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by Michael Gray 
Sep 21st 2010 at 3:52PM
Keep an eye out here at WoW Insider as we begin exploring the heroics for your edification and expanding our repair bills for your enjoyment. Heroics are a significant staple of endgame for any WoW player, so this announcement is a significant milestone in the progress of the Cataclysm beta.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Arednel Sep 21st 2010 4:35PM
Nope, EU testers can't do them as our pre made and character copy page hasn't worked for a week now. It's frustrating and we only have one realm we can copy to so playing low level content has meant many people have no slots free.
yes QQ but as someone who wants to test these things and can't (I can't even post on the beta forums either) I think that it's justified QQ.
TY Sep 21st 2010 5:46PM
haha totally true
Deathknighty Sep 21st 2010 4:46PM
Actually, I'm almost entirely sure he'd want to do it in the traditional, "grind out the normals till you can do the heroics, then grind the heroics till you can do the raids" way, so that probably wouldn't bother him in the slightest.
Link Sep 21st 2010 4:11PM
For timeline's sake, does anyone have a date for when Wrath's heroics were first introduced?
Samutz Sep 21st 2010 4:59PM
They were all available at Wrath's launch, with the exception of ToC, FoS, PoS, and HoR (later patches).
AJMac Sep 21st 2010 6:50PM
I think he means when the original HCs became available in the Wrath beta.
Stoop Sep 21st 2010 4:28PM
Nope, no invites on any of my accounts. Test 'em for me, guys!
Garneth Sep 21st 2010 4:42PM
Will do. Prolly gonna get a prot tank premade cuz the char I've been leveling to 85 is a prot tank paladin
Hawkk Sep 21st 2010 4:47PM
Well this would be great. If the character copy worked. I hope Blizz het this fixed soon for us EU players!
Cephas Sep 21st 2010 4:55PM
It looks like the LFD isn't working for the Heroics yet. The Meeting Stones next to the new Dungeons just went from "quaint relics of the past" to "actually useful for getting into Dungeons".
AnonymousOfficer Sep 21st 2010 6:14PM
Just a quick note as I haven't seen this mentioned yet elsewhere:
The mechanism introduced in Wrath called "Championing" whereby you wear the tabard of a given faction and gain reputation with them while running heroic dungeons is supported in Cataclysm. I purchased the "Tabard of Ramkahen" after doing most of the quests in Uldum and found this information on the item. The item itself doesn't appear on wowhead.com at the moment, but the associated "spell" is listed:
http://cata.wowhead.com/spell=93337
I don't know what other factions have similar tabards, but it can be assumed that a similar number will support this wonderful mechanism. Cheers!
Narshe Sep 21st 2010 7:10PM
Thank you thank you thank you! This is news ive been waiting weeks to find out, its much appreciated that you took the time to post the info. Again, thanks!
Kevin Sep 21st 2010 6:34PM
It's about time.