Burning Crusade Q & A Welcome to the Burning Crusade Q & A . In this article , I will try my hardest to answer as many of the questions I may come across , about , the first expansion for the game . Please notice , that this will be in constantly editing ( until sometime after the release ) . Q : " Question " Rules . Please post your questions beneath this horizontal line Burning Crusade Q & A . Q : Are the answers below based on the Burning Crusade Closed Beta ? Q : Is it possible to see the new spells and talents yet ? Q : Will the price on Flying Mounts be high ? CHANGE : The Flying mount comes in 2 variants , an Epic and Normal . The epic mount costs ( with training ) around 5000g , the normal mount is around 2 - 400g . Q : Will the price on Epic Flying Mounts be high , then ? Q : Are all the new zones accessible ( as of a particular date ) ? If not , any idea when they will be ? Q : I ' ve seen a lot of screenshots of Shattrath City and heard about the portals linking it to every capital city back in the world of Azeroth . Are the portals in Shattrath some sort of spell , or actual physical portals ? Q : There is a LOT of open space - literally ! - in Outland ; has anyone tested what will happen if , for some reason , you somehow ride off the edge of the cliffs , dismount from your flying mount in midair over the void , etc . ? Q : I ' ve heard Kazzak is being relocated from the Tainted Scar to the Throne of Kil ' jaeden ( in Hellfire Peninsula ) . Is he being re - designed to be geared towards a level 70 raid ( in terms of challenge and loot ) ? Is the Throne of Kil ' jaeden reachable without a flying mount ? And what , if anything , can be found in the Tainted Scar now that Kazzak has left ? Q : On the subject of Kazzak , how will the Benediction / Anathema quest work since he is being moved to Outland ? Q : When is the release date ? Q : Does Blizzard plan on releasing a trial / demo ? Q : Will there be a new opening cinematic for the burning crusade ? Q : For those who don ' t get the expansion , what will happen when they try and walk into the ghostlands or other azeroth based zone introduced in the expansion ? Q : Will the Dark Portal be open on 1 / 16 / 07 or is there some world event that needs to take place first ? Q : I don ' t have an account in WoW , but I want to play it now , if I copy the WoW from a friend and i buy the WoW BC , will it come with an account ? or I have to buy an account for 40 $ more ? Q : What is the maximum limit of skill in professions ? 400 ? Does this go for weapon / defense skills as well ? Q : Will it be possible to level to 70 immediately following the release ( January 16th ) , even if you do not have the Expansion ? Or will the cap be locked at 60 for those with World of Warcraft Classic ? Q : I ' ve heard that gold won ' t be worth as much in the Expansion as it is in the current game ; is this true ? And if so , what will be used as currency ? Q : Will there be a 1 month free subscription bundled with Burning Crusade retail , just like the originl WOW retail ? Q : Is there any new honor gear ( armor / weapons ) ? If so , is it possible to save up honor before the expansion comes out and spend it after release on the new stuff ? If not , what is honor used for ? Q : Have there been any invisible walls ou have tun into , blocking entrance into someplaces ? Q : What happens if you jump off the edge as a ghost / wisp / whatever ? I know that in Azeroth / Kalimdor you fall until you get to a pool of water , or below one that is , then you can swim up or swim to an ocean and die there . But since there is no water in every direction . . . I don ' t know what will happen . Q : Is there any Height limit to how high ou can go on a flying mount ? Q : In PVP , will the People who own BC have an advantage ( ie Skills , Talents and Level ) to people who only own WoW Classic or will Blizzard balance it somehow ? Q : What new battlegrounds are there in the Outland ? Will level 68 - 69 druids be able to use their flight form in the 60 - 69 bracket in the battlegrounds ? ( Oh please say yes . ) - - [ Edit ] I found my own answer here Eye of the Storm : ( Q : Will the level 60 raids in existence e . g . Blackwing Lair , Naxxramas , Ahn ' Qiraj etc . be given a Heroic difficulty level , so that level 70 ' s who never were 60 ' s or weren ' t for very long , or people just wanting to do it again , can ? I mean it makes sense , easy level 70 content . Q : Are there " Black War " versions of the new racial mounts available for purchase from the PvP vendors ? Q : Question When I started paying for two accounts for my daughter and I , I had to go buy a second copy of WoW . Am I going to have to buy 2 copies of Burning Crusades also ? Q : Will there be anything keeping you from going below the little rock chunks , on top of ones that have nothing on em , on top of the Dark portal , and flying eternally into a direction , until you AFK out ?