Just outside an Alliance stronghold in Borean Tundra, giant Crypt Lords and spider-like Crypt Fiends -- undead mockeries of an ancient civilization of sentient insectoids -- hurl themselves at waves of Alliance defenders. Inside the hold of a "safe" Alliance ship, cultish traitors plot to bring down Human-, Gnome-, and Dwarfkind. In the great temple of Zul'Drak, the Ice Trolls have resorted to sacrificing their own animal gods to keep the Scourge at bay. We three travelers -- Gnome Warlock Jeff Green, Night Elf Hunter Demian Linn, and Night Elf Priest Sean Molloy -- have just come off the boat from old Azeroth and docked at the troubled frontier of Northrend, where Arthas has finally reemerged after years of secret plans and preparations to claim the world for the Scourge.

All of Lich King's raids will have both 10- and 25-person versions. Every damn one of them. The 25-person versions will have better loot, and the specific mechanics will have to be adjusted accordingly -- Jeff Kaplan has a bunch to say about that on our Legendary Thread podcast this week -- but as someone who loved 10-person Karazhan and Zul'Aman but was utterly, completely demoralized when we hit 25-person Serpentshrine, this news is huge.

I'm sure a subset of the snobbier, "l33ter" players are going to feel that Blizzard has lessened the experience by letting the lower-class rabble in, but screw those people.

The more players who get to experience the content, the better. Blizzard, of course, feels this way because it's their content

Blizzard, of course, feels this way because it's their content, and they've spent a lot of time making it, and we know that it has frustrated them over the years that sometimes their best stuff only ends up getting seen by a minority of players.