In this months issue of Games for Windows magazine, an article has revealed what the proposed zone list for Wrath of the Lich King will be:

• Howling Fjord (68-72)
• Borean Tundra (68-72)
• The Dragonblight (71-75)
• Zul’Drak (73-76)
• Grizzly Hills (74-76)
• Azjol-Nerub (74-78)
• Sholazar Basin (75-78)
• The Storm Peaks (77-80)
• Icecrown Glacier (77-80)
• Lake Wintergrasp (Outdoor PvP)

General

- There is concept art of Dalaran and The Nexus - both look pretty cool. The Nexus looks like this huge purple beam of magic shooting towards the sky, with rings surrounding it that look like little islands you could probably land on with a flying mount.
- Metzen says he doesn’t want the end of Arthas’ story to be predictable, as he says a “Yeah, that’s pretty much what I expected” type of feeling.
- Metzen feels the Burning Crusade never really had an “ending” moment. Killing Illidan wasn’t it because he didn’t like the Legion either. So Sunwell will be it
- The Blood Elves are trying to reinvigorate the Sunwell using energy ported from Netherstorm (i.e. the Mana Forges), but supposively rebuilding the Sunwell is an excuse to summon Kil’jaeden.
- There is that quote that someone posted earlier in the forums that Kil’jaeden is not fully summoned, thus you can kill him with 25 lvl 70s.

Zones

- Dalaran will have one or two instanced dungeons in it (like Stockades or Ragefire they said).
- Dalaran won’t have Auction Houses or class trainers again (*sigh*). Same bass-ackwards reason as with Shattrath. It will probably have portals like Shattrath though, and they said possibly one to Shattrath as well.

Dungeons

- Sunwell area will have “tweaker Blood Elves, high on magic” and 6-8 bosses.
- Info about Utgarde: will be similar to Ramparts, but with more memorable moments to break up the “pull-rest-pull-boss” structure of other instances (way they put it). One is a giant flame forge that kills you if you step into it, but if you kill the workers operating it, it dies down. Another is a guantlet area like in Shattered Halls. One boss will be a Lich, another will be a Vrykul who summons scourge minions.
- There’s a map of Utgarde Keep (low level dungeon).
- It mentions the Stratholme CoT dungeon (which isn’t new news but it’s recent at least).
- There will be more “micro dungeons” (i.e. non-instanced dungeon-like areas.. I guess Deatholme is probably a good example). One is called Gjalerbron where the Vrykul are working side-by-side with Liches.

Professions

Inscription
- Inscribers will be able to sell scrolls.
- Only a handful of core spells can be inscribed. Example they used was you cannot extend the range of the Priest’s Mind Vision, but you CAN extend the duration of the Hunter’s Freezing Traps.

Death Knight
- One idea for the Death Knight class is that you’ll start in Stratholme and have to break your way out.
- Two Death Knight spells mentioned: Army of the Dead (the one from the trailer) which summons a bunch of undead minions, and Death and Decay, which is an AOE spell.
- One idea for an ability is Blood Boil, a damage-over-time ability that after the duration lights up two of your blood runes.
- Generally Blood runes are damage-oriented, Frost are control-oriented, and Unholy are utility and DOT mechanics.

Via MMO-Champion.com, we have some new information on Wrath of the Lich King.

buffed.de interviewed Jeff Kaplan (Tigole) during the Games Convention in Germany and revealed some new information on the WotLK expansion.

• The new Caverns of Time instance will be Stratholme (5 players, level 80 instance). You will be tasked with helping Arthas to cleanse Stratholme of the scourge, including burning the town to the ground!
• The required level for Death Knight probably will not be level 80 to avoid any rush just to unlock it. It could possibly be between 55 and 60. Once you reached the required level you create your Death Knight and face some challenges. If you have mastered them, you will get your Death Knight.
• Runes combination will unlock different abilities for the Death Knight. You can use up to 6 runes and there isn’t any restriction (6 unholy, 2 unholy 2 frost 2 blood, 3 frost 3 blood, etc …). For example you will need blood an unholy runes to use “Army of the dead”, and won’t be able to use it if you’ve only got frost runes.
• Future hero classes could be Demon Hunter, Arch Mage, and Blademaster.

buffed: Now, to the topic: We heard a lot of things about Wrath of the Lich King at BlizzCon. Have there been any news since?
Jeff: There are a few things that we did not talk about at BlizzCon. The most important thing is the new Caverns of Time instance Stratholme. We wanted to return to the Caverns of Time concept because it is one of the coolest things we released for World of Warcraft: and we wanted to persue what the Bronze Dragon is up to. We want to show you some of the coolest moments of Warcraft. And now we chose Stratholme. Players of World of Warcraft already know Stratholme and many hardcore players are great fans of the old Stratholme instance. Warcraft 3 players however know Stratholme from a singleplayer mission, in which Arthas travels to the city and sets all buildings on fire, kills the citizens and fights Mal’Ganis. In Wrath of the Lich King you fight at Prince Arthas’ side, by travelling through the Caverns of Time. We are giving you the opportunity of meeting Arthas at a time at which he was not a great villain yet. You are “cleaning” Stratholme and igniting buildings!

buffed: Awesome! For how many players is this instance designed?
Jeff: It will be a five player instance, but for level 80 characters. We think that players will not enter the Caverns of Time while they are levelling, but return to them at level 80.

buffed: Have you already decided which race the Death Knight will base on? If one plays a Gnome, will the Death Knight be a Gnome too?
Jeff: Yes, we have already made a decision. But do not be surprised if we decide to change our minds. You know, game design is a very flexible job. Right now, every race can become a Death Knight, even Gnomes. We have thought about some things since BlizzCon. Characters most likely will not have to be level 80 to unlock the Death Knight, it will probably be earlier. Levelling to level 80 like a maniac to unlock the Death Knight simply is not fun. It makes people rush through the game. That is why we will make it differently. We have many ideas, but we have not decided on one yet. Maybe the Death Knight will be unlocked between level 55 and 60. Then you create your Death Knight and face some challenges. If you have mastered them, you will get your Death Knight.

buffed: But the newly created level 55 to 60 character will not become a Death Knight, or will it?
Jeff: No, the old character stays. You just get an additional one. You know, many players give their characters names related to their class. There are many names specific to Druids…

buffed: You mean names like “ilove2spooch” in the World of Warcraft Southpark episode?
Jeff: (laughs) Yes, exactly. There are many names like that. And many just would not fit and that is why we are giving the players the chance to give their Death Knights a new, suitable name.

buffed: Can you give us some details about the Death Knight’s abilities?
Jeff: Sure. The resourcing system is completely different and is based on runes. At Blizzard we are concentrating on making the characters differ from each other as much as possible. The best example are Rogue and Warrior. The Rogue uses combo points and the Warrior rage - quite a difference. When we started developing the Death Knight, we wanted it to feel distinct. That is why we gave him runes, which can be ingraved to his weapon, an axe or sword. There are three different types of runes: blood, unholy and frost. Depending on how you combine them, you get different abilities. The maximum you can have is six, and you can combine them in any way you want. For example: you could use two of each type of rune, or you could use four unholy runes and two blood runes, because you want to tank with your Death Knight. Or you could change your rune configuration for PVP battles. If you use your abilities you consume those runes, however. We have one skill called “Army of Dead”, which summons Ghouls. Right now you need unholy and blood runes for that ability, I believe. If you only had frost runes ingraved on your weapon, you could not use that ability. We have developed a pretty cool system that makes the runes on your weapon glow if you change the combination.

buffed: Last question: the Death Knight is only the first of many hero classes. Which hero class would you like to introduce next?
Jeff: My favority? That is hard to say. I think the Demon Hunter would be extremely cool. The Arch Mage would be cool too…
buffed: (whispers) Blade Master!
Jeff: (laughs) There are many options, among them, of course, the fantastic Blade Master. We did a lot of brain storming and also thought about classes that were not present in Warcraft 3. But we wanted to advance slowly and introduce the Death Knight first in Wrath of the Lich King. And then we will see what is next.

Some additional information for new features for Wrath of the Lich King is available on the EU forums:

4.2.10Q Will spirit mechanics ever be improved so that mana-regen will work?

4.2.10A Spirit stats in general will be improved in WLK.
4.2.10Shttp://www.wowinsider.com/2007/08/04/blizzcon-day-2-class-panel-notes-and-qanda/
http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/08/04/professions-and-items-liveblog/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2NRNSMQtro (around 49:00)

4.2.11Q Will Horde ever get fear-ward?

4.2.11A It has been said it?s being dealt with in WLK.
4.2.11S http://wow.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4017797

4.3.1Q Will WLK introduce any new dungeons? And how many can we expect?

4.3.1A Yes, WLK will introduce many new dungeons. Currently we can expect one less max-level 5-person instance (when comparing to TBC). The following dungeons are currently known:
• Grizzlemaw (Furbolg dungeon)
• Naxxramas (see 4.3.6)
• New Caverns of Time instance
• Ulduar
• Uldum (it?s only a plan brought up by the lore guys, no solid details yet)
• Utgarde Keep (5 player level 70 dungeon, inhabited by the Vrykul)

4.3.6Q What about old dungeon content?

4.3.6A There are plans to introduce some old dungeons back. For example there are plans to make Naxxramas a sort of MC-like dungeon. The dungeon itself is a floating fortress so it can easily be moved to Northrend. Of course Naxxramas will be retuned to a 25 man dungeon along with level 80 content.
4.3.6Shttp://news.curse.com/details/2592/
http://wow.incgamers.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=5237 (around 17:40)
http://www.mmo-gamer.com/?p=218

4.3.7Q Can we expect a lot of Attunement/Keyed dungeons?

4.3.7A Yes. However, Blizzard is planning on introducing a way to make attunement/keys easier. A couple of ideas they had was that once you are attuned your whole account will be attuned. Also maybe a whole guild attunement. Nothing solid yet!
4.3.7Shttp://wow.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4017780

4.3.8Q Will Arthas/Lich King be killable?

4.3.8A Since the lich king is an enemy, it?s possible. However, it is more likely we?ll kill Arthas himself, instead of the lich king.
4.3.8Shttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOB7o00hlAc (around 30:25)

Posted on http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=394040237&sid=1 by Salthem

Disclaimer: This thread and everything posted in it is still in development and is subject to change based on further development and testing.

Northrend is the icy northern most continent of Azeroth. Formed during the War of the Ancients, and initially introduced in Warcraft III, players will be returning to it in The World of Warcraft Expansion: The Wrath of the Lich King.

Geography:

Northrend will have zones of a comparable size to those in outland, it will also have more zones, but the exact number has not been finalised yet.
Players can start from two different zones: Howling Fjord & Borean Tundra.

Howling Fjord:
Your first chance to go up against the ancient Vrykul in their instance Utgarde Keep.

Borean Tundra:
The home to the Tuskarr.
Parts of Borean Tundra are being melted down for water by the Naga.
Garrosh Hellscream has established a base of operations at Warsong Hold.

Grizzly Hills:
The home of Furbolgs and their city of Grizzlemaw.
Also home to the ancient Dwarven City of Thor Modan.
The land is largely covered in forests - an example of our desire to make sure that not all zones are just snow and ice.

Dragonblight:
The home of Wyrmrest Temple, the ancient meeting place where dragons go to die.

Lake Wintergrasp:
A new non-instanced PvP zone with Siege Weapons, destructible buildings and multiple objectives with lasting effects. Players on Normal realms will automatically be flagged for PvP when entering this zone.

The Storm Peaks:
Containing Ulduar, the ancient Titan city in the Far North.

Capital City:

The Kirin Tor, led by Rhonin, have moved Dalaran to Northrend as a final front in their war against the Blue Dragon Flight. The Blue Dragon Flight, following a strengthened Malygos, are now attempting to purge all magic users from Azeroth.
It will act as the central neutral city floating above Northrend - a Shattrath of the North.

Races of Northrend:

Taunka ? An ancient offshoot of the Tauren, who have a considerably different outlook on the world.
Tuskarr ? The Nomadic Fisher Walrus men make a return from Warcraft III.
Iron Dwarves ? There is a great deal to be discovered about the history of Azeroth through their story.
Naga ? Pursuing their material interests further in Northrend.
Vrykul ? The ancient giant vikings of the Howling Fjord.
Furbolgs ? The Furbolgs live in the city of Grizzlemaw in Grizzly Hills.
Nerubians ? The Nerubian spiderlords are related to the silithid of Silithus and are followers of the Old Gods in Northrend.

Famous Faces:

Players will interact with Arthas right from the beginning in Northrend.
Arthas is the avatar of the Lich King and is scheming to corrupt the players of the Horde and Alliance against their own people as he himself was corrupted against his own father by the Lich King.
Every player, whether a raider or solo player, will have a hand in whether Arthas is defeated or whether he ultimately dominates the entire world.

Garrosh Hellscream has moved to Northrend to lead the fight following in the steps of his father.
Lady Sylvanas is leading the Forsaken with their experimental plague against the scourge and Arthas
Highlord Bolvar Fordragon will be at the forefront of the campaign for the Alliance in a tumultuous storyline.
Brann Bronzebeard is the consummate explorer and finally makes an appearance in World of Warcraft helping the dwarves explore their origins in Northrend.
Tirion Fordring and The Order of the Silver Hand make a return, bringing with them the legend of the Ashbringer
Rhonin is now leading the Kirin Tor in their war against the Blue Dragon Flight.

PvP:

There will be a new mid-sized (e.g. 15 vs 15) battleground in which the goal is to blow up the enemy base using Siege Weapons. (Not yet determined if this is actually located in Northrend.)

There will be a new Arena Map and Season.

A new non-instanced PvP zone, Lake Wintergrasp, will contain Siege Weapons, destructible buildings and multiple objectives with lasting effects. Players on Normal realms will automatically be flagged for PvP when entering this zone.

In a recent podcast interview at 1up.com, Cory Stockton, WoW’s lead level designer gave a few hints on the upcoming Death Knight class.  The more notable points of interest include:

• Doing the quest to unlock a DK will give you a new hero slot, in which you can make a DK.
• This means you would need to redo it if you wanted to make a second DK; it’s unknown whether you can have more than one hero slot per realm, though.
• This also means you (hopefully) won’t be stopped from making one by having ten characters on a realm.

He also mentions that future hero classes will be added in future expansions.  So it is likely Death Knights will be all we see for a while!

Legendary Thread with Cory Stockton - WOW Insider

The release date of Wrath of the Lich King is an area of great speculation. Gamestop is already taking pre-orders and has a date of November 3, 2008 for release date. Play.com has posted May 30, 2008. And of course, on the US forums, Nethaera says “It will be released (everyone say it with me now, you know how this one goes) when it’s ready. “.

So when’s the actual release date? Your guess is as good as mine =)

UPDATE January 15, 2008 - Amazon.com is now reporting a release date of November 30, 2008.  I could definitely see WoTLK being released just in time for Christmas.

Inscription is not like Alchemy or Enchanting. Players will create a tradeable scroll that other players can then use to enhance their spells or abilities.
Inscription’s main purpose is to inscribe spells and abilities with additional power. Some examples given were:

• Backstab could be enhanced to crit more often.
• Shadowbolt could be enhanced to do additional damage.
• Fireball could be enhanced to also cause a knockback effect. (This was a player idea that they felt was cool but probably not likely to happen.)

Inscription will also allow the player to create completely new items, but this part of the profession isn’t fleshed out enough for Blizzard to talk about just yet.

MMO-Champion posted up a great recap of Blizzcon

Wrath of the Lich King
Level Cap: 80 (New talent (up to 51 points tier) will be added to every class.)
Skill Cap: 450
Continent: Northrend
Number of Zones: 10 (tentatively), for levels 68 and above
Profession: Inscription
Class: Death Knight (first-ever Hero Class)
Features: Outdoor PVP zone with siege weapons and destructible buildings.
Beta: Only closed beta announced for the moment
Release date: Unknown, but probably beginning of 2008.

Leveling

• Leveling from 70 to 80 should take the same amount of time as 60 to 70. Don’t expect this to go too fast because Blizzard won’t let you use your flying mount in Northrend at the beginning. They’re planning to keep you grounded until level 75 or 78 before you can use your uber netherdrake again.

Inscription

• Inscription will be the new profession of the expansion. It will let you customize spells and abilities, for example you could make your fireball crit more often, or change the casting time of a healing spell.
• You will also be able to create a totally new type of items, but there isn’t any particular information about them yet.

Hero Classes

• The hero class will be created on a new character slot once you completed the quest, you won’t lose your original character.
• The Death Knight should be the only hero class of the expansion, the devs want to see how the Death Knight works out before talking about new Hero Classes.

Death Knight

• This is a tanking/DPS class, you will be able to tank with a 2H or duel wielding
• Any race can become a Death Knight
• You unlock the ability to create the Death Knight when finishing the tough quest chain, your character will not be overwritten, it will be retained (so you are not losing something to gain something)
• Death Knight’s will spawn into the world at a high level, they are still deciding which level you will start out at, 55,60, and level 70 have been discussed as possible starting points
• You will not be Kill on Sight from your own faction, so you will still be able to browse the AH, there will be flavor differences with NPCs however, expressing their distrust of Death Knights
• You get to choose your own type of Runeblade. You can choose from a traditional sword Runeblade or an axe variant
• Death Knight abilities are dictated by 3 runes : Blood, Frost, and Unholy.
• Your abilities will depend on how many of each rune you have. From what I saw from the demonstration, their are 6 slots for runes, so a balanced build would be 2 blood, 2 frost and 2 unholy. Spells will work like you use a spell that requires 1 blood rune, that blood rune is now on cooldown. Some spells will require like 4 of a rune for that ability to be used.
• There will be talents to reduce the cooldown on runes (Talent trees are Blood, Frost and Unholy)
• You will be able to summon minions but it is not the focal point of the class, it is just an accent to it, kind of like how Frost mages deploy their water elementals, summoning minions will not be integral to how you play the Death Knight
• You will wear plate armor
• The armor is said to be bulky and threatening like Arthas’s armor. It will not look exactly like his. There were several different armor variations shown during the presentation that were definitely showing Death Knight look but also not looking like exact copies of Arthas’s gear.

Known Death Knight skills

• Unholy Embrace
  Instant Cast. 5 min cooldown.
  Target is embraced by a silhouette of darkness for 6 seconds, corrupting any healing spells and effects cast upon or currently affecting the target to cause damage for 50% of their healing potential instead of restoring health. Any damage shields cast upon or currently affecting the target will also be instantly consumed, dealing 50% of their absorption potential in damage. Once afflicted with Unholy Embrace, the target cannot be afflicted with Unholy Embrace again for 1 minute.
• Army of the Dead
  Raises several temporary minions (ghouls)

Zones
Having learned a valuable lesson about funneling 8.5 million players into once single starting zone with The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King lets players pick a zone on either side of the continent to start from: Borean Tundra in the west or Howling Fjord in the east. Each zone has level-equivalent quests (appropriate for approximately level 68 through 72) and one Hellfire Peninsula-style instance hub with multiple dungeon wings for level 70 characters, level 80 characters, and raiders. While Northrend immediately calls to mind ice and snow, Blizzard doesn’t want to make those themes dominate Northrend completely-expect as much variety as ever, only not quite as weird and wild as Outland.

Dalaran (Capital)
Dalaran will be the capital city of Northrend. It will hover above the continent and you will be able to access it without even a flying mount. (You won’t have it for your first levels in Northrend)
Basically the Blue Dragonflight has taken a turn for the worse and the Kirin Tor are concerned about it. What’s about to ensue is a battle over magic and once Dalaran is rebuilt, it will be the staging grounds for that battle.
Dalaran on WoWWiki.com

Dragonblight
Graveyard of Dragons from the Blue Dragonflight.
Dragonblight on WoWWiki.com
Dragonblight Video on Youtube

Howling Fjord
This is one of the two entry points of Northrend, and is the zone where the forces of Arthas originally landed on the continent. In this region you will find the outpost of Valgarde, the Forsaken settlement of New Agamand, and a few other towns.
Howling Fjord on Official Site
Howling Fjord on WoWWiki.com
Howling Fjord video on Youtube

Utgarde Keep
This is the first dungeon appearing in WotLK. It’s inhabited by Vrykuls (viking-like race) and should feature 4 wings once complete.
Utgarde Keep preview on WoWinsider.com
Utgarde Keep on WoWWiki.com

Borean Tundra
This is the second entry point of Northrend for players. This is where the horde has established the settlement of Warsong Hold under the command of Garrosh Hellscream (currently in Nagrand). You will also meet friendly Tuskarrs here.
Borean Tundra on WoWWiki.com
Borean Tundra video on Youtube

Grizzly Hills
Zone of the … Furbolgs !
Grizzly Hills
Grizzly Hills video on Youtube

Other regions
There are still 6 unknown regions, but we can assume that they are Azjol-Nerub, Crystalsong Forest, Icecrown Glacier, Sholazar Basin, Storm Peaks, and Zul’drak

New races
No new races for players, but there are a few new NPC races. The most active one in Northrend will probably be the Nerubians, Tuskarrs, Vrykul, and of course the Blue Dragonflight

PvP
Lake Wintergrasp

• Lake Wintergrasp will be an outdoor non-instanced PvP zone in the middle of Northrend. The main focus will be interesting reward affecting the whole region (or continent) and of course it will features … Siege weapons and descrutible buildings !
• The region is entirely avoidable and siege weapons won’t be useable outside the designated area.

Siege Weapons and destructible buildings

• Siege Weapons will be available in Lake Wintergrasp, and they’re considering including them in old battlegrounds too. The current plan is to have mobile siege weapons so they can be positioned and aimed. For the moment we’ve heard about very “warcrafty” siege weapons, Meat Wagons, Ballistas, Catapults, Steam tanks etc …

New battleground

• A new battleground is also under development, it will have siege vehicles, 15 people in each team, and games will last 30~40 minutes.

Arena Changes

• Arena weapons will probably have a rating requirement in the future, for example you’ll need 1500 points to buy a weapon, but won’t be able to buy it if your rating is below 1750 (this is an example, there isn’t any value for the moment)
• They might add a “Skirmish mode” to let you chose which team you want to face in Arena.
• Arena Season 3 is scheduled, with a new arena and new gear.
• Season 1 gear will be available through honor system when the season 3 starts.

Battleground changes

• In AV, players won’t spawn in the cave until there’s nowhere else to spawn. Players will have the ability to report other players for being AFK, like the spam reports. You can remove this debuff by going in combat. If you don’t, you won’t gain any honor.
• Honor gain will be more important at the end of a BG to make people stay.
• Guild battlegrounds might be added (let guilds challenge each other, join battlegroup as a guild, etc). The ability to join AV as a group will probably be reactivated.
• More items will be added to battleground’s marks rewards.
• They’re also thinking about letting people chose the size of a battleground (15vs15, 20vs20, etc)

Dungeons

• Wrath of the Lich King will have new 10 man and 25 man raids.
• Arthas will be the final boss of one of the dungeon (but probably won’t be available at the beginning because he’s supposed to be the final boss of the expansion, expect a patch like Illidan)

Zul’aman
Nothing really new about the instance itself, except a few screenshots, but we had a nice preview of three loots here : Dagger of Bad Mojo

, Jin’rohk, The Great Apocalypse

, Formula: Enchant Weapon - Executioner

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New 25 man raid dungeon
A 25 man dungeon is scheduled for release after Zul’aman (and before the expansion). Loots will be better than tier 6 and it will have 6 bosses.

Caverns of Time
A new CoT instance will be added in WotLK.

Stats

• Spirit will be improved in WotLK.
• “Free” spell damage will be given to healers.

Classes
Druids

• Mana issues are being looked at. (Moonkins)
• Cat form’s range will be tuned

Mages

• Water Fountain and Muffin Factory (like the soulwell) are incoming. (No more “WATER PLZ !!!”)

Hunters

• A legendary ranged weapon will be available soon. (New 25 Man raid ?)
• Mana issues are being looked at.
• Many changes for hunters will be implemented in 2.3, more utilities for arena battles and group utility are planned.
• Hunter’s arena weapons prices might be lowered to reflect the fact that they need to buy two weapons (or even three).

Shamans

• It seems that shaman talents were changed in the game version available during the Blizzcon, you can check them here
• Crowd Control spells might be available in levels 71 to 80.
• Totems are being looked at, The Mana Spring totem will be a lot stronger than it is and some other will be made stronger too.

Priests

• Fear Ward will be spread around.
• Lightwell and other abilities are being looked at.

Paladins

• Stat distribution will be changed for retribution paladins, spell damage won’t be as much needed as before.
• The Season 3 Paladin Retribution set will have resilience.

Rogues

• Rogue mobility in arena could be changed.

Warriors

• They might up the damage a bit while tanking to make the class more fun.

Professions

• Daily quests are coming in 2.2 and 2.3 (Cooking !)
• More best-in-slot equipment will be added. (Give each profession a very good BoP item)
• They want to make the leveling of crafts easier, especially from 275 to 300 (because it’s not the “top” anymore)
• Crafters should have the possibility to create great leveling gear (including 70 to 80 leveling equipment in Northrend to reward people who actually takes time to level their craft while they xp)
• Itemizations gaps will be filled with crafting.
• Vendor recipes will be more random and less campable

Engineering

• Engineering is gonna get some love … And more precisely, engineers will be able to craft a flying machine.

Alchemy

• Transmutation will be changed, a daily cooldown will replace the current 24h cooldown. (Like instance resets)
• Discoveries will be changed to make some of them easier to get. In the first place they were supposed to be “bonus”, not something that you really need which is uber-hard to find. (For example, deviate delight would have been good as a discovery)

Jewelcrafting

• A few epic gems were shown and presented as Zul’aman drops, you probably already saw them because they were all parts of the gems available in 2.2 PTR Patch.

Inscription
See first part of the news.

Cooking

• A lot of new recipes will be available in Zul’aman, including melee hit food, spell crit food, a food that deals AOE damage to enemies near you, and a few other things.

Items/quest (anything I couldn’t add in other categories)

• Green items in Northrend will be better than current Tier 4 equipment.
• Next patch (2.2 ? 2.3 ?) will add a dungeon daily quest, a battleground daily quest, and a cooking daily quest.
• A lot of heroic badges loots will be added to the game with Zul’aman

Useful links
This section will be easy, WoWinsider.com did a fantastic job during the Blizzcon.

• WotLK Official Website
• Expansion Demo Panel
• Opening Ceremony
• Dungeons & Raids Panel
• Professions and Item Panel
• PvP Panel
• Class Panel
• Class Panel Days 2 (Q&A)