Be it good news or bad news World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is rumored to come out before February of 2008.

Sources say that it will definitely be before then. And even possibly Christmas 2007. For some this is really awesome. The chance to be the new class Death Knight, a level cap of 80, new instances, talent builds, and much more. It's all very exciting. But what most don't realise is; what of the Burning Crusades? It barely came out mid January. Not everyone has done the end game stuff. And more importantly; outlands. Is outlands going to turn into a ghost town when Lich King comes out? That is the bad side of it. To sum it up Lich King will probably be a Christmas release.

Why is it that it's coming out so much sooner than the BC? Well that's simple. For one Blizzard's reputation has sky rocketed since the announcement date of BC. It took about 2 years for BC to be released. Due to the fact that Blizz has grown. So has the staff. Blizzard has more than tripled in size since then. I attended Blizzcon and talked to developers, and personally got to beta test the Lich King. That right there shows you it's not going to take 2 years. They have most of the game done already.

Attending Blizzcon gave me a ton of information about the Lich King as well. If you didn't read the WoW website here it is and even info that it doesn't list.

• Ofcourse the level cap of 80
• Inscription the newest skill.
• Ability to change your hairstyle. And new dances. (whoopee)
• And ofcourse the Death Knight.

A little bit I got from Blizzcon that I found a bit exciting was talents. The guy started out by saying, "you will never play your character the same". That's because they are doing what they call "talent splits". Talent splits will almost be like fusing two different classes into one. But not as dramatic. What it sounded like is basically you can have lets say a Hunter with some warrior attributes, like prot. To me that sounds exciting. But I doubt they'd go too in depth with it, to where there's a full prot Hunter. That would just be a waste. My guess is (only because they didn't go too far into it) that they will give you a few talents to get a little protection in you. (Again, using prot as an example).

For those that don't know how the whole Death Knight works. Basically it's like this. No, not everyone will be running around with Death Knights the day of the release of Lich King. That's because there will be no level 1 Death Knights ever. Death Knight is obtained from a quest when you reach level 80. Once the quest is complete you receive your Death Knight as a level 55-70 (actual level not stated), with gear to just get you by. So you're able to quest and level. That's how a you will get a Death Knight.

Well that's my little tidbit of info. Most of this info can be found at the wow website. And some of it was courtesy of Blizzcon and some WoW websites. Thank you for reading!

Justin