Wrath of the Lich King

[Jonathan5]

New World of Warcraft expansion announced. Check it out on GameSpy, http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/world-of-wa.../810373p1.html . If you ask me it seems like they're popping these things out awfully fast. As we all here know, expansions seem to be the downfall of MMO's .

Biggest features:
- New class, "The Death Knight".
- New battlegrounds, including the highly anticipated warfare engine.
- New profession, the Inscriber who can add permanent buffs to players and equipment.

[Teppen]

Kewl,

Ill wait until Mangos supports it. Currently running the current Burning Crusade release (private server setup).

[Jonathan5]

Ahh, cool. I played on one of the top emulated WoW servers, and it was pretty damn laggy. I don't play the game anymore (live). If I was to play again though, it'd most likely be on a private server.

[techguy84]

I think its amazing how far along the WoW Emu scene has come along, and the player base behind it. The only question I have though is why are some of these servers able to host the amount of players that they have without incurring wrath from Blizz. You remember how blizz did when people made private Warcraft 2&3 servers, they had a shit fit. I just dont get it..... just dont.

[Jonathan5]

I think it's because back then Blizz was such a smaller team, but now they've gone so huge with WoW it's unbelieveable. They have many other things to worry about, and a 9 million player count. I don't think they're worried about something like this, lol.

[John Adams]

Not to start a debate on which WoW Emulator is better, but I have been following the Ascent (previously Antrix) emulator scene. Though I was majorly disappointed at the dramafest they recently went through with WoWScape and something about donations for favors (kinda sounds like dating to me...), I still think that emulator has the most potential for scalability. I've run both, and I just like the way Ascent is put together from the inside out.

Anyone here is welcome to try it out if you like. Follow the link in my profile to create an account blah blah. If I like you, I might even give you elevated rights (since there is no support whatsoever, it's just a dev/test server). I usually update it when time permits.