Wrath of the Lich King interview

Wrath of the Lich King interview

Where better to get the low-down on Wrath of the Lich King than straight from the developers themselves? And that's just what we've done this month - in this issue of MMOZine we have an exclusive interview with lead designer Tom Chilton and production director Jay Allen Brack who answer our burning Lich King questions. Find out what they think of the beta test so far, what to expect from the final version and what's next for the World of Warcraft in our exclusive interview!
Click here to read our Wrath of the Lich King interview now! Wrath of the Lich King interview After immersing ourselves in the Lich King beta, we caught up with Lead Designer for World of Warcraft, Tom Chilton and Production Director Jay Allen Brack. We're presuming that there's no release date set yet?
Jay – Not yet… Tom's joke is that it'll be the ‘next Tuesday after it's done'. What features are going to be added next into the beta?
Jay – Soon we'll release the level cap up to 80. We'll also open one or more zones at the same time. We've got Lake Wintergrasp, Storm Peaks and Icecrown Glacier currently unexplored at this point. How long will it take someone to reach level 80 from starting in Northrend?
Tom – We're still in the process of tuning levelling speed, although I suspect it will be somewhat slower than it was for getting from level 60 to 70, because we have substantially more quest content in Northrend than we ever did in Outland. As a starting point, we tried to mirror the 60-70 XP curve, but people were getting to level 77 before the end of the second zone. It was kind of silly that they were getting close to level 80 without really seeing around half of the new continent. Click here to continue reading our Wrath of the Lich King interview now!