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Flying Mounts Introduced


04-06-2008 wowgoldgathering
Flying mounts will be useable in the Outland at level 70.

Tom Chilton: "We'll put some high-level content in very hard to reach places - effectively places that you'll need a flying mount to reach. It's a dream for explorers, and you can draw lines to the Zelda-esque level construction where a new ability opens up aspects in a previously explored area."

Due to the graphical composition of Azeroth not being suited for viewing from all angles, the flying mounts will only be available in the Outland, which has been specificially designed to avoid graphical issues associated with multiple viewpoints. Blizzard reps have stated that it would be possible to "rebuild" the existing continents to accomodate for flying mounts, but this would take enormous amounts of time as Kalimdor and the Eastern Continents combined are more than 4 times the size of Outland. It is unlikely they will ever support flying mounts in the near future.

Flying mounts are probally needed because of the fact that the Outland is the /Floating/ remains of Draenor. Flying mounts will be needed to reach other floating areas.


Portals to Other Worlds In World of Warcraft

Chris Metzen revealed in the Developer Panels that Illidan closed all the Dark Portals of Outland. Nevertheless, MagusRogue, a World of Warcraft RPG Game Designer from White-Wolf revealed the following: "The portals were shut down by Illidan, actually. However, some of the quests in the Burning Crusade Expansion have you re-opening these and going to new dimensions, fighting the legion in new worlds. Should be awesome."

"One of the things we're most excited about," says Metzen, "is the chance to create environments unlike anything you've seen in previous games. We really want to ramp it up for the players now. We're saying, 'Hey, you've graduate, you're over level 60 now, so let's get crazy with some really alien worlds and creatures." Even better, this is something that's infinitely expandable for us in updates and expansions down the line. There can always be more portal worlds."


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