Greg Street, the mild mannered developer who has a secret identity as The GhostCralwer, recently did an interview with MMOZine. It's a pretty good read but there was a major clue as to the timing of IceCrown release and bosses.
MMOZine: Will all the bosses in Icecrown Citadel be made available immediately or are you going to stagger them, as you did in Sunwell Plateau?
GS:Well we've not announced when it's coming out yet but we don't want to throw players against challenging raid content right over the holidays, so we're trying to avoid that a little bit.
That would seem to indicate that we won't see 'challenging raid content' until after the Holidays. I would interpret after the Holidays to mean after Christmas and New Years. We may see the Lower Spire (the first part of Ice Crown) before December, but I wouldn't expect to see Arthas himself until January based on Ghostcrawler's response.
And just to underscore the point, Datth on the tech support forums just posted:
We only provide mirror links for full client patches. Background downloads do not count. You have around 1+ month to download this file so we're not really worried about your speed. :)
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That puts 3.3 at December 20th at the earliest, probably more like after New Years before we even set foot in Ice Crown Citadel.
Friday, November 20, 2009
No Arthas Until 2010
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I was really hoping that they'd be releasing Icecrown sooner, rather than later. The wait is extremely frustrating.
I might never see Arthas now. Baby due 12/30 will put me out of WOW commission until cataclysm. I was hoping to down him before that, but with the staggered schedule i'll likely see nothing but first 4 bosses.
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