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Create Your Legacy in WoW

Last week, the internet was awash with new information on Blizzard's upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, titled Wrath of the Lich King. Although lots of general information was divulged to top media outlets, including Ten Ton Hammer, there really wasn't too much in-depth information presented to the gathered press. Thankfully, Ten Ton Hammer's Cody "Micajah" Bye was on the scene – along with MMOG aficionado sites Curse.com and MMO Gamer – and this trio presented Wrath of the Lich King's co-lead designers, Jeffrey Kaplan and Tom Chilton, with a whole variety of interesting questions that led to a number of interesting discoveries, including the first mention of Legacy Items!

My next question has to do with customization -- character customization -- not at the creating a character level, but like with socketing and gem socketing, I think you guys really created something that was very interesting for players, that allowed them more customization for their character after the initial creation process. Are you looking to introduce some more types of those elements in Wrath of the Lich King? I don't know if you're just gonna introduce more gems, or more socketed items, or something completely different... are you planning to do anything like that?

Tom Chilton: Legacy Items; we haven't really talked about those in the past. We are planning to do certain types of items that essentially bind to your account, so they're deliberately created as twink items.

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