Kaplan Gives Behind the Blue Curtain Tour of Wow Wrath of the Lich King
By Shawn on Monday, May 12th, 2008 at 3:21 PM PST In Blizzard, Computer, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Games, World of Warcraft
Blizzard’s Jeffrey “Tigole” Kaplan, one of World of Warcraft’s Lead Designers, gives WoW players a glimpse of what lies behind the blue curtain for the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion. Representatives from the MMOGamer, TenTonHammer and Curse all got the chance to submit questions to Kaplan for this podcast interview.
Most of the questions concentrate on raids. Kaplan talks about the duel raiding system for 10 and 25 man raids.
The goal with the 10 and 25 thing is not that we want to have sort of easy-mode, and that’s 10, and hard-mode and that’s 25, we do want to have two separate, clear progressions, and even within those we want to have easy 10 and 25 raids, medium 10 and 25, and hard 10 and 25. We want to have progression through those.
He speaks specifically about the with problems balancing everything out for the duel raiding system for the Four Horsemen; comparing it to Naxxramas.
Kaplan does talk about other aspects of the new expansion, touching on PvP content, item inflation (or building a bigger shoulder pad) and content for the average WoW player. You can listen to the podcast interview, or for those who prefer to read a transcription of the piece you can find it up on the MMOGamer.
