and on to the runway), I was able to copy over Valenna and work my way through some of the Borean Tundra quests. And on Thursday night, four of us (Phae, Mr. Phae, Runy and I) ventured into The Nexus.
The quests are impressive and varied, showing off the new phasing technology as well as a slew of new mechanics and effects that are used in them (like the capture quest pictured to the right). The story is interesting and your character feels much more involved and important to world events.
The Nexus was fun. It was really interesting not knowing what mob did what or what each boss had in store or even what bosses we had to confront. There were four bosses in The Nexus and it appeared like you can do three of them in any order before you decide to confront the final boss. We were way overgeared for the place with Runy’s Sunwell gear and our SSC/TK gear. It was still a blast and I look forward to do it again.
The graphics engine seems to have been changed slightly. I think the Night Elf eye glow is different and they’ve added some atmosphere effects to different areas such as the fog effect below.
Like the Blues have stated, some Rogue abilities are yet to be finished, such as Murder Spree which doesn’t seem to do anything. And while I thought Sap was broken, it appears that we get our new version that affects more than Humanoids once we reach 71. Unfair Advantage is working and is a strange talent as it is almost always up. And while we’ve lost Disarm, we don’t get Dismantle until level 75, so I think it will be a while before I’m able to test it out.
As Phaelia mentioned in her post, the most painful thing has been to rebuild my UI. After stealing all the addons she had already acquired, I picked up the rest of my essentials from the list she posted of addons that WoW Interface has confirmed to be working with Lich King. For me, I had to have Outfitter, RatingBuster, ArkInventory and agUnitframes before it even felt like the same game.
Expect more regular updates as I actually have something to blog about now. ^_^
