By John Walker on March 19th, 2008 at 12:54 pm.
Blizzard have launched a minisite for World of Warcraft’s next patch, Fury of the Sunwell. It’s a top-end patch for you level 70s who have run out of things to do in the Outlands.
“Now the journey that began with the arrival of the draenei on Azeroth and the blood elves’ inclusion into the Horde is about to come full circle as a mighty army gathers to purge evil from one of Azeroth’s most important loci of power: the ancient, magical Sunwell.”
So Sunwell Isle is your new location, which you can read all about here. There’s a new faction in there, the Shattered Sun Offensive, as well as at least twelve more daily quests (the patch also ups the daily quest limit to 25), and a brand new five-person dungeon, Magisters’ Terrace. There’s also new 25-player instance, Sunwell Plateau, which will involve the murderising of Kil’Jaeden. Also, you’ll be able to create your own level 70 characters complete with epic equipment for competing in the Global Arena Tournament. There’s a trailer at the Blizzard site, that we’ll put here as soon as we can find the bloody embed code. (Dear Game Makers, Making it impossible for us to post your adverts is incredibly silly. Love, RPS).
So, everyone immediately start complaining that Blizzard are dumbing it down and making it too easy for people to have fun in their game without giving up their entire lives to raid for 9000 hours a week.
19/03/2008 at 13:00 Okami says:
Blizzard is dumbing down WoW!!!111!1oneoneeleven!!111!one
19/03/2008 at 13:05 Nuyan says:
Hey, a goldselling-ad. Fix it, RPS!
19/03/2008 at 13:12 sana says:
Why do you not have a name for it? The site says it’s “Sunwell Plateau”.
19/03/2008 at 13:14 John Walker says:
Oops – thanks Sana.
I’m not seeing the goldselling ad, Nuyan. Email me at john@rockpapershotgun.com with the site it links to, and I’ll get it squished.
EDIT: It’s alright Nuyan – we’ve caught it in our trap and are putting it down.
19/03/2008 at 13:30 Jim Rossignol says:
Takes a couple of hours for the ads to filter out.
19/03/2008 at 13:37 AbyssUK says:
One word people… Adblock
19/03/2008 at 13:41 John Walker says:
One word Abyss: our financial destitution. Wait, that’s three words.
19/03/2008 at 13:42 Alec Meer says:
What John said. We do filter out the bad ads as they crop up.
19/03/2008 at 13:59 Nick says:
What’s that Skippy? Little Jimmy has fallen down the sunwell and been incinerated?
19/03/2008 at 14:07 Seniath says:
As an ex raider (almost 5 months clean!), I’ve been watching the news of the last few patches with some passing interest. My fear with this latest batch of content, however, is that once again (as Jim said somewhere else) killing Kil’jaeden wont change anything. The Blood Elves will still be magic junkies, Sunwell Plateau wont be restored to it’s former glory and everyone will still be all emo about the whole affair.
In the perfect world, come WotLK, all this would be addressed. But then, that’s really not Blizzard’s style. After all, Lady Katrina Prestor is still stood next to Anduin…
19/03/2008 at 15:02 Bobsy says:
Apparently there’s some hoo-ha over the whole Blood-Knights-are-naughty-Paladins after you kill the naaru they’ve been bleeding since release. The Blood Knight leader says something like “Whoops! Sorry! Let’s be nice again, yeah?” and they do a big U-turn on the nastiness front. Which makes me optimistic that this will be seen as a singular defining event in WoWistory, and go on to inform later events.
It may not do, but you can scrunch your eyes real tight and pretend, maybe.
19/03/2008 at 15:34 James says:
Nick wins the pie, I’m sorry. That made me laugh quite a bit.
19/03/2008 at 16:01 Narvi says:
Sunwell? That’s still around? I thought we used it up to summon Kel’thuzad. *bemused*
19/03/2008 at 17:18 cliffski says:
can a well get furious? that title looks like it was randomly generated.
19/03/2008 at 17:27 Noc says:
Well, it was a choice between that and “Wrath of the Demon-Shard.”
20/03/2008 at 00:02 Nick says:
It’s better than Faint Embarassment of the MoonWell.
20/03/2008 at 12:11 Leelad says:
“Sunwell? That’s still around? I thought we used it up to summon Kel’thuzad. *bemused*”
It’s all tainted and bitter tasting now. The arcaney taste as gone.
I’m looking forward to the new dailes though, although will it feel the same if i’m not blowing up eggs for 11g a day? Hmmmm
20/03/2008 at 15:18 darkripper says:
it pisses me off the update it’s probably incoming and will make all my efforts for Karazhan attunement completely pointless.
P.S. Am I the only one excited for the daily fishing quests? I love fishing!
20/03/2008 at 18:44 K says:
I wanted “Surly of the Funwell”
25/03/2008 at 12:01 Peter says:
Darkripper: No you are not the only one that likes the promise of more fishing. That will probably be the best change in this patch.