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decide to go run some of the new dungeons

Dynamic Shadowing is hardly a brand-new concept, of course, but it adds a visual depth to WoW that is really hard to explain without actually seeing it first hand - personally, I'm incredibly glad that I'm no longer playing the game on an underpowered and ill-powered laptop, but finally have a PC capable of running it on max settings (level 4 Dynamic Shadowing does require more than a bit of graphical power). Even so, like almost everything else in Lich King, full shadowing looks really, really good. Even if it is a bit buggy at the moment. But that's what beta's for, eh?

We quickly get a group together and make our way to Utgarde Keep, a stronghold looming over the center of Howling Fjord. I have a surprisingly hard time figuring out how to get down to the entrance, and eventually decide to just cheat and Slow Fall down - but I'm sure there's probably a more proper way that I simply overlooked.

So! What with their improved stability, instances are pretty nice to check out as far as the beta goes; it's far less likely you'll find everything going kaput than you will outside. Of course, the downside is that when the server does crash, everything's WoW Gold respawned. Fun times.

Oh, one thing I'd forgotten to mention: WoW Gold the Druid They Call Emuslayer tips me off to a new console command players can look forward to in WotLK: /console extShadowQuality [#]. This command enables a brand-new WoW Gold graphical feature in the expansion: Dynamic Shadowing. When activated (0 is disabled, while 4 is the intended maximum), objects and players ... actually cast shadows. I don't mean the little black blobs that we call shadows currently in the game, but real shadows. Shadows that depend on the angle of lighting, shadows that reflect what your character looks like and what they're wearing, shadows that reflect what you actually do - if your character waves, so does your shadow.

Er, yes. I'm contacted, and we decide to go run some of the new dungeons. Unlike the ragged, malnourished hamsters running the Northrend world server, the critters powering the beta instance servers are fresh, energetic, and ready to dance. My sincere apologies if you now have the Hamster-Dance song running through your head, WoW Gold and I think I've overextended that metaphor anyway so let's just toss it.

Sorry, tangent. Anyway: it's dungeon time!
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