We’d all like to know when Wrath of the Lich King is hitting store shelves to take time off work or what not so we can snatch it up at midnight and have ample uninterrupted play time. While there is no official date set yet, there is a relatively narrow stretch of time that Blizzard’s own Mike Morhaime confirmed was the target release date. Looking at how things are progressing during the beta test I’m confidant that those months are spot on.
Keep in mind Mike Morhaime did say not that long ago that WotLK will be released between October to December of 2008. So perhaps you have a bit better of a range now. (src)
Now on a different and unrelated topic, lore is somewhat lacking in Northrend. Maybe that’s not the right way to say it, certain faction specific lore is lacking. There are more quests for the Horde (according to Blizzard) but more prominant changes and more important lore figures with the Alliance. Vereesa Windrunner, teh Ashbringer, The King of Stormwind, the list goes on and all of it will be centralized Alliance activities.
While not necessarily directly related to all of the content of the original post, we do have some lore related information to share with you, and this thread seemed a likely candidate to receive it.
Some Horde beta testers have been asking about why there seems to be a lot of Alliance only quests that related significant lore regarding Northrend, for example the changes with Mograine and the Ashbringer. It’s true that the Alliance are learning a bit more of the lore while in Northrend, that isn’t directly available to the Horde. The Alliance has a greater view at the lore behind the Vrykul. There’s also a bit more that the Alliance is exposed to simply because the King of Stormwind and Arthas are both humans, or at least… were. 
But then conversely back in Nagrand Horde players learned a lot more about Thrall’s history, whilst the Alliance had little better to do than rescue some annoyingly dim-witted guy from a cage! Also talking in strict numbers only, the Horde have more Outlands quests and currently more quests in Northrend also. We’d like players to think about what “epic” quests they do have, rather than what they don’t.
As an aside, more lore on the Ashbringer can be found in the comic book. The comic series is meant to compliment the game: events in the comics occur in the game as well. So this includes the King returning home to Stormwind, with the throne appearing and Bolvar moving to Northrend.
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Naxxramas disappeared from Eastern Plaguelands to return home to Northrend, and Dalaran left a hole on the ground in order to relocate to the Lich King’s airspace. Making a whole 40man dungeon disappear speaks volumes on the length you are willing to go to preserve the continuity.
Yep well we can move mountains when need be. Though we’re starting off with floating necropoli and a magically transported city… 
By the way, regarding Naxxramas, I just wanted to confirm that this would only be moved to Northrend and the level 60 version will not be available anymore. It’s likely there won’t be any achievements relating to the old Naxxramas, except there might be something related to Atiesh. (src)
What? Oct to Dec? We already knew that!
WTB “second week of Nov” or some such lol. Then I can actually ask for time off
I wish we had a date too man I need post extra content so you don’t all freak out when I suddenly stop posting for a few days as I get my WotLK on