Big News Of The Week

It’s Tricky To Walk Around

The yearly celebration of Hallow’s End is getting underway in The World Of Warcaft. Hallow’s End is the celebration of the break between the Forsaken and the Scourge. Many tricks and treats await adventurers seeking holiday fun, including defeating the Headless Horseman, visiting inns and cities for fun items such as masks and costumes, and eating way too much candy in one sitting.

The Royal Photographic Society of Azeroth has announced their seventh annual pumpkin-carving contest! Until 11:59 p.m. PDT on October 28, the RPSA will be accepting photographic evidence of your pumpkin-carving excellence. In addition, the crafters of the five most interesting, original, and well-carved pumpkin designs will each be recognized for their merits with a 32 GB iPod touch, courtesy of Apple.

Blizzard has pictures from the last five years of contest winners online: [2004], [2005], [2006], [2007], [2008]. Check out the contest page for additional details, including the official rules and submission form.

Rumors And Scuttlebutt

It’s An All-3.3 Rumors And Scuttlebutt

It’s been over two months now since patch 3.2 arrived in World Of Warcraft, bringing the Crusader’s Colosseum, Tier 9 epic gear, Isle Of Conquest battleground, and all of the other accouterments we’ve come to expect from a major patch to the game. Well folks, we reckon that we’re now less than 2 months away from the release of 3.3, which hit the Public Test Realm a couple of weeks ago and has started to generate buzz all over the WoW community.

Town Cryer

Kosuke from Aerie Peak writes: I just want to ask, which class do you guys’ know or think has the trouble pulling the most sustained DPS? With just in-game knowledge and seeing people play their characters during raids and looking at a damage meter such as Recount, could you guys add your thoughts into this?

Regur from the Azuremyst server writes: I recently had confirmed that I am on a horrible server for the horde. We are outnumbered 4:1 in the Alliance favor and I’m tired of always losing Wintergrasp. So I have decided to find a new server, but I’m not entirely sure how to go about finding one. What would you guys suggest?

Drop Of The Week

An Arctic Incentive

Blizzard is full of surprises. We’ve been talking about authenticators and Battle.net for over a year, but as everyone knows, security alone isn’t a perfect incentive to use them. This week, Blizzard sweetened the pot. It’s Mr. Chilly the penguin! He’s an in-game vanity pet available to every player of World Of Warcraft. All you have to do to get Mr. Chilly, if you have not already, is merge your account into Battle.net before it becomes mandatory on Nov. 11. After you do, you will receive his egg in your mail in-game.

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Big News Of The Week

Icecrown Citadel Is Coming, Bring A Jacket

• Frozen Halls is the 5-man dungeon.
• It sprawls across three wings of the citadel’s foundation.
• You’ll assist either Jaina Proudmoore (Alliance) or Sylvanas Windrunner (Horde) in infiltrating the citadel.
• Normal and Heroic versions of the dungeon will be accessible to players, although each wing will be considered a separate instance; therefore, on Heroic difficulty, each wing will have its own separate lockout timer.
• All-new rewards — including item level 219 (normal) and level 232 (Heroic) loot — will be offered to those who destroy some of the Lich King’s most formidable allies.
• Frozen Throne: That’s the raid dungeon.
• It comes in the usual 10- and 25-player versions, 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 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.

Rumors And Scuttlebutt

No One Is Using AuctioneerDB

This week, one of the most legendary WoW modification creators returned to his community to find, well, let’s just read some of what Norganna wrote: “For the past few months I have been taking a break from the daily grind of being “norganna”. I’m ready to come back and have a good look at the future of Auctioneer. The current state of affairs is that we have 4 servers running. One of which is reasonably expensive and for all intents and purposed is dedicated to running AuctioneerDb. The remaining 3 other servers, are for the Auctioneer development, issue tracking, wikis, forums, email etc. The mod AuctioneerDb was meant to be a collaborative price database. It was something that many people doggedly asked for over the life of the Auctioneer project, and I have sunk quite a bit of my own time and money (2 years of my spare time, and around $5000 of my own money at this point) into the project to find out that almost nobody is going to use it. We got during the peak of it’s use about 100 visitors/day. It’s a terrible shame to me, thinking that I’m going to have to shut it down and admit failure.”

Check Out The Tier 10 Armor

Blizzard decided this time around to short-circuit the guys who make a blog-living out of datamining new PTR patches, and just release the look of the new Tier 10 armor sets themselves. On a sneak peak at Tier 10 page they published this week, Blizzard has thus-far given us a nice look at what this Winter’s fashionable Death Knights, Druids, Hunters and Warriors will all be wearing.

Town Cryer

Luke P. writes: Today me and my friend had an argument about Druid tanks. I’m wondering what you guys think of them. Do you two think they would make a good raid tank? He believes that they shouldnt be tanking at all!

Drop Of The Week

Holy Crap It’s The Greatest T-Shirt Of All Time!!!

I slipped into my Three Worgen Moon T-Shirt and stepped confidently out of the Dalaran sewer. Blood elves immediately swarmed around me and started giggling uncontrollably. I couldn’t tell if they were male or female (who can?) but they were obviously attracted to me. I strode confidently into the Violet Citadel and told Rhonin I was going to kill the Lich King. He said “You need help.” I responded, “Three Worgen Moon is all the help I need.” Rhonin shook his head, apologetically. I expected a wise mage to know more about the power of Three Worgen Moon.

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