As most of the World of Warcraft fans already know, the upcoming expansion pack for World of Warcraft Wrath of the Lich King, has been under development for some time now. And for the past month or so it has gone to alpha testing (friends and family of Blizzard), which of course has allowed alot of sneak peeks and leaks of the new content that is right now been designed by Blizzards team.

We came upon some new bits of info about this exciting new expansion pack, in a recent interview with some of the lead designers of Wrath of the Lich King. Heres some snippets of the interview:

“I think the biggest thing we took away was that Illidan (Burning Crusade’s lead baddie) was meant to be an all-pervasive evil that you’d fight against and eventually defeat, but I don’t think that came across to the average player.

Most players just did their quests and never really thought about him. That’s one of the big changes we want to make to Lich King. We’re going to push Arthas right in front of players - so they understand why he’s a big threat. In Lich King, Arthas will appear to players at level 71, level 75 and level 80.”

-J. Allen Brack, Lead producer on wrath of the lich king.

“We’re also going to be doing away with spell-damage only type gear. We’ll be moving to a system that, as part of your talents, will let players convert healing into spell-damage and vice-versa as part of their talents. That way they can use the exact same gear, but their talents just adapt what it does.”

-Tom ‘Kalgan’ Chilton, Lead game designer for blizzard entertainment.

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And speaking of gear, here is a view of some of the new tier gear found in the new expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, as found in the alpha testing client

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