World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

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Template:Infobox CVG World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is the first expansion pack for the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft. It was released on January 16, 2007 at midnight in Europe, United States and Australia, and sold nearly 2.7 million copies that day, making it the fastest-selling PC game in those regions.<ref name="salespress">World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade shatters day-1 sales record. Blizzard Entertainment. January 23, 2007. Retrieved January 23, 2007.</ref> It was released on January 17, 2007 in Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and Singapore; in total, approximately 3.1 million copies were sold across these territories in the first month of release, including 1.5 million in North America and nearly 1.2 million in Europe.<ref name="monthpress">World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade continues record-breaking sales page. Blizzard Entertainment. March 7, 2007. Retrieved March 12, 2007.</ref> It was later released on February 1, 2007 in South Korea, April 30, 2007 in Taiwan, as well as the regions of Hong Kong and Macau.<ref>World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade will be available by April 3, 2007 in Taiwan. ETtoday. March 9, 2007.</ref><ref name="twsalespress">World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade will be released on April 3. World of Warcraft Taiwan Site. March 19, 2007.</ref> Availability in Chinese will be announced in the near future.

Contents 1 Information 2 New playable races 3 New instances 3.1 Future instances 4 Player vs. Player 5 Distribution errors 6 System requirements 6.1 Windows 6.2 Macintosh 6.3 All platforms 7 Notes and references 8 External links

Information

• New content is accessible to players without the expanding content, such as items created with the Jewelcrafting profession and any trading items found in Outland.<ref>Forum post by community rep Drysc Retrieved August 28, 2006.</ref>
• On July 21 2006, it was announced that Blood Elves would be able to play as Paladins, which were previously unavailable to the Horde. Similarly, the Draenei would be able to play as a Shaman, previously unavailable to the Alliance.<ref>{{

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• New endgame instance sprints are capped at 25 members (previous instances had a limit of 40 players).
• New dungeons will have two difficulty levels: Normal and Heroic. Once a player reaches level 70 and achieves revered reputation with the affiliated faction (and purchases the heroic key for the corresponding faction), they may choose to run any Outlands instance at the Heroic difficulty. While the harder difficulty will present a much greater challenge to the group, it will also yield better rewards.
• On December 8 2006, the opening cinematic of The Burning Crusade was shown on Spike TV's Video Game Awards<ref>{{

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• In just 24 hours, The Burning Crusade sold over 2.7 million copies worldwide.<ref> Burning Crusade sells 2.7 million copies in 24 hours</ref>

New playable races

Both the Alliance and the Horde have received a new playable race. These new races changed faction dynamics by providing each faction access to all player classes in the game. These races are the Draenei (who can now play Shamans, as well as Warriors, Mages, Priests, Paladins, and Hunters) and the Blood Elves (who can now play Paladins, as well as Mages, Warlocks, Hunters, Priests, and Rogues).

New instances

There are several new instances in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.

• Hellfire Citadel was formerly an Orc fortress, and housed the warriors of the Shattered Hand, Bonechewer, Laughing Skull and Shadowmoon clans. More recently, Illidan has converted it to his own uses, and is breeding an army of Fel Orcs within its walls. There are three 5-man instance wings - Hellfire Ramparts, Blood Furnace, and Shattered Halls - and one 25-man raid, Magtheridon's Lair. Magtheridon's Lair is an Onyxia's Lair-style "quickie" raid, killing a handful of guards before taking on Magtheridon himself. Hellfire Citadel provides reputation with the two outposts in Hellfire: Honor Hold for the Alliance, and Thrallmar for the Horde.

• Coilfang Reservoir is a subterranean pumping station operated by Illidan's naga forces, sapping water from the lakes of Zangarmarsh. There are three five-man wings - Slave Pens, The Underbog, and Steamvault - and a 25-man raid called Serpentshrine Cavern, which serves as the inner sanctum of Lady Vashj, matron of Illidan's naga. Coilfang provides reputation with the Cenarion Expedition, located at the Cenarion Refuge east of Coilfang.

• Auchindoun is a "city of the dead" located in the Bone Wastes in southern Terokkar Forest. When they lived in peace, the Draenei laid their dead to rest here. When the Draenei were forced into hiding, Auchindoun became a fortress of the Bleeding Hollow Clan, which was besieged by the Alliance during their invasion of Draenor. After Draenor was transformed into Outland, elements of the Shadow Council destroyed Auchindoun and created the Bone Wastes by summoning Murmur, who is said to be the primordial essence of sound. Auchindoun is for level 64-70 players, and there are four wings: The Mana-Tombs, Auchenai Crypts, Sethekk Halls, and Shadow Labyrinth, all of them five-man instances. Auchindoun provides reputation with The Consortium and Lower City.

• The Caverns of Time lie below the Tanaris desert in southern Kalimdor. It is where Nozdormu the Timeless One, head of the Bronze Dragonflight and Dragon Aspect of Time, makes his home. The Caverns of Time is actually comprised of three instances, in which players can experience significant events of Azeroth's history and prevent them from being altered by a mysterious foe: Thrall's escape from Durnholde Keep, Medivh's opening of the Dark Portal, and the Battle of Mt. Hyjal. Players receive Keepers of Time reputation for defeating enemies in the Old Hillsbrad (Durnholde Keep) and Black Morass (Dark Portal) instances. The Scale of the Sands - a subfaction of the Bronze Dragonflight, led by the Prime Consort Soridormi - is the faction for the Battle of Mt. Hyjal. The ability to enter requires obtaining two keys, one from killing Lady Vashj in Serpentshrine Cavern, and the other from killing Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider in the Eye of Tempest Keep.

• Karazhan is a solitary tower in Deadwind Pass. Having existed for some time, it was best known as the sanctum of Medivh, Guardian of Tirisfal. After Medivh's death, the tower was abandoned, but the powerful nexus of ley energies beneath the tower remain...as well as the myriad of treasures accrued by the powerful wizard. Karazhan is a 10-man raid instance, and provides reputation with a subsect of Dalaran known as the Violet Eye - which was founded to spy on Medivh and his activities.

• Gruul's Lair is the domain of the Gronn overlord known as Gruul the Dragonkiller in Blade's Edge Mountains. It is a 25-man raid, consisting of two encounters - the Ogre Council of High King Maulgar, and Gruul himself.

• Tempest Keep was created by the Naaru to serve as both a fortress and a means of transportation. However, after arriving in Outland and leaving the keep, Prince Kael'thas and his blood elves stormed in and took over. It now serves as the Prince's base of operations in Outland. There are 3 level 70 5-man instance wings and a 25-man raid. The 5-man wings are the satellite structures of the Keep: The Botanica (blue), Mechanar (white), and Arcatraz (red). The central keep, known as the Eye, is the raid instance, and is the inner sanctum of Prince Kael'thas himself. Tempest Keep provides reputation with the Sha'tar in Shattrath City.

• The Black Temple: The Temple of Karabor was the center of Draenei worship until its priests were slaughtered by demonically corrupted orcs. In the massacre's aftermath the warlocks of the Shadow Council seized the structure and gave it a new name: the Black Temple. When the Alliance invaded Draenor after the Second War, the orc shaman Ner'zhul hastily opened several dimensional portals in order to escape. The resulting magical backlash ripped the world apart. Drawn by these portals, the pit lord Magtheridon arrived in what had come to be known as Outland and took the temple as his seat of power. His dominion over Outland remained unchallenged until the arrival of Illidan the Betrayer. The pit lord proved no match for the wielder of the Twin Blades of Azzinoth. Today Illidan occupies the temple, awaiting any and all who would challenge his rule.

Future instances

There is an instance that can be seen in the world, but which is not yet accessible.

• Zul'Aman is a 10 man raid instance located in south east Ghostlands. The instance has no attunement process and has many features for "casual" raiders. There are also timed mission quests for the more "hardcore" raiders. There are 6 bosses. Similar to Zul'Gurub, 5 of these bosses are animal avatars. The last boss is a mysterious troll warlock named Zul'jin.

Player vs. Player

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Distribution errors

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System requirements

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Windows

• OS: Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4); Windows XP (Service Pack 2); Windows Vista
• Processor: Intel Pentium 3 or AMD Athlon 800 MHz minimum
• Memory:
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 1GB RAM is recommended
• Video:
  • Minimum: 32MB 3D graphics processor with transform, clipping, and lighting, such as an NVIDIA GeForce 2 class card or above
  • Recommended: 64MB VRAM 3D graphics processor with Vertex and Pixel Shader capability, such as an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 class card or above External links section below has a link to show other video chipsets Blizzard has marked as supported
• Sound: DirectX-compatible sound card

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• OS: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or newer required
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  • 1GB DDR RAM is recommended
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  • 64MB VRAM recommended
• A keyboard and mouse are required. Input devices other than a mouse and keyboard are not supported by Blizzard.

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All platforms

• Connectivity: Requires an active broadband internet connection to play. (Note: Dial-up will still work but is no longer supported)
• Mouse: Multi-button mouse with scroll wheel recommended.
• 10GB available HD space is specified on package. Based on tests run, the pack actually requires about 2GB more than your current World of Warcraft installation (approximately 7GB after World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade is installed). (Patching may account for this difference in space.)

Note: System Requirements are subject to change.

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Notes and references

External links

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• Blizzard's Press Release regarding the expansion
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