Time to allocate bulk chrissy holiday bookings:

WORLD OF WARCRAFT®: CATACLYSM™ IN STORES STARTING DECEMBER 7
IRVINE, Calif. -- October 4, 2010 Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that World of Warcraft®: Cataclysm™, the highly anticipated third expansion for the world's most popular subscription-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game*, will be released starting on December 7, 2010. The expansion will be available on DVD-ROM for Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 and Macintosh® at a suggested retail price of $39.99 and will also be offered as a digital download from the Blizzard Store. A special Collector’s Edition packed with bonus items will be available exclusively in retail stores for a suggested retail price of $79.99.

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/press/pressreleases.html?101004

Haters gonna hate, so start hating 3-2-1-go!

Doh was hoping for early November ... meh at least we have a date now.

At least we'll have a bit of time to experience the changes before the expansion hits proper.

Yea I guess so, though I intend mainly to use the time for farming ores, herbs and stacking the AH :)

good time to get rich.

In before the expansion is 90$ aud even on the blizzard store.

gah. I'm waiting for it come so I can start a new main, goblin spriest ftw

At least it's officially on the Bliz site now, was truely sick of people claiming it was comming out at one date or another cause they read it on some pissy little no name web site.

In before the expansion is 90$ aud even on the blizzard store.

Game has it for $59 online. EBGames has it for $58 lol. But I'm going Game now, EBGames can go f*** themselves.

Hoorah for digital download, don't need to visit any dirty game shops.

Getting 2 collectors editions for $109 each

Bastard. I had a chance to get the CE but decided i'd never play wow again. Now i'm back and I wish i'd of bloody gotten it when I had the chance T_T. Game, EB, JB... all sold out

I'm getting mine through EB. Had originally put down for one collectors and one regular, but the guy there made it two collectors even though apparently EB have been told to sell only one Collectors per person. So when I called up this morning to confirm, it turns out I have a twin brother now who placed an order =)

Sell me one of yours.

I got beta access on friday. I'm loving the changes for my lock. My paladin sucks now though.

pARODY did you get it the same way I did?

Make a 9 line wow addon that yells 'get over here' whenever a death knight pulls something to them and post it on curse.com then email blizzard asking for developer beta access?

How are hunters pulling up in the beta?

I have my name down (confirmed orders) for 2 CE's.
1 at JB and 1 at EB. Hoping to get 1, I bet I get none : /

How are hunters pulling up in the beta?

I played the beta before they allowed addons and before they wiped the entire client and made me have to download 20gb again so i'm not sure but an exact copy of my character, who had about a 5.2k gear score at the time was doing some rather impressive damage. 20k aimed shot crits but that has since gone up to a 3 second cast. Kill Command was doing about 4 - 5k damage per hit, which is every 6 seconds and apparantly that number can go as high as 9k at 85. Pet crits were pretty high too, about the 3 - 4k mark if I remember right. Top dps specs so far seem to be marks highest, BM only slightly behind and survival behind BM in last place.

Oh and hunters get additions to their pets, with everyone of the classes seemingly getting a new ability. Spirit beasts can heal for around 11k reportedly, core hounds get bloodlust (oh yeah), devisaurs get a 5% crit buff if I remember right (I know 1 of them does) and there is AI, MotW, fort, kings and all sorts of other buffs now. Also we have 25 stable slots and 5 active slots which you can call a pet out of at any time. Also being able to steady shot, cobra shot and auto shoot on the move will be a great thing to hear people complain about.

hmm regrets selling hunter... be fun leveling from 1 any way. (hope my bot still works)

Nice on the hunter info - have SV and BM builds on my main. f*** love the idea of all the extra pet slots.

Not looking forward to rebuilding all the toons though lol 4 80's all dual talented :( and my resto Drood hit 78 on the weekend.

haha
Merry Christmas Blizzard Please find attached a cheque for $100,000,000.

I haven't really looked into whats going on much at all but I've been busy lvling a troll hunter for a while now.
All that info makes me wanna not even worry about a spriest haha

Yeah my main is a hunter so i've been trying to keep up with changes. As for new pets there doesn't seem to be a ton of new ones like I expected. You get monkeys (actual monkeys not gorillas), mastiff dogs that only worgen seem to get, spiky crabs and foxes with their rape eyes. Photos this time that i've taken while playing eairly beta.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs274.snc4/40063_145961955431276_100000524160206_340092_7190984_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs128.ash2/39736_145960098764795_100000524160206_340063_5515571_n.jpg

What has science done?

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs252.snc4/39924_145960162098122_100000524160206_340070_2376530_n.jpg

Underwater mount. f*** yeah! Seahorse!

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs268.snc4/39736_145960108764794_100000524160206_340066_818457_n.jpg

By far the best starting area is the goblins. They have this city thing going on and you cruise around in a hotrod (seen below) and do quests. Wish the picture I got was a bit bigger but there are 4 goblin supermodels with the tag < ridiculously good looking >, at the petrol station having a gasoline fight. That made me laugh hard.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs142.ash2/40436_145959945431477_100000524160206_340054_4889141_n.jpg

Me wearing my "bling" for a quest to hold a party lol

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs142.ash2/40436_145959948764810_100000524160206_340055_900790_n.jpg

Unfortunatly all my other shots got thrown out when I deleted the old beta client. Derp. Stupid me I had like over 100 shots.

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but there are 4 goblin supermodels with the tag < ridiculously good looking >, at the petrol station having a gasoline fight. That made me laugh hard.

I was completely fine with not doing my normal 2 to 3 month return with this expansion, until you said that. I need to know all the jokes's and explorable things

pARODY did you get it the same way I did?

Make a 9 line wow addon that yells 'get over here' whenever a death knight pulls something to them and post it on curse.com then email blizzard asking for developer beta access?

Nope, It would have been the submission of a write up about login stealer that could bypass the authenticator.