Spooncraft

Yesterday Blizzcast Episode 4 aired (still hasn’t popped up on iTunes come on Blizzard how many times you dropping the ball this week?). The first part is a pretty interesting interview with a guy I admire a lot (Russel Brower) and about the music of Warcraft. The rest of the show is pretty centered around Professions and the love they are receiving in Wrath of the Lich King. Tailors rejoice because this is indeed a “Very fast Rug”

BlizzCast episode 4 brings us several new perspectives on World of Warcraft. Starting us off is an interview with Russell Brower, director of audio and video, about the process of creating music for World of Warcraft to be a part of an evolving, epic experience in the world of Azeroth. Next we interview World of Warcraft game designer Jonathan LeCraft about professions, covering both what we have learned from them in the past and where they are going in Wrath of the Lich King. We finish up the episode with our Q&A segment, which features developers answering a variety of questions from our communities. Listen to the show now, or check out the transcript to see all the featured artwork.

General Changes

• The discovery system might be added to all professions, but will be restricted to “fun” recipes (or will be predictable for more important recipes)
• Token Vendors might be added to let players buy recipes through professions daily quests.
• The “best in slot” 375 skills requirement was too high in TBC, you can expect them to be available earlier in WotLK (~350 in Burning Crusade terms)

Blacksmithing Changes

• Blacksmiths will be able to add sockets to a weapon, Armorsmiths will be able to add a metasocket to armor.
• The plan is to try to balance Armorsmithing and Weaponsmithing to make both spec interesting.

Fishing will be more bass-master and less… (well you know where I was going with that)

• Fishing will be more interesting and interactive in WotLK.
• There will be fishing-specific food in WotLK just like what was introduced in TBC with recipes like [Spicy Crawdad] or [Golden Fish Sticks]

Engineering (Repoerted this to you all yesterday)

• Some of the engineering items nerfed in TBC like the Mind Control Helmet will probably be un-nerfed and/or upgraded in WotLK.
• Items like Rocket Boots will be changed to an enchantment allowing useable on your boots to become Rocket Boots.
  
• WotLK now allows developpers to do “on-use enchantments” to items and they’re going to use it a lot. (Parachute Cloak enchant, or something to let you shoot webs from your gloves, etc …)
• This will replace your primary enchantment on the item.

Enchanting on the AH

• Enchanters will be able to sell their enchantments at the Auction House.

Alchemy still a work in progress

• Discovery won’t be used for “important” recipes anymore, it will be either predictable or just used on “fun” recipes.

Jewelcrafting relief

• The amount of recipes obtained through world drop will be reduced greatly.

Tailoring carpets!

• Tailoring-only flying mount Magnificient Flying Carpet!

Inscription, the NEW enchanting?

• One inscription is worth like one to two talent points, and all the inscriptions aren’t about increasing power, sometime they’re a big power increase but they’ll change something else about the spell. (eg. we might reduce the cast time of pyroblast down to 3sec but add a 25sec cooldown or decrease the effect of Last Stand from 30% to 20% of your max health, but give it like a 2min cooldown instead of an 8min cooldown.)
• Inscriptions will affect talents, but probably won’t affect passive talents very often.
• 15-20 Inscriptions will be available for each class, sometimes with more than one inscription available for a specific skill.

Cooking pork is awesome!

• Delicious Roasted Boar - Creates a delicious roast boar platter for you and your friends to enjoy.