The first lore figure we’re looking at is Tirion Fordring. A man of great honor, a devout follower of the Light, and one of the original paladins of the Silver Hand; we explore his beginning, downfall and rising. You’ll see this amazing paladin in Valgarde (Howling Fjord) if you are starting Northrend there, or the [...]

Cryptic words from Nethaera aren’t too uncommon, but in this context I can clearly see she’s being sarcastic. Now I don’t mean that in a negative sense mind you, this Scourge invasion has been incredibly sweet. For those of us bringing alts turned mains to level 70 it’s been a Godsend.
People will find any reason [...]

You fine people have been so very very patient today as I suffered some SERIOUSLY bad internet issues. I need to switch off DSL and get cable or something. Here then as a reward for being such great readers, a video of what is my most favorite of Northrend instances thus far, The Caverns of [...]

There was a known issue where players in the Stormpeaks doing… something, was causing the server to crash. By server I mean the Northrend continent.
Storm Peaks is crashing because of an Art/Engine related bug. There is no way we can hotfix Storm Peaks. We’ll need to patch to fix it. (src)
The same can be said [...]

As always my thanks go out to the greater Death Knight community (Jayde from World of Feedback and Kenzi from Deathknight-info) I have had these videos on my desktop all yesterday and now they can be streamed so I share with you very sweet things.
Jayde was spec’d frost and there are two parts to the [...]

These images come from WotLKWiki which was a pretty solid go to site for me during the Alpha stages of the game. Recently, somebody posted new images of the unfinished airships that were discussed and that I found the video of (a little after Alpha was announced) and the two ships are still under construction [...]

I saw this video a while back but lost the link, just now I found it again after renewed excitement. As you know from my post earlier, the Beta Realms for Wrath of the Lich King are going down for a new build and maintenance. This map of Icecrown was spotted and I can’t help [...]

This is intense. This is a video of the final quest in the chain of the Death Knight starting area. The short version, you are one of the vanguards in a massive scourge army that will destroy Light’s Hope Chapel! I eat this stuff up man woot!

Lask Dk quest chain from Masteve on Vimeo.
Update: For [...]

I don’t know why people keep asking for this. I understand that the nostalgia of hitting a big grand army of 40 people seems so wonderful and truly epic. But as soon as you hit it you’ll lose the desire and remember how fucking terribad it was. Perfect example you can try for yourself. Remember [...]

Neth was gracious enough to give us what little insight is currently available by any means on the Arthas encounter. There is very little known about the event right now outside the hallowed doors of Blizzard dev. meetings but here’s what we know so far. (src)
When it comes to whether or not Arthas will be [...]

I really like Christie Golden’s writing. She does an amazing job with the Horde lore and is possibly one of the main driving factors that helped me make the decision to come back to the Horde fulltime 100%. Not to say that the Alliance is bad or evil or full of morons (though Eredar seems [...]

Is it Arthas? Is it Ner’zhul? I always figured it’s a new entity all together only known as the Lich King.
Before Arthas donned the Lich King’s armor, it was the spirit of the former Orc Shaman Ner’zhul who’s soul was attached to the armor and then imprisoned (physically) inside the Frozen Throne. Now Arthas and [...]

We’ve been discussing this a lot. The PVP aspect of the game is a big lure for me but more than that I enjoy this universe and the lore as well as the raids and dungeons. It’s just appealing to me. With that said right now we’re engrossed in some major discussions about the raiding [...]

The raiding community has been buzzing with the release of the news that in Wrath of the Lich King all raids will be available in either a 10 or 25 man version. In other words (logically speaking from a developer standpoint) they would have to build the instance from the 10-man perspective first and then [...]

This is hands down one of the most wicked looking machinimas. It has the potential to be one the GREATEST works in machinima. Notice something important too. This is NOT the cinematic you see in Wacraft III.
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It’s very short but still a good teaser. Trailers are long, teasers are short. So… where were you when [...]

In Wyrmrest Temple there’s a raid instance similar to Onyxia’s Lair where it’s a small raid instance with a single encounter in the Chamber of Aspects. We plan to put a raid encounter in there and let you take part in that and initially we plan to go with one raid encounter, but if we [...]

Here are a few more confirmed details regarding Northrend and the game’s direction.

Even if you’ll be able to meet him as soon as you reach Dragonblight (LVL 71-75), the final encounter against Arthas won’t be until the last patch of the Lich King cycle. The Icecrown Citadel, will appear after launch. (Eurogamer.net)
Dragonblight will also let [...]

We know that soon enough we will be able to go into the Caverns of Time and fight alongside Arthas as he burns down Stratholme and Kills it’s citizens before they can be taken by the Scourge as they have already been infected with the plague of undeath. Funny enough I recently played through this [...]