World of Warcraft Wednesday: Raft of the Lich King

At Blizzcon, the next World of Warcraft expansion pack "Wrath of the Lich King" was announced. Here's the top ten additions announced so far to keep you hyped up for WoW:WotLK before it goes live in the first part of 2008:

1. Level cap raised to 80, just to make sure that people who don't have time to play can still get ganked in style by people who do nothing but level the hell to 80.

2. New Upper Level Class: Death Knight. Hit level 80 and bored with ganking all the 40s still struggling to get up to the original level cap? Embark on a series of pointless quests to try to unlock another job class! Finally your dreams of a dual weilding palladin/mage/shadow preist/rogue/warrior will come true in twelve spectacular colors (including black!).

3. New dances. Yes, apparently this is a feature.

4. The new battleground will have destructible buildings so you too can play out the pointlessnes of sending Warcraft 3 peasants to attack the enemy base. Knock down that inn in less than 3 hours and win XP!

5. A whole new continent to the north of the current ones. How could they not have noticed when they were drawing up those maps? Did they not see the big mess of ice up there? Maybe it was lurking just below the surface of the water, waiting to spring its trap. One thing is for sure, with all the global warming affecting the World of Warcraft (seriously, is it never winter?), Northrend is sure to melt by next July.

6. New inscription profession ensures at least fifty more hours of searching for mats in the auctionhouse only to be outbid for that caligraphy brush at the last second by some level 2 gnome who will never use it, and the horror of learning that this cool new inscribed sword you made is bind on pickup, and you can't use it. Newb.

7. New Frostmourne ability allows your weapons to eat food items out of your bags while you're not looking. Your axe wants charred wolf meat.

8. Legendary Warcraft Hero Arthas regales players with long winded and unskipable text about how he would've been the star of the last expansion pack, but he accidently got his tongue stuck on the Frozen Throne.

9. Explore a place called the "Howling Fjord" the new home for pointles 24/7 chat about how cool it is that WoW now features a place called the "Howling Fjord" from some guy in Norway with a completely unreadable name.

10. Three Words: Walruses in Vests.

Until Next Week!