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[Lucifer]

Seems like this week we will get more news about the 4.3 patch according to Zarhym's tweet. Apparently some new interviews are already published and we expect to hear even more things about 4.3 patch.
One interview was published by Joystiq. They spoke with Tom Chilton, Game Director for WoW.
Greg Street, aka Ghostcrawler, spoke with Taiwanese Gamebase and that interview was fully translated by mmo-champion.
Another interview with Greg was posted by Tankspot.

All these three interviews are about the upcoming 4.3 patch. Most of the things were already known to us from the previous interviews and official news posts.
Here is what we spoke about already:

• New Legendary and Looking for Raid tool
  
• New 4.3 Darkmoon Faire
  
• Transmogrification and Void Storage Compilation
  
• 4.3 Gamescom Interview
  
• Tier 13 Sets Revealed

Like always we will give you the highlights of the newest interviews now. If you want to know more or read the whole story please check the links above.

• To bring Deathwing down players will have to go into the future, the into the past and then on the dragon's back.
  
• The first instance, of the new three chained instances, is going to be called Endtime.
  
  • Endtime will send players into the future, where Nozdormu will show us what the world looks like if Deathwing wins.
    
  • At the same time Nozdormu will understand that that he has to send people back to the Well of Eternity after the Demon Soul so we can stand a chance against Deathwing.
• Well of Eternity is the second instance
  
  • Here players will travel into the past, at the War of the Ancients, where Azshara was still a Night Elf
    
  • Inside, Thrall will grab the Demon Soul to use it against Deathwing.
• The final instance is Hour of Twilight.
  
  • This is an escort instance. You'll have to escort Thrall back to Wyrmrest Temple.
    
  • Here we will fight the leader of the Twilight Hammer.
    
  • There where the final battle begins. That's where the raid will begin.
• The new raid is going to be called The Dragon Soul.
  
• Wyrmrest Temple is under attack by Deathwing's minions.
  
  • The beginning of the raid is going to be a Wyrmrest Temple that's under siege.
    
  • At first we'll have to protect the Temple.
    
  • The attacking forces are going inside the temple too and you'll have to fight them there too.
    
  • The 5th boss is going o be a huge dragon that's flying around the Temple and you'll have to take it down and defend the Dragon Aspects.
    
  • The 6th encounter will take place on a gunship, while chasing Deathwing. You'll fight a High General of Deathwing's forces.
• In order to face Deathwing we'll have to defeat 6 other bosses. All all the dragon's minions.
  
• Even if the fight starts at the Temple, the entrances of the dungeons and raid are going to the at the Caverns of Time.
  
• There are going to be 8 bosses and on the last two encounters we will face Deathwing.
  
• The battle is going to be "mobile". Players will chase Deathwing all around the world.
  
• In the end, as we already knew, we will fall on Deathwing's back.
  
  • On Deathwing's back players will have to tear dragon's plate armor as he spins into Maelstrom.
    
  • While pealing his armor you'll have to fight various lava creatures that spawn out through his armor plates.
    
  • Seems like there will be some balance mechanic for people so they can firmly stand on the dragon's back. Basically we have to watch ourselves not to fall down.
    
  • Near the end of the fight Deatwing, corrupted by Daemon Soul, will fall into Maelstrom.
    
  • The final stage of the battle will take place around the Vortex, on some floating islands.
    
  • On those islands we fight with parts of the dragon. A wing, a tentacle, a claw... It will be a multiple phase fight.
• Apparently 4.3 will be on PTR in a few weeks from now.
  
• Even after this last patch for Cataclysm, there still a lot of content to be launched for WoW.
  
• There is another expansion planned and we will hear about it, most likely, at BlizzCon 2011.
  
• There are no current plans for WoW to borrow the Diablo 3 Real-Money AH.
  
• The new Rogue legendary was confirmed once again.
  
  • The new legendary is actually composed of two daggers.
    
  • The legendary is for Rogues only.
    
  • The quest like is going to be for rogues too. They'll have to slowfall, pickpocket, stealth and stuff.
    
  • Eventually every class will get it's legendary, but Blizzard don't want this to be too predictable.
    
  • Regardless the rogues spec, every rogue will want those weapons.
• Even with the new threat changes a new rotation and game-play for tanks is out of the question for 4.3
  
• Blizzard consider that threat changes do not take out a lot of game-play.
  
• 4.3 will bring some buffs for melee dps.
  
• We will see epic gems in 4.3.
  
  • The current plans are that every time when you kill a boss on Normal or Heroic mode each player will get a geode and inside are going to be some gems, with a chance to get epic gems.
    
  • It will take time to replace all your gems with the epic ones.
    
  • The gems are going to be pretty are and they are going to be some individual rewards. Every person in raid will receive one geode per boss.
    
  • Epic gems are like 10 stats over the actual ones.
• Looking for Raid most likely wont share the the look-down with the normal and heroic instances.
  
• Northrend will give you much more experience. Therefor you'll level up faster

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