WoW - The Burning Crusade

World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the first expansion pack for the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft. It was released on January 16, 2007 at midnight in Europe and North America. It will be available in a similar time frame in Korea, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Singapore as well, and availability for mainland China and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau will be announced in the near future.

Several years have passed since the Burning Legion's defeat at Mount Hyjal and the races of Azeroth have continued to rebuild their once shattered lives. With renewed strength, the heroes of the Horde and Alliance have begun to explore new lands and broken through the Dark Portal to investigate the realms beyond the known world. Will these heroes find friends or foes? What dangers and rewards lie in wait beyond the Dark Portal? And what will they do when they discover that the demons they thought vanquished have returned to renew their terrible Burning Crusade?

• An increase in the level cap to 70
• New spells for each class
• Two new playable races: Blood Elves & Draenei
• The entire new continent of Outland
• Many new zones and high-level dungeons
• Hundreds of new monsters, quests, and items
• A new profession: Jewelcrafting
• Flying mounts in Outland

Points of interest

Burning Crusade includes the ability for players of either faction to capture the neutral town of Halaa located in Nagrand. The interactive map displayed on Blizzard's website shows multiple 'neutral' cities, however it isn't clear as to how similar they will be to Halaa. Rumors of a new battleground called Eye of the Storm have been confirmed by Blizzard. Only players with the expansion pack may participate in this battleground.
In addition, a new PvP Arena System was introduced, a way for players to fight in 2 vs. 2, 3 vs, 3, or 5 vs. 5 battles. While the arena system allows people without Burning Crusade to participate in matches, people without the expansion would not be able to participate in Ladder matches which yield rewards.

PC System Requirements

• OS: Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4); Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
• Processor: Intel Pentium3 800MHz or AMD Athlon 800MHz
• Memory: 512 MB RAM, 1GB RAM is recommended
• Video minimum: 32MB 3D graphics processor with Hardware Transform and Lighting, such as an NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or above. Recommended: 64MB VRAM 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability, such as an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 class card or above.
• Sound: DirectX compatible sound card

 

Mac System Requirements

• OS: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or newer required
• Processor: 933MHz G4/G5 processor, 1.8GHz G5/Intel or better recommended
• RAM: 512MB RAM, 1GB DDR RAM is recommended
• Video: NVIDIA or ATI graphics processor with 32MB VRAM, 64MB VRAM recommended

 

All Platforms

• Controls: A keyboard and mouse are required. Input devices other than a mouse and keyboard are not supported
• Connectivity:You must have an active broadband internet connection to play.
• Mouse: Multi-button mouse with scroll wheel recommended.

 

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