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Cataclysm is going live THIS WEEK!
Cataclysm is going live this week! Players will finally be able to explore the new regions, dungeons, raids, fly in Azeroth, learn Archaeology, and do lot of awesome stuff! Thanks to Simca, Marlamin, Elyaan and Vjeux who pretty much saved my ass and helped me finish this news post on time.


New Raids
3 New raids have been added to the game: the Bastion of Twilight in the Twilight Highlands, Blackwing Descent in Blackrock Mountains, and the Throne of Four Winds in Uldum.

Throne of Four Winds



Bastion of Twilight




Blackwing Descent




Baradin Hold (PvP)



New Races
Two new races are available! The Worgens for the Alliance, and the Goblins for the Horde!



New Dungeons
7 New dungeons have been added to the game: Blackrock Caverns, Grim Batol, Halls of Origination, The Stonecore, Throne of the Tides, Vortex Pinnacle, Lost City of the Tol'vir. Also, two old dungeons have been fully revamped and are now available in a new lvl 85 heroic version: The Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep.







New Zones
5 new high level zones have been added to the game: Twilight Highlands, Uldum, Deepholm, Mount Hyjal, Vashj'ir. The Goblins and Worgens starting areas also have their own zones: Gilneas, Kezan, Lost Isles






Guild Leveling and Rewards
The new Guild Rewards and Guild Leveling / Perks are also added to the game with the expansion!



Factions
More factions added to the game!






Items
Tons of super-awesome items are being added to the game, see the most significant additions below!





Professions
All professions have been updated with new items and bonuses. Archaeology is now available!







Player vs. Player
3 new PvP zones are added to the game: Tol Barad (Outdoor PvP, Wintergrasp-like), Twin Peaks (Battleground), Battle for Gilneas (Battleground)

This article was originally published in forum thread: Cataclysm is going live THIS WEEK! started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. Howard Moon's Avatar
    Not even slightly surprised about all the time-zone confusion and american vs. european bashing in here :P

    OT: SUPER excited also, but not even a sign of my CE yet
  1. mmoc6513cc48dc's Avatar
    yay, just bought the game, good luck for anyone going for the lvl 85 first realm
  1. Loff's Avatar
    The reason a lot of people are seeing the wrong timer, is that it's created in Javascript (thus clientside).

    The countdown uses your current computers time to calculate the time left. If the clock on the computer is wrong, the timer will be off.
  1. jakj's Avatar
    Ah, that would explain it. I have my Windows partition set to GMT because that's how Ubuntu likes to have it. (Windows is dumb and always wants to set the clock to local time instead of universal modified by time zone.)
  1. Chaosbreed's Avatar
    Empty your bags, overcap your hit rating and here we go.
  1. Demontjuh's Avatar
    24 icecrown zone only dailies complete - check
    stack of healing potions - check
    stack of run speed potions - check
    planned out how to start at 00:01 - check

    HS shadowvault hand in dailies, fly argent tournament hand in dailies, fly horde gunship hand in dailies, teleport dalaran get flying, teleport org grab quest, fly hyjal start lvling - pending

    aaarghhh cant wait
  1. Exocet's Avatar
    Hi, scuse me but I wanted to know. Could we have more than 4000 honor points tomorrow ? I didn't find any post on it. Other question, If I had a pvp mount in my bag could I sell it again tomorrow ?

    Sorry if i made mistakes, thanks for all of your work.

    exo
  1. mmocd0a94832c1's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Repellerar View Post
    I still dont know what to roll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!exclamationmark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    How about a joint!
  1. Alraml's Avatar
    Finishing work at 8pm then a fun 2 hours sitting at my comp going "C'MON!!!!!"
  1. Lazertrooper's Avatar
    So have the asia servers started already then?
  1. mmoc3eb006e951's Avatar
    Being ½ obnoxious American and ½ Euro trash I find some of the comments in here quite sad.


    on-topic... Just ordered digital copy, took about 2 mins. yay no sleep tonight.
  1. jshidaka's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Demontjuh View Post
    24 icecrown zone only dailies complete - check
    stack of healing potions - check
    stack of run speed potions - check
    planned out how to start at 00:01 - check

    HS shadowvault hand in dailies, fly argent tournament hand in dailies, fly horde gunship hand in dailies, teleport dalaran get flying, teleport org grab quest, fly hyjal start lvling - pending

    aaarghhh cant wait
    does ppl remember that dailies got nerfed on 4.0.1... so dont expect good exp.. for sure will waste more time turning the quest for ~300k exp that is will be useless since lvls will be of 6m+ exp(@83+)...

    Actually AN Heroic give near 200k exp (@ least was that on beta) and its doable in less than 10 mins... sadly you cant spam same heroic over and over
  1. mmoc99c71a92cd's Avatar
    US - umad?
  1. gringo's Avatar
    epic post! I AM VERY EXCITE!

    ps: would love to see the level flow map integrated into this post.
  1. Maleficious's Avatar
    Thank you MMO-Champion for all that news feed since the expansion was announced, you are the best! Now its time to get playin'!
  1. skylla05's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by zarbus View Post
    Still lame how the US realms are going live at midnight PST, which isn't realistic for half of the country.
    lol
  1. Wosret's Avatar
    Feeling the love in this thread!
  1. NefariousNinja's Avatar
    Hmmmm, which zone to go to first....
  1. mmoc558124d6e4's Avatar
    Just to be clear! Taken from the Official EU Battle.net
    1. Pay for the digital upgrade today
    2. Play Cataclysm at 12:01 AM on December 7th (CET)
    Digital Purchase
    Learn more
  1. mmoc558124d6e4's Avatar
    I can't wait for Vashj'ir

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