Echoes of Doom

If I could embed the original trailer for Wrath of the Lich King I would. Unfortunately I am not that savvy. It was a cold day in Best Buy as usual, and everyone who played WoW was excited for some reason. The next expansion was leaked, and the trailer was on YouTube. Off we go to the Mac section to watch. We were greeted with something we have been waiting for since Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. Finally, we get to take the fight to the Lich King. Finally we get revenge for Lordaeron. We waited and waited...

Then it happened. Patch 3.0.2, titled Echoes of Doom. "Finally, a king returns to his people..."

Stormwind Harbor was now completed, the Argent Dawn had set up camps in our cities, Dalaran had moved to Northrend. Something was happening. In Booty Bay to the south, strange crates were turning up. These crates, as happened so many years before to the Kingdom of Lordaeron, were full of plagued grain. The Lich King was reaching out again. Nothing to worry about, a 10-minute incubation and one cleanse to cure it. The crates then made their way into our cities. Stormwind, Ironforge, Darnassus and the Exodar were full of plagued crates. The Infection now lasted 5 minutes, and was getting harder to cure. Then it spread further, to the residents of lower-level zones. Plagued residents wandered about, the zombies becaume stronger and harder to cure. More Argent Dawn forces took root in our cities, the infection takes 2 minutes, the rodents infected the guards and chaos was everywhere. Then the Scourge's necropoli began bearing down on our lands, fought back by the heroes of Azeroth. It only got worse. The plague now took hold in 1 minute, the Argent Healers were MIA and the plague was nigh impossible to cure. Finally, in Shattrath city a cure was found. This was passed to the Alliance and Horde, as the necropoli were destroyed with help from the Naaru.

We had won a small, fleeting victory. The real enemy was in the frozen Northern wastes, brooding and building an army. An army he would unleash and wipe life from Azeroth. We made our preparations to set out, not knowing what awaited us.