More Beta Invites Soon

Syndri posted in the Customer Service forums that more Beta invites are scheduled to go out later this week. If you haven't gotten into Beta, and are still waiting to check new things out, I highly suggest copying over to the Ptr.

Deathknight Spree

An oldie but a goodie. Nyhm put this out over a year ago, but we'll all probably be able to relate to this in the upcoming days before and after WOTLK is released.

WOTLK Pics

While I'm not in Beta, a guildie of mine is, and I swiped some of the pics she posted on our guild forums.

Make Gold While You Can

The Expansion date has just been officially announced and now it's time to prepare for it. I had a feeling Wrath was going to be announced for November, so I've already gone ahead and started dumping items I won't need.

It's doubtful Badges of Justice will be useful as you level to 70, and they're talking about implementing new types of badges for the new dungeons. If you've been saving up for a new piece of gear, you probably want to invest your badges into Epic Gems or Vortexes instead. That new purple might be nice now, but it's going to be obsolete two months from now, the gold, however, will be useful. On my server, Vortexes are going for around 200g now, but cut epic gems are going for 250+.

One complaint I heard quite frequently from my Guild Leader was about his 50 or so worthless Nexus Crystals. Don't be him! If you have excess mats, you'll want to keep on hand what you'll need to get your first few points in your profession and sell the rest off before they drop in price. This can be a little tricky, though, because at the start of the expansion many gathering mats will go up as everyone levels, then drop off as they become useless to high level characters. The new profession Inscription uses herbs, it may be a good idea to start stocking up on them to meet the demand they'll have.

If you run a Guild Bank, I highly recommend selling off all those Vortexes, Hearts of Darkness, Patterns, Sunmotes, and Epic Gems now, before they start flooding the market because no one needs them.

WOTLK Release

It's official, Wrath of the Lich King will be released November 11, 2008.

Blizzard is promoting Best Buy, GameStop, Circuit City, and Amazon for pre-orders.

The Expansion will cost you $39.99 through Gamestop, and only $36.99 with free shipping through Amazon. The Collector's edition will cost you $69.99 through GameStop, and there's a line stating an additional handling fee of $14.99 will apply.

Wow Beta Opt-In Phases

Having grown bored with Wow, I've been waiting on a beta invite to see some new content. I have a 70 destro lock and a 70 holy priest I would love to test changes with. My toons have been 70 for over a year now, got some gold stashed away, and raiding has just lost it's luster. A fellow guildie of mine has been lucky enough to get an invite, but no luck for me, or for my hubby. It's doubtful we'll get a beta invite in our inboxes before the new expansion is released, but we keep checking anyway!

Invites seem to be going out in "waves". At first, the phases were spread out by about 5 days or so, but two recent phases were within a day of each other. One would assume as Blizzard gets closer to release, more and more invites will be going out, but that's just my personal speculation.

On the Official World of Warcraft forums, Syrilrian has been kind of enough to keep track of invite waves for those of us still anxiously waiting to get in. Syrilrian's post is titled Passing Time: Up-to-date OPT-IN info (linking to the current thread), and you can view the date and time of each invite wave sent out. The posts fill quickly, reaching maximum replies, and you may have to go back a page to find the most recent if it hasn't been bumped.


The last 3 waves sent out:

Wave 9 for opt-ins has gone out as of 9/11/08 at 9:50am

Wave 8 for opt-ins has gone out as of 9/10/08 at 6:00pm

Wave 7 for opt-ins has gone out as of 9/3/08 at 9:10pm