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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.
If the highest released raid boss has not been downed, the expansion has not been conquered.
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These guilds make huge noise about it but they've basically cleared all the content and heavily "theorycrafted" the game for the last several months during Blizzard's beta stage.
Although skill does play a part in raiding, everything in WoW can be cleared if you have enough time on your hands to do it. Skill can simply reduced the time to clear the content.
Anyway, this is simply them saying "Wow Blizzard we beta tested the content for you, learned all the tricks to maximize our time to get to 80 and cleared the raid content on beta for you, and you didn't change one bit of it so we would be challenged. Srsly wtf??"
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