by Karen Hertzberg on May 12, 2008
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.