New World of Warcraft Expansion Announced

[alleynbard]

For more info, to the Cataclysm page.

This looks cool.

[Morgen]

Finally a chance to be a furry and not have to be a Tauren!

I can't wait to see how WotC reacts with 4th edition! (Just a joke!)

[Celestial Healer]

Very curious.

Edit: Any speculation on date?

[Lazaro]

Geez, just what I needed a reason to want to play WoW again...

[TerraNova]

Amazing. I seem to be completing withdrawal. While WotLK still managed to make me relapse (if only briefly), this time i shrug and "meh". The only thing that looks good to me is the remodeled classic zones, and here I immediately wonder about low-level usuability.

Lorewise: Night-Elf mages? Troll and Worgen druids?

[mordulin]

I haven't been able to pick up Lich King still and now this!? Man!!! Goblins are finally going to be playable and I can't play currently! I need a job and to pay off my lingering debt badly so I can get back in.

[allen trussell]

Wow. Just wow. I love it... :)

[alleynbard]

TerraNova wrote:

Lorewise: Night-Elf mages?

That was the only thing that tripped me up. I am not sure how a Night Elf mage would even be accepted within their culture. I am hoping for a good backstory/justification for their presence.

[alleynbard]

I have to admit, shaking up Azeroth has me excited. Not sure how this will impact newcomers to the game though. That will be revealed in time, so I am not particularly worried.

Smaller level cap is interesting, though not bad. Flying mounts in Azeroth prime...finally. Path of the Titans sounds nice and mysterious.

The one thing that got me really excited was the Archaeology secondary skill. My little gnome has wanted to dig up artifacts for a while now. :) I just wonder how it will look.

I am just happy they aren't going to another world or continent this time. Well, that and the fact they will finally open up modern Hyjal and Gilneas. Those are two areas I have wondered about since the game was first released.

[alleynbard]

Morgen wrote:

Finally a chance to be a furry and not have to be a Tauren!

<laughs> How true. Though I think I got more excited about the goblins than the worgen. I like "small" races like gnomes, so I am happy about that.

[Wolfthulhu]

Hmm, I was wondering the other day why they never made Goblins a playable race. Sucks that the Alliance gets the cool Worgen. Maybe they'd consider trading for Tauren? They always struck me as more appropriate for Alli anyway.

[Snotlord]

It seems that Azeroth is hit by the Spellplague! I hope it will work out better for Blizzard than it did for wotc.

[lordzack]

Snotlord wrote:

It seems that Azeroth is hit by the Spellplague! I hope it will work out better for Blizzard than it did for wotc.

Dammit I was going to make that joke!

[BPorter]

Color me unimpressed.

The Lich King expansion looked all shades of cool. After watching the video on this, all I could think of was the Scorcher sequel trailers from the opening of Tropic Thunder.

The world is threatened....again.

.... by an ancient evil....again.

We ran out of landmasses so we just devastated some and revitalized others...

Meh.

[GentleGiant]

There are a lot of pictures and info from Blizzcon on mmo-champion.com.
I just want to know when it'll frickin' get here! (2010, but when exactly???)
The Dwarf Shaman looks so totally cool!