Today Wrath of the Lich King was released. There will propably be alot of patching, relogging for addons and other chaos upon us in the upcoming days. But all in all, it will be worth it. Now we have new lands to explore, new dungeons see and alot new bosses to over come. This is a call to arms!

Some gathered information about Wrath of the Lich King.

If all fails, enjoy a nice video of Disturbed to get you adrenaline pumped up abit. Indestructable

Stormwind and Orgrimmar are under attack by Abominations and Frostwyrms every 20 minutes. Both Alliance and Horde are preparing for war and will start moving troops to Northrend.

Update 28.10.2008:
Couple of other important notes:

• The scourge invasion will continue for a few more days.
• The prologue event is not over! More to come!!
• The Karazhan boss will be up for approximately another week still
• We increased the respawn rate of the Necropoli
• Zombie cure should kick in by around noon PST

Update 27.10.2008: (Phase 5-5.)
The infection is still 1 minute. New npcs have arrived with quest in Shattrath

Update 27.10.2008: (Phase 5.)
The infection is now reduced to 1 minutes. Most Argent Dawn healers have left.

Update 26.10.2008: (Phase 4.)
The infection is now reduced to 2 minutes. There are necropolis all over Azeroth and a new boss in Karazhan.

According to reports from around Azeroth, infected crates can now be found in some major cities. Other reports inform us of Infected Roaches spreading the disease if you kill them. Looking at the 3.02 patch notes and the main header image we can only imagen what will happen at a later stage.

Cold Weather Flying was indeed a part of a quest line, but we changed it because we felt that it wasn’t clear enough where to get it.

This ability will now be purchasable instead, and the 1000 gold cost has been tuned around the amount of gold people will usually have gathered around level 77. At that level we expect you will have more than enough gold to afford getting the Cold Weather Flying ability.

As many of you know we will be featuring a new Battleground, a dedicated world PvP zone and all new PvP items in Wrath of the Lich King. In order to make the transition from The Burning Crusade to Wrath of the Lich King flow as smoothly as possible, all accrued honor points will be reset at the launch of the expansion. We do this to ensure select players do not have an unfair advantage at level 80 from stockpiling honor to instantly purchase the newest Wrath of the Lich King PvP rewards. For those with unspent honor points prior to the release of the expansion, we will be offering a few upgrades and special rewards in next content patch solely for purchase via the honor system.

Wrath of the Lich King will be available in both a standard edition and a special Collector’s Edition (in select areas). The Collector’s Edition will contain an art book, behind-the-scenes DVD, exclusive in-game pet, and more.

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You guys have discovered our Heirloom items. These (as you know) are Bound to account, which means you can mail them to any character on the same realm. They also scale with level. So you can mail these to a level one character and it will have appropriate stats (although slightly uber) for about 10 levels and then the item scales in power again, all the way up to how you’re seeing it now.

We’re also going to add some Bind on Account non-scaling items for higher level alts. in the future.
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Five years have passed since Arthas released Ner’zhul from his icy prison and merged with him, claiming the Frozen Throne of Icecrown. Now the heir of Lordaeron has risen again, and soon the world will learn what it means to incur the wrath of its one true king….

The opening cinematic for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is now available for download or streaming from the official Wrath of the Lich King website. Check it out now!

Blizzard updated their screenshot gallery for Wrath of the Lich King.

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Blizzard is proud to officially announce the next World of Warcraft expansion set, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King! With the opening of the Dark Portal, and the renewed war to stop the Burning Crusade’s destruction of worlds, the heroes of Azeroth have given little thought to the frozen wastes of Northrend – and the terrible, ancient powers that wait there. Yet the brooding evils of the fallen Nerubian empire and their malevolent sovereign have not forgotten Azeroth…

Features

• Master the necromantic powers of the Death Knight – World of Warcraft’s first Hero class.
• Quest to level 80, gaining potent new abilities and talents along the way.
• Learn the craft of spell augmentation with the new Inscription profession.
• Brave the harsh new continent of Northrend, the icy domain of the Lich King.
• Engage in epic siege warfare, deploying mighty siege engines to lay waste to destructible buildings in your path.
• Transform your hero’s look with new character-customization options, including new hairstyles and dances.
• Explore perilous new dungeons filled with some of the deadliest creatures — and greatest treasures — on Azeroth.
• And much, much more…