Blizzard has just released their preview of the Icecrown Citadel raid instance,which will be launching with Patch 3.3. This comes about a week after they released the Icecrown Citadel 5-man dungeon preview.

Some of the key pieces of information from the preview:

*Join the legendary heroes Highlord Tirion Fordring, High Overlord Saurfang,Muradin Bronzebeard,Highlord Darion Mograine,and King Varian Wrynn in an epic battle against the Scourge and their master.
*Icecrown Citadel features 10- and 25-player versions of the raid dungeon,and each version has 12 encounters.Each encounter can be fought in either normal or Heroic mode,and players can use a new user interface feature to toggle easily between difficulties.
*The rewards in the raid dungeon start at item level 251 in the normal mode with 10-player encounters,increase to item level 264 in the Heroic mode mode with 10 players and the normal mode with 25-player encounters,and then finally reach item level 277 in the Heroic mode with 25 players.
*two new forms of abomination in Festergut and Rotface, who currently protect their devious creator,Professor Putricide.


The entire text of the preview after the break.