Second World of Warcraft Expansion Launched, Conquered

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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Everyone who cares....

[Anonymous Coward]

...is in Northrend.

Re:Everyone who cares....

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Addicts indeed

[philspear]

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.

Re:Rush to completion

[MartinSchou]

The dating scene?

Re:Please keep me informed

[Kjella]

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.