New Cataclysm Information (Official Release)

[Shammy FTW]

Wow, that sucks. I was really looking forward to the archaeology and the guild reward things. Its like saying Christmas is coming twice this year, then a month before leaking that you only get stocking stuffers.

[LameCake]

There will still be archaeology.

"Archeology will be less important
With the Path of the Titans gone, Archeology will become a "true" secondary profession and you won't really have to level it anymore. However it will still be used to let you get cosmetic/optional items, get more information on the game's lore, and ultimately it looks like we can expect rewards similar to fishing. (Nothing mandatory, but you'll be happy when you actually find something)"

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[Dist719]

One of the most interesting things I looked forward too in cataclysm was the guild talent trees, and it's quite sad to see it given up.

[Subset]

This may mean NO MASS RESURRECTION... Nuuu

[unknown1234]

This just ****ed everything up altho GC has pretty good points about the guild talent points.

/sigh

Been looking forward to guild talents and PoT :/

[Pyromancer4]

Path of the titans, archeology, guild talents...That was really good idea, thats a shame that they wont be in game

[Nyu²²²]

I'm a little disappointed to hear this, hopefully they'll have something else in store for us. Thanks for the heads up aphel.

[Gamerz22]

This isn't an actual leak, so I'm confused as to why you keep saying it as such. It was a press event Blizzard hosted and the NDA to release such information expired Sunday at 12am.

[Naravus]

I'd agree, Shammy. Blizz may add them back in after a few patches or something...who knows. -Nara

[alj03]

The first two things are disappointing, although I like the rest.

[Bryrida]

Wow, that sucks. I was really looking forward to the archaeology and the guild reward things. Its like saying Christmas is coming twice this year, then a month before leaking that you only get stocking stuffers.

It's more like you're not getting stocking stuffers but you are still getting presents.

[iMurloc]

Wow... I agree, Blizzard are just too lazy :/

[2dgreengiant]

- The Path of the Titans idea has been scrapped, and has been replaced with "medium glyphs". These glyphs will not do anything other than give cosmetic affects, such as changing the color of your spells, the appearance of your abilities, etc.

So basically its an ingame model edit :P

[Tanfastic]

I'm fine without the path of the titans, just one more thing that elitists would need you to perfect before you're invited to a group.

[Emilie Autumn]

ok if your gonan post this atleast look at the two inter views

Blizzard's Greg Street on new systems in Cataclysm - Gameplanet Feature

Blizzard's Cory Stockton on designing Cataclysm - Gameplanet Feature


These contain alot of information on these press events, along with some info on the new pre-release event.


and this cut out isn't lazy, none of you claiming that it's just lazy have the slightest idea what game production takes, you have to cull things in order to balance evrything, GC goes on to say (whether it was a blue post or in the interview i forget) they never just trash an idea, they shelf it, come back in a few months and see if they have a new way to work it out.

If they put incomplete or unbalanced features into the game what do you get? a god like OP class taht is impossible to touch (early WOTLK pallys/DKs anyone?), you may yet get the path of the titans.

finaly they stated that there could be more to the medium glyphs such as some of those abilities we saw in path of the titans. Please aphael read some more sources i don't know where you c/p that but it's 4 days old not today.

[Dragon111]

umm...the only thing being removed here is path of the titans. Archaeology will still be there and guild levelling will still be there, just in different forms. Please read the post carefully before replying stuff like this...

[garbonzo1994]

Wow... so they just undid almost every thing that looked really interesting.