So, I don’t know about the rest of you, but did it seem like Ruby Sanctum was a bit of a setup for Cataclysm? It sure felt that way to me.

This is unsurprising. The biggest, baddest, nastiest dragon to ever walk the face of Azeroth is going to be making a comeback some time in the near future (they’re beta testing! of course it’s coming soon!), so it should come as no surprise that the other dragons are going to get involved. After all, Deathwing’s kids are the notorious Twilight dragons, and no one seems to get along with them terribly well. Not that I can blame them, but something tells me that Daddy isn’t too pleased about his tots getting picked on by just about everyone. Nothing peeves a paranoid schizophrenic (read his bio and tell me you’d give a different diagnosis) like finding out his persecution complex is somewhat merited. Granted, he did bring it on himself, but he’ll never see it that way. Guess corrupted aspects of nature can be a little stubborn about those things.

Anyway, Cataclysm promises a lot. All of our favorite newbie haunts are getting a Mad Max makeover whether we like it or not (or buy the expansion for that matter), and things are only going to get worse from there.

Of course, this also means an increase in our level cap. Something for the current 80 crowd to aspire to is always nice so they leave people below them alone. Also, there will be the ususal gobs of new gear. Unfortunately, Blizzard hasn’t said much about that. They’re keeping quiet enough for me to start to wonder if I should buy WoW gold now so I have it stockpiled, or buy WoW gold after the release so that I know what I’m going to need.

I guess we’ll find out more at Blizzcon. I just know they’re testing and they keep dropping little tidbits that make me all the more impatient to see the finished product.

Thankfully, that should be out before year’s end. I just can’t imagine the amount of trouble they’re going to have with their servers when they try to dump the new code on it. Hopefully it goes smoothly, but you never know.

Then again this is Blizzard. I’m not too worried.