The upcoming Leipzig Games Convention is already sure to make waves in the gaming industry, but it's gonna be even more so with Blizzard's confirmation that they will be showcasing in this year's event.

Blizzard Blue Poster Vaneras has said confirmed that they will be at the LGC this August 21 to 24, providing playable demos of Blizzard's wonder babies, StarCraft 2 and the highly anticipated Wrath of the Lich KingWoW expansion. They will also be running tournaments, quizzes and a whole lot of excitement with a Live Raid.

There will also be a Blizzard booth on the floor that will be ready to cater to your Blizzard needs — including inquiries pertaining to recruitment. Here's clearly your chance to be a part of the company giant, and all you have to do is bring your CV with you and talk to them about how you can start your career with them.

The Blizzard booth at the Leipzig Games Convention will be in Hall 5, booth number D01. See you there!

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Blizzard selling 3,000 additional BlizzCon tickets
After the BlizzCon website experienced a lot of downtimes due to the sheer number of people trying to get tickets to BlizzCon 2008, Blizzard president Mike Morhaime has stepped in to announce that the company will be selling another 3,000 tickets.

Great news, but apparently it's still going to be a bit of a hit or miss affair. Due to the demand, the 3,000 tickets will be sold off via lottery. Only those who have an active Blizzard account as of 9:00 PM PDT on August 12 will have a chance of getting the tickets.

Still, it's better than missing out on the event, especially if you're a hardcore fan of Blizzard's stable of hit franchises. Keep checking back here for more BlizzCon 2008 updates.

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This paragraph is the exact same text for all my solo and group PvE templates, so after you read this once you can just skip it for other classes. These are my templates for what I consider the best viable templates for PvE purposes ONLY. A solo template is assuming that you never plan on grouping. A group template assumes that you are in a group 100% of the time, such as end game instances. I have also been asked to provide info on what skills should be taken at which levels, this is really difficult as it would depend on exact individual play styles. However, I put a number in parenthesis before each skill, this number is the level that I would take the skill at, of course this is extremely prejudiced because it is based on my own play style. Of course if you think you have a better template please share it with us.

Assassination Talents - 5 points

(41-42-43-44-45)Malice - rank 5/5

 

Combat Talents - 15 points

(46-47-48)Improved Gouge - rank 3/3

(49-50)Improved Sinister Strike - rank 2/2

(51-52-53-54-55)Lightning Reflexes - rank 5/5

(56-57-58-59-60)Deflection - rank 5/5

 

Subtlety Talents - 31 points

(10-11-12-13-14)Master of Deception - rank 5/5

(20-21-22-23-24)Camouflage - rank 5/5

(15-16-17-18-19)Elusiveness - rank 5/5

(38)Ghostly Strike - rank 1/1

(28-29-39)Improved Vanish - rank 3/3

(25-26-27)Improved Sap - rank 3/3

(30)Preparation - rank 1/1

(33-34)Improved Cheap Shot - rank 2/2

(31-32)Improved Distract - rank 2/2

(35-36-37)Setup - rank 3/3

(40)Premeditation - rank 1/1

You guys all know the Silithus 'Field Duty' quest which requires a healer in order to complete it, (the healer has to heal the captain so he doesnt die while killing the abonimation in silithus at 32,52. Have you ever wanted to kill some time doing this repeatable quest over and over, but there are no healers in silitihus that are willing to help? Well, fear no more! (well fear as much as you can haha, lol youl laugh later). This exploit is for warlocks only—– 1. go to 32,52 and call out the abonimation. 2. let the NPCs get a lil agro. 3. And after they have agro and have done the amount of damage that the captain is on 50% health– start to chain fear the abonimation. The captain and NPCs follow the abonimation… When the captain is far enough from the camp, he will run back (so might the footmen, but thats ok) 4. Now sit back and relax, when the few NPCs die that were killing the abomination they will run on you (means agro is on you so be carul) Now the main goal is to get the abomination to the footmen + captain in the camp and hope that the abomination AOEs. Once he AOEs, the captain will get agro (dont worry the abomination AOEs alooot) 5. And your set, they should be able to kill the abomination from now. Few known bugs– somtimes when your unlucky- you basically fear him in a circle thus, the captain will not go far anough to run back… This has happened once to me but ill write it anyway.. When the few mobs that died that had the agro on the abomination– for some reason he didnt run on me– so he regened life, so in my opinion you can bypass this by always having a curse on him. Well… Thats that! Its true that it doesnt always work but its ok still good for me! Good luck.

's J. Allen Brack and Tom Chilton, they squashed every console gamers' hopes of seeing the highly acclaimed MMO, World of Warcraft, boxed neatly inside a console. Also discussed were several other topics regarding the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King, as well as other new content for the game.

Chilton was also rather excited about the new achievement system that they will be introducing soon. It will definitely give players something to strive for and extend their gameplay even further.

When asked about the hardest challenge the developers have encountered so far, Brack answered that the insertion of the new Death Knight class was the biggest hurdle they've faced. However, with the beta phase for WotLK well underway, modifications are still being made to the new character class before its official release with the new expansion.

One of the more interesting things they discussed was Blizzard's take on MMOs made for consoles and social networks. This doesn't necessarily mean gamers should hope for a console version of WoW soon. Brack specifically mentioned while this may work with other MMOs, this setup wouldn't really work with World of Warcraft. I guess this just means we'll just have to play WoW as it was meant to be played: on a PC.

You can view the full interview conducted by play.tm by following the link found below.

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Leveling in Wrath of the Lich King now needs twice as much experience
If you think going through the ten extra levels Wrath of the Lich King will be offering is going to be a breeze, then think again. An article written on WoW Insider indicated that leveling now needs nearly twice as much experience (around 80 to be exact) compared to before.

While it is expected that leveling is a lot harder at this point, the steep slope the new leveling curve introduces can be quite daunting for even veteran World of Warcraft players. It is still a point of contention whether Blizzard will adjust this curve in the future or simply introduce other game balancing methods to draw out the grind.

The expansion does introduce two new starting points for players to suitably level their characters for the area. However, having players clear through them just to level up kind of defeats the whole purpose of creating them in the first place.

We'll be sure to keep an eye on any new updates regarding this matter as soon as we get them. In the meantime, check out our other WotLK articles through the links we've provided below.

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was happy to announce some very positive sales reports according its recently released second quarter financial statement. A significant portion of these numbers owes its success to the company's flagship title in the country - namely, Blizzard's World of Warcraft.

The9 was able to pull in a record income and revenue of around US 66.3 million, US 60.7 million of which came from WoW and all its related properties there. The game generated a huge following in China earlier this year, when over 1 million concurrent users were reported online playing at one point.

The company also has several other MMO titles under its belt, although it's plain to see that WoW is clearly its main cash cow in its business venture. With the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King already in full swing, we're pretty sure things will heat up even more once the new expansion hits the country.

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Motorcycle riding in Wrath of the Lich King confirmed with The Hog mount

Blizzard's unlocked a new mount for people to try out in the Wrath of the Lich King beta, and it's an awesome-looking motorcycle called "The Hog."

According to the current information that's been made available for the new mount, it's a level 80 mount that can only be used in Outland or Northrend. Furthermore, the mount isn't restricted to engineer professions, which means that, as of this writing, anyone who's level 80 can pick up this sweet ride to make their way across Outland and Azeroth.

The only sad thing about it? There isn't a lower-leveled equivalent so that you can drive around Outland in style. Ah well, it's a small regret at least.

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I have been debating to myself if i should put this up or not because im 100% if bliz knows alot of ppl are using this they will fix it imideatly… oh and sorry for my spelling in advance lol.



anyway i decided to post this because its just a game lol lets let every one have fun =P hmmm i think that it for the intro lol errrmmm oh and one more warning for the #1st case users (you will read what that means later) when this is patched blizz wont say anything to anyone we will just find out… so if you have $16 on your account andd need it for somthing else i wont risk using it on this because there is always a chance you migh get billed after they patch it i guess but again that my opinion…



gg





Anyway this is my second time writing this and im really mad… Because i wrote this huge thing and my comp crashed right before i wanted to send it…. so im gona make this quick…



Have you ever needed to login to wow and your account was expired and your wer like OMFG WTF?!? Fear no more! **cough* imune to fear *cough** rofl well… there are two cases to this…



1. If you have money on your debit/credit card but dont want to use it.

2. If you DONT have any money on your credit/debit card.



Lets start with case #1 shall we? Yeah well anyway. Lets say you have money on your card. This will let you actually play a longer period of time without paying. This is what you do. Ill just tell you how to do it so it works then ill explane why and how it works.



1. Login to worldofwarcraft.com and go to account management.

2. Go to the payment page.

3. Enter you card info and pay for 1 month subscription.

4. And press update and what ever so it basically says 'Congardulation, you have activated your account and are ready for playing' or somthing like that.

5. Okay… now login to the game. And log in to your main character, it can be any actually….

6. now after your in the game, alt tab out. Its very important you AltTab out and not close the game.

7. Go back to the account management page then go to yout subscription plan page again.

8. Now cancel your subscription! (You are still logged in with your character in the game)

9. Boom now you play for free until you log out! You will not be billed! Wootness! i win! lol…



But remember if you log out you will not be able to log back in again…. So be carful not to get any DCs hehe =P



Okay now the unknown side of this. Im not sure how man times you can do this in a row, I dont recomend you do this more than two times within 24 hours, 36 hours would be better in my opininon because the billing system works on every 12 or 6 hours if im not mistaking. But im sure you can do this at least 2 times in a row because it has been tested. You can do this as must as you want on other accounts as in… You can do it for your account… Then at the same time do it for your friends account, and vise versa the next day. so your cards would be in use 48 hours each. Again i dont recomend you use this methot on a regular basis… Because i do not know the what the consiquenses can be, even thogh i dont think they can be major consiquenses because you can always say, i wanted to play then i decided not to lol… so i took my card out…

If you do not remove your card within 6-24 hours you will be billed. I am not 100% on the (6-24 hours) but im pretty confident.



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How this works—

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Well i know some imformation about banking and credit card billing and stuff. This is how it works. When you put in your infor for bliz to bill your account, it does not the cash out of your debit card instantly, it takes some time to process the order. So while its processing it you CAN use your account. And when you cancel your account bilzzard forgot to add a script that checks to see if your online in the game in order to kick you out. And when you cancel the plan, it does not bill you because bilzz cancels your order and refunds your money. (When i say refunds your money it doesnt mean it has takin out money to refund it, it has takin out shall i say virtual money that has not actually been taken out. Anyway i wont go deeply into this but yeah)



hmmm this is turning out to be a pretty long post… shit im gona save this to a notepad file just incase my comp crashes again lol… 1 sec brb =P



Okay… now to do the same if you do not have any money in your debit/credit card account.

From what i know this will only work once for a 24 hour period until the bank trys to pay blizz the amount you owe them (remember the processing time) and that takes about 24 hours or so. So blizzard doesnt know that you dont have enough money to pay them and it takes some time for them to find that out. So it will let you play for 24 hours until it finds out that you dont have enough money to pay them. The second time you try this without paying your card is shall i say flagged and wont let you play that free 24 hours on the same account until you pay the 1 month fee and so on. You can do this on your friends accounts tho. Anyway……. im going to much into this again… Basically you do this same thing from steps 1-5 i thinkl.



1. Login to worldofwarcraft.com and go to account management.

2. Go to the payment page.

3. Enter you card info and pay for 1 month subscription.

4. And press update and what ever so it basically says 'Congardulation, you have activated your account and are ready for playing' or somthing like that.

5. Okay… now login to the game. And log in to your main character, it can be any actually….



there you have it. Some of my friends have told me the second method somtimes doesnt work or somthing but im 100% sure on the first methos and it works 100%…







Remember you are not lying or cheating blizzard in any way on this. You just decided to play for a month then change your mind and forget to logout =P something from the lines of that hehe..

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Those of you who've already heard about the Olympics-like extravaganza that will be running on Blizzard's World of Warcraft today, there's no need to worry about the US servers missing out on this special event. Blizzard Poster Belfaire on the WoW forums confirmed that the Olympic Games Event is go live on US servers today at the stroke of midnight (12 a.m. PDT).

Initially announced for the European and Chinese servers, there was some distress whether US gamers can attain some of the special event-only items being offered during the event's duration. As Belfaire put it, the Olympic Games Event "goes live August 8th at midnight server time, lasts until the 25th".

Here are some of the details on how to get some of the neat in-game Olympics-themed stuff during the event:

• To get the new tabard, you only have to play one battleground. Winning or losing doesn't matter, if you stay for the duration of the battle you will be mailed a Competitor's Tabard.
• To get the new pet, you must defeat your rivals in any of the Battlegrounds. With every victory, there is a chance that a gold Medallion will be mailed to you.

By the time you finish reading this article, the event should have already gone live on your respective server so go ahead and see if you have what it takes to go for the gold and score yourself one for the Olympics.

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World of Warcraft site update: Northrend region guide
Northrend is going to be a very forbidding territory when it arrives, given that it's been built for those level 70 and above. Stumbling into the wrong region isn't just going to eat up time - it could very well mean getting killed.

With that in mind, Blizzard has recently updated their official World of Warcraft site's guide section with the respective region levels for each of Northrend's areas. Here is a screenshot of the new list:

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Blizzard's site also offers links to a thorough description of each of the Northrend regions, though they're only up to Grizzly Hills for the moment. Those interested in reading further regarding Wrath of the Lich King's regions will want to visit Blizzard's site via the source link below, though you'll want to check back in case we run into any further updates.

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When the servers goes down weekly, I logg of in the gurubashi arena in front of the chest. When the servers comes back up again, I logg and retrieve the chest fast. You got to have some time on your hand but that's it.



every 3 hours.



(12, 3, 9,)



if you log out at the chest the previous day, and log in at 11:00, when they open, the chest will be spawned during the maintanence at 9:00, you'll be the closest one there.



try it. it works

will be offering is going to be a breeze, then think again. An article written on wow Insider indicated that leveling now needs nearly twice as much experience (around 80 to be exact) compared to before.

While it is expected that leveling is a lot harder at this point, the steep slope the new leveling curve introduces can be quite daunting for even veteran World of Warcraft players. It is still a point of contention whether Blizzard will adjust this curve in the future or simply introduce other game balancing methods to draw out the grind.

The expansion does introduce two new starting points for players to suitably level their characters for the area. However, having players clear through them just to level up kind of defeats the whole purpose of creating them in the first place.

We'll be sure to keep an eye on any new updates regarding this matter as soon as we get them. In the meantime, check out our other WotLK articles through the links we've provided below.

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BlizzCon 2008 tickets sold out

If you were planning on going to BlizzCon, you'd best find an alternative means of entering the convention hall. Blizzard has officially stated that there are no more tickets to be had for the event. Zip. Nada. Zilch.

Here's the official announcement over on the World of Warcraft forums:

Tickets to BlizzCon 2008 are now sold out. We d like to thank everyone once again for their overwhelming interest in this year s show. If you were unable to secure tickets, please keep in mind that DIRECTV will be broadcasting BlizzCon live from the Anaheim Convention Center on October 10 and 11.

The process for acquiring tickets was more or less a hit or miss affair, with the site going down multiple times during the event. As you can probably guess, many are a bit agitated at not being able to acquire tickets, and have gone on to the official forums to voice out their complaints and concerns.

If you were one of those people trying to get tickets but weren't able to, you may want to head on over to the official forums to voice out your disappointment as well. In the meantime, expect us to give you more updates on BlizzCon 2008 as they happen.

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recently updated the Wrath of the Lich King's Talent calculator, which revealed numerous changes and adjustments to the Hunter class. Here's hoping we see these changes implemented soon. Here are the changes:

Beast Mastery

• Focused Fire (Tier 2) - Updated stats/description: All damage caused by you is increased by 1/2 while your pet is active and the critical strike chance of your pet's special abilities by 10/20 while Kill Command is active. (was the critical strike chance of your Kill Command ability).
• Pathfinding (Tier 3) - Updated stats/description: Increases the speed bonus of your Aspect of the Cheetah and Aspect of the Pack by 4/8 , and increases your speed while mounted by 5/10 . The mounted movement speed increase does not stack with other effects. (old version: Increases the speed bonus of your Aspect of the Cheetah and Aspect of the Pack by 4/8 )
• Masters Call (Tier 3) replaced with Aspect Mastery.
• Aspect Mastery moved from Tier 10 to Tier 3, and changed to 1 rank: Increases the mana returned from your Aspect of the Viper by 10 , reduces the damage done to you while in Aspect of the Monkey by 10 and increases the attack power bonus gained with Aspect of the Hawk by 50 .
• Spirit Bond (Tier 5) - Updated stats/description: While your pet is active, you and your pet will regenerate 1/2 of total health every 10 sec and increases healing done to you and your pet by 5/10 . (old version did not have the increase healing part).
• Animal Handler (Tier 6) - Updated stats/description: Increases your pet's chance to hit by 2/4 and reduces the cooldown of your Master's Call ability by 5/10 sec.
• New Tier 10 Talent - Seperation Anxiety: When your pet is greater than 20 yards from you or is out of line of sight of you, its damage is increased by 2/4/6/8/10 , and when you and your pet are within 20 yards of each other, you and you pet's movement speed is increased by 2/4/6/8/10 .

Marksmanship

• Improved Stings (Tier 4) - Changed from five levels to three, stats changed: Increases the damage done by your Serpent Sting by 10/20/30 and the mana drained by your Viper Sting by 10/20/30 . In addition, reduces the chance Stings will be dispelled by 10/20/30 .
• Trueshot Aura now affects the whole raid. Rapid Recuperation (Tier - Updated description: Reduces the mana and focust cost of all shots and abilities by you and your pet by 20/40/60 while under the effect of Rapid Fire, and you gain mana equal to 50/100/150 of the damage you do under the effect of Rapid Killing over 6 sec.
• Marked for Death (Tier 10) - Updated stats/description: Increases the damage done by your shots and the damage done by your pet's special abilities by 2/4/6/8/10 , on the marked targets, and increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Aimed Shot, Steady Shot, Kill Shot or Chimera Shot by 2/4/6/8/10 .
• Chimera Shot (Tier 11) - Updated stats/description: You deal 125 weapon damage (was 150 ), refreshing the current Sting (old version consumed the current Sting) on your target and triggering an effect. Serpent Sting unchanged. Viper Sting - Instantly restores mana to you equal to 60 of the total amount drained by your Viper Sting. Scorpid Sting - Attempts to Disarm the target for 10 sec. This effect cannot occuer more than once per 1 minute.

Survival

• New Tier 2 Talent - T.N.T: Your Immolation Trap, Explosive Trap and Explosive Shot have a 5/10/15 chance to stun targets for 2 secs when they deal damage, and increases the critical strike chance of your Explosive Shot and Explosive Trap by 5/10/15 .
• New Tier 4 Talent - Lock and Load: You have a 33/66/100 chance when you trap a target and a 5/10/15 when you Sting a target to cause your next 3 Arcane Shot or Explosive Shot spells to trigger no cooldown, cost no mana and consume no ammo.
• New Tier 5 Talent - Hunter vs. Wild: Increases you and your pet's attack power and ranged attack power equal to 10/20/30 of your total Stamina.
• Clever Traps (Tier 3) has been removed.
• Deterrence is gone, and Deflection is now required for Counterattack.
• Deflection moved from Tier 2 to Tier 3 and changed from five ranks to three (2/4/6 ).
• Trap Mastery moved from Tier 4 to Tier 3. Description is not finished yet.
• Survival Instincts moved from Tier 5 to Tier 2.
• Improved Feign Death renamed to Survival Tactics and moved from Tier 4 to Tier 3: It now reduces the cooldown of your Disengage ability by 2/4 sec. (instead of reducing the damage you take during feign death by 15/30).
• Survivalist (Tier 3) - Updated description: Increases your Stamina by 2/4/6/8/10 . (old version: Increases total health by 2/4/6/8/10 )
• Surefooted (Tier 4): It now reduces duration on movement impairing effects by 16/25/50 .
• Wyvern Sting (Tier 7) range increased from 5-35yd to 4-41yd. Nature dot duration reduced from 12 sec to 6 sec.
• Potent Venom renamed Noxius Stings (Tier 8): If Wyver Sting is dispelled, the dispeller is also afflicted by Wyvern Sting lasting 16/25/50 of the duration remaining, and increases all damage done by you on target afflicted by your Serpent Sting by 1/2/3 .
• Readiness (Tier 9) cooldown lowered from 5 minutes to 3 minutes.
• Hunting Party (Tier 10) - Updated stats/description: Your Arcane Shot, Explosive Shot and Steady Shot critical strikes have a 20/40/60/80/100 chance to restore 2 mana, 10 energy, 4 rage or 10 Runic Power to all members of your party. The cooldown of this talent has been removed.
• Explosive Shot (Tier 11) range increased from 5-35yd to 4-41yd, and it now does 416-486 damage and then 104-121 fire damage to all enemies within 5 yards of the target every second for 2 seconds.

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The WoW Weekend Warrior: BlizzCon 2008 updates, WotLK beta's new calendar UI, and Northrend's possible 2008 launch

All set of another batch of QJ.NET's World of Warcraft Weekend Warrior? This week's hot news includes a couple of updates relating to this year's BlizzCon event. There's also the matter of some upcoming changes to the Death Knight's talent mechanics, even as Wrath of the Lich King beta gets treated to some welcome new features.

Blizzard exec Morhaime has also dropped a hint on when WotLK will be launching, though we'll be leaving the pleasure of uncovering this matter to you.

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Over at the Wrath of the Lich King beta run, players are reporting the presence of a new calendar UI. The function promises all the practicality of some previous addons some of you may remember using, while carrying added functions such as dating WoW's official events. And if you're asking, no - it did not display WotLK's expected launch date.

Link: World of Warcraft: WotLK beta gets a new calendar UI

Here's a good reason for you not to have splurged your life's savings during the Worldwide invitational. Ticket to this year's BlizzCon are expected to launch this August, while the event itself just might reward its visitors with some really sweet swag. Can you say Bear cavalry?

Link: BlizzCon 2008 tickets to be available in August, event coverage provided by DirecTV
Link: Wrath of the Lich King beta: BlizzCon Bear mount and new frost talent effects spotted

More theorycrafting is underway for Blizzard, with regard to the ever-changing face of WotLK beta. This week sees some new tweaks for the Death Knight's disease mechanics, even as brainstorming continues for a way for players to carry more than one talent spec.

Link:World of Warcraft: Talent spec storage being considered
Link: WotLK beta forums: changes planned for Death Knight's disease mechanics

One reality many a WoW player lives with is that for some members of the community, the easy way out is the best. Not that this is the best way though, as QJ.NET gets the nitty-gritty on the matter of gold-selling and power-levelling.

Link: Gold selling: A long, hard look at the industry

While it's not exactly related to World of Warcraft, the fans may want to keep a close eye on the recent publisher reports regarding some of Activision Blizzard's other games. These sort of things have a way of affecting other matters that they may not seem to be directly connected to.

Link: Activision Blizzard: Ghostbusters, Brutal Legend, and other games in publisher limbo Update 2

Last but not least, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime recently dropped a hint at when WotLK will be going public. When is it, you ask? Well, let's just way it may coincide with a cold season of our own. Have you been a naughty gamer lately?

Link: Morhaime: Wrath of the Lich King coming Q4 2008

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Getting WotLK by this year is certainly music to our ears. That aside however, Morhaime didn't specify any specific dates aside from the Q4 2008 tag. If I were to guess, we could be looking at a Christmas launch, when gamers are more than willing to blow cash on something as sought after as this expansion. That, and the cold weather is perfect for preparing us for our Northrend adventures.

Source: wow.qj.net