WoTLK NDA lifted and beta patch notes up

[Ary]

Compare it to the Badge Xbow, a level 70 EPic deemed to be one of the best in the game, and it has haste, more Attack Power and Hit Rating, and, the real deal winner, Agility and Stamina.

Oh, and a whopping 36 more Damage - that is HUUUGE.

That's akin to comparing the Rhok to the Polystyrene Xbow off Atumen, from Vanilla to TBC, but more so.

[Petitmiel]

Wohey, they pushed the release date: November 13 for WOTLK. They must have been really shocked by ppl wandering to WAR:...

[Splishy]

another Thursday release eh? I'm assuming that's the official date from wow-europe.com (or did you get it from a store)?

[Petitmiel]

mmo-champion.com

[TomTheWizard]

It's official on wow-europe, also the PTR is up.

[Elendor]

ack, someone beat me to the punch that means i have to work even harder to get my hunter and Rogue to 70 now :/

[Sessander]

Found this on MMO-Champion. Made me smile a bit.

Protection

Taunt's range has been increased to 20 yards. (Up from 5 yards)

Gonna make it alot easier to aggro, and keep aggro of a larger group. And with Shockwave we might even have some relly nice mass aggro.

[Daffyd]

Target limit removed from swipe too.  Druid tanks on PTR are going to get a swing of the nerf bat though, by all accounts they're just a tad too strong.

[Sessander]

Target limit removed from swipe too.  Druid tanks on PTR are going to get a swing of the nerf bat though, by all accounts they're just a tad too strong.

Also taken from MMO-Champion.com

Upcoming Feral nerf
However, we are probably going to have to nerf bears. If we don't, they will be the only MT choice for serious guilds. At the moment, bears in decent gear take less damage, have more health and generate more threat than the other 3 classes by a wide enough margin that we think it's a problem. This is even true on bosses that do a lot of magic damage (like Malygos).

I use the word "nerf" because players use it, and I don't want to hind behind euphamisms. But changing the numbers doesn't have to mean nerfing you into the ground. We just don't want you to dominate. I'm sure you'd feel the same way if Protection paladins were just head and shoulders above the other tanks.

We understand that some Ferals felt they were nerfed in BC either prematurely or in such a way that kept them steadily behind other tanks. (Though Sunwell Radiance was largely for bears.) We will try to make intelligent changes so that you're still out there tanking the Lich King himself. We want you to be about as good as warriors, paladins and death knights, not way above or below them. (Source)

[zoxan]

But will this be the last expansion ?

[Jaxc]

nah im guessing 1 more, and that one will be a last try to keep wow up.


mainly it is because of 2 reasons:
there are nothing more to add, from the warcraft series
PPL will get boored at what they are doing (pvp or pve)