Comments on Kaliope's WoW Crafting Blog: Desperately Seeking Cataclysm

Your dates are kinda in line with what I figured t...

2009-12-10T12:14:26.550-08:00

Your dates are kinda in line with what I figured too. I figured about 4ish months from the drop of the last patch. Since technically 3.3 is the last patch, I estimated Juneish for the 4.0 "pre" patch. Mind you, with the way the Icecrown gated experience is going, I could push that upward to about late July, which would put Cataclysm August-Novemberish, with my personal guess being

They dropped SSC/BT from the initial TBC IIRC.

2009-11-16T12:00:36.608-08:00

They dropped SSC/BT from the initial TBC IIRC.

Heheh - you make a good point Dwayne. Although I ...

2009-11-16T10:01:46.042-08:00

Heheh - you make a good point Dwayne. Although I could argue that the Dance Studio falls into the category of "fluff" and therefore is expendable. Dropping it from a release doesn't harm anyone, so when crunch time hits that's exactly the type of feature that gets axed.

Frankly, I'm not sure why they ever promised it in the first place. Designing your own dance

Blizzard doesn't skimp on features to meet a d...

2009-11-15T19:16:08.190-08:00

Blizzard doesn't skimp on features to meet a deadline? Dance Studios?

Maybe the Scourge will host their own tournament. ...

2009-11-02T08:39:58.958-08:00

Maybe the Scourge will host their own tournament.

"Take THAT, Fordring! We've got abomination jousting! Anything you can do, Argents. Anything you can do..."

Hehe. It's kind of ok if you have an old chara...

2009-11-02T00:24:38.459-08:00

Hehe. It's kind of ok if you have an old character who can use the city rep. But for newer chars which were created after the reputation revamp in 2.something, it just sucks. :-)

a tournament?does that mean i have to suffer throu...

2009-11-01T15:15:06.206-08:00

a tournament?does that mean i have to suffer through the god-awful aspirant quests again? /cry

Maybe a tournament to celebrate that we beat the L...

2009-10-30T03:33:47.659-07:00

Maybe a tournament to celebrate that we beat the LK. :-)

I'd think that was a theoretical extra raid ti...

2009-10-30T03:31:57.580-07:00

I'd think that was a theoretical extra raid tier. I don't see what there'd be after ol' Lichy, unless he escapes Icecrown and you have to chase him to his intergalactic battle station, made of saronite and corpses.

....

Actually that sounds awesome.

Did you read this sentence from Ghostcrawler? >...

2009-10-30T03:01:26.417-07:00

Did you read this sentence from Ghostcrawler?

> It's an item level problem. If we added another
> raid tier to Lich King, we couldn't just keep
> avoiding avoidance and avoid it for every tier
> going forward.

So... There will be another raid after Icecrown before Cataclysm?

Or. They realized that the fucked up with obsoleting

There's a part of me that's impatient beca...

2009-10-30T02:56:33.099-07:00

There's a part of me that's impatient because of stuff I ALREADY have planned, even though Cata's nearly a year away. I doubt once my shaman gets to Outland I'll play him for a while, and will instead try another new class. The main ones I have in mind are a rogue for my eventual Worgen and a warlock, but with the Warlock revamps that, as I understand it, aren't coming '

I think one of the problems with using players for...

2009-10-29T18:27:53.705-07:00

I think one of the problems with using players for beta-testing is that some of them appear to think they've played the finished product and are now ready for "new" content again, and are unfortunately then the most vocal about being bored... fortunately those peeps seem to be in the minority, but unfortunately they are *very* loud about it.

I've assumed from the beginning that Blizzard ...

2009-10-28T20:43:22.795-07:00

I've assumed from the beginning that Blizzard would time Cataclysm's release similar to past expansions.

Each of them was announced, and then released roughly a year and 2-3 months afterward. No reason for Cataclysm to be any different (at least, no reason for it to be "omg faster).

Kring: I'm not sure why they brought out ToC s...

2009-10-28T10:32:16.947-07:00

Kring: I'm not sure why they brought out ToC so quickly, unless they were feeling pressure from the hardcore peeps. I feel like this whole expansion has gone by fast in terms of raiding. My guild is still working on UD-10, so everything above that is out of our reach for now. I've actually been running harder stuff with some other folks, but for casuals I think this progression pacing

So, why did they kill Ulduar so early? There was n...

2009-10-28T08:32:10.923-07:00

So, why did they kill Ulduar so early? There was no need to do that.

Most guilds didn't even try the hardmodes by the time they got obsoleted by the tournament.

good read... thanks for the interesting post... Ke...

2009-10-27T23:52:24.025-07:00

good read... thanks for the interesting post... Keep them coming!

David Warlock
http://warlockguide.org/

I'm pretty happy with a year (or even a little...

2009-10-27T18:45:44.647-07:00

I'm pretty happy with a year (or even a little more) from announcement to implementation, and have speculated on a release date around the same time as yours. It would be sort of nice to be able to do Tricks'n'Treats on a spanky new lvl 1, but if I can have a lvl 20 by Xmas (for whatever the pet present is) I will still be in orbit. And if I can't... gives me more time for