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3.3 Looms On The Horizon

I think everyone can feel the growing storm clouds of 3.3 and how close we are getting to what is to be the last real content patch of this expansion. WoW.com this week effectively “called” that the patch, if no server problems crop up, will be dropping next week. Background downloaders have started sputtering to a start, whispers have grown to a din, and everyone seems to be effectively girding their loins. While there is quite a lot of criticism for how the raid content is being handled (with gating and smaller attempt pools), most people are just excited to finally get their chance to punch Arthas in the face.

So what have you been doing in the meantime, in the long wait for the endgame? I know Meta and myself have been pretty busy little bees lately. Everyone seems to have been up to something to occupy their focus if they didn’t wander away from Warcraft to Dragon Age or Left 4 Dead 2. Our raid team (which Meta is now a part of!) has been eagerly clearing hardmode content in Ulduar to polish off our meta-achievement for raid drakes and being punted by Algalon. I’m not entirely sure that we will get Heroic Anub’arak before the patch drops, but if we are successful this weekend, I at least should be zooming to Icecrown Citadel on a 310 speed drake at long last. Both Meta and I have been focusing on non-magey alts, I a ret/prot paladin, and she a boomkin! (A boomkin, gasp! This is mage sacrilege.) We also have been doing fun things like tons of heroics with friends, and running ZG every week on two sets of characters to get our mages raptors or tiger mounts. (No luck just quite yet on that front.)

I have also been daydreaming about what Icecrown will be like, because I’m a imaginative freako first and a mage second. I dream of us storming Icecrown and seeing all the crazy new bosses and being victorious. I know that for our guild, this raid instance will be the four-year culmination of our namesake and our “story” in the game. Seeing Arthas die will be both an ending to one chapter in our long lives together, but a start of a new one. It sounds all a little hokey, but we’re roleplayers, mannnnn.

As soon as 3.3 hits though, expect lots of amazing updates. We will also be correcting our guides to reflect any changes in the upcoming patch, especially the delicious scorch one!

Comment and tell us what your aspirations for Icecrown are, what you have been doing to kill off the boredom, or any other nattering you want to share!

Tags: 310-drakes, Arthas, boredom, hardmodes, Icecrown, Icecrown-raid, Icecrown-raid-instance, patch-3.3, raid-achievements