Mania Away!

(Sometimes when I am killing Chillmaw for my Argent Tournament dailies, I send my slime after the dragon and shout, “Slime … A-WAY!” It amuses me to no end.)

Ironically, I am leaving in just a few hours (early early Sunday morning) to fly to California — two days late for BlizzCon but just in time to ramp up for a major new contract my husband and I are taking. And we’re headed to San Francisco anyway, not Orange County, but it’s still ironic.

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BlizzCon 2009: Day 2 Round-Up

Or, How I Fell Asleep and Missed It All

So today was Day 2 of BlizzCon 2009. The live Internet Stream schedule claimed that they would be showing only one World of Warcraft panel, the WoW Dungeons and Raids panel, which as you know is not my main interest in this game. *grin* Still, I would have liked to see it, but somehow I slept through my alarm … and some phone calls … and my husband mowing the lawn outside my window … and most of the daylight hours. *cough*

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Cataclysm!

Blizzard has announced the next World of Warcraft expansion: Cataclysm. The details we know so far:

  • New Horde Race: Goblins
  • New Alliance Race: Worgen
  • New Level Cap: 85
  • New character progression: Path of the Titans
  • New secondary skill: Archaeology
  • Guild Leveling System
  • New race/class combinations.
  • New monsters, dungeons, etc.
  • Classic zones redone completely.
  • Flying mounts can fly in Azeroth.
  • Probable release in 2010

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