Patch 3.1: Secrets of Ulduar Trailer Reactions
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Heartbourne on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 36 Comments Tags: Lore, Ulduar, emalon, lore, patch 3.1, trailer
Heartbourne on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 36 Comments Tags: Lore, Ulduar, emalon, lore, patch 3.1, trailer 
As you're reading this, the maintenance period for patch 3.1 has been extended, but very shortly, the gates of Ulduar will be opened, Emalon the Storm Watcher will start giving out free purples to whoever controls Wintergrasp, and duel specs will be live! Keep in mind that your talent points will be reset and you should probably take care of that before entering Ulduar.If you haven't already, go watch the official cinematic trailer. Note that it does contain spoilers if you have not completed the Wrathgate questline.
Here are my observations from the trailer:
- Jaina Proudmoore has a new (old?) face! Instead of using the standard human female face model, she now has her own face that looks much more like her old model in Warcraft III. I've never played an Alliance character so I'm not too familiar with her "old" "WoW face" and like this new one much better.
- Garrosh Hellscream is one hotheaded little Mag'har orc. For being such a pansy when he was chilling in Nagrand, he is certainly taking after Grom.
- The Horde/Alliance conflict is being featured quite prominently. It makes me want to transfer back to a PvP server. It reinforces my suspicions that 3.2 may not contain a major raid and be PvP oriented.
- It is heavily implied that Yogg-Saron has influence over both Garrosh Hellscream and Varian Wrynn. I wonder if we will see a parallel of Grom Hellscream breaking free of the Burning Legion's influence by killing Mannoroth with Garrosh and King Varian. Not likely; maybe down the line leading us into the next expansion.
- Rhonin finally speaks! Rhonin is quite an epic character in the lore and seeing him play an active and audible role is awesome.
What is the first thing everyone is going to do in patch 3.1? Join up with your guild and hit Ulduar? Argent Tournament? Learn dual spec?
Reader Comments (36)
Jaina is smokin hot as always <3
OMFG the trailer... just... WOW *drools
is just !%@*ing awesome :D
i gonna attempt to pug it tomoz and get killed but just wanna see it with my own character :P
AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to bad i cant run uldaur for a while shoot i thought i had more time to get gear and money the tournement is the last thing on my mind death knights will be returned to thier formal glory and ithough verian wryn used a 2 of these swords i was suprised to see hell scream i thought he died at the the ice citadel gates apparently wasnt him i wish the servers were up so i can try some of this out FOR THE ALIANCE DEATH TO HORDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
servers are up wanto know my que in it 10321
the lag is bed on a normal day imagine the lag when today
damn now the son of a bitch wont retrive my character
servers are locked
servers are droping like flys
Hmm, think Malfurion is doing alright so far. Has only crashed once as far as I know. The biggest pain for me at the moment is updating my addons, as wowmatrix says I have 15 that need it (questhelper included). :|
It makes me hate Varian Wrynn alot more, and it seems we'll have another fight for power on the horde side with things heating up between Thrall and Garrosh,and I rly don't want to see Garrosh the leader of the Horde. I call for Jaina as the leader of the Alliance and Garrosh&Wrynn to be given a chill pill
Rhonin making dragons itchy ftw.
Thrall > Garrosh btw.
Garrosh is such a child.
Saurfang will get the horde once Thrall snuffs it. Hopefully. =/
FOR THE HORDE!