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08-24-2009, 08:05 AM
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For all those of you out there who don't have the time to slog through the 100+ articles we published on BlizzCon 2009 (http://www.wow.com/tag/blizzcon-2009/), we've condensed the events of the past few days into the most important things you need to know:
THE END OF WRATH: Developers gave some pretty revealing information on what we can expect to see in patch 3.2.2 (http://www.wow.com/tag/patch-3.2.2/) (the revamped Onyxia raid (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-the-return-of-onyxia/)) and in patch 3.3 (http://www.wow.com/tag/patch-3.3/), where we'll finally stare down Arthas himself.
THE NEXT EXPANSION: Blizzard's own loremaster Chris Metzen debuted the first trailer for the next expansion (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-announced/), titled World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-world-of-warcraft-preview-panel-liveblog/), and that sound you hear is millions of players who can't believe Blizzard would ever pull a stunt this big. Cataclysm's basic storyline features the return of Deathwing and the re-sundering of the world in his wake (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-cataclysm-the-story-so-far/), forever altering Azeroth's classic landscape (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/high-quality-cataclysm-map/) and sending players to previously unseen parts of the world like the Lost Isles, Hyjal, Gilneas, Uldum, and Grim Batol.
FEATURES OF CATACLYSM: The most important features of the next expansion include two new races (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-live-blogging-the-cataclysm-new-starter-zones/) (Goblins (http://www.wow.com/category/goblin/) for the Horde and Worgen (http://www.wow.com/category/worgen/) for the Alliance), new class possibilities (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-cataclysm-race-class-combo-matrix-online/) for existing races, a new secondary skill (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-archaeology-and-path-of-the-titans/), character stat simplification (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-stats-vastly-simplified/), cross-server instances (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-blizzard-announces-cross-server-instances/), the ability to level and "talent" your guild (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-guild-leveling-and-talents/), new means of character advancement through the Path of the Titans (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-path-of-the-titans-explained/), Mastery, and the revamping of the talent system (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-mastery-system-and-talent-trees/), and rated battlegrounds (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-rated-battlegrounds-and-the-return-of-pvp-titles/).
LIVEBLOGS: We blogged and liveblogged the convention from start to finish: the Opening Ceremony (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-opening-ceremony-live-blog/), the WoW Preview panel (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-world-of-warcraft-preview-panel-liveblog/), the WoW Art panel (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-world-of-warcraft-art-panel/), The Guild's panel (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-the-guild-panel-live-blog/), the first (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-class-items-and-professions-panel-live-blog/) and second (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-wow-class-discussion-2-live-blog/) WoW Class, Items, and Professions Panels, the general WoW Q&A (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-wow-qanda-live-blog/), the Breaking Into the Industry (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-breaking-into-the-gaming-industry-with-ghostcrawl/) panel, the Game Systems (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-game-systems-panel-live-blog/) panel, and the Raids and Dungeons (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-world-of-warcraft-dungeons-and-raids-panel/) panel.
FUN AND GAMES: Even in the middle of all the craziness, we still found time for our third annual Reader Meetup (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-wow-com-meetup-gallery/) (we expected maybe 300 people and got 1200+) with the cast of The Guild present, Premonition's live raid (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-premonition-live-raid/), the Costume contest (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-costume-contest-video/), and the Dance and Soundalike contests (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-dance-and-soundalike-contest-videos/).
If you'd like a more thorough look at how BlizzCon 2009 went, visit our round-ups on Day One (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/day-one-of-blizzcon-2009-round-up/) and Day Two (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/23/day-two-of-blizzcon-2009-round-up/) of the con for a more complete guide to our articles, galleries, and videos.Filed under: Patches (http://www.wow.com/category/patches/), Events (http://www.wow.com/category/events/), Fan stuff (http://www.wow.com/category/fan-stuff/), WoW Social Conventions (http://www.wow.com/category/wow-social-conventions/), Blizzard (http://www.wow.com/category/blizzard/), News items (http://www.wow.com/category/news-items/), Expansions (http://www.wow.com/category/expansions/), Features (http://www.wow.com/category/features/), BlizzCon (http://www.wow.com/category/blizzcon/), Cataclysm (http://www.wow.com/category/cataclysm/), Worgen (http://www.wow.com/category/worgen/), Goblin (http://www.wow.com/category/goblin/)
BlizzCon 2009: The short version (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/24/blizzcon-2009-the-short-version/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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For all those of you out there who don't have the time to slog through the 100+ articles we published on BlizzCon 2009 (http://www.wow.com/tag/blizzcon-2009/), we've condensed the events of the past few days into the most important things you need to know:
THE END OF WRATH: Developers gave some pretty revealing information on what we can expect to see in patch 3.2.2 (http://www.wow.com/tag/patch-3.2.2/) (the revamped Onyxia raid (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-the-return-of-onyxia/)) and in patch 3.3 (http://www.wow.com/tag/patch-3.3/), where we'll finally stare down Arthas himself.
THE NEXT EXPANSION: Blizzard's own loremaster Chris Metzen debuted the first trailer for the next expansion (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/world-of-warcraft-cataclysm-announced/), titled World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-world-of-warcraft-preview-panel-liveblog/), and that sound you hear is millions of players who can't believe Blizzard would ever pull a stunt this big. Cataclysm's basic storyline features the return of Deathwing and the re-sundering of the world in his wake (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-cataclysm-the-story-so-far/), forever altering Azeroth's classic landscape (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/high-quality-cataclysm-map/) and sending players to previously unseen parts of the world like the Lost Isles, Hyjal, Gilneas, Uldum, and Grim Batol.
FEATURES OF CATACLYSM: The most important features of the next expansion include two new races (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-live-blogging-the-cataclysm-new-starter-zones/) (Goblins (http://www.wow.com/category/goblin/) for the Horde and Worgen (http://www.wow.com/category/worgen/) for the Alliance), new class possibilities (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-cataclysm-race-class-combo-matrix-online/) for existing races, a new secondary skill (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-archaeology-and-path-of-the-titans/), character stat simplification (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-stats-vastly-simplified/), cross-server instances (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-blizzard-announces-cross-server-instances/), the ability to level and "talent" your guild (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-guild-leveling-and-talents/), new means of character advancement through the Path of the Titans (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-path-of-the-titans-explained/), Mastery, and the revamping of the talent system (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-mastery-system-and-talent-trees/), and rated battlegrounds (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-rated-battlegrounds-and-the-return-of-pvp-titles/).
LIVEBLOGS: We blogged and liveblogged the convention from start to finish: the Opening Ceremony (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-opening-ceremony-live-blog/), the WoW Preview panel (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-world-of-warcraft-preview-panel-liveblog/), the WoW Art panel (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-world-of-warcraft-art-panel/), The Guild's panel (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-the-guild-panel-live-blog/), the first (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-class-items-and-professions-panel-live-blog/) and second (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-wow-class-discussion-2-live-blog/) WoW Class, Items, and Professions Panels, the general WoW Q&A (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-wow-qanda-live-blog/), the Breaking Into the Industry (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-breaking-into-the-gaming-industry-with-ghostcrawl/) panel, the Game Systems (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-game-systems-panel-live-blog/) panel, and the Raids and Dungeons (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-world-of-warcraft-dungeons-and-raids-panel/) panel.
FUN AND GAMES: Even in the middle of all the craziness, we still found time for our third annual Reader Meetup (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/21/blizzcon-2009-wow-com-meetup-gallery/) (we expected maybe 300 people and got 1200+) with the cast of The Guild present, Premonition's live raid (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-premonition-live-raid/), the Costume contest (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-costume-contest-video/), and the Dance and Soundalike contests (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/blizzcon-2009-dance-and-soundalike-contest-videos/).
If you'd like a more thorough look at how BlizzCon 2009 went, visit our round-ups on Day One (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/22/day-one-of-blizzcon-2009-round-up/) and Day Two (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/23/day-two-of-blizzcon-2009-round-up/) of the con for a more complete guide to our articles, galleries, and videos.Filed under: Patches (http://www.wow.com/category/patches/), Events (http://www.wow.com/category/events/), Fan stuff (http://www.wow.com/category/fan-stuff/), WoW Social Conventions (http://www.wow.com/category/wow-social-conventions/), Blizzard (http://www.wow.com/category/blizzard/), News items (http://www.wow.com/category/news-items/), Expansions (http://www.wow.com/category/expansions/), Features (http://www.wow.com/category/features/), BlizzCon (http://www.wow.com/category/blizzcon/), Cataclysm (http://www.wow.com/category/cataclysm/), Worgen (http://www.wow.com/category/worgen/), Goblin (http://www.wow.com/category/goblin/)
BlizzCon 2009: The short version (http://www.wow.com/2009/08/24/blizzcon-2009-the-short-version/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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