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Blizzard has gone ahead and implemented their own blue tracker on the official forums, easily showing every blue post made throughout the day. Now personally, I don’t like theirs compared to MMO-Champion, World of Raids, or WoWRaid. All those have a nice layout that allows for quick viewing and easy summaries of posts. It’s much wow goldpreferable to the “tool” Blizzard has put up. Additionally, the Blizzard blue tracker lacks an RSS feed and the ability to search through the posts. It’s clear that Blizzard did this to dissuade the use of third party blue trackers and other sites. Some folks in Blizzard like to try to control the flow of information and all that. But in the long run I don’t think this will do very much to dissuade other sites from having their own blue trackers since the Blizzard one lacks many necessary features, and this new tool really won’t help control information release (since all we see is “soon” and other word games anyways). If Blizzard really wanted to make this a tool that would be useful they could implement the following things: Tagging of all blue posts (ie: warrior, paladin, dps, ghostcrawler, gin-in-coffee) Search RSS feeds based on any number of criteria (tags, post location,

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BlizzCast #9 was released very recently, and it’s quite short this time around, only about 11 minutes long. It’s short because it only covers one thing. It contains Chris Metzen reading the prologue to Arthas: Rise of the Lich King. The prologue is centered primarily on the native races in Northrend and how they react to the unnatural storms brought on by the Lich King’s inner turmoil; the Tuskarr through community and the Taunka through defiance. We also see the exact nature of that turmoil, catching a glimpse of just how much of Arthas is left in there (or Ner’zhul for that matter), and we see it all to the tune of Metzen’s sultry voice. This book has definitely had more hype around it than any other Warcraft novel, and I’m curious if this will be the case with their books from now on or if Arthas is getting special treatment. Like I’ve said before, this is already my favorite of the Warcraft novels, but is this sort of hype necessary? Maybe they’re just excited about it, and that’s all there is to it. Who knows? I suppose we’ll find out if this is par for the course once they’re ready to put out that Malfurion novel.

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How you uh, how you comin’ on that Argent Tournament you’re working on? Huh? Got a big, uh, big stack of Valiant’s Seals there? Gotta, gotta nice little title you’re working on there? Your big achievement you’ve been working on for one week? Huh? Gotta, gotta compelling lance? Well, if you have been working on the Argent Tournament dailies since Tuesday’s release of patch 3.1 then you’re set to become some of the first Champions today, earning your home city’s achievement. After you finish off the five dailies today, you’ll need to go through a couple more quests. The first is The Valiant’s Challenge, where you have to go and challenge a rider via Squire Danny. After that you’ll want to go and complete A Champion Rises to get an Argent Squire or Argent Gruntling pet (pictured above) and 10 Champion’s Seals. Once you’re done with that, the next step is to begin the dailies, which will allow you to begin stacking up on more Champion’s Seals for things like Tabards, Pets, and Mounts. Of course the other thing you can do is repeat the The Valliant’s Charge line of dailies to earn the right to represent other factions in the Tournament. The four daily quests which you can obtain

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Gnomeaggedon has a really insightful post about one of my favorite “hidden” features in patch 3.1. The first time I ran Naxx after the patch, I was a little worried on the first boss that I couldn’t loot my badges or Stone Keeper’s Shards. But of course, I’d missed it in the patch notes: all of that currency stuff now works like currency should. Whenever one person in the group or raid loots it, everyone gets their own as well. No more forgetting to loot your Badge, as it all goes automatically into the currency screen. Very nice change. But as Gnomeaggedon says, there are still a few kinks in the program (aren’t there always?). Quest items still don’t get auto-looted, and since Badges do, that’s wow goldeven less encouragement to go check the loot to see if there’s anything you need. He’d also like it if items got autolinked while Master Looter is on — right now, it’s the responsibility of the Master Looter to link and give out items that get looted, and that doesn’t always get done clearly. That second one is kind of a good point — my raid looter does pretty well with showing off items, so I don’t really have much of an issue with that, but it would be helpful to see for sure

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A bunch of blogs have come up with this interesting discussion lately, with Saresa over at Twisted Nether collating all the posts on the topic. It’s a pretty good question and some World of Warcraft bloggers have taken it upon themselves to answer the question — we’ve got someone who wants to be a Mage; another who thinks she’d be a Warlock; while this lady believes she fits Paladins best; and finally one lady who actually wants to be a bear. We thought this was a clever idea and decided to share it with you for this morning. It might kick off a post for your own blogs, as well. The cool thing is, I think that a lot of people fit into certain class archetypes, even without any of the abilities or spells. A priest at church would quite obviously be a Priest, while athlete fighters would probably be Warriors. Your uncle who goes off deer hunting in the Fall just might be a Marksmanship Hunter. With or without class skills and abilities, I’m sure we all have a class we sort of identify with, or whose powers we wished we possessed. You can even think of it as the WoW player’s version of HEROES, choosing a class because of their powers. Myself, I’d probably stick by the Paladin. Being able to cure diseases and heal the sick would be a

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Registration for the 2009 Arena Tournament closed last Tuesday and the competition has now moved on to its third phase. Teams have been locked down, meaning existing teams may no longer add players to their roster. Players may continue to create wow goldnew teams but will be unable to invite additional members beyond those that sign the original charter. Games played prior to the lockdown will still count towards the final tally that determines which teams advance to the next round. This is the home stretch for players who wish to qualify for the next stage in the Arena Tournament, where the top 1000 teams will move on. Players looking to obtain Murkimus the Gladiator need to play 200 games between March 10 to April 6, while players aiming for the Vanquisher title need to get within the top 1,000 teams within the same time period. Currently, the 1,000th team on US Tournament Realms is hovering around 1,600 rating so finishing somewhere between 1,700-1,800 would probably be a safe bet for the title. Good luck to everyone!

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One of the biggest new features in today’s patch 3.1 is dual spec capabilities. It’s been through many iterations on the PTR, and there’s a lot of information floating around (check out our full guide to dual specs), but here’s the abbreviated version.   Go see your class trainer. Bring 1,000g and be at least wow goldlevel 40. Make sure the glyphs you have on right now are the ones you want to be associated with your primary talent spec. Ask your trainer nicely for dual-spec capabilities, and pay that 1,000g. All your talents are now reset, and you now have access to a second set of them. Set up your talents as you wish, buy new skills as required, and add glyphs to your second spec. Congratulations! You may now switch specs any time you’re out of combat (except in arenas). The video above shows the process of switching specs; doing so also switches your action bars and your glyphs (you store a separate set of glyphs for each spec). Switching specs does not require a Lexicon of Power. In fact, Lexicons of Power are not required for anything any more, not even glyphing. Each of your two sets of talents can be reset just like you’re used to resetting talents; resetting one does not disturb the other. Happy talenting!

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There appears to be connection problems going around as multiple people are unable to log in tonight, including multiple tipsters and yours truly. It’s definitely a widespread problem, as the Blizzard Tech Support team is currently asking for ISP and tracert information over on the official forums while they try to track it down. While some people are positing that this is a merged battle.net account problem, it’s worth noting that we also know of many people, including a couple of our bloggers, are still able to log in fine with a battle.net account. At the same time, some posters in the aforementioned thread are saying that they can log on fine when they use an unmerged pre-battle.net account from a family member or roommate. Once we get a clearer idea of what the problem is or when it’s been fixed, we’ll let you know. UPDATE, 10:30 PM EST: Okay, This is Daniel again, and I can log on with a battle.net account. This is the same one that wasn’t working not 10 minutes ago, for the record. UPDATE, 11 PM EST: It looks everything is working fine again. Play on!

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Remember Ninth Batter? Not only is he the man responsible for the Northrend Newsflash, but he’s the genius who put song to video for the WoW Insider Song. He’s clearly a man of taste, right? Well, the maestro’s come along to drop another moment of comedy down on you with “Nobody Like You, ep1.” “Nobody Like You” is just a quick, fun little comedy sketch. I’ll sum up. Someone’s rolled a new Death Knight. Arthas begins his long, emo speech about wow goldhow Arthas has bestowed on the newbie rage, anger, angst, and all the other associated dark and spooky things. The Death Knight is nonplussed, quickly accepts the quest, and moves on. Arthas, of course, gets more emo than a Blood Elf writing in Livejournal. The comedy, in my opinion, is mostly about the absurd nature of the game when you start breaking the fourth wall. The video has lots of little fun shout outs. The “meaningless Gargoyle,” cute little jokes, and even a shout out to the WoW Insider song. I think Ninth Batter’s really doing well in terms of his dialogue, eye for plot, comedy and pacing. I’m not sure if his animation skills have leapt forward yet, but I’ve never had any complaints about the appearance of his videos in the first

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Get ready to put a few more awards on the (ever-growing) shelf, Blizzard — MI6, which is a conference about marketing video games, has nominated Blizzard in no less than six different categories for all of their marketing of Wrath of the Lich King. Everything from the Wrath of the Lich King launch campaign in general to the Diablo III logo specifically has been nominated for an award. The TV spots have gotten special attention, too — the entire “What’s your game?” campaign is nominated, as is the Ozzy Osbourne spot in two different categories, for best writing and oustanding TV or theatrical ad. You can download the full list of finalists over on the MI6 site — the rest of the nominations are kind off all over the place, though the marketing for Fallout 3 is in there quite a bit, including up against Blizzard for best writing, and best overall marketing campaign. The awards are going down in San Francisco on April 8th — good luck to Blizzard on all of their hard work. We still do have one request though: for the wow goldnext ad, can we maybe get a girl who plays WoW? Sure, a Gnome in the cinematics would be nice, too, but so far, on the TV commercials, it’s been all dudes.

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