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I’ve been skirting the issue for a while, and finally reached a conclusion.
Loremaster: If I want to get it, I’d better go for it. Now. Before it’s (possibly) too late. Or at least, before the Loremaster achievement is overhauled. I’ve talked about the issue before, and plead my case that Blizzard should maintain access to ALL the old quests that are now 5+ years old. But I grow more and more doubtful that that’s a realistic hope.
Here’s a quick recap of the information involving questing we learned from the massive information dump about a month ago:
Zones that don’t change much in visuals may still change significantly in story (Westfall’s quests will be roughly 95% new)
Wrath had about 1,000 new quests. Cataclysm will have more than 3,000
Iconic quests, such as those involving Linken, should still remain in the game, relatively untouched (woot)
Add to that Ghostcrawler’s confirmation on the official forums that, at the very least, quest rewards will be completely overhauled:
Ghostcrawler on the official forums 06.25.10
Almost every quest reward in the 1-60 content will be changing. If there is a quest item you really love, you might want to grab it now. :)
It’s time to stop hesitating and get that title. Given that I don’t have a ton of time left before Cataclysm (maybe three months, give or take, if the game actually is released before BlizzCon), I’m getting all my ducks in a row for the quest grind.
The Cataclysmic changes coming soon to World of Warcraft are undoubtedly going to change the game to the core, right down to the very face of Azeroth. For the most part, I think players welcome the imminent changes. But there’s one giant heap of change, in particular, that still leaves me a bit uncertain.
When Deathwing emerges from the elemental plane Deepholm in the not-too-distant future, he’s going to bring on a ton of destruction. As we know, zones will change. And most of the quests that once made up the landscape will, presumably, become nothing but a memory.
Most of this was confirmed this past weekend when Blizzard lifted its press tour NDA, and we saw a whole flood of new information surface. Things always are subject to change before the actual release of Cataclysm (or, for that matter, afterward via patch), but it looks like a ton of old quests are going bye-bye for good:
Zones that don’t change much in visuals may still change significantly in story (Westfall’s quests will be roughly 95% new)
Wrath had about 1,000 new quests. Cataclysm will have more than 3,000
Iconic quests, such as those involving Linken, should still remain in the game, relatively untouched (woot)
Why not take that a step further and allow players to have access to ALL old content? Lore already supports the perfect vehicle to allow the switching between the pre- and post-Cataclysmic world — Nozdormu the Timeless and the Bronze Dragonflight.
