World Of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade - Preview #3

Head on over to Computer and Video Games and have a look at the third review of Burning Crusade. The editors there had a chance to interview Blizzard's senior VP Frank Pearce for an in-depth look at the new races and issues from the outstanding expansion!

Blizzard haven't announced anything about what the mounts are going to look like or cost. The recently released mount demo shows a large dragon creature with a fish's tail and blue sparkles around it, as if it's in a permanent state of disco. Pearce is keen to point out this is "just a placeholder creature". Although he reveals that flying mounts will be able to move fast along the ground too, you can be attacked from the ground while on one (although they're not sure what to do should your mount vanish while you're flying it). They're also considering epic and rare mounts.

As the recent linked auction house feature has shown, sometimes it's the smaller things that make the biggest impact. A new feature that looks like doing just that is adjustable difficulty levels for the five-person dungeon instances. This will allow the leader of the group to select whether a dungeon is normal level or two difficulty levels above. But just so that the extra challenge is worth it, the potential spiffy loot-droppage will also increase.