MMORPG.com World of Warcraft correspondent Sam Guss kicks off this series of articles designed to help prepare players for the eventual launch of Blizzard's next expansion, Cataclysm.

Welcome to "Preparing for a Cataclysm," a new series of articles between now and World of Warcraft's next expansion, aptly titled, Cataclysm. This series will focus on all things to do with and to prepare for this new expansion as well as express opinions and known updates about it. Currently the release date is speculated to probably be Q2, 3 or 4 of 2010. Blizzard has confirmed they are shooting for a 2010 release and Game Stop has a release date holder for November 2010. Chances are high that it will be released sometime between May and November of 2010. That's a large window to work with for now, but at best, I figure we have six months before the start of that window to prepare.

Read more here.

The link doesn't seem to work.

Linky no worky.

Not working your link is...

computer says no

/bump...

Link Fixed.

Enjoy :)

nope still broken :(

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Originally posted by OLDSTEVE
nope still broken :(

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Hmmm. Its working for me across all browsers, and on three other computers in my house. I cant see anymore that I can do unfortunately :(

www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/15/feature/3757/World-of-Warcraft-Tying-Up-Loose-Ends-Part-One.html

There's the direct url for anybody who is still having trouble with the link.

Still broke cold fusion error. fire  your developers.

Originally posted by AnimusChaser

 

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Originally posted by OLDSTEVE
nope still broken :(

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Hmmm. Its working for me across all browsers, and on three other computers in my house. I cant see anymore that I can do unfortunately :(

www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/15/feature/3757/World-of-Warcraft-Tying-Up-Loose-Ends-Part-One.html

There's the direct url for anybody who is still having trouble with the link.

And this is what I get...

http://img18.imageshack.us/i/mmorpglinkbroken.jpg/

I'm getting the same database error now.

Just hold tight I'm sure it will be back up and running shortly.

I am getting this

http://tying%20up%20loose%20ends%20part%20one/

connection issue????

No problem for me on Firefox.

Looking forward to part two as i have 2 alts at 70, only 1, a warrior, at 80...

Hmm... link seems to work fine for me on FF... maybe they've fixed it since the other posts.

In any case.... interesting, if odd post. I thought the title pertained to things Blizzard would be doing in Cataclysm... But it seems like a "what you should do to prepare for Cataclysm, and what you should do when it's out" - which seems like an odd thing to post about. I mean, this is Blizzard's 3rd expansion and even the article pertains to people having characters at 80, or working on getting there.

People typically will have their own goals very well defined, or are quick to do so once the expansion is released. I mean, they've done so for 2 expansions now already... BC introduced new areas and two new races, leaving people with the priority of either continuing on to the new level cap or starting a new Dreanei or Blood Elf... Do they try out the new tradeskills or stick with what they have, etc... People seemed to get along just fine. Lich King introduced Death Knights, leaving players the options of either continuing on to 80 with their existing characters and going through all the new content, or rolling a Death Knight and going that route first...

In all, I'm not sure why the author of this article felt it was necessary. Do they presume people won't be able to figure out their priorities on their own?

I'm not trying to bash the author here, as I'm sure their intentions are good.. But it just seems to be a very odd idea for an article - much less an ongoing series of them.

Doesn't work for me on FF here.

works fine for me on FF and IE.  Good article.

Same here. 

Originally posted by WSIMike

Hmm... link seems to work fine for me on FF... maybe they've fixed it since the other posts.

 

In any case.... interesting, if odd post. I thought the title pertained to things Blizzard would be doing in Cataclysm... But it seems like a "what you should do to prepare for Cataclysm, and what you should do when it's out" - which seems like an odd thing to post about. I mean, this is Blizzard's 3rd expansion and even the article pertains to people having characters at 80, or working on getting there.

People typically will have their own goals very well defined, or are quick to do so once the expansion is released. I mean, they've done so for 2 expansions now already... BC introduced new areas and two new races, leaving people with the priority of either continuing on to the new level cap or starting a new Dreanei or Blood Elf... Do they try out the new tradeskills or stick with what they have, etc... People seemed to get along just fine. Lich King introduced Death Knights, leaving players the options of either continuing on to 80 with their existing characters and going through all the new content, or rolling a Death Knight and going that route first...

In all, I'm not sure why the author of this article felt it was necessary. Do they presume people won't be able to figure out their priorities on their own?

I'm not trying to bash the author here, as I'm sure their intentions are good.. But it just seems to be a very odd idea for an article - much less an ongoing series of them.

Agreed what was the purpose of this article? Get to 80? I mean are you serious?
 

Originally posted by AnimusChaser

 

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Originally posted by OLDSTEVE
nope still broken :(

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Hmmm. Its working for me across all browsers, and on three other computers in my house. I cant see anymore that I can do unfortunately :(

www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/15/feature/3757/World-of-Warcraft-Tying-Up-Loose-Ends-Part-One.html

There's the direct url for anybody who is still having trouble with the link.

Mouseover the hyperlink, you'll see that it is incorrect.  This is what you'll see:

http://www.mmorpg.com/www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/15/feature/3757/World-of-Warcraft-Tying-Up-Loose-Ends-Part-One.html

Similar error to whatis on this page:

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm?loadnews=15580&utm_campaign=MMORPG%20News%20Alert%20Email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=MMORPG&bhcp=1

The link at the bottom shows:

http://tying%20up%20loose%20ends%20part%20one/

when you mouse-over it.

Maybe Skynet is correct in that it should eradicate the human race based off of the number of errors that humans make?

Nice article, btw.