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Gamespot has posted a Q&A with Blizzard's lead designer Jeff Kandel about the upcoming WoW expansion Burning Crusade. There's lots of questions involving rationale for picking the — hello? — Draenei and the way socketable items and jewel crafting will work, but we personally dug this exchange about falling off of your Pegasus in the Outlands, a mile up:
GS: Is there a way to get knocked off the mount?JK: Currently, no, but we are talking about iterating on combat mechanics as we get into alpha and beta. Not that we'll ever give you combat on the mount, but for PVP situations, we might have to make it so that you dismount off. Our first philosophy in general when we approach systems is to make it as fun as possible first and nerf it back in alpha or beta. If anything creates an existing world problem, we'll have to fix it.
GS: Are you allowed to drop off the mount in midair?
JK: Yeah!
GS: And if you drop off from too high up, will you crater?
JK: Oh, yeah. Watch. Clicks dismount action. Ahhhhhh. Player falls and takes roughly 3,700 fall damage.
I have sweet little visions of shooting my undead rogue's death ray into the sky and watching a dwarf fall three miles to his death.
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Q&A [Gamespot]
