Blizzard has announced the release date of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Expansion Pack
. 13 November is the date to watch!
Pre-order for the normal edition has already started at the various retailers (Best Buy, GameStop, Walmart, Amazon and Circuit CIty)
Blizzard's Pre-order with Online Retailers
As for the Collector’s Edition, price has not been confirmed.The Collector’s Edition comes with the following items:
- World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King on DVD-ROM.
- The Art of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, a 208-page book featuring never-before-seen images from the game.
- An exclusive in-game pet: Frosty, the baby frost wyrm.
- A behind-the-scenes DVD containing over an hour of developer interviews, the Wrath of the Lich King intro cinematic with director’s commentary, and more.
- The official soundtrack CD, containing 21 epic tracks from the game, along with exclusive bonus tracks.
- A mouse pad featuring a map of the newly opened continent of Northrend.
- Two World of Warcraft Trading Card Game March of the Legion™ starter decks, along with two exclusive cards available only in the Collector’s Edition.
Hang on tight as we awaits the arrivial of the Wrath of the Lich King!
With news that Wrath of the Lich King may be released in the second half of 2008, many online shops has already listed the all-time best MMORPG’s second expansion date for pre-order and release date.
Amazon has listed the date of released as 30 November.
Bestbuy stated the release date as 3rd of November.
Gamestop has also stated the shipping date as 3rd November.
Based on the last expansion, Burning Crusade, which release date was originally set on November 2006, but pushed back to January 2007, if no accidents happen (*fingers crossed*), Wrath of the Lich King should release in November also. I think it may be released around 30 November (buffer around 5 days), which is the Amazon’s forecast. This expansion should come before Christmas (hopefully). Otherwise, history will repeat.
The BlizzCon is a huge event for the Blizzard staffs and games fans, but only a minority get to attend this conference, which is held in the US. Gamers from other nations only get to read the information posted on websites and forums.
I chanced upon the BlizzCon Northrend Panel on youtube, it is the entire length of the presentation, and most of the part of the Q&A session. The panel took around 60 minutes, so if you have the time to watch and wanted feel the awe with the fans out there, watch this.
If you do not want to watch the whole presentation, you can read this report I did. It is a summarised version of the presentation in text format.
Continue reading ‘BlizzCon ‘07 : Northrend Panel (summary)’
I hope many of the World of Warcraft fans are very excited by the upcoming expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.
One of the main features in this expansion is the introduction of Hero Classes.
The first Hero Classes to be introduced in Wrath of the Lich King is the Death Knight. As we know that the death knight is a powerful user of necromantic skills. One of the famous Death Knight in the Warcraft universe is Arthas. Arthas was a paladin who became a death knight and terrorised Azeroth and Northrend, eventually fused with the spirit of Nel’zhul and became the Lich King.
So you might be wondering how to we play the Death Knight? Detailed information have not been released by Blizzard yet, but you will need to meet certain criteria before this Hero Class is unlocked. Once unlocked, you are able to create a new character under the Death Knight class.
As the name suggested, it sounds like a Warrior class, but definitely more cool.
These are some characteristics of the Death Knight class:
- It can fulfill either the DPS build or the tanking build.
- Able to dual-weld weapons or handle a single 2H weapon. Shield is not necessary. =)
- Plate armour (how to tank with a mail armour?)
- Different from Warriors as Death Knights are more casting oriented, with summoning spells, etc.
- Unlocked through specified quests and interaction with Arthas.
- Start off at relatively high level, 55 to 70 (unconfirmed yet)
- Use the Rune Resource System, which runes are carved on the weapons.
- Runes belongs to the following 3 schools, Blood, Frost and Unholy.
Currently, details of classes that are able to unlock the Death Knight is unavailable, but both Horde and Alliance are able to unlock this class.
