There are actually several items to discuss, but the biggest bit of news is that Blizzard has announced that Warlords of Draenor will be released on or before December 20th of this year.
This is, I have to imagine, their most conservative estimate. They want there to be a date just so they can start getting people pre-ordering. But we haven't had a beta yet, and it's still nine months from then, which I think is more than enough time for them to get the expansion out.
So before we go into panic mode and imagine 5.4 lasting fifteen months, I think we can probably, with a fair degree of confidence, assume that Warlords is going to release before this date, and I would predict far earlier, even.
But for now, December 20th is the date they've basically guaranteed us that we will be in Draenor, fighting the Iron Horde.
The other big news today is that the level 90 character boost is now online. While I do not know if pre-orders and the affiliated free boost are online yet, the paid service is. Boosted 90s will get a full set of 483 greens (equivalent to Heart of Fear and Terrace of Endless Spring LFR gear,) 22-slot bags, and if you boost a character who is already level 60 or above, it will max out their professions to 600 as well (no word if it automatically gives clean-shaven characters badass mustaches, but the trailer seems to make that promise.)
UPDATE: A Blizzard representative tweeted that they said December 20th because it was the "technical definition for the last day of fall." This seems to imply that they are expecting a fall release. I still hope that it comes out sooner, though, because even at the earliest, a fall release would be September 21st, which would still mean 5.4 goes on for a full year.
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