When I first started babbling excitedly to a friend about the major PvP changes coming with the Burning Crusade, he thought I must be making it up. I sent him links, and he still wondered if this was just some kind of joke. It all sounds like fake patch notes, he explained - where someone has read the forums for a while and bundled every complaint into a patch. Well, this Burning Crusade preview at Gamespot mainly offers confirmation to hopeless pessimists that these changes are, indeed, real.

But it does have some unique pieces of news, including the following...

• The difficulty settings on dungeons currently only apply to expansion dungeons, though they've been thinking about adding these features to some of the game's older dungeons.
• The Dreanei mount will be the "elekk" - which Gamespot describes as a creature resembling a war elephant
• The Blood Elf mount will be the cockatrice - presumably one similar to myth.
• Besides the Nether Drake, there will be faction-specific flying mounts. The Horde will get an armored wyvern and the Alliance will have armored griffons.
  
• Brief previews of the zones Silvermoon Castle (home of the Blood Elves), Exodar (home of the Dreanei), Tempest Keep, Hellfire Citadel, Collfang Reservoir, Karazahn Tower, and Nagrand.
  

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