Wrath of the Lich King Release Date

Release date for Wrath of the Lich King (wotlk) World of Warcraft Extension

By Nick Matthews

Counting down the days now to the new extension, Wrath of the Lich King. The beta release was fun but although its nice to have a new pet and some achievements, I want to see (be) the Death Knight and the hundred of new quests. I want to freeze in the polar contnent of Northrend and I wish I had a polar bear mount!

The Wrath of the Lich King expansion is scheduled for release in Europe and USA on 13th November 2008

Mike Morhaime, president and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment said that "This expansion will add some of the most infamous characters and settings from the Warcraft universe to World of Warcraft," and also "In addition to new story content, Wrath of the Lich King will introduce a number of features specifically requested by players over the past couple of years. "

The development of this second expansion pack to a nine million subscriber-strong World of Warcraft fanbase will include a level cap rise to Level 80.

Wrath of the Lich King will also include the first Hero Class - the Death Knight - with a new 'Inscription' profession, new arenas, new battlegrounds, new raids and siege warfare with destructible buildings.

There are apparently some awesome changes in the wind.

For example, although most of the shiny gifts that were given to Rogues have been seen already, there is one that has been kept well under wraps.

It's a level 75 skill: Tricks of the Trade. The current party or raid member becomes the target of your Tricks of the Trade.

The threat invoked by your next attack and each action taken for 6 sec after it are transferred to the target. As well as this, all damage caused by the target is increased 15% during this time period. So basically, this is a
souped-up misdirection for Rogues. The increase in damage will be highly useful in PvP, where threat is meaningless, and of course it won't hurt in PvE. Rogues can now help cement aggro onto the tank whenever needed .

Also - Blood Elf Males - may actually sound like a man (at least one you'd want to sound like!) If you’re a Death Knight, you apparently have to go into the sound options menu to turn this feature on for it to work. Check out this link for a sound preview ...

http://www.spooncraft.com/breaking-news/wotlk/wrath-of-the-lich-king-beta-8885-brings-new-death-knight-voice-options/

And for some plan peeks on the Death Knight design, be "wowed" by this!

http://wow.curse.com/articles/wow-en-news/290499.aspx

To get with the excitement and the anticipatory mood, subscribe to this feed from curse in your RSS reader. Curse are counting down the days to the release of Wrath of the Lich King and giving out information about pre release promotions, trailers and activities.

http://wow.curse.com/

Can't Wait!

Other News:
New Warcraft Book coming from Christie Golden

"Rise of the Lich King" 

Author Christie Golden is working on a new book about Arthas as a ten-year-old prince. The book follows his path through Warcraft III.  It will have two elves as pivotal characters and brings back Arthas' past with Jaina and Kael'thas. The book's due out in April 09, so Arthas fans know when to look out for it in the stores.