Post by Khel @ 06:29am 18/08/10 | 85 Comments
I'd imagine places will start taking orders for these now, and Blizzard usually do a pretty limited run of their collector's editions, so if you want one, get in quick.
- Art of the Cataclysm art book, featuring 176 pages of never-before-seen images from the archives of the Blizzard Entertainment cinematics department and the World of Warcraft development team, as well as progressive visuals from multiple stages of development.
- Exclusive in-game pet: he may not be a breaker of worlds just yet, but Lil' Deathwing will still proudly accompany heroes on their struggle to save Azeroth from his much, much larger counterpart.
- Behind-the-scenes DVD with over an hour of developer interviews and commentaries, as well as a special Warcraft® retrospective examining the rich gaming history of the Warcraft universe.
- Soundtrack featuring 10 epic new tracks from Cataclysm, including exclusive bonus tracks.
- Special-edition mouse pad depicting Deathwing menacing the ravaged continents of Azeroth.
- World of Warcraft Trading Card Game cards, including a 60-card starter deck from the Wrathgate series, two extended-art cards, and two Collector's Edition-exclusive hero cards, marking the first appearance of goblin and worgen heroes in the TCG.
For more information, including pictures of the box art and the contents, head over to Blizzard's Cataclysm collector's edition website.
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Posted 08:25am 18/8/10
Posted 08:37am 18/8/10
About the only thing that appeals to my wow fanboy side in all this pack is the DVD of behind the scenes stuff and it's only an hour of video ffs. How lame!
Posted 09:00am 18/8/10
The art books are always amazing, generally hardcover and full of sketches, design art and other things. The DVDs are generally entertaining and let's face it: do you really want to hear game programmers talk for more than an hour anyway? :P
Definitely will be bumping my preorder to this, if only so my other Blizzard CE boxes don't get lonely (anyone got the original WoW CE box & contents (sans pet code) they don't want? It's the only one I'm missing :( ).
Posted 09:07am 18/8/10
no I don't sorry, but I will be buying 2 Cata CE's - 1 for me and 1 to go on the shelf unopened for sale in the future :)
Posted 09:09am 18/8/10
I have active 80's of every class except for shaman.
I was the third person in Oceania realms to have Sulfuras @ 60 (on my paladin lol! i was a true ret paladin - when ret hard and thought not possible I was topping meters... when ret wasn't cool... i was making it cool)
My rogue had twin blades @ 70 (/yawn)
My paladin has the famous bubble healz mace @ 80 (/yawn)
My guild Tsunami is the best Alliance guild in Oceania and arguably has some of the best PVP groups in 3v3 and 5v5 (which i'm in - topping around 2100-2200 rating - not bad for a non-fulltime pvper). I can honestly say I've downed 99% bosses in existence in wow (there is one world dragon that we never downed @ 60, but downed at 70 - but i don't think that counts as a proper downing)
I help run and update various wow blogs and websites around the net.
I love wow and always will, but when it comes to vanity pets, achievements and other wank factors I f*****g hate it. It's a love hate relationship. I think most wow players can admit that.
Posted 09:21am 18/8/10
Posted 09:25am 18/8/10
Actually the only people I notice who have a love/hate relationship with WoW are people who play it entirely too much. They begin to resent it.
Other people just stop playing.
Posted 09:34am 18/8/10
Either way, CE pre-ordered so that's that. (EB have the preorder page up now on their website if you're inclined)
Also going to find caffeine. My spelling/grammar are way off this morning.
last edited by darkjedi at 09:34:31 18/Aug/10
Posted 09:51am 18/8/10
only 1 per customer meh
Posted 09:56am 18/8/10
Just get the game
Posted 10:03am 18/8/10
Collectors mate collectors
Posted 10:37am 18/8/10
Posted 11:24am 18/8/10
Posted 11:27am 18/8/10
2 accounts?
Posted 03:45pm 18/8/10
I'd agree with you for most games, but Blizzard collector's editions are actually pretty damn nice, I mean the art book alone is a big, glossy, hardcover book which would easily sell for $40 - $50 if it was in a book store. And the presentation is always really swanky, velvet lined box and such, makes you feel like its actually worth paying that extra $30 or so. They're also genuinely limited, unlike other games which come out with "Limited editions" that aren't limited in the slightest.
Posted 03:53pm 18/8/10
Posted 03:55pm 18/8/10
Posted 03:56pm 18/8/10
Checkout this guy's ePenis.
Posted 05:28pm 18/8/10
Posted 07:32pm 18/8/10
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Posted 10:29pm 18/8/10
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Posted 02:30am 19/8/10
Posted 08:04am 19/8/10
Posted 08:21am 19/8/10
yea. a lot of the screenshots i've seen posted around have people in their ICC gear running around. i think there are pre-made characters that you can create as well.
Posted 08:30am 19/8/10
Posted 08:53am 19/8/10
Same :) .. Huntard is my main but recently found the joys of Resto Druid. No waiting for groups anymore - click dungeon finder, wait 3 seconds, boom.
Posted 09:01am 19/8/10
Posted 09:06am 19/8/10
Posted 10:09am 19/8/10
It doesn't bring anything out of people, its a MMORPG?
Also I am curious, if you need two accounts why are you buying two collectors editions? Why not just one collectors and a standard copy?
Posted 10:14am 19/8/10
LOL
Posted 10:16am 19/8/10
lil deathwing pet on both accounts
Posted 11:26am 19/8/10
Posted 11:35am 19/8/10
Posted 12:13pm 13/9/10
Posted 12:26pm 13/9/10
Posted 03:35pm 13/9/10
Posted 03:46pm 13/9/10
Posted 04:38pm 13/9/10
Posted 05:10pm 13/9/10
If you just buy Vanilla + Cata, you may be able to get the new quests/changes & races, but once you hit 60 you won't be able to level any further (at least I'd suspect that'd be the case).
I've seen the WoW collectors box with Vanilla + TBC for $30-40 and Wrath shouldn't be too much more on top of that.. No doubt when Cata hits there'll be cheap deals too for all 3 previous releases.
Posted 06:58pm 13/9/10
Posted 07:16pm 13/9/10
But you'll still get all the remade zones in the old world even with a vanilla wow account, you only need to buy cata for the new zones, the new races and the 80 - 85 stuff. So you could still level 1 to 60 experiencing the new 1 to 60 stuff, then buy BC and do that, then buy Wrath and do that, then worry about Cata (well, unless you wanted to roll a goblin or worgen from the start).
Posted 08:00am 14/9/10
Posted 08:23am 14/9/10
Posted 08:34am 14/9/10
Hes been correct about alot of dates as well :) Almost balances out. Something as large as Cata though, it's pretty obvious to guage when it'll be released (it needs to be here before christmas so they cant push it back more then a month or whatever)
Posted 12:35pm 14/9/10
Posted 12:42pm 14/9/10
Posted 01:05pm 14/9/10
It will be interesting to see at what state they intend to release 4.0.1 into the wild, and if the classes will change much past that point up till the opening of the new content.
Posted 01:06pm 14/9/10
Posted 06:26pm 14/9/10
Posted 06:28pm 14/9/10
Posted 07:12pm 14/9/10
Also, I presume once cata is released, Blizzard will make a pack containing vanilla, bc and wrath. Maybe all on one dvd even.
Posted 11:20pm 14/9/10
Posted 12:40am 15/9/10
Well according to what i've read the changes are happening in stages. 4.0.1 looks like it's going to just contain talents and graphical upgrades. 4.0.3 is said to have the new world looks and updated race class combinations and everything other than that you'll have to buy the expansion for.
Also some new things which I think are awesome. It seems in Archaeology you can get Bind to Account epics. Some of these include weapons, armor and mounts such as the old AQ40 bug mount (!!!!!) and the ever awesome Zin'rokh, Destroyer of Worlds. Seems this is actually worth doing now.
Oh and AQ20 is now a 10 man raid come cata. F*** yeah... vanilla raid revamping!
Posted 07:22am 15/9/10
Posted 08:16am 15/9/10
How hard can it be ?
Posted 08:25am 15/9/10
That said, I'd totally be for a lvl85 heroic version of Dire Maul. that place was all kinds of awesome.
Posted 08:26am 15/9/10
Posted 08:29am 15/9/10
agreed. Love DM - Scholo would be win also.
Posted 08:36am 15/9/10
I thought that was tied in with the fact Rag and his friends are running around Mount Hyjal ?
Posted 09:42am 15/9/10
An epic version of BRD would be win++
Posted 09:53am 15/9/10
I suspect so as the WoTLK DVD has all the content for Vanilla, TBC & WoTLK (dur). It's the patches that are such a b**** as it's impossible to find just one patch to go from retail copy -> latest unless you use their patcher (which just does increments but makes it seamless).
Posted 10:01am 15/9/10
Posted 10:26am 15/9/10
(well at least no awesome friends who play WoW on a Mac)
Posted 11:32am 15/9/10
bumped into syco there the other day
Posted 11:41am 15/9/10
Posted 11:42am 15/9/10
Posted 01:26pm 15/9/10
mac ... really ? ... I thought you were straight.
Posted 01:29pm 15/9/10
(Says the guy with an 80 on Saurfang as well)
Posted 01:37pm 15/9/10
Posted 01:39pm 15/9/10
I find it humourous that anyone would think there is.
Griefing people on boats and at flightpaths who are 60 levels lower then you does not constitute skill (or PvP).
And having played on Blackrock among other PvP servers, the vast majority of PvP is griefing. While the very few occasions where real PvP happened were fun. They were extremely infrequent and in reality slowed down the progress of all involved.
I'd argue that EQ on a non Zek server was more PvP then a WoW PvP server.
Posted 01:40pm 15/9/10
Posted 02:05pm 15/9/10
Posted 02:25pm 15/9/10
Yep I did a drunken faction change and now am known as Draedonna - I'll look out for you in game.
I started on BR with my first char and there was nothing like the PvP of old (TM & South Shore as you said) and the thought of being on a "noob" server was laughable. I also spent time on Frostmourne & Barthilas and have now ended up on Proudmoore because it reached a point where there was no more PvP at all. Gone are the days of the POM+Pyro/Sheep mage opener on people running around EPL or doing proper raids against the other guys cities .. its now just queue, someone wall hacks, claims the node, games over and then back to queueing.
I miss the days of old world PvP but I don't think they could ever come back any time soon :(
Posted 02:43pm 15/9/10
Posted 03:11pm 15/9/10
Posted 04:40pm 15/9/10
the rest is like lame zerg rushing or daoc portal camping
wow players laughing at other wow players for being carebears is just hilarious :)
Posted 04:54pm 15/9/10
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