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[Luci]

Skywall Raid Loading Screen

A new Cataclysm area which was released a bit later, when the latest build came, is Uldum.
The area designed for players above level 83 is located south of Tanaris desert and it is predominately desert, with a river crossing through it and with a big delta. It is something similar to an Egyptian landscape if you ask me... As I knew before, you had to complete the Deepholm to be able to start with this area, but it seems like I was wrong since I still had some uncompleted quests in Deepholm.

The area is filled with Titan-made buildings and devices, devices which are more or less broken and in some cases you'll help fixing them. All players, who follow the quest line, will enter Uldum with an expedition caravan. Your caravan will be ambushed and you'll have to free yourself and along with you you'll free a Prince as well. I wont spoil you the fun of this event but you really have to save that Prince if you want to continue questing in there. Basically you have to help Ramkahen population and also help out Harrison Jones on his adventure.

There is nothing new now about the quests after we saw Deepholm, Mount Hyjal and Vashj'ir (we will make a full review of that area soon). Quests here are pretty much linear but you have to travel longer distances and the quest givers are spread all around the place. Like we did when we spoke about other areas we wont start with quests bugs and stuff like that since this is still Beta and everything will be fixed in the end.

Above this desert, up into the clouds (that's very high! trust me) we can find a bunch of suspended towers where you can enter Skywall, the elemental plane of air, a new raid instance and Vortex Pinnacle, a new 81-85 dungeon. Also, this time on the ground, inside a huge pyramid, there is the entrance to Halls of Origination, an 85 level dungeon.

Now, to bring something new to our Exploration episodes, we decided to make a fly-through video of this area. I think it is better than a bunch of screenshots.

Tell us your opinions about Uldum. Is there something you saw in the video and have no idea what that is?

[Zaknafein]

Blizzard's greatest Area added in Cataclysm Imo! So much lore and beaty!

[Goht]

i love this zone so much, by far the prettiest zone ingame so far. actually i did even stopped leveling my paladin because i want to wait till they add the rest bunch of quests and items(hopefully today^^ *cross fingers*). this area is just simply a masterpiece

and to see harrison jones in action is pure epicness^^

Edited by Goht, 07 September 2010 - 03:01 PM.

[Neirin]

As I knew before, you had to complete the Deepholm to be able to start with this area, but it seems like I was wrong since I still had some uncompleted quests in Deepholm.

Starting quests in the new zones is based on level requirement, not on quest completion, and there is some level overlap between the zones (even without bonus XP gains), so that you don't have to go grind 50 mobs in Deepholm because you came up 50k short of Uldum. Level 83 is the requirement for beginning both Uldum and Twilight Highlands, though TH is set low for testing purposes, and will go up to 84 before the expansion goes live.

I've noticed it in all the quest zones so far... They always get you 25-50% into your next level, depending on what kind of bonus XP you have. Enough to make you ding sooner, but not enough to make it possible to skip zones (which is how blizzard specifically designed it)

[menos]

Amazing area! A bit empty imo, but I guess this is because all this is because it's still in development stage.

Beside that, those Pigmy creatures are awesome. I need one for a pet