World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the first expansion for World of Warcraft, announced on October 28th, 2005, released on January 16th, 2007 in North America, Europe and Australia, February 2nd, 2007 in Korea, April 3rd, 2007 in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and September 6th, 2007 in Mainland China. The main features include an increase of the level cap, the introduction of the blood elves and the draenei as playable races and the addition of the world of Outland, along with many new zones, dungeons, items, quests, and monsters.
Burning Crusade-related content on WoWWiki is categorized in Category:Burning Crusade.
Burning Crusade–Release information
In preparation for Burning Crusade, Blizzard released Patch 2.0.1 in North America and Europe on December 5th, 2006. The patch introduced some Burning Crusade content prior to the expansion itself - including a revamp of the honor system, skirmish Arena matches and a new Looking For Group interface.
The expansion was released in standard as well as Collector’s Edition packages. The Collector’s Edition of Burning Crusade includes a bonus Behind-The-Scenes DVD, an in-game Netherwhelp pet and many other exclusive extras. Installing the expansion does not break backwards compatibility — players are still able to log on to non-BC accounts using a Burning Crusade client.
System requirements for both editions remained virtually unchanged compared to the original World of Warcraft, with the notable exception of the increase in the required network bandwidth (from 56k dialup to a “broadband connection”). Blizzard has stated that the change was due to the size of the future patches, and that it will continue to offer tech support to players with dialup, except for patching issues.
Character changes of Burning Crusade–Character changes :New spells and talents
In the expansion, Blizzard added five to six new spells for the 60-70 level range to each class in order to round out the classes better. The talent trees were also greatly expanded and revised. All classes have additional talents leading up to a 41 talent point ability.[7] Players gain new spells at every level from 60-70 instead of every two levels.
Since the Paladin and Shaman classes are no longer unique to either faction, Blizzard added new abilities to each class to make them what they truly feel they should be: Paladins received a long-awaited spell, Righteous Defense (a long-range, mass taunt-like ability); and Shamans received the spell Bloodlust (a long-cooldown, powerful buff) to complement their DPS and utility roles.[8]
See each class’s respective page for more specific information regarding new spells and talents.
–Character changes :Combat rating system
–Burning Crusade Profession changes
Jewelcrafting and socketed items
Jewelcrafting allows the crafting of rings, trinkets, necklaces and special jewels that can be used in specific items, called Socketed Items.
–New specializations and profession abilities
For professions, the expansion adds a new level past Artisan (300) called Master (375). This can be maxed to 390 for gnomish engineers, draenei jewelcrafters, tauren herbalists and blood elf enchanters.
Characters are also be able to take advantage of new specializations within each profession as well as many new recipes, enchantments, patterns and schematics.
