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This is Greg Street A.K.A. Ghostcrawler interviewed by Taiwan's media: Gamebase.com.tw. And since the NDA had lift. I'll post the content now:









The story of 5 men dungeons are featuring time travel sagas related to Deathwing. The story is a continuous-event which will finally lead to the Deathwing raid.



Endtime
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First 5 men dungeon. Under Nozdormu’s guide, players will venture into the future of Azeroth (Location is the Dragonblight) to see the first hand of what if Deathwing’s plan had fruited. It would be the world which the Hour of Twilight had happened. It will be the end of the time. Sylvanas (Sorry, I deliberately want to troll around when Joystiq forgot the true time when NDA would be lifted ) and undead army will be featuring in this dungeon, as well as an infinite dragon – Murozond.



Well of Eternity (War of the Ancients)
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Second 5 men dungeon. The story is circling around the wrestling for the Demon Soul. Queen Azshara and her Highbornes would make an appearance.



The Hour of Twilight
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Third 5 men dungeon. Accompany Thrall and the dragon aspects to the present time of Wyrmrest Temple. Player will need to protect Thrall when he is re-forging the artifact – the Dragon Soul in order to defeat Deathwing, as well as preventing the Hour of Twilight from happening. Black and twilight dragons, Twilight’s Hammer will be the enemies of this dungeon.



Fangs of Father
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Rogue legendary weapon. They are a pair of daggers.

The storyline of the legendary daggers is actually continuing the plot of Badland’s uncorrupting black dragon egg. The egg will hatch into a new character which happens to be a role like a black dragon prince. He offers the legendary quests to players. Only rogues can do the quest. It will be very time and gold consuming. The quests will involve in killing some evil dragons and collecting holy ingredients from the 5 men dungeons as well as the Deathwing raid.

There will be some specific effect that designed for rogues only!



The Dragon Soul
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Deathwing raid. 8 encounters total. It starts from Wyrmrest Temple, ends at Maelstrom.

Though the whole story is a long continuous-event, but The Dragon Soul raid does not need any attunement or key to access.

First boss is a giant ice elemental. Name is Morechunk.

Minions of Old gods for the 2nd and 3rd boss. Featuring scaring, horrible tentacles and creatures. The 2nd is a faceless general – Warlord Zon’ozz.

4th boss is in the Eye of Eternity. A female mortal race shaman, featuring some totem combat mechanics.

5th boss is a monstrous twilight dragon that you had never seen before. Location is at the top of Wyrmrest Temple. It is so big that it cannot land. Players will have to fight in the air.

6th boss is the general of the Twilight’s Hammer. Players will pursue Deathwing by riding a gunship as he’s trying to flee. Twilight’s hammer will try to intercept the players, and an imposing tauren general of Twilight’s Hammer will be the main antagonist of this encounter.

7th and 8th is Deathwing.

7th is fighting on Deathwing’s back. Other dragons and aspects will assist the players along the way. Deathwing will try to roll over, dive as he tries to get rid of the players. Thrall and players must rip Deathwing off his armors and eventually made him crush into the Maelstrom.

The last encounter has many phases. The location is the Maelstrom. The first phase is moving around the isles around the Maelstrom, player will have to fight his claws, wings, tail alone and the tentacles. And traveling around the isles is similar to the fight in the Throne of the Four Winds. The second phase, the four dragon aspects will arrive and use their specific abilities to assist players battling Deathwing. Players need decide to call which aspect’s help. For example, Nodzormu can create a time-warp field to slow down Deathwing’s molten missile attack. Alexstrasza can annihilate the small tentacles Deathwing calls upon. Ysera and Kalecgos both have their own abilities. And, Thrall will use the artifact, the Dragon Soul, to join the battle. For further phases, no more spoilers!

4.3 is the last major raid patch of Cataclysm, but not the last patch of this expansion. Blizzard will offer some buffer contents for players to enjoy between 4.3 and the next expansion.

There will be several cut scenes cinema for the whole The Dragon Soul raid.




No comment for Mists of Pandaria. Not gonna talk about anything of the next expantion.



Darkmoon Isle
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There are lots of new games and rewards for the new Darkmoon Faire. It will be very fun, a little bit creepy. Player can arrive Players can enter the Darkmoon Isle by walking through a portal in cities.

The Darkmoon Isle might be located around Gilneas and Silverpine Forest. But it’s very secret and you can’t find it and can’t enter by flying or swimming alone. And the truth is, they haven’t decided where to put it.

The Darkmoon Fair had constructed the whole new fair for years secretly. It’s all part of Silas Darkmmon’s grand plan.



Random Raid Finder System
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Raid finder: designed for the casual players only. The purpose of this system is to let the casual players can easily find a raid group and enjoy it with the dungeon-finder system. The difficulty will be easier than the normal raid, and the loots will be less powerful.

The difficulty of using raid-finder will be easier like: bosses have less HP, complicated mechanics removed, damage to player lowered.

The raid-lock of raid finder will be independent of the normal / heroic raids.




Other Q&A:
No updates for Silithus and Dustwallow Marsh.

No updates for old classic dungeons.

The other plot holes will continue when they feel the time is right.



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Crushed Horde Gunship in Endtime






Ruby Dragonshrine infested by undead army in Endtime






Echo of Sylvanas Windrunner in Endtime






Murozond in Endtime






Illidan Stromrage in Well of Eternity






Furion and Illidan in Well of Eternity






Alexstrasza in Well of Eternity







Ysera in Well of Eternity (yes, new model)






Nozdormu in Well of Eternity






Zin-Azshari in Well of Eternity







Azshara's Highborne guards in Well of Eternity






Well protective shield in Well of Eternity






An old god breed abomination in The Hour of Twilight






Wyrmrest Temple in The Hour of Twilight





Thrall in The Hour of Twilight






Warlord Zon'ozz in The Dragon Soul