It's true. WOW was so popular and they want to cash in on that a little bit, so big changes are coming.
* New max level will be 80.
* No XP from PvP. WOW demonstrated that people prefer to level off of NPCs. After the wipe, DTV will be the only game mode that generates XP.
* Instead of retiring for looms, NPCs in DTV randomly drop equipment. The virgin also gives out quests like "kill 50 peasants".
* There will be new game modes that revolve around epic battles with NPCs that don't move until you attack them, and they drop things like +10 Danish Greatswords. They're tough to kill and you need to get like 40 people together to do it and if you don't do it then you'll suck at PvP forever because of your gear.
* Real time melee combat deemed too difficult for most players. New version switches to a model where you have "special moves" bound to keys 1-9, shift 1-9, ctrl 1-9, alt 1-9, F1-F12, your numeric keypad and every other key on your keyboard. For example, Ctrl-8 will drop a fire totem and then alt-8 will summon a fire demon from it and then F8 will command the fire demon to attack. It's very intuitive.
I got a sneak peak at the beta UI and took a screenshot. Take a quick look because I'm going to take it down and delete this message in a couple hours. I could get in real trouble for posting leaked beta info.
