A few weeks ago Blizzard posted on their site about the World of Warcraft boardgame. Being as how we happen to enjoy WoW we thought it might be nice to give the game a shot so we gave the folks over at Fantasy Flight Games a call. They sent us a copy of World of Warcraft The Board Game and we decided to give it a shot …
Like any planned event, we started late, but we were pretty excited. Fantasy Flight Games was kind enough to send us a review copy of their World of Warcraft boardgame, and if there’s anything we love as much as computer games, it’s boardgames.
Right about now you’re probably wondering what a World of Warcraft boardgame would be like. Is it a rebranded Monopoly? Does it play like Risk? You’d probably be surprised. Here’s the concept: Two teams of 2-3 characters, balanced evenly between Horde and Alliance, spend 30 rounds exploring Lordaeron, completing quests, gaining levels, training skills, gathering equipment, and generally preparing for a large battle. There are two ways to win - either one team manages to kill the overlord, essentially a boss mob, or there is a final PvP battle to determine the winner.
Before we dig into the gameplay though, let’s start at the beginning. It all started at 9:30 pm, on Friday…
Check out the full review here (There are pictures too!)
A very special thanks to Fantasy Flight Games for giving us the chance to play this game.
A new patch is being released on the public test realms today according to this post on the official general forums:
The public test realms will go live tomorrow, July 6, at 10:00 AM PDT. This small bug fix patch will address many outstanding issues with patch 11.
Patch Notes:
Click below to see the entire patch notes.
Community Manager Drysc has been a busy little tree over on the official rogue forum, offering up a bunch of tidbits into the design process going on with the Rogue review.
I have compiled the recent responses in the “read more” section below, for easy access. Whether you play a rogue or are on the receiving end of the beatdown stickĀ they quite often whip out, this information will interest you!
Thirty more realms are eligible for the Paid Character Transfer! For a full list of eligible realms, please click here. To find out when your realm will become eligible to transfer off of, please click here.
To learn more about Paid Character Transfer, please visit the Paid Character Transfer FAQ.
From WoW.com
