World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Q&A

GameSpot has published a two-page Q&A with Blizzard Entertainment lead designer Jeff Kaplan about their upcoming World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade expansion pack. A bit of what was talked about:

Q: Can you tell us more about the new raid instances in the expansion?

A: As far as raid instances go, you’ll get to experience Hellfire Citadel. It’s a “winged dungeon”-like Scarlet Monastery. You’ve got two five-man “level-up” wings levels 60 to 62. Then you have one five-man level-70 wing like a Dire Maul or a Stratholme, and it’s also got an Onyxia-style raid in it. We’re trying to do much more where we bridge the content up so everyone can get the Hellfire Citadel experience in their own comfort zone.

We will have some badass raid zones like the Black Temple, which is pure endgame raid. We’re going to have The Caverns of Time: The Battle for Mount Hyjal, the final mission of Warcraft 3 where the Night Elves banded together with Jaina and Thrall to defeat Archimonde.

We’re also going to try some new stuff with raid instances. We’re going to do a 10-man raid instance called Karazhan on the raid save timer. That should really feel like endgame content for people that don’t want to raid with anything more than 10. That’ll just be the tip of the iceberg for the real raiders that want to go out and experience the big, epic content.