Zalazane's Fall and Operation Gnomeregan now on live servers

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Blizz does most things for a reason, Blizzcon being pushed back til October? Well it wouldn't be very exciting if they had Blizzcon and said Cata will launch in... 3 months. No I expect Blizzcon will be something along the lines of an announcement that the launch of the pre-cata patch is imminent, and retail launch maybe one month later.

Originally Posted by Astalnar

Blizzard's model for cataclysm seems to be brainless grind. Yes that is what we all wish for....

Oh pleeease, give me a break kid.

They're not forcing you to repeatedly kill one single mob for a week straight before you're *allowed* to enter a dungeon (or be revered like the old model to run heroic versions). They're bringing back the model that should have been implemented at the BEGINNING of WoTLK, which is run dungeons and finish quest chains, then run heroics until you're finally geared out for raids. It's called progression, and for those of you who were babied by the accessibility of WoTLK, toughen up. I'm sure Blizzard will implement badge loot that jumps tiers of content just like last time, you just have to wait until the next patch release (when they'll probably nerf heroics, anyway).

Besides, what so few of you WoTLK new-comers realize, is how easily CC will negate any difficulty increase. I personally run with a prot warrior, a warlock, boomkin and either myself healing on my paladin, or myself dpsing on my mage while another friend runs his priest, shadow or disc, respectively. That's fear/seduce, cyclone/roots, stun/sheep and when it calls for it, shackle. If we have any problems whatsoever, it'll be due to our warrior going ape shit thinking he can AoE tank everything like he did last expansion (a problem I can see happening in the RDF very early on).

Ok.

1) People are not used to "quest chains" anymore. In Cata, every zone is a big single quest chain. So by finishing a zone, you have probably got yourself to honored/revered. Just sayin'. Unlocking dailies and you are nearly at 80% of your work.
2) Tol Barad rep gives you epic trinkets and starter blue weapons. This means from 80 to 85 you should Join tol barad and try to get yourself to complete as most dailies as you can.
3) Heroics will grant you starter equipments for raids
4) Remember about professions and starter epics
5) Dont forget about Emblmem also.

It will be fairly easier, but a little bit harder and "calculated" than in WOTLK. I will actually feel like a journey

patch 3.9/4.0 will be by the end of this month

i wouldn't judge this by the state of beta because:

1. internal builds are numerous and way ahead

2. they still have 4+ weeks to polish things for cata release once patch 3.9/4.0 comes out

I read it as "Zalazane's Fail"

Originally Posted by mordras

Exactly. I can't find the page now but on the WoW site it specifically said these events were in the "3.9" patch. And as we know we are still in 3.3.5 and it is now live. I watched the interview with Tom Chilton from Gamescon and the interviewer asked if the new talents and world changes would be coming out in patch 3.9. Tom Chilton said "3.9 or whatever that patch is numerically designated". And yet World of Raids summary of that interview stated "Patch 3.9 will be the pre-release patch." My guess based on what has happened so far and by Tom Chilton's statement is that we will not have a 3.9 patch and that 4.0 will be the big patch that we are used to seeing before an expansion.

I thought they had said they wanted to roll out Cataclysm talents/gear changes right before Cataclysm or did that change?

Anyone remember how long it was between the dark portal event and BC release?

Any word on how long it will last yet?

Originally Posted by snowcrash512

Blizz does most things for a reason, Blizzcon being pushed back til October? Well it wouldn't be very exciting if they had Blizzcon and said Cata will launch in... 3 months. No I expect Blizzcon will be something along the lines of an announcement that the launch of the pre-cata patch is imminent, and retail launch maybe one month later.

Blizzcon has not been pushed back.

"Anyone remember how long it was between the dark portal event and BC release?"

Right around a month if I remember correctly.

For those who didn't get it: Toby Zeigear, the gnome wordsmith, is a riff on speechwriter Toby Ziegler from The West Wing.

Training and planting spy frogs..? What am I, 6 years old? If this is a prologue for Cata maybe it's time for me to move on after 3 years. The game has become increasingly silly and childish. At least we didn't have to kiss the frogs. This time.

Originally Posted by Taleas

Training and planting spy frogs..? What am I, 6 years old? If this is a prologue for Cata maybe it's time for me to move on after 3 years. The game has become increasingly silly and childish. At least we didn't have to kiss the frogs. This time.

You know, you don't sound very mature for someone who is trying to act like it.

This isn't the prologue for Cataclysm. If you followed this site at all, you would certainly know that this is just the first set of events.

And I'd suggest actually completing the event, if you have a character over level 75.

Ive only got horde lvl 80s so ive only dun Zalazane's Fall, i thought it was brillaint, exelent voice acting, great lore, it was very fun, a very good event :-)

You're receiving a mail ingame informing you about it. After I've read it I wend to there instantly.

Originally Posted by Astalnar

Blizzard's model for cataclysm seems to be brainless grind. Yes that is what we all wish for....

Really? That sounds a hell of a lot like Blizzard's model for Wrath heroics...

Watch out for those cannons they hit really hard. Anyhow the Operation Gnomeregan was fun, but the payoff was a bit lacking especially compared to Zalazane's.

Back to grinding rep so we can get into 5 mans to grind those too.

I'll just cancel until mid next year when the massive nerfs come to everything because the WotLK player base quits over the illusion of challenge added by pointless tedium.

The two events, while nice, werent as good as the events leading up to bc and wrath.

I liked the world pvp farming EPL when wrath was coming out

thought the over cloaks would be AS intended by now... not the shitty grey item cloaks from PTR... but you know OVER cloaks, that were promised to go on top of your chosen cloak.

hopefully the next patch (Where we get the new trees to play with before cata) will.. have something decent... probably not.

hurry up cata !