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World of Warcraft has been criticized in the past for a sub-par and almost useless profession system. Burning Crusade attempts to change all that by allowing users to craft items of great power that are comparable to loot in dungeons or the arenas.

As far as leatherworking goes in the Burning Crusade, the improvements are pretty comprehensive. Armor will be made stronger, will include leg enhancements, and will provide more protection for the players getting into the raids and the more hazardous dungeons. These new armor kits will be pretty simple to construct and will really come in handy when players can't get a particular high-end enchantment.

Mining now has available some more types of metal at the endgame. In BC, players will find Fel Iron and Adamantite, several kinds of high-end base metals, and also a few rare metals known as Eternium and Khorium. Similar to herbalists, miners will see some of the unusual Outland dwellers give up some rare materials when killed, for use for forge-fires. The miners will "skin" these corpses to obtain materials utilized by blacksmiths and engineers.

With the blacksmithing, they will now be able to make legendary quality weapons that only they themselves can use, such as a sword or the most durable suit of armor. These will be able to be worn, no matter what the game stage. Then, when they want everyone to take advantages of all this, they can so designate.

Alchemists will all have basic subject knowledge, but they will also be able to specialize.
These individuals will learn Elixirs, Potions, or Transmutation. Because of this, alchemists will be capable of constructing two items instead of merely one.

Enchanters now have new spells/enchantments in their repertoire. There are the new and improved mana and wizard oils, the ring spells, and lastly the Battlemaster and Spellsurge weapon enchantments. The ring spells will require locating the hidden formulas.

Herbalists will discover rare and novel herbs indigenous to Outland, with many strange and varied effects, some positive and some negative. And some will bestow (or inflict) strange effects on the herbalist who picks them. Plus, only this group will be permitted to harvest through the act of skinning, the unusual and scarce ingredients from plant beasts of the shattered regions lying outside the Dark Portal.

Engineers will locate new and useful gadget schematics. These will come from the innovative Goblin and Gnomish in their Research and Development Labs. Two such inventions will be Rocket Launchers and the Nigh Invulnerability Belts. Next, this class will have at their disposal a Mote Extractor to collect various resources from Outland's magic and gas clouds. Finally, raiding engineers will be able to create different colored smoke flares, enabling marking of significant areas.

Thomas Gates is a writer and editor for The Burning Crusader a World of Warcraft fansite dedicated to up-to-date free news, guides, and videos on the Burning Crusade.

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Warhammer Online scenarios are instances created for the sole purpose of RvR. As early Pc Games level 2, you will receive a quest to complete a scenario. You have to enter a queue for the scenario by clicking on the Warhammer icon on your radar. You will automatically be queued in the appropriate scenario for your level and 16mb There are different scenarios for each race combination and tier. For instance once you reach level 12, you will no longer be able to join the first tier scenarios. And even if you are a high elf, if you have traveled in to the lands of the dwarves, you will enter the dwarf-greenskin scenario.

The Warhammer scenarios are population controlled. It seems to be between two and three groups of players, possibly depending on how many are in the queue. And players are grouped automatically as they join the scenario so no time is wasted looking for a group. Your level is also boosted to the 8 of that tier so you can better Sega Dreamcast against higher levels. For instance, in the second tier scenario, a level 12 would be boosted to level 18, Game Controllers least as far as hit points and Sega Genesis to hit are concerned. Equipped armor and trained abilities are not improved.

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Completing the scenario will give the winning side bonus renown points. Your character will be returned to the exact spot you were in Colecovision you joined and you can immediately enter the queue to repeat the scenario. The average wait time between scenarios during the preview weekend was 10-15 minutes. This means you have plenty of time to complete quests while you wait to be transported back in to RvR.

I have heard many say you can level on scenarios, but I wouldn't really recommend it because it would be really slow. I would say you should level up and queue yourself up for scenarios when you are ready to commit at least 15 minutes of your full attention to the game. It's not the kind of thing you want to do while you are cooking dinner. I would recommend trying to keep your renown level as close to your actual level as you can and training these renown points as you get them. You can use all the help you can get. Plus, once you reach level 10, 20, or so on, you can visit a contested keep and purchase armor for the next tier. It is really good stuff but it does have a minimum renown rank to equip. So for a new character, you want to save up at least 1gp and be renown rank 6 by level 10 so you can buy your better gear. It will make a big difference!

James Ostenson is an avid gamer and has played several online fantasy games starting with Ultima Online. Warhammer Online looks to be the next best thing in the MMORPG world. Check out his Squidoo page where he does a review of the Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning preview weekend.

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