Burning Crusade Preview #1 : World of Warcraft General Discussions

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First and foremost, The Burning Crusade allows WoW players to smash through that Level 60 ceiling, pushing the upper echelon to Level 70. Of course clawing up those extra ten levels isn’t going to be easy, but then I guess that’s the whole point. There will be new spells and abilities to learn above Level 60 – Mages for example, will have the chance to achieve invisibility. To facilitate your elevation to the heady heights of Level 70, you’ll have to take a trip though the Dark Portal and explore an all new continent called Outland.

Outland is stacked full of new dungeons aimed squarely at the Level 60 and above player. Obviously you’ll have a take a few friends along with you if you want to survive these new dens of iniquity, but you won’t have to round up 39 other players to form a raiding party like before. Blizzard was keen to point out that it has reduced the maximum number of players for Raid dungeons to 24, to facilitate smoother progression. The problem with the 40 player limit, was that guilds recruiting for raids were constantly doing just that, recruiting. With the lower limit, Blizzard is hoping that it won’t take quite so long to get an angry rabble together in order to complete a raid.