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Second World of Warcraft Expansion Launched, Conquered

Posted by Soulskill on from the worldwide-caffeine-shortage dept.

The much-anticipated second expansion to World of Warcraft, entitled Wrath of the Lich King, launched on Thursday, introducing a new continent, raising the level cap to 80, and bringing a wealth of new items, spells, dungeons, and monsters to the popular MMO. Crowds gathered and lines formed outside stores around the world leading up to the release. Massively has put together a series of articles for players wishing to familiarize themselves with the expansion, and CVG has a piece discussing the basics as well. It didn't take long for the first person to reach level 80; a French player called "Nymh" reached the level cap on his Warlock only 27 hours after the expansion went live. Not to be outdone, a guild named "TwentyFifthNovember" managed to get at least 25 raiders to 80 and then cleared all of the current expansion raid content less than three days after the launch. Fortunately for them, the next three content patches are each expected to contain new, more difficult raids.

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  1. Everyone who cares.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...is in Northrend.

    1. Re:Everyone who cares.... by jacquesm · · Score: 3, Funny

      you are erroneus...

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    2. Re:Everyone who cares.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Will I ever experience such beauty? Youtube it for me, broseph.

    3. Re:Everyone who cares.... by Bozzio · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, I'm Night Elf Erroneus.
      He's Blood Elf Magratheus.

      Sheesh!

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    4. Re:Everyone who cares.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Everyone who got off the boat or zeppelin just stopped and went "Wow." for a few minutes. And then we hit the dungeons - the third of the starter dungeons, Azjol-Nerub, has to be played to be believed. It's half an hour of terrifying beauty, of wriggling mummified *things* laying between two golden mushrooms in caverns man was never meant to see, had never seen. You look down vistas swarming with spiders crawling over the most beautiful architecture yet.

      Visit the nearest botanic garden in your city, you'll see that caverns, spiders and ants are much more detailed than that. And there are no dragons.

      And real water bump mapping? Oh.. such a beautiful thing.

      And real women? They cast lots of invisible spells. And are much more beautiful and detailed than ever.

      Oh, that and you need to get laid.

    5. Re:Everyone who cares.... by myowntrueself · · Score: 2, Funny

      New Quests: there's about 1000 across Northrend. (and fyi, the last big patch before WotLK content - 2.4 - added about 50, 30 of which were repeatable every day.)

      Yes, its true!!!

      With the advent of the 2.4 patch players are able to do the same 30 quests every single day!

      Its so cool! You get to complete *exactly* the same quests! Every single day!!!! Over and over again!!! The fun never ends!

      Ummm... Yeah ok so that was kind of a troll, assuming that you see the irony.

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  2. Re:Please keep me informed by Aeonite · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only thing better than grinding to 80 is vicariously experiencing the grind through the achievements of strangers.

  3. Re:Rush to completion by Zathain+Sicarius · · Score: 4, Funny

    To conquer it all over again on one of their 20 alt accounts.

  4. Re:Addicts indeed by philspear · · Score: 5, Funny

    Amen. To all you wow players: Shut that computer down and go out get some fresh air. Life is much too short to waste it on playing a bloody game.

    And this comes from someone who is posting to slashdot on his laptop as he is skiing down K2 being chased by ninjas while nailing the new Bond chick.

    Fixed that little bit of hypocrisy there for you.

  5. Re:Rush to completion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    losing your virginity would be a good start

  6. Re:Rush to completion by MartinSchou · · Score: 5, Funny

    The dating scene?

  7. Re:Please keep me informed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Doubtless everyone here has seen this before, but: http://www.progressquest.com

  8. Re:Please keep me informed by Kjella · · Score: 5, Funny

    The combat will be so simple that an 8-line perl script can do it.

    Considering you could write an operating system in five, I guess that's pretty complex.

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  9. FoxTrot's Jason got beaten by his female friend! by antdude · · Score: 2, Funny

    See here. Pwned!

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  10. Re:Please keep me informed by Faylone · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you assume enemies will stay dead in DnD, I bet your first encounter with a necromancer will be very messy.

  11. Re:Please keep me informed by Bozzio · · Score: 4, Funny

    +7 Charisma
    -100 Social Life

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  12. Re:Rush to completion by duckInferno · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm grinding rep with your mom. I just hit "friendly".

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  13. Hooray! by Greyfox · · Score: 2, Funny

    You got your entire guild to 80 and finished the end of game content. Back to gold farming until the next expansion...

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  14. But dragons by Huggs · · Score: 2, Funny

    are the best part!