World of Warcraft Under Attack in Lich King Pre-release Event
by Nick Breckon Nov 10, 2008 8:09pm CST

A world event has been triggered in Blizzard's World of Warcraft, with various scripted events providing a prelude to Thursday's Wrath of the Lich King expansion release.

The orc capital of Orgrimmar is currently under attack by the Lich King's Scourge forces in an event that repeats every 20-30 minutes.

After the forces are beaten back, Thrall and Garrosh Hellscream have a disagreement over whether to invade the Lich King's home of Northrend. Thrall urges prudence, while Garrosh advises an immediate assault. The argument grows heated, and the two eventually do battle, Garrosh nearly winning before The Herald of the Lich King announces another attack.
Reports also show that Stormwind Harbor is under attack, with King Varian Wrynn and others putting up a defense.


Source and video with some footage here: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55840

Has anyone actually been online long enough to see this event yet?

I was online for several hours but didnt not get to enjoy any of this as everyone & their alt was in SW getting their "free epics."

For those who werent online some smarty at bliz removed all requirements from the gaurdian neckpiece, ring, and mage/priest S2; as in they were free.

Supposedly getting "fixxed" right now. Yippee. We screw up mail, lets leave everything off for 7 hours while we finally figure out that we're not going to fix it & send everyone an ingame mail that it should be back later. Oh dang we screwed up all the pvp vendors lets take it all back offline the next day so we can F*$* with that.

Seriously Blizzard needs to get better at using test environments & not making alexstraza the guinea pig. Ugh /screed off