ICC: The Plagueworks Open On January 5th
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Now that Patch 3.3 and Icecrown Citadel have been released, players might be wondering when the next section of the dungeon is set to unlock. Sure, most of us have still only gotten a taste of the first wing, but there are also those that are already itching for more content. You know, players with top tier groups or guilds who went together as a whole onto the PTR to test the content ahead of time (and, subsequently, already know the fights quite well).
Apparently, once you defeat Deathbringer Saurfang, you can talk to your faction's NPC (Elder Saurfang or Muradin Bronzebeard, a.k.a. the one you fought the Gunship Battle with) and they'll tell you how many days are left until they get the door down. As of yesterday (December 8th), it was a full four weeks, putting the release of the Plagueworks just after the new year on January 5th.
This isn't such a bad thing when you consider that over the next few weeks, many guilds are going to have trouble progressing because of the holidays, so releasing the next piece of content after all that is over is probably a wise idea. But if it's also four weeks between each subsequent wing comes online, then I can see fans getting very antsy (myself included). At that point, we might not see the Lich King or Heroic modes until April at the earliest.
It also kind of begs the question: what the hell is the Lich King doing for all that time? Not that it's much of a surprise, I suppose. Arthas has a serious case of Orcus On His Throne (just look at whose picture is cited as an example!). He's been loafing on his icy duff for the past ten years or so, and even since he decided to start assaulting Azeroth again, he's spent the last several months letting heroes gradually encroach on his domain when he clearly had plenty of times to kill them.
Now we're taking a month to bust down his back door and he's just going to sit there on the Frozen Throne, pulling an Al Bundy with his hand halfway down his loincloth!
So let's hope that this lengthy wait is just a grace period to let the dust settle and allow people to get used to all the new content and features over the holidays so that they can get serious about raiding once 2010 rolls around.
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Now that Patch 3.3 and Icecrown Citadel have been released, players might be wondering when the next section of the dungeon is set to unlock. Sure, most of us have still only gotten a taste of the first wing, but there are also those that are already itching for more content. You know, players with top tier groups or guilds who went together as a whole onto the PTR to test the content ahead of time (and, subsequently, already know the fights quite well).
Apparently, once you defeat Deathbringer Saurfang, you can talk to your faction's NPC (Elder Saurfang or Muradin Bronzebeard, a.k.a. the one you fought the Gunship Battle with) and they'll tell you how many days are left until they get the door down. As of yesterday (December 8th), it was a full four weeks, putting the release of the Plagueworks just after the new year on January 5th.
This isn't such a bad thing when you consider that over the next few weeks, many guilds are going to have trouble progressing because of the holidays, so releasing the next piece of content after all that is over is probably a wise idea. But if it's also four weeks between each subsequent wing comes online, then I can see fans getting very antsy (myself included). At that point, we might not see the Lich King or Heroic modes until April at the earliest.
It also kind of begs the question: what the hell is the Lich King doing for all that time? Not that it's much of a surprise, I suppose. Arthas has a serious case of Orcus On His Throne (just look at whose picture is cited as an example!). He's been loafing on his icy duff for the past ten years or so, and even since he decided to start assaulting Azeroth again, he's spent the last several months letting heroes gradually encroach on his domain when he clearly had plenty of times to kill them.
Now we're taking a month to bust down his back door and he's just going to sit there on the Frozen Throne, pulling an Al Bundy with his hand halfway down his loincloth!
So let's hope that this lengthy wait is just a grace period to let the dust settle and allow people to get used to all the new content and features over the holidays so that they can get serious about raiding once 2010 rolls around.
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