Official site up.

[Boubouille]

Update : 5vs5 Arena Tournament Results are up on PvPScene.com

External Links

• Wrath of the Lich King Trailer on Rapidshare.com
• Trailer on Youtube
• Expansion Panel on WoWInsider.com (Tons of pictures !)
• Class Panel on WoWInsider.com
• Dungeon & Raid Panel on WoWInsider.com
  

World

• Dalaran will be moved and hover above Northrend. It will be used as a neutral capital city.
• There are more daily quests coming in the next patch-- a dungeon daily quest, a battleground daily quest, and a cooking daily quest.
  

Instances

• A new 25 man dungeon is scheduled for release after Zul'aman, it will have 6 bosses with loots higher than tier 6. Another 5-man instance is also considered. (This will be before the expansion)
• There will be a new CoT instance in the expansion.
  

Items

• Heroic badge loot will be added to the game with Zul'Aman
  

Are we going to have to buy new flying mounts again?
Laughter. You'll not "have" to buy a new flying mount, but we'll have new options available.

Will green items in Northrend be better than Tier 4?
Yes, we do expect to see the same kind of progression. We were happy overall with the way it worked. If you're decked out in Illidan gear or the new raid zone that I can't mention just yet that will be out before the expansion (!), that gear will last you a while. But players like upgrades early and often.

PvP
New Battleground

• Siege vehicles that you can drive around
• 15 People in each team
• 30~40 minutes long games.
  

New Arena Season

• New Season
• New Arena
• New Gear
  

There will also be a new Outdoor non-instanced world PVP Zone with impact on the whole world. (Even for PVE Servers)

Hero Classes
Hero Classes won't be released all at once because of balancing issues. They're classic Warcraft 3 characters with an "epic feel" (something really different than the ordinary)

The hero class will be created on a new character slot once you completed the quest, you won't lose your original character.

Death Knight

• The current plan is to have the class available for all races.
• Designed to fullfill both tanking and DPS roles
• Can tank using 2H weapons or by Dual-Wielding, no need for shields.
• Rather than using rage, energy, or mana, Death Knights have a special "rune sword" displayed beneath their health bar, onto which the player can etch six different runes (choose between Frost, Blood, and Unholy).
• Rune resource system. Three rune schools: Blood runes, frost, and unholy runes. All DK spells and abilities will use these different runes in some combo. DKs carve these runes into their weapon-- done anytime outside of combat.
• Character portrait has six runes in place of the mana bar (and a special circle around the icon, probably for Hero class). These runes are consume as your spells use them-- they deactivate and then reactivate over time, so if you have two frost and four blood runes, you get that much to use as spells and abilities. We have plans for mechanics that allow you to change one resource type on the fly-- like Warlock's Life Tap (Health=mana).
  

Unholy Embrace
Instant Cast. 5 min cooldown.
Target is embraced by a silhouette of darkness for 6 seconds, corrupting any healing spells and effects cast upon or currently affecting the target to cause damage for 50% of their healing potential instead of restoring health. Any damage shields cast upon or currently affecting the target will also be instantly consumed, dealing 50% of their absorption potential in damage. Once afflicted with Unholy Embrace, the target cannot be afflicted with Unholy Embrace again for 1 minute.

Official links

• Official Site
  

Screenshots

Artworks

World Map

Wallpapers

[Gorgon]

No new races? Lol. But maybe the new class and new customization(finally!) options make up for it... : But hell, it´ll be good to not find your clone in the game anymore :

[Havikk]

neato

[mortifier2007]

Well they said & much more....just wait this may be just the beginning of great content to come, they like to save the best for last and i think they will do the same here.

-Mortifier

[Tyrsenus]

Overview page is down.

[f311]

Have Blizzard mentioned anything about a release date ? :

[mortifier2007]

I've been hearing February alot because that's when the new Warhammer comes out, apparently this expansion is to keep wows players so they dont go change to WAR Online although already on my realm people have been spamming that they will go to WAR online no matter what.

[Maxtro]

Wow the "official faq" that we all read days ago is all true Of course the new faq has additional info.

How sad that there are no new races. It sucks that I have to look forward to the next xpack for a possibility to do stuff that I wanted to do that wasn't even in the BC.

Hmm, no word if flying mounts work in Northrend.

LOL the /wrath turned out to be the official xpack site.

Man the internet sleuths are amazing.

[mortifier2007]

But like i was trying to say, it looks like they may hold back the new races as the deathknight seems more important to them atm. They are probably holding back more exciting information and they will feed it bit by bit.

[Faelyn]

Note the features on the main page:

'Quest to level 80, gaining potent new abilities and talents along the way.'

Hmm, is blizz trying to say something?

[Sparkiller]

Just curious, what is the source of the world maps?

[Marymoocow]

Wow the "official faq" that we all read days ago is all true Of course the new faq has additional info.

How sad that there are no new races. It sucks that I have to look forward to the next xpack for a possibility to do stuff that I wanted to do that wasn't even in the BC.

Hmm, no word if flying mounts work in Northrend.

LOL the /wrath turned out to be the official xpack site.

Man the internet sleuths are amazing.

About flying mounts, I don't reckon they will work in Northrend, seeing as in the video the players are riding epic land mounts. You never know, but I would've thought they'd use flying mounts at least once. Of course, there is still a lot of time left 'till the release so all of this could change. I guess we'll find out whether or not flying mounts work or not very soon due to people playing the exp. pack with their own characters.

[tunja]

Note the features on the main page:

'Quest to level 80, gaining potent new abilities and talents along the way.'

Hmm, is blizz trying to say something?

People said the exact same thing when the first expansion news was emerging, how blizzard might be implying that you could only gain xp from quests. No, they aren't, thats silly.

[overneathe]

Wow the "official faq" that we all read days ago is all true Of course the new faq has additional info.

How sad that there are no new races. It sucks that I have to look forward to the next xpack for a possibility to do stuff that I wanted to do that wasn't even in the BC.

Hmm, no word if flying mounts work in Northrend.

LOL the /wrath turned out to be the official xpack site.

Man the internet sleuths are amazing.

About flying mounts, I don't reckon they will work in Northrend, seeing as in the video the players are riding epic land mounts. You never know, but I would've thought they'd use flying mounts at least once. Of course, there is still a lot of time left 'till the release so all of this could change. I guess we'll find out whether or not flying mounts work or not very soon due to people playing the exp. pack with their own characters.

I'm 90% sure they'll give flying mounts @ lvl 80, learning the new skin, buying the azerothian mount etc. etc.

[f311]

If you look closley when they first get off the boat you see a netherdrake fly above them looks like one anyways, not sure if someone's flying it either :P

[Gorgon]

I want a frostwyrm mount while wearing the Lich King´s armor + Blades of Azzinoth 8)

[mortifier2007]

may sound stupid but maybe some sort of water mount? as it is a water and frozen zone, also i think land mounts but maybe a speed increase.

[SuperflyForever]

Wow, those environments look amazing.

So pumped up for this.

[Hyrican]

i expect to see some real cliffs and some better textures on 90degree landscape (currently the texture just get stretched and so on..)

and i think that a limitation to the ground may decrease transportation speed

but would make the gaming experience more interesting while leveling in new zones. To have some obstacles, cliffs, bridges, small pathways in the mountains could be really intense,

to not fly anywhere you want the day you enter northrend. No direct flying to questmobs and leaving all else out... once finished leveling would be a good point to make travelling easier by flying mounts or other means...

So yes i like flying, but i think it is more fun to first explore on foot

[Malineros]

That's the only reason I could see to restrict flight in Northrend... to prevent legions of people on that first hour after release from just swarming the skies and "discovering" the whole map.

Not sure if they can keep that up with each new expansion, though.