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There are some really common questions that are going to come up when players are done upgrading to Wrath of the Lich King. They are sure to polute your trade and general channels and it might even be hard to get a striaght answer. Here are some of the questions we saw in the Wrath beta and our best attempts to answer them:

How do I get to Northrend?

Wrath of the Lich King is coming out, well, practically tomorrow! While many of you are going to create Death Knights and run around the Outlands for a week or so, you're going to end up level 70 eventually, and you're going to find yourself in places you've never been.

Yesterday we found out that Season 4 will be suspended with the release of Patch 3.0. A snapshot of rating will be used to reward end of season rewards but the season will continue. Today Nethaera gave us their promised 2 week notice for the ending of Season 4. Reasoning says that October 14th will not only be the end of Season 4 but also the release of Patch 3.0.

Last week Blizzard began the Great Honor Controversy by announcing that all player earned Honor and Honor Marks would be wiped out when Wrath of the Lich King goes live. This was set to affect players of all level and skill. Players sprung up on the forums pointing out that an Honor reset was similar to a gold reset. Players argued that precedence was set when The Burning Crusade went live, when they DID NOT reset honor. There was even reference made to the official World of Warcraft Honor FAQ which says stated:

A major calamity has been brewing in the financial market over the past few years. The largest known contributor to the financial crisis was in fact the high demand for people to borrow money to buy WoW Strategy Guides to prepare for Wrath of The Lich King's release in 2008. Prior to this discovery, popular belief was that it was actually the lending practices and housing crisis that was responsible for one of the largest credit freezes in history, but it turns out this was indeed wrong.

The last time Blizzard released an expansion, The Burning Crusade, employers looked around at each other wondering where all their employees went. Some tech companies, who stereotypically have a lot of gamers working for them, had to shut down their businesses the day of.

After making an official statement in May explicitly saying that Honor and Honor Marks would not be reset in the expansion, Blizzard changed their minds and promised to do the exact opposite.

Let's take a look at what type of impact this is going to have. Anyone who spent the last 3 months saving up 75,000 honor and 100 marks of each flavor will be forced to spend them on existing or new honor gear (listed below). Just to get 75,000 honor we're talking 50-100 hours. If you actually managed to cap all the marks that's another story I won't get into. This is roughly equivalent to 5,000 - 10,000 gold, and easily more (of doing dailies, farming primals, doing heroics, etc). All completely gone.

Well it seems World of Warcraft just got a bit easier. This guy used the Recruit-A-Friend offer from blizzard to get himself a free paladin. Using the level grants to get from 1-60 in under 20 minutes played.

Blizzard Poster, Eyonix, promised that a patch containing some Wrath features (including talents) will be released prior to the release of Wrath of the Lich King (source). Similar to the 2.0 release made before The Burning Crusade. Here is a list of some of the things to be included in the patch:

Mounts and non-combat pets have a new storage system in Wrath of the Lich King, allowing you to carry more and keeping them out of your inventory. There are serveral new exciting mounts upcoming in Wrath, let's take a look at each one and see how we can get them. You will need your Cold Weather Flying attunement (obtainable through a level 77 quest) before the flying mounts in Northrend.