Honor Points to Reset to 0 in WotLK

The title pretty much sums this up, and everyone’s suspicions were officially confirmed by a blue poster earlier today. All accumulated honor points will be reset to zero when the wrath of the lich king expansion is released. No word yet if marks of honor will also be removed.

Additionally, in case you missed it arena points will also be reset to zero at level 71. Arena points to reset.

As many of you know we will be featuring a new Battleground, a dedicated world PvP zone and all new PvP items in Wrath of the Lich King. In order to make the transition from The Burning Crusade to Wrath of the Lich King flow as smoothly as possible, all accrued honor points will be reset at the launch of the expansion. We do this to ensure select players do not have an unfair advantage at level 80 from stockpiling honor to instantly purchase the newest Wrath of the Lich King PvP rewards. For those with unspent honor points prior to the release of the expansion, we will be offering a few upgrades and special rewards in next content patch solely for purchase via the honor system.(source)

Quick update for marks of honor, which are also going to be reset.

Marks of Honor will be wiped as well. (source)

WotLK Zone and Instance Exploration Video

Great WotLK exploration video from Muffins of Muradin. You may remember Muffins who created the original WotLK exploration video, featuring zone and dungeon exploration for levels 70-77. His newest creation, which graphically speaking is far better executed, features his WotLK experiences for levels 77-80.

The video is well done and shows many of the highlights and unique zone features we’ll all get to encounter in the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion. On a side note, if you can just download the movie. It’s much higher quality than the stream is.

SPOILER ALERT: The footage in this video features clips from WotLK, includes zones, instances, bosses and other features of the expansion.

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Official Wrath of the Lich King Release Date Announced

It doesn’t get more official than this, I awake this morning to find a new gigantic splash page on worldofwarcraft.com announcing the newest expansion pack, World of Warcraft: The Wrath of the Lich King slated to release…

WotLK Release Date: November 13th, 2008

With just under 2 months before release you can expect to see patch 3.0.2 hit the live servers very soon. There’s a lot of work to be done over at blizzard to get everything ready for the expansion, but if I know one thing about Blizzard…when a release date is announced there is no returning.

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