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There"s an excellent interview with Tom Chilton, the World of Warcraft lead game designer, up on GameInformer. Lots of stuff we"ve heard before, but there are some interesting talking points. For example:

• They are looking into extending the dungeon finder to 10-man content.
• Chilton hinted that we may see a new boss in the Ruby Sanctum before Cataclysm launches
• They have a "general philosophical approach of getting the hybrids to where they"re close to the DPS classes when it comes to DPS roles. Otherwise, those specs just turn into joke specs."
• They feel warlocks could use a boost to their DPS.
• Tol Barad, the Cataclysm equivalent to Wintergrasp, will be more of a Isle of Quel"Danas style daily quest hub instead of a farming zone.
• Before settling on death knights for Wrath of the Lich King"s hero class, they specifically debated necromancers and rune-masters.
• They feel that with all the accessibility work they did on end game PvE in Wrath, end game PvP has become harder to get into by comparison.

It"s a three page interview, so click through to read the whole thing! What really struck me reading this was that comment about hybrid DPS compared to pure. This "hybrid tax" concept has been harped on by posters on the official forums for a long time now, and this is a fairly straightforward way of putting it.

Tom Chilton retrospective interview on Wrath of the Lich King originally appeared on WoW.com on Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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