World of WarCraft: The Burning Crusade
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The Burning Crusade, the first expansion pack for World of Warcraft, adds new story elements. After years of rebuilding following the Burning Legion's defeat, the Horde and Alliance open the Dark Portal and enter Outland. This new land is filled with danger and adventure for those brave enough to enter the Portal. The Portal is only open to characters level 58 and higher.
Two new races enter the world of Azeroth in this expansion - the Blood Elves and the Draenei. The Draenei are from Outland and having heard of the defeat of the Burning Legion by the forces on Azeroth, they have taken their ship, the Exodar, to Azeroth in search of help defeating the Legion in Outland. However, the Blood Elves sabotaged their ship and they crashed onto Azeroth and must pick up the pieces and go out in search of more allies. The Blood Elves, on the other hand, have come to do anything they can to stop the the Draenei and have little trust for either the Horde or Alliance. They are rebuilding the elven capital in Quel'Thalas and have a thirst for both magic and power. Both of the new races come with new mounts to ride and even new level 1 pets.
The expansion extends the level cap to 70 and the majority of the content is for characters level 60 to 70 with the exception of the two starting areas for the new races that offer enough quests to get characters up to level 20 before heading out into the rest of Azeroth. There is also a new neutral city for both Horde and Alliance to visit.
Another major addition to the game is the new profession of Jewelcrafting as well as socketed items that gems can be placed into for added benefits. This new profession works in conjunction with mining to prospect gems from the ore and create new items that can be used by the crafter or sold to others. Anyone can place gems in the sockets of their equipment, but Jewelcrafters are the ones who are most likely to find the gems to use in those sockets.
Additional new content includes:* 6 new dungeons
- 3 controllable flying mounts to be used in Outland after reaching level 70
- Arena PVP for those not interesting in Battlegrounds
- A new Battleground in Outland
- A new Looking For Group interface
- An improved Character Sheet
- Many more monsters and creatures to fight
- 11 new Factions
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Critics
Average score: 89% (based on 58 ratings)
Players
Average score: 4.1 out of 5 (based on 42 ratings with 1 reviews)
OMG!!!! You will be addicted to this like heck!
The Good
Role playing, fantasy, player versus player, individual play. Love the classes you can play and the attributes they have. The Druid class was especially fun because it can be a hybrid class of Priest/Warrior/Rogue. Hunters seem weak if you don't have a fast mouse and area to run and move. A bit steep in the beginning to learn but once you get the hang of it, the game consumes you!
The Bad
Getting ganked (killed) by higher level players in contested areas. High level instances still requires particular grouping of classes and decent skills of other players to participate. Also the instances can take some time to complete. Too bad it doesn't have voice application integrated and some groups require you use ventrilo.
The Bottom Line
If you like developing your character (leveling and getting items) and you like fantasy related games with real humans playing other characters and interacting with you then it is pretty fun.
Windows · by William Ma (1) · 2007
Trivia
Draenei
The draenei race that became playable in this expansion is very different to their debut appearance in the 2003 WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne. The latter were retconned as Lost Ones version of that race.
Release
World of WarCraft: The Burning Crusade was released at participating Electronics Boutique/EBGames stores across the USA and Australia, as well as Algoritam in Croatia, which opened their doors at midnight for fans to pick up their expansion packs within the first few minutes of the game's scheduled release date.
South Park
South Park's animated TV episode Make Love, Not Warcraft was produced on the alpha server for World of WarCraft: The Burning Crusade. The staff at Blizzard were very cooperative in assisting the animators in crafting the machinima that was filmed in-game. They even provided the model files and graphics so they could be altered and used for animation. The developers even used "The Sword of a Thousand Truths" as an actual weapon to be found in the game.
Trial Edition
In June 2007, Blizzard Entertainment Europe sent out a trial edition by mail to anyone who had a current paid subscription or had ever had a paid subscription to World of WarCraft, to try the expansion for free for 10 days. It requires to have the base game installed and offers limited functionality.
Players can start a new dranei or blood elf character and explore their new starting areas. An existing high level character (+58) can also be taken through the Dark Portal into the Outland. All expansion quests are available, as well as the items and skill advancements, but the characters cannot level beyond level 60. New skills such as jewelcrafting are also present, but players are not able to train new levels or certain recipes as the trainers are all located in the expansion zones. Pets can also be kept, and the characters count against the character limit (10 per realm, 50 per account). When the trial expires, the new characters become inaccessible but can be unlocked when the expansion is bought.
Awards
- Apple Design Awards
- 2007 - Best OS X Game
- Games for Windows Magazine
- March 2008 - #5 Game of the Year 2007
- GameSpy
- 2007 – #7 Game of the Year
- 2007 – #5 PC Game of the Year
- 2007 – PC RPG of the Year (Readers' Vote)
- GameStar (Germany)
- March 28, 2008 - Best PC Online RPG in 2007 (Readers' Vote)
- Golden Joystick Awards
- 2007 - Online Game of the Year
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The Burning Crusade Brings the Warcraft Cause to a New World
An Apple Games article about the Macintosh version of The Burning Crusade, with commentary being provided by Lead Producer Shane Dabiri (January, 2007). -
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Game added by Vaelor.
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Game added January 20, 2007. Last modified November 11, 2024.