Back to the start: WoW: Burning Crusade features in summary

Unless you’re one of the lucky bastar… – err – bastions who were able to grab a Beta Key for Burning Crusade, the Dark Portal won’t be open until January 16. Since that’s ages from now, you can’t help but just content yourself with levelling your character up. And while we’re at it, let’s have a recap of some features we’ve already heard about and stash in some other goodies that we’ve never heard of before:

• An increase in the level cap to 70
• Two new playable races: the Blood Elves and the Draenei
• Arena-based Player vs. Player Ladder System
• New Battleground: Eye of the Storm
• 3 New Cities, The Exodar, Shattrath and Silvermoon
• The entire new continent of Outland, reachable through the Dark Portal
• Many new high-level dungeons to explore in Azeroth, Outland, and elsewhere
• Selectable Dungeon Difficulty Setting
• New flying mounts in Outland
• Many new and dangerous monsters, including epic world bosses
• Hundreds of new quests + Hundreds of new items
• A new profession: Jewelcrafting
• Socketed items

That’s a mouthful indeed. But that doesn’t mean it ain’t welcome. These are some of the features you guys have been clamoring for since the dawning of the world (of Warcraft). The simple fact that the Outland is now accessible is definitely worth the trip. Finally, we get to go back where it all started!

To read the nitty-gritty of it all, you can click the “Read” link below. And just in case you missed the latest trailer, you can view it there as well.

Unless you’re one of the lucky bastar… – err – bastions who were able to grab a Beta Key for Burning Crusade, the Dark Portal won’t be open until January 16. Since that’s ages from now, you can’t help but just content yourself with levelling your character up. And while we’re at it, let’s have a recap of some features we’ve already heard about and stash in some other goodies that we’ve never heard of before:

• An increase in the level cap to 70
• Two new playable races: the Blood Elves and the Draenei
• Arena-based Player vs. Player Ladder System
• New Battleground: Eye of the Storm
• 3 New Cities, The Exodar, Shattrath and Silvermoon
• The entire new continent of Outland, reachable through the Dark Portal
• Many new high-level dungeons to explore in Azeroth, Outland, and elsewhere
• Selectable Dungeon Difficulty Setting
• New flying mounts in Outland
• Many new and dangerous monsters, including epic world bosses
• Hundreds of new quests + Hundreds of new items
• A new profession: Jewelcrafting
• Socketed items

That’s a mouthful indeed. But that doesn’t mean it ain’t welcome. These are some of the features you guys have been clamoring for since the dawning of the world (of Warcraft). The simple fact that the Outland is now accessible is definitely worth the trip. Finally, we get to go back where it all started!

To read the nitty-gritty of it all, you can click the “Read” link below. And just in case you missed the latest trailer, you can view it there as well.