Wrath of the Lich King Release Date
AKA GameStop is Hilarious. So, GameStop has World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King for sale now. They have the release date for the upcoming WoW expansion at 11/03/08 for $39.99. “What?” You might ask this question, like I did myself. It seems like they must have used dice and more than a little bit of voodoo to come up with this date and price. Well, apparently they did, and they explained how in a rather funny… explanation… on their site. Copied here after the fold since it’ll go away at some point.
Official price and release date have NOT been announced by Blizzard. In this case, the price and release date were determined by the GameStop e-commerce staff, (comprised of overpowered warlocks), using a combination of 6 and 20-sided die.
Important: If the price decreases between the time you place your order and the release date, you will receive the lower price. Woot! If the price increases you will be given the option to either pay the higher price or cancel your order. However, if the price increases by more than $1,000, many of us here at the corporate office plan to retire and purchase a small Caribbean island. You are welcome to visit us at any time. Please bring pizza, chocolate and cold beverages.
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amazoon also is selling pre orders with a ship date of november fthird
http://www.amazon.com/World-Warcraft-Wrath-Lich-Expansion/dp/B000VJTJNE
Haha…. Guys, it’s like comparing new shoes. Sure nikies were really ppular, but puma is in now. Old weapons, are a thing of the past, still nice to owwa and awwwa at, but thunderfury, hand of ragnarus. They are old, People are more interested in illidans blades now. For me, new expansion thumbs up, sick of dailies and the same old PvP. I’m up for newer and better thing!
Any idea what the system req’s will be like? my gfx goes spastic when i enter shatt so il be needing a new pc before it comes out anyway….lol
To be honest,,,, From the start of this forum, yall are bashin wow…(still the best game)..?…WTF BC was the shit ….cmon
Factions should work the same in wow as they do in WC3. (Example: even though Humans hate Ogres they can still work together to fight a greater evil. making it so you can play with your friends on different team as you or gank them whatever. Faction should = race. Meaning you can now kill taurens if your undead makes for better PVP, and different combinations of groups. If I keep killing undead players should hurt my rep towards undead and soo on… I could go way deep in how I think this should be, but sigh)
Classes should be more race specific. (DK should only be undead, I’m not saying this because I like undead, but because it make sense, and no I don’t have any undead chars. They already messed up the paladin)
The pally should be the opposite of the DK. (I hear they are redoing the pally tree completely I guess that’s a start.)
I also think the way they do realms is crap too, but oh well no ones making me buy it. These are my major complaints and if they changed just one of these things it would pretty much make it seem like a new game all together with a ton of new strategies. With these changed you wouldn’t need to raise the lvl cap to make the game better.
PS: (If DK gets to start at a higher lvl why cant I start a druid at a higher lvl? Why not just give everyone a single high lvl to create for every high lvl char we get from 1 to 70?)
lol just get the beta version and drule until they realease it i mean its not like you have to play on the blizzard servers. Beacause of private servers and torrent sites ppl can play for free!!!
hehe I would just like point out how stupid you must feel after saying;
“Tac UNITED STATES
August 18th, 2007 at 02:44
Blizzard will not wait until 2008 to release this product. They have flooded the market with a great video and everyones expectations are high. They will wait a few more months as anticipation increases the appetite. But I would not be supprised if we saw the expansion hit the shelves before the new year or at the new year.
I also cannot wait for this to come out. The new race looks amazing and ground breaking. Lvl 80,,,,Hell yeah. And another new continent.. great job blizzard. This expansion looks to have all the trappings, and appears to live up to the Blizzard reputation.”
Right now. We are almost at 2009 now.
And everybody knows that Blizzard is always late with their games. 
I have quit wow this summer, but this expansion’s new talents are the only thing that make me wanna go back, but yet if they’re planning to make a new expansion with lvl cap raised to 80, they should really make it a lot easier to get to 60, since every high-level player will get bored of his class or want to try a new class and open the create new character window, and will have to chose between:
lvl 1 warr, lock, rogue, priest, mage, drood, shammy, pala, hunter
and
lvl 55 DK
I mean, is there like any1 that will be eager to start it all over again over chosing a lvl 55 DK? That’s the only thing bothering me, thousands and thousands of DKs running around
I think Blizzard has saddly been commercializing things for quite a while longer than even TBC. Does anyone remember the days at a crowded Silvermoon Grove, around level 29, perhaps? People were always talking about how to finally beat the horde, how they pwned the puny allies, talking about twinks, dueling with other twinks. Campfires and shitty stories. Those were great. Those days, player interaction certainly wasn’t only about sheer skill, and the queues weren’t fast and quickly accessible, but it was epic. A tranquil land about you, and a combined area of people who can make almost any plot line regardless of what’s actually shown. I miss those days.
Since my ban about a year ago, without reason, warning, provocation, or notice of termination, nothing has upset me more than the changes to Alterac Valley. Jesus… Has anyone heard of the 72 hour AV war, on Draenor server, or simply been in one of so many 4 to 8 hour ones? Those were awesome too. You didn’t need the absolute best skill; just damage and clarification that the enemy was severely pissed at you (enough to make an gank after some thirty minutes almost worth it
). And lastly, what about the city raids? Skywall server, near Christmas: three 8-group raids of horde attacked Darnassus and Stormwind, taking most of Darn, Deeprun Tram, and almost took SW keep. The reports first came from a guy who played on both sides, asked to recruit (Skywall was a PvE server). Guilds issued scouts towards Grom’Gol, Westfall, Darkshore, Astranaar. Half the allied half of the server was asking, “Have you seen them? Where are they attacking next? Where should we meet? Do we have enough?†The horde came like a flood, only some twenty minutes after being spotten in mass. 60’s hearthed, piling into ambush positions to kill off casters shortly before the main battles and then flee in a flanking position along the horde sides before meeting in slaughters at main towns… Okay, so it wasn’t quite that organized, but it was amazing. Then there are also the simple joys of riding through freewind post and thunder bluff, or trying to stealth-kill your way to an exit as a night elf hunter after the ‘riding through Thunder Bluff.’
That, I think is what needs to be continued, if not just returned. The epics within a epic, the glorious parts of PvP. Battlegrounds with familiar faces, city-raids, world PvP… I too would rather see the original continent have more dungeons (perhaps with added heroic modes for different levels), and especially, areas where you can fight tooth and nail, and/or run like hell while laughing manically. Better yet, what if you could choose to gain experience not only by grinding, but also by doing what many love most: player versus player interaction. I think a choice would be best, in order to allow twinks when they are wanted, or to quest with a group of friends through levels with your honor gains. Now that I think about it, there are so many ways WoW could avoid the cheap sense of stagnating grinding: better AI, cooler plots, NPCs you actually might care about, or perhaps allowing the world to fall mostly into the hands of the players, leaving such stagnation as optional. I would be happy with that: some clean, great patches to better experience the epic that is dwindling, by allowing us to extend it ourselves.
The expansion will be cool but the same thing is gona happen like in the 60 days all t6 an all these nice epics are gona be replaced by greens and *yellows* apparently yellows are like epics but as common as blues. I hope this expansion is good cus it dosnt seem like theres anything but arthas in it.
“a player”, very good piece.
i think WLK is getting to much hate, because although the raised level cap may be unnecessary, who can honestly say they don’t want to see what the achievements will be like, or what the new continent will hold in store?
one thing i’m disappointed in is that blizzard has yet to improve reputation gains with major cities.
it’s taking me FOREVER to grind with uc, and i want my damn warhorse
fieryfury, blade’s edge pve realm
oops i forgot to add:
new talents look great, and as a hunter the Chimaera Shot maks me almost drool
(almost)
LOL thats just hilarious.
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i guess Blizzard doesnt like ninja looters XD
�ninja looting� ftw
SATAN u pwn, ur fulyl right man
LoL its 2008 now; nearly 2009, they sed they might be releasing in MAY 2009, OMG
for the horde
Er…I thought Lich King was going to come out as a patch downloadable and FREE??
WOOOT LICH KING FOR DA WIN MAYNE !
WoW really is the most boring game i’ve ever played.
I, on the other hand, am awaiting Aion. <3
there are ways to make a game better without raising the level cap. it seems that WoW has managed to dig itself in a deep pit, though, and will continue to increase the level cap in all sorts of fancy new expansions until it becomes a black hole.
so sad.
I have to disagree with alot of you.. Alot of people get alot of enjoyment on exploring new territory and leveling up with friends. I thought TBC was a great addition to WoW, and that WOTLC will be even better. And I understand that gettin ganked is annoying, (both of my 70s are on pvp servers) but if you really arent into pvp go to a rp server. If you already have a character above 55 or 60 (cant remember) then you can make a character at level 55. Blizzard is trying there best to make as many people happy as possible. peace out
Let me clear this up.. leveling in wow is easy, if you have a problem getting to 60 or 70 and your playing the game consistently then your horrible at wow, and go play frogger. I cant wait to roll a death knight and level him from 55-70 after getting my mage and rogue to 80. GUESS WHAT WHINERS? 1.6 million exp just to start from 70 to 71. Gonna take as long to get from 70 to 80 as it did to get from 1 to 70.
Pro PVP / PVE player.
Shadox – Dwarf Rogue 70
Gizwizzly – Gnome Mage 70
Hoofshock – Dranei Shaman 55
Ok – I am thinking that WotLK will be out in Feb next year (2009) but I also know that the release of the date for BC killed wow for several months – people stopped raiding and just ran battlegrounds to get epics that were as good if not better then the ones they could get in PvE content. Blizz is doing the same thing now – PvP gear is as good as T5 and badge loot is as good if not better then T6 – Blizz is going to wait as long as it can before letting us know when the game is going to come out. At the moment the release of a new MMO that is good could get some serious play time and player base from wow. With nothing new comming to the game and the people who are going to raid sunwell wrapping it up – the game is at a pinicle.. Not saying that people are not going to be back to wow in the future just that the time is right to strike with games like Age of Conan (who was there but lost due to incomplete end game content) and Warhammer Online (looks pretty good but we are still waiting to see) I think WotLK better be good and soon.
My 2 cents
For the ppl that wanted to know about the death knight but are to lazy to look it up here you go…
The Death Knight is the first announced Hero class for World of Warcraft. Death Knights, according to Blizzard developers, will be able to fulfill the tank and DPS roles sufficiently. Death Knights can use plate armor and new rune weapons like Runeswords and Runeaxes, but they cannot use shields. According to an interview, a Death Knight’s summoned pets will be more similar to a Priest’s Shadowfiend, a Mage’s Water Elemental, or a Druid’s Treants in that they are pets with a set duration. In the current beta stage death knights that have put a specific number of talent points into the Unholy Tree are granted full control over their ghoul like a hunter’s or a warlock’s pet (the ghoul is still set duration). The Death Knight will also be gaining the use of a new item called Sigil’s which will be similar to a Shamans Totem slot, paladin’s libram or a druids symbol.
This class will not be accessible using normal character creation. Instead, once a player has a level 55 character, they will be able to create one Death Knight character per realm, which will begin at level 55 with a full arsenal of spells.[17] Both the Alliance and Horde factions will have access to the class.
Instead of relying on rage, energy, or mana, the Death Knight will use a new resource system: runes, which will be displayed under the player portrait.[18] The Death Knight has 2 of each rune available for use and after they are used they enter a 10 second “cooldown” period before they can be used again. Currently each tree has talents that help speed up the cooldown on a certain set (blood, frost, unholy) of runes. With specific talents the Death Knight can also turn their runes into Death Runes which can be used as any of the 3 seperate runes.
The Death Knight will also require an additional resource called Runic Power to cast some of their more powerful spells. Runic Power works similar to a warriors Rage in that it slowly builds up during combat (unlike warriors the Death Knight must cast spells to gain runic power) and will decay over time when out of combat.
@scoobyD in new x-pac, they are letting u i tweak ur appearance, E.G new dances, and new hair ^^ just fyi
oh and yes im also looking forward to the new exp’ but hope its not too soon, as i want to lvl my drenei warr to 70 and raid her in kara a few times be4 WLK
Alóra khadgar^^ 57 fury warr
EVILCOMMETH seems like at lvl peep were having more fun now woot lvl 80 cap new deth knight ok hmmmmm im already planning lvl 90 xpansion g/l all FOR THE HORDE
EVILCOMMETH seems like at lvl peep were having more fun at lvl 60, now woot lvl 80 cap new deth knight ok hmmmmm im already planning lvl 90 xpansion g/l all FOR THE HORDE
you people dont understand how this works, if they dont make additions, servers like mine (ursin, low-pop, pvp) get RETARDED, this means that I (i joined 3 months after the last expansion) cant even compare to the other 70′s on the server, in full epics and stuff, i think its a great idea….. FOR THE ALLIANCE!!!! i wanna be a death knight
soontobetheathknight PvP gear is as good as any you can get in raiding so there is no reason to be behind at this point. I have a T6 warrior on executus and I started a Druid after I got that guy geared and he is already in full mercilless and kicking butt. Blizzard has already put into the current game a chance to catch up you just have to take it. But as we all know new level cap == all gear from the last expac is now going to be crap. So as blizz prepairs to hit the reset button just as it did before TBC raiding will die and people will either stop playing or switch to PvP until the next release.
Yeah, I’m on private PvP servers till the expansion and I can get to 80.
That’s not a long wait. U guys kidding
thats 3 months from when it was announced. cmon 
Hey im glad that wow is release cuse being a 60 for awhile wil be boring come ON ya dont want to be a 60 for 2 years ya want to be a 70 when it was release now that ya are wow is releasing a new cap lvl 80 ya want to be a new lvl not the same for 3 to 4 years COME ON telling wow dont make a new charter. The next expansion will come soon
keep it up wow forget what people say they are just mad if they quit they quit thats it. Like the one on top said if they make a new expansion raised to lvl 90 a few will quit not alot of people. Oh and wow release that new expansion on this date 11-13-08 
Update to every1 the expansion release date has been confirmed by Blizz to be out on 13-1-08 ^^
LOL, this must be a kinda old post because someone was saying it will probably be out before the year was over (2007 year) but now it’s toward the end of 2008 and it still hasn’t come out yet so the ppl at gamestop were pretty dang close cause it’s 9/29/08 and you can already reserve copies…
HAHAHA, yeah, this was posted over a year ago…
Why did they only make lvl cap to 80 why not 100 or somthing
I agree with those saying being 60 (pre tbc) and 70 (tbc) Gets fucking boring, ive given up with it till wotlk, so ur saying we shud stay lvl 70 andjust….. pvp? for ever? or raid? most guilds on my server r on BT / SwP already and r quiting wow cus theres nothing left, New xpacs Expand the game not make it worse,
@JOHNNY =) and its not 100 cus thats too buig a jump, another 30 lvls, and more work for blizz to do, that would take them about 4-6 more years to produce another new load of continents to lvl from 70-100, plus its more money =P most companies release things in little bits, its just bussiness
I stopped playing WoW at the start of aug. I think that blizzard is making the end game content to easy. Right when the x-pac comes out guilds will power level ( i used to do this, but got upset with all of bs blizzard is doing) and get to 80 fast. Get gear and get the best gear right off. Yes it is “fun” to kill a high end raid boss, or pvp and kick some ass. But if you think about how much money you are spending on this game, i really start to see how stupid it is. 15 bucks a month is ok for some people. But i would rather sell my 70 warlock, 70 druid and 70 priest and make a lot of money. If you think about the time you put into this game it really makes me think should i have even started. I think with BC xpac they made the gear difference way to high. and now being about to kill arthas, a main warcraft char is just dumb. Where is blizzard going to go after this. But over all it is just a game so i guess it is not a big deal. In my eyes SC2 would be a better choice (fun wise, and money wise).
PS: i did not spell check this, nor re-read so sorry if there are errors.
Have fun in Wotlk, you wont see me there
=Dless than month to go ^_^
rofl ok the expansion has too increase levels for new spells plus now you can solo more dungeons for the lowbies
